Wednesday 9 February 2011

Further Planning

Our task this lesson was to decide on the filming locations, choice of actors and appropriate sounds we need to incorpriate into our opening sequence.

Locations

Cellar scenes
We have decided to shoot these scenes in Alice's garage, therefore we can create low-key lighting and get the bitch black effect we are aiming for. It is a large areaand the brick walls could help to create the feel of a 'chamber'. Also there is power supply, so we can succesfully show the news report on a television!


Memory one
The flash back of the shadowing over the little girl could be shot in any setting, as long as it is kept within theme! We are planning on shooting this in Alice's garden, in the hope that we are able to produce the correct lighting in order to create the shadowing effect.

Memory two
we have decided to add an extra memory into the opening sequence, and we are planning to use Alex's living room to film it. During this scene the same little girl will be sat on the floor with her back to the camera. A man (Joseph Fritzl) will approach her and stroke her hair. (Again we can only see up to his waist) The girl will reach for her blanket again.
We thought using Alex's living room was a good idea as it will show a home enviroment. (and the actions throughout this flash back will create a sense of a disturbed home enviroment)

Memory three
Again we have changed/added a new flash back. Showing a teenage Elizabeth. The location for this scene is not essential, however we plan to use a bench in my back garden.

Memory four
To show that it is a sleepover, a girl's bedroom would be appropriate. We plan to use Alex's bedroom for this scene.



The Cast

Frizl Alice's dad has agreed to play the part of Fritzl for us! He has past acting experience, and seeing as most of our filming will take place within Alice's home (and we will only see him from waist down, so resemblence is not necessary)this would be very convinient.

young Elizabeth Fritzl begun abusing Elizabeth from the age of eleven, so preferably our young Elizabeth needs to be of around the same age. Convineintly Alex has a family/friend called Amber who is ten years old and is willing to star in our opening scene.

teenage/adult Elizabeth As Alice is taking drama and theatre studies she has agreed to take on the part of teenage/adult Elizabeth!

Extras We need some other teenage girls to be in the sleepover scene. We have decided that Myself, Alex and another friend could play these parts. We plan to set up the camera and record ourselves. If not, friends or family could be willing to lend a hand.



Sound

We will need to find/make our own of the following sounds:

• Metal doors banging
• Footsteps getting louder
• baby cries - perhaps echoing to show the 'memory' effect
• girls lauging - again the echo effect.

We also want to consider any music which could be relavant to our opening sequence!

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