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Health and Safety concerns

One of the most prominent health and safety concern is definitely the fact that a glass has to be smashed during the flashback and violent scene. This can be hazardous as the environment we are filming this is an enclosed kitchen.
In order to overcome and deal with this hazard, when smashing the glass we planned to make sure Callum was back as far as possible in the corner of the room, and all the other actors stood behind a closed door as he threw it. We also made sure everyone was wearing shoes to avoid the risk of getting shards of glass in people's feet. As soon as the glass was thrown, we got a broom and swept away all visible pieces of glass, and then hoovered the whole floor to collect any remaining shards of glass which could be dangerous. This was also the last thing we filmed, so that there was less of a risk of anyone stepping on glass during the other parts of the filming.

Second shooting

Callum King- Below are some headshots for the actor playing the role of the abusive ex boyfriend. He is dressed to dark colours to symbolise his dark and violent personality, and as for makeup, we used some foundation, concealer and highlighter in order to stop his fact reflecting light and looking shiny on camera. We also used a slight bit of dark eye shadow under the eye to give a more deepening and scary dimension to his face, in order to create a fearful effect on the audience.

Changes to the storyboard

 These are the storyboards I drew in order to fit the changes to the narrative that we made. These new storyboards fit in amongst the rest of the storyboard previously, and we have just replaced the attack scene,

First shooting

Ben Howse-

Ben Howse is the councillor for the first scenes in our film opening. In order to make him seem more like a professional councillor we made the outfit smart with a dark black suit and tie, but then made it slightly more casual with a simple grey v-neck jumper in order to make his look seem more comforting. We also had to make him look older, and so we added glasses and gelled his hair in a slick back manor to seem a lot more professional. We also spent a lot of time on his makeup, by adding some dark foundation and powder to make his face seem clear and less shiny when on camera, to give a good quality look to the film. Dark eyeshadow was also added under his eyes to give the impression that he was older, and we took time drawing on a beard with eyebrow and eye makeup, which also added to idea of him looking more professional and more mature.

Matilda Hale-

Tilly was the main actress for our film opening, and this is a headshot of her before adding the bruised makeup.

As we had practised the bruised makeup previous to the initial filming, the makeup was very quick and precise, which was important because it meant we had a lot more time for the actual filming. For the bruising we added some subtle purple and red eyeshadows under her eyes and more prominently on the right eye to indicate the audience that she has been involved in a violent  attack from the very start of the opening. We also added more shadowing the collar bones to give the impression that she is very run down and obviously effected by the attack. However, we did not want to make the makeup too obvious and bloody like we had previously, because this would give the impression that she had not tried to cover up the injuries, which a lot of domestic abuse victims do, so we added some foundation, concealer  and mascara to give a more realistic feel to the makeup.

Makeup for the first shooting

For this video, we set up our camera device (iPhone 6) and used a camera setting called 'time-lapse'. Time lapse is a technique whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured is much lower than that used to view the sequence, meaning that everything is speed up by about 10 times. This shows the development of the makeup for the first shooting, which took around 45 minutes in reality.

Location used

Violent flashback location:

The location we used for the violent flashback was my kitchen. This is because it is a wide space with easy access to the glasses in which were going to be smashed. There is also the ability for many different angles because of the wideness and length of the kitchen, and also has a homely feel to it. However the only problem with using this kitchen, which we realised once we started filming it, was the lighting. The lighting in the room was extremely yellow, which was emphasised by the reflection off the cupboards, meaning we had to be careful which angle to use, because some angles made the lighting look worse and the quality of the film look worse.

Counselling scene:

This is a shot of Louisa's living room which we used for the counselling scene.This room has a definite look and atmosphere of comfort which radiates from it, which is why we thought it would be perfect for this scene. It also looks like it would be a counselling house because of the educational books in the background and close promixty.

Sounds for our opening

Filming schedule

Audience feedback

Audience expectations

History of social realism

Inspiration from other films

Social realism directors

• Trainspotting- Trainspotting is one the most famous social realism films and the producer for this film was a man named Danny Boyle. Danny Boyle is an english film director, producer and screenwriter of some of the most successful films in the world, not only including trainspotting, but other social realist films such as 'Slumdog millionaire.' He is well known for his extremely accurate portrayals of hardships, including drug use and portrayals of social class. 

• Fish tank- The director of the well known social realism film is Andrea Arnolds. Andrea Arnolds is a British director and former actor who won many awards for 'Fish Tank.' She shot this film entirely in the UK, and was adamant that she would shoot the film in chronological order, so that the journey of the film was in chronological order, and would make sense to the main but inexperienced actor, Katie Jarvis. Andrea would only give her a day's worth of script to study so that she could take it day by day, and this in turn, created an extremely realistic and accurate representation of South London.

Social realism inspiration

         

The main focus of our film opening is domestic violence, but with a socially realistic portray of it. This documentary 'Murdered by my boyfriend', is an extremely moving a realistic portrayal of a true story between a couple, and the abuse in the relationship. The way its filmed created a emotional and empathic feel towards the characters, which we would want to re-create in our film opening; which is why we took this documentary as an inspiration.

Social realism research

Moodboard

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Title name ideas

For the film title we wanted to hint at the themes involved in the film. Basing our ideas around this, we came up with these titles:

• Exhale
• Exposed
• No way back
• Blackout

However after discussing which one would suit our film the best, we decided to go with:

Exposed

A definition of the word exposed is 'to deprive of shelter or protection, lay open to danger or harm' which fits well to our film opening because its highlights her vulnerability, and also foreshadows danger and harm.

