This is a Risk Assessment for the interviewing we will be doing at James' and Joe's house
This is a Risk Assessment for the interview ng we will be doing in UTC
Monday, 4 April 2016
LO1 - Recce Forms
Locations: James' house and Joe's house
Location: UTC Sheffield, Creative Writing room
We have created these recce forms to ensure that we are prepared for when we film. We have checked the locations to make sure that they re safe and approapriate for the footage we will be filming.
Friday, 26 February 2016
LO2 - Production Diary
Production Diary
Name: James Hartshorn
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I will be using this to monitor and keep track of what I have done, and what day it has been done. I will be following our production plan.
Friday, 29 January 2016
LO1 - Draft Script
Hide and Seek
By
James
Hartshorn and Joe Taylor
1. INT.House, bedroom. day.
CHILD in cupboard playing hide and seek with MAN, the camera is in the cupboard and there is a creepy undertone to the scene.
CHILD
(Breathing
heavily)
MAN
I can hear
you. (Creepy voice)
Hear Footsteps MAN walks right up to cupboard, and is very close
to the camera. Tension builds up as we are waiting for something to happen (3-4
seconds).
MAN
(Looks
into cupboard) I know you’re there.
CHILD
(Trembles
and breaths heavily)
MAN
(Bursts
cupboard open) Found you!
(Title
graphic Name of film)
(cuts)
2. Int. child's bedroom. night
CHILD
in bed crying for her Dad, she is crying and making a big deal about him not
being there. It appears she has just awoken from a nightmare.
CHILD
DAD! (Sobbing)
DAD! (Screams) where are you dad?! (Continues sobbing into pillow)
MAN
Don’t
worry I’m here, calm down.
CHILD
(Goes
silent)
MAN
(Walks up
to CHILD and is looking over her) Just go to sleep it’s alright.
(cuts)
3. INT. Kitchen. Evening
MAN in kitchen, chopping
a vegetable (harsh sound
effect) Camera zooms
out and shows he is only cutting a vegetable.
(cuts)
4. INT. Childs bedroom. Evening
Pans over wall full of
creepy drawings, then down to CHILD at desk. You can’t see what she is drawing.
MAN
(Calls from downstairs)
Dinners ready!
CHILD
Coming! (Knocks
paper off desk while getting up to leave)
Camera pans down towards the drawing and we see that the drawing
is of the CHILD and her dad holding hands, though the drawing is creepy.
(cuts)
5. Int. street
alleyway. day time
CHILD is talking to a STRANGER
on the street. MAN is holding hand of CHILD.
STRANGER
You look
familiar (pause) aren’t you that CHILD…
MAN AND CHILD WALK AWAY
MAN
(Cuts off STRANGER and grabs CHILD
And quickly hurries off)
Don’t talk to STRANGERs there’s
some bad people in this world you never know who you are going to meet.
MAN and CHILD are now around the corner
MAN
Wait here, I’ll be back in a
second.
CHILD
(Nods)
The camera pans back round
the alleyway as soon as the MAN enters it he pulls out a knife. The MAN is
shown at the other side of the alley stabbing the STRANGER then the STRANGER
who falls to the floor. The MAN walks back to the CHILD.
MAN
Let’s go.
(cuts)
6. int. Childs bedroom. night.
The second
scene of the CHILD screaming is repeated.
MAN
Don’t
worry I’m here, calm down.
CHILD
(Goes
silent)
MAN
(Walks up
to CHILD and is looking over her) Just go to sleep it’s alright.
Camera pans
down and shows the MAN smothering the CHILD with a pillow suffocating her. It
is revealed that the CHILD hadn’t had a nightmare and that she was being
killed. CHILD struggles and then lays still.
Camera pans down through bedroom floor into the
kitchen. There is a newspaper on the kitchen side, the main headline stating “MAN
kidnaps CHILD, kills her and himself.”
(GUNSHOT AND BODY THUD SFX)
FILM CREDITS
Monday, 25 January 2016
LO1 - Chosen Film Idea
SEGMENT SYNOPSIS AND
HOW IT RELATES TO THE BRIEF
A
guy is shown with his daughter, when someone tries to kidnap her and attack the
man. Later it is revealed that it wasn't his daughter and that he was a
psychotic kidnapper. The people trying to take the girl were the real parents.
Task List
Task
Script
Storyboard
Legal and Ethical
Location Scouting
Risk Assessment
Find Actors
Call Sheet
Recce Form
Complete Treatment
Filming Editing
Screening my Film
LO1 - Gantt Chart
This is the Gantt chart that will be used to tell me what has to be done and by what time it should be done.
Friday, 15 January 2016
LO1 - Mr Happy Short Film
Mr Happy - Short Film
Camera Work
At 2:14 the camera pans around showing the entire room that the main character lives in. this helps show the audience that the main protaganist within this film is living quite a run down life. This helps the audience feel sorry for the main character. Also within this film we get a lod of middle shots of the main character this is an important part of the narrative due to the fact that this film heavily relies on the use of the main characters lack of confidence this is shown at 2:02. At 7:49 there is a close up of the main charcters face this helps show the audience thefact he is heavily contemplating what has happened in his life to get him to this point, and a possible moment of doubt which could be showing some foreshaowing mto future events.
Mise-en-scene
Camera Work
At 2:14 the camera pans around showing the entire room that the main character lives in. this helps show the audience that the main protaganist within this film is living quite a run down life. This helps the audience feel sorry for the main character. Also within this film we get a lod of middle shots of the main character this is an important part of the narrative due to the fact that this film heavily relies on the use of the main characters lack of confidence this is shown at 2:02. At 7:49 there is a close up of the main charcters face this helps show the audience thefact he is heavily contemplating what has happened in his life to get him to this point, and a possible moment of doubt which could be showing some foreshaowing mto future events.
