Media A level

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Mise-en-scene

Mise-en-scene

Casting details:
Jealous girl: Sarika
New girl: Sophia
The boy (Jake): ---
Friends at party: friends/ extras
Location scouting with photographs:
-school (Greenford high school)
-A house for a party
-outside area of the party
-A room for the wake up scene
Props

Fake alcohol

Bags

Daily accessories e.g phones, back packs
Costume and make-up
The costume will be clothes that are acceptable to wear on a daily basis to sixth form. The make-up won’t be too heavy
During the party scene we will be a bit more dressed up, in dresses or short fancy clothes. The make-up will also be brighter and more as it’s a dress up scene.

Lighting
The lighting of the school scenes will be normal; we may decide to filter certain scenes during editing depending on how the weather or the day is when we are filming.

For the house party the lighting will be dim and very low key to highlight the party atmosphere.
The outside area for the outside party bit will be low key as well as it help create more suspense.

The room for the wake up scene will be high key to show the audience what has gone on. It will help create suspense.

Script

Act 1 Scene 1

(montage, previously)

Sophia enters the school building. Jake immediately notices her and starts looking at her. Sophia notices and smiles at him even though she is still walking. Joanna notices the connection between them two and is not happy about.

Act 1 Scene 2

(montage, previously)

Sophia and Jake are together at school and it seems that they are dating. Joanna is in background and does not look happy.

Act 1 Scene 3

(montage, previously)

Once again, Jake and the Sophia are together in school. Joanna walks up to them and slightly pushes Sophia out the way in order to get closer to Jake

JOANNA

(In a flirty way)

Hey Jake, you're still coming to my house right?

JAKE

(feeling a bit uncomfortable)

Err...yeah I will

JOANNA

(smiling)

great!

(turns to Sophia with a evil smile and shakes her hand with weak effort)

Oh sorry I didn't see you there! But hey my name is Joanna nice to meet you!

SOPHIA

(feeling uncomfortable)

Nice to meet you too

JOANNA

(fake smiling)

You should definitely come to my house party

SOPHIA

(smiling)

sure, thank you!

JAKE

(Excited)

Great! you can come with me

SOPHIA

(Smiles at Jake)

JOANNA

(face drops)

Joanna's phone rings

JOANNA

(fake smile)

I have to take this, see you tonight

Joanna walks away and answers phone

JOANNA

Hey girl, I just invited her...you don't even know how hard it was for me to keep a straight face but don't worry, tonight she is going to get it. (evil grin)

Act 2 Scene 1

At Joanna's house party. Everyone is dancing and drinking and going crazy.

Act 2 Scene 2

People are whispering in each others ears and looking at Sophia. Jake who is with her, goes to dance with his friends and Sophia is left alone feeling uncomfortable as she realises everyone is talking about her. Joanna, who has spread rumours about her glares at her while drinking with her friends.

Act 2 Scene 3

Joanna walks up to Sophia.

JOANNA

(evil smile)

what's wrong ?

SOPHIA

(scared)

people keep looking at me and pointing at me, I'm kind of confused at what's going on.

JOANNA

(speaking a bit drunkly)

that's because your ugly, your outfit looks messed up, and your such a slag. Why are you even here stupid? Go back to where you belong slut!

SOPHIA

(in tears and realises everyone is looking and laughing at her and runs off on to the road.)

A car comes and a bright light is shown which leads to complete darkness indicating an accident.

Act 3 Scene 1

Joanna wakes up in a awful state in her bed. Her heart beat is heard and is fast. She wakes up due to a phone text. She picks up her phone and reads the text which says "OMG did u hear? Sophia died from the car crash"

