Film Title: "Vengeful Reflection"

Film Title: "Vengeful Reflection"
MWE
29/03/2014

Name for our film

After months of working on our text we have now come up with a title a we're satisfied with. To begin with, for the sake of having something to refer our text as, we called it "Ticket Out of Loserville"; after the band Son of Dorks track. We had full intention of changing this. The title just didn't fit with out film as the language insinuated light-hearted and comedic kind of text; we imagine it was for a more wholesome, underdog kind of protagonist- definitely not fitting for our main character. To be frank it was also quite cheesy :L

The second name we came up with was nice simple "Jordan Sumner" 

Beneath the font we placed "George Carter" the alter-ego's name to represent the dichotomies of the character. The rough paint brush effect is to suggest his dark and blurred psychological state of mind. However, still we felt it was a bit unimaginative and so proceeded in coming up with a new title. We did many searches inspired by this idea of a  reflection and alter-ego when we came upon the Greek mythology of Narcissus and Echo. There are several version of the tale, this one caught our attention:

Narcissus the son of God of river Cephissus and nymph Lirope was  a handsome young man. He was proud of his appearance as he made everyone swoon. One day a nymph falls in love with Narcissus. Narcissus could not return the nymphs feelings and so asked her to leave him be, the nymph heart broken died from depression. Nemesis, the goddess of a vengeful fate saw this and punished Narcissus through making him fall in love with his image. The man became so infatuated with his reflection that he died looking at it. 

Inspired by this tale, we though to call our narrative "Narcissus". However, this would have been terribly misleading as "Narcissus" is the origin of the word narcissist which is not at all what our film is about. Playing around more with the concept and "Nemesis" we concluded to the title more fitting: 

Yet, we felt it was a bit of a mouthful to say and so we concluded to "Vengeful Reflection". This title is fitting for our text as it connotes an uncomfortable fear for oneself in the word "Reflection" and karma from "Vengeful". We feel that it gives a curious effect on the audience and so we decided to settle for this name.

Filming: Party Scene

Filming: Party Scene
MWE
25/03/14

Update on filming.

Today we filmed a significant footage in our trailer which focuses on Jane. This scene uses Laura Mulvey's Male Gaze which is intimately linked to Signund Freud's Psychoanalysis. We plan on using this parallel to clips of Jordan dissecting an animal to convey repulsion towards the character of Jordan Sumner. The colour red is heavily used to convey the sense of sensuality and sexuality but is also used in association to carnage in Jordan's scene, making a repulsing beauty which put the audience in unease and stimulating reaction amongst them. Thus, demanding participation to decode the the text. 

In filming this scene, we heavily relied on the use of colours as seen on the bed sheets and the wallpaper in the room. Misc-en-Scene played a very critical role as we tried to convey this image of innocence as well as potential for corruption within the character of Jane. 

We did this through utilising different shades of pink and red. These colours are both warm and are closely interlinked as they are the diluted and concentrated versions of one another. Therefore the transition from using pink- a light diluted and somewhat girly colour as it's associated to childhood;  down into a deep dark red misc-en-scene shows transition between young adolescent to womanhood. Illustrating how we've incorporated the genre of coming-of-age in to our film.

We used similar shots from the locker scene as a bridge to connect two scenarios together for smooth cuts. 

Here are some photographs taken during the filming:

 

In the following picture we had Lucy (who plays Jane) open the wardrobe whether the camera is actually inside. We used the same effect in the lockers with the character of George/Jordan Carter. 

We improvised the lights that we used in this scene due to lack of resources. We used floodlights as a substitute for hard light which worked tremedously. We were extremely lucky with the interior of Lucy (Cook's- my colleague) room. Her dressing table was amazing!

 

FIlming: Locker Scene

Filming: Locker SceneMWE
13/03/14

Mini update on filming progress.

Today we filmed the locker scene with Josh for the George/Jordan footage. There's not much to say, the fluorescent light of the hallway acted much like a hard light, so this was a plus. I forgot to take pictures to document the the filming so, my bad. BUt we're very happy with the footage anyway!

Ancillary Task: Magazine 01

Ancillary Task: Magazine 01MWE
20/02/14- 07/03/14

For the next couple of days we'll be focusing on our ancillary task. This is due to the fact that we have no access on the mac we're editing on as the school had lend the Mac (inconveniently for us) to the Year 12's. We hope to get them back soon. 

For this portion of the project, we're required to make a poster and a magazine. 

For the poster, we decided to use Jordan/George's images. 

We looked for various tutorials on YouTube to learn how to use Photoshop. Fortunately, we found plenty of effective videos offering us guidance. 

Here's an example of our attempt

This was done through using an app on my iphone. When looking at examples on the internet of successful magazine covers, we found that there is a set color scheme and that the tittle of the corporation which own's the magazine is always at the top.

Here's the link which helped us create the magazine cover

Thank God for YouTube.

So, after studying the following magazine covers: 

We managed to create this

This had recently been edited, originally, the left portion of the text was cluttered but we've reduced the text we used. This is still in the process of editing but we're happy with this right now!