Saturday 7th November 2009

Recently I have been analysing the plot to make sure that our film shows exactly what it is that we are trying to represent.We needed to check whether it addresses our primary and secondary audience and if not how to address them. As well as thinking of those things, we have been trying to find an appropriate location and suitable actors. We organized with an Art teacher to use our Sixth Form's Photography room after school from Wednesday onwards this room is suitable because it is dark and connotes the frightening mise en scene we are looking for. It also contrasts with the child who at first seems innocent; innocence is a typical characteristic passive viewers associate with children. Our teacher has planned for us to get editing training on the Adobe premiere Software and after the session on Tuesday 10th November we will be able to start filming from then on. This week Opal and I have been planning our production so far I have written out the script for our two actors who are drama students so that they can prepare their lines; and I have given them a brief summary about the narrative and what we are trying to represent in the film. Opal and I have found the soundtrack although we might change it later on before we come to edit. I have done the storyboards so that as we are filming we can tick the scenes we have done and highlight the ones we need to do.

Opal is providing the props and wardrobe for the actors. I got the idea for our film from a film I had seen called The Orphan. The narrative basically consists of a child who is not who she seems and ends up trying to kill her mother. I find this ideology very intriguing. It is connoting the loss of innocence within the child the child is here shown to be manipulative and vindictive. So for our film I decided that I wanted not show a revengeful child, showing binary opposites within the child between innocence and subtle bitterness, with the mother character I wanted to show through her talking to the painting her unconscious frustration with the child and also at the end when she sees her painting at it says 'You killed me mummy' you see that she is unconsciously guilty.

The first shot of our film is a slightly ajar door with a little bit of light piercing we are showing binary opposition which creates an element of mystery and wonder within the viewer. Although we have a prescribed task we are going to try and use as much as interesting shot types to sustain suspense within the viewer also through the different shot types we want a particular emotion to be captured.

Also in yesterday's lesson I took pictures of our storyboards with a digital camera and I uploaded them onto Windows Movie Maker, we then found a potential soundtrack and downloaded it and edited over our animatic.