The Wrong Turn Anamatic

This is my anamatic, this is going to help me see were I need more shots when shooting my film to help with the continuity of my film. This anamatic is only 2:04 long as well and it has to be between 3 and 5 minutes so when filming I will ensure my shots are longer; my film will also be longer when I add more shots to help with the continuity.

 

Final Script

Becky walks out of her house as she sees someone from across the street

EXTERIOR. STREET. DAY

 

BECKY

‘Excuse me’

Waves her arms around to get attention of the new girl moving in as she walks out of her house

‘Are you the new girl moving in?’

ALICE

“Yes, I've just moved here from Norway”

Speaking while stood next to BECKY

BECKY

“Ah right, well I’m Becky nice to meet you”

ALICE

“You too, I’m Alice”

Suggests a handshake to seem polite

BECKY

“Are you going to the university here?”

Alice

“Yes I am I’m studying criminology”

BECKY

“Oh wow”

Looks surprised

 “I’m studying phycology; well I best leave you to unpack”

ALICE

“Thank you nice meeting you”

Smiling

BECKY

You too, how are you getting to university tomorrow?

Hand gesture to  show were the university is (around the corner)

ALICE

I was just going to get the bus

Shrugs shoulders

BECKY

Well its only around the corner, do you want to walk with me?

ALICE

Yes (smiles)

BECKY

See you tomorrow at 9:00 then

Alice walks away back to her house

Becky and Alice walking towards the university together while speaking

EXTEREIOR. DAY AFTER. DAY

BECKY

Well we are not far now, the university is really close to our neighbourhood, but then again why anyone would want to live there is beyond me

Walking towards the university

ALICE

What, wh do you mean? You don’t know why people live there, it looks lovely, quiet and like you said close to the uni?

Looks confused and puzzled

BECKY

Look were almost here now

ALICE

Stuttering Bu but

Looks concerned and wants to know more about this, and is trying to stop BECKY from walking away

BECKY

Im going this way Alice, do you know were you’re going?

ALICE

Yeah but…

BECKY

Ok then Alice I’ll see you later

Aims + Context

For my fm3 creative project, I am going to produce a sequence from my film The Wrong Turn; the genre is the thriller genre and I hope to use the codes and conventions. This is to appeal to my target audience of 16-24 year old females.

My aim will be to introduce the learning about the creation of meaning by the use of micro-features of narrative, editing and cinematography. I will explore the codes and conventions and use the stylistics to sympathise for the protagonist, set up tension and create narrative disruption.

In order to fulfil this I have been studying films such as The Ring and Taxi Driver which has given me ideas that I can use in my own film.

I will edit, direct, write and produce all of my film.

First Draft of Script

Script

Becky

Excuse me

Are you the new girl moving in?

Alice

Yes, I've just moved here from Norway

Becky

Ah right, well I’m Becky nice to meet you

Alice

You too, I’m Alice

Becky

Are you going to the university here?

Alice

Yes I am I’m studying criminology

Becky

Oh wow I’m studying phycology; well I best leave you to unpack

Alice

Thank you nice meeting you

Becky

You too, how are you getting to university tomorrow?

Alice

I was just going to get the bus

Becky

Me too, shall I meet you in the morning?

Alice

Yes (smiles)

Becky

See you tomorrow at 9:00 sharp

Shot 52

Becky

Hi Alice you ready for your first day at uni?

Alice

Yes, I’m excited but nervous, are you?

Becky

I’m nervous as well but I can’t wait to meet all new people, and hey I’ve already made a friend!

Alice

Smiles and nods

Becky

Well we are not far now, the university is really close to our neighbourhood, but then again why anyone would want to live there is beyond me

Alice

Looks confused and puzzled

What, wh do you mean? You don’t know why people live there, it looks lovely, quiet and like you said close to the uni?

Becky

Yeah but did you not do any research?

Alice

No?  What do you mean Becky why would I have to do research?

Becky

Look were almost here now

Alice

Stuttering Bu but

Becky

Imp going this way Alice, do you know were you’re going?

Alice

Yeah but…

Becky

Ok then Alice I’ll see you later

Shot 69

Alice

Becky! Becky stop wait

Shot 71

Becky

Hi Alice how was your first day?

Alice

It was good thank you how was yours?

Becky

It went well thank you, I met some of my…

Becky stops speaking

Alice

Inmterupting Becky through her speech 

Well ermm… Sorry to interrupt you Becky but I didn’t really want to ask about that, I wanted you to explain what you was talking about this morning

Shot of Becky looking confused

Alice

When you mentioned you don’t understand why people would want to live in our neighbourhood? It just made me a bit curious and I was just wondering what exactly is was you meant?

