Problem after problem.

Today we have encountered another problem. As said before due to screening our short film to a groupof students the initial decision was to re-shoot the whole film due to many complications. However due to very little time this isn't possible to take place and therefore we have no option other than to make and do with what we already have. We are hoping that through the use of special effects and the insertion of non-diagetic sound. Fingers crossed we should be able to create a good end product nevertheless!

Re-filming scenes.

After a whole week of editing we screened our short film to some students within the college. Although they didn't raise many issues there was a concern about the amount of dialogue that was present through the film. Also many background noises overtook the characters while they were talking therefore the audience wasn't able to make sense of what was being said. We have now concluded to shoot most of our short film again which will take place over the next few days and edit it by the end of the week hopefully as it is vital at this point to have sufficient amount of footage. We have also decided to condense the film in order to save time as we are approaching the maximum time limit of the short film.

Editing week 2.

Today we edited a sufficient amount of our short film. We also came to the conclusion of having flashbacks at parts where there wasn't much dialogue of the characters. We experimented with a variety of effects as well as desaturation and cross stretch along with increasing speed and muting sounds within the scenes. Tomorrow we hope to continue with editing.

Editing problems.

We are now approaching the second week of editing however have encountered some problems. Through some of the scenes there is an overlap of sound from the surrounding areas of the park which means we are unable to hear what the characters are communicating. We are now unsure if we should film these scenes again as we will lose continuity or if we should use a VoiceOver. Tomorrow hopefully we will decide what needs to be done as the editing deadline is approaching swiftly and filming at this point is not ideal.

Filming the short film.

Today me and my group member together with our 4 actors filmed all the scenes of our short film. Having delayed this a week due to the actors being unavailable today all scenes of our short film have been completed. Whilst filming, the actors suggested ways in which we could alter the scenes of our storyboard to make it seem much more realistic with a clear storyline, therefore we have changed some scenes as well as locations and this will be shown in our film. Moreover as the script was quite brief our actors were happy to improvise as much as they could. During the course of the next 2 weeks we hope to start editing as well as finishing this before the deadline. Over all we all had a great day filming and are looking forward to the finished product!

Creative account - research and planning.

Pre-production script.

This is our script which has now been finalised and will be used when filming our short film. as well as this breif guide we will inform our actors to improvise when playing their parts as this will demonstrate a wide use of emotions and will give the characters an opportunity to thoroughly engage in the storyline performing to their full potential.

 

Script for Drive2Death

Alisha walks past bullies.

Bully 1: Oi you!

Bully 2: Err Look at her

All bullies: (Laugh) Come here!

Alisha looks towards the bullies and shivers

All bullies walk towards Alisha

Bully 2: Got some p?

Alisha: Leave me alone

Bullies mutter under their breath as Alisha walks away

Alisha is with her boyfriend in the park

Alisha hugs her boyfriend and has a scared look on her face

Alisha’s boyfriend: What’s wrong babygirl?

Alisha moves back and sighs

Alisha: This has been happening for a while now, and I just didn’t know how to tell you.

Alisha’s boyfriend: Just tell me what happened

Alisha: Basically, I was on my way to see you when some boys started to harass me

Alisha’s boyfriend: What the hell! What did they do? Who were they?!

Alisha: They called me and were harassing me for money. I don’t know who they are

Alisha’s boyfriend: What the hell! Why didn’t you call me?

Alisha: Coz you’re never there for me, that’s why!

Alisha’s boyfriend: Oh, so this is my fault? You’re such a bloody drama queen.

Alisha: Oh whatever! I knew you wouldn’t understand. I don’t even know why I told you

Alisha walks away, gets her phone out and exits the park

She walks on down the road without watching where she is going

She then bumps into Kevin

Kevin: Oh sorry, are you okay?

Alisha: Yeah, just got a lot going on at the moment

Kevin: Trust, we all do (.) You can tell me about it if you want to

Alisha: No, I don’t really want to talk about it

Kevin: Well you can take my number and just drop me a text if you ever wanna

Alisha: Alright. Give me your number then

Kevin and Alisha exchange numbers

An hour later at the bus stop

Alisha receives a call from Kevin

Alisha: Hello…

Half An Hour Later Alisha puts down the phone from Kevin

Alisha: Alwite ill chat to you later, bye.

Alisha’s expressions change from happy to slightly tense

Alisha holds her head as she screams in frustration of having flashbacks of all the bullying

Bully 1: Yoo!

Alisha: Do I know you?

Bully1: Don’t talk to me like that

Bully 1 kisses his teeth

Bully 1: Oi you b****!

Alisha walks away

Alisha: monologue- No one truly understands what I’m going through, I just wish someone could feel the pain I feel.

Kevin walks through the park as he texts Alisha

Alisha meets up with her boyfriend on the street and begins to sort things out between them

Alisha’s boyfriend: I didn’t mean to offend you the other day I’m sorry babe I should have understand and supported you

Alisha receives a text from Kevin

Alisha looks scared to what her boyfriend is going to think and her boyfriend stares at her in confusion

Alisha’s boyfriend: who texed you?

Alisha: It’s no one babe

Alisha’s boyfriend: don’t lie to me; your face says it all. So tell me!

Alisha: okay sighs there’s this boy

Alisha’s boyfriend: what boy?

Alisha: well you know after me and you had that argument I bumped into some boy and he was just tryna cheer me up so we exchanged numbers

Takes a deep breath as her boyfriend begins to get angry

He’s just a friend I promise

Alisha’s boyfriend: I don’t care who he is, no one comes near you. Do you fukn understand

Alisha: there’s more to the story then that

Flashbacks in Alisha’s head from scene 1 to 3 as she tells the story

Alisha: I know I should have told you before I’m really sorry

Alisha’s boyfriend: oh so you think sorry ganna solve everything?

Alisha: ermm pauses I’ve got a little plan

Alisha’s boyfriend: go on id love to hear this

Alisha: we could set Kevin up if you’re up for it

Alisha’s boyfriend nods his head in a mischievous way as he smiles and Alisha texts Kevin.

Kevin receives a text from Alisha as he is walking through Wanstead flats saying ‘meet me in half an hour at the park, cant w8 lots of love Alisha xoxo’

Alisha gets flashbacks of the bullying again as she is walking down the road and then again at the end of the road as Alisha begins to frustrate.

Kevin is sitting on the bench in the park waiting for Alisha

Alisha then arrives and sits next to Kevin on the bench

Kevin: so how come you decided to link up

Alisha: well you don’t seem like a bad guy, so why not

Both characters seem happy as they talk and Alisha texts her boyfriend saying

‘where in the park babe xx’

Alisha’s boyfriend heads/runs towards the park

Kevin slowly leans in to kiss Alisha as Alisha’s boyfriend enters

the park and looks around to find Alisha and Kevin.

 

Once Alisha’s boyfriend spots where Alisha and Kevin are he creeps up from behind, takes his knife out and stabs Kevin from the back.