Assignment 11

Group PresentationDraft 3

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Kaya Sumbland Sanel Homer

Rahel Fasil Gia Alveranga

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Record of Grade for draft 1 (Individual)

Kaya Sumbland - DWhat Went Well:• Clear presentation and organisation• Excellent structure • Good understandingEven Better If:• More detail• Use more images• Take real pictures of charactersTargets to Improve:• To explain my points in a PEE structure and use a verity of images.

Sanel Homer - UWhat Went Well:• Good organisation• Nice diagrams• Good understanding of chosen themeEven Better If:• Relate my pictures to the words• Less text• More detailTargets to Improve:• Make sure my diagrams are not to basic and shorted lengthy paragraphs into bullet points.

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Record of Grade for draft 1(Individual)

Gia Alveranga - UNo work handed in

Rahel Fasil - EWhat Went Well-• Short brief points

Even Better If-• Use titles for slides• Don’t talk about films I haven't watched• Make sure I present my knowledge more clearlyTargets to Improve- • Make sure I understand fully what enigma is and organise my slides better

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Kaya & Sanel Record of Grade for draft 1GroupPresentation Level – D-

What went well?• Showing progress and achievement• Slides have good organisation• Good effort and creativity• Good start to conventions

Even better if?• Colour code should be background• Title all the slides• More contribution from Sanel, Rahel and Gia• Don’t read from the screen

Targets to improve…• To make sure all group members contribute• Write our presentation with more detail and understanding• To word our idea’s better

B

Decisions and RevisionsKaya & Sanel

Since our first draft, we’ve changed our idea a lot.

• So, in our second draft we removed the mental illness and make the character actually be possessed by demons and spirits who kidnaps innocent victims. Then again, our feedback told us it was to complicated and too much. We were told to either focus on possession or kidnap, or change the genre. Also our locations were unreliable and just not very flexible.

• Our first draft was a thriller on a girl who had schizophrenia who thought she was possessed. However, our feedback told us to take out schizophrenia as it was too complicated and sent out the wrong message about the mental illness.

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Making these changes helped us greatly because we fully understand and we fully research the things we’re doing, revised our locations thoroughly and its a lot less complicated than our other drafts helping us explain it better to our target audience to receive the best feedback we can.

Decisions and RevisionsTherefore, as a group we decided to come up with a completely new idea. Kaya, Sanel and Rahel all wrote their own opening sequence and one got picked to be the one we develop as it suited our target audience and as a group we felt it would be best in connecting with them. So, we have now changed to drama, starting all our genre research from scratch.

However, the ending of our new opening sequence about drugs was confusing and didn’t match, so, Kaya and Sanel met up as the others in our group couldn’t and discussed and revised on many different ways on ending it after thoroughly researching the drug our character took. Also making very interesting and captivating for our audience.

Kaya & Sanel C

Kaya & Sanel

Genre – Drama

• Our genre has changed because all of our thriller ideas were to complicated for our audience and sent out the wrong message.

• However we changed to drama as we felt its more effective and

real for our target audience.

• We all agreed that doing a drama would be the best genre for us because we understand the conventions and how we can relate it to real life.

• Also it can hopefully send out a educational message.

D

Example of a Drama film

Bend It Like Beckham 2002

Bend it like Beckham is a drama because it shows the real life of Jesminder and her conflict with her family because her dream is to be a female footballer as they want her to lead the normal life of an Indian woman. She’s also a character many of their target audience can relate to, also at the end of the film her parents come to realise that she's passionate about football and lets her play with her team.

Kaya

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This is a drama film because its based on real life and how Lola is obsessed with this celebrity called Stu and she is determined to met him whether her mum grounds her or not which can relate to teenagers today and also how being too obsessed and focusing on the stars without realising how important school work is.

Confession Of A Teenage Drama Queen - 2004

Sanel Example of a Drama film

D

Drama Conventions

ClimaxTensions

Conflict

Realisation

Emotions

Characters we can relate to

Relationships

Kaya & Sanel D.a

ConventionDrama

Use/Develop/Challenge

Purpose and Description

Examples from films

Tension Use – audience follow a character not knowing what is going to happenDevelop – audience is given the impression that somebody is watching them

Purpose – to make the audience fear for the characters and to create enigmaDescription – all the characters are shown in the school playground. The camera isn’t controlled and is filmed at Dutch angle which conveys the impression that they are being watched creating tension.

Boy in the playground texting on his phone.

Kidulthood

Conflict Use – argument between mother and daughterChallenge – escalates into an argument that has quite graphic and extreme violence

Teenage daughter comes home after giving birth to her daughter. The mother is jealous and angry as she has given birth to her husband’s baby. She becomes so angry that she throws a TV at her.

Precious

Mother throws a TV down the stairs at Precious

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ConventionDrama

Use/Develop/Challenge

Purpose and Description

Examples from films

Relationships Use – friendly loving relationshipsDevelop – unfaithful relationshipsChallenge - domestic abuse in the relationship

Purpose – to give the audience insight into obstacles in different relationships and how they are handledDescription – After attempting to seek revenge on the person she thought was her boyfriend, Cassandra gets attacked by him.

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Cassandra getting attacked by the boy

Realistic settings Use – familiar settings that are relatable

Purpose – to make the film seem more real to the audience and make them to relate itDescription – The teacher is telling the student that he can make it and be successful which is something the target audience is familiar to. Confrontation between

the teacher and pupil

Freedom Writers

D.a

ConventionDrama

Use / Develop /Challenge

Purpose andDescription

Examples fromOpening Sequence

ClimaxUse – Teenage girl falling to the ground recklessly with the audience not knowing what will happen to her next with her health and what she’s hallucinating

Purpose – To show the harm of drugs and what it can do to your health and your mindDescription – The girl will stop, hold her chest and fall to the ground in slow motion to show the seriousness.