The 'Ex' in the title indicates that Jessie and her boyfriend are no longer together, and hints to the idea of a broken and damaged relationship.

The word exposed also links to the idea of sexual references, and sexual violence references are hinted to in the film.

Revised scripts

The rest of our film

• After our opening, the film will go on to tell the story of the relationship between Jessie and Jack from the start to the end.

• Taking inspiration from '500 Days Of Summer' (2009) the elements of their relationship will be shown in a non-chronological order, broken up to show the contrast from when they were happy at the start, to when Jessie became victimised in a passionate yet dangerous relationship.

• To comply with the Social Realism Genre, the actors will continue to act in a naturalistic way, in a variety of locations such as their homes and the local places they would have gone, to make it as realistic as possible.

500 days of Summer Trailer

Film opening changes

Once conferring and showing our animation to Miss Paige, we discussed that the narrative idea didn't really flow  as well as we originally thought it was, because it would of been hard for the audience to depict that the ex-boyfriend was the stalker, and why the attack actually happened. Following Miss Paige's advice, we decided to change our genre to social realism, but the dark realm of it, focussing on aspects of domestic violence. We decided to make the main flashback a scene of Jessie and her boyfriend before they broke up, where he is manipulating her and is subtly hinting towards the idea of domestic abuse. However, we are keeping the counsellor scene and the ending the same, but we are changing the script in order to show her despair and true fear of her ex-boyfriend. These changes in the script will also make the narrative a lot clearer.

Casting changes

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, we had to change our main actress. However, we did have a reserve who would also fit the role just as well; Tilly Hale. Tilly is not only a member of a group and so would be available a lot of the time, but she also has a lot of previous acting experience and so would be just as good for the role.

BBFC film ratings

15 Rating
We have decided, after looking at the film ratings in depth, that our film and opening is going to be a 15 rating. This is because it contains:

-Brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence

-Strong violence/hints of violence

-Portrayals of sexual activity 

-Strong language
-Discreet sexual violence which is justified by context

The reason why we didn't use a rating higher than a 15, is because our film/opening does not include:
-Frequent and consistently strong language
-Does not endorse discriminatory language or behaviour
-Strong or crude sexual references
-Sustained focus on sadistic or sexualised threats
-Strong horror
-Strong blood and gore

Some of the themes and context of our film opening are quite disturbing for young audiences, and the focus on domestic violence and stalking means that it cannot be below a 15 rating.

Costume

Casting

For our film opening, we have three characters. For our main character Rose, we have casted Jessie Owens, because she has the quirky look that fits in the protagonist image perfectly. For the councillor we originally decided to cast Jonathan West, because he 35 years old, and is a professional actor, not only giving him to skills to create a professional performance, but he also had the very smart look, fitting the 'ideal' councillor. However, we had some trouble with his availability because he lives and works in London for most of the week, so we decided to was too difficult to plan around his schedule, and would cause us major problems if we need to re-film, because he lived so far away and was quite unreliable. It would be also be difficult to achieve the quality of filming we would like because we don't know him very well at all. However, we did have a reserve counsellor called Ben Howse, who is also an experience actor, but is slightly younger. Last year, he appeared in another AS media project, showing that is he capable of a great media performance.

Test shots

After we carried out our makeup practice ideas, and we decided to focus more on the location. The picture on the right is the location alleyway in the daylight, just to show the full dimensions of alleyway we are using. The photo on the left is the alleyway in the dark, which gives a more creepy feel to the dusty brick walls. In the dark, the alleyway seems to be closing in, which is the uncomfortable affect we wanted to create for the audience.

Filming device

For the filming we will be using Tilly's iPhone 6. This is because we were unable to access a professional camera and this phone has an extremely good quality camera, and will give us the most professional looking film opening.
"Stunning 1080p HP video at 60 fps, capture more dramatic slo-mo video and, for the first time, create time-lapse video. Continuous autofocus provides constant focus as you capture your footage. Cinematic stabilisation keeps your shoot steady even when you're not."

Makeup practices

These are our makeup ideas for the actual attack scene. For this we used dark coloured eye shadows to create a deep bruising effect, but not too much to give the effect that the injuries were recent. We also used fake blood to drop from like the eyes nose and mouth to indicate a severe and brutal beating. For our first attempt, we think this looked quite realistic, but to improve we are going to order a face paint called 'the bruise wheel', which we feel will give a  more realistic bruising effect to the makeup.

For the counselling scene, we had to create deeper, healing bruises, to give the effect that the attack was fairly recent but was quite a while ago. To do this we experimented with darker eyeshadows, and spread the extent of the bruises further. We also got rid of the fake blood to emphasis the bruises on the face. We also tried to make the bruises quite subtle to indicate the characters willing to try and cover up the injuries.

Storyboard animation

Storyboard

Logo design

This is our final design of our logo. Our friend Adil Rahman, who is experienced with art and technology, helped us out with this, because we had to experience and were clueless on how to make it, but we all had a vision in mind. We drew a design then met with Adil and started to create this on a mixture of Picassa and Windows movie maker.

Company name ideas

After a quick discussion of ideas, we found that we wanted to focus our company name around a moon theme. This is because its quite mysterious, and links to our film opening genre of psychological horrors. The darkness also links to our mystical theme, and we thought that it would be effective, and really show what our company is about.

• Peril productions
• Crescent studios
• Lunar Productions

Script