A 250 word analysis

Shinee productions                                 By- Sebika Thebe

A 250 word analysis of your role in the production. What exactly did you do? When? How? Why?

November 5th       started to plan for main production

November 10th    did the proposal

November 13th    story board complete

November 17th    treatment complete

November 22nd    decided what equipment we will need when filming

November 24th     did the script

November 28th      searched for location

December 10th      started filming

December 12th      finished filming  

December 13^th        start editing

December 17^th        finished editing

This is the schedule we planned together as a group, basically my role was to write up script, which include dialogue, do treatment, story board, and proposal. I also searched for location and decided what equipment we will need when filming. For dialogue I just made a simple conversation between two characters. For location I thought graveyard was perfect so according to scary scene I decided to look for costume for ghost character. For ghost character I felt costume was important, so for audience they feel they are looking at ghost. By looking at the location I did my story board. I made the story board because I wanted to make clear to my group that all the scenes in the story board has to be recorded one by one. And it also reminds clearly what scenes I’ll have to do next. I gave detail as much as I could in my storyboard, I did this paper work for both continuity and main task. I also made the questionnaire for audience because I wanted to make sure that under 18 people don’t watch this film as its horror.

When filming, my job was to do the clapper board, sound/ camera sheets and to get the characters ready with their costumes on. Because our film doesn’t have much dialogue it wasn’t hard for me to record sound for little time. While doing clapper board I had to make sure that I don’t forget to change the number of scene, shot and take according to scenes. For camera and sound sheets I managed to copy every scenes, shot and take’s number so that my group don’t get confuse while editing. So these are the things that I did in the production.

A 250 word analysis

Shinee productions                                 By- Rojina Joshi

A 250 word analysis of your role in the production. What exactly did you do? When? How? Why?

November 5th       started to plan for main production

November 10th    did the proposal

November 13th    story board complete

November 17th    treatment complete

November 22nd    decided what equipment we will need when filming

November 24th     did the script

November 28th      searched for location

December 10th      started filming

December 12th      finished filming  

December 13^th        start editing

December 17^th        finished editing

The above dates are the day we all worked together. In the production my role was to write narrative, to decide what shots is needed for filming, design the cover of DVD. I choose to write narrative because I was the only one who often watch horror movies so it wasn’t very hard for me to come up with new scary story. But I also researched on internet to get some information about horror movies. I made sure me and my group shows as much shots as we can. For the cover of DVD, I just put the character picture on the front and wrote the title. Because I did the narrative I also decided to make a front cover to according to my story. I did these things for both continuity and main task.                       

When filming I was the director so according to that I had to take care of all which include actors, sound recorders. I also did camera work because I decided what shots we’re doing while shooting so I had to make sure I get that shots in camera. For editing I used adobe premiere element 8.0, at the same time I also choose the suitable background sound for scenes. I added some sound effects to support the scenes and to draw the audience’s interest. So, these are the things I did in productions.

Evaluation

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Evaluation                                               By- Sebika Thebe and Rojina joshi

In our media product, we have chosen to put the picture of graveyard on the front of my DVD. The films title on the front is in red colour to draw the attention of audience. We pick out the image of our character ghost for the front cover because it gives the feeling of horror to the audience. Our front cover is all very dark and red which relates to the other horror movies front cover. We have put the written content to the minimum on the front cover because we wanted the audience to focus more on images of character. The title for our film is Friday the 13^th, so for audience it is easy to know that it’s a horror movie.

A range of social groups are represented in our film are college students and 18 to 30 age. In my film there is a part where some girls prank the main character which leads to her death. So we believe this leads to the social group. For our film we would like to approach our film to all the institution which is BBC The UK Film Council Vertigo Films Film Four. Throughout the research we’ve found out that they are very selective when it comes to film as they are in finding of new talent. For us to win their hearts, our film should attract the audience. And we believe this is the only way we can make them give their interest in my film. As far as we know we have got interesting story which is based on Friday the 13^th which should draw the audience as well as the institutions.

For our media product we’re expecting the audience to be 18 above. It is because it’s got the some frightening scenes which we thought it won’t be suitable for under 18. The sound track are very creepy which we put according the scenes. To attract the audience we have spice up our film by putting some suspense and revealing at the end. While making our film we’ve learnt the use of camera and the use of adobe premier elements 8.0. All we did in this programme is clicking and dragging into the right order. We also used blog site to put my very work we did. Using these technologies we’ve understood that, technologies have cut down the problems of producing a film.

