Font

Having watched Se7en and thoroughly analysed it, even the opening font of it's credits build up the suspence and tension of the entire film. I did a little research and came to realise, that Richard Francis-Bruce (who is responsible for se7en's editting)used photoshop filters to create the decayed text. Our group want to incorporate this sort of style into our opening, attempting to find something similar to download and use for our own!

Sound

Unintentionally, our group have created this sinister, rather haunting sound to use for our opening simply by reversing the Swedish audio clips we had recorded as a voiceover. At some points we have had more than one voiceover with a small whisper or soft calling of 'Annika', adding a peculiar effect to our entire opening. From the very beginning, we were in two minds as to whether to use a a soundtrack throughout and didn't even know where to start in GarageBand. However, now we have found this simple reversed technique, we can always add small accents of different sounds using GarangeBand further into our project.

Linear Sequence

- Begins with flickering close up - out of focus - of Annika along either a credit, production company or name of the film

- A low angle shot of the sky with the clouds moving sped up or perhaps, even a shot of the sunset instead


- First question of the interview is asked with English subtitles.

- Fast flashbacks of Annika smoking on the balcony, walking in the snow and still camera shots are used. Reversed sound is heard throughout although it fades out at the silence before Annika finally comes into focus and answers.

- Interview continues, as further questions are asked yet Annika remains silent and thoughtful refusing to answer. During these moments, various flashbacks are shown.

- Small clips of her sister, Lila are also shown.

- Shots of Annika walking through the long pathway of the Priory also need to be filmed

A possible shot we have come up with of Annika abandoned at the Priory - possible long shot whilst camera is located at the back of the car whilst driving away. The idea of isolation and loneliness could really be portrayed in this shot.

Final Cut Pro

Along with our new beautiful iMacs, Final Cut Pro has also been installed! As we are complete newbies with this program, my frees today consisted of Millie, Nicola and myself doing a 'Tour of Enfield Town' purely for the benefit of later uploading our ridiculous clips and being able to play around with the program. 


(yet another embarassing video will be uploaded soon)

Mollie's Amazing Edit no.2

Yet again, Mollie decided to create another edit of our Day 4 of Filming. As you can see, she practiced with the voiceovers, which will have to use when editing our opening. Thanks, Mol!

Apologies

Somehow the death of the dolly was discovered and part of today's media lesson consisted of apologising to the poor owner of "Ugly Doll" - Ms Williams as well as attempting to bid for another identical doll.  Miss Foster recorded our heartfelt speech, as we begged for forgiveness.. 

Millie's Previous Acting Days

Turns out Millie has in fact got past acting career behind her, in this brilliantly edited footage that she produced in about year 8? She puts her Swedish role to shame..

Consequences of Annika's Curse

RIP Dolly..

Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone

Day 4 Filming

Today our group decided to re film our Interview with Annika after school in the photography room - with the exact same set up, characters and script as filmed before. With Heather filming the entire thing at different shots, it left Millie playing Annika and Mollie and myself turning on the professional lights before my great Swedish acting as the Annika's psychologist.

After about 25 (seriously) attempts where we ran hrough the five - rather short - lines of our Swedish script, Millie and myself finally managed to keep a straight face. We ensured we filmed using a variation of different camera angles such as, a medium shot, close up, side shot, Snorricam-style shot and even a birds eye view from above. We were pleased with the outcome of this filming day, as we feel like we did capture things that will be of great substance to our opening. Friday's lesson will consume of sorting out all our clips and editing!

Unfortunately, there was a downside to all of our hard work this evening...we got rather excited towards the end of our filming and decided to replace Annika with a dolly that Mollie had kindly found for us - video evidence of the death of this dolly will soon be available. 

Photographic Archive: Filming Day 4 on Prezi

Representations of Disability

Our exam section for our Media A Level consists of a range of representations within British TV Drama. Disability is one of the seven representations, which we may be asked to focus on during our exam. This powerpoint shows greatly a range of characters that prove this to be true, also presenting the facts of how disability provoke certain thoughts and opinions from society - whether it be a certain simplicity/dumbness or even aggression/evil.

Media Magazine

We were kindly given our very own copies of Media Magazine, perfect especially for our written exam. It displays a great range of sources about a variation of media within society, describing the forever evolving technologies and even the changes in the representation of women.A particular article that really struck me was Roy Stafford's "Do We Have To Live Like This?" piece. 

Filming Day 3

Here's a small archive of our third day of filming, which includes all of the snow shots. Unfortunately, Millie and Heather were left to edit the last section of this and put in a horrifically bad clip of me.

Reviewing our iMovie Library

icationRecently, we wanted to review our iMovie library simply to see if we could find any useful pieces from what we have already shot. We have come to realise that all of Annika's smoking shots must be re filmed. Perfect timing as our new Flip has arrived!

Annika's Walk of Shame

It was during the evening when Millie and myself had a long walk home in the snow, where we decided to film a 'walking off in the distance' shot. We were a little worried it may not come out properly due to the lack of lighting but surprisingly I am pleased with the little we managed to film especially due to the composition. Now that all the snow has disappeared, we will be unable to re film yet I think it is still possible to include this into perhaps, a flickering shot of our opening.