Becky

Looking annoyed

SHHH!

Alice

Looking curious

Why?

Becky

It’s a sensitive subject around here!

Alice

What do you mean? Why would talking about my new home be sensitive to people?

Becky

I’ll tell you when we get home, it’s just something that happened here not long ago and (pauses) yeah I’ll tell you about it later

Alice

Looks slightly worried but understands and therefore doesn’t question it further

 

ScreenPlay First Draft

1.       Driving a car to new house looking out of the window looking slightly nervous to go to new neighbourhood  3 seconds

2.       Shot of the car pulling into the driveway, shot is the back of the car 3 seconds

3.       Steps out of car side view  4 seconds

4.       Low angle shot of protagonist looking around, looking worried at first then start to smile 3 seconds

5.       Walks around car to the boot 2 seconds

6.       Side shot of the car see protagonist opening the boot and getting suitcases out of the car 3 seconds

7.       Long shot of Alice looking up to the house starts to smile again 3 seconds

8.       House looks dominant over her low angle 2 seconds

9.       Long shot of Alice walking up to path of the house slightly dark, strange music playing 3 seconds

10.   Close up of Alice Quickly turning round 2 seconds

11.   Long point of view shot of neighbourhood, nothing is there 2 seconds

12.   Medium long shot of Alice looking in her bag to find keys to new house 2 seconds

13.   Long shot of another girl from across the road shouts over 2 seconds

14.   Medium shot Shot reverse shot dialogue 12 shots

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26.   Medium shot of Alice opening the door 2 seconds

27.   Point of view shot of corridor and stairs in new home 2 seconds

28.   Close up smiling, big smile 1 second

29.   Medium shot of Alice back to camera walking into the living room 2 seconds

30.   Medium shot low angle spinning around smiling looking really happy, ‘happy music’ playing 2 seconds

31.   Long shot Alice’s back to camera walking into kitchen

32.   Medium shot facing camera smling again 2 seconds

33.   Long shot walking back through the kitchen and living room 2 seconds

34.   Long shot Alice’s back to camera as walking up the stairs 3 seconds

35.   Medium close up of Alice looking around the corner of the stairs 2 seconds

36.   Medium shot of opening bedroom door 2 seconds

37.   Close up of door handle 1 second

38.    Medium shot of Alice in room 2 seconds

39.   Medium shot of Alice crouching down 2 seconds

40.   Over the shoulder medium shot of Alice opening bag 2 seconds

41.   Close up of Alice quickly turning around looking worried like someone else is there 2 seconds

42.   Back to medium shot of Alice getting sleeping bag out of handbag 2 seconds

43.   Medium shot of Alice placing the sleeping bag on the floor 2 seconds

44.   Close up of Alice closing her eyes to go to sleep 2 seconds

45.   Black background white writing NEXT DAY 2 seconds

46.   Medium long shot of Alice in sleeping bag, stretches wakes up

47.   Medium shot of Alice sleeping 1 seconds

48.   Close up Alice of opening eyes 2 seconds

49.   Medium shot of Alice getting out of sleeping bag 2 seconds

50.   Medium shot of Alice with back to camera walking towards bathroom 2 seconds

51.   Medium close up of reflection in mirror washes face, dries face, brushes teeth, brushes hair, puts make-up on puts clothes on 6 seconds

52.   Medium long shot of Alice walking down corridor

53.   Long shot of Alice walking down the stairs with back to camera

54.   Close up of shoes 1 seconds

55.   Medium shot of Alice putting shoes on

56.   Medium shot of Alice walking out of door 2 seconds

57.   Close up of handle 1 second

58.   Medium long shot outside of house locking the door 2 seconds

59.   Long shot of Becky walking out of her house waving to Alice 3 seconds

60.   Long shot of Alice walking over to Becky 2 seconds

61.   Medium shot of Becky talking to Alice

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65.    Speech between Becky and Alice medium close up walking towards university

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75.   A few hours later black text box 2  seconds

76.   Long shot of Becky, back to camera walking towards her home 2 seconds

77.   Medium shot of Alice waving her arms around shouting after Becky 2 seconds

78.   Long shot of Becky turning around, can see Alice running to catch up with her 2 seconds

79.   Medium close up of Becky talking to Alice shot reverse shot

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This week I have been producing my storyboard for my film as well as my script and screenplay, I have finished my script and screenplay and I have started drawing the shots for my storyboard. While writing this I have realised that a lot of shots are needed for what I want as I want to ensure all of the shots are fluent and the continuity of the film is correct.

Audience

The Audience for my film is the mainstream audience, the ages between 15-24 as this will be the ages of people that can relate to what the protagonist in my film is going through. The certificate for my film would be a 15 because of the tense scary scenes in parts of The Wrong Turn that could scare the younger audience; my film would be mainly aimed at girls and women as they are more sympathetic to women who are in stress during and therefore will feel more pain towards the protagonist.

