Schedule for filming

We have made a plan to film next Tuesday (22nd) and we're going to meet in town at 10.30. This gives us time to buy the couple of props and to get to the location. Due to it being this time of year we have to be a where that it gets dark and thats why we want to give ourselves the best of the day in December.

We are going to use a girl in our group (Elise) to act our star girl as we feel it's more conviniant then taking the time finding someone to act and also because we feel as a group that she suits the part perfectly! This will allow the rest of the group to focus on the filming and shots that we carry out on the day.

Next week we only plan to film the outside bit of the film and perfect that as the location of our next bit is someones house on the complete other side of Oxford ans we don't want to rush getting there. The second bit will be only very short anyway and the actress will be in a completely different costume and so we won't have to be precise her looking the same.

Like I said earlier we plan to have it filmed by Christmas and then get it edited in the new year :)

New idea for our main task/ plot for the rest of the film

In are opening, the audience are going to see a happy and beautiful girl in a open field, showing a big grin on her face like nothing in the world matters. The shots will show a range of close ups and long shots and she will be in her own special place where nothing matters. We are going to have her holding a fairly vintage looking teddy bear who will link to future advents.

After showing the girl in this environment, and moving her to a forest with bright green and flowery colours the teddy that was in her hands just moments ago will suddenly have disappeared and the smile on her face suddenly vanishes as we're given a 'point of view shot' and see the teddy on the floor with its head hanging half off. The colours and the happiness will quickly disappear at this moment.

Then, suddenly we change scenes, to this same girl darting up from her bed and she'll make eye contact with the camera for about a second. She will be shown in a tiny, dark room presented with no make-up on and very dull and boring clothes. There will then be banging on her bedroom door to where the audience quickly understand that this first thing they saw in the shot, was just a dream and that actually the rest of her life is terrible compared to this.

The film would then go on to show this poor teenagers life who just wants to be treated like the other and how she can only get away from this when she's sleeping. It will show her beginning to talk to someone, who we're not introduced to straight away but as the film develops it turns out she's in counciling for her weird life.

As the film then comes towards the end, her dreams begin  to turn into what is actually going on in her life, the good things of course and so therefore it ends with her realising that it is possible for her to enjoy what's going on when she's fully conscious in her life.

Its going to be a emotional film and we hope for it to relate to teenage life's in lots of different aspects as a whole. It will be written by a young group of writers to help this relation and will be very modern when concerning things like language and the events that happen.

Rethink for our main task

After finding the location for our film, once the day had come about to film we decided that we didn't feel organised enough and so too under prepared to film on that day from the short notice we had and so we therefore decided not to go with this idea and think again. We also think that what we were trying to do in the hotel would have been a tad to complicated and hard to do on the equipment that we're provided with.

Rupert Murdoch is the most device figure in the most device figure in the recent history of the newspaper history of the uk newspaper industry. Discuss..

Rupert Murdoch is a massively known man in the media and also know by the phase 'the dirty digger' this nickname came about from the era when he brought 'The Sun' newspaper, changing the content to include lots of gossip, trivia and sometimes larger then life stories. However to oppose this, he is also the owner of 'The Times' newspaper which is full of real life going on's and very factual of the the world. These papers bring completely different views of the world with the sun running stories on characters in Britain's favourite soaps and the times informing the public on natural disasters thousands of miles away from home.

From just knowing this about Murdoch is apparent that he's a big figure in the media, newspapers in particular and he's on the internet too, myspace infact. He draws the attention of a massive range of market due to the sun being sold for just 20p where as the times being a couple of pounds.

I think he's had a really good inpact on the media as he brings us a range of stories that interest different people in many ways for what their interested in and what they want to read about.

Location for final piece sorted!

After sending a few emails around to local hotels last evening, this morning I received an email back from one saying they would be happy to use there fasilities to do our filming. All we have to do now is email back with a time/date and then hopefully it should all be sorted!

I'm really happy with us being able to use this as our filming location as we can focus highly on the mise en scene and it will fit in alot more with what we want to produce rather then using a house.

The only negative about this is that because we will only have one day to film it in as i don't think we'ld have a chance to go back if we wanted to re-film/ something wasn't quite right. Therefore we will have to be super organised but i think this shouldn't be too much of a problem because of our mistakes we made last time and because I think we'll all take this location as a really good thing and work our hardest on the day of filming!

New idea- where we got our inspiration from

It was time to think of a new idea for our main task and after spending a long time looking at other peoples AS work on youtube we would see how they came about it. And therefore after a long chat in our group about what we individually wanted to see in it and how we should film it, the shower scene in the  very well know film 'Casino Royale' came up in to convosation. We plan to do a very similar thing to the first 50 seconds in the clip above, with the man walking through the room and seeing the glass which leads him to slight confusion of what is happening. We really like this bit and think that the focus from the man to the glass works really well and plan to do a very similar thing. Another key shot that we thought was really well directed is the clip at 30 seconds in the above shot with the over shoulder of the man, and the women sat in the shower upset. Its such a powerful shot as she's sat in a very vulnerable way, on the floor in a tiny ball still dressed in her clothes.

As well as having this, we then want to have some quick and snappy flashbacks for the audience to see how the women ended up in such a state and we will show her being attached and pushed around so she's in shock so puts herself in the shower. Although we haven't figured out the whole of the plot yet, we  know that the main focus of the film is going to be the women, therefore instead of it being the man the first thing we see we thought it would be really cool to have the women sat in the shower, maybe crying to the camera however it will be a close up so it will anchor around the idea of if shes in the rain or other similar connotations.

We are still slightly unsure about where we want to film as our perfect location would be a hotel room as it would have all these thought provoking things like it's a bit of a mystery to where they are in the world as a hotel could be any city in any country. Because of this, we have been contacting some local hotels to see if they can help us out and if not, then we will just have to do it at someones house which won't be the end of the world at all as along as we focus strongly on the mise-en-scene then it should have just as good effect.

Problem with our main task..

Once we had done all our planning which you will see evidence of below we went to film. However once at our film location, we came across a lot of problems that we didn't consider when planning. For example we took a lot longer to get the actors ready then we thought it would take and we realised some problems with the continuity of shots and how it would work all together. We feel that we wanted to put so much in it that it would be just too much so therefore, after about 6 hours of organising/getting actors ready/filming we ended up with about 10 seconds of footage and once it came to seeing it on the screen, none of us felt as infused about it and all felt it wasn't working.

Overall, I don't feel that it was a complete waste of time as we learnt alot from it and know the mistakes that we made which when it comes to our main task we will be able to simply avoid. We have now come up with a completely new idea which we have simpled down a lot, however we feel it will be perfect and exactly what we need to get the best marks that we can get in media.