Media Foundation PortfolioMedia Foundation PortfolioEleni Christofi

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Primary ResearchPrimary ResearchQuestionnaire

Questionnaire (circle):Gender:Male FemalePreferred genre of films?Crime comedy gangster drama

sci-fi adventure horrorthriller Age:0-11 12-14 15-17 18-30

31-45 46-60 61+ How do you purchase films?Rent from a shop buy from a shop download from the internet

24-48hour downloadsHow many films do you watch per month?0-2 3-4 5-6 7+What attracts you to films?Actors/actresses trailers directors’ storyline reviewWhat kind of music do you prefer in crime films?Jazz rock pop rap

blues classical R and B ambient/spooky

Who is your favourite director?Quentin Tarrantino Steven Spielberg James CameronTim Burton Martin Scorsese Brian De Palma Guillermo Del ToroAttraction to directors?Past films reputation unique media coverageFavourite recent crime thrillers? (Please state)

Who are you most likely to watch crime films with?Friend’s Family partner on your own

other

Our target audience is towards both men and women to create a wider mass appeal; therefore, by asking the same amount of male and female participants to fill out our questionnaire, we can achieve fair and even results and we can receive the viewpoints of both genders so that we can apply them to our sequence.

Preferred genre of film

It is clear from these results that the preferred genre of film is ‘crime’, while the second genre that the participants preferred is ‘thriller’. This tells us that we should try to apply many crime conventions in our sequence, while adding thriller elements to it too; we have featured both of these genres in our synopsis to attract audiences of different interests.

Evaluation of questionnaire

How do you purchase films?

This graph shows that the majority of the people prefer to buy films, as opposed to renting from a shop or downloading online. We need to consider this answer to make sure that we distribute our film to shops so that it is fully available to audiences that like to watch their films on DVD.

The age range

The results from our ‘age’ graph conform to our target audience as the certification of our film is 15+, and the highest age range on the graph is evidently 15-17 year olds. We asked people of various ages to fill out our questionnaire, however we must take into account the viewpoints of people within the age range of our film in particular to ensure a good response.

The gender that preferred crime films

From this graph, we have found that the main gender that preferred crime films were males, supported by the fact that this genre is generally male dominated. On the other hand, it is essential to incorporate elements into our sequence that would catch the interest of the female gender; romance is evident in our narrative, therefore this element might attract more females, leading to a wider mass audience.

How many films do you watch per month?

This graph provides us with the information that the majority of the participants of our questionnaire usually watch 5-6 films a month, so we need to ensure that our film will be one of the films they would choose to watch. To do this we need to make sure that our sequence consists of many significant features.

What attracts you to a film?

People are mostly attracted to a film from its trailer or its storyline. This informs us that in order create a wide audience for our film, we need to create a trailer that stands out and catches the attention of the viewer, while showing the most interesting parts of the storyline clearly, so that the viewer will be interested in watching the film.

What kind of music do you like in crime films?

We have found that the majority of the people that had filled out our survey like to hear ‘ambient and spooky music’ in crime films. This gives us insight into what kind of music we should include in our sequence to satisfy our audience and to meet their expectations of a film from a crime genre.

It is evident from these results that the most favored director is Quentin Tarantino. We will use this director’s trademarks and follow his style closely as inspiration to create a film similar to his’ that our audience would most enjoy.

Who is your favorite director?

Attraction to directors

This graph shows that a director’s past films attract the participants of our survey the most. We can gain from these results by watching and researching popular directors’ films to find out their characteristic and style, and apply these aspects to our sequence to meet the satisfaction of the viewer.

The results from our survey informed us that the preferred crime thriller film of the participants is ‘I Saw The Devil’. We will research into this choice of film and look for elements that we can integrate into our sequence, to gain the interest and enjoyment from our audience.

Favourite recent crime thriller film

Secondary ResearchSecondary ResearchTop 10 Directors of Crime/Thriller

(and the influences we can take from them)

1.Quentin TarantinoBriefcases/suitcases: We could use this as a prop for the banker. Dutch element in films: The banker’s anonymous name could be Dutch (hard to find out).Often uses an unconventional story-telling device: Our sequence could have a non-linear narrative (end to beginning). Female character who wears a black and white pantsuit: Costume for Belle when she gets her life back on track and gets a job. Spanish classical guitar for soundtracksCharacters frequently use the phrase “Bingo”Shot with only woman’s bare feet: When Belle is living on the streets.

