Hand In

Hand in today before 11 - just compiling everything now. Very rough job of poster, but will definitely be rectified for exhibition!

Here's a couple of photos of our workbook and final hand in. We bought a usb drive to put our final on, and decided to hide it in the journal as a way to link the project together as a whole. Pretty much we're clever girls! :)

Props

Forgot to add Phillip's email message phone prop!

Presentation/Poster Planning

Presentation/Poster – Key Points

• Film is based on the addiction to technologies such as texing, facebooking and other social media.
• Uses the traditional fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty” as a vehicle to illustrate the relationship between the addiction and overcoming it.
• Provides valuable social commentary for the community about this emerging trend.
• Expresses concerns about the social implications of communicating through devices and the loss of face-to-face contact.
• Reiterates the importance of conversation and the pleasures of human contact.
• Deals with online issues, connectivity and the social/personal issues this creates.
• Also references the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty archetype to bring the messages of SB and the disassociated patient together.
• Modern issue – recontextualising fairy tale.
• Stories have been invasive in our culture, expressed through the media, cinema and society.
• The love for stories is a universal passion, the story is everywhere and consequently, story telling is equally universal.
• The wonderful worlds that fairy tales portray evoke a sense of familiarity and recognition, reminding us of moral truths and life lessons we would not think of questioning.
• With the growing increase of social networking sites, students in particular are affected by the need to associate online, creating an affliction of modern life.
• Constant users are beginning to show symptoms similar to drug and alcohol addictions.
• Four common characteristics can be derived: excessive use, withdrawal, tolerance and negative repercussions and an inability to function without media and social links.
• Two main themes of “home is where the heart is” and “true love conquers all”
• Two main characters – “Sleeping Beauty” and “Prince Phillip.”
• Story follows Aurora through her awakening from her “offline” (sleeping) state. With the love and guidance of Phillip and her own determination, Aurora can rediscover who she is and take the necessary steps back into reality.
• Aurora – rehab patient experiencing withdrawals from her social media addiction. Has lost all social abilities within the real world. She must overcome this.
• Phillip – Doctor at Revive Rehabilitation. Caring and sensitive, he must prevent Aurora falling in the same way as his ex fiancé, healing himself in the process.
• REVIVE REHAB – help patients overcome their difficulties and get their lives back. The secluded, seaside setting allows a break from the patient’s former life and a chance to come back to reality.
• ART DIRECTION/COSTUMING?
• STORYBOARDS?
• POST PRODUCTION (colour grading/rotoscoping) etc…
• PRECEDENTS
• STORIES
• WHAT WE'D CHANGE
• WHAT WE LEARNT

Poster Examples – formatting

• Central proposition (aim of project – brief explanation)
• The process (methods)
• Character Development
• Technical Aspects
• Project Findings

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• Central Proposition
• Background
• Production
• Inspiration
• Design Strategies
• Process (story boards)
• Techniques/Post Production

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• Context
• Technology
• Central Proposition
• Target Audience
• Scenario
• Solution (how they did it)
• Development

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• Background
• Central Proposition
• Target Audience
• Solution
• Final

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• Central Proposition
• Background
• Production
• Influences
• Characters
• Techniques
• Final 

Important Dates and Times

Digital copy so we don't freak out! ha...

Titles

Sound Map ( For Keir)

We are lucky enough to have Keir help us with the sound for our movie. Because he has never seen it and doesn't know anything about it we have created a sound map with "significant moments" of the film which cue music. Under these moments we have written the types of sounds/scores we are wanting as to get across the best possible emotional response to the film.

It's a bit of a mess but you get the jist.

Reshoots - TONIGHT

So we are finally getting to reshoot the office scenes tonight. Changing this a bit - See new Storyboard below:

Thanks Annabelle :)

So because of the change I've had to make some more props. These are the patients "Friendspeak" pages  - one of Aurora, Ben (for Phillip to look at while he's working on their progress) and also Jessica for a flashback of him doing the same when she was a patient. 

Aurora's Page:

Rose Symbol, persistent throughout the film.

Ben's Page:

He's a gamer, big World of Warcraft fan haha




Jessica's Page:

She has a black rose because she's so far gone




Data Collection Log:

New basic animation props:

REVISED SCHEDULE- DRAFT

Lucy Gargiulo - Stylist

Not sure if I put this up but I placed a casting call for a makeup artist and photographer on StarNow. Originally I had talked to a girl who was keen but alas, she did not ever get back into contact with me (tsk tsk) so thought I'd try my luck on here:


http://www.starnow.com/Casting-Calls/Crew-wanted/Other/photographer_and_makeup_artist_requ.htm



Lucy applied for this part and could work most of the dates (which was a life saver as I found it very difficult to do makeup, direct etc the first shooting day!) She did a very good job too! Here are some snaps of her in action - 

Check out her website here: 

http://lucyg.weebly.com/index.html

She asked me to write a testimonial on her and this is what I said:

Lucy applied to work on our short film through a casting call on Starnow. She proved to be an awesome makeup artist/stylist, taking direction well and delivering the results.  She was great to work with - professional, organised and well equipped. Her genuine up beat and fun personality immediately made the cast and crew feel at ease. I would whole heartedly recommend Lucy for any related job and I can't wait to see more of her in the future! - Charlotte Corrigall

I feel so professional haha

♥ Charlotte

Montage Planning: Olga & Ivana

OLGA'S SHOOT:

    •    Of cables wrapping around arms (backwards footage)
    •    Olga behind white screen- lights green and purple gels
    •    Projections onto aurora- Charlottes and Annabelle's footage
    •    running distressed on the white screen
    •    Olga against black wall blank face- purple and blue lighting (reference images)

IVANA'S SHOOT:

• Jessica normal nicely clothed- CU face eyes hand moving hair away from face in the wind beautiful lighting- sunset with a view- green screen 
• Jessica in dingy dark place side lighting, sitting crouched, looks up make-up smudged 
• and running.
• ECU: chipped nails picking at walls - bathrooms at massey, mirror reflection 
•  jessica drops her hand and a ring falls to the ground- computer glow lighting 
• CU: of ring hitting the ground?

EXTRA FOOTAGE:
    •    Film computers in PC lab
    •    Petals falling onto camera lens
    •    Cables hanging and hitting against one another
    •    Wind vanes- stock footage
    •    Rose flowering and dying- stock footage
    •    Compass footage
    •    Data flow

sound notes:
    •    internet dial tones/connections
    •    electrical buzz/hum


NEED FOR THURSDAY 16th SEPTEMBER:
    •    projector
    •    laptop
    •    lights- dedo kit
    •    gels green, purple & blue
    •    projection footage
    •    rehab dress
    •    cables
    •    screen
    •    glad wrap
    •    camera
    •    tripod

NEED FOR SUNDAY 19th SEPTEMBER:
    •    Ivana normal dress
    •    Ivana addiction dress
    •    grey ribbon patient dress
    •    dedo kit
    •    gels all
    •    black nail polish
    •    ring
    •    camera
    •    tripod
    •    background photo/footage for lighting- print out
    •    white sheet and pillow

*note* for visual reference go to montage planning post

Photos! A few "highlights"

♥ Charlotte

Photos I've taken from Shoot

We didn't have a set photographer unfortunately, however I managed to get a few snaps at some locations - here's the contact sheets - I'll upload the best ones individually :)

♥ Charlotte