Progress Report: 14/03/11 By Naomi

This week we planned to record 'Elisha' falling down the stairs, the mother scenes and pregnancy scenes. Overall felt more comfortble experimenting with different angles and we acheived to finish preghnancy scenes, mother scenes, both evil and normal expressions and lastly the beignning of throwing down the stairs scene.

Also, contiuously been editing the scenes that we recorded, and making it more realistic. Still got more to record and edit, before we start experimenting with the music and how it will fit together.

For Next week, we will aim to finish all recording and just focus on the editing.

Things to film:
Boyfriend and Elisha in Park
Mother, Brother and Elisha Fight
Rest of stairs scenes.

Progress Report -Rabia (:

week beginning 14th March

Progress

Naomi and I was able to record the scenes of the girl writing some of the riddles and also we was able to record the scene of her posting the letter, when filming we were very creative towards the camera movements, as we had the whole say to focus on this scene therefore it allowed us to be more creative .

Action Plan

• Film scenes of the mother
• Falling down the stairs
• Continue editing.

Progress Report -Rabia (:

Half term
I was able to record the girl and Elyica scene in the park, due to some actors being unable to attend due to revision or work, we was not able to complete the rest of the filming, this was with some help of a year 13 student as Naomi and Ramita were busy with personal reasons. However, this did not stop me from going out and recording as i knew if i did not start we would be in a very difficult position now.
By shooting the beginning scene I had shown Naomi and Ramita, for some feed back and whether or not we should re-shoot, fortunately it was approved by both and then we was able to re-shoot the scenes Mr Bush said, which were the bath scene as they were cut quick.

Action Plan

• To shoot the mother scenes 
• The writing of the riddles
• Also to start editing the scenes shot already.

Progress Report- Ramita

Progress Report:
Rabia and Naomi met over the weekend to do some filming, however I wasn't able to attend and film with them. They filmed Rabia giving a letter someone and they filmed the scene with the riddles on the sheets. Also we stsrtaed our editing and have edited the beginning of the trailer.

Action Plan:
Have to finish of filming final scenes
Continue Editing
Choose possible music

Progress Report - Ramita (:

Progress Report:
We were all planning to have most of our production filmed over the half -term and to come back to school and start with editing the scenes. However we weren't able to meet this target as some of the actors were busy and we weren't all free on the same days.

We all all met up we reshot the bath scene and recorded different angles of Rabia in the bath as the scenes we recorded before we not up to scatch. We also recorded the hand scene of the person who is unknown to the audience pushing Rabia into the bath from different angles. I was not available on the day we had to film the park scene. However Rabia filmed the scene with te help from a year 13 student. This scene will be the opening scene of our trailer which Rabia sucessfully filmed.

Action Plan:
Re- do a schedule for which days we all will be able to be present and film.
Inform oustide actors.
Get props for the scenes that we will be filming.
Record park scene again.
We will need to speed up with filming and begin editing soon, and think of possible sound/music which we will be using in our trailer.

Progress Report - Half Term Naomi :)

Half Term Week

Initally we were all excited to get on and finish our filming for the trailer however there were a lot of circumstances where we all busy, but the days where we were free, our outside actors were busy so was hard to juggle.

However, we still managed to reshoot the bath scene mainly focusing not making the camera shake and different angles where we see the hand coming to push the main character in the water. we did repeat the shot several times, and we are now all 100% confident that one of them a successful enough to be in the trailer.

Although not present during the park scene where the main character and little sister go out as a way of bonding and relfecting a happier time in trailer, Rabia successfully filmed with help from a Yr13 student the beginning of our trailer. after veiwing the footage, i was again confident that no further reshooting was needed apart from one shot which can easily be done.

Action Plan!

Get all filming done and organise characters with date and time and sticking to decisions and ensuring all props are bought and ready to use so we can start editing as soon as possible.

Test Screening Report by Naomi

Average Grade Scores

Media Language: B

Conventions: B/A

Creativity: B/A

Attention to Detail: B

Technical Proficiency: B

Cinematography 

Through all the comments, two very clear positives came out from the cinematography of the scenes we shot. Firstly, the use of camera angles and most close ups were used effectively which primarily the reason why the other positive came out from this was that, the emotions of the character were clear and interacting with the audience. A quote ‘strong scary emotions’, is an example of what we wanted to achieve in the trailer overall.

A common criticism that came through was being able to capture more angles within the shed. Initially we did find it quite hard to get a variety of angles as the setting was small, but trying it again, we can implement more high angle and long shots. Lastly, some shots need to be clearer as they sometimes went blurry and ensuring that the right message is put across. Need to show two legs during build up scenes of bath room shots.

Mise En Scene

Overall, everyone mentioned that the use of props and unwanted objects in the scene created good attention to detail and made the scenes more effective and intense. Our audience liked the use of candles in the bathroom and the teddy bear in shed alongside the random tools in order to create the dangerous mysterious look. Overall we will continue to think about the use of props in appropriate scenes. 

