Consequences Task

After me and Jack had analysed the piece of paper containing the information about the story we had to develop, we decided to make a still image showing the characters in the story, the location, the title and the events that occur. The piece of paper with the ideas that we had to follow were very unusual, and it wasn't easy to construct a story that made much sense. Below is our attempt.

As you can see, the image shows the location of Paris, with the title 'Who knows what's really going on?' Our main character is Dino Dave, who had killed 'Wendy and her cat', and shot a man. The 'BANG' is the sound of the gun shot, and the scream from above is the woman screaming in terror.

Consequences Challenge

In class, we were each given a piece of paper and asked to write something on it relating to media. This could be anything from a location to a camera angle, or a character description. These pieces of paper were then passed around the class and each person wrote something different on it which related to media in some way. After everyone had wrote on each piece of paper, we opened what we had to see how we were going to construct the story of what we had. I worked with Jack on this task and the image below shows the piece of paper we had to work with. It contains a title, a character description and other aspects of the story.

Evaluation

Cinderella Evalution from Matthew Levesley on Vimeo.

After our production, we analysed what went well and what could have been done better.

Cinderella

This is our finalised version of the fairy tale Cinderella, modernised with the film noir genre.
cinderella SKUPINA STUDIOS from Matthew Levesley on Vimeo.

Storyboard - Continuity Task

Once we had appointed each other roles for the production and decided on characters for the narrative, we had to construct a storyboard showing the different scenes that we planned to film. To do this, we first chose different locations around the school that suited each scene in the film. Some locations were not available at school, so we used places outside of school such as our own homes. Once we had taken all of the necessary pictures, we uploaded them to a computer put them in chronological order of our narrative. They were then edited on photo shop to portray the 'noir' style, and finally put together as a finished storyboard.

Continuity Task

Before we jumped into any filming or production, we first had to analyse the task itself and chose an appropriate fairytale that we were all happy with. As you can see, the task itself is below. 

The Fairy Tale:

My group and I discussed different fairly tale's that we could possibly modernise into a film noir type of film, and we came to a decision to use the fairy tale of Cinderella.

Audience:

We decided to modernise Cinderella in certain ways to meet our decided target audience of teenagers. For example, when we planned the plot of the story and what would happen, we chose to change the idea of the 'fairy god mother' making Cinderella feel magical, and instead turn it into a drug that had the same effect. This idea is one of the many ways that we modernised this fairy tale.

Plot:

We then considered what the narrative of our modernised Cinderella would be like, and how things would happen and in what order. Some aspects of the original fairy tale were changed in order to modernise it to meet our desired audience and turn it into a neo-noir.

The plot follows a modern version of Cinderella who lives with her step father and her 'ugly step sister'. She gets invited to a house party instead of the ball and the 'ugly step sister' doesn't want her to go. She tells her father who vows to keep Cinderella in the house so she can't go. Cinderella then sneaks out of the house to take the 'pill' which is the modern version of the effects from the fairy god mother. She then attends the party where she loses her phone instead of her shoe. The prince finds her phone and returns it to her house where the 'ugly step sister' claims it to be hers, but cannot unlock it as she doesn't know the combination. Cinderella then comes through and unlocks the phone proving that it is indeed hers. Upon realising that the prince is falling in love with Cinderella, the step father kills him because he wanted him to marry his actual daughter, the 'ugly step sister'. 

Characters:

Prince- Matty Levesley c
Cinderella- Niamh Gallagher
Step Sister- Heather McDonald
Step Dad- Jack Grimshaw

Extras: as our group is quite small we asked some of our friends to feature as extras in the party and a police officer.

Camera- As there are different scenes requiring different actors we all filmed certain sections. We used a camcorder to record the film and an iPhone 6 for the still photos.

Director- We didn't want one person to take charge so we worked as a team to direct each other.

Editing- Niamh edited the story board into photoshop making the pictures black and white and contrasting the colours to fit the noir style. We all contributed to the editing of the production as a group.

Foley Sound

Definition:
A 'foley' sound is the reproduction of everyday sound effects that have been incorporated into a film or TV programme as well as other forms of media to enhance the overall quality.
An example of 'foley' sound is a door squeaking, or glass breaking. The sounds are all real to make the production seem more realistic.