Character profile - Isabelle

Isabelle is the protagonist in neighbours. At first we want the audience to question who Isabelle is and what she has done to cause the tension between her and Sarah. We want the typical cliche of a popular teenage girl to interfere with the audience's connection to Isabelle and her friends. She may seem like the typical girl in her clique. However there is something that we don't know about Isabelle that creates some narrative enigma about her.
 We see Isabelle in her white clothes with a denim jacket; presenting her as happier and possibly more of a girly character that contrasts with Sarah's darker clothes. Using the mis-en-sen to create the characters.

Character profile - Sarah

Sarah is the antagonist in the opening two minutes. We first see her getting out of bed much like Isabelle. Showing that they are binary opposites in character.

 In the beginning our idea was for the audience to see Sarah; when they first see her we want the audience to feel sorry for Sarah. A sense of narrative enigma about Sarah. We don't know her past, we see her on the outside of the clique. Compared to films such as mean girls; generally the girl on the outside is the protagonist. the girl clique is intimidating and tend to hurt the protagonist. However in Neighbours Sarah is the antagonist. We portray this by Sarah watching the girls. But there is confusion as too why, which becomes clear at the end. the audience are sure what Sarah's motives are until the end of the two minutes; where things begin to clear up.

 We wanted Sarah to come across as dark and mysterious in comparison to Isabelle. Her clothing was darker that Isabelle's and her bedroom was different. Helping the audience realise what the distinction is between the protagonist and the antagonist. 

Donnie darko opening scene analysis

Donnie Darko is a sifi and fantisy film relased in 2002 , which is about a A troubled teenager plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident.

The opening scene however seems peaceful in comparison to the rest of the movie, the opening lasts 4 minutes 18 seconds and focuses primarily on him alone , although other characters are shown toward the end of the opening. 

The first shot shows an extreme long shot of a road surrounded by trees and the protagonist laying in the centre of the road. The shot is very framed around him and the road acts as a lead in line directing out eyes straight to him , it is also simple and doesn't include anything that could distract us from him.

 These two shots pan toward the protagonist but up until this point we have still not seen his face , this creates narrative enigma and builds up suspense. The angles are also quite high and we slightly look down on him , this creates a sense of power for the audience and makes him seem weak and targeted. 

 The camera pans around him showing the back of his head and also his bike , we then learn how we got to where he is, this shot also put us slightly in his perspective as we can see what he is looking at. 

We are then finally shown his face through a media long shot.

we are shown an extreme long shot of what the protagonist is looking which not only sets the scene but also helps us again understand and we what he is looking at this also buts the audience in him shoes and we see things from his perspective. 

  

After seeing the back of him against the view then see him turn towards the camera and for the second time we see his face. He smiled which is the first emotion we see from him , this may indicate that this is a place that he enjoys coming or that he likes. 

We then see the title " Donnie Darko " .

We see the protagonist cycling down a hill away rom the pace we perversely was shown. A mix of extreme close ups and long shots shown his journey down the hill.

The poster is shown as he cycles past it. This helps or the audience to denote the time of year and the setting he is surrounded by. It could show that there is a small and active community.

The two images above show the type of neighbourhood he lives in , the dress of the women jogging helps us to understand the time period and the time the film is set in , the houses in the background show that he lives in a wealthy , upper class house and family.

The camera then pans from the road onto a drive inn which Porsche is parked and a man is blowing the leave off of the grass , along with the car showing that the family have money it also shows that the family take pride the house and the grades and that they have respect for the areas they live in.

The protagonist then cycles onto the grass and dumps his bike on top of it. The contrasts between the care and attention the man was paying to the garden , it shows that the protagonist has little respect for the garden and it could also show he is in a rush for something. 

Through these three shots we see a girl which we can presume to be his little sister jumping on a trampoline , his mother sat on a sun lounger reading and then him walking psst the both over to the  fridge that has a sign saying " where is Donnie" . The fact that the mother is sat on the sun lounger when donnie is clearly missing could show that there is a lack of worry and panic towards him being missing alternatively it could show that it happens regally and that they don't need to worry because we will eventually come back.

Filming Tyrannosaur swede

Wednesday re-shoot of Tyrannosaur

For each scene we had different roles. We had a director, producer (who also produced the call sheet), actors, cinematographers and people to created the story boards and the screenplays. This all came together whilst shooting. The story board and call sheet are created in the order we are going to film the scene in. For all three scenes the story board and call sheets didn't exactly match up due to ad-libbing and some semiotic changes.

First we shot the Bookies scene, where the protagonist comes out of the bookies drunk and looking for his dog 'Fido'.  We changed the name of the dog to Fido because we were shooting a swede and it was supposed to be a comic version. Working title version. We filmed the protagonist coming out of the door of the bookies. Instead of filming at the bookies we filmed outside the school swimming pool. We shot a long shot of the actors coming out of the door. Then had another camera on the actors which was a medium shot. So that we could choose the different shots and which would work better. We then shot 'William' killing the dog. Instead of filing the dog being kicked we filmed from a long shot and 'William' drop kicks the dog and the dog goes flying. We film the dog flying through the air with three different camera shots.

The second shoot that we re-filmed was the funeral scene. Before we filmed the scene in the 'Hobo-centre'. We found some difficulties with this scene due to lighting. The lighting of the scene was quite dark and we found it difficult to choose angle shots that flowed well and got all the actors in. However this time we worked outside. We filmed on grass. The scene was lit up well and we used an establishing shot to get a feel of what was happening. Then moved into a closer shot. Over peoples shoulders and behind the priest (Charles).

The final scene that we shot was the protagonist (William) running into the shop and hiding. In the film Tyrannosaur the protagonist runs into a charity shop and hides behind a clothing rack. Therefore we decided to film the scene in a  mac store. Because we work in a classroom full of macs this is where we set the final scene. We filmed William running in and jumped under the desk full of macs. We again had two cameras therefore when it comes to editing we have choices of cuts and edits. When William was running in we have shots of him running in and we using a low close shot, this was giving him a sense of power. Then the lady who comes up to hum offers him a bottle of champaign instead of a cup of tea. This is again showing us the swede side of our shoot.