How to Kill a Dead Girl Storyboard

'How to kill a dead girl' - EVALUATION QUESTION 7

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'How to kill a dead girl' - EVALUATION QUESTION 2

'How to kill a dead girl' - EVALUATION QUESTION 1

To kill a dead girl - New Script

Script

TRANSITION IN

STUDIO LOGO FADE IN / FADE OUT.

INT. House/room with laminate flooring. Natural lighting. Camera pans to features of a dead girl (lucy) who is covered in bruises and appears to have very pale skin.

Camera pans to her legs and then individual shots of each of her arms and hands the camera then zooms in to a close up shot of her closed eyes.

TITLE SCREEN SHOWS

Next shot shows her in a bed – phone alarm sounds. Two separate shots, one from above her and one to show her exiting the bed. Close up shot of her putting slippers on. (Her morning routine is the same as any other person – shows how she appears to be just like anyone else). Next, she is sat on a dressing table – she is putting on makeup. - Her phone rings but she sighs an irritated sigh and ignores it.

One shot from over the shoulder so that it is from her perspective and also a medium long shot. Forward tracking on camera – follows her into the bathroom where she brushes her teeth and puts on a jumper. Forward tracking of camera again, follows her downstairs (Camera is handheld to show it from her perspective) - She stops midway on the stairs as her phone rings again but she ignores it.

She walks towards the door and her phone rings again - this time she answers it: 

'What now?' - she says with an agitated tone. 'You better not mess this up, BOTH of our careers on the line and you know what i'm capable of' 

Mumbling sounds from a male voice from down the phone

'OK i'm leaving now, just get this done and you're of the hook'. 

She hangs up the phone and leaves the house.

Close up shot of her opening the door, Long shot of her behind glass closing the door.

She then walks out of the door and the shot slows down as she walks past the camera.

FADE TO BLACK 

Analysis of BFI data on genre and audiences.

The genre and audiences statistics from BFI holds information about which genre of films are released, how many releases there has been and the amount of money the genre has made.

In 2013,the top 5 film genres of the total box office were Animation, action, comedy, sci-fi and drama. The horror genre placed 8th and the thriller genre placed 12th. There were 37 horror films released and 67 thriller films released in that year. Although there were less horror films produced, they created a lot more profit (£28.4 million more) than thriller films. The horror genre created £57.7 million whereas films of the thriller genre created £29.1 million but thriller films are more popular in terms of the number of films released. This shows that the horror genre is overall more profitable and popular with the public than the thriller genre.

In the UK and Ireland in 2013, there were 10,708 box offices of the horror genre showed per site, meaning that there was 10,708 films of that genre showed per cinema whereas there was less than half the number of box offices of the thriller genre showed per site (only 5,127). This means that more profit would have been made from the horror genre as the gross box office for the thriller genre was £29.1 million whereas for the horror genre. the gross box office was £57.5 million. Although the horror genre made more profit than the thriller genre, thrillers were shown at more sies than horros as films of the thriller genre were shown at 5,667 sites and films of the horror genre were shown at 5,367 sites. This shows us that generally horror films were more popular in 2013 than thriller films as they were shown at more sites but less box offices were shown per site and therefore the gross box office was less for the thriller genre than the horror genre.

Although there seemed to be more showings of horror films than thriller films in the UK and Ireland in 2013, there were more releases of independent thriller films (17) than there was of independent films of the horror genre (7). Films of the thriller genre also took up a larger percentage of all releases than horror films as the thriler genre took 12.2% of all showings and the horror genre took up 5% of all releases. The genre that took up the largest percentage of all releases would be documentaries as they took up 23.7 % of all releases. The top performing title for horror and thriller genres were World War Z for horror andThe Counsellor for thriller which aren't very well known films however the top performing title for the documentary genre was the 'One Direction - This is us' film. This would have taken up a larger percentage of releases because One direction have a large fanbase meaning that there would have been a certain audience (Teenage girls) going to watch the film. However, the horror genre still made the largest gross box office as it made £14.8 million, the documentary made £9.4 million and the thriller genre made £4.1 million. This again shows that although there were more releases of films of the thriller genre, the horror genre was still more popular to the public and produced more profit.

From analysing this data we can see that overall, the horror genre creates more profit and generally more popular to the public than the thriller genre, however the horror genre is not the most popular genre overall although it was very profitable in the UK and The Republic Of Ireland in 2013.

Mr Judge Feedback - Provisional Mark/Level/Grade: Level 2:

·          Level 2, 8–11 marks • Basic skill in the use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation. • Basic understanding of issues around audience, institution, technology, representation, forms and conventions in relation to production. • Basic ability to refer to the choices made and outcomes. • Basic understanding of their development from preliminary to full task. • Basic ability to communicate.

