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CHARLOTTE COPPELLOTTI

CANDIDATE NUMBER 1812

CLAREMONT FAN COURT SCHOOL 64680

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My production team included: Jess Foster 1820, Ellie Smart 1859 and Millie Wyatt 1874

My brief was to produce a film opening that lasted a maximum of two minutes. The title of our film is Camera-Shy, a thriller which explores the teenage life of Sarah and her experience as she deals with a every young girl's nightmare: a stalker following her every moves, capturing her everyday life on camera for reasons that go unkown. The threat begins to invade Sarah's inner thoughts to the extent where she feels unsafe in her own home, and uneasy everywhere. Her anxious thoughts are proven rational when she is at her bedroom window and catches sight of a camera flash aimed up at her from across the street. 

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EDITING

We used Final Cut Pro to complete the editing of our film, and Ellie and Millie did the majority of editing, as they had both used the application before and so knew how it worked. Jess and I contributed by sharing ideas with what editing works well and what could be tweaked. We needed to cut and merge footage together as well as add music, intertitles, our BBFC certificate, production logo, and a pre-recorded audio of our protagonist singing on top of the table-stop sequence.  

DIRECTING

We all collectively directed scenes as we felt by staying together and sharing ideas we could all agree with what angles work best and bounce off eachother's ideas. We tried to plan each shot within scenes before filming, and I created a shot list to help with this planning. I directed and filmed the tabletop scene in the dark room, as the lighting and slow reveal of props created an ominous and creepy atmosphere. However, it took a few attempts to film as the shot is one, long continuous shot, and to lighting and props had to be very pecise.

CAMERAWORK

We filmed the majority of our film opening on a Cannon camera, as it had very good quality compared to our phones. However, their were a few times where we filmed on a phone, such as when Sarah is singing in the red lighting, as on the phones we could manipulate the exposure as we filmed, creating the shot we wanted. We had to use many different angles for our production, and one scene I filmed, was the scene where Sarah walks to her car, and the camera tracks her movement and follows her walk. This was to create a disturbing atmophere, as if the audience are invading Sarah's personal space, just as the stalker is. 

ART AND DESIGN

I took charge when planning and designing features of the production such as the production company logo and the film poster. I was able to use my art and graphic design skills to draw a rough sketch of what we wanted our designs to look like, and then using applications such as Photoshop and Procreate with help from Jess, to produce the poster. 

SET DESIGN

I was able to take charge of designing the set for the dark room scene, while we exhanged ideas and spent time playing with the lighting to determine what worked best. We created photos that were supposedly from the stalker's POV, print them out and laminate them so that during the tabletop scene, we could place them in water - to look as if they are being placed in developing solution. Ellie and Jess helped to place and order the props for the table top sequence whilst I organised the positioning of the photos that were taped to the wall, and Millie filmed.