Born on March 27, 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.

Famous for directing Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill

2.Martin Scorsese Extensive white lighting in scenes: Could use

for the hospital room in our sequence. Dollying forward and zooming in on a

character's face The use of the colour red and red lighting: we

could use red typography for the title.

November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA.

Films: Goodfellas, The Departed

3. David FincherFrequently has characters in the shadows where you cannot make out their face: man standing behind the frosted glass window Stationary shot, unfocused background with character walking into focus: main character when walking down the streetBackstories filled with flashbacks: our whole opening sequence will be filmed on flashbacks.

Born on August 28, 1962 in Denver, Colorado, USA

Films: Fight Club, Se7en

4.Alfred HitchcockCreated shadows on a wall: this could be a symbol of the villain in our sequence.August 13, 1899 in Leytonstone, London, England, UK

Films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, Vertigo

5.Jonathan DemmeCharacters looking directly into the camera: Extreme close up of eyes

Films: Silence of the Lambs

February 22, 1944 in Baldwin, Long Island, New York, USA

6. John Landis He often has his characters look into camera lens to make eye contact with the audience or "break frame".

August 3, 1950 in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Films: The Blues Brothers

8. Christopher Nolan Uses close ups of main character’s hands in action: a close up of Belle’s hands typing on a computer keyboard.When shooting a dialogue scene, the actors are often framed in wide close-up with a shallow depth of field to blur out the background.

7. Francis Ford CoppolaBorn on April 7,1939 in Detroit, Michigan USA

Known for The Godfather trilogy and Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Cross cutting to intertwine narratives.Uses vibrant colours: we can use bright colours when Belle is falls in love with Toby.Builds up protagonist: Belle presentation changes throughout our opening sequence.

Born on July 30, 1970 in London, England, UK

Known for Inception and The Dark Knight

10.Brian De PalmaOften uses split screens

9.Guy RitchieFrequently employs the use of high speed photography in action sequencesFrequent use of humour in violent scenes

Born on September 10, 1968, in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK

Known for Snatch, Sherlock Holmes, RocknRolla

Known for: Scarface, Mission Impossible

September 11, 1940, Newark, New Jersey, USA

Genre Grid of Reservoir DogsCharacters

Joe Cabot: an old, wise, business-orientated boss figure, who organised the entire group.Nice Guy Eddie: Joe’s son. Helped his father set up the group, and is second in command. Mr White: A father figure towards Mr Orange and is the adult in their situations. Very knowledgeable and professional. However, he is also bad-tempered, which eventually leads to his death as he gets into many arguments.Mr Blonde: ‘cool’ one out of the group. Extremely violent. Joined the gang as soon as he came out of prison.Mr Pink: disregard for everyone around him, however he is one of the survivors of the group.Mr Blue: does not play a large role in the movie, so he is mysterious. He leaves the movie as a cliff-hanger.Mr Brown: annoying and opinionated. Shot in the head by the police while driving away from the jewellery store.Mr Orange: childish and naïve character of the group. Shot by a woman whose car they were hijacking.

Plot A crime boss (Joe Cabot) hires six criminals, all given code names, to carry out a diamond robbery. Although they planned it to be successful, when turning up at the place of robbery, the police show up. This causes the men to become suspicious of a member of the group being an undercover cop.

Settings/ Locations

Set in Los Angeles, America. Locations that were used often were warehouses and cafes.

Costumes/Props

Throughout the film, the men all wear the same black suit and tie, along with dark sunglasses. This clothing emphasises the masculinity of the characters and gives a professional and serious appearance, suggesting that they are in some sort of group or cult. Only two of the characters are not wearing the same clothing and wearing The sunglasses could symbolise hiding their identity, which reinforces the idea of their code names and running away from the cops. The props that are used include the use of a weapon, such as a gun, which is conventional of the crime genre and connotes danger and murder.

Sound Non-diegetic sound of the upbeat soundtrack, also songs throughout the film that were popular in the time period of the film. Diegetic sounds of gunshots and car engines in the chase scenes.