Mise-en-scene
The mise-en-scene of Mr Happy short film denotes the ability to end your life by simply using a computer program that has a service on it that will pay someone to kill you in a number of different ways. The use of the gun prop is very important in this film and instantly carries the message of death and that the end is very near for the main character. The audience the audience will also pick up on the fact that the narrative for this is about to reveal a plot twist due to the fact that the only possible holder for the gun is infact the girl that the main character is taking out for a Valentines trip. The audience also get to see that the main character go through a tough time, to create an ideological response from the audience that is empathy. The mise-en-scene immediately connotes to the audience that the film will involve a suicidal character , with the plastic bag prop that he pulls over his face to kill himself in the first scene of this film and we immediatly pick this point up. The use of the art gallery as one of the locations uses ideology to show that the girl is actually good at art, with her paintings actually showing her previous victims, painted in the way that she kills them. But the character development within this film shows that the character you think is real, is intact not really who she says she is and her little joke about someone getting chopped up was actually her own little sick sense of humour. The message that you can get from this is that when a person kills themself no matter what it is the end, and that a person coontemplating suicide should get help as life can become better but by ending it you are preventing your future from coming in and things even getting better. The audience throughout this entire film believe that the the blonde haired girl is attracted to the protagonist, but really she is out to kill the protagonist in a peacful way, the way that he earlier arranged via the Mr Happy website. The film trailer uses a concentrated amount of low-key and natural lighting in order to make the audience feel more on edge when watching this short film, almost trying to make them anticipate the fact everything is not how it seems throughout the film. It also adds to the short film looking more realistic, which creates verisimilitude. The producer of Mr Happy wants us to understand how ending it all shouldnt ever be an option but also how it is very important issue and shouldn't be dismissed just because it isn't a physical problem this is the preferred reading (Stuart Hall 1980). I would also say that a preferred reading of this film for this film involves how important it is for us to support each other as humans due to the fact that the the protagonists only friend has no real regard for how he actually feels and is a fairly terrible friend. The title of the film is rather ironic due to the fact that the character isnt happy in the slightest.
Content and Meaning
The Mise en Scene within this has been encoded (everything has been purposefully placed) in a way that is meant to help create the preferred reading (Stuart Hall 1980). The preferred reading of this short film can be interpreted as many different things. But I think the main thing this trailer is trying to connote that suicide should never be an option and that it is very possible for things to get easier and better. But by ending it all you will never find out. The way that the main character shakes a lot in this shows that he has been socially crushed possibly by the girl he is interested in is seeing someone else, and the way that his only friends appear to be those within a chatroom. It also seems to have a message of hope within it because things do proceed to get better for him, and . So matter how bleak things may seem this film shows that there is always hope, but unfortuantly Victors hope in this is taken away from him as he already killed himself.
Narrative
The narrative for this short film is in chronological order and is about a a man named Victor who is feeling rather suicidal, due to feeling lonely and rejected in society. Things taht have probably led him to have a lot of time to think and to contemplate what is wrong with him even though he is probably just socially retarded. Now Victor is too scared to kill himself and too nervous so he turns to the internet for help. By doing this he is led to a forum that has a link on it that leads to the website Mr Happy. On the surface Mr Happy seems like a happy place with whacky music and a jolly country voice in the background while the screen loads this helps make the whole scenario just feel that little bit more creepy and disturbing.
Editing
The editing within this is at a very decent level a prime example of this is at 13:00 where the girl and Victor are embracing eachother in a drunken haze the editing on this is well done wiht scenes of a low opacity fading in and out of eachother which helps emphasise the element of a drunken haze.. This is rather badly done, but I am not sure on an alternative possibly making her fade at all angles resulting in her imploding at the centre rather than a basic swipe towards her traveling up her body. There are a fair amounts of cuts within this to help sequence the events together in a way that seems/ feels rather seamless, this makes it easier for the audience to immerse themselves within this short film.
Content and Meaning
The Mise en Scene within this has been encoded (everything has been purposefully placed) in a way that is meant to help create the preferred reading (Stuart Hall 1980). The preferred reading of this short film can be interpreted as many different things. But I think the main thing this trailer is trying to connote that suicide should never be an option and that it is very possible for things to get easier and better. But by ending it all you will never find out. The way that the main character shakes a lot in this shows that he has been socially crushed possibly by the girl he is interested in is seeing someone else, and the way that his only friends appear to be those within a chatroom. It also seems to have a message of hope within it because things do proceed to get better for him, and . So matter how bleak things may seem this film shows that there is always hope, but unfortuantly Victors hope in this is taken away from him as he already killed himself.
Narrative
The narrative for this short film is in chronological order and is about a a man named Victor who is feeling rather suicidal, due to feeling lonely and rejected in society. Things taht have probably led him to have a lot of time to think and to contemplate what is wrong with him even though he is probably just socially retarded. Now Victor is too scared to kill himself and too nervous so he turns to the internet for help. By doing this he is led to a forum that has a link on it that leads to the website Mr Happy. On the surface Mr Happy seems like a happy place with whacky music and a jolly country voice in the background while the screen loads this helps make the whole scenario just feel that little bit more creepy and disturbing.
Editing
The editing within this is at a very decent level a prime example of this is at 13:00 where the girl and Victor are embracing eachother in a drunken haze the editing on this is well done wiht scenes of a low opacity fading in and out of eachother which helps emphasise the element of a drunken haze.. This is rather badly done, but I am not sure on an alternative possibly making her fade at all angles resulting in her imploding at the centre rather than a basic swipe towards her traveling up her body. There are a fair amounts of cuts within this to help sequence the events together in a way that seems/ feels rather seamless, this makes it easier for the audience to immerse themselves within this short film.
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