Research and Planning - Filming and Editing.

During our filming, we were faced with many complicatons at the start, such as how to get a steady hold of the camera to create the best effects we can to our characters and script.

Day One: After filming only scenes one and finding that it was going to be a lot harder than expedcted Jess and I stopped filming, and agreed to continue after better planning.
Day Three: After Jess and I had discussed what we were going to do differently about how we filmed we started a fresh and filmed scenes one to three.
Day three: we managed to finish filming all scenes.
Day Four: When we started to edit we realised lighting and movement was still a problem and so Jess and I borrowed a tripod and tried to film at different times of the day so that the lighting would be different from previous tries.
Day Five: Once everything had been filmed we started editing, this consisted of us changing lighting, adding transitions, sound effect, and trimming certain scenes.

Research and Planning - The Script

Shot 1
-Miramax (eery music)

Shot 2
- camera zooms towards the front door. Once inside the house the camera then follows through the hallway into the dining room where the mother in the past is writing a letter about her suicide.

-Voiceover (shanie) - Im sorry, I didnt mean for things to end up this way. But I cant cope, its too hard looking after her on my own. nobodys helping me and nobody is listening. I tried, I really really tried, and I love her but I have to put a stop to this now.  

- Baby starts crying.

Shot Two
-the camera then follows her footsteps up the stairs. the camera will flash so that you can see to black, until she reaches the top of the stairs.

Shot Three
Shanie then suffocates the child. (lullaby plays)

Shot Four
-Shanie overdoses.
-Screen turns to black
- Baby still crying

Shot Five
-Natasha: welcome to our new home sweetiepie, from now on it is going to be just us.
-Nastasha leaves the room once placing her daughter into a standing play area, whilst she leaves to get the childs walker from the boot of the car. Once she is out of the room harriet (the daughter) has caught the attention of something, the camera then pans out so the audience can see what she is looking at. It will reveal that she has caught the attention of shanie. Who has returned to the house.

Feedback

Research and Planning: Level 1 7/20
There is basic research into similar products and a potential target audience
There is a good level of care in the presentation of research and planning

To progress, you must update your blog. There is a lot missing:
Storyboard
Photos of your actors, locations, costumes and props
Institution research - who produces films similar to yours?
Age certificate research
You MUST complete this as a matter of urgency

You have progressed to a Level 2 10/20
Storyboard still needed as well as photos of your actors, locations and props.
Make sure you look into institution (paramount, universal, film 4 etc) to decide which company would be most suitable to produce your film.

Research and Planning-Titles For Our Opening Two Minutes.

We wish to includethese titles in our opening two minutes:

• Editor
• Producer
• Director
• Cast
• The film company that produces our film.

Having titles in the opening two minutes gives it moreof an effect and allows the audience to have some information and background about the film. By showing the film company who produces it will indicate to the audience what sort if film it is for example, Miramax and Dimension specialise in Horrors. Where as Pixar and Dreamworks, do childrens films/animations. Having list the cast will tell the audience who will be acting and could boot the amount of viewers if for example was a well known actor for example, Johnny Depp. By saying who produced the music, and who did the editing shows that a group of people made the film, teamwork made the success. It was just the work of one man/woman. Just by saying all of the above which I have mentioned makes the film clear about who's in it, what it's about and whats going on. Overall, I think it gives it a very sophisticated look.

Order Of Text (Titles)

• A waverly film production, is the first thing included in the opening two minutes.
• Secondly who prduced and directed, Nancy Meyers.
• Thurdly, the names of the characters and actors  within the film, from the main character.
• Then the title 'The Holiday' which indicates the film is starting. 
• Then it indroduces the people who cast in the film and it lists who does the music, the costume, who its editied by, the production desgin, then the direction of photography, then the executive producer andlastley who the film is prodcued by. 

 The order of the text included  the music, editing, and the cast of the film.

 Order of titles:

• The first to appear is the production company
• Followed by a large pause
• Director
• Gap
• Four main characters appear after eachother with short gaps inbetween
• Pause
• Supporting characters
• Cast Composer
• Gap
• Costume desinger
• Editor
• Production designer
• Director of photography
• Exectutive producer
• Producer

Mood Board.

 

Own Film Treatment.

Our film is a supernatural horror. Which briefly shows a distressed mother who kills her baby before kiling herself. Her life was struggling with her baby, and therfore puts and end to it all. When a new family moves in ten years later. The ghosts then return to what used to be there home and create fear for the family which are now living there. Will they be able to over come the problem? or will they have to move out?

Our target audience will be between 15-25 male and female and therfore our film will have a cirtificate of 15. We will appear to our audience through soundtrack, actors and the story line.