Interim grade: Level 2 11/20 Level

Medal & Mission:

1. Pics of bruising required, as evidence of planning costumes etc
2. Some images are not showing, please check
3. Excellent opening title sample/logo
4. Schedule completed
5. No BFI data in evidence

Mission

1. Unfortunately you haven't  completed a number of previous tasks as shown on the 8/12/15 feedback which is really dissapointing, in order to improve from a Level 2 you need to get those tasks completed by half term

	MINIMAL (L1)	BASIC (L2)	PROFICIENT (L3)	EXCELLENT (L4)	TOTAL
1.RESEARCH & PLANNING [20]	0-7	8-11	12-15	16-20	11
2. CONSTRUCTION – MAIN TASK [40]	0-23	24-35	36-47	48-60
3.EVALUATION [20]	0-7	8-11	12-15	16-20
TOTAL GRADE FOR FOUNDATION PORTFOLIO [100]					/100
Minus -39 = U	40-49 = E	50-59 = D	60-69 = C	70-79 = B	80-100 = A

Stage Makeup for 'How to Kill a dead girl'.

For our opening scene, we needed to include bruises and blood as it is about an abusive relationship. Our opening scene involves our character lying in a pool of blood that has come from her head meaning that it would be in contact with her skin. This means that we would have to check that she is not allergic to the fake blood that we used so we did a patch test to check that there would be no allergic reaction.

It also included a bathroom scene in which the character had extremely bruised shoulders to look as though someone has grabbed her from behind with force.

To achieve bruises we used purple, blue, black and green powdered shadow and stage makeup. We started by adding blue patches and blending them out so that they did not look too obvious, we then added a purple shimmer over them and added black parts to the more hollow parts of her body to add emphasis. I then added a small patch of green to the bruise to make it look more realistic. Before we did this, we did another skin patch test to ensure that there was no allergies. We decided to keep the makeup as simple and subtle as possible as our opening scene aims to be quite realistic and emotional so that it has an effect on the audience so we didn't want to make it too over the top, we aimed to keep it looking realistic and subtle

Cast for 'How to kill a dead girl'.

For our film we needed to use a female character who could look around 20 or younger once she is wearing makeup to fit the description of our character. Ideally, as there was only 2 of us in a group, we both needed to help with filming and editing so we would need another person to act for us. We cast Erin Kellyman as our main character, playing the role of 'Lucy'. Erin has had experience in acting and attends 'The Television Workshop' in Nottingham'. Through this, she has been hired by an agency called 'Curtis Brown' through which. she gets acting jobs. Her latest role was playing a character named 'Cathy' in a show on Channel four called 'Raised By Wolves'. We chose Erin because of the experience she had with acting (as she also does acting at BOA school in Birmingham), we decided that she would be most suitable to play Lucy as she would be able to pull off being serious and emotional well.

'To kill a dead girl' Title sequence'

HOW TO KILL A DEAD GIRL TITLE SEQUENCE

We created a title sequence using ____. By doing this, we first inserted our 'headlight productions' company logo. For the title of our film we used the colours Red, white and black as white symbolises innocence and the word 'Kill' was highlighted in red to symbolise blood. The font that we used also looks like it would possibly be in a book or be written using a typewriter, this shows that the storyline of the film is about Lucy (the main character)'s life as it is almost as though it is an autobiography about herself and what she has been through.

We then added text about who filmed, edited, added sound, who was the producer and who wrote the screenplay. Once we have filmed, we will edit the title sequence over the clip and add sound.

Synopsis of 'To kill a dead girl'

'To kill a dead girl' is a thriller following the life of a young woman in around her 20's. She has followed a life of abuse and physical harm from a mystery man who she never though she would be able to escape from. 5 years on from her torture, she lives an average life, she owns her own house, runs her own business, she is her own woman...but she can never escape the torment and distress that she was put through, it haunts her every day.

'It's over.' - She would tell herself every day, but as the police soon discover when she is found dead in her house one afternoon, it was far from it.

Production Schedule for 'How to kill a dead girl'.

WHEN- We plan to start filming our opening scene on Wednesday 6th January. 

WHO-We will film our main character (Lucy) who is played by Erin Kellyman. Our aim is to complete the first three scenes, these include pans the first page and a half of our storyboard, these include pans of the characters arms and legs when she is dead, shots of her morning routine: getting out of bed etc and shots of her in a bathroom.

HOW-We plan to use a pan, a close up, a long shot, medium shot, P.O.V shot, medium long shot and then a over the shoulder shot. We will use these shots over the course of the first three scenes. We will use a tripod to ensure that the movements are smooth and the camera is still.

WHICH- The equipment of which we will need will include a HD camera, a tripod for panning shots as well as the mise-en-scene elements of the film such as stage make-up/latex/body paint to recreate the bruises and marks on the characters body. 

