Directing Actors

This is a series of short clips that we have produced demonstrating our directing skills towards our actors.

Podcast 5

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Second Rough Cut for School's Out

our second edit of our film opening

Audience Feedback 1

This is some of our audience feedback from our first rough cut: 


Becca - 17 - F

Diegetic titles were good would pay to see a movie that started like
that, mystery, perhaps more exposition, the bed made it seem eerie and
spooky, rom com signified and anchored by the school.

16 - f + 15 - f

liked the film (both of them) 

'slice of life' with few comedy and heartfelt moments, 'coming of age'.

good signifiers would help exposition and anchorage, with music. 'mr blue sky'

toast, shower door (neater hand writing) books and envelopes.

New title, provided it was emphasised better. 

exposistion through calendar on Feb 14.

intrigued, why the girl is being bullied. the girl likes me. I stand up against the bullies. 

the title intrigued me they were creatively done, yes, fairly generic story, has promise.

parallel to the people getting ready, despite being form different ends of the social scale, linked in some manner. 

friends more exposition on the romance, peck on the cheek link arms/hold hands arm around

talk but not in presence of bully, boy been civil with here, 

felt tried and tested, almost cliché

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Audience Feedback For First Rough Cut For School's Out

This is Poppy giving us feedback on our first rough cut for School's Out.

First rough cut of school's out

This is our first rough cut of our film opening. 

Deciding Our Cast

For our film opening we wanted to cast a character that we could use to signify a character that is an outsider, for this we chose lauren as we wanted someone with ginger hair, who enjoyed acting and someone that was willing to dress and perform in a way we wanted. 

The chat to show our decision into choosing lauren 

Film Poster 

character style we took inspiration from 

We also wanted someone who was similar to the character in Pretty In Pink (Deutch, 1989)  this is the style that we tried to take by this we mean the difference in clothes compared to the time and things that don't particularly look great together. Meaning we took more inspiration from this rather than copy it. 

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Rehearsals

For our film opening we did not need to conduct any actual rehearsals as we felt we had enough evidence from our previous idea and our rough cut to know that Lauren who plays our main character was going to be good enough for our new idea and the real thing.

Idea 4

The scrapbook has been eliminated

location - school - follow the main character and love interest on their journey to school cut between the two so we give the impression they are destined for each other.

At school they are going to meet and the love interest is going to be going out with someone who is not an outsider and who is typically sport etc. Embarrass her by tripping her up and then her friends are going to humiliate her.

characters are going to be between 16-18.

for this we are going to get inspiration from
trick or treat for the humiliation
heathers for gang
napoleon dynamite for diegetic titles
pretty in pink for the outsider

3 main characters - protagonist - love interest - antagonist
2 sub characters - friends of the antagonist

love interest is going out with the antagonist

antagonist and protagonist are enemies 

the protagonist is treated as an outsider

this all created the love triangle

voice over to be delivered during the opening sequence when titles are present

Diegetic Title Ideas

Ideas we have to use diegetic titles in our short film opening. 

1. advert on bus 
2. mirror condensation 
3. pillowcase
4. t shirt
5. bus shelter 
6. food 
7. computer 
8. train/bus ticket 
9. eggs and soldiers 
10. textbook 
11. mobile phone 
12. menu 
13. lipstick on mirror 
14. dirty car 
15. dustcover on hardback 
16. bottles and containers 
17. food wrapper 
18. cereal 
19. flyer style junk mail 
20. tv 

Mise-En-Scene For School's Out

This is what our protagonist wore:

film poster

We chose this because we thought it reflected her character and we took inspiration for her costume from Pretty In Pink (1986)

We liked the film as it wasn't a conventional rom-
com but had a love triangle between the 3 characters.

-----> this is what she wore in pretty in pink

We also used inspiration from pretty in pink for the other protagonist. He wore this: --->













which we took inspiration from this --->