Shot list

Shot Number	Shot Type	Description
1	LS	Sophia enters school building
2	MCU(srs)	Jake sees her
3	MCU(srs)	Sophia smiles at him
4	MCU(srs)	Jake smiles back
5	MCU	Joanna notices the connection between them and gets jealous
6	MS	Sophia walks past Joanna
7	CU	Joanna will give Sophia a rude look as she’s doesn’t like the connection between Jake and Sophia
8	MS	Jake and Sophia together at school down a corridor
9	LS	Joanna is in the distance giving them both dirty looks
10	MS	Jake and Sophia together again near a classroom
11	MS	Joanna sees them from away and starts smiling
12	POVS	Joanna walks up to Jake and Sophia
13	MS	Joanna says hi to Jake but slightly pushes Sophia out of the way so she can stand next to Jake
14	CU	Jake looks confused as to what Joanna is doing and why she’s doing it
15	CU	Sophia looks slightly annoyed as she got pushed by Joanna for no reason
16	MS	Joanna flirts with Jake all the characters are visible in the scene
17	MCU	Jake should be in the centre of the frame and will look uncomfortable whilst replying to Joanna
18	MCU	Joanna replies with a smirk on her face and makes contact with Sophia
19	MCU	Sophia replies to Joanna and is in the middle of the frame but looks very uncomfortable
20	MS	Everyone is in the frame when Joanna invites Sophia to her party
21	MS	Sophia thanks Joanna for the invite and feels less awkward
22	MS	Jake is happy that Joanna is being nice now
23	MS	Sophia is smiling at Jake
24	CU	Joanna’s face drops and she leaves
25	TS	As Joanna laves the camera follows her
26	MS	Joanna is on her way out of school and on her phone making nasty comments to her friend
27	MS	Of people talking about Sophia and whispering rumours to one another
28	180 shot	To show the location of inside the party
29	MS	Sophia will be alone and the background will be blurred out to highlight how alone she feels
30	MS	Joanna approaches Sophia with a smirk on her face
31	MCS	Sophia is looking sad and like she’s about to cr
32	MCS	Joanna laughs and makes some rude comments to Sophia
33	CS	Sophia is in tears
34	TS	Sophia runs out of the house and on to the road
35	MS	The car approaches her very fast
36	CU	The car hits Sophia(the headlights are shown)
37	MS	Joanna wakes up in her bed the next day
38	MS	She checks her phone and the message tells her what happened to Sophia last night
39	CU	Her face looks guilty and she starts to sweat

Audience research and planning

The target audience for my TV Show is from the ages 16-34 years old. This tells me that will be suitable for those ages and that will be shown pre-watershed.

The demographic group our show would target would be D and E because teenagers fall in to the E category.

This isa teen drama and having category D is good as our audience will be interested in drama type of programmes. It will be dramatic and may not be suitable for the upper class. Our main research is for both sexes, mainly females. However males wouldnt be particulary interested in this because of the "love interest" in the show. This is fine as we wanted to mainky target the female groups anyway.

We were given some advice about not go over the top with our production. This is because we will be doing a car crash and be including a party types of scene. By having this already is enough of work to shoot as we have to do various shots and its also risky to include a car crash scene. But its good we got information to make sure that we dont go too far with our production as it is only a pre-watershed.

We have decided now just to have our main focus on the party and be focusing on our opening scne nmontage. We alos have decided to have the jealous girl waking up in the end feeling guilty and upset as it would create suspense and be more effective on our audience. We were going to include a scene where the jealous girl pushes the other girl but that isnt very exciting and its boring so we arent doing that now.

Monday, 5 January 2015

Sunday, 28 December 2014

Ideology and Binary Theories

What examples of binary opposition can you suggest from watching this clip?

I can see that there is alot of different things going on. I can see that immigrants themselves are seen in a bad light by alot of people and that there will alkways be controversy over them. For example, some people out of the audience were saying that all they do is steal their jobs. Whereas some people see this as them as given a chance to have ajob because they werent good enough for the job. People get empolyed because they have the right skills and thats what happend here.Some people do disagree but that will always be there.the politician is there to be portryaed as a villian as they dont know whats good for us.Russel brand is seen as the good guy as he thinks that having immigrants in our country helps us.

What ideologies are on display in this clip?

I think the main ideology was alternative as immigrants are seen as bad sometimes but because we are used to it and used to hearing and seeing stories about them we dont mind.

Female gaze article

The female gaze article:

The female gaze article is about women getting offended about models using women who are sizes under 6. Western women are normally sizes 14 and above and the fact that they aren't telling the truth by using models who are really slimmer than a size 14 and this is bad as this is misconception to what women look like. Famous models like Naomi Campbell and vivienne Westwood have complained about this and something will be done about it.

In star gazing critic jackie stacey says that female looks work on different types of levels.The film that is used is " a perfect 14".

Mulveys theory differs from this one as they said that men see women in the way that they want to see them. So this could be skinny, tall, large etc. they want to show people how women actually look at different sizes and show different features. This is a good way to show people what can be shown on t.v and on magazines as women who are over size 6 arent casted as models.

My opinion is that i think that magazines should use women of different sizes as that's what women actually look like. I think that if magazines used different sizes then people would get used to the idea of how women look like and therefore see it and know that this is real.