Friday, 12 December 2014

Location recce

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recce_(filmmaking)

The link above is where I got the following definition of a Location Recce:

Recce  is a military term that has been borrowed by media production. derived from "reconnaissance" in the noun sense and "reconnoitre" in the verb sense. It refers to pre-filming visit to a location to work out its suitability for shooting, including access to necessary facilities and assessment of any potential lighting or sound issues, and is closely related to location scouting




















Location: S4. Science lab.

Thursday, 11 December 2014

Pre-Production- Risk Assessment


Pre-Production- Character Costume


Main Character Development

Two Main Character Development

Professor (Daniel) Sloggett - Qualified, Biology teacher. Well-liked within the University, great teacher-peer relationships. Passionate about dissecting. Behind closed doors you see hidden obsessions and disgusting hidden secrets. A scrapbook that he keeps, filled with crime cases. Explicit separated body part images next to the biography of young female victims. Obsesses over The Milwaukee Cannibal, Jeffrey Dahmer. Imitating his killings within his local area.

He was brought up with his mother after his father passed. Severely mistreated and neglected by her, he slowly developed a strong hate for females.

Being a smart man he graduated university and following more studies, entered into being a professor at Oxford University. Specialising in Biology - Dissecting animal parts and becoming heavily interested in the anatomy of the animal/human body. A documentary of Dahmer's quickly sparks an idea in Daniel Sloggett's head, surrounded by young women and the correct tools he enters an inescapable whirlwind of killing and dissecting innocent people.

Rebecca Addeley - Young, bright Biology student in her first year of University. A quieter pupil, didn't jump into the social pool as quickly as other students. Often walking around campus alone, focusing purely on studies. Has a slight curious liking towards Professor Sloggett, He tells her she has more potential than the other students and he will pull out all of the stops in order to ensure she succeeds.

She comes from a family that are unbroken yet not the closest. Frequent arguments arise between her parents. She has an elder sister of whom she is not close to, polar opposites. The sister Amy spends much of her life out late and dropped University in her second year, constantly threatened by her parents about being kicked out. She finds Rebecca an embarrassing sister to have yet would never allow Rebecca to be in any danger.

 

By Ella Mcleod

Pre-Production- Jeffrey Dahmer Research

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, was an American serial killer and sex offender, who committed the rape, murder and dismemberment of 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991.

From an early age, Dahmer manifested an interest in animals. Friends later recalled Dahmer initially collected large insects, dragonflies and butterflies which he placed inside jars. Later, Dahmer—occasionally accompanied by one or more of his few friends—would collect animal carcasses from the roadside; these animals Dahmer would dismember either at home or in an expanse of woodland behind the family home. According to one friend, Dahmer would dismember these animals and store the parts in jars in the family's wooden toolshed, always explaining that he was curious as to how each animal "fitted together." In one instance, he is known to have impaled a dog's head upon a stake behind his house.




Our murderer within our OTS is inspired by the killer Jeffrey Dahmer. We may remake some of the audio from the interview as though he is sat at home watching Dahmer on the television, getting ideas and inspiration for his next killing. In our OTS our killer goes from dissecting animals to dismembering humans much like Jeffrey Dahmer - his small fantasy turns into a huge obsession.
Research by Ella McLeod & Emily Blyth

Treatment

Definition-

 film treatment (or simply treatment) is a piece of prose, typically the step between scene cards  and the first draft of a screenplay for a motion picture, television program, or radio play. It is generally longer and more detailed than an outline and it may include details of directorial style that an outline omits. Treatments read like a short story, but are told in the present tense and describe events as they happen.
 
 
A world renowned biologist, Professor Slogget, has worked within Oxford University for over twenty years. His extensive research has brought him a large amount of respect within the hierarchical community of the scientific industry. However, as his obsession with body parts grows, mysterious happenings seem to occur. In efforts to live up to his idol the twisted professor begins his practise on animals however begins to realise that this does not satisfy him fully.
As a young student commits suicide, the world of academia is thrown into confusion as to her where abouts. Little do they know that Prof Daniel Slogget has stolen the body to perform weird experiments which were inspired by Jeffery Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal. After finding himself bored of his usual routine Slogget begins to hunt for a new victim to help him master the art of dissection.

Rebecca Addeley, a young bright biology student, studying her first year at Oxford, believes that Professor Slogget is the perfect scientist to aspire to be. However as her sister, Amy, begins to get suspicious of the extra hours that her younger sibling spends at the university she starts digging into the trusted Professor and finds out some information that she wish she could forget. As she digs deeper into the secret life many secrets begin to unravel. Will she be able to keep her sister from harm?

By Reece Hopkins an Robyn Marshall-Dawson

Pre-Production- Equipment List


Wednesday, 10 December 2014

Film Institutions


Media Conglomerates:
-  A conglomerates has a lot of money to put into film production. They can also market their film through all of their subsidiary company's


Media Ownership:
- Massive multinational media companies own:
  • Film Studios
  • TV stations
  • Record Labels
  • Magazines
  • Newspapers
  • Books
  • Internet Platform.

Independents:
-  Some producers work outside of the major studios often British productions are made by smaller companies like warp films working with Film 4 or the BBC to try to secure extra funding and help with distribution.

TV Drama

TV Drama


This is are final edit of the Dr Who extract we analysed. We wrote about how the editing of the clip represented gender. I felt it was very helpful and not only was it useful to understand the editing we also gained more experience in editing the clip to write the information.