The main point that came through the feedback was that during the shed scene, the main protagonists clothing didn’t represent a real actor that supposedly meant to be psychologically disturbed. Next time when re shooting this, we need a purer colour that is dirty to represent her class and how her appearance reflects her emotions rather than joggers and a t shirt. 

Lighting

Within the shed scene, we experimented with a torch to create a contrast between dark and light to create low key lighting. From the feedback it was quite successful and created a good image which we will therefore continue to do. 

A room for improvement would be to create a way to keep the torch still as through the scenes we could acknowledge shakiness which made the scenes look unprofessional and unclean. We are hoping to reschedule to reshoot the scene in order to accomplish and correct this criticism. 

Sound

Through the scenes we showed, they were non dialogue hence no sound was being experienced by the audience however through one of them where the main protagonist was singing, it created a real psychological effect which was successfully portrayed. These scenes are going to be used during random moments of the trailer to confuse the audience what the real narrative is about.

For future shots, there will definitely be more dialogue as we have more characters to create this. After these shots are taken, hopefully our audience can experience and comment on how it they are successful or not. 

Conventions

As our genre is psychological horror, it was successfully connoted trough the various facial expressions and close ups, alongside the settings. Our audience felt that it met the horror conventions of being twisted and scary which is a big compliment to our production as we know what to continue doing.

As a whole, using the conventions of horror, our audience would like to see more shocking scenes that crate engagement and fright for example a stare in the mirror and someone entering behind with sudden music.  Also, during the bath scene, we could try to make the hand more shocking with the sign on the hand. 

Summary

Overall, as a group we achieved many successful and creative aspects through lighting and settings. We need to just ensure that we capture all the conventions of horror and use different techniques, more soundly and make sure all camera work is not shaky or blurry as it was common through some practise scenes.

Progress Report/ Action Plan: 7/02/11 By Naomi

Before hand we completed most of our pre poduction research such as:

• Scehduling
• Location Settings
• Character Profiles
• Potential 'disturbed' Looks (make up and clothing)

In this week, we started our filming beginning with a shed scene where we would see the main protagonists expressing her psychologically distubed emotions. This scene was developed using torches, nursery rhymes and high and low angle shots. In some ways the rain that was present added to the effect of a mysterious and disturbed scene especially with the surrounding tools above and around the actor. We were excited and full of various ideas which enabled us to produce a well structured and thought out first scene.

After watching it back, we decided that many more improvements could be carried out therefore the week beginning 14th of February we shall be recording another shed scene at a different setting with more space to capture more angles and ideally freedom to experiment more effects and use of props. The most important improvement was the clothing which will be decided soon.

Progress Report - Ramita

Progress Report:
We decided on who was going to be in the production, and what scenes will need them for. We produced a schedule, with what props we will need, where we will be filming and what characters we will need on the day. We did the character profiles for the rest of the characters in the trailer. We took pictures of the different locations that we will be filiming at too. Also I posted on the blog the some of the dialogue that will be in our trailer.

Action Plan:
We will need to start recording the following scenes:
Thursday Period 5 & 6 - Shed Scene
Saturday - Bath Scene
Also need to research on possible music ideas - Friday

Progress report: Rabia

Progress report:

• we have been able to complete the bath room scene and scenes in the shed, which only involved the girl, Elyica.
• We had looked for the music that may be used in the trailer.

Action Plan for 14th February:

• We would like to complete scenes with the little girl and Elycia in the park, which will be at the beginning of the trailer.
• Maybe start editting, and try piece the scenes together and gather what we need to improve so for next week (half term) we will be able to correct the mistakes.

Progress Report- Rabia

Progress report:

• we have finished the scheduling
• looked for locations
• character profiles

 

7th Februrary

Action plan:

• Our action plan was to start recording, the scenes we want to record is the bath scene and the shed scene, in which the girl becomes mentally disturbed.

Locations by Naomi

Bathroom

Scene: the underlying story which is built up between other scenes of the girl attempting to commit suicide however another character appears...

 Ravenor Park: Nature Area

Scene: Girl and boyfriend, hand held camera, hide and seek scene where the boyfirend scares the girl but someone else is watching.

 Stairs

Scene: Where the girl, the main protagonist is pushed down the stairs by the mother. Side of strairs will allow us to capture different angles and shots.

 Shed

Scene: Potentially where we see the girl getting frustrated and uncontrollable actions.

 Loft Room:

One setting where a murder will take place, possibly a hanging scene. the lighting through the windows will be dark as we will shoot in the night to create this effect.

Script- Protagonist and Brother scene

The Mum and the Brother are already present in the living room.

Mum: “I need to talk to you”

Brother: “Yeah what happened?”

