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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