MISE EN SCENE: Characters' Actual Costume- Death Scene/Argument Scene

Actual Costume


Roland

For Roland's costume we kept simple but quite typical in terms of what a teen boy would wear. The playful impression of the mickey mouse jumper over the school boy like polo shirt, ties in nicely with the brown chino's. His coat suggests he perhaps is on his way out, which eventually does happen as he storms out after their argument.



Jennie

For Jennie's costume, we wanted to keep it simple with some aspects of colour; the scarf. Natural looking make-up and dark nail polish; we think this subtly suggest she takes some effort in her appearance. With her coat, we again wanted to give the impression both characters were on their way out before the argument flared up.

POSTED BY TOSIN

SHOOT UPDATE: Sunday 18th December 2011

Shoot 3- Update

 (Bedroom Scene: Re-shoot- Shahnaz and Jennie)

 (Death Scene- Roland after being run over)

(Clips from our montage: Jennie and Roland)

We changed a few aspects:

-Instead of filming some clips in a local park, like previously decided, we filmed it in the same bedroom that Jennie now shares with her female lover (but we changed the bed sheet to imply a totally different time frame). We decided using the same bedroom seems more personal and more intimate, in terms of wanting to the real chemistry between Roland and Jennie.
- We added a quick POV shot of the unknown driver (in the car: showing the dashboard) in the death scene.
- Instead of creating bruises or scars or even using fake blood on our character, Roland's, t-shirt we thought it be would more effective and realistic to scatter the fake blood on the concrete road near his head, to suggest a fatal head injury.

PICTURES TAKEN BY: SHANHNAZ, STEPHANIE, KULSUMA, TOSIN

POSTED BY TOSIN



We again all took still images of our work and efforts in progress.

SHOOT UPDATE: Sunday 4th December 2011

Shoot 2- Update

We again all took still images of our work and efforts in progress.

(Night time Montage Clip- Location)

(Male character of Roland-Montage Clip)

(Argument Scene- Location)

We changed a few aspects:

-The positioning of the argument scene was decided to be the bottom of some stairs as it will look more forseeably that the character of Roland will easily storm out the front door after that.
- Instead of the aerial shot of Jennie's eye (entering the dream) we decided on a simple close up shot, as it appeared less shaky and smoother.
- We decided to have one of the clips from the montage with a dark night/moon backdrop with just Roland. This was to appear more romantic and almost as if Jennie is the one filming him, as he messes about.
- We also realised we wished to re-shoot the bedroom scene on our next shooting day with a different second main character (the lover).

PICTURES TAKEN BY: SHANHNAZ, STEPHANIE, KULSUMA, TOSIN

POSTED BY TOSIN



Videography Plan - Shooting Script (2)

 Shooting Script

Our planned shooting days had to be extended as many scenes required to be re-shooted.

Day 3: Sunday 18th December 2011- Bedroom/Death/Montage Scenes
(Location: Tosin's house/Road/)


Day Three Shoot:

Start Time:  12pm
Approximate Duration: ---
Finish Time: ---

Some parts of the bedroom scene need to be re-filmed as we decided the performance of our second main character didn't suit the rest of our opening. Consequently, we cast another Shahnaz instead who fortunately is ofcourse a member of our group and knows exactly what we envisioned in terms of how the second main character should be and will play it well.

Although, we have completed filming the argument scene, we are still yet to film the death scene and missing clips for our montage.

Bedroom Scene
Costume/Make-up- (Same as previous for Jennie and now Shahnaz)

Death/Montage Scene
Costume/Make-up
-(Same as previous for Roland and Jennie)

(Props all kept the same)

People who need to be Present:

Shahnaz
Stephanie
Tosin
Kulsuma
Jennie
Roland


POSTED BY KULSUMA

DECONSTRUCTION- Eastenders Car/Death Scene

Decontruction- Death Scene

                         
This is the deconstruction of the scene where the character, Danielle in Eastenders tragically dies after Ronnie discovers the truth, that she is Danielle's biological mother.

Danielle is wearing a white top as to symbolise purity and innocence with a yellow cardigan which is quite bright and is usually associated with happiness and sunshine. This is contrasting to the scenery which is quite dark and scary.

When Danielle gets run over, there is only blood on her face and not on her clothes. Simarilily, we may able to achieve the same effect using limited amount of blood so it will be on the face and not the clothes as we will need the clothing without it being ruined just in case we need to film earlier parts of the film opening again.


The scenes and constumes are very juxtaposing. Ronnie (mother) is wearing glamarous clothing which is completely opposing to the tragedy of events that later take place.
Danielle's clothing seems trendy, young and casual which hides the fact that she has been carrying around such a big secret.

This is a really good close up shot of Ronnie as it shows the deep emotion on her face and the fact that it changed from zooming in to Danielle's face shows the heartfelt connection between the mum and daughter and the beginning and end of their relationship.

POSTED BY KULSUMA

TYPOGRAPHY- 'Loving Jennie'

Typography- 'Loving Jennie'

Now our group has decided on a name of our film, we have a few researched options, that we feel will be suitable for our film genre and our audience can understand.

To aid us in our research into different font types, we used 'dafonts.com'.










Below are the shortlist font types we collectively have decided on:

(bebas neue)

This font is edgy, yet has a sense of subtle femininity to it, and could possibly satisfy the general themes of our film of heterosexual love to lesbian love.

(jenna Sue)

This font is typically used for titles in films etc that have similar genre to ours. The curly letters collectively resemble handwriting of perhaps a love letter and it's also a font type that our audience can quickly see and assume the genre of our opening.

Similar to the above font type, this one seems like handwriting which gives a personal feel to it. Again, its a font type that will be synchronous not only with our genre but the type of impression, we wish our opening, to give to our desired audience.

(harting)

This font looks like type writing letter and it appears as if it has been written sincerely by an actual person, complementing the possible reality of the film and that this could actually happen. The roughness of the lettering creates an edgy effect which symbolises the drastic change in sexuality our protagonist goes through to make her the lesbian she is now.

 (aerial demented)

This font's shattered effect shows how our protagonist's life became quite shattered and shocked her when her lover was ran over, the font portrays this but it doesn't mean that she's given up, because the title forms actual words, it also reflects how she has picked up the pieces from the past and is giving love another chance although her sexuality has changed and her outlook on life, as she comes to term with the harsh reality and somehow she finds an inner strength that emerges in the form of her sexuality.

POSTED BY SHAHNAZ/TOSIN

DECONSTRUCTION- Greys Anatomy Death Scene

Deconstruction- Death Scene

We decided to use a close up shot zooming into or actor, Rolands, eyes. This idea was inspired by this scene in Greys Anatomy as it will show the actors last expression and we want our audience to really emotionally connect and understand the tragedy of this scene when watching.

We were initially having difficulties thinking of where the blood will be placed but after watching this Greys Anatomy advert, we got inspired and decided that mimicking it would be the way forward and effective for the atmosphere we are trying to create here.

POSTED BY STEPHANIE