When we look back at my preliminary task we feel we have learnt a lot since then. For preliminary task our team used just camera and tripod to film where as for main task we have used all equipment like camera, tripod, clapperboard, sound recorder and camera/ sound sheet to record. We have also learnt that we have to fill in camera/ sound sheet as we go through because if we forgot to fill one box of camera sheet then it can lead to huge confusion. And lastly, to gain interest from audience we have understood that the film should be attractive as well as the product.

Questionnaire for our main task.

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Title- Friday the 13^th

                         Never make fun of it

Questionnaire for our main task.

What are you?

·        Male  

·        Female

What is your age?

Are you okay to listen and watch creepy sound and scenes?

How often do you watch horror movies?

Are you okay to watch horror movies at any time?

How frequently do you get scared when you watch horror movies?

Have you got any problem when you see attacking people or see blood?

main task (storyboard)

continuity task (storyboard)

continuity task (script)

                                            Script

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Ø     Inside the house- evening

Wide shot of Sam using her laptop.

Ø     Front door of the house- evening

Close up of knocking the door

Ø     Inside the house- evening

Wide shot of Sam when she reacts just after someone knocks at her door.

Ø     Front door of the house- evening

In this shot Sam opens the door and finds out that it is Sandara. Shot reverse shot of Sam and Sandara having conversations.

Sandara: hi Sam, actually its raining outside so can I stay in until the rain   

                 stops.

Sam: ya….. come in

Ø     Inside the house- evening

Wide shot of opening the door. It shows when Sam and Sandara enter inside the living room.

Ø     Inside the living room- evening

Two shot of both sitting down.

(Both of them sits down and have conversation)

Ø     Inside the living room- evening

Shot reverse shot of both having conversation.

Sam: use this towel or you’ll catch cold.

Sandara: thank you, sorry if I’ve disturbed you.

Sam: I’ll get you a hot drink. Do you want tea or coffee?

Sandara: I’ll have coffee.

                        (And then the conversation stops)

                                                  The End  

main task (contact list)

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Tittle: Friday the 13^th

                         Never make fun of it

Contact list

Characters:

·        Jyoti Limbu

            8 Burma crescent

            Canterbury Kent

            Ct4 6ad

·        Sara Rai

           

50 Reed Avenue

            Canterbury Kent

            Ct1 1dl

Ghost character

·        Samyang Chemjong

          

27 Sobraon Way

           Canterbury Kent

           Ct1 1an

main task (schedule)

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Tittle: Friday the 13^th

                     Never make fun of it

Schedule

November 5^th       started to plan for main production

November 10^th    did the proposal

November 13^th    story board complete

November 17^th    treatment complete

November 22^nd    decided what equipment we will need when filming

November 24^th     did the script

November 28^th    searched for location

December 10^th       started filming

December 12^th      finished filming

December 13^th     start editing

main task (equipment list)

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Tittle: Friday the 13^th

                      Never make fun of it

Equipment list

Ø     Camera

Ø     Torch light

Ø     Tripod

Ø     Clapper board

Ø     Chalk

Ø     Sound recorder

Ø     Headphone

Prop list

Ø     Costume

Ø     Make up

Ø     Bag

Ø     Mobile phone

Costume research and make up

This is some sort of makeup we’re trying to do to our characters. Every horror film have costumes for the ghost character which makes the movie interesting. So we believe this might give extra support to our movie.

main task (treatment)

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Tittle: Friday the 13^th

                     Never make fun of it

Treatment

 In your teams you will plan, film and edit the tittles and opening of a new fiction film. This will last a maximum of two minutes.

The first scene will be the main character named jyoti walking on a road which will be in establishing shot. It is because we wanted to show the audience the environment of a scene. When jyoti passes the graveyard place we’ve decided to shot this scene in a long shot as we wanted to show main character and the entire background scene which is important as well. There is a quick cut to the close up scene where jyoti takes her phone out and finds out that it’s already late night. Next shot is two shot showing two people in a frame but in a different place. This shot will take place when jyoti will have her conversation with her sister in phone. We then get a long shot again where jyoti will find out herself standing in front of the graveyard’s main door. Next cut is wide shot which shows the jyoti taking up the full frame. When jyoti reaches her home , we decided to catpture the house in a wide shot again which again takes up the full frame and gives the audience the hint that coming up scene will take in that house. There is a close up shot where jyoti opens her door with her key. We have used pan in the low angle shot to create a scene where jyoti walks on stairs. Next shot is close up shot which shows the characters detail of face, it is shown when jyoti is pulled by a hand which unexpectedly comes out of cupboard. There is a quick cut to the wide shot and enigma shot which is held when jyoti goes inside the cupboard and the door closes itself. I thought its enigma shot as well because it gives audience no idea where the character have gone. Cut to two shot where we’ll show jyoti and the ghost at the same time in a frame. Next shot will be high angle and low angle, low angle will be used to show ghost who is more powerful and high angle will be used to show jyoti who is victim right now. The next and last shot is close up shot which shows both jyoti and ghost face expression according to situation.

