Comparison

Both films use similar techniques in their poster, the simple characters in the middle and the white background. Both poster invoke a sense of happiness and hope yet at the same time curiosity. The pursuit Of Happyness has the most effective marketing overall as there website is very well done whereas the Blind Side’s website leaves a lot to be desired. Both posters are constructed well though. I dislike on TBS (The Blind Side) how much they market on there website. For TBS the buy now emphasis is more important than the actual promotion of the movie. For TPOH (The Pursuit of Happyness) the inform people about the movie, promote it and whatever before selling you the DVD. Viewers don’t want DVDs shoved down there throats. Nor do we want to know how great people think Sandra bullock is, will smith is way better than her and TPOH doesn’t say how many awards his won.

The Blind Side

White is used as an accent. Blues and greens are mostly used, indicating a analogous colour scheme. However, the colour changes for every page of the website, so there isn’t really a fixed colour scheme, rather a fixed colour pallet.
There is a sense of balance in the web site but because the site has so much going on, it kind of gets lost in translation. There is no clear emphasis, and the focal point is lost in the mess. The back ground is too busy to be overlayed with more characters and writing on top. The principles of design look like the have tried to have been applied but didn’t turn out quite right.

This is for the website; the overall feel is bright and clean but not crisp. If it was whiter and had a little less black (not that there was much) the crisp feel could have been achieved. The poster achieved the crisp film as less was happening and there was a white background. It was also bright and clean.

No there is only one poster. Films only really need one promotional poster anyway.

The website is laid out in a cluttered manner but you can still manage to find the links to different pages. The font is the exact same as it is on the poster. This brings in a certain unity between the poster and the website.

A lot of 12 year olds have seen this movie, having the site set up the way it is isn’t very inviting for younger kids. Kids need it simple and fun. The transitions between pages weren’t anything interesting and the main goal of the site was to sell you the DVD, not to inform you about the movie itself. Teenagers and adults are their target audience and younger kids. They did a poor job on appealing to a target audience because the website was so bad. The poster is great though. Keeps you interested make you curious and it’s nicely put together. The website really let down this movie and the great promotional movie poster, as the website just wasn’t up to scratch.

In terms of promotional stuff, on the first page the buy now button for the DVD is as big as the enter the site button and is right next to it. When you enter the site the information about the DVD, its features, is larger than the picture of the main characters. There is a lot of promotional stuff. Also the trailer is able to be watched on the first page, even before you enter the site. There is information about Sandra bullock as well, stating how many prizes she has won ect. I don’t like how they try ot talk up Sandra bullock, she isn’t that great and it annoys people. I also dislike how much promotional stuff they have, it subtracts from the purpose of the website- to interest people and tell them about the movie. They could have lessened the promotional material to increase there effectiveness.

The Pursuit of Happyness

It has a neutral colour scheme, accented with red and other occasional brighter colours.
Transition between different pages is effective, it fades to a light wash then a shine spreads out from the background where the father and son are holding hands. All done whilst fading in the new page and corresponding background picture.

White is the predominant colour used on the website and poster, nearly all images on the background, of the website, has a soft glow around the edges. This is purposefully used to signify hope and happiness. Red is used to grab your attention and highlight not only the internal website links but important parts relating to the movie. The site is not packed with a lot of information and pictures it has a lot of space and flows easily as it is balanced well. The site and the poster and simple and effective.

The website is balanced well due to having characters in the background picture on one side whereas the links and drop down boxes are on the other side. You eye moves towards the picture then moves to the information. On every page of the website, the focal point is a picture of the characters. Emphasis is made on these main characters as the audience wants to know wow the main characters are and they are meant to get clues as to what they are like from how they are represented on the website. You shouldn’t have to watch he trailer to know anything about the characters, some things are meant to be picked up on. There isn’t any obvious repetition of anything, apart from the colours used, but that is the colour scheme rather than something they are repeating. The overall feel developed by this website and poster is light, clean and crisp. This works well with the genre of the film as it is a drama with a happy ending. There is only one official poster for the film that I have been able to find. What is on the poster is the first page of the website basically, it’s that same image and feel.

The website is laid out a little differently to others I have seen. On the very first page before entering the site, it shows you DVDs for purchase and the gallery, about the film, the trailer and then it gives you the option to enter the site. When you enter the site there is a large picture in the middle then over to the left it offers you “menu” when you hover you curser over this the whole menu folds down. This is so the menu doesn’t subtract from the image in the centre. This is the same for most of the other pages, the main links are visible but to get to the sub links (for example, gallery is a sub link of media) you have to click on the main links. The font is slightly different to the font used on the poster, it is more cursive rather than the more block like appearance. In terms of promotional stuff, once you entre the site, in the top right hand corner of every page is a DVD that you can click on and which glows when you hover your curser over it. Also above the background of the site are release details of the DVD.

The target audience is who ever might be interested in watching the movie, anyone from ages 14 will understand the film. The idea of a website and poster is promote the film, get people interested in watching it or to keep their interest, provide them with information about the film as well. I like the way they have incorporated the shining light from the poster into the website transition and picture borders. I also like how off the poster, red is used as an accented colour. The promotional materials overall, are very effective. The brightness of the poster and website portrays a happy ending and hope for the characters yet at the same time evokes curiosity in the viewer. There is nothing I dislike about the promotional material. I think they have done a great job.

Inspired Elements For Poster

I love the use of that white shine in both websites and posters. It is very effective, shows that there is happiness in the end. I want to use it to symbolise Fiona finding her peace. In my poster I want her walking towards the light; into an archway, of some sort, with the light shining out from it. This idea was inspired by the posters of the two movies I analysed. If I had an image of Fiona with her back towards the camera walking away I would have used it for my poster and made it look like she was walking into the light. This would have been copying The Blind Side poster, and using elements of The Pursuit of Happyness poster.

First Lesson Back

This is my first creative media lesson for the term. As it is now week 6 there isn't enough time for me to make the web site, so i am just doing the poster. I have some ideas already for the poster. Last time i made the poster (grade 9) it took so long. So hopefully i will be able to work quicker at it this time. I need a phrase to put on the poster though (i may just use my log line). Though before i create my poster i will need to do the analyse task which i will be doing this week.

Reflection

Our EDL is now on my blog, the props list has been email and i reposted the dialogue (because Bec said we needed it) even though that wasn't apart of the group task - i had done that for my treatment. I hope you find everything on my blog and remember to give me a good mark. I worked too hard on this whole thing, i'm even still doing it now- when i'm in America and the term has finished!

