Preliminary Task 3: Planning

For the beginning of the film, the girl will wake up either in Keyton’s house or mine. The rest of the film will be at Wellington High School and then end the short film in a bathroom at someone’s home. My group and I plan on filming between December 23rd and January 5th.

Shot: 1

Camera Techniques – Slow move back using steadicam

Editing – Action Match

Sound – Mom yelling in distance – sound perspective

Mise en scene – In room, sees alarm showing late time

Description of Shot – Girl waking up late

Explanation of choices – Allows viewer to see surrounding

Shot 2:

Camera Techniques – Steadicam following her around

Editing – Long shot

Sound – Shuffling around room

Mise en scene – Clothing put on is not well put-together

Description of Shot – Allows to see frantic feeling

Explanation of choices – The steadicam makes it a little shaky causing a panic, rushed feeling

Shot 3:

Camera Techniques – Over the shoulder

Editing – Elipsis of time

Sound – Low music playing, driving car quickly

Mise en scene – In car, late time is in car

Description of Shot – Gets in car to start driving

Explanation of choices – Shows the character, rushing while driving, when the time is shown

Shot 4:

Camera Techniques – Establishing shot

Editing –

Sound – Bell ringing

Mise en scene – School sign

Description of Shot – Shot of school

Explanation of choices – Shows a new location

Shot 5 :

Camera Techniques – High Angle

Editing –

Sound –

Mise en scene – School Supplies

Description of Shot – Drops stuff around her

Explanation of choices – High angle makes her look powerless

Shot 6 :

Camera Techniques – Master shot

Editing –

Sound – No sound

Mise en scene – Keyton looks like a mess physically and the rest of the class looks prepared

Description of Shot – Walks in late and interrupts teacher’s teaching

Explanation of choices – Shows awkward silence and all of the attention on Keyton

Shot 7:

Camera Techniques – Over the shoulder, slow zoom

Editing – Shot reverse shot

Sound – low sad instrumental music

Mise en scene – Bad test grade on paper. Desk and chair

Description of Shot – Over the Shoulder of her paper. Slow zoom on grade.

Explanation of choices – Shows reaction of Keyton getting bad grade. She cares about her grade and this usually never happens.

Shot 8:

Camera Techniques – POV

Editing –

Sound – low sad instrumental music

Mise en scene – Teacher is dressed formally, professionally, sheet of paper faced upside down

Description of Shot – Teacher is placing test upside down since it’s so bad.

Explanation of choices – Puts you in the girl’s place and reminds audience of the feeling of getting a bad grade.

Shot 9:

Camera Techniques – High Angle

Editing –

Sound –

Mise en scene – School clothes, messy hair

Description of Shot – high angle of her sitting down sad

Explanation of choices – Makes her look vulnerable

Shot 10:

Camera Techniques – Wide shot

Editing –

Sound – Sting

Mise en scene – school clothing

Description of Shot – Bell rings, she leaves the class

Explanation of choices – Bell ring to make it like school. Wide shot showing students.

Shot 11:

Camera Techniques – Medium close up

Editing –

Sound –

Mise en scene – messy hair

Description of Shot – Medium close up of her walking

Explanation of choices – Shows her sad and vulnerable

Shot 12:

Camera Techniques – over the shoulder

Editing – Slow motion

Sound –

Mise en scene – Messy hair

Description of Shot – Shows kids bullying her, laughing at her

Explanation of choices – Uses slow motion to emphasize emotions

Shot 13:

Camera Techniques – close up, slow motion

Editing – cut

Sound – none

Mise en scene –

Description of Shot – Has a sad face

Explanation of choices – Shows how upset she is

Shot 14:

Camera Techniques – Close up, slow motion

Editing – cut

Sound – yelling rude remarks

Mise en scene –

Description of Shot – Saying rude things about Keyton

Explanation of choices – Allows to show how he is yelling and laughing

Shot 15:

Camera Techniques – two shot, slow motion

Editing – cut

Sound – dialogue

Mise en scene – pretty, school clothes, hallway

Description of Shot – talking bad about the girl

Explanation of choices – They look better and make keyton look inferior

Shot 16:

Camera Techniques – Dolly – fast

Editing – cut

Sound –

Mise en scene – hallway

Description of Shot – running to bathroom

Explanation of choices – can follow her into bathroom running

Shot 17:

Camera Techniques – POV

Editing –

Sound – low instrumental music

Mise en scene – pencil on bathroom stall

Description of Shot – Shows anonymous mean statement in a public area

Explanation of choices – the point of view puts the viewer in Keyton’s position and expresses how awful she must feel

Shot 18:

Camera Techniques – close up

Editing – none

Sound – low instrumental music

Mise en scene – tears, messy hair

Description of Shot – Keyton is in tears

Explanation of choices – Shows how upset she is after looking at the rude insult

Shot 19:

Camera Techniques – close up

Editing – graphic match

Sound – low instrumental in back

Mise en scene – makeup smearing

Description of Shot – This shot forwarded to when she cries in her bathroom at home, showing she is still upset in the future

Explanation of choices – Keyton left the school to cry, but we didn’t have time to show her going home, so we cut from the school bathroom to her home bathroom

Shot 20:

