FEEDBACK & PLANNING

Feedback & Planning

EVALUATION - 20/03/2014

Filming Session 4 - 11/03/2014

Tuesday 11th March 2014

Today we finished filming the final pieces to the truth and dare scene before we moved to our secondary location to film the ending to our final product; the graveyard. In this last part of our filming session, we completed the over-the shoulder and POV shot from my perspective while Rav is telling me what my dare is and my response to it and then the same shots but from her perspective. 

This was going to be the last scene I would be filming in as our film schedule had started to clash with my family commitments, however we changed the last scene of the piece to show that instead of Tom, our previous male character going missing, it would be me. Instead of the four of us being covered in blood at the graveyard standing over Tom's body it would be Hope, Jas & Rav waking up in the graveyard to find me missing... 

Again we used a clip from Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family) as part of our research for our ending scene. (PLL is one of the most watched thriller TV series for young adults; this fits with our age demographic) 

EDITING - 10/03/2014 - 14/03/2014

Monday 10th March 2014 

Today, Hope and Jas started to edit the opening credits using the software Adobe Premiere Pro and sorting out what music we should add over the credits and when playing truth or dare. For the opening credits we decided to use  Pharrell Williams - Happy as it was upbeat and would signify the opening for a stereotypical chick flick. 

For the truth or dare scene we decided to use the instrumental to Do I Wanna Know - Artic Monkeys signifies the tension and suspense that starts to build up in the scene and also creating a mysterious ambiance to the setting. 

Thursday 14th March 2014

We decided to change the songs we chose for the backing tracks in our scenes due to the fact, when we played the scene with the music edited in, we felt that the song choice didn't match with our scene. 

For the opening credits we decided to use: Lana Del Ray - National Anthem (Instrumental)

For the truth or dare scene we changed the song to: Aluna George - You Know You Like It 

We believed this song choice to be more balanced with the scene as the songs tempo increases and has a mysterious rhythm to it which matches the atmosphere in the scene. As the music builds up so does the tension in the game and the ghost story which Hope tells Jas.

Filming Session 3 - 06/03/2014 continued...

Continued...

HORRIBLE DRINK

When filming the truth and dare scene we each had one dare and one truth. When it came to the character who had the truth/dare we used a wide shot between 2 characters; the person giving the dare and the person doing the dare, this gave us the chance to use the 180 degree rule when editing our final piece. 
As part of one of the dares we created a horrible drink which Rav had to pretend to drink for the scene. The shot was zoomed in order to create a disgusted reaction from the viewers.

Filming Session 3 - 06/03/2014 CONTEXT

Thursday 6th March 2014 - Context

Today we filmed the truth and dare part of the sleepover. Our main focus for the first half of the session was to capture a spinning technique that made the camera looked as if it was the bottle spinning around while playing truth or dare. We created this by placing the camera on a smooth surface, in our case a hardback book with a smooth surface allowing the camera to spin around easily and at a height where it was able to get a clear shot of our faces. Here is an similar idea to what we created and what technique we were trying to achieve; this was part of our research: 

After filming several shots of the camera spinning around we moved on to the truth and dares. The initial idea for the first dare was for Jas to make a phone call to her crush who's name was Tom. However as our male actor was struggling to meet with our film schedule due to other commitments, we had adjusted the script so there was no male character and the opening only consisted of the four girls. Due to the script change we also had to remove the scene in which there was a flashback with Hope and Tom secretly meeting at school. This was the original script:

*Entering sleepover setting with cupcakes , singing in the background, everyone takes a cupcake and sit down at different times whilst bringing a snack over , blurred idle chit chat, hope begins to spin a bottle in the centre*

Summaya: We are not playing spin the bottle!

Hope: Why not?

*Summaya proceeds with a disapproving look towards hope*

Hope: Fine, we’ll play truth or dare instead

*Hope goes to spin bottle Rav stops her*

Rav: Do we have to?

Hope: Yes it’ll be fun! Jas wants to play don't you?

Jas: Sure (hesitantly)

Hope: See! Now let’s go

*Rav lets go and hope spins bottle*

*multiple dares and truths go by- Eating ketchup etc., ‘I used to like tom in yr9!’ etc., Jas spins bottle it lands on hope*

Hope: Truth

Jas: ok… (She thinks) who do you like in school?

Hope: (hope looks shocked and flustered) that’s a stupid truth do another one

Rav: No we had to answer ours now you answer yours.

*Flashes back to Hope with Jas’s crush*

Hope: (flirting dialogue)

*Flash back to sleepover*

Hope: Fine I don't like anyone in school; they're all idiots, and your idiots for liking them.

Summaya: Just shut up and spin the bottle

*hope looks back with a glare and then spins the bottle, it lands on Jas*

Hope: (Slurs words) Truth or dare.

Jas: Dare

Hope: Are you sure?

Jas :( long pause) Yeah, course.

Summaya: ok then, I dare you (hands her phone) to call Tom over.

Jas: What! Why?

Summaya: oh come on we all know you like him

Rav: summaya that’s not fair

Hope: yeah summaya leave it

Summaya: Why? We all had to do our dares; (gestures to Jas) now ring him

Rav: You don't have to

*Hope looks at Jas*

Jas: No, it’s ok ill call him (hesitantly grabs phone)

*Phone rings, phone answers*

Jas: (on phone) oh tom hi, its Jas…..

Tom :( on phone) oh hey what's up

*summaya looks at Jas again*

Jas: (on phone) ermm...nothing

Tom :( on phone) then why’d you call?

Jas :( on phone) oh ermm I’m just here with Summaya, ran and hope and I thought... (Gets cut off by tom)

Tom :( on phone) wait hopes there? (Excited voice)

Jas: (on phone) yeah why? (Confused)

Tom :( on phone) oh no reason, anyway what did you want?

Jas: (on phone) oh I was wondering if ermm, you would wanna come over and see us?

Tom :( on phone) is hope still there, I mean all the girls, are they still there?

Jas: (on phone) yeah come over.

Tom: ok see you in a sec.

*night goes on blurred laughter and tom appears at the door blackout, four girls appear in graveyard with a dead tom*

Summaya: oh my god what happened?

Hope: I can't remember

Rav: guys Toms not waking up

Jas: Oh no, he can't be dead

Rav: he is, we need to go now!

*girls exit leaving the body*

Filming Session 2 - 03/03/2014 continued...

Mis-en-Scene

The location change created a more flexible outlook for us as the room has blinds we could use so you wouldn't be able to tell if it was light or dark outside. This allowed us to film the sleepover scene during the daytime and get more done during daytime hours; also the dim lighting helped create a more evening look as well as the blinds. 

Costumes/Hair

Stereotypically, in American chick/flicks the idea of female costumes is to enhance the male gaze however, we decided to change the idea of a typical stereotype and keep the costumes so that they are realistic in comparison to how teenagers now dress at home and around friends; comfortable, baggy, plain clothing. Also, hair was kept natural in order to keep the natural home-like setting. 

Cinematography

In this filming session we filmed the opening to the sleepover where the girls are arguing about playing truth or dare. Each character has a dialogue in this scene so at first we decided to film a wide shot of all of us talking and then re-film the same scene but from each one of our views; POV shot/camera angle. This will enable us to add the different angles we filmed when it comes to editing, making the outlook more effective. In order to film all our shots in this scene we used a tripod to keep the camera steady and filmed all shots within a close frame to capture details of the mis-en-scene.

DIALOGUE FILMED IN THIS SCENE