LOCATION:
Our script:
We ended up being pretty loose with the script and using it as more of a reference.
SHOOT 1 PREPERATION
PROPS, EQUIPMENT, SCRIPT
PROPS:
CLOTHES:
Scream queen:
EQUIPMENT:
LOCATION:
Our first screenplay lacked a lot of detail for example we didn't mention what type of jeans Olivia is wearing or what size the candy bowl is.
we also had the wrong format which made things a little confusing when reading it.
NEW SCRIPT:
SCRIPT FEEDBACK P2:
My first idea:
Our joint first idea:
Disney debut their first plus-sized female heroine in a short film about a ballet dancer overcoming body dysmorphia and self doubt through channelling her 'inner strength, grace and power'.
The animation artist Hillary Bradfield who had also directed 'Encanto' and 'Frozen 2' said her wish for the short was for the viewers to feel "more positive about themselves and the way they looked".
the film created some controversy and got mixed reviews online with some people loving it, with some saying how much they wished they had seen it when they were younger and how happy they are that things are finally changing, however some people criticising it for "promoting obesity" to their children.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/oct/28/disney-reflect-plus-sized-heroine
Smartphone camera films get new festival
In may of 2021 the guardian wrote an article on how smartphone film in 'no longer just a fun experiment'. Vanessa Thorpe of the Guardian wrote that although shaky phone images have fashionable for some time now smartphones are able so capture great detail and since the pandemic there has been a boom of smartphone feature making.
the article wrote that even leading directors have been drawn to smartphone filming, such as Steven Soderbergh and Paolo Sorrentino. Some A list actors have also been in films shot with a phone such as Kristen Stuart and Sir Ian McKellen.
Shrine production company has also come out with 'A Very British Lockdown: Diaries from the Frontline'.
Mappelbeck the director of 'missed call' said, “I’ve been a self-shooting director for 25 years – my camera has gone from needing a bag the size of a small suitcase to fitting in my back pocket,” and “I love how it’s transformed my approach to film-making. It works in intimate settings, exploits grey areas of informality and allows for more dynamic and innovative shooting to bring out hidden and personal stories.”
Mappelbeck and Gee created a film festival around smartphones with the intention of showing that filmmaking is for everyone so matter their means of background. “We set up the festival around smartphone films because it enables greater access and diversity, as well as innovation,” Gee told the Observer. “Our competition categories cover all the genres, both scripted and unscripted. And there are no implications now about quality. You can have brilliant pictures and brilliant audio, and there are even new apps that give you more control, allowing for remote direction.”
Cats Film Overview
Horror
openings:
Eden lake (Watkins 2008):
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18
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optimum
releasing (currently studio canal)
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$2m
– low budget
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Michael
Fastbender is in it (fairly big actor)
Opening:
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Titles
font is scary- they expand
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No
idents
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Flickering
image is effective in showing it horror genre
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To
create flickering in final cut use alpha mask
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Non
diegetic music – horror
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Lots
of red – horror
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Short
freeze frames
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Sound
each time a picture pops up (static, slashing, screaming)
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Main
title expands
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Audio
bridge of children
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Children
playing is foreshadowing (everything has to have some kind of exposition)
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Both
main characters are ‘final girls’ but they are also sexually active
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Main
woman has stylized hair, red glossy lipstic (highly feminine, nonative in
gender representation) she is a childrens teacher which shows hpw she is caring
– shes wearing a pink dress (stereotypical) its quite baggy and loose (soft and
feminine)
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Chelsie
tractor – shows they are middle to upper middle class
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Theres
a lollipop lady + zebra crossing (verisimilitude that it’s a school)
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Ellipsis
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Lots
of exposition in the diegetic sound
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ELS
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Very
strong gender roles (blue and pink clothes) – staple of genre
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Unusuall
for there to be two main characters – good for marketing
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Blurred
lines between ‘final girl’ and ‘scream queen’
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External
and internal shot
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Children
on bikes (jump scare/foreshadoeing) – they are blurred (mysterious/narrative
enigma)
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Over
the sholder shows is what they are seeing (makes us feel emursed)
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We
cut back to him and he is driving (gender roles) we look to him for reassurance
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Binary
opposition of the social classes – other woman are smoking and woman just
slapped her child which shows they are working class
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They
call the beer ‘wife beater’ -prefered reading
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‘man
or a mouse’ – gender stereotypes
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Privilege
pov – the main characters cant see the graffiti on the back of the sign
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Gate
saying ‘keep out’ and the gps saying ‘turn around’is foreshadowing
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They're
destroying the nature around them
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Little
kid capturing insects – foreshadows them being trapped and powerless
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The
main characters are framed on the side which foreshadows that something is
going to talke up the rest of the screan (north by northwest has interesting
framings)
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Little
kids (bad guys) break the jar
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Woman
has no armpit hair (highly normative)
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He
walks in an exaggerated manly way
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Other
kids are playing rap music (working class kids)
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Slow
opening
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Opposite
of usually slasher movie because we are routing for the adults
Bride of
Chucky (Ronny Yu 1998):
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$25m
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15
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Distribution
by universal studios
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Indie
movie
Opening:
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Ident
with non diegetic music
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Sound
is a lot like Hitchcock movies (psycho)
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Fast
heartbeat style music could indicate a chase
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The
title is bubble font which connotes a humor aspect
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Thunder
and lighting (pathetic fallacy- francenstien)
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Blue
tint like in Halloween (1978) – connotes unnatural – can be made with color
correcting
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Lots
of mise-en-scene to provide exposition
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Many
iconic horror signifiers
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Dutch
+ low angle
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Not
showing his face
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Music
is a lot like (psycho and jaws)
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Camera
inside the locker (cool effect)
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Ellipsis
with the door slamming
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We
look at the bag and so does he – we identify with him
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Figures
of adult authority are seen as useless (normal in teen slasher)
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Lighter
foreshadows
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‘curiosity
killed the cat’ foreshadows him being curious and then dying
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Jump
scare
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Effect
of his neck being slashed can be with a bag over the neck and then squeezing
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Male
gaze – first we see her legs then she files her nails with the murder weapon
Here is my final cut: timeline: You can find a deeper breakdown of my final cut throughout the rest of my blog (especially my conventions ev...
