Oscar's interview

We struggled a bit finding someone to play our captor in our film. We had already decided that we wanted Frankie as our victim, as we knew it was a role she was fully suited for. However, we could not find someone who provided the intimidating air needed for our captor.  We knew that we wanted them to be tall, and have confidence when acting. We posted it around and my friend Oscar replied and when we asked him for an interview explaining what he had been in, he sent us this.   

 

After further questioning we found out he had played the bad or mean characters in these productions, with this information we decided he would be a good person for the part. There was a slight worry by the fact he went to boarding school as it would make filming hard, however luckily over half term he was free to film so we managed to get him to be in our film.

Script 4

Script Draft 4

Music comes in.

She comes running through the woods

She stops and goes into the bushes and hides. 

Chaser comes running through the woods stops turns and sees her.

Then he goes towards her and captures her.

She screams.

Close up of her in shock.

Blackout

Fade In

Close up on Person A’s eyes opening.

Close up of Person A tied up.

Chaser enters slowly, has a knife. Long shot.

Chaser puts knife to neck of person tied up.

Put’s knife in pocket and takes phone out of pocket.

Looks at phone sends a text then tightens the rope around her hands.

As he sends a text she takes the knife out of his pocket.

Walks out not realizing knife has been taken out his pocket.

Close Up- Person A has knife hidden between her legs and takes it out when he leaves.

Person A is out of rope. Medium shot.

She then runs out.

Chaser comes in realizes she is gone and shouts “shit”.

Long shot of her running through an alley.

Long shot of him walking out at the end of the alley.

Guard comes out alley with knife in his hand.

Person A turns around slowly. Close up

Guard starts walking towards her.

Person A starts to run off.

Close up on Person A. Obviously conflicted. 

script draft 2

Main Task Script - (DRAFT TWO)

MAIN TASK SCRIPT - (DRAFT TWO)

Fade In

Close up on Person A’s eyes opening.

Slow motion of phone being dropped. 

Close up of Person A tied up.

Guard enters slowly, has a knife. Long shot.

Put’s knife down and picks up the phone. 

Pick’s up phone and laughs then tightens the ropes tying the hands together.

Walks out leaving knife on the floor.

Close Up- Person A spots the knife and picks it up then breaks rope.

Person A is out of rope. Medium shot.

Guard enters to get knife. Medium shot.

Victim pretend to still be tied up. Two- shot.

Person A punches Guard.  Medium shot.

She stand up and run out the garage. – Medium/long shot.

“STOP” – Guard yells.  Close up.

Person A turns around slowly. Close up

Guard is pointing a gun at Person A. Long shot

“Come back or I shoot”. Medium shot

Close up on Person A. Obviously conflicted. 

Blackout

Script draft 3

Main Task Script - (DRAFT THREE)

MAIN TASK SCRIPT - (DRAFT THREE)

Music comes in.

She comes running through the woods

She stops and goes into the bushes and hides. 

Chaser comes running through the woods stops turns and sees her.

Then he goes towards her and captures her.

Close up of her in shock.

Blackout

Fade In

Close up on Person A’s eyes opening.

Close up of Person A tied up.

Chaser enters slowly, has a knife. Long shot.

Chaser puts knife to neck of person tied up.

Put’s knife in pocket and takes phone out of pocket.

Looks at phone sends a text then tightens the rope around her hands.

As he sends a text she takes the knife out of his pocket.

Walks out not realizing knife has been taken out his pocket.

Close Up- Person A has knife hidden between her legs and takes it out when he leaves.

Person A is out of rope. Medium shot.

She then runs out.

Chaser comes in realizes she is gone and panicks.

Long shot of her running through an alley.

Long shot of him walking out at the end of the alley.

“STOP” – Guard yells.  Close up.

Person A turns around slowly. Close up

Guard is pointing a gun at her. Long shot

“Come back or I shoot”. Medium shot

Close up on Person A. Obviously conflicted. 

