Showing posts with label Pre-Production. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pre-Production. Show all posts
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Directors Blog
How the little things can be fixed in post production whilst working towards a budget. These are all things the director has to take into consideration whilst filming.
Directors Blog
Direcotrs blog part 2, where he talks about the budget needed to work with whilst making an independent film.
Directors Blog
This is the blog of a director who is in the middle of making his own film. During this video he talks about the chronological order in which he completes tasks that a director needs to complete.
Monday, 5 March 2012
Script Draft
Script - stage directions for filming only
Birdseye shot of the girl laying down, covered in blood and dirt with her eyes shut.
Camera moves in gradually meeting an extreme close up on her eyes.
Her eyes open.
Fades out.
Off screen chanting and flashing images of prehistoric medieval demons, witches and devils; followed by a black screen with titles. This repeats for as long as the titles take in a back and forth motion.
Camera cuts to a box in a dark room surrounded by candles in front of an upside down cross. As camera circles the room it uncovers images of evil.
When the camera returns to the place where the box was, the box has gone with the sound of a whip being whipped in the air without the hitting sound.
Blackout.
Synopsis Of The Complete Film
Title: La Caja Terroriffica
Director: Saskia CallisteProducer: Mercedes Galindo
Cinematographer: Julian and Emil
Editor: Zubeida and Saskia Calliste
Characters: Young Girl, Village People, Witches, A Priest School Children
Plot:
Years ago, in a Christian village, girls were burned at the stake for believing in the devil. They took their possessions and placed them in a box in an abandonned house, which was cursed by the evil. The girls who were burned were not believers but girls who tried to warn the villages of evil. The devil would entice them with sweet music, to get them to open the box so hell could be unleashed and the only way to stop the terror on the town would be to sacrifice the one who opened it.
Years later, a girl runs from school into the woods where the house resides as she gets bullied and comes across the box. In curiosity she opens it and history repeats itself bringing every ones worst fears to life with a vengeance. The girl goes on a quest to find out how to stop the force of evil and realises the only way is through the sacrifice of the one who opened it- herself.
Beginning: The beginning of the film starts with the future of what has happened her after the box has been opened and all the terror has already been unleashed. Then it journeys back to the past of when she first opened the box but it does not show this. it shows her in the house and her first viewing of the box. During this time flashbacks of her at the end are shown at this time. After this has happened it would go back to the present which would establish the girls character and how she was different to everyone else- hence why she gets bullied. The beginning would then reveal her coming across the house in the woods and why that day was particularly different.
Middle: The middle of the film would reveal all the terror the box has caused on the town. As it is a small village suspicion immediately turns to the one who doesn't fit in and the one old wives of the village are certain is a witch due to similarities to the past town legends and those girls who were burned at the stake. Unable to handle the accusations of her actions which she has committed by mistake, she flees the village trying to find a way to stop the forces of evil and comes acrossd troubling encounters on the way.
End: Whilst on her quest she comes across the vicar who surprisingly tries to help her as he has come across this issue before and who believes her innocence. He unwillingly reveals to her the truth that her death is the only way to save the town. He encourages her sacrifice but she is determined to find another way. In doing so she is ambushed by the idea of failure and that sacrifice is the only way, death by burning on the stake and sacrificing her soul to save the town enduring in eternity with the devil. In what she thinks is her last moments on this earth, the sacrifice fails as she is too innocent and a good force provails over the bad.
Examples of Extreme Close Ups
Another shot we used in our sequence is an extreme close up. These are usually used to reveal something important in the sequence. They are almost used as a warning, alerting the audience to focus and remember that thing they have just be shown. In our opening sequence, the extreme close up is followed by a POV Shot. Our extreme close up on our actresses eye, was then used to alert the audience that the next shot being used was through the eyes of 'this girl' that the audience right now know nothing about.
Example Of POV Shot
This is an example of a POV Shot which is one of the main shots that we used in our opening sequence. It shows us what the exactly what the person is seeing through their eyes only. This shot can be used in many different ways. For example a POV Shot could be used to show us the sudience what one character thinks of another. The way a POV shot is used depends on the story line of ones film/opening sequence. For example our POV Shots are used so that the audience can see exactly what the character sees in the film and nothing else. It exposes things not even she can believe which helps build that character, audience relationship needed for a connection to be made towards the film.
Saturday, 3 March 2012
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