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2009 December 15
by Charlotte HARRISON

Tuesday 16th June

In this lesson we started our back up plan for our music video promo. We decided to use The police; Every breath you take, this was due to the fact that it would be easy to film a video for it and create posters for the CD, just in case Hairspray; you cant stop the beat falls through. We want the video to be comical like the first one but also easy and quick to film.

Tuesday 30th June – Friday 3rd July:

In the first of these lessons we started planning our CD cover, this involved thinking of a name for the band as well as a name for the album. After using a site that helped with band names we decided on using the nick names of the three main actors, this lead to BigGingerMiller being the final name. Then we chose to call the album THE BEAT! due to the fact the song we chose is from hairspray called ‘you cant stop the beat’ but we didn’t want to copy the name exactly so decided on using ‘the beat’

We then moved on to designing our CD cover, this involved using photoshop. The first of my attempts had a picture of some ginger beer and a high top (these being the thing that represent the actors) . I then put presenting: ‘THE BEAT’ (in rainbow colours) at the bottom and the band name across the middle (in blue,orange,green). However i decided this didnt really represent the song or the type of video we wish to create (comical) so i chose to start again.

My second attempt has a picture of a large hairspray can in the middle with ‘THE BEAT’ (again in rainbow colours) running across the top. I also have three circles each with 2 containing a picture of the lead girl and the other being the man. I chose to photoshop the Connor’s Steve’s and Joe’s (the lead actors) faces onto the bodies. i feel this adds the comical aspect as well as showing the movie/video we are trying to recreate. Finally i put a rainbow background in and BigGingerMiller under the circle that the nick name belongs to i.e Big under Connor’s picture etc.

Finally in this lesson i carried on analysing the two music videos i have chosen.

Compassionate shooting script and synopsis

2009 December 15
by Charlotte HARRISON

Tilly & Charlotte’s Film

Shooting script:

Scene One (Someone’s house, Sunday)

The image of a living room fades onto the screen and the camera starts to pan around. The camera tracks into through the dinning room and moves into the kitchen, where a spilt cup of tea has been left on the side. As the camera tracks round the thud of the washing machine begins to sound, heading back toward the dining room this peaceful sound spontaneously changes into high pitched, reverberating scream. Suddenly you hear a loud thud and the camera spins round, there’s a quick white flash then you see a body lying at the base of the stairs. The camera slowly moves towards the lifeless body, once at the base of the stairs the camera pans up toward someone’s feet. Before you see their face however the the shot changes to behind the girl showing an over the shoulder shot enabling you see from her point of view. Suddenly the image of girl looking down on what she’s done flicks twice between two girls one in black one in pink (accompanied by a white noise). The mysterious girl walks down the stairs and over the body as if nothing has happened. In a trance like state she walks into the dining and sits down at the table where she takes out a picture of her and Tom, rips it in half and casts it aside. When she picks up a cup of tea the shot changes to a close up letting the audience see half of her face . As the girl drinks her tea the image once again flicks twice between two girls, this time one holding a white cup the other a black and white one. Back to the original girl the shot begins to slow down, almost to freeze frame, of her smirking. The title Compassionate then fades onto the screen and the image slowly disappear into a white flash.

END SCENE

Scene Two (Common room, Friday)

After picture falls to the floor , the girl picks up her cup of tea and walks into the kitchen. The next morning she comes down stairs to make a sandwich and get ready for college. She calmly walks over the body of Tom and out of the house. once the door has slammed the sound of a camera clicking goes of and the scene changes. you see the image of two people posing for a picture one of whom is Tom. The camera goes to a broader view and you see tom taking various pictures with lots of girls (some of whom are blonde and could be the killer). the surroundings (in a school or college common room) suggests it’s someone’s birthday. tome gets handed many presents and receives just s many hugs. Alex (one of toms close friends) is sat in the corner of the room alone, glaring at Tom surrounded by girls. A friend of hers called Chantel comes over to her and says hello but she is so fixated on watching Tom that she completely ignores her. Tom sees her looking less than happy and comes over to her,her says hello and gives her hug. Her mood appears to have changed and she starts to look happy. Chantel gets up and leaves them giving Alex a look (saying ill leave you two alone). The camera pans away as Chantel leaves.