main task (proposal)

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Proposal

Tittle: Friday the 13^th

                         Never make fun of it

Audience

This film has got elements like scary background sound so we thought this film wouldn’t be suitable for under 18. So we’re targeting our audience will be above 18. Our film will take may be 7 months just to shooting because we’re planning to use new and different techniques which people nowadays prefers to see in the movie. According to our research there has been lots of horror movies called Friday the 13^th made in past years. And most of them have been successful to win the audience heart. Our film has also got the name Friday the 13^th but, everything inside like story, duologues and music are completely different.

main task (location report)

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Tittle: Friday the 13^th

                       Never make fun of it

Location report

For location we have choose 2 places. One place is St Martins graveyard and the other place is our house. It is because in our film there is a scene where the girl passes the graveyard, then there is a scene which will be held in house and again at the last our story in the film ends in the graveyard. We have choose graveyard because it gives the feelings of horror to the audience. We are trying to shot graveyard scene in the evening since it is perfect for our film. To make our horror movie better we decided to film inside the graveyard at the last. So the half of the film will be on the way to home near the graveyard, then the rest of the scene will be at home but there will be a last scene inside the graveyard.

We have also researched the St Martins graveyard. This is the graveyard where we will be shooting our scenes.

main task (shot list)

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Tittle: Friday the 13^th                                

                                ^{Never make fun of it}

Shot list

o       Establishing shot of graveyard

o       Long shot of jyoti walking on a street

o       Close up shot of mobile phone

o       Two shot  (jyoti talking with her sister)

o       Long shot of jyoti and graveyard

o       Wide shot where jyoti will be passing the graveyard

o       Wide shot (infront of the house)

o       Close up shot of opening the door

o       Low angle/ wide shot of walking upstairs

o       Wide shot of wardrobe over the shoulder

o       Close up shot of jyoti’s face

o       Enigma shot to support the atmosphere

o       Two shot, high and low angle shot in the graveyard

o       Close up shot to show face detail

o       High angle shot of jyoti being attsked at the end

main task (script)

                                         script

                                 Friday the 13^th

^{Never make fun of it}

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    St martins graveyard- night

Establishing shot of graveyard

    On a street- night

Long shot of Jyoti walking on a street all alone.

    On a street- night

Close up of a phone. This is shown when Jyoti looks at her time an realises that it’s already it was late night. At the same time her phone begins to ring.

    On a street- night

Two shot of Jyoti and her sister Sara having conversation.

Sara: I’ve been calling you at your number for ages, where are you?

Jyoti: I went to town today and I am on my way to home.

Sara: didn’t I tell you not to take so long. It’s getting late. Do         

           You even know what day it is?

Jyoti: yeah I know, it’s Friday the 13^th but you know I don’t believe in these

           stuff.

    In front of the graveyard- night

Long shot which shows Jyoti standing in front of graveyard. The conversation of Jyoti and Sara still continues.

Sara: what ever you say but you can’t change the truth. And the truth is

          You’re not supposed to be out there.

Jyoti: look, I am standing right in front of graveyard and I’m not even scared

 Which means I don’t care whether its Friday the 13^th or Friday the 14^th.

 (All of sudden the network fails and their conversation stops)

    Near the graveyard- night

Wide shot of Jyoti passing the graveyard. We’ve tried to make it like someone watching Jyoti in a P.O.V way. But we decided not to reveal the other character yet.

    In front of the Jyoti’s house- night

Wide shot of her house. The coming actions will be held in this house.

    Front door of Jyoti’s house- night

Close up of opening the door with key.

    Stairs inside the house- night

Low angle/ wide shot of Jyoti walking upstairs. At this moment we can hear two people’s footstep but still can’t see who the other person is.

    Inside Jyoti’s bedroom- night

Wide shot of wardrobe over shoulder.

    Inside Jyoti’s bedroom- night

Close up shot to show Jyoti’s facial expression when she’ll be attacked. Even to this point we can only see the other person’s hand.

    Inside Jyoti’s bedroom- night

Enigma shot of the atmosphere. It is because at this time it gives audience no idea where Jyoti has gone and who the other person is.

    Inside the graveyard- night

Two shot to show two people Jyoti and the ghost. High and low angle is also shown and Jyoti will be shot with high angle as she is victim right now.

Jyoti: who are you, what do you want from me?

    Inside the graveyard- night

Close up shot of ghost to show face detail.

    Inside the graveyard- night

High angle shot of Jyoti being attacked again.

Jyoti:Aaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!   (scream)

                                                                 The End