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risk assessment

Risk assessment

What is a risk assessment?

Risk assessment is a document which must attend any filming and recce schedule. This makes sure the person responsible when on location has considered the safety of everyone involved in the filming from the contributor, the crew to the general public. They need to think through the filming day and consider what the potential hazards are, what injury could result from this hazard and how the risk can be reduced or avoided.

The risk assessment should be structured and applied so as to help everyone to:

-          Check whether the measures in place are adequate

-          Evaluate the risks in order to make the best informed selection of work equipment, chemical substances or preparations used the fitting out of the workplace, and the organisation of work.

The producer is responsible for ensuring that risk assessments are completed for their productions. In practice, they may delegate risk assessment to other people, such as production managers, designers, heads of departments, the location manager or the unit manager.

In this case, the producer must ensure that:

-  The person delegated is competent to perform the assessment, if necessary, by providing training in risk assessment procedures or other aspects of health and safety

- The assessment is carried out

- Necessary controls are implemented effectively throughout the production

-  The assessment is reviewed where changes or new circumstances have made the original assessment no longer valid.

What are the hazards?	Who might be harmed and how?	How do you prevent it?	Action by whom?	Action by when?	Done
Slips and trips	The camera-person, the actor/actress may be injured if they trip over objects.	Make sure nothing is on the floor, excepts props that needed	all student	27.10.14	done
Prop- knife	As one of the actors will have to hold a knife, he may cut himself with it.	By informing the actor how to hold the knife correctly, never touch the knife without our permission	all student	27.10.14	done
Time rushing (rushing to finish is when hazards get missed, or people start taking risks)	If the cameraman rushes to finish filming then the quality of the videos may be rubbish and we won’t get the videos that we wanted and it is waste of time to go back to the location again, where we could use that time to edit the videos.	The cameraman needs to film the same scenes more than once, to make sure that every scene is right	all student	27.10.14	done
Precarious(shots from high up or near the edge of something)	To be able to get a high angle shot, the cameraman needs to be up high to get a proper shot. To be near the edge, the cameraman can get caught by a sharp edge and he may be injured.	the runner needs to make sure that there is nothing dangerous in the scenes	all student	27.10.14	done

Feedback - Miss Spencer

Brick Analysis feedback - there is some really interesting work in here Kannika, you have covered a wide range of aspects in your analysis and thought about technical code, characterisation, setting and many other important aspects. However it is let down because none of the images can be viewed. Gather all of your images together again on and we will fix this together. I will show you where you have gone wrong so we can fix this for the future.

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Titles feedback - Again a good start - but I would like detail on how you will use the influence of these ideas in your own film. Also can you make the images smaller so that they don't 'bleed' into the titles of the blog. this makes it difficult to read the blog.

Representation feedback - You have done some detailed research into this area, even using a media theorist, which is excellent. However this post also needs some examples from the film genre you are working on. That includes examples and images to illustrate your point.
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films title and logo

I think that that the font is very original and it has that unique and vintage style. its also plain and simple, and in my opinion, I think this font is also professional and mature as this font is for an action film, but I do think that it will also work well with my horror film.

I think the font in this opening sequence is not so fancy but it does have that mysterious look. I think this suits my film opening sequence because its also mysterious too. I also think that this font is very mature and it looks serious. The colour of it also goes well with the background pictures as they're black.  

 

representation in horror (including characters in the film)

Representation

 Definition: representation is the way in which meaning is given to the things which are depicted that stand in for something. The word suggests something was there already and has been represented by the media.

Representation can change overtime as many people believe that media is powerful, so it changes people’s attitudes and beliefs.

The seven areas of representation are;

-          Regional identify (e.g. an unnecessary disliking of each other, just because you’re from a different part of the country)

-          Age (a separation of people by which generation they come from)

-          Sexuality (e.g. people who are really deep inside and what they want to make themselves happy, no matter what the situation)

-          Gender (a separate by physical nature, but being brought together by being so opposite)

-          Physical ability/ disability (e.g. people whose body’s do not function as well as others)

-          Ethnicity (e.g. racism and the discrimination there is in the world)

-          Class and status (e.g. a huge divide in the human species due to money. Having high status is having lots of material possessions whereas being poor is having the lack of the basic human necessities).

An example of regional identify TV drama is EastEnders. From what I already knew from EastEnders, it’s the accents that point us towards their regional identify. Their accents are very ‘east-end’ and they use cockney rhyming slang ever now and again.  The setting of the show is in a little village and meeting places like the pub could represent that they are in London village.

