Media blog- Shrek deconstruction

This is a deconstruction of Shrek, the first one. Here the villagers plan to capture shrek because the King of Dulop wants all the Fairy Tale creatures captured and evicted from Dulop.

The first scene is of Shrek calmly eating his dinner not knowing what is about to happen.

The second scene is of the villagers getting ready to find Shrek and capture him.

The third scene is of Shrek noticing the villagers with pitch forks and torches, so he plans to sneak up on them.

The fourth scene is of the villagers getting ready to go into Shreks house.

The fifth scene is of Shrek sneaking up behind the villagers and telling them how horrifying ogres can be.

The sixth scene is of Shrek screaming at the villagers to scare them

The seventh scene is of the villagers screaming in terror from Shrek

The eighth scene is of the villagers running away

And the final scene is of Shrek picking up a sign showing a reward to people who bring the Fairy Tale Creatures to Lord Farquad so they can evict them.

Nineteenth blog- Title font and style- Evaluation

For our titles, we show the actors names at the beginning of the first scene, also show the titles of Director, Producer, Co-producer, Editor and Cameramen and then we show the name of the Film Opening 'Jeraha Kumbukumbu'

We used a basic font so that the titles are easy to read, it was done in a white colour so it's again easy to read over the dark-ish background.

We put all the titles at the beginning if the opening because we felt we should get it shown before all the action took place.

Media blog- After film opening questionnaire

After film questionnaire

1. Did you enjoy the film opening?

2. What would you like to see more of?

3. Was there enough action?

4. Were the actors decent?

5. How was the camera work?

6. Overall what would you rate this film out of ten?

Media blog- New script

Script

Script – Film Opening

Cast
Jennifer - Caitlin Douglas
Whitney – Grayce Collis
Chad – Ricky Roy
Cindy – Becca Cronin
Barry – Marcus Papworth
Murderer – Tom Suchoruckza

SCENE 1
Chad is running away from something through a forest. Mysterious figure follows him.
Chad trips over branch, get leg caught under heavy log turns round to see a dark figure.

Chad: Argh my leg
Dark Figure lunges at Chad with a spade
Chad: No, no, no!
The sound of the snapping of Chad’s arm, it is sliced off.

SCENE 2
Barry is walking through the woods shouting for Chad.

Barry: Oi Chad mate where are ya?
Barry continues to search
Barry: Chad? Come on it ain’t funny now. Chad?
Barry finds Chad’s scarf hanging from a tree. Barry looks scared
Barry: Chad!
Puts hands to face
Barry: Oh. Chad?
Finds arm under a bush
Barry: Oh Shit, oh, oh my god
Murderer comes toward Barry
Barry: Oh, no, no please don’t. No!
Barry: Leave me alone, please don’t hurt me!
Murderer: NO!
Murderer hits Barry in the chest with an axe; Barry falls into the river with a splash
Murderer stands there with bloody axe, then walk off

SCENE 3
Cindy, Whitney and Jennifer are walking along the little bridge
They see a figure coming towards them

Jennifer: I wonder where they are
Whitney: I’m cold
Cindy: Chad? Look its Chad
Jennifer & Whitney: That’s not Chad
Whitney and Jennifer run away but Cindy stays
Whitney: Come on Cindy. Cindy!
Jennifer and Whitney scream
Cindy is stabbed and falls to the floor
Jennifer and Whitney are hiding behind a tree and hear police sirens
Whitney: Let’s go!
Whitney begins to run for help
Murderer chases Whitney but she falls to the floor
Jennifer stays behind the tree and watches on as Whitney is stabbed.

SCENE 4
Murderer turns to see Jennifer standing there
She starts to run
The murderer follows her
She gets to the top of a small hill and has enough time to pick up a big stick and hits the murderer

Murderer: No!
Jennifer runs and screams for help
Jennifer: HELP!

SCENE 5
Jennifer is sitting in a panicky state
She hears the screams of her friends in her head

(Barry): Leave me alone, please don’t hurt me!
(Chad): No!
(Whitney) screams
(Jennifer): Help!
(Barry): Chad!
(Cindy): Chad!
(Whitney): Cindy no!
(Barry): No!! (Splash)

Media blog- Opening scenes from Creep

This is the first scene from Creep, here the main character (Kate) is in a London underground, she is waiting for the last train but falls asleep and misses it.

When she wakes up, she manages to catch another train running through the night. The train suddenly stops and she is confused as to why.

She goes looking for the driver but his door is locked, she peers through the peep hole in the door but cannot see that the driver has been killed. The lights then go off on the train and she sees a flashing light at the bottom of the carriage.

