PLANNING INITIAL IDEAS

Using the codes of inigma and suspense. The film starts with a woman waiting in a doctors surgery, she is then called into his office where we hear a voiceover of him delivering the news that the woman cannot concieve and have children. She is devistated by this news and storms into a rage, getting up and leaving the doctors office. She then arrives home and it is shown that she is a war photographer, as there are photo's displayed all around the room and covering the table. She then focuses in on one photo in particular, of a child, she then tears it into pieces in a angry rage. It then cuts away the woman going into a cupboard and retrieving a suitcase in which there is the doll. She immediatly treats the doll as if it where living and the film then shows different scenarios involving both the woman and doll; such as them playing in the park and the woman brushing the dolls hair in the mirror. It then cuts to the woman in the park watching the children and mothers playing together. She then focuses in on one child in particular she becomes intranced by her. She then follows this child and mother home. The child is then putting her bike away in front of the house alone, and the woman is stalkerly watching from the pavement. It then cuts away to the woman grabbing the childs hand and walking off with her into the distance down the street. It then transitions into the title of our film. 

PLANNING: FEMALE WAR PHOTOGRAPHERS

Marie Colvin, Female war photographer

• There are many female war photographers, who capture iconic images of the most shocking and disturbing things.

• "Some of today’s top conflict photographers just happen to be women."- Aimee Baldridge

• Women photographers now work on the front lines of the news, where fear and violence are standard occupational hazards. But beyond the chaos and carnage, there are also extraordinary moments of humanity and heroism.

 




After researching war photographers,we decided it would be fitting for the job of the protagonist. The reason that we have decided this is because of the effects it has on people: watching this trauma going on can have horrific consequences.

An example of a iconic female war photographer is Marie Colvin. She was injured which is the reason she wears her eye patch. She then risked her life taking her war images and was killed in bombings in Syria. This demonstrates the risks that these women go through to show the world the horrific truths of war.

WAR PHOTOGRAPHY:

I documented my research using a scoop-it:

FILM DISTRIBUTION

I looked into the Facebook page of the film The woman in black to see how they promoted the film.

By having a Facebook page this allows Facebook users to stay up to date with news and information about the film as well as the ability to share this information with their friends.

The audience is attracted by the amount of other friends that like the page as well as the interactive aspects of the fan page, such as the ability to post personal comments about the page and to see new pictures and videos surrounding the film.

PLANNING CAMERA ANGLES

Today we looked into different camera shots we could use for scenes showing the relationship between the woman and a child.

This shot shows that the child is distracted and the woman seems in tranced by the child this is a wide shot. 

This shot is a mid shot showing in close up the woman restraining the urge to touch the child.   

This is a low shot showing clearly both the characters facial expressions it shows the woman's fascination and the child's innocence. 

PLANNING THE DOLL PROP

We decided to use an old fashioned doll wearing a vintage dress. We chose this doll as it is human like and we can make it look scary and creepy by camera angles for example; this shot of her sitting by a mirror:

PLANNING: SOUNDTRACK

•  I researched music tracks for the soundtrack of our film opening: We want to create thriller sound codes of enigma, suspense and jeopardy.
• I first looked on Spotify, on their site they had a feature that allowed me to browse genres of music and playlists. I looked into a playlist that was labelled "Mental illness". This playlist was good as it had a mix of instrumental and non instrumental music. I found two songs that I feel would work well for our piece. The first one was called "can't" by Scarling. 

• This song works well as it is quite dark and the instrumental helps create unsettling ambience. 
• The second song is, "All is numb" by 32 leaves. 

• This song would work well as it would set the mood for when the woman discovers she is barren. 
• I also looked into songs on youtube. I researched the genre of thrillers. I found 3 great instrumental pieces that would be good to create suspense and enigma. 

PLANNING G32: CAMERAWORK

We planned our camera work in advanced we looked into camera angles camera movement and shot types, to create a sense of jeopardy and suspense.