Final decisions

Costumes

we have come to our final decisions about our costumes and we will use a costumes for the bullies to make them look evil such as having them wear dark clothing and colours such as wearing black hoodies to show they look intimidating and evil. Our main character Kallam will wear casual bright clothing at the beginning of the film to show binary opposition that he is the good guy who hasn't done anything wrong compared to the bullies who intimidate and violate him physically and verbally every single day for absolutely no reason at all.
During the course of the film Kallams clothing changes to becoming more rugged and bloodstained and darker in order to show the transformation of the character from good to evil and the bullies clothing will also become more practical over the course of the film and change from dark and get more light to show they seek forgiveness  from Kallam and that they realise what they have done is wrong.

Lighting

The lighting will be low-key whenever the bullies are in the scene to represent evil and darkness to show that bad things will happen whenever the bullies are around. When Kallam is around the lighting will be brighter and high-key in order to show that he is innocent and good and the audience will associate him with good things rather than evil. When Kallam is on the floor being beaten up by the bullies the lighting will be mostly low-key and shadowy on the bullies faces to show darkness and evil triumphing over good as Kallam is being beaten up but there will be a small ray of light shining on Kallams face to signalise that even in dark times, there is hope.

Props

Our film will have various props such as the unique mask which will be a clown mask with the top cut off to just show the sinister smile because his bullies used to laugh at him when he would cry due to their torments and the mask reflects that he is now having the last laugh and that he is uncapable of smiling due to severe depression he reflects how he feels through his mask. This mask will initimidate his bullies and they will change from laughing to fearful emotions. The place that the bullies will last terror him will be the park as that is the only place where Kallam can be at peace with himself but when the bullies bully him on the swings, Kallam accidentaly chokes to death on the swings chain and the park will then symbolise death rather than life. Kallams weapon will be a chain and a wire which he will use to strangle his bullies as they did to him to engage in perfect revenge.

Mise en scene

The locations our film will be set in will vary. Our films first setting will be in the classroom to show where the bullying first started and to show Kallams behaviour is that of a lonely person who doesn't speak much and tries to do as much work as he can and to show how he has no friends and that the rest of the class also laugh at him. Our second setting will be on the streets to show that he is further bullied outside the classroom and how it is a regular, day to day game for the bullies to make his life hell. It also shows the bullies disregard for his safety as they don't care if they push him into oncoming traffic or throw stones at him. We will also have a few shots of Kallam walking into and out of his house. Our main setting will be at the park, mainly on the swings and at first we will shoot Kallam on the swings on a sunny day to show that this is the one place where Kallam is most happy and for the first time Kallam is smiling and happy but then when the bullies find him at the swings they torment hima nd accidentally kill him with the swings chain and now the park is known for a dark reason than a happy one as the next shot will have the sky grey to signify that it is no longer Kallams happy place. 

Filmography
Film : childs play
Director : Tom Holland
Release date : 1988

Narrative theories research task

Narrative is a constructive format that describes a sequence of events whether they are fictional or non-fictional such as a story is often used to describe what a narrative is and also a narrative is used in film to keep the flow of the story. This explains where the story comes from and what the story is about.

Narrative is important as it helps keep the story flowing and explains to you what is happening in the story so you don't lose what the plot is. The flow of the film is set by narrative and as the film progresses the narrative informs you of what is happening so you don't get confused and this is why narrative is important in film.

The three narrative theories are :
Equilibrium, Disequibilrium and new state of equibilirium which are when the film at the beginning is all normal and everything is fine, just a normal day and then a problem occurs and this is the diseqiulibrium which upsets the balance of the equilibrium and then this problem is sorted and then a new state of equibilirium is set which everything is almost similiar to the equilibrium at the beginning but is not the same as things have changed since then.

Binary opposition is a theory of opposites where it is good vs evil, light vs dark, tall vs dark, woman vs man and so on. This theory is that everything in film has an opposite such as a battle between the batman and the joker in the dark knight which shows the battle between good and evil.

Character types are also one of the three narrative theories which say that each character in a film has a certain role or particular set out which they are used for in the film such as:
Hero : the good guy, strong, handsome, rescues the day.
Villian : evil, ugly, power-hungry, world domination.
Sidekick : used for comedy, smaller than the hero, depends on the hero and follows him around.
Heroine : falls in love with the hero and also fights her own battles.
Helper : helps the hero on his journey usually with advice or an object
Mentor : teaches the hero everything he needs for his journey
father : looks after the hero usually is older and very close to the hero.

The most useful theory we can use in our film opening will be the equilibrium theory as the bullies lives will start off as the equilibrium which will be everything is normal at the start for them then the biggest change will be the disequilibrium where Kallam commits suicide and then comes back from the dead in order to exact revenge and this turns the bullies lives upside down and they must sort the disequilibrium and start a new state of equilibrium.

Kidulthood is also like this as at the start everything is normal until a girl gets bullied and commits suicide due to her tormentors bullying and from then on the film changes and becomes more dark.

Evidence of this is : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435680/

Filmogrophy :Kidulthood
Year - 2006
Director - Menhaj Huda

Alien attack with blue screen

Final cut introduction

Today we have made a short clip using a blue print of an alien attack on the white house as we recorded a sequence in front of a blue screen and over our recording we will put the alien attack of the white house in the background on the blue screen. Me and Kashif were two aliens in human disguise who came to watch the white house blow up and detonate it in honour of our home planet.

We had to time the sequence and the words perfectly in order for the explosion to happen at exactly 25 seconds so we had to practice our dialogue and add more in so the sequence reached 25 seconds when the explosion happens. We used a smart phone as the cleverly disguised detonator and made a call to the mother ship to activate the beam which destroys the white house.

We then after recording went on the apple macs to edit the recording over the blue screen of the alien attack on the white house but this didn't work as we had the wrong type of file and we were not able to convert the file so we will now overcome this problem by converting the file to the one that final cut will recognise

This is the effect of the blue screen as Mr.Morris has been recorded over a blue screen and then the explosion is put in through editing.

Primary reseacrh task

Horror Questionaire

1.       What killer are you scared of in a horror film?

·         Masked silent killer

·         Paranormal monster

·         Female killer

·         Serial killer

2.       What type of setting is scary

·         Abandoned school

·         Graveyard

·         Haunted house

·         Woods

3.       What type of horror sub-genre do you like?

·         Slasher

·         Psychological

·         Paranormal

·         Thriller

4.        What type of killer do you prefer?

·          The joker – Freddy Krueger, Nightmare on Elm street

·         The silent masked killer – Jason Voorhees, Friday the 13th

·         The one that is mentally unstable – Norman Bates, psycho

·         Paranormal, Ghost/demons, paranormal activity.

5.       Does blood make a horror film scarier?

·         A little bit

·         Not really

·         Yes

·         No

6.       What age group are you?

·         13-20

·         21-30

·         31-40

·         41-50

7.       What do you believe is the best thing about horror films?

·         Storyline

·         Blood/gore

·         Atmosphere

·         Suspense

8.       What gender are you?

·         Male

·         Female

9.       What do you expect to happen in the horror genre?

·         Villain kills everybody

·         The hero dies and so does the villain

·         Hero survives and villain dies

·         The villain becomes good

10.   Do you like horror films?

·         Yes

·         No

·         Don’t really care

·         Half and half