our actress

Name: Emma Dalton

Age:17-18 year

Hair colour: Brown

 Eye colour: Brown




We decided to choose a girl who looks like a normal, middleclass girl, who seemed to be without any worries and come from a peaceful background. She could be anybody and it the fact that she looks so normal makes it easier for the audiece to sympathize with her and set theirselves into her position. She is the image of almost every middleclass youngster.

Location Research

This what the street looks like. It is an important part of a sequence so that is why the shot is included into the research. Negotiation with the neighbours is currently in progress.

Props List

1. Vehicles x 3+
2. Digital Alarm Clock
3. Toys (Mobile)
4. Frying Pan, Eggs
5. Tea
6. Pyjamas
7. TV (with white noise)
8. Mobile Phone
9. Landline Phone

Our Storyboarding

   

 

  

 

The importance of our storyboarding is that it helps to visualise the action and happening on the shooting day. It gives you an idea how everything is suppose to look like and how the setting should be staged. It also helps the film team to remember what they have to shoot and there is little change to miss a sequence. In our case it was really useful, because it was a big help to keep control over the whole setting and story telling.

Narrative Action

• Girl sleeping in bed, alarm clock states that time is 6:58.
• Girl hears an alarm and hits the snooze button, alarm still goes on.
• Girl sits up in bed and stands to walk towards the door.
• Goes out into the corridor and moves quickly downstairs to locate the fire.
• Runs into the kitchen and takes burning food of the stove and runs it under the sink.
• Gets a chair and stands on it to turn off the alarm.
• Hears the sound of baby music and goes into the living room to find it.
• She walks towards baby monitor and picks it up, TV is fuzzing in the background.
• Goes back upstairs to the babies room, baby is gone, only mobile is playing, there is nobody.
• Hears the sound of a car engine, runs downstairs and sees the front door open.
• Goes out into the street and looks around.
• Sees cars with doors open, engines on and radios fuzzy.
• Cuts to the title screen.

My idea

My idea for the media shoot was a story that was based on a true story. My mother is a Medium I would say, she notices things that others may never see and weird things happen to her as well. When she was a really young adult a very close relative of her was in hospital and she came to visit her. It was a snowy day and the whole area was completely empty. When she left the hospital, there was that old man, who looked very fragile and was just wearing a black suit in the cold winter time, he seemed to appear out of nowhere and asked my mother if she could help him to cross the street. She helped him by linking arms with him. When they reached the end of the street and thanked her and said something like “Now you can continue your way” and they both turned around. But my mother was not sure if the old man maybe needs some more help, so she turned around to ask him if there is anything else she could do, but when she turned around he had disappeared and there were no footsteps of him in the snow. Soon after this encounter, she got a call from the hospital saying that her close relative has died. Later on she said she was sure that she met the death himself, but she was not sure if everything that happens to us has to be realistic. She can remember him and I trust her when she tells me stories like that because I know her. She is not like most of us, she can see what many of us cannot see or notice.

     

I wanted to take this encounter as an inspiration for my shoot because I thought that the mystery of this concurrence scarier is than zombies or other commotional society’s fears.  Things like the snow and the hospital are no necessary things you could replace them easily with for example a normal house on the country side where everything would look even more spooky, because when an old man appears out of really nowhere it adds a mystical effect to the story and instead of the snow you could just have a huge landscape which you can find everywhere around here.

In spite of everything they did not choose my idea, because they thought it was too complicated and they did not quite understood the plot, so we picked Vlad’s one which is about a girl who wakes up one morning with the thought that her alarm clock woke her up, but the truth is that it was the fire alarm, so she runs down and looks where the reason for that comes from.

First filming

The very first time we shot this scene, everything went wrong and the editing could not work because the filming was so wrong. But after a while we found out how it works and the action with the sound worked smoothly. We filmed the whole thing from the beginning to the end and did this with every different angle from which we filmed with. In order to make the dialogue between the characters smooth and realistic, you cannot interrupt them in their action and cut to another perspective. In the end we found out how it works and how the camera and shooting works.   

Audience Behaviour:

Audience Behaviour:

All films that are being produced are produced for a certain audience, where the film company knows that the people will pay for it. That means that the films are being adapted to the audience to make them fit into their interests. One important criterion is that the films are all still up to date and stay with the modern technology. Also if you have a film that goes along with the growing up process of the audience, the film changes with their age. Another thing about age is also that there are some movies which are especially made for children (plus their parents) or for a group age between 16- 22 and films that are made more for an older audience. The focus is mainly on the audience who are the ones that give money to the company.  Another thing is the film industry with its ideas, if there is a certain topic very up-to-date and very in fashion many films will deal with this theme. For example right now there is a lot about vampires in the cinema and even if you are not a vampire fan and you do actually find them ridiculous, you would still go to a parody of a vampire film.

Also because of the modern technology it gets harder and harder for the film industry because there is so much illegal downloading and no one goes to the cinema anymore and especially nobody buys DVDs any more. So the film industry has to create something that is so original, which you can only watch in the cinema, for example films like Avatar or Inception, which are especially made for huge screens. They would not work on a simple computer scream, especially not when they are 3D. Also there are new sorts of DVDs with better quality for example; imax or blueray.

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