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

FILM TITLE IDEAS

We thought of many names for our film opening and after discussing the connotations and relevance of each to our flm opening, we came up with:

- Changes
- The Three of Us
- Our Route
- Way we are
- Loving Jennie
- Swings

After deep thought, we decided to shortlist it to :
- The Three of Us
- Way we are
- Loving Jennie

We then decided on the name 'Loving Jennie'  as we believed it suited the film. We got the idea from the previous film called 'Loving Annabelle',  a lesbian based film which came out in 2006. We feel that the name is short but meaningful, and in a way denotes our film as our main character is called Jennie and our co stars are all involved with her.

Posted by Kulsuma/Shahnaz

SHOOT UPDATE: Monday 28th November

Shoot 1- Update

As we filmed the beginning of our opening, we all took still images of our work and efforts in progress.

(Bedroom Scene)

Upon beginning to film, we realised a few aspects of our prepared storyboard (this includes certain camera shots etc) in execution wasn't either practicable or something we felt added anything to the scene or atmosphere we were trying to achieve, but we also added a few new shots:

- The extreme close ups of Jennie's mouth and nose etc was not needed nor adding anything. Only a extreme close up of her eye is needed, to signify the beginning and entrance of her dream.
- The shot where Jennie reachs for her bra on the bedside table; instead we simply placed the bra in the background of the shot. We'd rather leave it to the audience's imagination as what whose bra it is etc.
- We added a low angle shot of the messy floor of the bedroom; this is to, not only establish the setting a bit more. but also because the props scattered across the floor are each significant into understanding who the character(s) is and implies certain events maybe that could have previous happend that resulted in the room being messy like that.
- We also added a pan where Jennie goes towards the window and we managed to get a close up of her face looking out the window  (A reflection of her face against the window)

PICTURES TAKEN BY: SHANHNAZ, STEPHANIE, KULSUMA, TOSIN

POSTED BY TOSIN

TESTS SHOTS/CLIPS

TEST SHOTS/CLIPS

We took it upon ourselves to ensure that we are clear about the type of shots we want to include in our opening and just how we will go about constructing it; through filming short experimental shots and clips using a volunteer. 

For example: This is a test shot is of how we would go about the extreme close-up of our main characters eye in the very first clip, entering the dream sequence.

POSTED BY TOSIN