JESSICA FOSTER
CANDIDATE NUMBER 1820
CLAREMONT FAN COURT SCHOOL 64680
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My production team included: Charlotte Coppellotti 1812, Ellie Smart 1859 and Millie Wyatt 1874
My brief was to produce a film opening that lasted a maximum of two minutes. The title of our film is Camera-Shy. Our thriller explores the the life of Sarah and her journey as she deals with a stalker following her every moves, capturing her everyday life on camera. The insidious threat begins to surreptitiously invade Sarah's inner thoughts to the extent she feels unsafe in her own home. Her anxious thoughts are proven rational when she is at her bedroom window and catches sight of a camera flash aimed up at her from across the street.
FINSIHED PRODUCT:
EDITING
Millie and Ellie used Final Cut Pro to complete the editing of our film. They took charge as they had both used the application before and so knew how it worked and were able to edit scenes with no difficulties. We needed to cut and merge footage together as well as add a pre-recorded audio of our protagonist singing on top of the table-stop sequence. Ellie and Millie also added in our intertitles.
DIRECTING
We all collectively directed each scene as we felt by collating everyone's ideas we could come out with the best end product. I tended to set out my ideas of what I thought would work in each scene during a group discussion before we went out to film. However, once we were on set, Millie, Ellie and Charlotte directed as I was the actor playing the protagonist and so they could see the action from a different and better perspective. One scene in particular that I enjoyed directing was the final scene where the stalker is walking in the dark and taking pictures of Sarah at her house. This was because I enjoyed working with the street lights at night and thinking about how to best position our actor so we could create an ominous and creepy atmosphere.
CAMERAWORK
For the majority of the production, I was not behind the camera but instead acting in front of it. However, the few scenes my character was not in, I used an iPhone to film such as the dark room table top sequence as well as the final scene. I was able to create a smooth and professional looking shot as I made sure I had a steady hand when moving the camera and I played around with lighting and exposure features on the camera to get the right atmosphere for the scene.
ART AND DESIGN
Charlotte took charge when planning and designing features of the production such as the production company logo and the film poster. This was because her Art skills made her the most well-equipped for the job. She was able to draw a rough sketch of what we wanted our designs to look like before using applications such as Photoshop where I worked alongside her to produce what we wanted.
SET DESIGN
Personally, I provided the props for the scenes where our protagonists was playing lacrosse as I already had the specific sports equipment. We worked collaboratively to create other props such as the photographs used in the dark room scene. We took the photos, printed them out and then laminated them as during the scene, we were placing them in water. During the same scene, Ellie helped to place and order the props for the table top sequence whilst Charlotte organised the positioning of the photos that were taped to the wall.