Editing Slow motion effect when all men are walking. Is filmed at a slow pace with long intervals between each cut and shot, however when action-packed scenes, such as the chases, are being filmed, there is very fast-paced editing and fast cuts

Textual Analysis of Sin City Opening SceneThe sequence begins completely black, with the non diegetic sounds of police sirens and car horns and engines, indicating that the location is set in a busy city, while already setting the crime theme from the police sirens. Also, this adds verisimilitude, therefore they could engage the audience as the viewer might relate to these sounds. As the shot fades from black, the audience is introduced to the slow saxophonic music, suggesting that it is set in a time period when this sort of music was popular, most probably the ‘jazz era’.

From the first image, the establishing shot and high angle confirm that the setting is in fact a large city, as there are buildings surrounding the shot. The whole opening sequence is filmed in black and white, adding to the sense of film-noir and romance. However, the woman that walks into the middle of the shot wears a red dress, which is the only colour we identify throughout the sequence; red connoting passion and provocativeness, while also symbolising danger and blood. Both of these connotations foreshadow what is to come; however the emphasis of colour could represent the significance of the character, and that she should be focused on. Although the woman is in the rule of thirds, suggesting that she is the centre of focus to the audience, the high angle makes her seem vulnerable, while the buildings seem to overshadow her, making her appear isolated and alone.

Just as the shot is replaced with a two shot of a man walking towards the woman, we hear a non diegetic voiceover. A male voice introduces the new character, and the deepness of this voice hints to the audience that he may be threatening and dangerous. There is bright lighting behind the character, causing a shadow over the ominous figure, reinforcing his mysteriousness. Also, the dark against light creates an eerie feeling to the scene, and relates to Levi Strauss’ Binary Opposites. Although the lighting is dark, we can make out that the man is wearing a suit, and has a dominant stature. This shot also allows the audience to see the woman’s face; she is wearing red lipstick, drawing attention to her lips, and so possibly signifying seduction.

As the figure comes closer to the female, the audience is drawn to the action of the male withdrawing something from his pocket. This is done slowly to create suspense and could be a use of Barthes’ Enigma Code, as the audience are intended to question what object he will take out. This prop is used to represent danger, as the audience may have initially thought that it would be a weapon. The lighting casts a shadow over half of his face, so although his face is apparent, it is indicated that he has two sides to his personality (the light side representing goodness and purity, and the dark implying a sinister and evil character, again associated with Levi’s Binary Opposites), showing that he may be a deceptive and misleading character. The first close up in the sequence is of the packet that the man is holding out and offering to the female, and her taking a cigarette out of it; this could suggest that he is in power.

Textual Analysis Cont.The close up of the flame from the lighter could be signifying danger, which we might consider as the male enforcing danger upon the woman. There is a close up of her face after the cigarette is lighted, and her eyes turn green. This is the second colour that is established in the sequence, and the use of this colour implies that there may be a sinister side to her too. However, this colour could be representing money and greed.

The pair soon embrace passionately, contrasting to the woman’s earlier body language; in the first two shot, her arms were crossed in an almost hostile way, setting a barrier between her and the other character, possibly protecting herself. We later find out that when she allows contact with the man, she is in complete danger. The image of the couple embracing is shown through editing in an animated form. It looks like a picture and everything seems perfect in this surrealistic shot. However, taking into account that it is in cartoon, the audience realise that their relationship may be artificial and not real, which is confirmed from the sudden change back to reality. As soon as they kiss, the music stops, suggesting an unsettling change of atmosphere. When he shoots her the silence is replaced with the non diegetic sound of thunder and rain. The close up, with both their faces in the shot, includes the image of the gun he is holding, while the camera tracks downwards. A high angle is used to show the man holding the woman on the floor. He is looking up at the sky, seeming regretful, while the woman is dead and powerless in his arms. She is still under the power of the man, as he is still holding the prop of a gun (conventional of a crime genre), emphasising his authority and power. The rain falling suggests his remorse in his actions.