Dialogue - Slightly Modified in Film

Nurse Rose - “Hello Fiona, you gave us quite a scare, I presume you didn’t know that you were allergic to those flowers. You are perfectly fine now and when you feel ready you are welcome to leave. Sorry I’m not here to explain everything to you properly; I had to run a very important errand. Kind Regards, Nurse Rose.”

Councilor Jane - “Fiona, you have to understand that what you have described to me, isn’t true. You really have to come to terms with that, if not, you will never get better.”

Councilor Jane - “I don’t hear any screaming, I am taking this as a good sign. Fiona, this is your dog, you have had it since you were little… Fiona he isn’t dead, you have created that memory yourself, he was never dead. The sooner you can accept these facts, the sooner you’ll improve. I’ll leave him with you for a while.”

Fiona – “Dear Fiona, you have talked to me about the memory that you hold of yourself fainting and ending up in a hospital bed after smelling a flower. This is the flower you told me you were allergic to. I asked all your doctors and they grantee that you weren’t and still aren’t allergic to any flowers. They also told me there isn’t a hospital like you described and there isn’t a single registered nurse, in Queensland, by the name of Rose. If you don’t believe me, smell the flower. You must let these memories go, they are causing you pain. Accept the truth and move on. It’s the only way out of this facility for you. From Councilor Jane”

Fiona – “If a flower I was once severely allergic to, now fails to affect me at all, perhaps I’m invincible. I have always enjoyed having wind in my face, today I have decided to learn how to fly. I only wish to offer Councilor Jane some advice; you should have locked the door to the roof.”

Props List

The props list was in table form and could not be copied across to my blog.
I have emailed it to you..
Thanks,

EDL

File/Clip Name


New2

HaS01

Op01

Op02

Op03

Op05

EZS01

Op06

EZT02

EZS04

grave

Sand02

Chap01

Chap02

Chap03

FS01

FS04

FS12

FS11

HS02

HS03

HS10

HS13

HS14

GOOD

CJS01

GOOD

DOG01

DOG03

DOG09

DOG07

DS01

DS03

DS02

DS03

DS02

DS03

SS01

SS03

SS04

SS04

SS05

SS07

SS06

SS09

SS12

End01

Genre Specific Elements

My film is a drama, i had once thought of making it a thriller but changed my mind. I wanted to make a film that really exploited its genre and with a thriller i knew i wouldn't have been able to do that quite as effectively. There are a couple twists in my movie which lean themselves to the thriller genre, such as when she discovers her dog is actually alive. I love the ending of my movie, it really confirms the dramatic ness of the story.  My music also helps create an effective dramatic basis to my film.

Transitions and Speical Effects

The only real special effect that i added was on the sandwich scene. Ts involved layering the footage, finding at start position that matched Claudia up, then the second layer changed the opacity. This enabled the people walking past to have a ghosted effect. I have put different filters on various scenes; however these don' t count as special effects. I have used transitions to hopefully make it clearer what memories are real, which are fake and what aren't memories at all. I have use cross dissolves as my primary transition, though have mixed i up by having the transitions dissolve to black o white, depending on the next scene. the white looks really effective, and he black looks more normal <-- as in seen more commonly. The white and black transitions are genre specific elements, creating a more suspenseful atmosphere.

Biggest Mistake

The largest mistake i have constantly made throughout this whole movie is that i haven't reflected enough. I don't purposefully not reflect rather i just forget to. This is a bad habit I've had from the beginning. Nevertheless, when i reflect i write larger reflections to make up for it. I hope i don't get marked done for not having an abundance of reflects, i think the time and effort i have put into all my assessments makes up for it.

Sandwich Scene Effect

Up until the start of this week, i still had no effect on the sandwich scene but i decided it was extremely necessary for me to have the effect on it. Initially it was Mr Andrews who came up with the specific idea of the effect; however it came form my idea of lots of people pass her yet she is never noticed. I opened up Finalcut again, as i also wanted to put in credits, and i sought Mr Andrews advice on how to do it. the end result is really quite effective, the people look like ghosts, perhaps implying they were never really there, maybe Fiona just thinks that if people were there, they would ignore her, and as she is ghosted as well maybe she doesn't see herself as a whole just fragmented, which all comes back to her being not mentally stable. So all worked out well from the sandwich scene effect.

What I Could Have Done Better With My Sound

Some transitions between loops could have been created/changed to sound a lot better than they did. Most where acceptable but one or two, I could never get quite right; however I gave it my best shot. I’m not the most musical person around so the sound was a little difficult in that regards. Nonetheless, garage band was created for people who have no musical ability, so that made my life a little easier. I could always hear if something sounded wrong, but I didn’t always know exactly how to change it straight away as I might if I were more musical, I just kept playing with it, changing loops and transition until it sounded better. The biggest thing I could have done better is that I could have finished it quicker in general, instead of wasting the couple of lessons I did at the beginning. With those extra couple of lesson I could have been less stressed at the end, had more help to develop and better my final sound track. So time management is something I still need to do better. With using Finalcut I learnt how to do things more effectively, this I tried to apply to garage band; however it wasn’t until later on that I got to doing things more efficiently.

Sound Ideas That Never Worked Out

I would have loved a heart rate monitor flat line sound, but it is a bit slack to assume Mr Andrews would drop everything to create one from scratch, so even though I requested it I didn’t hold my breath and created a ending that I could included it in but would be equally good without it. At one stage I thought perhaps I could have her breathing being the a undertone to the movie, as in each memory would have a different pace of breath depending on the emotion evicted by Fiona in each memory. This might have made the movie better, though more than likely it would have just confused the viewer as I’m not sure if I could have portrayed the meaning of the breathing clear enough.

Sound Process

The process of creating the sound track for the movie was a lot more stressful than what the Finalcut section was. The music isn’t about right or wrong conventions, or wether it looks good, it is about creating something to enhance your film, to add understanding, and emotion that soundless movies can’t. To make a soundtrack well, is to truly understand your characters and what your film is about. I believe I have done this extremely well, mostly because this is my story so know one is to know it better than myself. I could easily spend another week or two on my garage band truly perfecting it, but the standard it was when I handed it in is satisfying.

