Location.

The location for our protagonists house was originally my house. However we soon came to realise that my house, although old was filled with lots of modern technology that we believed someone from the older generation wouldn't have. To overcome this we researched a care home instead. However we thought that it would take to long to get into contact with them and would be inconvenient if we needed to reshoot. 

To overcome this we decided that instead of the care home we looked at other houses belonging to the older generation (grandparents). The decision we made was that our group would film In my grandparents living room and either  have to change the setting of our scene to the living room or have our character go downstairs. 

The reason we chose this location is because it's a genuine elderly persons home, which allows the film opening to become more real and believable for the audience. 

decision

What is copyright and why is is Important?

UWhat is copyright and why is is Important?

It is a legal right made by the government or part of the law to the country. It Benefits the creator of any original work with exclusive rights in equal. This provides the creator with control over the work by use and distribution with all Intentions of Enabling the creator of whatever work is normally specified for a Limited Amount of Time. It is Intellectual Property ownership in the form applicable to any sort of original work. It is MOST USED seen them swear within each of multiple authors say hold equal set of rights to use or license the work in equal ever wish to do so broke, poke people use are referred to either the "right-holders". The rights in equal broke the world have access to is reproduction, distribution, public performance, moral rights or attribution. 

Credit: Katy Ward

 

The reason this  is important is because if we want to use certain music or footage we would have to get permission or film our own. I our film however I be composing the music for our film using either samples I've made or default ones, which are royalty free. 

BrainStorm Film Names

 

 This was a brainstorm we created for our ideas on what we wanted our film to be called. As of yet we haven't decided on a name but we have highlighted certain names. These names either are ones we like or ones that we like the concept of. When creating names we wanted it to link to both the war that our protagonist experienced and the psychological war inside him. Another idea we focused on was the that idea that there was a never ending war inside him, which focused more on the psychological; side of the film.

Costume

 After talking to Mr. Ford about our props the other day we decided to see what school resources we could use in our short film. The first prop in which we decided to search for was the wheel chair, therefore we went to the medical room and asked the nurse if it would be possible for us to borrow the wheel chair, in which she responded to agree as long as she knows where we are with the wheelchair due to incase of an emergency and she needs it back immediately. Due to the wheelchair being a success we moved to our next prop of the World War II helmet which we decided we would search for up in the art department, we went into the cupboard where all the ornaments are kept and asked Delaxie if it was okay for us to borrow the helmet which she responded to agree as well as we saw an old fashioned bucket with she also allowed us to take when needed. However as the hat had minor adjustments made to it by other student we then asked if it was okay to fix the helmet back to how it was for this we had to ask for an art teachers promission so we asked Miss Crow Stewart who was more than happy for us to reconstruct it back to how it was. Therefore I then mixed up some paint until it nearly matched the colour it was and painted over the top of what was already on the helmet, we took some pictures 

Credit Katy

Our Actor

 Name: Fraser Camp
 Age: 16?
 Occupation: A Level
 Previous Roles: School Productions


The reason behind our choice of actor is because he has experience within acting due to him staring in many school performances and drama exams. His role in our film in-tailed him having to play the part of both the older man and the younger man. This would mean that we wouldn't have to  use an older man, which could of created problems due to reliability. This leads onto why we chose him for bone structure, weird as this sounds we could see this actor being an older gentleman. This was important to us because we wanted to sell the illusion that he was older in the modern world and younger within World War Two. To show why we could see this actor as the older character as well, I made him face the sun so he would squint making him look older.

Who's getting what...

Once we had completed our story board we Realised that we needed to update our props list as parts of o ur story line had been adapted. 

Updated props list and who is getting what 

• WW2 Gun - For the main protagonist as a young man [George]

• Modern Tap - For the close ups [location]

• 1940s hose pipe - For boarding [Mariella]

• 1940s bucket (Metal) - For water boarding [Mariella]

• Dog - For old man walking [Katie]

• Dog leed - Old man walking [Katie]

• Match/ lighter - Close ups [George]

• Wheel chair - End scene [George]https://www.wheelfreedom.com/products/adult_wheelchair_hire/lightweight_foldable_wheelchair_hire

• Belt Straps - End scene [George and Mariella]

• Cloth - Waterboarding [Katie]

• Bed [Location]
• helmet [art- will need painting though]Who 

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Research

The reason in which we decided researching into Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is for the reason that our persona will be suffering from it. Therefore we did not want to start filming or make assumptions on how they would act without even going into any research. 

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or a longer term PTSD is an anxiety disorder that is caused due to stressful, frightening or distressing events which have happened within someones past. Events that can lead to a disorder such as this are: 

• Road Accidents.
• Violent, sudden personal assaults such as sexual abuse, mugging or a robbery.
• Consistant sexual abuse, violence or severe neglect.
• Witnessing murders / deaths.
• Military combat.
• Being held hostage.
• Witnessing terrorist attacks such as 911th
• Natural disasters such as earthquakes or tsunamis.

It can be developed immediately after an experiencing of an event such as the above or it can occur weeks, months or years after the event. It develops in about 1 out of 3 people who experience severe trauma which can not be explained why some people experience it and some people can go without it.

People with PTSD their brain has parts involved in emotional processing appear different and brain scans. One part of the brain is responsible for the memory and emotions that us as humans consume which is known as the hippocampus. People with PTSD their hippocampus appears smaller in size. It is thought to be that the changes in this part of the brain can be related to fear and anxiety, memory problems and flashbacks. If the hippocampus malfunctions and may prevent flashbacks and nightmares from being properly processed, therefore the anxiety they begin to generate does not reduce over any time period. Treatment of PTSD results in processing their memories so that over time the flashbacks and nightmares will eventually and gradually disappear.

Credit: Katy Ward

Animatic

We made an animatic showing all the shots within our film. This allowed us to see if our idea actually fitted the marks scheme for example the dedicated time limit. However the time that this animatic is actually is shorter than what we originally wanted. This was due to some of the shots being shorter than original idea because of no dialogue or sound leaving it the animatic with an exsrtention of silence

CrossHair Official Film (Typography Practice)