Non diegetic music starts again, but this time it is fast-paced, unsettling and disturbing, and gets faster. The fast zooming out could represent that the scene that had just occurred is insignificant and small compared to the large scale of the city. The 360 degree panning shot around the buildings of the large, dark city suggests that the scene the audience had witnessed acts as a microcosm for the rest of the city. As the panning shot ends as a bird’s eye view shot of the city, the lights turn into the form of the film’s title, with the effect of blood seeping into it. The colour red of the complete title is conventional to the crime and thriller genre.

Group EvaluationEleni: From my primary research, I have found that many directors of the crime/thriller genre (such as David Fincher in Se7en and Martin Scorsese in The Departed) use white typography on a black background. This choice of typography is bold and grabs the viewer’s attention, while mirroring the conventions of a crime genre and its simple style. Also, there is a reference to Levi Strauss’ Binary Opposites, as the white against black could connote innocence vs evil, which are both conventional of a crime narrative. The opening sequence of Sin City is filmed in black-and-white to emphasise its sophistication.I have found that Quentin Tarantino’s focus on women’s feet (evident from the close ups he had used in more than one of his films) has now become iconic of a crime genre. He is also the most favoured director (found in our research through questionnaires) of the genre, therefore we shall use this technique in our opening sequence to raise familiarity and to intrigue the viewer. Women’s body parts are also highlighted in the thriller genre, as some popular directors (such as Christopher Nolan) use close ups of a woman’s hand.The use of a gun as a weapon is evident in both the films that I have analysed as part of my Secondary Research (from my Genre Grid and Textual Analysis). This prop is a popular convention of the crime genre, and plays a large role in the narrative, as violence is stemmed from the use of these weapons, further reinforcing this genre.

Megan: In my research, I found that popular crime/thriller directors used close up shots of the characters faces in films such as Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Jonathon Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs. This shows the intense emotions of the characters, and consequently, the use of close up shots is now a convention of the genre. Freeze frames and colour filters are also used, for example in Martin Scorsese’s Cape Fear, to emphasise moments and to connote emotions such as rage (through the use of a red filter). The questionnaire showed that the target audience of men aged 15 – 17 liked crime thriller director Quentin Tarantino the most, and therefore we shall use these techniques in our opening sequence because they are iconic of his work and of the work by other popular directors. Additionally, Tarantino uses the non-diegetic sound of heavy breathing over a black screen to create an enigma code in the opening of Kill Bill, which is an extremely interesting technique which is highly successful in intriguing the audience. He also uses his typeography of ‘Friz Quadrata Bold’, which we will use as well, because it has become iconic of the crime/thriller genre.Maria: We asked the same number of males and females to take part in our questionnaire in order to get fair results. The results gave us a greater insight into what an audience would like to see. Males between the ages of 15-17 said that their favourite genre was crime which works perfectly as this is the genre our film will be and we can create it with that age group and specific gender in mind as our target audience. We also found out that people watch between 5-6 films per month. This shows us that our film will be viewed as films are still very popular especially in the form of DVD's rather than online streaming. Trailers and the storylines are what most attract people to films so we will need to make a trailer that will show the storyline but not give too much away so that people need to watch it to find out what actually happens in the film. Ambient/spooky music is the most popular background music to hear in a crime film which will gives us some inspiration for our soundtrack.We must also look at Quentin Tarantino's style within his past films in order to inspire us when making our own film as he is the preferred director. Our questionnaires showed that people's favourite film is I Saw The Devil, we will study this film to get ideas and take inspiration from it when creating our own film.Annabelle: From my primary research i have discovered that the target audience for our film will be male 15-17year olds these age group said they preferred genre of film would be crime, which fits perfectly as our film genre is a crime/thriller. The people we asked to fill out our questionnaire said they would wish to hear ambient/spooky music in a crime film this gives us a good indication of what soundtrack we need to use. From our research I’ve discovered that people watch 5 -6 films per month on DVDs meaning that we should make the film into a DVD rather than put into onto the internet as to be used as online streaming. In our questionnaire the people we asked favoured kill bill as one of their favourite crime films. This film is directed by Quentin Tarantino from the top 10 director research i found Tarantino to specialise in filming women’s feet –evident from the close ups in not only kill bill but several others off his films. Quentin Tarantino was also the favourite director in our questionnaire meaning we will incorporate Quentin Tarantino’s technique in our film.