Film Ending

When I wrote the story I had in written it in that she dies I the end. However, it wasn’t until we actually started filming that I decided she should jump off the roof. I knew we couldn’t actually film her doing this, so we brainstormed and came up with that we will just film her running up the stairs. Once at the top Rebecca wanted to finish the shot by her walking through the door onto the roof, back facing the camera. I rejected this idea and thought it would be best if we then stood on the roof ourselves and shot Claudia when she stepped through the door. I told Claudia to have a solemn look on her face, to be at peace. Claudia did this better than I could have imagined. For me, Fiona committing suicide wasn’t purely because she was a lonely, depressive mental patient but that she could no longer keep battling with these memories, that is was her way of letting it all go. I thought the ending is happy in a way, her finding her peace, moving on to a better life. To symbolise this more I had suspenseful music playing whilst she ran up the stairs; however, was on the roof made her peaceful, reoccurring piano loop play, fading it into when her name tag is taken away.

Submitting Reflection

I have only just submitted my final version 100%completed into the drop box on the multimedia drive. It was due yesterday by 4pm but due to my stress levels and abrupt change of film length in garage band, I could not submitted by 4. I then tried to convert everything when I was in prep but for so reason it wouldn’t work, I had been told not to compress the file, so I didn’t. I tried exporting my sound out of Garage Band three times in three different ways that I could think of but yet none of them would work in final cut. I decided to leave it until today as we had creative to ask Mr Andrews to go through it step by step with me. He had already done this in class, I listened, but as he said everyone has to do it differently, because everyone did things in different ways. Anyway, its done now and only slightly late.

Reflection

I am now so far behind Bec and Claudia - who i was trying to pace myself by as time management isn't my strong point. My music is going no where and last lesson i was surrounded by talking people who kept distracting me. So i now sit by myself and work silently. I'm thinking about borrowing out a lap top for Thursday night and just doing a whole heap of my creative media, so I'm back on track. Last lesson Mr Andrews asked us all to print out the task sheets off blackboard and ring them to class, i printed them out but instead of putting them in my diary with everything else, i put them in my bag. This morning i was in a rush and i just grabbed my diary and forgot the sheets. Considering i printed out an extra sheet about reflections off blackboard, so i could improve them - i think the fact that i forgot my task sheet should be forgotten. I'm trying hard in creative media because i do like the subject but I'm pushed for time as my other subjects are very demanding. I'm trying to improve my reflections and reflect more frequently as i know its where I'm lacking.
To Do:
Basically my whole music sound track; i have picked the loops i like and placed them in the project, so that i don't lose the ones I've spent two lessons selecting; however, I'm yet to actually start placing things in the right spots and layering sounds.
Film the grave scene again and in the right format; this is if we get time to do it before we go overseas.
Put the extra effect on the sandwich scene - with Mr Andrews help.

Reflection

It is now week six and I'm really starting to try and start my music off. I am falling behind as i have so much other work at the moment, so i can't do creative media for homework. I never get to much done in class because there are so many distractions. Bec's and Claudia's progress with the music is making me feel in more behind. I really need to start getting more work done in class. One of my biggest problems, other than time management, is that I'm so indecisive when it comes to the music; i just don't know what i want and where. Also due to my bad memory, i keep forgetting to bring headphones which makes concentrating and making my music a whole lot harder. Next lesson I'm going to bring my headphones and work really hard.

Music Activity

It would belong to a science fiction movie, the opening scene is where it could be used. The volume and tempo increased, then keep softening in various parts. The pace of the music kept changing, there were different peaks in the music which made it sound like there is an adventue happening. There was a wide range of woodwind, brass and strings used throught the peice. The music made me feeel interested in what was happening. There was light and dark sections in the music.

Reflection- Music

We have had an introduction lesson in garage band this week. In the lesson we started using garage band, it is pretty easy to use and i believe i will be able to make an alright soundtrack. As a class we have talked about what type of music suits different types of films. Next lesson i will go through the different sounds and get a rough idea of where i want each sound. Mr Andrews has showed me how to put my film into Garage Band so that i can see where I'm putting in the different sounds. I find garage Band easier to use than Final Cut; however, I'm not really musically orientated, so it might turn out a bit of a mess. In terms of sound, I'm going to have a lot of piano as different loops can be put together seamlessly where as if you're constantly changing between different instruments, it could start to look very messy, really quickly. Some of the different loops of piano that i have put in my favourites and am considering using, have either a erie, happy or sad feel to them. I'm going to decided which pieces of music i want to include and where before i put together my introduction. This is because i have been told that an introduction, should introduce the more frequently used loops that will appear throughout the film.

Reflection

2/8/10
I have been editing for a while now, as soon as i got the rough edit i started. I'm almost finished, i just need to tighten up the in and out point as I'm still sitting on 6 minutes something. i haven't been blogging as much as I'd like to as well. This is because i have a lot of other work to do and i just keep forgetting.

Reflection

It is now the start of week four and i'm finishing off my film. one problem i have had throughout completing this film is that Mr Andrews will tell me something or teach me how to do a certain thing, but when i go to do it for homework, i can't remeber. My memory has been a major issue. Overall, I'm not unhappy with my film, but i don't think its as good as it could be. For instance, my transitions aren't perfect and no doubt there are little things throughout the film that aren't cut properly. when i showed Mr Andrews my film, he was helping me pick up little mistakes with the editing and taught me how to really shorten the in and out times. One of the little things he picked up was in the hospital scene, when claudia is moving from a laying to a sitting position. this involved cut from one shot to another; however, i had it cut in a way that made it look slightly unnatural. This i fixed up after school and now i beleive it looks a lot better. The one thing i hate is the grave scene, it was filmed in the wrong format and looks disgusting. Also i didn't bother utting an effect over it or anything because i thought we were reshooting it which looks less and less likely. So i hope i don't lose marks for it.

Reflection

I have now officially finished converting files, it took a while and it was really annoying but it's finished. I have given the files now to Claudia and Bec. Bec has taken them and made it into  a rough edit.  I'm a bit worried about how long our movie is going to be if all the footage once in thr ough edit goes for 7minutes, 45 seconds. As 5 minutes, 30 seconds is the longest we can have, i'm going to have to edit really well.

Evaluation

There were quite a few problems and difficulties we encountered during the filming of Dossquell. One of the biggest was not having a fixed filming date which suited everyone. Bec and I did all we could in the boarding house that didn’t involve Claudia. We used class time very effectively (when Claudia wasn’t sick and was at school for the lesson) and got through all the necessary scenes that required non-boarding locations. Another big problem was that when we were filming in the boarding house the light was awful. At one stage as well as all the over head lights being on Bec and I had set up three additional desk lamps. When Bec was filming she would need to hold one lamp with her spare hand and I would be constantly adjusting the other two. Bec and I would have mini disagreements on how things should be filmed, I would state my vision, and then she would tell me if there was a way to make it work. Sometimes she would propose a compromise which just wouldn’t work in the story line, so we would have to continue to discuss.

