Location for our final task

As we wanted this to look like it was set in a hotel, we thought we would try and get a hotel room to film in. I called the four pillars on the Abingdon road to see if we could use a room for a couple of hours, unfortunately they said that this wouldn't be possible.
This would have been a perfect location for our idea as the mise-en-scene would have been perfect
However one of my group members sent email to the holiday inn near woodstock and they said that it would be fine to use there location to film our final task.
However after a group descusion we decided against filming in this location, as we wouldnt have another chance to re-film if something wasnt quite right.
So unfortunately we were back to square one again, but we started planning again staraight away.

Inspiration for our new idea

We spent a long time as a group watching others AS main tasks and taking notes and getting ideas about camera shot/angles, music, and use of editing. After sharing our new idea managed to come up with quite a few different ideas.
We decided that we wanted to have a shower scene, our plan was very similar to the plan in the first 50, hoever with a frew slight changfes, we wanted to have a variety of different shots.

Plan for our task...

* Faid from black to the moving image (diagetic music covering)of Man opening the door and walking through it (long establishing show of man,showing whole body).
* Man looking around room , standing in same position as he starts taking his jacket off and removing tie.
* While still removing jacket and tie moves towards camera and takes a box out of his pocket and chucks the tie and jacket on the chair.
* He looks towards the camera with a blured image with camera still focused on his face, with ring box in his hand.
* Then the camrera focused on blured image (which is a broken glass) and his face is out of focus, his hand then moves into the focused part of the moving image and he places the ring box.
*He then walks towards a door which is near the end of the rook (camrea follows him and becomes an over the shoulder shot)
*He pushes door open and shower noise starts to take over the diagetic sound (classical/ soft music) and he comes across his partener sitting in a running shower fully clothed with make up down her face (camera establishing her and moving closer to her) 
* Camera zooms out he joins her sitting in the shower, she rests her head on his shoulder and shuts her eyes.
*(use of flash backs) faids into black as camera goes closer to her face, then goes clack and faid into blurred, very quick moving images (backing music heartbeating) 4 flashbacks faiding into eachother;
1. Hooded man entering room
2. Man moving towards woman and woman throwing/ dropping glass
3. Man attacking woman
4. Woman falling into shower
* Faids out and title appears

Problem with our main task

After 6hours of filming, we reviewed the film as a group and had various discussions coming to the conclusion that the footage we had looked more like a T.V drama other than a film. We came up with a few ways of sorting this problem out, we wondered if editing and adding diagetic sound would solve this problem but we didn't want to risk it as we still thought this would solve the problem. We then decided to come up with a few more film opening ideas that we could use.
Although we spent alot of time getting the actors ready and buying props for mise-en-scene and not using the footage we produced i don't feel that it was a total waste of time as, as a group we have learnt alot of things from it, for example; Organisation and mise-en-scene are essential, and i feel that we have got closer as a group therefore are able to work better together.

Now and Then (1995) Part 3

This is the scene in "Now and Then" we looked at for inspiration for our final piece as we were following the theme of people being possessed and performing necromancy/ divination.

Animatics for our film opening

After deciding the location for our main task, which was Elise's house, we then decided to take our animatics. These pictures show all the shot types we are hoping to shoot in our final piece. (costumes are not used in these images)