Pre-ProductionPre-ProductionTreatment

Title: SpinningMedium: FilmCertification: 15+ Target Audience: This opening sequence is targeted at people from the age of 15 and above. It is mostly targeted at male teenagers and young men, as men tend to find crime, violence and gore more exciting than women do. We have also put love interest into the sequence to bring the attention to more females, leading to a wider mass audience. SynopsisStart: Belle Jackson is a wife and a mother to a young teenage girl of about 13 years old, called Lily. Her husband, Toby, does not want another child, so when she accidently falls pregnant it causes a strain on their relationship. Shortly after the new child is born, their marriage breaks down and Toby leaves her resulting in her falling into huge amounts of debt with two children to care for.Middle: Belle desperately searches for a way to deal with the problem, but nothing works. She eventually resorts to accepting the financial aid of a corrupt banker who is acting as a loan shark, nicknamed ‘Skin’. The money helps, but she is unable to pay back the loan so Skin starts threatening her. As a form of revenge, Skin starts grooming 13 year old Lily and then rapes her. Belle is distraught, but when she tries to go to the police, she realises there is nothing she can do because she only knows him as Skin, not his real name. To protect her daughter, Belle and her two children go into hiding.End: Determined to send him down, Belle goes on a quest to find his real identity by any means necessary whilst still trying to hide from him. She pulls strings and gets information out of anyone she knows that is linked to Skin, including Toby. After finding out what had happened to Lily, Toby goes to find Skin and kill him, and so breaks into Skin’s office. There he finds documents with Skin’s real name: Nick Garrotte. With this information, Toby and Belle go to the police and Nick Garrotte is arrested and sentenced to life in prison.

Treatment Cont.Key ScenesScene 1:The screen remains black for 3 seconds at the start, with the clicking sound of a wheel going round. The non diagetic sound bridges over as the black screen cuts to a close up of the centre of the wheel of a wheelchair turning slowly.  “EMAM Films Presents” appears on one of the spokes in friz quadrata bold typeography and turns with it for one rotation then disappears. This is repeated with the words “An Eleni Christofi Film” then “Ruby Black”, “Produced by Maria Micheal”, “Edited by Annabelle Shepherd”, “Music by Megan Taylor”. The shot then fades into a close up of the wheel of the chair (being sat in by Belle), which is then tracked slowly as it moves. It then cuts to a high high angle over the shoulder shot of belle being pushed down a white clinical corridor. This then cuts to a long shot, with Belle and the porter coming down the corridor towards the camera in the centre third.Scene 2:Cuts to an establishing shot of Toby’s office, as the camera moves into the room. It then cuts to a blurred point of view shot of Belle going down the corridor, which then cuts to close up of a telephone ringing. Cuts back to the close up of the wheelchair, and then the blurred point of view shot, as the sound of the phone ringing can be heard at regular intervals. The next shot is a mid-close up shot of the back of Toby’s head as he answers the phone, followed by a mid shot of the nurse who called him, and then it cuts to an extreme close up of Toby’s mouth as he says the word “labour?”. It then cuts back to the point of view shot, with the non-diagetic dialogue of the nurse as she responds to Toby, followed by the extreme close up of Toby’s mouth, then a close up of the nurse’s face, and then back to Toby’s mouth. It then cuts to the long shot of Belle being pushed down the corridor, with the sound of the nurse talking. It cuts to the extreme close up of Toby’s mouth and then quickly back to the close up of the nurse, followed by the mid-close up shot of the back of Toby’s head as he slams the phone down. It then cuts to a mid shot of one of the women working in the office to show her reaction and, as she looks over at the other woman, the camera tracks across to show the latter. It then cuts to a midshot with Toby looking at both of the women, and attempting to explain himself. The sound of his dialogue bridges over to Belle in the hospital bed in labour.Scene 3: Cuts to a shot of a hand pulling back a white curtain to reveal Belle lying in a hospital bed in labour. The camera arcs around Belle with the centre third being on her pregnant stomach, and ends with a mid-close up of her face. Dissolves to a blurred point of view shot of the doctor as her sits down at the foot of the bed and tells her to breathe. Cuts to a close up of Belle’s face screaming, as the doctor talks to her. It then cuts to a low angle mid-close up of the doctor. A high angle mid shot then tracks down her body and focuses on the doctor at the foot of the bed. This shot is intercut with high angle close ups of Belles face as she screams. The screen goes back, and a mid shot of Belle fades up and tracks out to show her alone. The title “Spinning” then fades in in white friz quadrata bold typeography on a black screen.Character ListBelle Jackson: Hero, beautiful woman, conventionally feminine looking. Looks like she would be the ‘princess’ character, but is strong and protective and so is portrayed as the ‘hero’ after the initial vulnerability of the opening sequence.Toby Jackson: Tall, dark, kind but ‘normal’ looking. Assumed he would be the ‘hero’ but then his actions in the opening sequence show this not to be true.Lily Jackson: Princess character, timid, innocent appearance, youthful and fragileNick Garrotte: Villain, tall, dark hair, older than Belle