There are an infinite amount of tricks, techniques and skills we discovered\learnt along the way. The desk lamps were definitely what I would call a trick. They were so useful; I must say Bec discovered that one. A technique we picked up practically from the start was that we would film everything numerous times. Even if we thought we got the perfect shot the first time, we would always try to improve it by filming it at least a 2nd and 3rd time.
I’m not entirely happy with my film process so far. This is mainly due to being a bit behind everyone, even though I know the standard of our footage is amazing, it’s just annoying being behind. I could improve this by working extra hard to catch up and once up to date not slacking off, keeping up with all my work.
I believe I (as an individual) have managed my time effectively but as a group we have not. Just trying to get time as a group to do everything was incredibly difficult and is the sole reason we are behind. Yet as I said before, the quality of our work should make up for it.
In terms of things needing to be changed, there isn’t a lot. As a group we have worked great together and the quality of work is amazing. Claudia is such a good actress and took direction better than I could have imagined. Bec works so well with cameras; she was a great producer and lessened most of the time to how the scenes should look. There is only one shot I hate and I’m disappointed that I didn’t argue my point strong enough. It is where Fiona has a flower on her desk and she is meant to be really wary of it because it’s the same one that hospitalized her (previously in the story). I wanted Claudia to act a little scared of it and perhaps poke it with a pencil (something like that) to show her being cautious but Bec insisted that it looked stupid doing it my way. The only problem now is that the audience will be confused and the story doesn’t flow as well.
If I could start again I would make sure we got all the filming done on time so right from the beginning of this term we could have been editing.
I don’t understand why these questions are in the evaluation but yes I have uploaded my footage to an appropriate computer for editing and because I brought an external hard drive this weekend, we can now back everything up.

Reflection

I'm still trying to convent footage and order and rename it all. I'm also starting to think about making an edit decision list. We have discussed a couple of different things talking about how we are going to edit the film, when it gets put together. I have a certain vision for the story; however, i don't think it is going to come across clearly. I want at the end of the film there be a heart monitor sound. This would allow me to make the ending really dramatic. I want there to be a sound present that signifies life, then after the shot fades away of her on the roof, i want a sound to end or flat line; this would ensure that the audience knows she died.

Reflection

This week was a very slow moving one in creative media, we were taught how to convert the footage into the correct format, that we needed it in to work with. Converting footage is a very boring task and due to how much footage we had it is taking a very long time. I will need a couple lessons next week to do it as well. I have to convert as fast as i can because Bec needs it for our 2nd rough edit. Last term we had half our rough edit just describing the shots that will end up in there. We are planning hopefully to finish shooting all our film next week. Bec just decided because she wanted to do the rough edit it was up to me to convert the film, so i did it to avoid a disagreement. As claudia was away a fair bit this week, i'm just going to give her all the converted film when its done. It isn't her fault she is sick. So the biggest problem this week for me, was how boring it is to convert footage. I overcame this because it has to get done and i'm the fastest at doing it.

Sandwich Scene

The lesson  Bec was away was the first lesson Claudia had been at school for a week, so we decided to get the last shot of the flower scene done and to do the complete sandwich scene. To set up for the flower scene's shot, i had to get the same type of flower we were using throughout the flower scene. Claudia didn't have to get changed as the shot was just of her hands and she didn't have a jumper on in the other shots so it was all good. I made sure when i filmed her hands, they weren't in the center as that wouldn't be correct in terms of the rules of thirds. After this shot, we got set up for the sandwich scene. For this scene we needed a couple extras so we just asked the girls not filming in our class to do the job for us. I originally had Claudia sitting on the bench in front of the wall then realised once i looked through the camera that the there was a seat in front of her which obstructed my view of her and generally looked strange. To fix this i got her to sit on the individual seat, this looked much better and created a deeper sense of isolation which is what i had in mind. To help us create the needed special effect later of having people ghosting past, i captured 10 or so seconds of her eating her sandwich then got the extras to walk past individually and in pairs. She counted in her head (to get the timing right) when to eat her sandwich as the extras walked past; otherwise, she would have been still when the people walked past which isn't what we wanted. Overall, it was a very productive lesson and i learnt a lot and got a couple really good shots done including a whole scene.

Missing Actress

This has been the second lesson that Claudia has been away, i believe she might be sick. There are only two or three shots without her in them but they are either in the boarding house or the establishing shot off campus so we are unable to film. This weekend Rebecca and I will film all boarding house shots that we don't need Claudia in, so that we stay on top of our filming. Also on Thursday afternoon we have planned to shoot the establishing shot which is of the gold coast hospital.

Filming Mistakes

Filming is taking longer than expected, so far we have filmed two out of the nine scenes; however, there are two aspects of both scenes that need redoing.  The chapel scene wasn't correctly filmed. Firstly the rule of thirds wasn't applied so the long shot will need redoing. Secondly when we did the close up shot the camera setting wasn't set on the flower, it was on the mountain which means the close up was pix- elated which means we will have to redo that as well. In the flower scene, we filmed everything properly and we were all happy with it but in the process of taking the footage off the camera a shot was lost. We need to film the close up shot of the flower in the hand again as its a important aspect of the story.

Creating The Shot List

The whole process of creating a shot list was annoying. For this list Bec was typing as i did the prop list. I was talking to her about the different shots i was planing to have, then we would discuss how we could make them better (if it needed it). It was basically a huge brain storm, that had a very good outcome.  Just by making the shot list, everything is now more clear and we know exactly what we are doing in each scene. It's weird to see my idea completely planned out, and every single shot mentioned. But by brain storming we have already improved certain aspets and its good to have an over side veiw of it because no matter what it will always make sense to me as i created it but it may not make sense to someone else.

My Thought Process

Here's the way things work.
When I'm trying to think of an idea, thoughts are just moving around really fast; the ones I'm interested in stop and then if there's one I'm particularly interested in, i will started to develop it; if not the idea will move on and another one will replace  it. I thought of my idea whilst driving around the hills on my property when i was doing cattle work, then i had to walk a kilometre and by that stage i had an idea i liked so i just started developing in my head. The first thing i actually came up with was the main characters name - thats how back to front i think. Anyway, i had no paper or pens in the paddock therefore i don't have any notes, that i could share. Also this whole thought development happens extremely quick for me, for example i came up with a whole short story for my English test within 5 minutes (and it was rather good, in my opinion). So, having as much documented evidence of my thoughts as there is on this blog is amazing considering the different way i think. So hopefully, you will won't mark me down for thinking differently considering i just explained myself.