Health and Safety Issues- When filming these scenes before applying the make-up special effects we need to do a "test patch" to check that our actress will not have any reactions to the products we plan to use. 

Permission for location- Our location is an ordinary house, therefore it can be any particular house with a good amount of space and lighting. As the house we plan to use is owned by a member of our group we will not need permission to film there, but to be sure that we avoid having any background noise we will make the other members of the household aware of our filming to ensure they do not appear in any shots. 

2) WHEN- We plan to continue our filming on Friday 8th January.

WHO- We plan to film our last scenes of the film, this involves our character Lucy having flashbacks of her being abused and physically harmed, we will carry on filming from the bathroom scene up to the final ending scene. 

HOW- We will use Worm-eye view shots, medium shots, long shots, POV shots and several zooms and tracking shots.

WHICH- We will need to use a HD camera and tripod as well as using props such as a glass (for drinking water), a key for the locking of the door scene as well as using more make-up/latex/body paint to create bruises when needed.

Health and Safety Issues- Within this section of filming there are health and safety issues such as the risk of harm to the actress, in one of the scenes we plan to film our main character falls to the floor dramatically, unless care and control is taken when filming this scene our character could harm themselves during the fall. 

Permission for location- The remaining scenes of the film will continue in the location we used previously, this means that we will not need permission to use the location.

My studio logo 'Headlight productions'

To create our studio logo, we used an app called 'Hyperlapse' and filmed a busy main road at night. The app was then able to speed up the video and gave it a fast motion effect. We then slowed down the hyperlapse so it created a slow motion video of the cars which made the lights appear as though they are blurred although you could still tell that the cars were travelling at a speed. We then used movie maker on Ipad and added over the video that said 'Headlight Productions' which is the name of our production company. We then rewound the video so it became difficult to see which direction the cars were travelling in which gave the desired effect of blurred headlights in the night.

Stereotypical Representations of characters from the Horror genre

Many horror films have the same/similar characteristics for antagonists. For example, 'Dracula', which was made in 1931 by Bram Stoker created representations of what he believed to be 'a monster'. Some of these representations have been developed and changed and have now stuck in Hollywood and are stereotypically used in other films made to do with Dracula. Some of these stereotypes include the black clothing, complete with a cape, the pale skin and dark slicked back hair, sleeping in a coffin, not being able to go out in the day or look in the mirror and being afraid of garlic. Stoker created this representation of the character as it is what he believed Dracula should be like. The film was a hit in Hollywood and created a lot of profit for the studio which is why other film studios decided to recreate the film to gain a profit and thus, the stereotype of 'Dracula' was created. The same happened with the character of frankenstein, which was first created in Mary Shelley's book - 'Frankenstein' in 1818. The book later was turned into a film in 1910 where a monster was created from a lot of different body parts. The reality of this would be very grim and dark but the film turned it into more of a comedic character who had metal bolts screwed into his head and had a green skin tone. This also seemed to become fairly popular and the stereotype which has been created has stuck and is now used worldwide.

           

Although many production companies use this stereotype of a vampire, there are films that have challenged this to suggest that they are not antagonists and can be normal people like anyone else. An example of a film that has twisted the stereotype would be 'The Twilight Saga'. The writer of the books, Stephanie Mayer suggested that a vampire is like any other normal person and that the only difference is that they have to live off human blood. 

However, she did stick with the stereotype that they have very pale skin and red eyes.

Another stereotypical representation of antagonists in the horror genre would be the middle aged man who has had a rocky childhood/ an event in his life that has made him turn into a killer or psychopath. This character is usually a straight male rather than a female to show the dominance of the male population. However, it may be interpreted as others as portraying males to be antagonists and the women as being superior. Examples of typical antagonists in horror films could be characters such as 'Hannible Lector' in Silence of the Lambs or 'Jason Voorhees' from the film 'Friday the 13th'.

Maltese Falcon Film Noir Textual Analysis

‘The Maltese Falcon’ is a film noir that is set in the 1940’s and made in 1941. We know that is a film noir as it has all of the basic conventions of one. These would include things such as the main hook or enigma, which in this case is a crime investigation, it plays with the good cop/bad cop storyline as the main detective, ‘Detective Sam Spade’ and his partner, Detective Miles Archer are working on a case that involves a young and beautiful woman, who plays the ‘Femme Fatale’ and they are looking for a man who supposedly has taken Mrs Wonderly (the Femme Fatale)’s sister. In the end, Miles ends up being killed and Sam begins to show his true colours.