END SCENE

Scene Three (Classroom, Friday)

The sound of a folder hitting a desk reverberates around the room. the screen momentarily goes black and suddenly the scene inside of a classroom materialises. a normal lesson has begun with friends already catching up on their respective nights out and the teacher has already begun to right question on the board. After a few minutes the teacher asked the class for the answer to the first question, a small blond girl called Sam confidently puts her hand and gives the complicated answer after spending the whole tome working it out. However one of Tom friends called Nathan shouts

“she got it wrong”.

Tom replies in an sarcastic tone

“are you surprised, Nate ,she always gets it wrong”(laughs).

As Sam scowls and puts her head down Tom quickly corrects her answer. The screen goes black and the image of the maths class leaving replaces it. Tom walks up to Sam and sincerely says

“you know I was only joking Sam”

She scoldingly replies

“Im used to it, it’s not the first time”

she doesn’t give him time to answer before she walks off to meet her friend.

END SCENE

Scene Four (end of school, Friday)

The bell rings for the end of school and Tom sees Alex standing alone by the gates. He rushes up to her and apologetically says

“I’m sorry for what I did. I will see you tomorrow right? I really want to make it up to you”

Alex replies (rather tiredly)

“I know your sorry, but as I said earlier, you knew how much it meant to me”

Tom still looking for her forgiveness bluntly says

“I was in trouble, I told you”

“It still doesn’t make it right”

Tom, annoyed that she still doesn’t forgive or understand him, says

“So you’d rather see me dead”

Both decide they’d rather not argue Tom gives her a quick hug and leaves. Chantel, who had been watching, goes up to confront Alex about forgiving him

“So you forgave him”

“Yeah” Alex replies resignedly

“After what he did?”

Alex lets out a big sigh and moans

“Chantel don’t get involved”

She storms of and leaves Chantel stood alone

“But I’m already involved” Chantel whispers to herself

END SCENE

Scene Five (Sam’s house, Friday)

Sam,still upset about her poor day at school, walks through her front door and throws down her bag. Her strict mother,stood at the top of the stairs, shouts

“Samantha Karen Lawrence! Why are you home so late?”

Sam looks at her watch

“I’m only five minute late…..mother”

“That doesn’t matter,You know the rules”.

Her mum storms down the stairs,standing inches form her face and says calmly

“I’m sick of this”

“Of what?”

Sam replies, genuinely confused by her mothers ranting

“Of what?Of what?Is this how you talk to your mother?”

Sam stares at her mother without saying a single word

“Well, what do you have to say for yourself”.

Unable to cope with arguing and her mothers continuous shouting, Sam just turns around and leaves. she doesn’t even slam the door. As calmly as she left, she walks down her path and out the gate, where overcome with what she just did, suddenly bursts into tears and into a blinding sprint.

END SCENE

Scene Six (The park, Friday)

A blonde girl is sat on a motionless swing, with her head down and her dirty blonde hair over her face. Tom,walking home from school,passes the park and sees the familar girl sat alone. He slowly walks over to the swings and says

“Hi Alex”

sat inches away,Chantel looks up at him

Oh sorry, I could of sworn you were”

“No shit”

“Sorry” he says laughing

“So how’s your day been,as good as mine?”

“Terrible”

“Why, what’s happened?”

“Alex”

Quite confused by her tone and anger Tom asks

“I thought you two were as close as me and Nate, what’s she done now”

“Everything”

With no warning Chantel gets up and leaves. Tom (confused and wanting answers) gets out his phone and looks for Alex’s number. When she fails to answer his call he get up and starts walking home. Suddenly he sees Sam running and crying like she’s just seen someone killed

“Oh my god Sam what’s happened? What’s wrong”

“Like you care”

she snaps, not even looking up at him.

“Of course, I want to help”

Stood silent, Sam looks up at him showing her puffy,bloodshot eyes.

“Is it your mum again” tom asks wearily

“Its none of your business”

“I’m only trying to help”

“like you were this morning,oh how kind of you thanks, is that what you want to me say”

“I was just trying to put a smile on your miserable face” he snaps unable to bear her attitude

“I’m not like all the other girls you have pouring themselves over you all day”

“Well that’s for sure”

“What’s that supposed to mean? your not exactly perfect are you?”

“Sam look I’m”

“Sorry, your pathetic and you gonna get what’s coming to you, that’s a promise”

Sam runs away and Tom, stood alone, says to himself

“Fuck it”

he walks the opposite to where Sam went and puts his head phones in.

