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Evaluation
The opening scene is essential to all films as this is what brings the audience in and one of the most important parts of any film. With any opening scene you can’t give too much away but still keep the audience intrigued. Myself and my partner Sedat worked together to pitch this idea and create it.
The forms and conventions that contained in our opening scene were not obvious or literal. They were how teachers are portrayed to be trusted and harmless in our society and how danger can be any where; even the one place where parents believe to be extremely safe, a school.
The genre Alone is due to be based on horror this is because it has similar structural elements to a modern horror film such as ‘Stranger’ they both have the characteristics of horror. Films that have the same genre have distinctive characteristics or conventions. The form of our opening scene also included action which comes natural to some horror films. After our critic lesson with my class we established our video was lacking in suspense. We took this back and reworked it and improved the sequence. The elements of horror that were included in our film were a designated school with empty corridors.
To start with our video was revealing to much of the film so me and my partner Sedat studied a few opening scenes and deleted chucks out of our sequence to mystify the audience and not give so much away.
Our opening sequence is based in the modern times; we slightly made the sequence darker as the natural lighting was too light.
Our organisation of actors was fairly smooth but could have been a lot better. The making all went to plan, such as all the permission that were needed was sorted and actors were on time and at the right place, this was all down to organisation. But at one point, we had to reshoot one of the shoots and the teacher we used in the previous scene was not available but fortunately, we got him at the end.
Our chosen location was Bexleyheath School and Goals car park the location seemed quite easy to get permission for that was one of the points why we choose it. But it actually became a bit of a hazel as we had to ask 6 or 7 senior staffs. Then finally the site manager gave us permission alongside Goals were happy to let us shoot on their property. Due to our opening scene being based on a horror, genre we needed our school to be completely empty so we waited till after school so we were alone.
Costumes/ Props- We wanted to show the audience that the students that are targets were in sixth form, so we went for the casual look but for the teacher we wanted him to look like the average teacher so we told him to wear what he’d normally wear. Some of the other props that were included in the film were a white board, car, desks, and chairs also a marker and pictures of the victims.
Shotlists - At the start we used a stabling shot for the audience to engage with the charters and to create an image around the surroundings. A lot of our opening was kept at a midshot angle; we also used an angle called tilt up which proved to work well. They angles that were used towards the teacher were also tilting up giving him the power and control. One of the films that our opening scene was inspired by was ‘The Blair Which project’ as there whole film is using the free hand method we tried to apply this skill to some of our work which work well as it gave the sequence a bit more suspense.
The layout was arranged well I believe as everything was in order to shoot. The layout we used was so the student can run to his car and the school to be still in the frame. Also as the student runs from the class so we needed to be close to a door so we got the end class room of the corridor.
We created a storyboard showing each scene step by step. We drew this up briefly and the explained each scene by scripting it. When we done our sequence first it was slightly confusing to what, was happening and everything was happening to fast we then slowed it down by taking bits out and making previous scenes last longer. It then became a lot easier to understand the storey line.
Our time was used well at the beginning as we were the first group to go and shoot, which allowed us more time to edit our film. After our critical session me and Sedat were told by the rest of the class there was not enough suspense in our sequence and needed a bit more excitement also we found out we were giving too much, of the storyline away. So due to us filming earlier we were able to correct it. We used our time well to edit as we had the time to put things in and take them out.
Overall I have enjoyed doing this production and have learnt loads from it. It took a lot of dedication to have the sequence completed. I have also enjoyed working with my partner Sedat as we dealt with every problem together furthermore I have worked closely with my teachers and took on board everything they’ve said. The software I have learnt to use were I movie which I‘ve never used before
I have also provided my continuity sequence which I also done with Sedat

What is MARXISM?


Marxism is a political and economic philosophy emphasizing the importance of class struggle in society. It is based on the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels from the middle of the 19th century, and is often described as a form of Socialism. Marxism calls for society’s inevitable progression from capitalist oppression to a socialist, classless society through a worker’s strike.

Marxism was the foundation for many political ideologies which followed, including Communism, Nazism, Stalinism and Maoism. Many political leaders of the 20th century, including Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler, were followers of the teachings of Marx and Engels. The teachings of Marxism would ultimately help to mold many important global events of the 20th century, including both World Wars. Marxism was first attempted to be instilled into a national consciousness by the October Revolution of Vladimir Lenin in 1917.