The lights then turn on and she finds Guy, whom she had met at a party earlier that evening, he feels they have a connection but Kate doesn't want anything to do with him. Guy then attacks Kate but suddenly Guy is dragged off the train and onto the rails underneath it.

Guy is then shown clambering up to the train floor all bloody and terrified, he tells Kate to go and is then pulled under. Kate then runs to the end of the train and tries to get away, she opens the drivers door and shuts it.

Kate then sees someones feet apear at the bottom of the door so she manages to open the door to the tracks below and runs away back to one of the platforms.

Eighteenth blog- How the characters are introduced- Evaluation

This is Chad, he is shown here as running away from the murderer. He is a very energetic character and to his friends he seems quite fearless. He shows a lot of stamina when being chased by the murderer but he is so scared that he doesn't look where he is going and trips over a log, he then has his arm chopped off with a spade by the murderer

This is Barry, he is first seen looking and shouting for his friend Chad. He finds Chads scarf and gets worried. He is the type of person who is cool on the outside but self conscious on the inside. He is quite a popular person and his speech is shown to be up to date as he used words like ain't. He thinks he has found Chad but to his terror he has found his chopped off arm under a bush, he is then attacked by the murderer with an axe and falls into the river.

This is Cindy, she is first shown to the audience with Jennifer and Whitney as they are looking for Chad and Barry. She is shown to be quite gullible and a bit stupid as she thinks the murderer is Chad, while Jennifer and Whitney run away, she stays to see if it's Chad, it isn't and she is stabbed by the murderer leaving her friends watching in terror.

This is Whitney, she is first shown to the audience also with Jennifer and Cindy, she watches on as Whitney is stabbed but makes the mistake of running and catching the murderers attention, thus he follows her, she trips over a branch and is stabbed by him. She is a very sociable person but is scared quite easily and can't keep a cool head, she makes bad decisions that are costly, most importantly, the last one she made by running away from the murderer.

This is the murderer, he doesn't have a name because it isn't important. He is first shown to the audience chasing Chad. His prime purpose is to get to Jennifer as he is an obsessive man from her past. He will do anything to get to her, and so he kills her friends one by one to get to her. In the second last scene, he chases Jennifer but is struck by a big stick and caught by the police. What the audience doesn't know is that he had escaped from jail and was coming to get revenge on Jennifer.

This the main character Jennifer, she is first shown walking with Whitney and Cindy, she runs off with Whitney while Cindy waits from the murderer, but she doesn't know it is the murderer, she watches Cindy and Whitney die. She is a very calm person and is responsible, she is a quick thinker and is close to all her friends so when they die, she can't stop thinking about the day they got killed because of her, she keeps reminiscing those moments in her head since the day it happened.

Seventeenth blog- Genre and how the opening suggests it- Evaluation

The genre for our film opening is horror this is shown by;

There is tension in the opening, it shows us that the audience don't know what is going to happen to the characters and they don't know that there is a murderer that is going to kill them. Each murder is quite brutal and the audience know that each character are going to suffer a painful death.

The setting shows an eerie place and it is fairly obvious that the characters will run into some trouble. So when we first see Chad, he is running from a mysterious figure and it is clear that something bad will happen to him. Each death leads to the other, Barry goes looking for Chad, he finds his arm and is then face to face with the murderer, he is then stabbed and falls into the river.

Cindy, Whitney and Jennifer go looking for both Chad and Barry, a dark figure walks towards them, Cindy thinks is it Chad but Whitney and Jennifer see that it isn't him and run, the encourage Cindy to run but it is too late and the murderer kills her too,there is a noise of police sirens in the background, this suggests a safe escape for Jennifer and Whitney but the murderer then goes after Whitney as she ran out of the bushes to get away whilst Jennifer stayed where she was. Whitney runs and falls over, the murderer then stabs her and then he then turns round to see Jennifer and goes towards her.

As Jennifer runs, we see the dead bodies of Cindy and Whitney, she knows that she might get killed so she only has one option, to somehow slow down the murderer, she runs to the top of a small hill, she has just enough time to pick up a big stick and hit him with it, she then runs off into the distance shouting for help.

The final scene is of Jennifer sitting in a a school, she is remembering the nightmare of murders she had, she sits there is a panicky state while she hears all of her friends being killed, this keeps replaying in her head. As she sits there, she doesn't know that the murderer is back and is coming for her...

This leaves the audience wondering what will happen to Jennifer and they don't know at the time that the murderer will come back to seek vengeance on her.

