Horror film!

21/01/2011

On friday everyone was in this time, last week jessica and aaliyah wasnt present, but they were this Friday. Don was with us again, though Phil wasnt there this time, at the start of the lesson we went over how our horror film was meant to go, and we also started to play around with the camera a little. Mr.Le Marechal tought us different movements with the cameras we used. The first movement i learnt was 'Panning' this movement is when you are standing still and you want to move your camera up, down, left or right.
  This Cam-stabiliser is best for panning and tracking.

Tracking is when you move around the scene with the camera while filming and you are still able to keep to camera stable. Don said to us the easiest way for us to remember is if you think of train tracks, because we are walking like we are on a track because you can go straight forward, sidewards, and diagonally.

  During our 5 hour lesson, we also learnt how to use a tripod (legs), we had to learn how to put it up properly and make sure that it was balanced and the way we found out how to do that was at the side of the tripod there was a little green thing with a bubble in it and if the bubble was in the middle of the the green circle then we knew it was evened out. We learnt how to put the camera onto a tripod also, and we had a competition to see who could put the tripod up and get the camera it the quickest and safest, me and Shanell worked together and we beat Naomi and Jessica by far.

   Mr.Le Mareshal also taught us how to use the Directional video condenser microphone, and how to place it onto the camera. He explained to me and my fellow peers that this particular microphone can only sense sound from where the microphone is directly pointing at. Also when you have the microphone plugged in you have to plug in the earphones, so that you can make sure at all times when the film is commencing that the sounds are actually getting picked up.

these are our locations that we found when we went around our school to find good spots to shoot the scenes.

Locations:

• Cupboard (in hall or classroom) Room 306 (Maths cupboard)
• Classrooms x 2

(a)   detention room 401/402

(b)   empty room room 309

• Corridors- science floor
• Staffroom – room 215
• Dead end
• Balcony (outside Head’s office)

 This was our original Cast list for our short production:

Character name	Character traits	Year	Played by
Courtney White	Good Girl	2011	Shenell Poorman
Tammy	Bad bully	2011	Naomi Mwakamowo
Dawn	Funny bully	2011	Jessica Lily Ellis
Kimberley	Believer bully	2011	Deme Bekir
Teacher	Ms Graham	2011	Actor
Teacher as child	Bella Graham	1991	Shyanne Watson
Cynthia Walters	Murder victim (unseen)	1971
Caroline Warren	ditto	1991	Aaliyah Bell

This all got changed around as Shanell didn't want to have to the main part anymore, and Aaliyah and Jessica didn't want to have boring parts... I said I'd be Courtney and she could have my part, and she agreed, then Aaliyah wanted to also play the role of Courtney, so Don decided with Mrs.Williams that we should have tryouts so we did. We both had to pretend that we was locked in a cupboard and make it believable, I didn't get the part though. Even though i didn't get the part of Courtney, i had a streak of luck as Naomi didn't want to be the Baddest Bully anymore, so she said i could have her part. Basically in the end everyone changed their role apart from Shyanne as she still wanted to be the younger teacher, and now this is the up to date Cast list:

Character name	Character traits	Year	Played by
Courtney White	Good Girl	2011	Aaliyah Bell
Tammy	Bad bully	2011	Deme Bekir
Dawn	Funny bully	2011	Shenell Poorman
Kimberley	Believer bully	2011	Jessica Lily Ellis
Teacher	Ms Graham	2011	Actor
Teacher as child	Bella Graham	1991	Shyanne Watson
Cynthia Walters	Murder victim (unseen)	1971
Caroline Warren	ditto	1991	Naomi Mwakamowo