Set Design

Written by Mia and Bea 

 

We are filming our opening sequence in two rooms at Beatrice Webb house. 

The first scene we are filming takes place in the kitchen/tv room. We are building a fort in the middle of the room. For this we need to move the furniture out of the way in order to have space to build the fort. 

Our second scene is being filmed in a Beatrice Webb girls boarding room. We are filming a girl getting a exorcism on the bed. In order to have more space around bed, we are going to move the desks around. 

Here are the rooms after being moved around. 

Meaning behind our props and set design

Instead of the original idea of being outside in a tent, we decided to make a blanket fort to give a childlike feel, as the girls in this part are relatively young. by using blankets and pillows, it creates a sense of comfort and this represents how the 2 girls feel about each other, as they are most themselves and comfortable when together. we are also using the colours of pink and blue from a sky light to represent youth and innocence since those colours are normally associated with babies. the scene is the girls first time hanging out as potential lovers so having the innocence of the colours shows that this is their first time with a girl lover. we are using fairy lights to create an magical sense of the relationship as it so new to them. the lights set the scene to give the illusion that everything is perfect which is counteracted later by the exorcism. 

 

we are using crosses all around the room to obviously represent that the blonde girl is religious, it adds to the fact that the parents are trying to repel the gay in  a very subtle way. they've added them as a caution and to make the daughter aware of their views, however, she ignores them as a rebel, so the exorcism is the parents stating they are in control. the other part of the set is the bed frame, as the blonde girl gets tied to it in preparation of the exorcism. 

Exorcism Filming Order

This is the order we are filming the exorcism scenes in. 

- three figures in the doorway, vicar in front, parents behind

- mid shot of vicar crossing his face 

- close up of rosary in focus, vicar unfocused 

- close up of vicars fingers in chalice 

- over shoulder shot flicking water 

- close birds' eye of little table/ shelf cross and bible opening, run finger across bible

- over shoulder shot from vicar looking at girl in bed shocked 

- above shot see her arm getting restrained, pushed down to bed 

- close-up knot being tied 

- mid shot dad tilting up mumble prayer

- mid shot mum cross himself then mumble quickly into hands 

- vicar poverties looking at girl, camera moves to parents, dad nods, mum fiddling with cross necklace

- wide shot girl middle of bed as she scuttles back into headboard camera zooms out 

- close-up eye’s girl zooms out to birds’ eye to see her struggle 

- side shot close-up girl crying looking at ceiling then turn face to look at camera blink 

- birds’ eye mid shot girl sobs 

 

 

Lover Filming Order

 

This is the order we are going to film the lover fort scenes in.

1. Mid shot of girls looking at, each other centre of the shot, side on, no sound track in the fort.
2. Camera moves in on faces and pans down on hands, sound track starts, shot lasts 5 seconds.
3. Close up girls faces, smiling, 4 seconds.
4. Extreme close up of girls eyes, 2 second shot 
5. Close up of girl 2 getting hair tucked, side on, shot for 5 seconds.
6. Wide shot of full fort, Girls propped up lying on each other, hold for 6 seconds.
7. Wide shoot zooms in on one Girl tickling other girl arm, 5 seconds.
8. Mid shot of girls still leaning on each other, one girl head on shoulder, laughing, 4 seconds 
9. Cut to same position in fort lying on other girl, eyes look up at other girl and camera tilts in POV shot, girl smiles and looks down on her
10. 2 seconds side on mid shot, girls forehead touching, nose touching little smile, 
11. 3 seconds extreme close up of girls 2 lips, smile, says I LOVE YOU.

Group Meeting 23th of February

 Today was the first time the group was back together after half term. We were told during half term that our original cast for the priest was unable to be in our opening sequence. We quickly thought of other cast options for our priest. We have emailed a few teachers asking if there able to take on the roll of our priest, and hopefully we will have a set member for tomorrow. 

We also discussed costumes and went to see Elizabeth the head of costumes in the theatre department. She told us she had props we could use, a Bible, Rosary and Chalice. She also has given use a white dog collor to put under the black shirt the priest will be wearing.

The group are currently feeling stressed about everything going right with the opening sequence however we all have hope that everything will work out.  

Shooting Day Schedule

 3rd of March, 9am-6pm

9-Arrive to Beatrice Webb, Cast needed Saskia and Gracie. 

10-12:30- Love scene in fort

12:30-1:30- Lunch 

1:30-Back to Beatrice Webb, cast needed Doug, Adam, Nicky and Saskia

Hopefully be finished before 6 

Cast List

 Evelyn aka eve (religious girl)- Saskia Pattison 

Jane (conservative)- Gracie Lupton 

Dad- Adam Grant 

Mum- Nicky Jones

Priest- Nick Larkin 

Editing workshop 1

 On the 7th of February my class had our first editing workshop.

In this workshop we were taught how to use an editing app called Premier Pro. Premier Pro is an editing app that is uses to edited bad YouTube videos as well as high budget movies. We were showed how to make folders which is refereed to as bins to keep our work organised. We were also told to make a folder called rushes which is were we are meant to put unedited footage that was shoot on shooting day. Other technical words we were taught is scrubbing which is moving clips and logging which means going through footage and making copies. A extremely useful tool we were shown is the cut tool, this allows you to crop a video at the place you want to cut it. 

Once we were taught the techniques, we went off in pairs to try and edited the shots we filmed in the camera workshop. Here is me and Lillys first attempt. 

This workshop taught me a ton about editing and will come in helpful when I have to edit my opening sequence. 

