Saturdays Filming

On Saturday we had planned to meet at Rachael's house at 10:30 am brining all the camera equipment and props with us. We had to organise our time as Tatiana had to leave at one for her gymnastics practice and Rachael's mum was going out at around three we also didn't have Nuriah to help us organise our time so well. We managed to arrive at a resonable time, i stayed at Molly's house the night before so i would be sure to wake up and we all remembered to eat and have tea before we started. Our main obstcle with filming was that the back of Rachael's garden didn't fit in with our storyboards, we'd imagined Eve peering through the behind the gate where Abigail was standing. We didn't have a gate but we did have an old shed which we could just fit round the back of among with Rachael's old trampoline and single kebab takeaway box. We finished all parts with Tatiana in first so that she could leave, we shot from different angles from behind the shed and added extra fotage of her entering the house picking up a book and leaving a toy behind which we had not originally planned. We then shot me discovering the toy and then standing up and leaving the house to follow in Abigail's footsteps. After our lunch break of chicken, mayo, lettuce, tomatoes, ham and a smudge of barbeque sauce sandwhiches (and a cup of tea) we filmed Rachael's Mum from the kitchen window gazing out into the garden on the phone, we took some time to go through the script with Sarah and make sure she was comfortable with her lines. Rachaels and Molly had to film from upstairs whilst i walked up and down the garden in my dress. Overall i felt our filming was succesful, I esspecially liked our idea to shoot Tati and me reflected in mirrors in the sitting room and their were no more fainting issues.

Thursdays Filming

The first issue with our filming is that except for Tatiana, our Talent we all arrived late. Though not drastically only by ten minutes or so, it still meant we missed out on valuable time to get the costumes and props sorted and to eat some food before filming. The filimng went well, at the start it took us a lot of time to move from one shot to the other but thankfully with some help from our teacher keeping time, we managed to move from shot to shot efficently. There were some issues with dog walkers and their spaniels walking into our frame but overall the footage was great and the snow ended up being an assest and gave a great atmospheric quality to our work, though a little chilly. We were unable to get the last shot, a 360 turn around me standing by the edge of the lake as having not eaten anything, wearing a constricting dress and having just done more running than I've done in the past year i feel faint and we thought it would be wiser to cut filiming short and return to school.

Preparing for Filming

In Preperation for filimg on Thursday my team and I made a checklist for everything that needed to be bought and finished before we started to film at 8:30 Thursday morning. We made sure that our mood boards and animation were completed so that we would have a definite guideline as to what we needed to shoot and gathered ideas about how we each wanted it to look like from our moodboards. We wrote a list of all the props that we needed to bring and assigned each of us the resposbility of doing so, Rachael's main task was organising Tatiana and making sure she came on time and bought shoes and tights for her part, we had already brought in the dresses but Molly had to bring in knee high socks, her camera and tripod and most importantly the toy. My job was to bring in shoes for me to wear, hairbrush and make-up for me and Tatiana to use. The biggest potential issue with filiming was the Snow, we did not know how heavy it would be and as Tatian and I had to wear minimal clothing we did not now how cold we would get and there was the possiblity we would be too cold and have to go back to school having not completed all our filming.

Organising, Props, Costume, etc.

We wrote a 'To Do List' to help organise ourselves with our filming.

'Rope' Alfred Hitchcock opening analysis

Rope is a 1948 American thriller (based on the play Rope by Patrick Hamilton) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It's edited so as to appear as a single continuous seamless shot through the use of long takes. I studied the first three minutes which opens with a mise-en scene long shot of a street scene viewed from above; classical music is played in the major key giving a false sense of calm as it fades out and is replaced by staccato minor notes typical of a thriller before focusing ominously drawn curtains.

The narrative entices the viewer on wards focusing on an everyday street  scene watched from the angle of a viewer on a roof top before focusing on a pair of curtains behind which a pair of almost comical gangsters strangle a man with a piece of "Rope'. This prop immediately makes a connection with the title . They then proceed to comically dumping the corpse of the young man in an old looking chest before leaning over it and catching their breath.                              

Alfre Hitchcock starts with an establishing shot to set the scene and contrasts the general theme of the film band ordinary street scene with happy music, viewed from a high angle the camera moves so that the frame has the corner of a roof as through through the eyes of some invisible watcher. Working with this uneasy suggestion the camera pans over the short area of the roof and focuses on a pair of drawn curtains. A half-hearted scream is heard and the shot changes to inside the room to a close up of the man being strangles. The camera zooms out to include the supposed hit-men in the shot wearing smart black tuxes who then dump the body  and the camera zooms back in to the hit men bending over the case.

Memento Opening Analysis

Memento Opening Analysis

Classification

Classification of a film is the age restriction imposed for the sake of the potential viewers of films, television series, computer and console games etc ranging from Universal- suitable for all to R18- To be shown only in specially licensed cinemas, or supplied only in licensed sex shops, and to adults of no less than 18 years. The typical Issues that invoke age restrictions are -any context of drug abuse, sexual violence, pedophilia, racial hatred or violence. Language is also surprisingly highly influential as many people are still offended by bad language and a single curse word can bump up the age restriction. Our film contains no drug abuse, any kinda of sexual context or violence any thing that could be seen as racial hateful neither is it essential for us to use swear words. However Horror is considered by the board as potentially harming to the young and vulnerable who may not be used to such an intense cinematic experience these restrictions would obviously need to be considered in producing our film as well as the newer issue of Imitable techniques which is the glamorization of illegal or anti-social behavior which young children could potentially copy like self harm, petty crime and even suicide. I believe that if we had to put an age restriction on our film it would be a 15 because although it only fits in two categories it is on the extreme end of Imitable techniques as it could be read as ending with suicide and the character being a young child makes it especially bad, although Thriller is not Horror our film could potentially leave our audience anxiety ridden, panicked and depressed, though that is artistically our aim it is not maybe seen as an all round positive thing especially legally.