Totally oblivious to where he’s been he realises he’s near Alex’s house and decides he should talk to her about what happened. Moments after ringing the doorbell, Alex answers the door and seems happy to see him.

“I need to talk to you, can i come in” he asks wearily

She lets him in and closes the door .

END SCENE

Scene Seven (Alex’s bedroom)

Sat on her bed Tom explains what happened earlier with Sam.

“I think she hates me”

he says after revealing what she said to him. Rather than answer or try to comfort him she acts really aloof about the whole thing.

“As if that’s not bad enough , I’ve also fallen out with Chantel” he says trying to get her to answer or at least help him

“I’m not surprised. This morning she had a bitch at me because I forgave you. She’s probably just jealous”

Tom smiles and begrudgingly says

“I don’t think that’s it”

Alex laughs and they both smile at each other. Alex looks at her watch and quickly panics

“OH NO! you’d better go my dad will be home soon and you know what he gets like”

Confused Tom retorts

“Alex what are you talking about?”

“Come one! Come on! You know he gets mad at the slightest thing”

She grabs his arm and forces him out of her room,

“but…..but Alex!”

muttering he tries to explain but she continues to drag towards the stairs, once on the landing at the top of the stairs Tom shouts.

“but your dads dead Alex”.

She stops dead and tries to reassure him

“I-I know, I was only joking”

Tom stares at her unconvinced , looking in his eyes she screams

“just go Tom!”

Alex runs back to her room and slams the door. she falls onto her bed crying, the sound of the door slamming reverberating around the house.She sits up, wipes her eyes and reaches under her bed. Holding a bottle of pills steadily in her hands she tips a handful onto her bed. She throws them in her mouth chews and swallows them and at once seems more relaxed again.

END SCENE

Scene Eight (Toms house)

The sound of music plays and abruptly stops. suddenly you see Tom walking through his front door, with puffy eyes, taking out his headphones, you see an ordinary family before him. His mother is stood cooking in the kitchen, his dad is reading the paper whilst sat in a chair and his brother is at the computer playing games. Seeing him in the doorway taking of his coat Tom’s mother says

“Hi love, how was your day, get many presents?”

“Y-Yeah it was fine”

he mumbles, barely looking at her.

“Your tea will be ready in five minutes”

she informs him , noticing he was upset.

“Okay mum”

Tom walks into his bedroom and throws down his phone and ipod. His falls onto his bed and closes his eyes in a desperate attempt to forget what happened with Alex. The camera pans backwards and turns to show a figure stood outside his window looking up at his room. Unable to see the face of the figure you do see a red scarf billowing in the wind covered by long blond hair. Back in Toms room, he is oblivious to the person watching him from outside his house and still has his eyes firmly closes. That is until his mum shouts

“Your tea’s ready”

when he suddenly sits up and walks downstairs.

END SCENE

Scene Nine (Tom and Bullies)

The sound of an alarm clock goes off before the picture comes up , when you see the clock showing 10 o’clock. Then Toms arm reaches over and hits it until it stops. the screen goes black and you see Tom walking out of his room fully dressed, he walks into the dinning room and sits down to eat breakfast. Suddenly the door bells rings and Toms mum shoots up to answer it.

“Alex hi, Tom Alex is here”

“Hello Mrs Nicket”

Mrs Nicket shows Alex to the kitchen and Tom jumps up to greet her

“Hey, hows you?”

“Umm better, thanks”

Tom walks with to the hallway and picks up his bag

“Bye mum”

he shouts before closing the door and heading out with Alex.

After the screen goes black with the sound of the door slamming, you see Tom and Alex walking around a shopping centre. As they continue to go in and out of shops they are unaware they are being followed, by a girl with long blonde hair and a red scarf. The two sit down outside a cafe and order some drinks before Alex says

“I have to go to ladies” (putting on a posh voice)

They both laugh and she walks off. Tom sat alone, sees five guys walking over to him

“We need a word” they mumble

Tom shocked and frightened says

“Excuse me”

Sam appears behind them. Happy at seeing someone he knows Tom stupidly assumes she will help him

“Hi Sam, what are you doing here?”

“It’s time”

realising she’s with them he stutters

“T-Time for what , i gave them the money”

“I gave you a promise earlier Tom, remember”

“But I gave you the money, I thought we were even”

Stopping Sam from shouting one of the guys grumbles

“That’s not good enough , not after what after you and your mates have done to my sister”

Tom getting angry and more frightened by the minute shouts

“What more do you want! it’s not my fault she’s such a freak, and you wonder why she gets bullied”

“You BASTARD”

Alex suddenly appears from behind Tom and asks, innocently

“What’s going on here?”

