The Opening and Closing Speeches

Girls opening speech: I was normal once, or at least I think I was. When I was younger when my mother was alive everything was fine and everyone was happy. But then my mother died and everything else changed. My grandparents abandoned us, they blamed us for her death. Blamed us...well blamed me. And my father did also. My grandparents approach didn’t affect me as much, not speaking to me was a much better reaction than my fathers. At times it was like he wasn’t there, that everything he was doing to me wasn’t him or that it didn’t register in his mind. Stupid I know. After all this time I’m still making excuses for him. The burns, the scratches, the scars and worst of all, Oh god worst of all...when the lights went off and everything was quiet I’d hear the squeaks of the floorboards and my door opening. He would be stood there in the landing, breathing heavily, staring at me, I could feel his eyes on me. But feeling his eyes on me would be the last of my problems. First his eyes.. then his hands...


Closing speech: I’m 16 years old now, I’m a women. But by law I’m still a child. By law I still have to be here with him, I’ve left school and could hack college, everyday it gets worst...I want this to end..completely...its him or me...

First day of shooting begins...

After planning, changin the idea, talking through shots and taking the camera out on parks, around town and in sixth form. Our first day of shooting for the final piece will be the 18th February 2010.

The inside shots will take place at charlottes house and a number of the outside flashbacks will be taken from the practice shot that was filmed over the last few weeks.

Digital Storyboard! (Still Images)

Our opening shot for our presentation will be like so. Mid close up shot so that the head, shoulders and some of the clothing is in shot. The background will be completely black and the actor will look straight on at the camera.


In the middle of the sequence there will be a series of flash shots showing inside a traditional home, a father, shots of the family to show signifiance in these characters.

Storyboarding!

Our ideas have changed and developed after looking at different films and directors, as well as watching previous attempts by media students working with different genres. After watching all these we decided that we were making things harder for ourselves so we have re-grouped our ideas and tried to make it simpler, without taking away any quality.

So the main shots we're going to use is...

* Establishing shots
* Mid close ups
* Panning shots

Using Girl Interrupted as inspiration we decided to use simple shots to show a simple storyline.

Storyline:

Young girl who has been abused starts off the opening with a close up of her face with a voice over saying her thoughts. Shots then shoot back to shots of her family and her father to suggest that her father holds significance to the story without giving away what role he plays in this. The voice over will be very dull and plain, won't give much insight to the audience and will confuse the audience so that it appears that she may have some sort of mental illness. Her facial expression will be completely blank, and nothing about her seems very interesting.

Shoots in the middles of the sequence will be quick, 5-10 seconds long at the most showing a simple but significant picture, before the camera reverts back to her where she saying a simple one line to express her feelings and intentions...

Shot Practice

For our first shot practices we decided to shot all around the sixth form centre to get familiar with the cameras. These are some of our location points through sixth form:

All different shots were shot throughout the space of 30 minutes as a practice.