Assignment 11 draft 3 part 2

Research on the drug LSDLysergic Acid Diethylamide

What is it?Invented by Albert Hoffman, LSD, is a powerful hallucinogenic drug, which makes the user see distorted views of objects, reality and hearing things that aren’t there. This is known as a ‘trip’ and once you start using it, it’s hard to stop.

Users of LSD may experience some bodily effects, such as:• Increased blood pressure and heart rate• Dizziness• Loss of appetite• Dry mouth• Sweating• Nausea• Numbness• Tremors

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LSD users when taking the drug can feel pleasant and relaxed, but that’s only when they are in a good place and were happy before using it, called a ‘good trip’ however, if you are in a bad mood, upset, in a place of discomfort, or with people you are uncomfortable with seeing frightening and confusing things making you feel worse. This is called a ‘bad trip’.

The effects!• Speeding up or slowing down time and movement• Distorted sound, colour and objects• Seeing and hearing things that aren't there• Heightening your mood• Making you feel worse• Anxiety attacks

The risks!• A bad trip can seriously terrify you• Flashbacks – re-lived after the original experience (within weeks of taking the drug or

even years!)• Long term damage to the body• Heart failure

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This is a video from Talk to Frank about who made LSD, what it does, why people hallucinate and how the body controls it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oCePaxzEds

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oCePaxzEds

Research on the drug LSD

What LSD can look like

It can be a crystal – if its touched, you can become very high as it is absorbed through the skin

It can be a liquid (when the crystal is dissolved in water), however it is not strongIt can be on blotter paper. When

the paper is dipped in liquid acid which trippy art painted on it

It can be a sugar cube which has a drop of liquid acid put in it

It can come in microdots, which are small pills in many colours

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How we will show the effects of LSD in our opening sequence:

• Laura will be very pale to show she's unhealthy and sweaty

• She will have flash backs

• The flash backs will be in slow motion

• Laura will hallucinate colours, sounds and images

• Her hallucination will be in fast motion

• She will have heart failure

• She will be in pain and feeling really depraved

• Have confusing signs everywhere around where she's walking

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Population and popularity of the drug.

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Idea DevelopmentPreviously our idea for our whole film was a woman who was possessed was taking hostage innocent victims and exorcising them for her cult.What Went Well?• Creative• Interesting• ScaryEven Better If?• Less complicated• Chose to focus on either hostage or possession – not both• Too fully understand and research possession

Previously our opening sequence was showing a tape filmed by the possessed woman on the news talking about her cult and exorcising a victim she has held hostage.What Went Well?• Good idea• Creative layoutEven Better If?• Change the news idea• Change location to somewhere more flexible

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Idea DevelopmentKaya & Sanel

We are improving our opening sequence from our last one completely changing our idea to a new one. We changed our genre to drama which is based on drugs, quite a realistic things to certain teenagers. We fully researched and revised drugs so we improve our understanding

and knowledge making sure we make an effective opening sequence and therefore to…

• Relate to our audience so they can see our opening sequence as real life• Show an educational message of how drugs are bad for you• Making it more interesting for our target audience to what they prefer• Make it less complicated but still as captivating• More understandable, as our target audience are young teenagers/adults

Kaya and Sanel are contributing by meeting up on the Holidays to fully research and carefully think thought out new idea making sure everything links and can educate our target audience. We explored different effects of LSD in depth to

make it as realistic as possible to relate to real peoples lives

How are we contributing?

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Whole Film(Laura’s life from the beginning)

• Her friends introduce her to the drugs, she likes it and carries on taking it

• Laura takes it daily gets addicted, party’s, stops going school – messes her life up

• She steals, does prostitution to try and get money for LSD• Her and her friends get into a big fright over money for the drug

and she becomes lonely and depressed• She keeps self harming, taking he drug and ends up getting so

intoxicated she doesn't know what she's doing and just goes to the forest while hallucinating

• He has heart failure and dies alone

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Opening Sequence

• We follow Laura walking out of her home (on the way to the forest) and cut from different shots of her journey

• Throughout the journey we see short flash backs

• We then show CCTV of her walking into the park/forest gates

• Point of view of what she can see and hear (hallucinating) which cuts from real life and her point of view

• Laura stops quickly holds her chest and falls to the ground breathing slowly

• Front her point of view we see characters dance together

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Idea Development

How the idea was improved from Draft 1 to Draft 2

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• We took out mental illness schizophrenia being the reason she thought she was possessed, and changed the woman to actually being possessed by demons who wanted to let the world know about her cult scaring the world so the demons can possess them too from watching the video

• Doing deeper research of the reasons of possession being that demons can be released into the real world and why the certain people get possessed because they’re venerable.

• We also changed the location to somewhere more flexible as the other one location, we wouldn’t have been able to move things around, the light thing was poor and the room was too small. Therefore changing to one of our group members basement as it is spacious and reliable.

