'A Lover's Obsession's' Plot

'A Lover's Obsession' is the story about a young teenage girl who is coming home from being out. After taking off her coat, bag and shoes, she goes upstairs to get ready for bed. She receives a mysterious phone call from an unknown number and it is clear that there have been previous phone call incidents as she isn't happy with the other speaker. She goes downstairs but as she passes the front door, she thinks she has seen a light go on outside. Checking she hasn't been mistaken, she opens the door to investigate. After calling out to see if anyone is around, she notices a bunch of flowers on the driveway. A secret message on the attached note, startles the girl, but as she is reading, the front door slams shut behind her. Panic rises through the girl and she runs to the door, slamming on the glass and shouting. A figure strolls up to the glass as the girl tries fiddling with the door handle, and she only notices the figure when its face is pressed up to the window panel. She runs away, calling for help and turns down a road into an alleyway, where something unknown makes her let out a piercing scream.
As the film opening goes on, there are black and white clips of a body in a dead state, with the objects used in the other shots e.g. phone, note, necklace. These are meant to represent how each shot of the active girl is a flashback of the dead state. Finally, a shot of the girl's face appears and her eyes suddenly open as she lets out a deep breathe and the title appears over the screen.

Main Movie Comparison (Scream)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu39cEsK5W8

Scream Comparison

 

Filming

Using our shooting schedule, we planned a date to film and below are photos of our practical filming.

Above, are photos of the first shots of the film. We used a range of lighting on the character, camera and scene.

 We used an extension cable in order to access lighting from outside and achieve a good quality in our shots.

 Again, a range of outside and portable lighting was used in this shot and we altered the tripod in order to get a level shot.

Here is a photo of a prop we used in our filming and it's bright lighting in the dark set.

Setting

Taking into consideration what our target market requested about setting, Claudia and I are using my family home (shown in the photos below) as our thriller setting. The house enables space to film as well as equipment and facilities for filming, such as household equipment to use as props, e.g. knife and extension leads, plugs for charging filming equipment and accessible lighting. Not only is the setting practical, but it aesthetically meets the demand on the market, it is a believable and relatable, fitting in with our plot. Down the road from the house, is a alleyway, a perfect setting for our climax scene. This area needs portable lighting and freehand camera work in order to get the right frame shots.

Editing

Claudia and I have started editing the footage that we filmed on the days of our shooting schedule. We have included cuts, transitions and cropping of shots and music. Above is a quick film coverage of the first bits of movie editing.

Music

Music

Claudia and I wanted to find some music to put into our film that wasn’t copyright. This was because it would be expensive to use a copyright product if we weren’t able to get consent from the music production company to use it on our film for no fee. This would also mean having to explore the contact information would may be hard to find and having to wait for a reply which we may never have got in the time limit that we had.

If we were producing the film on a large scale, then this would obviously be a factor we would consider.

We researched into finding music on YouTube and came across a track that didn’t require copyright. Lots of people were commenting, explaining their interest and the user was happy to let others use it. We downloaded the track and have used it over our film, adjusting it to fit into the scenes. The music starts off with an eerie piano tune being repeated, with the volume being deliberately lowered when the character is speaking. When the door slams shut, the scenes get more fast-paced so we cut the music so that the lower tune at a quicker and scarier pace was playing.

To keep the creepy atmosphere sustained throughout the film, we cut out the part of the track with major chords that have a lighter happier tune.  

Desmond's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxlgw08dgss

The clip above is the first episode of the first season of 'Desmond's', broadcast in 1989. The episode begins with the opening credits, showing footage of black slaves in black and white, implying it was a long time ago, and then modern clips of black and white people friendly communicating, indicating positive relationships between both ethnicities and symbolising the equality that both races have, conveying that racism is a recent topic that has stopped being an issue.

In the actual show, one of the black character's is seen reading The Sun newspaper and Desmond tells them he doesn't want the newspaper in his shop as 'it blames black people for so many things', suggesting that racism was still an issue back then whereas now, the media doesn't portray that particular ethnicity as a negative race anymore, suggesting that in the past 20-30 years, opinions on ethnicity and representation has changed from being negative to more positive as there less negative topics in the media nowadays.

The accent that the characters have is a lot more distinct in the programme then the black ethnicity in London has nowadays, suggesting that the African culture was a recent migrant to the area if they still use dialect and have big relations to their home region.

Below is text from some online articles talking about ethnicity in the show:

Worrell was keen to show that prejudice existed not just between broad ethnic groups, but also within them While Matthew was the frequent butt of jokes from the West Indian characters, particularly Porkpie and Desmond, he was always keen to point out the strength of African history with his regular interjection "There's an old African saying"

“I started Desmond’s when I was 23-years-old, I’m now a middle aged man and I have to say there have been advances in this country. I’ve seen the younger generation get on in society, it is very different from when I was younger, but the one thing that hasn’t changed, which is a real shame, is the fact that we are still saying there is nothing out there that represents us.”

Francis also says that the community is losing out on the battle for the audience because when a predominantly black programme is put together, it is not given the support it needs to be successful or the scripts are written by white writers.