Choice of Film Name

The Wrong Turn  

My film is called The Wrong Turn this is because the protagonist Alice has taken ‘the wrong turn’ in life as she gets too involved in things that do not concern her which puts her life at risk but also has benefits as putting herself in danger also saves other people.

Synopsis

Ruby moves to a new town to study criminology the home has a history of unsolved murder. She aims to solve it. She discovers who comitted the murder and the murderer  then attempts to kill her. He is then arrested and the murder is finally solved.

Evaluation of Maltese Falcon Reconstruction

The things that went well with our film project is the lighting in the shots as this was something we tried to focus on the most to match the shots of the original Maltese Falcon. One example of this is the shot been behind a window; we knew that this would be a hard shot to shoot due to the back lighting we tried to avoid  this by not using hardly any natural light and focusing on light through other windows in the classrooms  and light sources, to ensure there was not any back lighting and all the actors in the film was visible.

I also thought that our framing of the shots worked well because we took time and looked back at our storyboard and the original film to ensure we could get almost the exact same framing when re-creating the film.

A big problem with making this film was we underestimated how much little things could take up valuable time that we could spend shooting our film, for example finding the blue tack to stick the ‘Spade and Archer’ sign onto the window, as we wasted about 10 minutes  trying to find this, something which wouldn’t of happened if we had planned this better. Something else which then also took a lot of time was when other members of the group forgot there script and we then had to take time to re-print the script again which the resulted in us loosing more time for filming our film which resulted in us not being able to shoot the entire film sequence.

Another large problem we faced was continuity, as in some one hour lessons we realised that after setting up the scene and getting the camera in the correct place for framing we did not have a long time to shoot the actual film, especially when we did not have study periods after our film lessons, that is why in various parts of the film the costume, hair styles and the places of were the film is shot changes. This is something I will focus more on when shooting my own film as I will start shooting early to ensure that the shots flow and are unnoticeable that they are shot on different days (if this is needed).

I will also make sure that when I shoot my own film I will not work in such a large group as this proves to be unreliable when specific people are needed for a certain shot and are not in the lesson, I will therefore ensure that my own film does not have as many characters in it to ensure that I can rely on everyone.

Overall I think our end project went well, even though we had minor set backs which I have previously discussed. Our final film looked like what we had hoped for in the 2 weeks which we had to do all of the planning and shooting. It has taught me that I need to plan a lot more efficiently when it comes to my own film and that this will save a lot of time and I will produce a better finished project.

How I will use The Wanderer Story Type

I am going to use The Wanderer in my opening sequence as the protagonist has moved away from her old neighbourhood to escape from her past of getting too involved in crimes she tries to solve and she has moved away as she is putting herself in danger. She has also moved away as she is studying criminology at university. In trying to get over her past secret are revealed in her new home when she is trying to overcome her old problems.

The Ring Opening Sequence

I have used this as inspiration for my film as in the opening sequence the television appears to keep switching on by itself, when this happens Gore Verbinski uses a range of close ups and medium shots and typical scary sounds to make the audience scared and build up tension, this is also what I want to create in the opening sequence of my film.

Maltese Falcon Group Project

This week we have been told to re-create a clip of the film ‘Maltese Falcone’ this is going to be the opening sequence which is six minutes in length, we will use props to create this genre of this film and so the scene looks like the setting from the original film. I am working in a group of 4 people (including myself) various jobs in which we have in our group consist of-

Hollie Andrews (myself)

I will create the storyboard for the film so that when we come to the filming of the film, we will then exactly know what shots we need to take, the order of them and who needs to be in which shot. I will also do some camera work as our group have decided to take this in turns, so we all know how to work the camera more when shooting our own film. We have all also decided to share the editing so we all know how the editing software works.  

Jasmine Davies

Jasmine Davies is going to be an actress in the film called Effy, Jasmine will also do some of the editing.

Harriet Harrison

Harriet is going to find the script used in the original film and then change it slightly to fit better with our film, Harriet will also find the appropriate props to re-create this scene from the film, which include a telephone, suits that the male actors work. And Harriet will also do some of the editing of our film.

Chloe Caroll

Chloe is going to be an actress in our film playing the women who is speaking to spade and archer throughout the shot as well as doing some of the editing of out film.

We also had an extra in our film to play Spade as we knew that the film would look better if we had a male protagonist as this is who in the film.

We hope to have all of the filming finished in the first week and focus on the editing during the second week as we realise that editing takes a long time and we will also come during our free periods and lunch time if we fall behind with this.