Sam, knowing that Tom tells her everything says

“Oh nothing, just saying hello”

As Tom and Alex walk away Sam’s vengeful brother shouts after them

“This isn’t over”

END SCENE

Scene Ten (The Park)

Tom and Alex are on the bus

“Tom?”

he doesn’t respond or look at her (too embarrassed)

“it’ll be okay you know”

“No it wont! you heard what they said, it’s not over”

The bus stops and Alex stands up to get off

“This is my stop, I’ll see you tomorrow”

She gives him a small hug and leaves him but he barely acknowledges her, at the next tom gets off. He walks through the park to get home and sees a figure sat on the swing (with a red scarf), he sits down on the other swing.

“Hi Chantel”

she swiftly looks up and asks

“Are you okay”

“Yeah, ‘cause I look fine”

“Sorry , but what do you expect, I’m blonde”

Tom smiles at her and says

“So you’re talking to me now”

he says jokingly so she doesn’t get offended

“Guess so……. actually i was looking for you”

“Really what for”

“It’s about Alex”

“What again? Do you have a problem with her or something”

“you don’t know what she’s really like Tom , she isn’t as innocent as she looks. She has everyone fooled”

“What are you talking…..”

before he finishes his sentence his phone rings and he answers

“Hi Alex”

“(Don’t trust her)”

Chantel whispers to him

Tom nods in response to Alex

“OKAY”

He puts down the phone and gets up to go

“I’ve got to go”

“You’re not going to see her are you”

she screams astounded that he still trusts her.

“I can’t listen to this, I have to go”

“Don’t trust her Tom , honestly you don’t…”

“I know you like me, and your jealous,but this is ridiculous”

“That’s not it! She..”

but unable to stand her jealousy he simply walks away and shouts back

“Bye Chantel”

END SCENE

Scene Eleven (Alex’s house)

Alex, sat alone in her room, is surrounded by ripped up pictures. One of them is the picture of Chantel and tom. On her bed lies an empty medicine. Rocking backward and forwards, she is fixated on on the picture of her and Tom (in her hands). She suddenly snaps into awareness, shoves the picture in her pocket and rings Tom

“Hi Tom, I need to speak to you, can you come over now”?

the screen goes black and suddenly you see Tom stood in Alex’s kitchen drinking tea with her. alex looks calm, whereas Tom is anxious.

“have you been talking to Chantel?” Alex asks politely

“how did you..”

“i thought I heard her voice on the phone”

worried she may have heard Chantel warning him Tom covers and says

“She was just pestering me about the whole locket thing”

“can you blame her?”

she’s obsessed!” tom shrieks

“With you… I don’t think so” (laughing)

tom (a bit nervous) warily asks

“What do you mean?”

suddenly Alex’s face changes and inches from Tom’s face states

“After what you did, how could anyone like you?”

angered and a little scared Tom defends him self and shouts back

“How can you still be mad at me for that, I thought you forgave me!”

They continue to argue, until Tom slams his cup down (spilling his tea) and storms off through the dinning room. Alex suspiciously follows him through to the hallway where he tries to explain himself one last time

“You know, you know what would have happened to me”

she doesn’t respond

“Why are you doing this to me!”

Alex whispers

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry”

nearly in tears Tom whimpers

“they were going to kill me Alex, You saw them yesterday”

“I’m sorry, this won’t bother you anymore”

Alex walks past him, as if in a trance, and goes upstairs. Tom follows now hysterical. he catches her on the landing and he’s still mumbling about the bullies.

“killed… they would have… what is wrong with you?”

she doesn’t even acknowledge him

“ALEX! ALEX! Talk to me”

She sharply turns her head and looks him dead in the eyes.

“Fine”

It goes silent, then the screen goes black

END SCENE

Scene twelve (The day after)

You hear a key turning in a lock, and then you see Alex walking through her front door. The lifeless, day old corpse of Tom lies at the bottom of the stairs. She doesn’t even seem to notice him there. However she drops her keys right next to his body, as she bends down, she sees a little red jewellery box pocking out of his pocket. She picks it up and opens it slowly. She sees a new locket inside and as she opens it a picture of her dad is revealed. Suddenly she burst into tears and collapses over Toms body when A piece of paper falls out of the box, she opens it and reads.

