Screen Play

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Costume Planning

After researching into costumes we have decided that Maddison will be dressed in a white dress. She will also wear a red ribbon in her hear which will also be used as a prop in the film. The white dress implies the innocence we want Maddison to be made out to be as a young girl but the red ribbon will conotate danger is surrounded by the girl.

Scarlett will be wearing simple every day clothing in dark colours such as jeans and a t-shirt. We want her character to be seen as your everyday teen girl, and who you would suspect to be nothing extra-ordinary. 

Dr.Lewis will be wearing smart trousers with a shirt and tie to suggest his job status.

Costume Research

Why are costumes so important?

• Usually antagonists wear the same outfit throughout the film and then that particular costume is realted to that charcter.
• The costume creates the representation of a character; so how you as the audience view them.
• Gives you a sense of what time period the film is set in
• Suggests what of previously happened to them in the film; for example rips or blood on the costume.
• An idea of their social status (rich/poor etc..)

Ananlyse of the costume the girl is wearing in the Exorcist

The little girl is seen wearing a white night gown. The colour white is usually used to connotate innocence and purity. Children are usually seen as being innocent, so it supports this. However it is contrasting to the fact that the little girl being the antagonist. The antagonist is usually the one that causes the trouble and is the main focus or point of a horror film; so they are not really seen as being 'innocent'. There is also blood at the bottom of the girls gown. Blood being red connotates danger and pain. This being on the white gown could suggest the innocence is being taking away from the girl.

Ideas for Maddison's Costume:

Prop Research

In Orphan Esther uses a hammer to kill one of the charcters. As seen here:


A hammer is usually seen as being something distuctive. Usually used in building. Using it to kill someone as a prop gives you that sense of danger and brutal death. The hammer is seen as being more scary as you see it alone in shots from low angles making it seem more intimidating and controlling. Becuase the hammer is seen as a distructive object it suggests that she is destroying her.

In the final scene Ester tries killing of more characters. In this scene a knife and gun is used.



The knife is again shown in its own shot from a low angle as if its the point of view that the person who is being attacked can see. The knife has blood on again producing more fear to the audience; because one the colour red suggests danger and it being blood gives the feeling that someone has been stabbed by it.

Developing Ideas Maddison Poster

Questionnaire

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fQbrdl8wH3yZh98L2kYtxzD1FZDNfzZ4WofbeVXPY1Y/viewform

Storyboarding Maddison

We have done an initial storyboard for our horror opening sequence 'Maddison'. Here is an animatic of the storyboard with the music we plan to use.

Horror Genre

Media Institutions

A media institution is an established, and often profit based organization, that deals in the creation and distribution of advertising, entertainment and information services. It helps in gathering information, and perceptions about different groups of people and their originality.

These are all examples of conglomerates. Conglomerates are the combination of two or more companies of different types, usually involving a parents company and subsidiaries.

Cross Media ownership is when one company owns media outlets from different types of media. For example News Corporation owns tv companies such as Sky.

Companies are merging together and there our some criticisms to this such as:

• media conglomerates dominate media industry
• accused of being  bias in news reporting
• globalisation of popular culture
• reduces diversity in ownership & production
• reduces competition between companies 

Developing Ideas Photos of Maddison

To show some refinement to our ideas and to support our pitch I took some pre-production photos of Maddison.

Synopsis

Our opening sequence horror film for our as media is going to be called 'Maddison'. We have chosen for our sub-genre to be psychological. The whole film is about a girl in her teens who is seeing this little girl; called Maddison. We are playing on the fact of people having an imaginary friend. In this case the teen girl seeing her goes mad and wakes up in a mental hospital as she is the only one that sees Maddison, and feels like she's hurting her family, but in actual fact the teen girl is doing everything. The film starts with the opening titles (which we are filming) where flashbacks are shown of when the teen girl has seen Maddison. They build up and are going to be edited faster and faster with music to accompany it. To a flash of light where you see the girl wake up in the hospital. During the rest of the film you see the teen girl in the hospital going back to flashes of the past as the teen learns about how she got there and her continuing to see Maddison.

So far this is all we have developed on the basic idea of our film and opening titles.

A more detailed Synopsis written by Rebeka in my group can be found here:
http://rebekaluzasportfolio.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/maddison-synopsis.html

Developing Planning For Horror Opening Sequence

Initial Mood Board of our chosen sub-genre Physiological Horror. This was the beginning of our thoughts and ideas for the plot to our film.

Sound Track idea to use in our opening sequence. We like how it builds up the tension and plays on building up your fear as you think something is about to happen.

Location Ideas

Here is a small YouTube video explaining about one idea for a location for out horror opening sequence. With a tour of the location and why it will work well..

Movie Classifications

In lesson we looked at film classifications. Looking at these classifications means that when we do our horror opening sequence we can pick a classification that is suitable. I have created a prezi on what I learnt.

Maddison: Horror Film Opening Sequence Pitch

For our final AS media horror opening sequence we had to do a pitch with our starting ideas for our plot. Me and Rebeka in my group created the prezi together and shared the pitch out between us. I was loosing my voice so didn't contribute much to the speaking! However when doing my next pitch I would like to make better planned hint cards; to make sure we include everything we want to.
 

Inspiration

I found a production of a different type of play and when watching a video about it,  inspired me for my horror media opening.

<Taken from  http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk> 

The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable

The award-winning Punchdrunk stage their biggest and most ambitious production yet. The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fableis an extraordinary theatrical adventure: a unique personal journey which unfolds across four levels of a vast central London location.

Basically it is an interactive play in which you explore the set and are part of the play. For example on this almost 'tour' you explore the play in a variety of ways and are in separate groups to other people there aswell. You can enter dark rooms and it plays on your mind to scare you and surprise you.

Here is a Video of part of what happens published on YouTube by PunchDrunk:

Practicing Filming

We made a short video which we had to come up with the concept in only a few minutes to practice various skills learnt so far in media. I done the filming and Rebeka in the group directed. So by doing this task I refined my filming skills and setting up the camera to the shots I wanted. It also meant that we could have the chance to improve our skills in working as a group. This version was edited by Jess in our group: