EXPOSED- Lunar productions AS final draft

Our final film opening... EXPOSED

THE REST OF THE FILM

The Rest of the film

• After our opening, the film will go on to tell the story of the relationship between Jessie and Jack from the start to the end.

• Taking inspiration from '500 Days Of Summer' (2009) the elements of their relationship will be shown in a non-chronological order, broken up to show the contrast from when they were happy at the start, to when Jessie became victimised in a passionate yet dangerous relationship.

• To comply with the Social Realism Genre, the actors will continue to act in a naturalistic way, in a variety of locations such as their homes and the local places they would have gone, to make it as realistic as possible.

500 days of Summer Trailer

Audience feedback

Audience Feedback






Audience expecatations

Instagram Page

Below is a link to our Instagram page, "Lunar Productions".

https://instagram.com/lunarproductions/

Social Realism Directors

Social Realism Directors

• Trainspotting- Trainspotting is one the most famous social realism films and the producer for this film was a man named Danny Boyle. Danny Boyle is an english film director, producer and screenwriter of some of the most successful films in the world, not only including trainspotting, but other social realist films such as 'Slumdog millionaire.' He is well known for his extremely accurate portrayals of hardships, including drug use and portrayals of social class. 

• Fish tank- The director of the well known social realism film is Andrea Arnolds. Andrea Arnolds is a British director and former actor who won many awards for 'Fish Tank.' She shot this film entirely in the UK, and was adamant that she would shoot the film in chronological order, so that the journey of the film was in chronological order, and would make sense to the main but inexperienced actor, Katie Jarvis. Andrea would only give her a day's worth of script to study so that she could take it day by day, and this in turn, created an extremely realistic and accurate representation of South London.

(made by Sammie)

History of Social Realism

A Brief history of some Social Realism films over time 

Problems with Editing

Difficulties encountered when Editing

Costume

Costume 

Final Storyboard

Final Storyboard

As we made drastic changes to our opening, such as changing the genre, we needed to change our narrative to fit our new genre of social realism. We kept the counselling scene and ending, however changed the flashback to a domestic abuse attack, rather than a random attack in an alleyway. 

This is our new and improved storyboard:

Sounds

Sounds For Our Film Opening

Moodboard

Moodboard

Click here to see moodboard

Counsellor's Make Up

Counsellor's Make Up

Louisa applying makeup to make his facial hair seem fuller, making him look older

Location- Counselling Scene

Location Shot- Counselling Scene

We chose to locate the counselling scene in a house rather than an office because this way, the patient would feel more relaxed in a cosy and safe environment. This living room has a very friendly atmosphere, contrasting to the frightening topic being discussed. It also  holds a false sense of safety and security, making the patient believe she is safe, when really, her worst fear is standing outside.

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation Question 1

Location- Jessie's Home

Location Shots- Jessie's Home

We chose to locate in this house because it is a simple, typical, working/middle class family home. It seems cosy and safe, shocking the audience even further when the disturbing happenings occur in this room. As part of our genre, location shooting is a popular convention so, we chose to shoot in an actual house rather than a studio and not use any back drops or green screens

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation question 3

Health And Safety Concerns

Health and Safety Concerns

One of the most prominent health and safety concerns is definitely the fact that a glass has to be smashed during the flashback and violent scene. This can be hazardous as the environment we are filming this is an enclosed kitchen.

In order to overcome and deal with this hazard, when smashing the glass we planned to make sure Callum was back as far as possible in the corner of the room, and all the other actors stood behind a closed door as he threw it. We also made sure everyone was wearing shoes to avoid the risk of getting shards of glass in people's feet. As soon as the glass was thrown, we got a broom and swept away all visible pieces of glass, and then hoovered the whole floor to collect any remaining shards of glass which could be dangerous. This was also the last thing we filmed, so that there was less of a risk of anyone stepping on glass during the other parts of the filming.

Evaluation Question 6

Evaluation Question 6

Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 7

Evaluation question 7

FINAL SCRIPT

FINAL SCRIPT (social realism)

Jessie: Tilly Hale

Councillor: Ben Howse

Jack: Callum King

Initial Script

Initial Script (for horror)

Cast:

Rose- Jessie Owens

Counseller- Jon West 

Stalker- Callum King

Rose and the counsellor are sitting face to face in a small room. It is set out like a counselling room with a table and chairs, with paper, flowers, tissues and water. 

Rose: I’m scared to leave the house.

Counsellor: How are you feeling?

Rose: I just want everything to be normal again.

Counsellor: Your bruises seem to be healing well.

Rose: I can’t escape it.

Counsellor: Was this the only time?

Rose: (pause) I see him everywhere I go. 

BLACKOUT

Counsellor: Why don’t you take me back to the moment it happened?

Rose: (nods slowly)

Counsellor: You said you felt like he was controlling you again. That he wasn’t letting you go?

(Brief flashback to attack, then returns backs to room. Rose is breathing heavily)

Counsellor: Tell me everything.

(Flashbacks occur, vivid memory of the attack)

Stalker: Shh…don’t speak.

Flashbacks end and it returns back to the counselling room

Counsellor: (comforting) Shh, its okay. I think that’s enough for today. See you next week.

Rose forces a smile, gathers her things and walks out of the room. 

She walks outside and the stalker is standing opposite her, holding on the other side of the road. 

BLACKOUT

Logo for lunar productions

Logo

After finally designing our logo, we used Photoshop to create it and this is the final result:

Company Name Ideas

COMPANY NAME IDEAS

We wanted the theme of our company to be linked with night and the moon, because this is mysterious and linked with our original genre of psychological horror because of its dark, scary feel, however it also links with social realism because the moon and stars light up the sky at night, showing the truth and reality, like social realism does. We brainstormed names and came up with these three main ones:

• Peril Productions
• Crescent Studios
• Lunar Productions

We decided on LUNAR PRODUCTIONS

We started to design the logo for our company, gaining inspiration from pictures like these: 

Filming Schedule

FILMING PLAN

Social Realism

SOCIAL REALISM

Make up- Jessie

Jessie's Make up 




This video shows how we created the bruised look on the actor (me) playing Jessie for the counselling scene. We set up an IPhone 6 and used the video camera feature Time Lapse to speed it up. 

Filming Shoot 2

Callum King- playing Jack

Filming Shoot 2

Filming long shots in the field

Filming extreme long shots in the field

Filming Shoot 1

                         Filming Shoot 1

Filming close up shots

Filming long/wide angle/panning shots

Filming extreme close up of the eye using microscopic lens

Title Ideas

TITLE IDEAS

Exhale

Blackout

No Way Back

Final Decision:

EXPOSED

The "Ex" represents the ex boyfriend that Jessie was abused by.

the "X" represents death, danger.

The word "exposed" represents a lack of safety and security and also vulnerability.

Preparing the actors SHOOT #1

Preparing the Actors for SHOOT 1

Ben Howse|The Counsellor

As Ben is seventeen and the counsellor in our film is meant to be in his mid-twenties, we needed to make him look older. We did this by flattening down his hair with hair wax, applying brown mascara, eyebrow wax and gel eyeliner to create facial hair and made him wear glasses. We added translucent powder to his face to even out the skin tone. We also added slight dark circles under his eyes in order to age him. We dressed him in a suit, shirt and tie to give a sense of professionalism to him, however underneath the blazer he wore a jumper to make him seem more comforting and approachable.

Matilda Hale(me)|Jessie

To make the character look like she had suffered from domestic abuse and had been physically attacked, we applied bruising to my face using different eyeshadows, lip gloss and countour powder after applying foundation, concealer and power as a base.To make my eyes appear swollen and tired we applied purple toned eye shadow under the eye and on the lid as a base. We then applied purple, dark brown, red, teal, slight blue and green eye shadows around her right eye to form a bruising effect. We also applied dark red and brown lip gloss in blots to make it appear like scabs on the forehead. We wanted the bruising to appear as if it were 'healing' but still recent and sore to touch, so it still had redness to it. I wore black jeans and a white jumper to create a sense of normality, dullness and also purity which had been disrupted by the abuse.

Domestic Abuse inspiration #3

Domestic Abuse inspiration #3

Domestic Abuse inspiration #2

Domestic Abuse inspiration #2

Social Realism Inspiration

Social Realism Inspiration

We watched "Murdered by My Boyfriend", a BBC3 Drama which tells the true story of a girl being abused and murdered by her boyfriend. This heavily inspired us and made use choose to focus on domestic abuse for our film opening. We therefore decided to keep the counselling scenes but change the reason as to why she was there. Instead of her being attacked in an alleyway, we decided that she would be attacked by her boyfriend in the house as this is more realistic and believable.