Blackout

script draft 5

Script Main Task draft 5

Script – Main Task

1^st music track comes in.

She starts running.

Name “Frankie Reffell” comes in.

Another shot of her running then turns and goes hiding in the bushes.

Eye level shot of her making a phone call

She starts to look around panicky whilst phone is calling.

“Please help me! Help me!”

2^nd music track comes in.

Shot of him walking past searching.

Name “Oscar Perriman” comes in.

He turns his head spots her and runs towards her.

(She screams)

Title “Redemption” comes in.

Blackout

3^rd music track comes in.

Close up (on her eyes)

High angle shot of her in the chair trying to escape.

Name “Beckie Donaldson – Directed By” comes in.

Close side angle shot of her hands, trying to escape out of the tape.

Name “Elliot Laville – Edited By” comes in.

Back to a high angle shot 

She almost escapes but he comes in.

Close up (on her hands)

He ties her hands with tape.

Name “Marcus Mahne – Cinematography” comes in.

Jump shot – he brings knife up to her neck.

He has phone out and is typing.

Two shot

She goes to take the knife out of his pocket.

Point of view shot - Him sending a text.

She takes the knife and hides it between her legs.

He puts the phone in his pocket and walks off.

Close up – Brings knife up and cuts the tape around her wrists.

Close up – She unties her ankles and runs off.

He comes in and notices she’s gone.

“Shit!”

He runs off.

Jump cut – She runs down the alley.

Wide angle – He comes out the end of the alley.

He starts to walk towards her.

She turns and starts to run off.

Blackout

Question 6

Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

When starting to film our main task, I did not know much about filming or editing, my only previous experience being with the preliminary task. We had some with filming and editing which taught us a lot about softwares that we wouldn't normally use.

With the filming, we learned that keeping that planning is extremely important, and keeping the camera steady is a lot more important to the final product that you think. When we first filmed, a lot of our shots were shaky, so when we put them together it just looked messy and unprofessional. On top of this, we didn't get all the shots we needed, there were too many messy zooms which made it look like a home video rather than the more executed feel that we wanted, and there were little mistakes throughout our piece (such as the actors looking directly at the camera too often) that we needed to change. We ended up re-filming, but we planned out in detail beforehand, so we knew what shots we needed to have and what things to look out for. 

 In the last scene of our film, the kidnapper is seen to be wearing a shoulder bag which has not been present in any other scenes. We needed to remove the bag from the scene, but could not re-film again it as Oscar who played the kidnapper, had to go back to boarding school and was no longer available. 

        

So we had to experiment with different ways of editing. At first we tried covering the back through effects, by making the video really grainy, however this didn't match with the rest of our film and we decided against it. Later we found out you could Photoshop videos, so we spent three hours going frame by frame and editing the bag out. Unfortunately we couldn't find a way to upload the photoshopped video onto Final Cut Pro, which was the editing software we were using at the time. Despite seeking advice from multiple sources we just were unable to find a way, so had to leave the bag in. 

Through that we learned how to use Photoshop and Final Cut Pro for editing, however for next year we should make sure we find out if it's possible to put Photoshopped videos into Final Cut Pro as we could use it without wasting time. 

Question 5

Question 5 from MahneMedia

Question 4

Question 4

Evaluation question 4 from ElliotLaville23

Question 3

Question 3 

                                              

Question 2

Question 2 

What rating would you give our film out of 10?	What did you like about our film?	What didn’t you like about our film?
8/10	“It was interesting and I liked the plot twist!”	“N/A”
7/10	“Plot twist! The music went well with the action”	“The cuts could have been sharper”
8/10	“I thought it was accurate to its genre, and good camera shots”	“He would have felt her getting the knife out”
8/10	“I liked it a lot”	“N/A”
6/10	“The acting was good, the villain seemed scary”	“It didn’t vary in pace enough”
8/10	“The music created a good atmosphere for the movie”	“The bag”
7/10	“I thought plot was good”	“I didn’t like the effects at the end”