Rough Treatment

I am lead to believe that i attached a hard, rough treatment in with my easy, so if you were wondering, that's where i believe it is.

Reflection/Evaluation

I had a lot of trouble with the story boarding task. The synopsis and the rest of the treatment didn’t cause me any worries. It was only the drawing aspect of the story boarding that was my problem though. I can’t draw and any drawing skill I might have doesn’t apply when I have to draw in perspective. I’ve never been able to draw prospectively or 3D, my mind just doesn’t work like that. I can’t even draw a 3D cube, so I was way out of my depth with the storyboard drawing. However, if I don’t get an A- on it at least it would be incredibly unfair because the descriptions and information on the side of the board was really good. My planning and drafting helped a lot for my treatment, though not really for my story boarding. The activities didn’t help with my story boarding or treatment but the templates were an amazing help. Without the templates I wouldn’t have been able to remember what was said in class. I think the templates made my treatment extremely effective (A standard). I have discovered that i can write to engage an audience without writing in a story style. The trick i have learnt is to use blackboard as surprisingly enough Mr Andrews puts a lot of helpful stuff on there. I have learnt how to use the Macbook word as well which is a handy little thing to have considering our whole school is Mac based. I have developed many skills which include correct formatting of treatments and SOME perspective drawing techniques. I have discovered that my creative process in which i create story's and ideas isn't ideal for assessment pieces as people might be inclined to believe that i haven't do the proper work. i didn't enjoy storyboarding at all and I'm not happy with my finished product. If i could start again, i wouldn't do a storyboard. Writing and describing the pictures in my head is no easy task and the storyboard doesn't accurately portray my idea; however, i left it more open to changes so that the group and i can easily change aspects of the story. The treatment i am completely satisfied with though. The treatment is completely A standard. the only problem with my treatment was that i set my synopsis on the same page as my key locations and character profile though this only happened due to miscommunication. I did manage my time effectively with the treatment though not with the storyboard, i ran out time to do a photo story board which meant i had to draw it and i had to combine shots as it was going to be far to long otherwise. i would only change my synopsis placing in the treatment if i was to start again. I think the treatment and story board is a worthwhile assessment though it would have been easier if we were taken through how to draw the story boards, and yes i tried the Internet.

My Storys Genre

I wrote my story as a tragedy/thriller, though after completing my storyboard and treatment, i now believe it has an amazing potential to be an effective thriller. This is because of how suspenseful my story is, even if it didn't come across in my storyboard.

Title Choice

I thought the title for my film would make the most sense if it was the name of the flower that is a large part of my story. I wanted the freedom to change the type of flower used in my story so i decied to make up a name for a flower which is why my movie is now called Dossquell.

Dialog Heard

Nurse Rose - “Hello Fiona, you gave us quite a scare, I presume you didn’t know that you were allergic to those flowers. You are perfectly fine now and when you feel ready you are welcome to leave. Sorry I’m not here to explain everything to you properly; I had to run a very important errand. Kind Regards, Nurse Rose.”   

Councilor Jane - “Fiona, you have to understand that what you have described to me, isn’t true. You really have to come to terms with that, if not, you will never get better.”

Councilor Jane - “I don’t hear any screaming, I am taking this as a good sign. Fiona, this is your dog, you have had it since you were little… Fiona he isn’t dead, you have created that memory yourself, he was never dead. The sooner you can accept these facts, the sooner you’ll improve. I’ll leave him with you for a while.”

Fiona – “Dear Fiona, you have talked to me about the memory that you hold of yourself fainting and ending up in a hospital bed after smelling a flower. This is the flower you told me you were allergic to. I asked all your doctors and they grantee that you weren’t and still aren’t allergic to any flowers. They also told me there isn’t a hospital like you described and there isn’t a single registered nurse, in Queensland, by the name of Rose. If you don’t believe me, smell the flower. You must let these memories go, they are causing you pain. Accept the truth and move on. It’s the only way out of this facility for you. From Councilor Jane”

Fiona – “If a flower I was once severely allergic to, now fails to affect me at all, perhaps I’m invincible. I have always enjoyed having wind in my face, today I have decided to learn how to fly. I only wish to offer Councilor Jane some advice; you should have locked the door to the roof.”

Synopsis

A long shot of a large, well kept building is shown; the building is then seen in closer detail. The scene changes, to the inside of the building, there is a maze of corridors travelled through before settling on the closed door of a cubicle. There is a sign on the cubicle door which reads “Fiona Meer”. Inside the cubicle, a seventeen year old girl is shown sitting on her bed blankly staring at a wall. The camera zeros in on the characters eye as the scene shifts. The back of Fiona is shown as she is sitting on the ground, over her shoulder a small mound of dirt, is seen. Sticking out from the mound is a cross made out of twigs, next to it is a picture frame with a dog in it. The character silently weeps. There is a sudden change of scene. The character is at school, she is sitting alone at lunch eating a sandwich, whilst other girls move past her without looking in her direction. The scene dissolves into the inside of a church, it seems to be empty, then at the front, near the alter, the character is seen lighting a candle and praying. The next memory seen is of Fiona picking a flower from a tree. She smells the flower and begins smile. The flower she smells is now seen through her eyes. Suddenly her vision turns blurry, the perspective is now no longer hers and she is seen swaying from side to side. Everything turns black. The scene fades from black to see Fiona lying in a hospital bed, she slowly stirs awake. There is a piece of paper laying on her, once she realizes she picks it up. As the piece of paper is shown, it is read in the voice of the person who wrote it, Nurse Rose. After reading the note left for her, Fiona sits up and moves her legs over the side of the bed. A mid shot shows her sitting on the side of the bed, her elongated sigh is heard across the room. She is sitting at her desk, in her cubicle; she shuts her eyes and tips her head back. A female voice is heard, Fiona is recalling what a presumed counselor said to her. She opens her eyes, slowly shakes her head and angrily thumps the desk. The scene changes and there is a knock on the door, someone says “Fiona, your mum thought you might like to see an old friend, shall I show him in?” Fiona stops writing and looks up; a dog runs into her room. She drops her pen; her mouth falls open and looks at it bewilderedly. It is the same dog seen in her memory, the one in the picture frame next to the grave. The counselor’s voice is heard; whilst she is speaking Fiona stares at the dog as it moves around her room. The scene fades to Fiona sitting at her desk, she is staring at a flower that’s on her diary. There is a note lying next to the flower which Fiona picks up, she scans the note repeatedly as a voice is heard reading it. After the note is read she reluctantly picks up the flower and smells it. A new scene fades in, Fiona isn’t in her room and her diary is lying open on her bed, a close up of the diary shows what is written on the pages. Fiona is heard reading what is written, soft music plays as the scene dissolves. The corridor which Fiona’s cubicle is in, is walked through, after reaching Fiona’s closed cubicle door, a hand moves into the close up and takes the sign off the door.

