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Fia Brown Candidate number: 1804

Claremont Fan Court School: 64680

My production team: 

Tallulah Duffy (1823) and Laura Souter (1860)

My brief: The title of our film is "Cynic". It is about two teenage friends finding the main characters' sisters' spirit through the Oujia Board. However, that is what first killed the sister. The protagonist decides to play with the board and discovers a spirt whom she thought was her sister but instead was an evil spirit. 

I play the role of the deceased sister who comes back as an evil spirit and torments the protagonist. My other roles included editing and filming videos to set the scene/ location. I was also in charge of behind the scene pictures and videos.

Filming as a Production Team of three people was a huge challenge during lockdowns as we could not get together to film. This meant that we communicated online a lot over Facetime and Google Meet to allocate bits of filming then tried to edit them together.We also couldn't use the locations that we had originally hoped for. One example was the use of a car.  We tried to overcome the impossibility of location shooting by adding sound tracks of atmospheric sound. For example, when the camera appears to pan across the woods, we added a track that connotes mystery and fear. Although we managed an initial shoot in a graveyard, in the editing process we realised that the wind had seriously impaired the sound quality. This scene with several edits definitely needed a cleaner sound quality.

I was very pleased with the choice of mise-en-scene of the graveyard: it is a beautiful, rustic and atmospheric venue with a winding path that allows our heroine to walk through it, building interest.

On reflection, I was also very pleased with the location, casting and mise-en-scene of the bedroom scene. With its compact size, white and pink colours and range of soft toys, we created the perfect setting to connote an exchange of intimate confidences. Getting inside the mind of a teenage girl was one of our main objectives: we took the risk of being experimental by putting text on screen with the words in the girl’s mind, a bit like a video diary. I am really pleased by the framing of the shot in which the audience are allowed to see that the girl is being observed: this creates suspense and deepens a brooding sense of impending doom. 

REFINEMENTS, CHANGES, EDITS & REFLECTIONS

Refinements, Changes, Edits & Reflections by Fia Brown

Behind the Scenes PT2

These are the pictures of day 2 of filming our trailer. We only went to two locations; a graveyard and Tallulahs' house. 
 

Film Poster

film poster by Fia Brown

Film posters are a very important part of advertising a movie. To help us create our poster we looked at may different blockbuster movie posters to have more of an idea on the format. We placed at the top the actors names from most relevant in the film. Putting the name in as the biggest front and in a contrast colour to have the views instantly see what it's called and underneath we put when it will be coming out in cinemas in a big font to make it easier to read and remember. We added a quote from well known names such as Empire to show it was approved and had high end recognition. We also displayed the logos to the social media accounts the film has as it also includes more information about the film and pictures. At the bottom in the middle we decided it would be the best place to put the star rating to show views that it is a very liked movie.

Risk Assessment

Trip name and destination: Media filming & Tallulah's house/ woods

	HAZARD TO HEALTH AND SAFETY	RISK POSED AND TO WHOM	LEVEL H/M/L	CONTROL MEASURE TO REDUCE RISK	RISK LEVEL ACHIEVED H/M/L	FURTHER ACTION IS NEEDED TO REDUCE RISK
First aid issues	Walking to the local woods	Potentially could trip over tree stumps or get stung by stinging nettles/ hazard of tripping/ other plants causing obstruction, slips and trips, awkward posture	M	Be aware of the surrounding environment and watch out for hazardous plants	L	Have suitable medical equipment nearby
Chemical hazards	Hairspray	Asthma	L	keep distance from particles in air	L
Weather	Rain - possibility of slipping, wet clothing	All actors	L	bring appropriate jacket with them	L	Bring wellies/umbrella
General public	Covid 19	Keep space between you and members of the public	M	be mindful of the public	L

Step 1: Identify hazards, i.e. anything that may cause harm.

Step 2: Decide who may be harmed, and how.

Step 3: Assess the risks and take action.

Step 4: Make a record of the findings.

Step 5: Review the risk assessment.

Behind the Scenes

 Behind the Scenes from our filming 

These are the pictures we took while we were out filming our opening film.

The picture in the top left corner, we used an over the shoulder shot because  we were trying to capture the emotion of their conversation as they were talking about an upcoming birthday of the main characters' dead sister. The one diagonally to the right is an extreme wide shot to make the audience notice the small detail at the back. The picture at the bottom right is a tracking shot of her walking in the woods. The challenges we had to face was that it was getting colder by the minute and I had no foot wear or coat. We also tried to get better angles meaning I had to go more into the bushes but there were stinging nettles and holly leaves. 

Costume Development

Costumes 

Mary- The character Mary is dressed in stereotypical teen girl attire. The costume choice we chose reflect's the character's age and background. The costume choice symbolises Mary's normal extraordinary life. This differs to the background of her sister; creating contrast. Furthermore, to heighten Mary's look of 'normality' natural makeup is worn alongside casual clothing. 

Kate- She is the main characters best friend which means they are in the same age group. They both wear stereotypical teen girl clothes. 

Emilia - For the character of Emilia, the dead sister I decided that it would be suitable for her to wear a white flowy dress; covered in dirt during the forest scene. The white dirty dress represents the contrast between the living and the dead and helps us to achieve a demonic 'ghost girl' look.  Emilia's eerie costume choice contrasts with Mary's 'normal' outfit of jeans and a black jacket.