the medallion (+playlist)

Used the vignette effect

We added vignette to our dreams, to signify and make the audience aware that she is dreaming.

Editing suite

In the editing suite, synching the voice as appropriate. Adding the last touches to our film.

Editing our film

Today we are still in the editing suite editing our work. We added a few similar sound effect in order for the film to flow consistantly and continuiously. But there is still room for improvement thats why we booked the computer for tomorrow.

Editing our short film

Today we were in the editing suit and we added the captions, sound effects and it's nearly complete.

Editing suite

Today we came into the editing suite during our own time and we edited another 3 sences. The short film is coming together very well and we are flying through the editing process; which will benefit us on the long run.

Editing our clips

Today we were in the editing suite and we got through 3 sences working our way through our storyboards.

Editing suite

We went through the hollow ponds clips checking whether they were suitable for our short film. 

Editing suite

Today we went to the editing suite to add the rest of the footage in to our folder. We briefly went though the clips, organising what we needed and what was not wanted.

Editing suite- using the Mac's

My group were ahead of schedule therefore we went ahead to the editing suite to go through our work. We went through a few of the scenes but because we didn't have access to all of our shoots, so we couldn't start to edit. But we saw the clips and we deleted the unnecessary clips that we didn't need.

on the macs-

Today we were in our groups using the I Mac's. The whole lesson a teacher was going throught the basic techniques we can achieve on final cut pro, we practiced through the hour with a recording of someone else's work. We played about, trying different and possible techniques we would use on our own work. This was to get us ready for our editing of our work. We will start on filming some time this week. We learnt how to modify the audio in the recording, fading, cross-over dissolving techniques, something that is used in films that have been fast forward in time in particular scenes, instead of showing the full journey. And many more techniques we hope to put into actiom into our own production to make it look more professional looking.

overall production research and planning-

planned out storyboard-

today as a group we finished our main ideas in each scene for the storyboard.

Story board:

Amy is the main girl

Emma is the ghost girl

First’s scene:

·         Establishing shot of the house (1st location)- panelling up to down

·         Long shot of the girl carrying her luggage and looking at what is in front of her which is her new house

·         The next shot is of her new guardian (foster mum) by the door welcoming her in ,close up and smiling

1^st scene:

·         Close shot of a hand signing a piece of paper that says adoption form

·         Then we bring up the title of the film name and introduce director’s name and character name.

2^nd scene: Arrived at the new house:

·         She rings the doorbell, her adopted mum appears and hugs her.

·         Her mum takes her bags and enters the kitchen

·         She walks upstairs and enters the study room and finds it all clutters with paper, she then opens a chest draw in front of her, she finds a piece of paper with an image of a girl that has details of her being previously adopted but died in a tragic accident. Underneath the paper she finds the medallion, it looks pretty to her so she wears it.

·         She enters her bedroom and goes to sleep.

3^rd scene: Hollow ponds:

·         She finds a girl with her back towards her sitting on the log. As she approaches her she vanishes.

4^th scene: House: bedroom:

·         Main girl wakes up in shock and feels her medallion

·         Her mother then reassures her that it is nothing as she is awoken by shock.

5^th scene: Outside near her school:

·         As she is walking towards her first day at school, she looks into a car window and fixes herself where she touches her medallion, a face appears soon after which is the ghost, then disappears after a second.

6^th scene: bedroom:

·         She hears noises from her cupboard and the cupboard door moving

·         She then walks towards the cupboard and opens it but doesn’t look inside because she faces the other way as her mum is calling her, the audience then see the ghost face appear but as soon as she looks the cupboard way, the face disappears so she thinks it is nothing to worry about.

·         She then has a nap

7^th scene: hollow pond:

·         Finds herself next to the log, where she is very puzzled and confused and she is looking all around. All of a sudden the ghost taps her on her shoulder.

·         She gets really, starts running from the ghost, Point of view camera shot, which also includes panting and heavy breathing.

8^th scene: Bedroom

·         She wakes up from the dream to find her step mum, standing in the doorway, smiling.

·         The girl says to her mum, “I didn’t hear you come in”, mum replies “I wanted to make sure u fell asleep safe and sound”.

·         Her mum then leaves her room, she then touches her medallion and speaks “there is something weird going on to do with this necklace”, then goes back to sleep.

9^th scene: street

·         She walks towards the bus stop which she sees an open bag so sits down on the bus stop and chucks the medallion in the bag and leaves.

