RH & GG Treatment

MEDIA TREATMENT33

ALL - Sample Scene of Coursework

Sample of our opening scene in our current coursework plan. (Not the cast that will be used)

RH - Swede (In a group with Rob Shaw, Sam Pollock and Kyle Meeson)

This is a Swede called 'The Pollock, The Meeson and The Shaw' it has taken key representation from 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly'.

GG - research into 'Killer' and 'Victims'

The Killer—With notable exceptions, the killer in the slasher film is usually male. His identity is often, but not always, unknown and/or concealed either by a mask or by creative lighting and camera work. He is often mute and seemingly unstoppable, able to withstand stabbings, falls and shootings by his victims. His background sometimes includes a childhood trauma that explains his choice of victim, weapon and location (the killer can be made out to be pitiable or understood). Slasher villains tend to prefer hand held weapons such as knives, axes, hatchetes, and chainsaws as opposed to bombs or guns. As the sub-genre developed, some argue that the real star of a slasher is the killer, not the victims or Final Girl. Throughout most of the franchises, the killer is constant. Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers are notable examples of this phenomenon. 

The Victims—The victims tend to be young, attractive, high school or college-aged adolescents. Much has been made about the choice of victims. Some theorists claim that they young people are punished for indulging in vices such as pre-marital sex or illegal drugs. Other theorists claim that is simply a matter of the activities making the victims unaware of their surroundings, making them easy prey for the killer.

RH - Inspiration for our coursework idea from other films

When planning our production we looked through many different films to help us pull together ideas for our film. It gave us an idea of what sort of shots, sounds and mise-en-scene directors use when making a films of this genre.

There were three films that we believe to have help us the most:


1. Drag Me to Hell
Director: Sam Raimi
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1127180/
We used the scene from this film of the female (left) being dragged out a car. In our production we plan to also use this idea so when watching this film it gave us a lot of good ideas. We will use a lot of cut shots and rarely show the protagonist face. 



2. Halloween
Director: Rob Zombie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373883/
In our production we plan to have the protagonist wearing a mask.
We used the idea of this mask when it came to designing ours,
we plan to only show the eyes on ours. 



3. Cherry Falls
Director: Geoffery Wright
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175526/
We also used the car scene from this film to help us. We have gathered 
many ideas of how to 'drag' or scream queen from the car and plan to
practice all our different ideas before filming out final piece.

ALL - Breifing on our coursework idea

Working title - Road-Side

• The opening scene in our production is a women driving a car along a country road. We will use many different camera shots of the car traveling along such as; a close up of the car wheel moving, the car driving past a standing camera. Also because we have the use of two cars we can use motion pictures of the car following a car in front with a camera in. 
• Our next scene will be of a young child sat in the road, breathing heavily whilst wearing a mask. 
• They will also be wearing a blood stained shirt to create an evil feel to the plot. The car will be driving up a hill. We will see the car from over the shoulder of the child. 
• The women will stop the car. We will get an extreme close-up of her looking towards the child followed by a long-shot of the boy. 
• Her door will be pulled open and a man dressed in a black suit will drag her out the car. She will be screaming. There will then be a sudden cut, we will have changed scene into a dark basement. 
• We will see a long-shot of the women sat tied to a chair. A man will then walk past the camera holding some sort of weapon. (either a kitchen knife or a baseball bat) 

Actors Needed

• We will need a girl aged around 17-21 to be the main character. 
• We will also need a male aged around 17-20 to play the male murderer. 
• We will also need a young child aged around 10-12 to play for the short role of the child sat in the road.

RH - Mask (in a group with FayeH, MelodieA and CharlotteB)

My Prelim Task

Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

 Match on action - A match on action, a technique used in film editing, is a cut that connects two different views of the same action at the same moment in the movement.

Shot/reverse shot - is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.

     180 Degree-rule - The 180° rule is a basic guideline in film making that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. The new shot, from the opposite side, is known as areverse angle.

Untitled from Roam Hamilton on Vimeo.

Lessons from my Micro-Drama

I learnt in my Micro-Drama that despite producing a storyboard before shooting the Micro-Drama you do not gage an understanding for what you can shoot in areas you are filming within.

When filming this I also developed an understanding for using the equipment and how it allows you to capture shots from very different positions which can benefit your Micro-Drama when you come to edit it.

I also learnt when it comes to editing I didn't have enough shots to play around with which would have made the Micro-Drama better and easier to express what we wanted to within the shot. If I was to do this again I would take more shots from different angles and maybe include something within the story that we didn't intent to, this could make it more exiting or possibly add a twist.

Finally I learnt a lot about the software we use to edit the productions.

RH - Microdrama