Changes to Costumes

Due to the changes in the film idea's we only need one costume now, that is the costume for Grace to wear in the cellar. We chose to keep the same idea of just a black vest and black trousers so that we keep the idea of her being stripped of all possessions.

Evaluation Of The Animatic Storyboard

How useful was it to the group?

I do not think it was significantly useful to us as we had already spoke in depth about how we was going to film this but I understand how it would it be helpful as it shows exactly what will happen and an idea of how it will look together and what angles we would need for our shots. If we were to do a similar project to this I think a more in depth storyboard may be useful to us.

I think the process of editing the clips together helped us most as it gave us an idea of how many different transitions there were available to use for our opening. It counted as more preparation for our real opening so that when it comes to editing that we will not be wondering what to do and how we do it like we was at first. 

December Filming Dates

This is an image of the dates where we have planned to film and edit in December. We had some difficulty arranging everyones availability as each of us have a job so we do not know our forthcoming work commitments, however this is a rough idea of when we are all available.

Change in Idea

Change in Ideas

In our old idea we chose to have a child in the park, however, we have struggled to find a young child that would be able to act in our film. So, we have decided that instead of using a child as the person being kidnapped, we will use a teenage girl whom is walking through a park on her own.

Costume Ideas

  Costumes:

• ·     For the young girl, she will need to wear any casual clothes that a young child of that age would wear so for the child we use, she can just turn up in her own clothes. We’ll need to get a pink butterfly clip to put in her hair, which the parents will find when she has gone missing.
• ·     For the parents they will just need to wear casual wintery clothes.
• ·     The young girl 10 years later will be wearing tatty dirty clothes which we can get and just make them look scruffy.
• ·     The kidnapper will just be wearing all black, possible use of a balaclava.

            Settings:

• ·     A park, we will be using our local park.
• ·     For the scene 10 years later we’ll be using my cellar.

     Props:

• ·     Wooden chair for the girl in the cellar
• ·     Rope to tie her up
• ·     Hand held camera for the father in the park

Storyboard

Research into Abductions

We thought that we should research into previous abductions so that we know exactly how to portray everything. After reading things that the victims had wrote and interviews with them we understood more about how it worked. We looked at the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard. In an interview she mentions that when she was first taken to the sound proof shed, she was drifting in and out of sleep, this is where we got the idea for our actress to be drifting in and out of consciousness having flashbacks of what had happened. We learnt that he kept telling her that she was there to protect other people, she knew what he was capable and would not wish it on anyone else. He also kept a book full of cut out pictures of little girls. 

This research helped us understand the emotional state that our actress would need to portray and how she would react to the entrance of the person holding her captive. 

 This is a link to the interview we watched: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci_22Oqhwtc