The femme fatale, in this film noirs case – Mrs Wonderly is a young woman who is usually a ‘damsel in distress’. Her character is one that both of the detectives swoon over which instantly in the film we see that both detectives will end up arguing about her. She claims to be scared for her sister’s safety when a man called ‘Thursby’ claims to have taken her and will not let her see her sister. She pleads for the men’s help in finding her. During the scene where she enters the office, there is a medium close up shot of Mrs Wonderly where she is speaking to the men about her sister, however throughout this scene she is unable to look either of the men in the eye which suggests that there is an underlying issue that she may be trying to hide. This gives the audience an insight on what is going to happen before the people in the film know. This is an example of dramatic irony which does not happen very often in a film noir as they usuaslly have restricted narration – where the audience knows only as much as the detective. The suggestion that Mrs Wonderly is a femme fatale shows the representation of women at the time. We see that women were inferior to men at the time, there is another point in the film when Miles walks into the office and both men stand up but Mrs Wonderly is left sitting that we see that she is smaller than/inferior to the men. This may also give the audience an idea that the film was very misogynistic as it portrays the woman to be the bad guy/ the killer. The femme fatale is always the character in a film noir that gets the men to do her dirty work for her and then ends up either dead or in jail.

The establishing shot which is set in the city of San Francisco is very stereotypical to a film noir/ crime film. We also see that the office is set in the city and the audience suspects that it is set in a block of offices as we cannot see anything but sky out of the windows in the office. Slightly later on in the film, we see Detective Spade’s apartment/flat. It is very simple and we see that he does not have very much money as he lives in an apartment and when the detectives come to question him about the murder, he only has a small seat for them to share and he sits on his bed (which isn’t made). This indicates that he is a very busy man and does not have time for anything outside of work which could also be why there is no woman present.

The sound in the film is mostly diegetic as there is a lot of dialogue between the two detectives and Mrs Wonderly. However after Detective Archer is killed, there is a piece of music (non-diegetic) over the top of the dialogue and film. This piece of music was mysterious and indicated that the chase was now on, to find out who it was that killed Archer.

The editing in the film is very simple and is called continuity editing. This is where each shot must follow each other to make the film look as though it flows. During the time that the film was set and written in, there was not very much advanced editing for films (which is part of why the film noir genre exists). So the lighting is very low key to add the effect of the black and white film noir. There are no tricks or colour editing in the film which is why it is simple and called ‘continuity editing’.

Both of the detectives are very stereotypical to the film noir genre. We see this as soon as the film starts when Detective Spade begins to roll a cigarette in his office, this indicates that the film was made around that time as usually, people wouldn’t smoke inside, especially if they have guests as it is considered dangerous and rude. Again, this is another indication that Spade is very relaxed and emotionless as he doesn’t really seem to care, we also see this when Mills walks into the room when Spade is speaking to Mrs Wonderly. Instantly, Archer is swooning over Wonderly and he doesn’t hide it even though he has a wife whereas Spade is very collected and relaxed although we still see that he shows some interest in her. When Archer is killed and Spade goes out in the middle of the night to see what happens, he is wearing a suit with a trilby hat and an overcoat/mac. This is a stereotypical attire for characters such as detectives in Film noirs. Mrs Wonderly also describes Floyd Thursby to have ‘Dark hair and Bushy eyebrows’ and to be wearing a ‘Grey suit and hat’. This is again a stereotype of the detectives at the time but it could also be Mrs Wonderly suggesting that the detectives are just like any other bad gut which indicates that she has an underlying plot against them.

The running theme of the film noir is a crime investigation. In this film noir, it uses private detectives and detectives rather than police as it allows the director to be inventive and creative as detectives are allowed to do much more digging and do more dirty work than police. The character or Spade takes on this persona and as we later find out has a lot of secrets and is hiding a lot as he is supposedly having an affair with Miles’ wife which is why he does not phone her directly when he was killed. When he went to the scene of Miles’ murder, Sam declined seeing the body before it was taken away and did not speak directly to Miles’ wife. This would then raise suspicions with the police as it is made to look as though it was Spade that killed Miles. This scene shows us that there is more than meets the eye with Sam as he is a very secretive and emotionless character in the film. This again has the conventions of a film noir as there is always a problem with the main characters.  We also see that the femme fatale, (Mrs Wonderly) is English. At the time, English people were considered as very classy and posh. If the character or Mrs Wonderly spoke with a New York or Jersey accent, she would not be treated the same as how she is treated because she is English. The English were considered to be very classy and of a high status so were treated with respect in America which is why both of them men swooned over her in the film and she was treated with respect and as a lady. This is also one of the reasons that neither of the detectives suspected that she would be an antagonist because she seemed classy and respectful so would not be assumed to be a killer.

In conclusion, The Maltese Falcon has many elements of a film noir such as the stereotypical manner of the detectives, (the trilby, suit and overcoat), the ‘Femme fatale’, (the female character that begins being beautiful and innocent but ends up being the spider with the web and either ends up dead or in jail), The setting of the city, the black and white film and low key lighting to add effect and the storyline of the good cop/bad cop crime investigation