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.