An example of how media represents age is ‘Skins’ a TV Drama series. ‘Skins’ is a young adult’s television drama series which follows the life of teenagers in their everyday lives. In one of the series opening scenes we see a character (Tony) watching an older woman, through his windows, getting ready. This shows how teenage boys are stereotypically shown constantly have sexual fantasises.

Sophie Webster in Coronation Street goes against the typical stereotype of homosexual women. This is because she appears to be very feminine looking with long brown hair; she wears a fair amount of makeup and wears costumes that consist of fashionable clothes of the latest trends. She is considered to fit in as she has both male and female friends and has a job at the local shop and gets on with everyone in the street without controversy.

Female characters’ professional lives are usually ignored, or more often, they are portrayed as housewives who take care of children and family chores everyday, but not ambitious at all in building a career. For the relatively small amount of women who try to further their professional lives, they invariable seem to fail. For example Samantha from EastEnders left her husband to purse a career in modelling, but was unsuccessful.  In this way, female characters are often punished for pursuing their own careers at the expense of their boyfriends or husbands.

In need of pity and charity- Barnes claims that this is stereotype has grown in popularity in recent years because of television appeals such as Children in Need. Disables as victims- Barnes found that when people with disabilities are featured in television drama, they are three times more likely than able-bodied characters to be killed off.

Class of status- Made in Chelsea- social class is very important in made in Chelsea as even the name of the TV show states where the characters are from. The characters are very posh and rich, and appear to lead simple lives without stressful nine to five jobs.

production schedule

Production Schedule – (Film Title)

Date	Task	Complete Y/N
W/C: 3/11/14	Filming	Y
W/C: 10/11/14	Creating/sourcing sound/music	Y
W/C: 17/11/14	Editing	Y
W/C: 24/11/14	Creating graphics/titles	Y
W/C: 01/12/14	Uploading all elements from Foundation Portfolio onto your blog	Y
W/C: 08/12/14	Blogging all stages of the filming/editing process	Y
W/C: 15/12/14	Film to be handed in to be marked over the Christmas Break.	Y

filming schedule

Actors- Sophie and Sophie's brother (Riley).

Director (a person who supervises the actors and other staff in a film, play, or similar production) - Kannika

Producer a person responsible for the financial and managerial aspects of the making of a film or broadcast or for staging a play, opera, etc.)- Sophie

Camera person- Kannika

Editor- Kannika/Sophie

Sound- Kannika

Makeup/prop- Sophie

Runner (Runners work across the TV industry so you could be doing anything from helping out on sets to helping out with the editing process post-production. The actual day-to-day jobs you’ll be expected to do) - Kannika

Researcher- Kannika

 

Date	Time	Location	Scene	Shots needed	Cast/props etc.
27/10/14	Evening	Sophie's house	Riley playing with his toys	Establishing shot, media shot	A teddy and toys
27/10/14	Evening	Sophie's house	Riley getting up, to get a knife and stand in front of his bedroom door.	Close-up, close up	A knife

 

recce

Recce is a military term that has been borrowed by the media in the United Kingdom, derived from "reconniter", the verb from of "reconnaissance". it is a pre-production visit to a location to work out its suitability for filming/photography, including access to necessary facilities, assessment of any potential lighting or sound issues and risk and hazard assessments. 

casting

Casting

For our horror film opening we decided on having 2 characters. We decided on having a boy and a mother, due to the fact that this was the invention we saw when researching into the genre of horror films. We would need to select 2 characters around the age of 6-10 years old and an adult around 30+, but at this moment, there are 2 available people, which are Sophie’s brother and herself to be the actors. Even though Sophie is only 17 years old, she’s willing to be in the film, which makes everything a lot easier to film, as she knows what she has to do and we don’t need to waste time explaining anything, as we planned it ourselves. We think that these 2 characters are the most appropriate to act in our film opening in order to appeal to the needs of our target audience.

storyboard

Storyboard

script

Script

Curse of the Illusioned mind

SCRIPT


*Riley playing with toys*

the [Creepy voices talking to him]

*mother comes to the bottom of the stairs and begins to call for riley*

Mother: Riley your dinners ready

*riley doesn’t respond and continues playing with his toys*

Mother: Riley??? (sounding worried)

[Creepy voices talking to him again]

Riley: I don’t want to

*grabs knife*

[Creepy voices talk to him yet again]

*riley walks towards the door carrying the knife*

Mother: Riley??! (Beginning to sound concerned as riley is not responding to her call)

