part 2

2.
The key characters of my film are the popular girl who we focus on mainly within the opening sequence her sense of character is the typical shallow, intimidating, selfish, spoilt brat who only cares about one thing and that’s herself she is wears a pink top and a skirt the colour pink shows that she is very girly the skirt she wear is rather short which suggests that she is an attention seeker, she is similar to “Jennifer check” played by Megan fox in “Jennifer’s body” who is also very powerful and bossy but also a contrast as “Jennifer” is the villan and “Bianca” is the victim this is important to the story because it makes the audience engaged and makes them want to watch the whole movie which make a successful movie. However we do also see the geek (girl) where don’t really get to see the representation of character except for the stereotypical mise en scene e.g. reading glasses, piles of books, a pencil case, hair tied back in a neat plat, smartly dressed with a simple white shirt and black trousers this suggest that the character had a very little significance within the opening sequence which she causes the disruption towards the middle of the film, also within the first scene individual medium close up shots the geek girl is shown first which also gives hints that she is also going to be the last person standing which makes her significant, i compared this to one of my researched movies “Prom night” Donnas senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, one of magic, beauty, and love. Surrounded by her best friends, she should be safe from the horrors of her past. But when the night turns from magic to murder there is only one man who could be responsible, the man she thought was gone forever. Now, But the psychopath Richard has escaped from prison, stabbing her friends and staff of the hotel that cross his path. The similarities of “Deadly sins” film and “prom night” they share the same themes horror/thriller and also included mystery which is also important within “Deadly sin” due to the unrelated killings. The representation of the main character donna in “prom night” is that she had suffered a lot in the past and is recovering for being deceived and stalked this also compares to “Deadly sin” due to the characters not aware to what is next about to happen. We also have a Goth (boy) who also could represent stereotypically be the prime suspect to being the villan due to his heavy dark black eye liner this is similar to the film “halloween”as they use mise en scene to enhance the representation of each character, black clothing and rather large head phones. He comes across as a very closed person but still manages to attract attention but in the wrong way due to his appearance this is shown in the first scene when the camera pans across the classroom and show a medium close up of the Goth (boy) sitting next to the class clown who is constantly poking him, the Goths facial expression look frustrated and fed up as if he wants to leave. As for the class clown who is chewing gun while trying to disrupt eveyone is seen as the guy that people either love or hate his social status is quite high this is because of his own insecurities which he chooses to hide by taking it out on quite weak people which represents his character as a bully he could also be a prime suspect of being the villan being the type of person who only really cares about themselves also this can realte to the film “jennifers body” as she is represented as the girl that people either love or hate and also has quite a high social status. In the opening sequence we also have a boy reading the newspaper and rolling a basketball around the table, this shows that he is a basketball player, and he loves basketball so much that he even takes it to detention, this is similar to John in the film John Tucker Must Die because he also loves basketball and we see John Tucker often with a basketball which creates imagery with association of being a basket ball player would show that he’s dedicated and focused, also the newspaper suggests that he takes interest in what is happening in the world. We where told that we had to take people out of the other media sixth form class and use them as our cast which was a benefit because we had the advantage to work with people that understood the purpose of our film and followed directions well and also because they were aware to how important our movie was to us as much as theirs was to them they gave 100% effort which was appreciated. We couldn’t take any other students from other year group out of lessons because exams were approaching. From the other media class we chose the people we thought would suit best with our characters.
Due to my role and being the director I informed our cast what they had to wear and if any problems to contact my so we can solve the problems especially for the mise en scene where I made sure we had three days before the filming day also I gave each cast a note with times and the location just in case they can’t find me or neither any of my group members this help because everyone showed up on time and knew what they were doing. The week before filming we arranged to have a rehearsal this is where I directed the cast on how they had to act in before the shooting of the film, and if they didn’t understand I would physically showed them how to act during the rehearsals alongside my two other group members, however we changed some minor parts of the film by the time it came to the shooting day, so we showed them how to act the role on set. During filming we faced some minor issues with our cast because we would tell them how to act however they would try to do it the way they thought was right but it didn’t look right on the camera, after this problem was reoccurring we decided that we should actually do the actions ourselves by taking the actors role and physically showing them how we wanted them to act. We also had an issue with the basketball player because we wanted him to wear a basketball uniform to make him look more like a basketball player for our film so we provided him with a rack sack and a Nike hoodie which made his character look more realistic, however before filming we checked to see if every cast was happy with their role and if not then tried our best to fix any problems we did this as we didn’t want our actors to feel uncomfortable at any point as we wanted them to enjoy actually making the film as well as doing the job.