10^th scene: Bedroom

·         She grabs a jumper from the cupboard and put it on her whilst looking at the mirror. She then sees the medallion on the floor and when she looks at the mirror she sees the ghost girl appear.

·         She turns around and speaks to the ghost girl ‘who are you’ the ghost girl explains to wear the medallion and tonight’s dream, you will get all your answers.

11^th scene: hollow pond:

·         She falls asleep and finds herself in the dream in the forest sitting on the log. The ghost girl is sat next to her.

Dialogue:

·         Main girl: Hang on, you’re the girl that is following me around.

·         Ghost girl: There’s not much time left, you’re in serious danger!

·         Main girl: What kind of danger?

·         G G: The danger I was put in before I died.

·         M G: what do you mean?

·         G G: I was adopted like you.

(Medallion is worn by the ghost girl, this is reflected to the camera, and then the camera goes into a close up shot to the medallion; which then leads the main character to ask her about it because the medallion the main character found the same medallion to the one around the ghost girl’s neck.)

·         M G: who gave that medallion to you?

·         G G: (shows the image of her step mum which is the M G’s current step mum)

12^th scene: bedroom:

·         She wakes up from her sleep and finds her mum sitting beside her in her bed and smiling at her.

finished up our scripts-

Today we finished our script.

DSLR camera work

today we had a lesson from a teacher how to use the DSLR camera. Also we completed a form for the use of a camera.

pitch-

Today we presented our pitch to the class, presenting about the main summary, characters, location and ethical issues. Our class decided through a vote to name our short film "Medallion". But apart from that they liked the other ideas of the film, as they added that the description of the film was very thought through and the ideas suited the genre.

the conjuring- case study

Orphan- case study

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Case study- insidious

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scene by scene description-

We finished up on our plan for each scene that will be in our storyboards that contribute to the making of our short film.

Story board:

Amy is the main girl

Emma is the ghost girl

[Each story board should include location, camera shot- (medium shot, long shot, close up, extreme close up), position and angles - (low angle and high angle shots, eye length shot), action -(what is happening in the scene), lighting and timing-( how long the frame will take].

2^nd scene: Thahmina Khan

·         Establishing shot of the house (1st location)- panning up to down

·         Long shot of the girl carrying her luggage and looking at what is in front of her which is her new house

·         The next shot is of her new guardian (foster mum) by the door welcoming her in, close up and smiling.

1^st scene: In a room on the table: Thahmina Khan

·         Close shot of a hand signing a piece of paper that says fostering form

·         Then we bring up the title of the film name and introduce director’s name and character name.

2^nd scene: Arrived at the new house: Thahmina Khan

·         She rings the doorbell, her adopted mum appears and hugs her. ( xc- of doorbell)

·         Her mum takes her bags and puts on the medallion on the girl as a welcoming gesture. (cross fade)

·         She’s in a study room and finds it all clutters with paper, she then opens a chest draw in front of her, she finds a piece of paper with an image of a girl hugging the mum with her wearing the same medallion too.

·         Fade to her in bed

3^rd scene: Hollow ponds dream: Thahmina Khan

·         Fade to her dream

·         She finds a girl with her back towards her sitting on the log. As she approaches her she vanishes.

4^th scene: House: bedroom: Thahmina Khan

·         Main girl wakes up in shock and feels her medallion

·         Her mother then reassures her that it is nothing as she is awoken by shock.

5^th scene: Outside near her school: Arilda

·         As she is walking towards her first day at school, she looks into a car window (reflection)and fixes herself where she touches her medallion, a face appears soon after which is the ghost, then disappears after a second.

6^th scene: bedroom: Arilda

·         She hears noises from her cupboard and the cupboard door moving

·         She then walks towards the cupboard and opens it but doesn’t look inside because she faces the other way as her mum is calling her, the audience then see the ghost face appear but as soon as she looks the cupboard way, the face disappears so she thinks it is nothing to worry about.

·         She then has a nap( cross fade to the dream)

7^th scene: hollow pond: Arilda

·         Finds herself next to the log, where she is very puzzled and confused and she is looking all around. (shot reverse shot)All of a sudden the ghost taps her on her shoulder.

·         She gets really scared, starts running from the ghost, (Point of view camera shot of the girl, which also includes panting and heavy breathing)

·         Turning around looking at the ghost to see if she’s behind her

·         Cross fade away from the dream

8^th scene: Bedroom: Arilda

·         She wakes up from the dream to find her step mum, standing in the doorway, smiling. ( Arial shot from above)(Shot reverse shot between her and her mum).