*mother walks up the stairs*

the storyline

The Storyline

Curse of the Illusioned mind

Narrative: A young boy named Riley is casually playing with his toys, all of a sudden he begins to hear a whispering voice coming from behind him, he looks but there is nothing to be seen. Riley’s mother then begins to call him down for his dinner. However Riley does not respond to her call and gets up and begins to draw on his walls, his mother then calls again sounding a little concerned as Riley has not came down. It becomes clear something is wrong as Riley walks towards his toy tool box and pulls out a knife. Riley’s mother calls again this time sounding very concerned. She decides to go and see what Riley is up to. She starts walking up the stairs as Riley walks towards the door still carrying the knife. They both reach the door and his mother pushes it open finding Riley clearly possessed with big dilated eyes holding the knife. Throughout the opening scene there will be continuous whispers pulling Riley into the trap and getting into his mind.

the pitch

PITCH

 

 

Introduction

 

This is my PowerPoint presentation and it is about the film opening scene that I will be making. In this PowerPoint I will be talking about the pitch, about the storyline of the film, the production, narrative, locations for where my film may take place, camera styles, characters and target audience.

 

Production Company

 

As the production company would focus on social realism films, we chose to call it the Dollhouse Productions. Our film would focus on stigmatised issues, they would confront the viewers misconceptions and make them realise the truth behind certain issues.

 

Main Narrative

A young boy named Riley is casually playing with his toys, all of a sudden he begins to hear a whispering voice coming from behind him, he looks but there is nothing to be seen. Riley’s mother then begins to call him down for his dinner. However Riley does not respond to her call and gets up and begins to draw on his walls, his mother then calls again sounding a little concerned as Riley has not came down. It becomes clear something is wrong as Riley walks towards his toy tool box and pulls out a knife. Riley’s mother calls again this time sounding very concerned. She decides to go and see what Riley is up to. She starts walking up the stairs as Riley walks towards the door still carrying the knife. They both reach the door and his mother pushes it open finding Riley clearly possessed with big dilated eyes holding the knife. Throughout the opening scene there will be continuous whispers pulling Riley into the trap and getting into his mind.

 

Characters

 

For our horror film opening we decided on having 2 characters. We decided on having a boy and a mother, due to the fact that this was the invention we saw when researching into the genre of horror films. We would need to select 2 characters around the age of 6-10 years old and an adult around 30+, but at this moment, there are 2 available people, which are Sophie’s brother and herself to be the actors. Even though Sophie is only 17 years old, she’s willing to be in the film, which makes everything a lot easier to film, as she knows what she has to do and we don’t need to waste time explaining anything, as we planned it ourselves. We think that these 2 characters are the most appropriate to act in our film opening in order to appeal to the needs of our target audience.

 

Camera Styles

 

Our camera style we have chosen is very unique within the film industry. We have chosen to use the handheld (POV) camera style, allowing the audience to become closer to our main character and to help feel the struggles our main character is going through, as such, seeing it through his eyes. Breaking of the ‘fourth wall’ allows our audience to feel more involved. This style also increases the verisimilitude the handheld effect is often used within the thriller genre, but we have chosen to adopt this style in order to make our film original within the genre.

Another ‘style’ we’d like to use is the extreme close ups used when displaying information on computer/phone screens so the audience can feel the emotions Riley is feeling, and get the audience more involved with the narrative. These shots make our reactions and plot more realistic.

 

Our Target Audience

Insidious is a film, which is also based on possession, which is why I did a research on it because it is similar to my film. According to youGovProfies, most of insidious fans are female, aged between 25-39.

Most of the audiences have a career as an architecture and interior designer or community and social worker. They usually spend their spare times on using the Internet, doing shopping online because they find it easier to shop on-line as it is quick and easy, but even though they like to shop, they always lookout for special offers as they think it’s stressful to be in debt.

They also spend 1-5 hours per week watch television because they spend more time on social network, such as Facebook and Twitter. They spend their time on-line 36-40 hours per week.

The audience of our horror are people aged 18 and over, this is because it isn't appropriate for younger ages due to the content of strong violence, language and thriller in which people may find offensive and disturbing. We chose the certificate of 18 because we didn't have any dialogue in our film opening we didn't need to worry about bad language and there are no graphic scenes in order to be an 18.

Our horror opening involves a lot of suspicion movements such as a kid holding a knife; therefore the target audience would have to include people who enjoy tension and suspense. Additionally, the audience would be people who enjoy films that use mystery as there’s throughout. Also, the soundtrack we use is a nursery rhyme, which is usually associated with children and it, is a convention of horror.