Key Locations

Mental Institution Setting: the outside of the building has an old-fashioned design, though it has been modernized. It is well kept, with a mown lawn and clean windows. Inside, there are several large rooms. These rooms are filled with many corridors, which seem maze like. The corridors are woven around little rooms that have doors and partitioned walls, which don’t reach the ceiling. Each individual cubicle has a bed, desk and miniature wardrobe inside. The cubicles are the patient’s bedrooms.

Key Characters

Fiona Meer is a patient at a mental institution. She is seventeen years old and is a prisoner of her own mind. Fiona is extremely introverted; she never speaks and flinches at any physical contact. She has a pale complexion and is very petite. Her hair is always left out, though it never conceals her eyes. Fiona’s face is often blank and devoid of all emotion. She has large brown eyes, which glaze over when she’s staring. The only time a trace of a smile crosses her face is when she’s writing in her diary. 

Character Profile

Characters Name: Fiona Meer
Age: 16/17
Appearance ~
Height: short/average
Skin Tone: pale
Eye Colour: brown
Hair Colour: long dark brown hair.
Distinguishing Features: thin and generally very petite
Style: no particular style, nothing noticeable, it's neither good or bad
Mannerisms: has a very blank face, has a tendency to squeeze hands together
Speech Patterns: doesn't speak out loud to anyone, only speaks in her mind
Emotional Characteristics ~
What motivates this character? Fiona isn't motivated
What frightens this character? the truth *
What makes this character happy? she never is happy, nor sad, she is always devoid of all emotion (facially)
Introvert or Extrovert: extremely introverted
What is this Character’s Goal? she doesn't have any
Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes ~
Character's short-term goals in life: she doesn’t have any goals
How does Character see himself/herself? she doesn't see herself as anything
How does Character believe he/she is perceived by others? she doesn't
How self-confident is the character? ... *
Does the character seem ruled by emotion or logic or some combination thereof? she is ruled by her memories
Does the character have any prejudices? no
Additional Notes: Fiona is, by large, a two dimensional character.

Treatment Exercise

The protagonist (played by heath ledger) is chasing a villain - his lifetime archenemies. The camera is darting back and forth between the two characters during the chase. There is a dramatic build up of music. Finally, the villain is cornered as he ran into a cathedral and couldn’t find a way out in time. The protagonist is slowly walking towards the villain, telling him that he will finally suffer for his wrong doings. The music has peaked and has now reached its climax. There is a close up of the protagonists face as he walks triumphantly towards the villain. The villain is worried, though he try’s to stay calm. He is frantically looking for a way out.

Rough Story

There will only be one character seen - her name is Fiona Meer. The other characters are only spoken of (distantly) and that's in her recollections.

Fiona is in a mental institution. The whole story is based on her memories, her 'past'.

Introduction: The opening scene is the outside of a building (the mental institution). You’re taken inside, through the corridors, to the characters room. She is sitting on the bed blankly staring off into the distance. There will be a voice-over heard, and then the camera will zoom into the characters eye - (the transition into her memories).

Rising Action: The bulk of the story is when we're in her mind - her memories. There will be 6-8 memories that are all mixed together, seeing only flashes of each. The memories are; her finding her mother dead when she was 10, being hospitalized due to an allergic reaction to a certain flower, burring her dead dog, finding god (becoming religious), bullied, had no friends, hated writing, really good drawer and her mum hated her for the poor results she got in school - always telling her how stupid she was. She can't stop relieving those moments, that's what drove her to insanity. Her past is just a blur of those different things, she can't remember any long memories, only snippets of a few shorter ones.

The Climax: this will be when she finally over comes her past, she moves on. Her memories stop troubling her; she becomes more at ease, happy and less strange. Nurses think she is close to leaving the institute.

The twist in the story will be at the end. You will find out that the memories she has been recalling and living everyday for years aren't her memories at all. She has been living someone else’s life in her head.

This was my dot point list that i have built on and added in the rough details. I slowly build up from the basic stuff in my head, as it is apart of my thought process. However, this post was added to later with more detail, just in case you were wondering where it went. I know it was stupid not to make the separate post but to tell the truth i didn't even think about that.

Lost Task

I had completed the Shanghai Noon and Alien task in class. However, I didn't put it on my blog straight away, which meant i unfortunately lost it. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Evaluation

This unit involved a lot of work. I had to think harder than I normally would have in creative media. I encountered a few problems during this unit. Firstly, I didn't understand the in depth meaning of cinematography, mise-en-scene and sound and editing. This made it harder for me when it came to the essay. Secondly, there wasn't enough time allocated for writing the essay. Thirdly, analysing films is quite boring, in my opinion, so I think the unit should be made more interesting in the future. The in class discussions did help me understand the different elements. I liked the genre recipe activity, as it made learning about various genres a lot easier. The biggest thing I have learnt through this unit is how to discuss film elements in a logical way. I didn't plan as well as I could have. My draft was very late (better late than never) so I didn't get as much feed back on it as I could have. That will something I will do differently next time. I have learnt planning is important. My essay was rushed, which means it wasn't to my normal standard. The essay writing process was tedious and boring.  I researched my directors well, which gave me an extra insight to the concepts and execution of the movies. I believe I should get an A on my essay, as the final result was quite pleasing. If I could go back and change anything, the amount of planning I did would be all. If I were to start all over again, I would most likely have a completely different essay. The proper drafting would have completely changed the direction of my essay, allowing me to produce an amazing essay. This unit involved a lot of work. I had to think harder than I normally would have in creative media. I encountered a few problems during this unit. Firstly, I didn't understand the in depth meaning of cinematography, mise-en-scene and sound and editing. This made it harder for me when it came to the essay. Secondly, there wasn't enough time allocated for writing the essay. Thirdly, analysing films is quite boring, in my opinion, so I think the unit should be made more interesting in the future. The in class discussions did help me understand the different elements. I liked the genre recipe activity, as it made learning about various genres a lot easier. The biggest thing I have learnt through this unit is how to discuss film elements in a logical way. I didn't plan as well as I could have. My draft was very late (better late than never) so I didn't get as much feed back on it as I could have. That will something I will do differently next time. I have learnt planning is important. My essay was rushed, which means it wasn't to my normal standard. The essay writing process was tedious and boring.  I researched my directors well, which gave me an extra insight to the concepts and execution of the movies. I believe I should get an A on my essay, as the final result was quite pleasing. If I could go back and change anything, the amount of planning I did would be all. If I were to start all over again, I would most likely have a completely different essay. The proper drafting would have completely changed the direction of my essay, allowing me to produce an amazing essay.