Camera Techniques – POV

Editing –

Sound – low instrumental music

Mise en scene – Pill bottle

Description of Shot – Looks from pills to family portrait

Explanation of choices – Goes from sad and suicidal to happy family portrait

Shot 21:

Camera Techniques – Tilt down

Editing – cut

Sound – sad score

Mise en scene – Picture, wall

Description of Shot – sliding down

Explanation of choices – shows that the picture convinced her to not overdose

Shot 22:

Camera Techniques – close up/ camera on ground/ framing of just feet

Editing – cut

Sound – sad music

Mise en scene – pills in bathroom

Description of Shot – shot shows she dropped the pills

Explanation of choices – used in research given

Preliminary Task 3: Emotion

In my group’s video we will be expressing the emotion of depression/ weakness. In our video we will shoot a scene of a girl (Keyton), who begins her day waking up late for school, then getting to class late, earning a failing grade on a test, spilling her food all over her, getting remarks like “shave your head!” yelled at her, and other awful occurrences. The films my group will use for research are Cyberbully, Mean Girls, Awkward., and A Girl Like Her. 

Awkward.

From 5:38-6:45

• Jenna choked on pills (aspirin) accidentally
• Jenna spilled the bottle of pills and basket of razors in the bath tub
• She also knocked the hairdryer into the bathtub, causing an electrocution and the power to go out
• Jenna slips on the pills and broke her neck and arm

This scene escalated with bad scenarios, causing Jenna to hate her life, since it is so awkward. She didn’t mean to make her bathroom appear as a suicide case, but the doctor and her family believed that was the case.

For sound they use suspenseful music when she starts to take the aspirin, then there are sound effects when the pills hit the floor and the glass shatters, and she scream when she slips along with the sounds of her bones cracking and breaking as she falls. Lighting starts off bright and then flickers off since she dropped the hair dryer in the bathtub, causing an electric outage.

Wide Shot – Shows people actually care about her with all the balloons and she is bed ridden with a serious injury. 

Close Up – Shows importance of message, irony for what happens in the future.

Wide Shot – Jenna thinks about the mean letter she received and gets a headache, and decides to take aspirin, and that’s when everything goes down.

In our film we won’t be breaking bones, but the actress will show the same disappointment with life as she goes on with her day.

CyberBully – 46-47 minutes the girl attempts to kill herself, but is stopped by her friend.

In our project, my group members and I will be trying to portray a depressing feeling in the project. A teenage girl will be going about her daily life and her day continues to worsen, and she becomes depressed.

Medium shot – Steadicam was used multiple times throughout the the scene to show the character struggling to open and consume the pills. The viewer can feel like they are there and feel better connected with the character when using this camera technique.

This frame shows a close-up of the pills slowly rolling on the floor to add a more dramatic feeling. We can use a close-up of the pills when our character contemplates suicide.

This shot used a slow tilt when her mother lowered her to the ground. In our scene, the girl will slowly slide to the ground against the wall after deciding not to take the pills. Score was used, a fast beat rhythm was used to accompany the action occurring when the character attempted to over dose. A more dramatic feel was added and caused the viewer to feel more upset.

A Girl Like Her

From 49:21 to 51:49

• She is at the basketball game when the bullies come up and tell her to leave because she doesn’t belong here
• Everyone is telling her to kill herself because nobody likes her
• She is walking in the hallway when her bullies’ friend trips her into her bully, and the bully frames her by claiming she hit her

The scene is a compilation of what her bullies did to her starting with when she was at the basketball game. Then to the hallway where she was pushed and shoved, and lastly when everyone told her to kill herself over social media.

The director uses a point of view to make it seem more like a real video, which makes the scene more suspenseful. They also use a close-up on the comment telling her to kill herself, to show importance. They use a shallow depth when her bullies come to talk to her at the basketball game, to make the focus only on her and her emotions.

Shallow Depth- Makes the viewer only focus on her face and it makes you notice that she has her head down because she is getting bullied.

Close-Up – The close up of the comment “GO DIE PLEASE” is a part of a compilation of comments telling her to kill herself, to die, fall asleep, and never wake up, etc. These shot are all close-ups of the comments, which shows importance because they are trying to include all of the horrible things that happened to her.

POV – In this scene she is walking in the hallway when one of her bullies trips her and makes her run into another bully. Her bully then accused her of running into her and she shoves her. The POV makes it seem more realistic because you feel like you are there and it gives the scene more meaning.

Mean Girls

In our emotion video we will incorporate the idea of written mean remarks that follow the victim everywhere, this forces her to contemplate suicide. Wide shots will also play an important factor in this to show isolation of the main character.

The sound in the cafeteria scene is very important because Regina is supposed to rule the school as the bully, but when she gets food all over herself, she realizes she has no friends.

Close Up: A close up of a book with cruel things written about peers. My group can use this technique by writing mean remarks or insults on someone’s paper or desk.

Wide Shot: This shot is used to show all the students observing the scene while it unfolds as she drops her food all herself.

Sound Perspective: Used when everyone in the cafeteria is laughing at Regina after she was called an offensive name. We can use this technique when the kids scream “Shave your head!”.

Medium Close Up: This particular shot is used to show that the character Regina is sobbing. In our scenes we can use this to emphasize the emotion in our character.