Suddenly there’s a flashback (in black and white)

Tom is stood opposite Alex in the school corridor saying

“I really want to make it up to you”

as the scene plays out (in silence) Toms voice reads out his note, as he reads the screen goes black and the ripped picture of her and Tom fades onto the screen.

My Dear Alex

We’ve been friends for such a long time, and I’ve always admired you.

But you haven’t been the same since that day five years ago.

It’s as if part of you died with him.

You were so full of life, but since then…. you’ve changed

I suppose that makes what I did even worse.

I know replacing it doesn’t make up for all I’ve done, but somehow I thought you could forgive me. I was wrong.

I guess deep down I knew you wouldn’t. Couldn’t.

Did you think I of all people wouldn’t notice?

That since that day you’ve lost your……

Compassion

Credits Appear.

Synopsis Of “Compassionate”

Our film is based around student called Tom and his friends Nathan, Alex, Chantel and a girl called Sam. The first scene of our film shows a murder being carried out on a Sunday and the then a black screen signifies a flash back and the story is continued from the Monday before the murder was committed (Toms birthday). This is when you first see Tom interacting with his friends and the first insight into Alex’s strange behaviour. Also various disputes that have happened with between him and his friends routinely pop up. As the story unfolds it becomes apparent that someone is watching Tom, and there are many possible culprits and various clues which manifest themselves including a his ‘stalker’ having a red scarf and blonde hair. Adding to this his best friend Alex’s angry and distant behaviour rapidly gets worse and its clear she is hiding something (whether the two are connected remains unknown until the end). Half way through the film it is revealed after a confrontation in town, that Tom has been getting bullied by Sam and her brothers gang , because him and Nathan used to bully her. Nearer the end of the film it is revealed that Alex’s best friend Chantel had had a crush on Tom for a long time and is worried very about Alex’s behaviour. The story concludes with the realisation that Alex has been hiding the fact that she is mentally ill and still mad at Tom for stealing the necklace her dead father gave her to get the bullies off his back. This drama culminates in Alex having a breakdown and pushing Tom down the stairs (our first scene). Then she acts completely normal,even goes to school, then when she returns home she completely ignores the dead body at the base of the stairs until she drops her keys next to him. At that moment she finds a locket that tom bought her to replace the one he stole, along with a note inside apologising for how he has behaved. At this point the full extent of what she has done suddenly overwhelms her and she bursts into tears. Credits come up.

log book 09

2009 December 15
by Charlotte HARRISON

Friday 18th September – Friday 2nd October:

During these lessons I managed to complete the Album CD cover including the song list on the back. I tried to make both the front and back colourful as well as subdued as I feel the nature of the song we are producing the video for reflects this. I included a black and white picture, found on the internet, of a couple on a swing I then chose to make the background a slightly bright red to add some colour. The font I used for the song name was School House Cursive B, I chose this in particular as it looked slightly childish which is what the picture also represents. I chose a bolder font for the band name HQ (Hobo std) with a back colour of black with bright yellow on top, I did this because it makes the name stand out as well as attracting people to the previously understated album cover. We chose the band name HQ due to the fact that I am a big comic book fan and one of my favourite characters is called Harley Quinn. We did not want to use the whole name however as that would mean we would have to consult Marvel comics for the rights if we released the CD properly. On the back cover we made up a couple of song names to be included in the album with a couple of funny pictures next to it in order to again make the CD stand out and become more appealing to our target audience.

Tuesday 6th October:

In this lesson I completed my questionnaires and then analysed them, making references to how it will affect the music genre we include in the CD and the target market we are aiming it at. I decided the best age would be 16-25 yr olds , this is because i believe in this age range the people will be more open to wide range of music and will have less specific preferences. Also after realising that nearly all of the participants download their music rather than buying CD’s, i decided that we would definitely offer the song for download on iTunes. Also i carried on with analysing my two music videos, i managed to finish one of them (Kanye West heartless), the other video, Gwen Stefani’s What you waiting for, I plan to complete for homework.

Tuesday 8th September:

Since returning from holiday me and my group decided it would be more beneficial if we split of into two pairs this is because firstly the original idea wasn’t as good as we hoped also we missed a vital opportunity to film in the ideal location. This meant coming up with a new idea, however all the work we had done previously such as the BGM CD cover and various inserts will now be used as drafts and practice for the final product. This meant we were able to get some experience on how to an album cover should be laid out to grab attention of buyers and the numerous inserts we should include to boost this.