Mum: “Erm, how can I say this?’

(Rabia walks in and the atmosphere in the room changes and everyone goes quiet).

Brother: … “(Rabia) why do you carry that old bag with you”

Rabia: “What’s it to you?”

Brother: “what do you mean what’s it to me? You look like a freak show with it. Normal kids your age don’t carry around old bags”.

Rabia: “And what? Maybe I’m not like them. Normal”

Brother: “what?”

Brother attempts to take the bag of Rabia

Rabia screams

Mum: “Leave her alone”

Rabia runs out of the room

Character Profiles

The Brother: 

In our trailer, the brother will connote a turning point in the narrative. The audience will not see much of the brother in the film, however they will see him take part in the longest scene of the trailer, in which we will see the protagonist changing. Also the brother will connote the protagonist's relationships with other characters in the trailer. 





The Mother: 
In our trailer, the mother is going to an important role in the chain of murders, which go onto confuse the audience. As the trailer processes we will see different sides to the mother, which will question the audience if the mother is good or bad and is she really reliable through her changing sides really quickly. 

Title Writing Fonts

 This font style seems quite formal but effective becuase of its naturalistic appeal it has. It also relates to potentially how the main protagonist will write her riddles. A negative of this font is that it is too formal for a character of 15 years old to be writing, it doesnt reflect her confused personality.

This font however does look quite childish and rough which certainly relates to her real personalilty of confused and fidgety. in my opinion, this is more effective because it is quite generic which can add to the effect of a 'who done it' narrative during the murders in the neighbourhood.

Schedule Plan By Rabia

Potential Writing Fonts - By Naomi

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'Elisha' Character Profile

Descripition of the Main Protagnosits personality and actions that will be evident through the trailer.

Pictures of the girl :Rabia

TRIAL LOOKS

Possessed Girl..

Normal..

Practise Shot in the Making! By Naomi :)

PRACTISE: Title shots between trailer scenes

A little practise scene, of a title shot between scenes of a trailer.

An example of a burning paper one to see the effect of it out side.
'Editing needed after the blow of wind before water splashed'

Progress Report - Ramita

Progress Report:
We had to finish off our storyboards which became stressing for all of us in the group. We didn't think that we had to include so many detail and write down every camera movement. Also we had spent so many lessons and outside of lesson time to complete the storyboard to at least so we finally finished and now are getting ready to film.  


Action Plan:

• We need to finalise the actors and take pictures of them
• Decide where we will be filming
• Make a schedule, when everyone is free and start filming
• Get costumes 
• Get some practice shots of what we ideally would like to be in our trailer

Final Storyboards

Progress Report -Rabia (:

Last week we had focused all our attention on our storyboarding, it started to becoming irritating and we had added many extra scenes in, we had completed it and got to get our camera, which was great after all the drawing and in depth focus on camera movement and extra

Week Starting 31st January

action plan :

• We are going to focus on character profiles
• Costumes
• ideal looks for each character
• Settings
• When and Where we will be filming.

By focusing on a lot this week will give us a comfortable next couple of weeks because its all written down, which will be our skeleton of our filming :) x

Progress Report - Ramita

We all decided to met up in the LRA and work on our storyboards however, we couldn't be creative enough and decide what should happen in the middle of the trailer. We then decided to split the scenes and then put them together. However when we in lesson Mr Bush gave us the feedback which then we decided to start our storyboards again. 


As we started our storyboard straight into disequilibrium, we looked at other horror trailers and decided that our trailer should start of equlilbruim, rather then an disequilibrium. We also had to add additional shots because an average horror trailer consists of 120. Also we had to add more specific detail on what type of shots we were going to use and also what kind of sound will be played throughout the trailer.


 Also we decided that we were going to name our trailer Enigma because other successful trailer such as Saw are one worded trailers. Also wrote out some of the dialogue that is going to be in our trailer. 

20/01/11: Review on Storyboards

As a group, we met up once alongside the work in class, and were working on developing our storyboard and the sequences, type of shot and edit that would be involved in each part. To begin with, we found it quite hard to organise yet be spontaneous in the way we would order each scene. More and more and ideas were generated as we went along such as, burning paper on writing scenes, zooming into eye effect and an integrated sub story as the main trailer goes along.

Feedback from Mr Bush involved us being more disequilibrium in the middle of our trailer and looking again at how psychological horrors build suspense from start to finish. This involved us implementing a slow, calm scene where everything is innocent.

Next was the detail in type of shots in specific scenes, for example not enough shots to convey the whole message, rather the skeleton of the trailer.

Lastly, we has troubles deciding on our final name, it was between Enigma, Riddle and The Rdiddler. After analysing similar film names like, Orphan and Saw we concluded that Riddle would be effective to what the film is about and the fact that it is one word. 

Overall, it was successful storyboarding, just need to complete a full detailed storyboard ready for filming!