Main Task- 1st Draft Finished Product - "The Whisperer"

Main Task- DVD Cover Ideas & Inspirations

 I decided to sketch a few ideas that could possibly be included in our DVD front cover. It is essential that our DVD cover is exclusive to other products in the film market right now. As by creating a unique and outstanding cover, will then cause our sales from our target market to occur and increase.  

IDEA ONE

IDEA TWO



Main Task- Flashbacks

Using flashbacks to explain something from the past in two minutes was the ideal thing to do in my main task. By using flashbacks the viewers can understand our film from the beginning. For example, at the start of the scene, you’ll see our main character Alicia panicking hysterically, but the audience won’t know why. So by adding in flashbacks the audience will get to see what caused her to get into this situation. However, by doing this it opened a lot of options on how we were going to edit this and make it a lot scarier with different editing techniques, for example, changing the contrast, colour, sounds and transitions. In addition we could use a wide range of camera shots to create the flashbacks. For Example, Long Shot, Close Ups, Extreme Close Ups, Over Shoulder Shot, Medium Shot etc…

Additionally by including dialogue and Diegetic sound in our outside club flashback scene, it helped us play around with the sound when coming to editing it. However, we wanted the scene to look realistic. But unfortunately the time we chose to go and film at the club, was not a busy time to go, as there weren’t many people there. So we decided to use our film crew in the background as extras laughing enjoying clubbers; this made it more practical and ordinary. Finally, before filming the club scene we had to ask the manager to switch the outside lights on, as without it the lighting was quiet awful.

 

Main Task- Cinematography / Mise-en-Scene

For our first draft in our main task we have defiantly used reasonable locations for example:

The Regal – We used this location as it makes our Mise-en-Scene more practical and fits in with our target audiences’ satisfaction needs. Although from my research usually parties scene our showed or set as a house party. But we decided to do it outside a club, as in this way we had to just inform the manger of the club and not half of the neighbours on the street. Additionally we used a long shot when filming this scene so that the viewers can view and know want is going on. Overall by doing this it gave us a chance to add in non-diegetic sounds when coming to editing it, for example, street noise, cars driving past, people talking in the background etc….   

Main Task- Second day of Filming

Second day of Filming:

The second day we decided to film the phone call scene, Alicia’s panicking scene with killer in the background and also when the killer strangles Alicia. We started filming the phone call scene with Alicia’s friend in it; the location was set in Cheney School, in one of the drama block classes. In Spite of this, we moved Alicia to a different location in Cheney School to film her response to the friends’ phone call. After that we went to the top playground of Cheney School where we filmed Alicia’s strangling scene and filmed the panicking scene nearby the same location. 

Difficulties

These are the following difficulties we found while filming some of our chosen scenes:

• Weather condition (really cold)

• Figures got to cold that caused some issues when working with the tripod, as you couldn’t move it without it shaking and moving.

• No encounter’s of unwanted people or distractions occurred; although some problems came up with our main character that was meant to be ‘Aimee Moynaan’ and therefore had to substitute someone else to take her place.

• This caused many problems, as our actors that we used for the first draft of our film had to learn the script on the day of filming suddenly.

• Except while we were filming our scenes with the killer, the weather was very bad as it was heavily raining, but this went in our bounce as it made these scenes more realistic because now when it came to editing we did not have to add in non-diagetic sounds to make it look natural, also unsurprisingly it messed up the characters make up and hair too.

• However this meant we had to take extra care of all the electronic equipment to not let any water got on to them.

Improvements

• When filming our final draft we will have to make sure the quietly of the tripod is a lot better then the one we’ve got, so it can be used a lot more steadier
• We will check the weather in advance to not cause any damage to the filming equipment if in danger of the rain.
• Lastly make sure all the cast members have memorised there line to save time when come to filming.