Moulin Rouge Element Analysis

Note: I haven't seen Moulin Rouge, so my answers are just based off the opening scene.

Concept: Breif description of the story. It is set in the city of Paris in 1900. It is about a writer and the women he once loved. He will start to tell his story from the beginning.

Theme: A description of the movies overarching theme.
I think it's about love and lose. How easy it is to fall in love but how much it hurts when you lose it.
What do you see?
Everything started out black and white. Dark colours are seen in the first sweep of the city, then new, brighter colours are introduced. Filth and loud party's are contrasted.
What do you hear?
The man was singing, telling his story through song. The music starts off sad, the people at the pub are heard. The second shot through the city the party is the predominant sound. The music then starts to cheer up.

What do you feel?
Overall I feel sympathetic towards the man. In the begining there is a coldness to everything. Then later in the clip you feel glad that the city isn't as miserable as it first appeared. Happy that there are some people enjoying life.
What does it make you wonder?
I want to know the full story, what could of happened to make him so sad. Who is the Sparkling Dimond.

Common Elements in Various Genres

Action-  Violence, protagonists, antagonists, pyrotechnics, suspense, car chases, guns,  
Adventure- Tasks/quests, outlaws, native people, Comedy- Humorous moments, exaggerated circumstances,  
Crime and Gangster- Drugs, illegal operations, secrets, corruption, 
Drama-  Dramatic circumstances, tragedy, miracles,
Epic Historical- Large scale battles, huge amount of death, based on a historical event,   
Horror- Mystery, surprises, shock, twists, murder, gore, isolation,   
Musical/Dance-  Music, spontaneous songs and dances,
Science Fiction- Fictional ideas and concepts, aliens, spaceships, alien languages, different planets, futuristic technology, monsters,  
War- Massive battles, death, hero, guns, violence, concentration camps,
Westerns- Cowboys, Indians, guns, show downs, western music, pretty girls, horses,   

Examples of Antagonists and Protagonists

- Spiderman & Green Goblin
- Micheal Scofield & the Company
- Robin Hood & the Sheriff 
- Batman & the Joker
- Mr Shoe & Couch 'forget her name'

The Stages of Monomyth

DEPARTURE
The Call to Adventure
The hero starts off in a mundane situation of normality from which some information is received that acts as a call to head off into the unknown.

Refusal of the Call
Often when the call is given, the future hero refuses to heed it. This may be from a sense of duty or obligation, fear, insecurity, a sense of inadequacy, or any of a range of reasons that work to hold the person in his or her current circumstances.

Supernatural Aid
Once the hero has committed to the quest, consciously or unconsciously, his or her guide and magical helper appears, or becomes known. More often than not, this supernatural mentor will present the hero with one or more talismans or artifacts that will aid them later in their quest.

The Crossing of the First Threshold
This is the point where the person actually crosses into the field of adventure, leaving the known limits of his or her world and venturing into an unknown and dangerous realm where the rules and limits are not known.

Belly of The Whale
The belly of the whale represents the final separation from the hero's known world and self. By entering this stage, the person shows willingness to undergo a metamorphosis.

INITIATION
The Road of Trials
The road of trails is as series of tests, tasks, or ordeals that the person must undergo to begin the transformation. Often the person fails one or more of these tests, which often occur in threes.

The Meeting With the Goddess INITIATION
This is the point when the person experiences a love that has the power and significance of the all-powerful, all encompassing, unconditional love that a fortunate infant may experience with his or her mother. This is a very important step in the process and is often represented by the person finding the other person that he or she loves most completely.
  
Woman as Temptress
This step is about those temptations that may lead the hero to abandon or stray from his or her quest, which does not necessarily have to be represented by a woman. Woman is a metaphor for the physical or material temptations of life, since the hero-knight was often tempted by lust from his spiritual journey.
 
Atonement with the Father
In this step the person must confront and be initiated by whatever holds the ultimate power in his or her life. In many myths and stories this is the father, or a father figure who has life and death power. This is the center point of the journey. All the previous steps have been moving in to this place, all that follow will move out from it. Although this step is most frequently symbolized by an encounter with a male entity, it does not have to be a male; just someone or thing with incredible power.


Apotheosis
When someone dies a physical death, or dies to the self to live in spirit, he or she moves beyond the pairs of opposites to a state of divine knowledge, love, compassion and bliss. A more mundane way of looking at this step is that it is a period of rest, peace and fulfillment before the hero begins the return.

The Ultimate Boon
The ultimate boon is the achievement of the goal of the quest. It is what the person went on the journey to get. All the previous steps serve to prepare and purify the person for this step, since in many myths the boon is something transcendent like the elixir of life itself, or a plant that supplies immortality, or the holy grail.

RETURN
Refusal of the Return
Having found bliss and enlightenment in the other world, the hero may not want to return to the ordinary world to bestow the boon onto his fellow man.

The Magic Flight
Sometimes the hero must escape with the boon, if it is something that the gods have been jealously guarding. It can be just as adventurous and dangerous returning from the journey as it was to go on it.

Rescue from Without
Just as the hero may need guides and assistants to set out on the quest, oftentimes he or she must have powerful guides and rescuers to bring them back to everyday life, especially if the person has been wounded or weakened by the experience.

The Crossing of the Return Threshold
The trick in returning is to retain the wisdom gained on the quest, to integrate that wisdom into a human life, and then maybe figure out how to share the wisdom with the rest of the world. This is usually extremely difficult.

Freedom to Live
Mastery leads to freedom from the fear of death, which in turn is the freedom to live. This is sometimes referred to as living in the moment, neither anticipating the future nor regretting the past.