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KLaura leaves Her home and starts her journey to the forest

Starts with a full body shot then a graphic match to full body shot ending in a close up shot

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Blue jacket, ripped tights, black skirt, white top, dirty shoes

Flashback of Laura first trying LSD

Laura is still walking the journey to the forest

Flashback of Laura at a party while onLSD

Laura is still on her journey to the forest

Flashback of Laura and her friend having a fight

Laura is entering the park

CCTV point of view of Laura walking into the park gates

Over the shoulder shot of her friend. Full body shot which zooms into a extreme close up shot, after fast zoom out back into the full body shot

The camera will track her walking around the curb in a full body shot

Close up shot of Laura’s face to capture the facial expressionEstablishing shot of her walking down the road with graphic match showing her in different places on the road

Over the shoulder shot of Laura getting pushed over be a friend then a mid shot of her on the ground

Establishing shot of Laura walking into the park gates

Overhead shot of Laura walking into the forest with time in white at the bottom of the screen

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LauraFriend

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• Sugar cube • Food colouring• Short brown wig

• Side bag• Short brown wig

• Beer bottle• Short brown wig

Black jacket, ripped tights, black skirt, grey top, dirty bootsBlack jacket, ripped tights, black skirt, white top, dirty boots

Greyish jacket, white top, black skirt




Black jacket, ripped tights, black skirt, grey top, dirty boots





Credits will be shown during this scene

Non-Diegetic sad slow music is played. Slow motion. Blur. Then fast motion

Non-Diegetic sad slow music is played. Slow motion. Blur.


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Black and white visual effect

KLaura walks through the park looking confused

Full body shot LauraGolders Green • Side bag• Short brown wig


Flashback of Laura cutting herself in her bath

Laura looks from right to left frightened

P.O.V of the clown and the doll scaring LauraLaura stands there confused then starts to run into the forest

P.O.V of the clown and the doll trying to confuse Laura

Laura stops and holds her chest then falling to the ground

P.O.V of the clown and doll dancing above Laura

Full body shot

Mid shot while doing a reverse dolly zoom

Long shot which then becomes a close up shot of both characters faces

Full body shot of her funning from different locations of the forest

Full body shot then later a long shot of the characters in the distance

Mid shot then a close up shot of her face on the ground

Full body shot from a low angle, with the characters then jumping down to a close up shot

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ClownDoll Dolly

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• Orange afro wig• Pink short wig

ripped tights, black skirt, grey top,

Clown – jumpsuit .big shoes.Doll – dress, ripped tights




Weird hypnotic music playing. Fast motion. Multi-coloured visual effect

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ClownDoll Dolly

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Enigma – How did they do it?Kaya & Sanel

‘Stand by me’ - 1986 Opening Sequence

Focus on newspaper article about deathThe audience will want to know why this has been pointed out and why he is looking at this particular article for so long.

Focus on two boys on bike, then starts to reminisceWe see the man focus on these two boys on the bike then start to think which makes the audience wonder what connection he has with them He starts telling his story which connects to the what

the newspaper article and boys on the bikesLastly his voice over starts talking about his life as a young boy and seeing a dead human, which shows the audience it connects to the article and the two boys on the bike. This make the audience want to watch more and find out what happened when he saw the body and the connection to what he’s thinking about

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Enigma - How did they do it?Kaya & Sanel

‘Bend it like Beckham’ - 2002 Opening Sequence

Shows contrast with her fantasy and real lifeThe audience realise she doesn't follow the conventions of a Indian girl and want to watch more about the differences of what her mother wants and what she wants.

Mum disapproves of her playingThe audience will wonder why she's such a good football player, but then when you see her mum shouting and saying ‘she needs to go back home’ the audience will realise it’s a day dream and see that there is conflict in her family about her dream

Woman play for Man UtdThe audience will get sucked into the game they played in the beginning of the opening sequence and then when they see the girl playing with them they wonder why she's playing for Man Utd and watch more.

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EnigmaKaya & Sanel

How are we creating enigma in our opening sequence?

• By not letting the audience know why she is walking to the forest as she falls to the ground hopelessly without letting the audience know what she wanted to do there in the first place and further what she would have seen in her hallucinations.

• By showing her dramatically fall to the group as a climax to the end of the opening sequence without giving away why, what it was and if she was okay afterwards.

• The audience will want to know why she is this way, how she’s tired, dirty, bloody and what happened wrong in her life which the flashbacks will give short clues of this.

• Showing just seconds of the flashbacks they will want to see more of what she did and why she did them and its done in slow motion which is a side effect of LSD so the audience can know she on drugs doing these things (in the flashbacks) which because of the hallucinations in the opening sequence will want to see more of it in her other ‘trips’.

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EnigmaKaya & Sanel

How we have improved from draft 1?

• We draw the audience into our opening sequence more this time so the audience can feel sorry for this venerable character rather than just being told a story

• Rather than just showing someone kidnapped like in draft one, we showed the girls journey drawing the audiences attention in slowly building tension

• In draft 1 there was no climax, the opening sequence was just basically informing and telling a story however now, we build up tension up to a climax creating enigma and dropping making the audience feel uncomfortable and wanting to watch more

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Assignment 11 draft 3 part 2