Friday - Lesson, pre-shoot

Our main setback today is that Bhavika phoned in ill, meaning that she's unavailable both during the lesson and for our shoot after school. She texted ahead of time to let us know, though we did phone just in case to check up on her. She said that she'll try her best to make it to the shoot, but not to hold out hope, as she's not feeling much better than when she texted.

In the lesson today, we've been experimenting further with effects and writing the dialogue script between the two characters. One recurring problem was trying to balance out the number of effects between various CUs - we had too many on the eyes and not enough on the nails. We also had difficulty in creating a visual style that lasted throughout the title sequence but wasn't overly repetitive.

In the shoot tonight, we're planning to re-shoot the shoes shot and also to film the dialogue scenes between the two roommates. We'll also be filming the pre-dialogue shots of Bisma on Sunday. We hope to get everything sorted so that we can edit on Tuesday and have cross-cutting between the dialogue. We'll also be attempting a tricky overhead shot, so wish us luck!

~Mary

Meeting Notes: Friday 28th November

During this meeting we made a joint decision to drop the location of the alleyway/carpark and instead stick to the killer getting ready in her room. We thought this would be a good idea as the idea was quite complicated and we thought having two scenes might be too much for the audience to take in in 2 minutes. We wanted to have some dialogue in the sequence and decided to have the killer's housemate come into her room at one point and then have them both exchange a few lines of dialogue.

We also came up with an idea which was inspired by the opening sequence of Seven. We are going to use loads of ECUs and CUs and add in effects such as flashes. We are also going to make the shots move/jig about. In between these shots we are going to have the credits as well as some pans of the beauty products and pictures of models. Now that the idea is simpler, we can now focus on building the mood and atmosphere through the mise-en-scene etc. Things are heating up...

- Bhavika :) xx

Meeting Notes for Tuesday 25th November

• Discussed Enfield cinema car park as possible location. Too many obstacles and problems found when shooting there for the test shoot.
• Discussed alleyway near Southgate station. Everyone liked pictures taken by Mia of the alleyway. Decided we need to test out alleyway.
• Arranged a second test shoot for Friday 28th November after school.
• Use of car park as location means we do not extra actors.
• Discussed possible actors and actresses.

Individual targets to be achieved by Monday 1st December:

Mary
Focus on storyboard which is to be completed
Bisma
The Treatment,
Asking possible actors/actresses if they are willing to act in it
Bhavika
Update group blog with meeting notes etc
Research
Mia
Research

- Bhavika

Meeting Notes - 20/11/08

- set deadline (Wednesday) for individual tasks

• Bisma - group treatment
• Bhavika - shooting script
• Mia - blogging
• Mary - storyboarding

- details of shots for storyboarding

- shooting script & script

Idea Development

- killer getting ready - radio in background, news for backstory

- OTS MS - camera behind girl standing before mirror - focus & reverse zoom from blurry ECU of brushing hair

- girl turns towards radio, profile shot

- motivated shot to radio, CU of her pressing the button - sound changes to CD (mellow, slow, surreal)

- pan back across to LS of girl sitting down at dresser

- glance across to photograph, zoom out

- tilt down to putting on heels (LS)

- cut to ECU of lips - red lipstick

- glance across to photograph, motivated cutaway, (zoom out?)

- tilt down to killer putting on heels (LS)

- or CU of putting on heels, tilt upwards as she gets up

Meeting Notes - 17/11/08

Ideas:
- female killer killing other females whom she sees as threats

• location?
• teenage actors - difficulty

Storyboarding Ideas:

- killer getting ready & victim parting with boyfriend -- cross-cut between

- LA of victim walking

- establishing shot of alley with group of teens

- subjective view - focus in on victim

Other Ideas:

- killer getting ready - cuts, CUs, ECUs

- radio in the background - 'third model to be killed this month' or something to give background info

- shot/reverse-shot of dialogue between victim and boyfriend

- subjective view of victim and boyfriend (kiss & part)

- establishing shot of alleyway with other teens

- LA or mid of victim walking

- subjective view - focus on victim

[- if there's time -> victim suspicious, looking back and behind her]

- subjective approaching the victim, see back of head

- CU of victim's face with gloved hand around face