Script

Storyboard

Atmospheric music

Camera shakes/ moving

Production Schedule for Pre-production, Production and Post-Production

Contingency PlanA contingency plan is a ‘just in case’ plan, if things do not work out how we expect them too. In this scenario, we are required to be prepared to swap to a different activity or to adapt and edit our plans to make them work.

Locations: We are filming in various locations within school and, obviously, the education of other students and the convenience of the teachers needs to be a main priority. For example, we plan to film part of our opening sequence in the Medical room, but we will need to pause or potentially stop all together if someone comes in need of medical attention. This is why we will film during lesson time, but in case we do have to leave, we will change our activity to editing what we have already filmed, or (providing we get permission), film in another location that would work equally as well. For example, we could use the Connections room and use our set design to make it look like a hospital room or a doctor’s office. Additionally, we plan to film in the editing suite (E21), but there will be other students working in there at the time. We will therefore film the scene in the corner of the room so that we do not accidently film other students, and background noise should not be an issue because there is very little dialogue in that location. However we will be efficient and quick so as to avoid disturbing other people. Filming in exterior locations carries the risk of weather, so we will always check the forecast before beginning filming. In the event of rain (or in some cases excessive sun when we require a more gloomy feel), we will swap what we plan to film with another filming slot from our production plan. If this is not possible, we will swap it to editing what we have already filmed or to working on the soundtrack.

Cast and Crew: We require a very small cast, and so we already have people to play each character. If for any reason, the person assigned to play the character is unavailable at a particular time, we will postpone the filming until a more suitable time. If this is impossible, due to deadlines or limited availability of the location, we will use a stand-in. If a member of the crew is unavailable temporarily, due to an emergency, then the rest of the crew will continue as planned. In the unlikely event that this is not possible, the activity will be postponed and swapped with something that can be done without the absent crew member.

Camera and Tripod: We will book the equipment we need well in advance, but if something happens and we cannot use what we intended to, we will change activities to editing or soundtrack and use the camera and tripod at a different time. To ensure that the cameras SD card does not run out of space, we will upload our footage onto the Mac computers, and delete it off the SD card after each session of filming. This also means that our footage will already be on the computer when we need to edit.

Set Designs

ReccesWe plan to film in the physio room because it has items like hospital style beds and white curtains that will contribute to our mise-en-scene and make our opening sequence look as if it is set in a hospital. The room has at least 4 available plug sockets which we can use for the microphone and the camera charger if we need to, and these sockets are all in easy access and close to the centre of the room.One wall is covered by large windows, which allows lots of natural light in, increasing the verisimilitude of our opening sequence. This will also help define it as part of the crime/thriller genre, seeing as many films of this genre avoid the glossy look used more by rom-coms in favour of more dingy realistic lighting.The room is also quite large with plenty of floor space. This ensures that we will have enough space for the tripod and to move the dolly around. Additionally, it means that we will have the space to move the beds to ensure that we do not get any of the wall displays in our shots which could ruin the mise-en-scene.

• We are filming in school corridors for the scene when the porter is pushing Belle in a wheelchair.