·         The girl says to her mum, “I didn’t hear you come in”, mum replies “I wanted to make sure u fell asleep safe and sound”.

·         Her mum then leaves her room, she then touches her medallion and looks scared, cuts to the dream she remembers that the ghost girl is wearing her medallion, then goes back to sleep.

9^th scene: street: Rezwana

·         She walks towards the bus stop which she sees an open bag so sits down on the bus stop and chucks the medallion in the bag and leaves. ( Long shot)

10^th scene: Bedroom: Rezwana

·         She grabs a jumper from the cupboard and put it on her whilst looking at the mirror. She then sees the medallion on the floor and when she looks at the mirror she sees the ghost girl appear. (Long shot) but close up on the medallion and panelling involved from the top of the mirror to the bottom of the floor).

·         She turns around and speaks to the ghost girl ‘who are you’ the ghost girl explains to wear the medallion and tonight’s dream, you will get all your answers. Shot reverse shot and mid shot

11^th scene: hollow pond: Rezwana

·         She falls asleep and finds herself in the dream in the forest sitting on the log. The ghost girl is sat next to her.

·         Fade into sleep

Dialogue:

·         Main girl: Hang on, you’re the girl that is following me around.

·         Ghost girl: There’s not much time left, you’re in serious danger!

·         Main girl: What kind of danger?

·         G G: The danger I was put in before I died.

·         M G: what do you mean?

·         G G: I was adopted like you.

(Medallion is worn by the ghost girl, this is reflected to the camera, and then the camera goes into a close up shot to the medallion; which then leads the main character to ask her about it because the medallion the main character found the same medallion to the one around the ghost girl’s neck.)

·         M G: who gave that medallion to you?

·         G G: (shows the image of her step mum which is the M G’s current step mum)

12^th scene: bedroom: Rezwana

·         She wakes up from her sleep and finds her mum sitting beside her in her bed and smiling at her. Mid shot

final copy of treatment on prezi-

Today's lesson we Improved our final copy of the pitch that we will present in tomorrows lesson, we came up with the title (The dreams) and we customised it with photos and colour:

used prezi for our treatment

Today's lesson we used prezi to put our work together for our treatment.

bullet points on story board-

we as a group started on our storyboards and built pointed in each scene-

Story board:

Amy is the main girl

Emma is the ghost girl

First’s scene:

·         Establishing shot of the house (1st location)- panelling up to down

·         Long shot of the girl carrying her luggage and looking at what is in front of her which is her new house

·         The next shot is of her new guardian (foster mum) by the door welcoming her in ,close up and smiling

1^st scene:

·         Close shot of a hand signing a piece of paper that says adoption form

·         Then we bring up the title of the film name and introduce director’s name and character name.

2^nd scene: Arrived at the new house:

·         She rings the doorbell, her adopted mum appears and hugs her.

·         Her mum takes her bags and enters the kitchen

·         She walks upstairs and enters the study room and finds it all clutters with paper, she then opens a chest draw in front of her, she finds a piece of paper with an image of a girl that has details of her being previously adopted but died in a tragic accident. Underneath the paper she finds the medallion, it looks pretty to her so she wears it.

·         She enters her bedroom and goes to sleep.

3^rd scene: Hollow ponds:

·         She finds a girl with her back towards her sitting on the log. As she approaches her she vanishes.

House: bedroom:

·         Main girl wakes up in shock and feels her medallion

·         Her mother then reassures her that it is nothing as she is awoken by shock.

Outside near her school:

·         As she is walking towards her first day at school,

Group discussion for ideas and a possible plot

Today me and my group discussed our final ideas for our film. We developed our initial ideas and came up with a few final points however we still need to finish on some stages of the film, props, character, location etc. We have decided to develop our ideas that are initially on spiderscribe. The updated section, which was added in today's lesson, is in red.

completed production schedule.

My initial ideas for my film

My first A2 media class

The first 2/3 lessons, we have been training to use; a sound system, camera equipment (DSLR), filming techniques and learning how to use the camera. After we learnt how to set the DSLR camera we had to complete our task, which was to film a short clip named "the secret". Our group based the clip in the street starting the clip with an establishing shot and then filming students buying drinks off another instead of buying it at the vending machine. It was 1 minute. This gore us use to using the camera and we discussed all the problems so we wouldn't make the same mistakes during our filming.