Our actress

This is a video of Louise at a previous acting job. This could be located on her Starnow profile. I showed my group her video to help us decide whether or not she was a good actress or the type of actress we were looking for.

Positive feedback from actress on Starnow

Below is a message Louise sent to my Starnow account after filming. She seemed pleased with us throughout the project and this message below just clarified that. She said that we were very professional even though we were students during production. I replied to the feedback by saying thankyou and by leaving her a good recommendation.

Hi Abigail, Sienna, Josh and Michael

I just wanted to say thank you for asking me to be a part of your film. It was a pleasure to meet you all.

I enjoyed working with the four of you and I was extremely impressed with the way you worked- very professional.

You are all talented and your drive and passion inspired me...keep doing what you're doing, work hard and don't give up on your dreams!

I'm really looking forward to seeing the finished film...

Keep in touch and let me know how it all goes and please send me any pics and the film when it's done.

Good luck with editing and your grades! - It's going to be 'crazy'! :)

Love, Louise x




Feedback I left her on starnow

This is the recommendation I left her on Starnow. It's very positive because me and the rest of my group truly believed she was a great actress and person. This recommendation that I left her will be available for other employers to view on her profile, which will increase her chances of a job on Starnow.

Louise was an absolute pleasure to work with. She was enthusiastic about the story and this enthusiasm really came through whilst filming. She was perfect for the role given to her. She was able to suggest amazing ideas that were very useful due to her bringing in her own experience as an actress into the film. She had alot of patience with us and she always came in on time; we never had any problems with her. Her acting ability was astonishing and she really did know how to work with the other actors/actresses around her. The communication between her and the crew was in sync; she seemed to know exactly what we wanted. She was fun and professional at the same time. Even when she we contacted her at a time that was very last minute she still managed to pull through. You could tell that she took her time to learn the script and understand the treatment well. We seriously couldn't have gotten a better actress and I would be more than ecstatic to work with her again. I wish you all the best.

How to be a camera operator

So I recently found out that I was going t be Camera women for my group. This means that I have to make sure I make up creative shots and take total shots on the actual day of filming.

My first step of attempting to be a good film maker meant that I had to make myself familiar with the script and storyboard, so attempted to remember important shots, so that wouldn’t have to keep on referring to the script on filming day.

The next step I took was researching tips on how to make creative and interesting shots. I went over the story board and identified places in the storyboard in which different shots could be added. I voiced my opinion on these shots and they agreed with some of them and they said some of them were good, but they didn’t understand the use of others e.g. I said that when Sarah walks into Max’s room it should be a point of view shot , but they said that “it was unnecessary”, however they did like my idea of a tilted frame during the graveyard scene.

http://www.raindance.org/site/index.php?id=49,5071,0,0,1,0&highlight=tips%20creative%20camera%20shots

I used this website in order to help me find and come up with good shots to use.

The third step I took was pitching our shots to the technician in the school with the director. He told us how we could take the creative shots that we wanted to take. He also informed of new equipment we could use e.g. tracks. Tracks would make panning a lot easier to do and much more smoother. He also told us to make sure that, while we were coming up with these shots we had to make sure that we could take our shots in the location that we had e.g. is it possible to take a shot under the bed even though there’s a cupboard obstructing the view. I took down notes of what he said in order to make sure that I remembered the different techniques I needed for specific shots e.g. I would have to use the manual mode on the camera for some of the shots.

Finally I attended a tutorial of how to use a camera that the technician was running during lesson. This gave me the opportunity to familiarise myself with the camera and actually see how I was meant to carry out some of the techniques I was doing. Now I was ready for filming.

Images

Media production images

This is a gallery of some of the pictures that I took with my still camera while were on the set of 'Lost For Words'. Some of them are of the cast and crew in action, while others are of the groups funny moments. I also took the liberty of adding screen grabs from the film itself. Enjoy

Media production images - make slideshow

Poster 4

Storyboard

About the alternative ending

While we were on the set of our film we decided to end the film a little differently, so that our film wouldn't follow the codes and conventions of an actual film. We decided that instead of Sarah and Max making up at the end, we should get Max to reject Sarah's attempt to patch things up with him. We made this the ending of our main film, but we still shot the scenes in which Sarah and Max make up. We then decided to make the scene when Sarah and Max make-up, part of our alternative ending, We then posted both on Youtube in order for us to see which one got the most views. This is the result of our alternative ending.

Poster evaluation

The colours I used in the poster are quite dismal colours or dark colours that have been used in order to emphasise the theme of grief in the film. The colours used for the text also relates to the theme of grief seeming as it’s in black and white, which are sad and plain colours, which is why they are used in almost all the posters. The main colours in the background for all of the posters are black. The main image for most of the images is of Sarah (Louise Hewison) whose facial expression clearly shows that she’s upset, which highlights the theme of grief once again. Even one of the posters is quite abstract so you can really see the grief of Sarah coming through. I think the intended audience for this poster people of the age of 16+. I think that due to the fact that the image chosen has so much emotion radiating from it; people would want to see the film. This would have been more effective if the character chosen for the poster was famous because audiences would have been more interested. I can tell that the movie is a drama due to the poster. The words “from the director who brought you fragmental” would engage the audience, especially if they saw ‘Fragmental’ and liked it. This quote also suggests that the director is good seeming as I decided to quote him in the film poster. It also makes both films more popular seeming as if people like “lost for words” they would be interested in watching  “fragmental” and visa versa. The poster doesn’t promise you anything specifically, but by mentioning the directors name you are promised a visually good film in terms of directing.