She falls to the ground from heart failure while still

hallucinating

RealisationUse – The girl will hold her chest realising something's wrong

Purpose – To make the audience feel sympathy for her and realise that this is a serious situationDescription – The girl will (in slow motion) hold her chest and fall to the ground

She realises she’s seriously ill

Kaya, Sanel & Gia

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ConventionDrama

Use / Develop /Challenge

Purpose andDescription

Examples fromOpening Sequence

Emotions

Happiness

Excitement

Loneliness

Depression

Kaya, Sanel

Use – Her life is at ‘equilibrium’ she's partying just like a normal teenager would.

Develop – A normal teenage excited about her time taking the drug, however its showing something illegal in a positive light.

Use – Her and her friends go through conflict and the main girl has no more friends.

Develop – A young girl hurting her self to an extent of it being quite gory and startling the audience

Purpose – To show a typical teenage girlDescription – The girl has just taken LSD and is in a good state feeling really good

Purpose – To show where the problem startedDescription – The girls friends introduce her to the drug and she is excited to try it for the first time

Purpose – To show that friends can get you in bad situation and then aren't there for you when it all goes wrongDescription – She argues with her friends and they get into a fight over money (for the drugs)

Purpose – To show how drugs can mess you up and ruin your life and mindDescription – The girl is in the bathtub cutting herself very deep into her arm with blood pouring everywhere

She is heavily partying, having fun

Its her first time using the drug

She fights with her friend

She self harms in the bath tub D.b

ConventionDrama

Use / Develop /Challenge

Purpose andDescription

Examples fromOpening Sequence

Develop – As she's a teenage girl who takes drugs which many girls can relate to but were developing it by showing what she's seeing and thinking as well.

Purpose – To show the audience the effects and risks of taking LSD and the mind games it causes

Description – You see and hear what she's hallucinating seeing how frightening it is

Point of view colours and characters she’s seeing

Characters you can relate to

Kaya, Sanel D.b

Inspirational ScenesAlice in Wonderland – 1951/2010

There is a theory that Alice in Wonderland is a film about a girl on drugs, which the colours and characters hugely inspired me in the hallucinating aspect of our opening sequence.

Kaya

A character that’s very scary and creepy

During a bad trip you see things that are frightening so this Cheshire cat from Alice in

wonderland (2010) inspired me to crate a character with similar features that will frighten Laura

when hallucinating.

Confusion for the character

During a bad trip as well as being frightened you also become very confused so in the scene where Alice is confronted with many

signs of where to go they all point in every direction, directing her the same thing, which inspired

me to confuse my character in a similar way of using sings

When you are hallucinating on LSD you can see things in slow or fast motion and the scene at the

dinner party with Mad hatter inspired me to speed up my

characters in Laura’s hallucination to make it seem more bizarre and

dizzy

Characters moving very fast

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Inspirational Scenes

The last song - 2010

Kaya

The song played by piano in the last scene – emotions and focus

The song played on the piano in The last song created a lot of emotion and focus towards the girl on the piano, which inspired us to use during our flashbacks. The pace and sound of the piano creates a lot of sympathy and understanding of the character. We want to use this so the audience will understand Laura’s struggle.

E

Inspirational Scenes Sanel

Romeo and Juliet both having a good time.Romeo and Juliet-1996

Romeo and Juliet is inspiring to us because there structure starts of with new equilibrium by showing how happy they are and then ends up getting married but it ends with a disequilibrium as they both kill themselves to send out a message to there parents which is inspiring to our opening sequence because we want to send out a message to our target audience knowing that she was happy at the start but then dies at the end to show are target audience how LSD is not good.

E

Inspirational Scenes Sanel

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre-1974

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was inspiring to us that the slow motion was effective as it focuses on the details slowly showing us that something that had happen was important. So when we do are slow motion of Laura falling to ground you can see how the slow motion emphasise the fall.

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Inspirational films Altered states

colourful hallucination

This inspired my group because we also will be using

hallucination to show the characters mental state.

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Inspirational Films4321

• The point of view shot allows the audience to share the view of the character. We are going to include point of view shots in our opening sequence.

• It clearly conveys a lot of the characters’ emotion to the audience. We are going to include close up shots in our opening sequence.

• We were inspired by the point of view shot shown in the film.

• We were inspired by these close up shots of Shannon and Joanne shown in the film.

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Inspirational FilmsPrecious

•We were inspired by these establishing shots shown in the film.

•These establishing shots show the lack of privileges Precious has in her life through these images of her deprived community.

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Kaya & Sanel Theme and ConceptPreviously, our Theme was Possession and our Concept was Kidnap.

What Went Well• The idea was unique, no other previous opening sequences did this idea• It suited our genre, it would scare our audience• It created enigma, climaxing to a point so the audience would watch more

Even Better If• The idea was too complicated, not many people understood the plot fully• To make it more simple, not to have too many things going on at the same time• To focus on either possession or kidnap

• So… We changed our Theme and concept because we changed our genre, therefore we had to make it so it can connect with the conventions of drama.

• We also wanted to relate to our audience more and make the film more ‘real’ to them.

• However we wanted to also send out a message that can educational the teenagers that would watch the film.

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Kaya & Sanel

Theme and Concept• To come up with out new Theme and Concept we all decided to without thinking about

the genre, come up with a completely new idea. • We all wanted an idea that could relate to our audience, making it seem more real to

them. Therefore Kaya came up with the idea of hallucinating. • We then as a group like the idea of it and thought we could connect with the reality of

drugs to send a message to our target audience, about what drugs can do to you negatively.

Theme:Drugs

Concept:Hallucination

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