• These locations are suitable for our purpose as the corridors are quite wide. This ensures that we will have enough space for the actors, the wheelchair and the camera equipment to move freely. The skylights on the ceiling allow natural light to fill the corridor, so it makes the setting look more like a hospital corridor and increases the verisimilitude. The location also adds to the mise-en-scene as the walls are white, the colours are very simple and the lighting is very bright, making it look more like a hospital.

• These locations may be unsuitable for our purpose as some of the walls have school displays; therefore we will have to be extremely careful not to ruin the mise-en-scene by shooting from angles that are not in view of the displays. There also may be slip hazards, so we will have to be wary of our movement with the equipment. Furthermore, there are not any power sockets available; therefore we will not have any source of electricity if the battery of our camera runs out.

• We are filming in offices for both the office scenes within our sequence (when the nurse is in her reception, talking on the telephone, and when Toby is working in his office with his colleagues).

• These locations are suitable for our purpose as they are very similar to work offices. There are props available that reinforce the mise-en-scene, such as, the desks, computers, the bookshelves and the papers. The large windows in the rooms allow natural and bright lighting in, again increasing the realism of the settings. Also, there is a telephone available in each room, which we will need for the telephone call between the nurse and Toby.

• These locations may be unsuitable as there is not as much floor space as we would like. This means less room to move the dolly around, and it may be difficult to shoot establishing shots or long shots. Although the windows are large, we may need to provide an extra form of lighting to make the setting brighter. This way we can see the character’s facial expressions more.

Risk Assessment

Booking Form

Meeting and Minutes

Wednesday 18th January•Group members present: Eleni, Maria, Annabelle and Megan•Topics discussed: Narrative of film – genre, themes – either loosely based on Rumpelstiltskin or The Princess and the Pea: Rumpelstiltskin = crime thriller certificate 15, princess and the pea = young chick flick certificate PG/12a•To do: Decide on a narrative and begin the treatmentMonday 23rd January•Group members present: Eleni, Maria, Annabelle, and Megan•Topics discussed: Rumpelstiltskin theme chosen and narrative and characters developed, treatment begun•To do: Complete treatmentWednesday 25th January•Group members present: Eleni, Maria, Annabelle and Megan•Topics discussed: Completed treatment, ideal actors chosen•To do: Questionnaire, ask actors and get permission to use themMonday 30th January•Group members present: Eleni, Maria, Annabelle and Megan•Topics Discussed: potential filming locations and sets, script – structure of the opening sequence, dialogue etc.•To do: Script, make and evaluate graphs from the results of the questionnaire

Monday 6th January•Group members present: Eleni, Maria, Annabelle and Megan•Topics discussed: what needs to be done – each group members individual work, and the group work•To do:

Eleni – Individual work, storyboards, complete scriptMaria – Individual work, set designs, reccesAnnabelle – Individual word, complete graphs and letters of permission, safety checksMegan – Individual work, production schedule and contingency plan, complete script, minutes of meetingsAll – Group evaluation of the research

Monday 20th February•Group members present: Eleni, Maria, Annabelle and Megan•Topics discussed: work completed before and over half term – script, set designs, graphs, letters of permission, contingency plan•To do: complete remaining work and prepare for filmingMonday 5th March•Group members present: Eleni, Maria, Annabelle and Megan•Topics discussed: footage filmed the previous week, footage due to be filmed in the coming week – locations and time of filming, each members individual work all completed, group work completed – production schedule, group evaluation•To do: complete remaining group work, complete filming footageMonday 12th March•Group members present: Eleni, Maria, Annabelle and Megan•Topics discussed: footage filmed, footage still needing to be filmed – locations and time of filming, group work completed – storyboards, recces, safety checks, minutes of meetings•To do: compile media foundation portfolio PowerPoint, complete filming, edit the footage, add titles and soundtrack

•Thursday 26th April••Group members present: Eleni, Maria, Annabelle and Megan••Topics discussed: the need to re-shoot footage due to problems with the mise-en-scene, getting permission to use the physio room again, finding when the actors are available again••To do: re-shoot, and then edit the footage with effect and transitions, and then add the soundtrack• •Friday 27th April••Group members present: Eleni, Maria, Annabelle and Megan••Topics discussed: how to do the titles (using After Effects instead of Livetype)••To do: create title sequence in After Effects and add it to opening sequence

Letters of Permission