Potted history
Rough Trade Records was started in 1978. It came out of the Rough Trade shop that was started in 1976 in West London by Geoff Travis. It was the time of the punk and reggae explosion in London and the shop was very popular with bands that wanted to put records out. Geoff thought he might as well put them out himself, so in 1978 he put out a single by a French band called Metal Urbain and then it just blossomed from there. Then, in the early 80s, Geoff found The Smiths. Before that, Rough Trade was seen as a kind of cult post-punk label, but when Geoff signed The Smiths it became a lot more mainstream and The Smiths became one of the biggest independent bands ever. And that carried on into the mid-80s when Geoff started Rough Trade Distribution which, to cut a long story short, was quite badly managed. Towards the end of the 80s, it went under and brought down Rough Trade Records with it. Geoff continued to put records out under different names like Trade 2 and Rough Trade Recordings, with the same ethics. Then, in the mid-90s, he re-acquired the name and here we are again riding the crest of a wave.

The music I have provided below is our final choice. The piece of music was found on the link provided; you can access the site by clicking the song title. We have also looked at all the songs on this site and believe we have found the best one to fit our opening scene.

blood vice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epS3M3PpH4c

Danse Macabre - Low Strings Finale

By clicking the song title it will automatically link you to the song on YouTube it wasn’t our first choice of music but we may edit it and insert a slight bit to the opening scene of the film. I will also be adding on my blog some more music we considered to put in.

Props

We choose to go for the casual look in our opening scene. You can quite easily see the students are not part of the secondary school but at sixth form, from what they are wearing. The teacher we used is called MR Wilson and we asked him to wear, what an average teacher would wear on a day to day basis. A problem rose at one point when one of the students had changed what they were wearing in the previous scene so we had to carefully edit the film and make sure that the person’s clothes weren’t revealed to the camera. Here are some more props that were needed in our opening sequence


• Desks
• Chairs
• White board
• Pictures of students
• Car
• Red marker pen

We have also decided we want to include a car in the film.

We need a car for the student to escape from the school.

I believe this will work well as we have a car park right next to our chosen location which is Bexleyheath School.

‘Blair which project’ uses free hand camera angle and is to a certain extent a skilful technique; I have watched the film and I am eager to relate this camera method to the starting of our film. The disadvantage of this skill is it’s hard for the audience to focus on the character. But the advantage is that the audience feels they are alongside the events and feel they are involved in the film.

SHOTS





< Here is one of the locations where our film will be taking place. The following picture is of a classroom and students will be in a Health and Social class and a teacher schooling them as any other normal class.
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Here are the students that are going to be victims of the teacher. One of the students has a red cross on it, this indicating this will be his next victim. By doing so the potential student sees himself on the hit list and runs. The student sees this by doing some coursework after school and walking past his classroom, on his way he finds blood outside.




This is the door of the teacher’s classroom that attracts the student’s eye and invites him to walk in. Outside this class room there is a drop of blood which influences the student to stop and check what’s going on in the classroom. We had to ask permission to record outside the classroom and get the whole room cleared.












This is the lonely corridor the film was shoot in. Again we had to get permission and clear the corridor, free of people walking around. We choose this particular corridor as it’s the closest to the main school gate for the student to escape and as you can see in the picture there is a huge window and the sky looks gloomy and mysterious; so it was easier for us to set a scene and, an atmosphere.








Here is the classroom the Health and Social lesson is going to take place. It was crucial for us to make the lesson look as natural as any other; which we were successful in doing so. For our production we wanted this certain classroom for a number of reasons. One of them being it was near the exits secondly the lighting was strongest outside that classroom.

This is Arjinder Mann she will be playing the role of a student from the Health and Social class; her aim will be to look casual so the film will look relistic.









This is Leon Wu, again this is anouther one, of the teachers students. The costumes that are worn have been delibretely been chossen so the audience are aware that the students are in Sixthform.






Anouther one of the students called Dominc, we didn’t need a great deal of students as some classes in Sixthform can be as small as 2 students.











Here is Sedat one of the main characters in the film. Sedat is playing the student that is going to be facing the nightmare. We don’t give it away who, the main character is until a few secounds after the audience become aware who the film is all about.