Friday 11th – Tuesday 15th September:

Having rearranged the groups me and Carrie-Anne spent some time trying to think a new song to use that would make producing a video easy as there would be a lot of flexibility with the lyrics. Having originally thought about using Pixie Lott – Mamma Doo we started to produce a flow diagram of a plan for the video, we quickly realised that the lyrics really didn’t allow us to be inventive or allow us to make the video comical (which was our original aim). We then discovered All American Rejects – Swing Swing, my first thought was to use pictures flashing up on the screen as a form of flashback for the first couple of verses then to follow the lead man as he ponders his life without her. After producing a quick synopsis beside the lyrics we chose to also include a faded grey scene where the Man is remembering his time with his now ex girlfriend as I feel this goes well with the lyrics.

Log book 09

2009 December 1
by Charlotte HARRISON

Friday October 30th – Friday November 6th

In these lessons we studied British films watching  Trainspotting and A matter of life afterwards we analysed them and making references to how they portray gender, status and a nation. Also we had to research quotes and  reviews from the film that portrayed these and say what our own views of the film were. We did this as preparation for the exam as we will have to answer questions about gender, a nation or status and this means we will be able to use specific examples and explain in detail.

Tuesday November 3rd – Friday November 20th

During these lessons I completed all of my preparation for my film, allowing me to soon actually start filming. This included completing my story boards, choosing the time frames and lyrics I am going to use. I  sketched/illustrated 10 screen shots each conveying the shot time I will the use and a rough explanation as to what is happening. I hope my music video clip will last approximately 2 minutes. Also during these lessons I used inspiration from the two films I analysed to choose the shot type I wanted, I mainly used mid-shot and close up as most of the video is quite action based so I feel that these two shot types will add tension and make the video more fast paced and interesting.

Friday November 27th – Friday December 4th

During these lessons I spent the time practising exam questions, creating a quick draft for homework then writing up a proper essay answer in lesson. We were told to make sure we use the PEE technique (Point, Example,Explain) in order to get the most marks and make sure our sentence/paragraph structure was good and understandable. After finishing my answer I showed it to my teacher and after reading it a few times he gave me some pointers on how to make it better such as using the PEE technique more effectively and making sure that I don’t make the same point twice or waffling on. This has lead to me re-writing the answer in order to give me enough practice so that I can get the most marks in the exam.

Tuesday December 8th

In this lesson I printed out all my planning work and sorted into the correct order by date. I did this for two reasons, firstly I wanted to make sure I had plenty of back up so for example if my work got lost on the computer I will have it printed out already. I have also sent my work to again ensure the safe backup of my work. The second reason was so that when I started filming it would be easier and quicker to reference my work and see what I had planned so I can follow it exactly.

Tuesday December 15th 09

In this lesson we watched another classic british film, Life of Brian, once it was finished we then wrote an analysis about it including what viewers thought (reviews) as well as the general plot line and my favourite scenes. I then wrote about how this film represents Gender, Identity, Status, Disability, A Region, Nation and the social implications of it. Including any refrences from similar films. Finally we quickly went over our AS work that we had posted on the blog ensuring that it included all the written work we did e.g. Analysis, Evaluation, Questionnaires, our Film etc. We did this to ensure that we would get the maximum marks possible and we haven’t missed out any work we did.

Friday December 18 – Friday December 25

During these lessons I made a list of actors, props and locations I would need for the video also I wrote out the full synopsis making changes to make the video last through out the entire song such as having the man move on with someone new making his ex jealous.

Friday 8th January – Tuesday 26th March

These lessons involved filming and editing my film.

log book 09

2009 November 17
by Charlotte HARRISON

October 9th – October 20th

In these lessons we were analysing British cinema and directors from the 1940′s onwards. We chose a couple of films from each decade and wrote about them including the dates they were released the producer and directors involved etc.. We also watched a couple of old black and white films (Trainspotting and A matter of life and death), after watching them we all wrote a detailed analysis about the camera shots, gender , the idea of conventions as well as viewers comments and any rewards they received. We did this as preparation for our exam where we will have to analyse as similar style film.

Compassionate film link

2009 November 10
by Charlotte HARRISON

Here is a youtube link that will show my film,

The name of the film is Compassionate.