Sixthteenth blog- Story and how the opening sets it up- Evaluation

The story of our film is;

The main character's (Jennifer) friends are brutally killed by a mad man, she manages to escape from him but a few months later the murderer returns to seek vengeance on Jennifer. The film opens with Chad running away from the murderer, he trips over a fallen branch and gets his arm cut off by the murderers spade. Barry goes looking for Chad, he finds his scarf hanging on a tree branch, he then finds Chads hacked off arm under a bush, while he is in a state of shock, the murderer appears from behind a bush and stabs Barry with an axe, thus Barry falls into the river. Cindy, Whitney and Jennifer and wandering around looking for both Barry and Chad, they see a figure coming towards them, Jennifer and Whitney realise that the figure isn't Chad but Cindy stays to greet who she thinks is Chad. The figure appears to be the murderer and Cindy is stabbed. The murderer then follows Whitney and Jennifer, Jennifer hides behind a tree whilst Whitney runs, the murderer follows her and she trips over a hole in the ground, she is then stabbed by the murderer. He then turns round to chase Jennifer, she runs up a small slope and has enough time to grab a big stick so that when the murderer managed to get up there, she could hit him with it and run for safety

Fithteenth blog- Camerawork and Editing- Evaluation

For our camerawork, we both filmed certain parts and also we had help from another one of the characters because we were both in the scene. I feel we can both do well in the camera work and can shoot quite good angles. For the editing, Grace does all of it as she is faster and better at using the Adobe Premier Elements. She had to edit the first scene allot as it had many shots of Chad running and we used match on action so we could see the front and back of him, she also put shots of the murderer in there so we knew who Chad was running away from. While Grace edits, I help write the new script and do some of the evaluation. Because Grace edited our preliminary task, we felt it was best if she did the main one too as she knows what she is doing and can get it done quite fast. We both have input to what scenes should go where and what looks best and sometimes I can help her when to cut pieces out and leave pieces in but she has the majority decision which I'm okay with.

Fourteenth blog- Setting/Location- Evaluation

We filmed our film opening at the Nature Reserve in Whittlesey. We used this because it is in a wooded area and it has an eerie setting. It was close to our original setting so the arrangements to film didn't change much. It was a little bit difficult to film because there was noises in the background that we didnt want, there was a train track nearby and trains came past every 20 minutes or so, this made it difficult to know when to film and try and cut the sound out. We used various locations in the Nature Reserve because we needed it to look like all the characters were comming from a different place and had to be killed in a different place.

Thirteenth blog-Costumes and Props- Evaluation

All the costumes and props we uses were things we had at home. The costumes were just old clothes and ordinary footwear;

Jennifer wore a hoodie, jeans and flat shoes.
Whitney wore a t-shirt, jeans and welly boots.
Cindy wore t-shirts, a skirt with leggings and an open hoddie.
Chad wore a black hoodie, jeans and flat shoes.
Barry wore a grey hoodie, jeans and flat shoes also.
The Murderer wore dark jeans, dark shoes and a black hoodie with the hood up to hide his face.

We used old clothes so that we could cover them in 'blood' and the clothes wouldn't be needed again. Also we didnt need a strict costume for each character as they were just playing normal teenagers so it was pretty easy.

Twelfth blog- Movie title- Evaluation

For our movie opening we have decided to name it 'Jeraha Kumbukumbu' which is Swahili for 'Deadly Memories'. We didn't want to spend too long on coming up with a name so we quickly decided on this. The film is about the main character Jennifer remembering the deaths of her friends and how a man wanted to kill her. The last scene is of Jennifer in a panicky state as she had just reminisced about the horrible memories. She keeps seeing the murderer in her dreams and fears that one day he will return. We chose to translate deadly memories into Swahili because it sounds more exotic, interesting and mysterious. If it was called just 'Deadly Memories' i don't think it would sound as appealing and fun as it is in Swahili. The fact that it is in a foreign language makes it more exciting and if it was in English it would give away what the movie opening is about.

Eleventh blog- Camera log

We took the camera out to film on Thursday 28Th January, we kept it until Wednesday 4Th of February, unfortunately, we had to give the camera back to the library so that another group could film. Due to the technical difficulties with the Adobe Premier Elements we can't get the film on the computer. We will try to get it fixed but in the meantime we will make another questionnaire and start our evaluation.

Tenth blog- Filming

We have successfully filmed our main task, we are having slight problems with the school computers because the Adobe Premier Elements weren't working and we had to put the film on the computer, we don't know if it is fixed now but as soon as we put it on we can edit and do evaluations and all the rest of the stuff to do. We managed to film it in one day, which is good for our continuity and timing.