Mise-en-scene and Cinematography Exercise

My group consisted of Rebecca and Jamie.
Our chosen genre was horror.
The story is as follows:
It's the first day of school and Mia is unable to find Kate (her best friend).  Mia looks everywhere for her,  with no success, Kate can't be found. Strangely no one is around to ask, the school is deserted even though it's 9am. Mia is sick of carrying around her bag, so she goes to put it away before resuming the search for Kate. The locker room is really dark, the lights haven't been turned on yet. It hard to see inside, so Mia carefully walks in. Mia is half way down the corridor when she spots a leg sticking out form the shadow. Immediately she knows its Kate. She approaches carefully. Kate is lying on the ground unconscious. Mia leans over her to check her pulse, when doing so, she hears a deep breathing sound. Mia knows the killer is behind her, to save them the statifactipon of a scared face, she bravely turns around to seal her fate.
The pictures we took don't depict every aspect of the story but you get the basic idea.
In terms of editing we just used basic functions of adjusting the exposure and the brightness/contrast to create a darker and more eerie effect.

Epic Genre Research

Epic movies have heroic exploits, that are mingled with adventures from myth and legend. Epics have a great length, expanding to 3 hours or more.
"Epics often take an historical or imagined event, mythic, legendary, or heroic figure, and add an extravagant setting and lavish costumes, accompanied by grandeur and spectacle and a sweeping musical score. 

Epics, costume dramas, historical dramas, war film epics, medieval romps, or 'period pictures' are tales that often cover a large expanse of time set against a vast, panoramic backdrop. In an episodic manner, they follow the continuing adventures of the hero(s), who are presented in the context of great historical events of the past.

Epics are historical films that recreate past events. They are expensive and lavish to produce, because they require elaborate and panoramic settings, on-location filming, authentic period costumes, inflated action on a massive scale and large casts of characters. 

As epics often rewrite history, accuracy is sometimes sacrificed: the chronology is telescoped or modified, and the political/historical forces take a back seat to the personalization and ideological slant of the story."

Epic Films, http://www.filmsite.org/epicsfilms.html (22.2.10)

First Analytical Task - The Aviator

This film is called The Aviator and belongs in the historical genre. It is about Howard Hughes and how he achieves breaking the speed record. The Mise-en-scene in this scene was well done. This film is a good example of its genre as it is historically accurate and uses effective Mise-en-scene.

It’s set in mid day/afternoon, which creates the lighting that’s necessary to suit the mood and story line. The environment is isolated and barren; this allows the small group of characters to look more important as they are the only ones there. The main characters advisor is nervous and a bit worried, though Howard Hughes shrugs off his worries and is really joyous. The acting is very good and Leonardo does a great job. Howard is depicted as he is meant to be, and the group of spectators look excited/amazed when they’re meant to. The stopwatches are important to this scene; they’re in numerous shots. The main character comes across as cocky and just jumps in the plane without any protective gear, this is another example of Leonardo’s good acting.

I have done this whole thing incorrectly. It is sadly that wrong, it can't be fixed. Since doing this, i have learnt how to do it properly. I will now tell you the many things wrong about this piece of writing. 

- The introduction does not outline what I'm going to be talking about.
- I didn't make define points, it's all just different thoughts stuck together.
- I am lacking two more body paragraphs and a conclusion.

- It was impossible to write a conclusion as i didn't have any points.

- I did not cover what i needed to when talking about Mis-en-scene. 

- It doesn't even read well. It's just stop and start.
Well they were just some of the things wrong with it.

Editing Analysis

We just watched the trailers of Star Wars and Star Wars episode three in creative media. The first trailer was boring and fake due to the poorly executed cinematography. I understand that it was made along time ago but the monotone narrator wasn't necessary. It just made the trailer incredibly slow moving and dull. Kiss scenes are meant to be dramatic, however, even this was pathetically done in the first trailer. The music didn't change and had no climax.

However, the second trailer we watched was a lot more advanced in every aspect. The music built up in certain parts, adding a dramic effect to the scenes. Also all the characters were speaking and telling the story instead of the narrator mumbling everything. The cinematography was well exictuted, and amazing for it time. Over all the graphics were better in the third episode trailer. The edits in the second trailer made it look more professional and complete. The story was told in a interesting way and made you want to watch it.

Genre Recipe - My Story

*My genre recipe isn't set out in the way Mr Andrews is, mine is more of a story.*

There’s a normal suburban house, in a very ordinary neighborhood. In the beginning a camera walks through a house, in to the basement and through the floor. Introduced, at the start, is a huge network of under ground tunnels connecting to all the houses. This is not the sewage network but one completely different, this was intentionally made.
At night underneath a bridge, a group of cloaked people meet. On the bridge is a creepy kid about fifteen. This kid knows about ‘the cloaked’ which is what everyone from this district calls them. They are not the average folk, they a mysterious group filled with escaped mental patients, murders and led by a psychopath. No one but this boy knows what they’re really about. This movie follows the story of this young boy; he is made out to be the hero.
The boy witnesses numerous gruesome deaths of the town’s people. The town’s people live in constant fear that they are next. The ‘cloaked’ only operate at night though during the day they fit in to normal society, they have jobs, friends and families. This is what makes them so scary, no one knows who is a ‘cloaked’.
People are always collected from their houses and taken underground, where they’re never seen again. Everyone in the town hears their screams (as sound carries throughout the tunnel). When they come for you, the footsteps are heard, there is no hiding. One day the father of the boy goes through the tunnel connecting to his house (which he has known about for ages, ever since his son discovered it) the man finds a massive freezer underground his house. He had asked his closest friends (that he knew weren’t ‘cloaked’) if they had found huge freezers underneath their houses. Half of them didn’t even know where their houses connections to the tunnels were, let alone what was in their tunnel. There weren’t many in the town that had located their houses connection (every house in the town had one).
Every murder that is seen is through the boys eyes. The victims are pulled apart, in a way to suggest that there parts are being used.
The last seen of the movie is of the boy standing in the freezer admiring the collection of body parts of the towns folk, he is the ‘cloaks’ psychopathic leader.

Copy Righted by Miranda Amey

List of Ingredients

The ingredients i used are purple.
Characters: teenagers, murderers, police, victims, family/relatives, weird/spooky kids, hero, trader, klutz.

Desperation:
Isolation: no network, going crazy

Weapon/device: poison, barbwire, massive knife, claws, gas, fists, needle, axe, saw, cross bow, torture chamber, shared of glass.

Setting/locations: raining, night, deserted hotel, mansion, middle of nowhere, boat, crop field, dark ally way, secret room, graveyard and castle.

Enemies/villains- all round bad stuff: monster, rapist, escaped mental patient, supernatural, infected creatures, psycho, stalker.