Group meeting 4th of February

 Over our past meetings we have been making blog posts, finalising our idea and looking at our shot by shot. My groups and I have been getting on well and we have successfully discussed all good and bad ideas. We have all been happy to make changes, like not showing any post exorcism shots. This week we have all research useful Information that will benefit our opening sequence. Once research we all went off and separately wrote blog posts that we then sent to each other once completed. I researched exorcism scenes in movies, Bea looked at lesbian secret relationships in movies, Otto made pictures of what our characters should look like and Caitlin made a story board. As a group we have manage our work and time very well and I feel like we are on a good path to be extremely prepared for our opening sequence. 

Story Board 1

Exorcism Research

 Exorcism Research- written by me

For the exorcism research, the first movie scene I looked at was called "The Exorcist". The scene I watched (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpyg94OzHK0) was completely different to the idea of my groups exorcism scene. The reason it is not similar is because of supernatural element. In this movie scene, the girl rises up into the air off of her bed, this is something we are not considering to do as we want to keep our exorcism realistic. We also don't have the budget to create a supernatural scene. The girl in "The Exorcist" is shown to be truly possessed, Our girl is not possessed however her parent view her sexuality as a sin. Something my group and I will take from this scene is the behaviour of the Priest. The priest behaviour is unpredictable and crazy as he frees the demon from the girls body. Our priest will behave in the same manner. The flicking of the water onto the girls body seen in this scene is something we want to remake and include into our scene. 

The next movie I looked is called the seventh day (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJThAgic45Q). I looked at this movie because it is another movie with exorcism regarding them going wrong. Specifically, in this movie it depicts an exorcism gone wrong, as the child burns to death. I chose this movie to show the intensity and dangers around an exorcism, as if not done properly it can have really big effects, such as death. Also, it shows that exorcism are not always the right way of conversion, because one of the 'fathers' is actual containing the demonic entity. The part that we are taking from this is the preparation of the exorcism, as we are trying to make it very realistic and really get the nervousness of the dangerous tasks. Also, in the first scene the boy's parents are in the room holding him down, we are using this because it makes it clear that this was the parents idea and they are a big part of the danger. 

Research On Similar Products

Written by Bea, researched by all 

 Blue Is the Warmest Colour

overall: The film follows Adèle, a French teenager who discovers desire and freedom, an aspiring painter Emma enters her life. It charts their relationship from Adèle's high school years to her early adult life and career as a school teacher. 

Much of the controversy was about claims of poor working conditions on set alleged by the crew and the lead actresses, and also the film's raw depiction of sexuality.

 

Plot: 

Adèle is an 15-year-old high-school student. She passes an older woman with short blue hair in the streets one day and is instantly attracted. She sleeps with a boy from school but is dissatisfied and ends it. After constantly thinking about the blue-haired woman and later kissing one of her female friends, Adèle becomes troubled about her sexual identity. Adele is taken to a gay bar where she meets Emma again, and they become friends. Adèle's friends suspect her of being a lesbian and separate themselves from her. Adèle and Emma grow closer and kiss at a picnic, they later have sex and begin a relationship. Emma's artsy family is welcoming to Adèle, however Adele tells her conservative, working-class parents that Emma is her tutor for philosophy class. Their relationship grows tense as they have little in common. Out of loneliness, Adèle sleeps with a male colleague. Emma learns about the cheating and furiously breaks up with Adèle. Three years later, the two meet at a restaurant. Adèle has not moved on: she is still deeply in love with Emma. 

Sexuality

Lesbian sexuality is one of the strongest themes of the film, as the narrative deals mainly with Adele's exploration of her identity in this context. However, the film's treatment of lesbian sexuality has been questioned by academics, due to its being directed from a straight, male perspective. One critic has suggested that the film is not a lesbian film, highlighting the exploration of bisexuality of the character Adele. 

About the movie 

Director and screenwriter Abdellatif Kechiche developed the premise for Blue Is the Warmest Colour while directing his second feature film. The film, originally planned to be shot in two and a half months, was shot in five months, from March to August 2012 with a budget of €4 million. Shooting took place in Lille as well as Roubaix and Liévin.

Significance of the colour blue

Blue Is the Warmest Colour is also filled with visual symbolism. The colour blue is used extensively throughout the film—from the lighting in the gay club Adèle visits, to the dress she wears in the last scene and most notably, in Emma's hair and eyes. For Adèle, blue represents emotional intensity, curiosity, love, and sadness. 

LGBT and feminist response

The film received LGBT and feminist critical comment for the perceived dominance of the male gaze and lack of female gaze, with some reviewers calling it a "patriarchal gaze." 

Similarities

Adèle's conservative, working-class family engaging in discussion over comparatively banal subjects to Emma's more open-minded, middle-class family, who focus their discussion primarily on more existential matters: art, career, life and passion. Perhaps one of the most significant differences between Adèle's and Emma's families is that Emma's is aware of their lesbian relationship, while Adèle's conservative parents are under the impression the women are just friends.

Our opening sequence is quite similar to this film with the set of conservative parents and them not fully agreeing with their daughters sexuality, however in ours there are 2 sets of parents who don't agree with the sexuality as it heightens the intensity as the love is more forbidden. Further, the 2 girls start as friends and then become more, which is also what our movie would show, and the opening sequence is showing them first taking the step as more than friends. The main difference of our pieces is that ours is slightly more darker with the exorcism, but there is betrayal in the fact that Adele cheats. Hopefully with our representation of lesbianism it's more accurate and captures the rawness of the sexuality, rather than the stereotypical blue hair. 

 

 

 

 

 

Potential Cast List

 For our potential cast list we are using students from our year and teachers from our school.

Dad- Adam (our media teacher)

Mum- Nicky (English teacher)

Priest- Ezra (Drama teacher)

Conservative Girl- Gracie Lupton (Student)

Religious Girl- Saskia Pattinson (Student)