CHANGE OF PLAN

CHANGE OF PLAN

After discussing our narrative with our teachers and planning the filming, we realised that it didn't make enough sense and the choppy flashbacks would be too difficult to film and edit in the short amount of time we have left. We also realised that the ideas we have for the new narrative do not fit with our genre of psychological horror so we decided to change our genre to social realism and our narrative will still have the same counsellor scene but the flashbacks will focus on domestic violence

Our Film's BBFC rating

OUR FILM'S BBFC RATING

We decided to rate our film a 15. According to The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification), a 15 rated film:

• Will not have any discriminating language.
• Drugs may be used but it cannot promote the use of them
• Strong horror is allowed unless sadistic or expressed in a sexual way.
• Dangerous behaviour eg suicide should not be expressed in a way that could be copied or promote this behaviour. Weapons should not be promoted.
• There can be use of strong language such as f*** and strong terms such as the c*** word can be used if the context allows it to be accepted.
• Nudity may be allowed if in a sexual context. No constraints against non-sexual nudity or educational.
• Sex may be portrayed without plenty of detail.
• Violence may be strong but should have large detail on inflicting injury. Strong gory pictures are unlikely to be accepted.

We decided this would be suitable for our film because it will include:

• gory images in attack scenes and throughout the film with strong use of blood.
• strong horror- not expressed in a sexual way.
• some use of strong language (not in the opening)
• strong violence 

Makeup Practice

MAKE UP PRACTICE

To the left is a photograph of all the equipment we used in order to create each look. We used:

• Naked Palette
• Large eyeshadow and lip gloss pallette
• Pack of 24 make up sponges 
• Fake Blood capsules

 Counselling scene makeup: 

• "Healing bruises" 
• scabs around nose and lips
• washed out face
• attempt to cover up bruises with foundation

 Attack scene makeup:

• Throughout the scene, more blood will be applied to face to make it realistic.
• redness of the face post slaps and punches to show effect
• bleeding nose and lip and swollen eye

Filming Device

Filming Device

For filming our opening, we decided to use my I Phone 6. 

"Stunning 1080p HD video at 60 fps, capture more dramatic slo-mo video and, for the first time, create time-lapse videos. Continuous autofocus provides constant focus as you capture your footage. And cinematic video stabilisation keeps your shots steady, even when you’re not."

BBFC RATING GUIDLINES

BBFC RATING GUIDLINES

When deciding what rating our film should be, we used these guidelines to help decide what we should rate it as.

Change with cast

CHANGES WITH CAST

Unfortunately, Jon West (who was supposed to play the counsellor) will be unable to take part, due to issues with him travelling here down from London and his unavailability. So, instead we will use his understudy, Ben Howse. This may prove a challenge because the character of the counsellor is meant to be in his mid-twenties, however, Ben is seventeen. To solve this issue we will need to make him look older. We will do this by using makeup to add bags under his eyes and comb down his hair which will hopefully make him look older and therefore make our film opening more believable.

Aditionally, Jessie Owens is also unable to take part because of unavailability in relation to the filming schedule, so instead, the understudy used is me- Matilda Hale. I am very excited to be taking part as I love acting and think I fit the character very well so I will try my hardest in making it convincing and genre appropriate.

Auditions and Casting

AUDITIONS AND CASTING

On Thursday 4th December, casting auditions took place in the drama studio. All AS theatre studies students prepared a monologue or duologue to perform to both AS and A2 Media Studies students, in the hope that they would be seen as suitable for one of their film openings/trailers. I also performed a monologue because I am a theatre student as well as a media student so I both watched and performed. In the end only one student got cast in a student's piece. The main reason for this is because most groups had already cast their actors prior to the auditions. We decided to cast Jessie Owens as Rose, Callum King as the attacker and Jon West as the Counsellor.

STORYBOARD ANIMATIC- for initial plot

STORYBOARD ANIMATIC

Costume Ideas

Rose's Outfits


Counselling Scene





Yellow Jumper- represents innocence, youth, false/ forced happiness.

Black Jeans- represent normality, nothingness, emptiness.



















Black Doc Martens- represent a sense of character, youth, individuality.














Blue Ribbon- represents youth, individuality, sense of character, deep sadness -in contrast with the red ribbon in attack scenes. 









Attack Scene

Red short skirt- represents sex appeal, danger, blood, school girl like to create some sense of innocence and juxtaposition.

Black Jumper- represents darkness, night-time, danger.

 Red Doc Marten- contrasting with the black equivalent in the counselling scene. Red represents danger, sex and blood.