SCOUTING- MEET OUR ACTRESS

Meet Our Actress

Name: Silvia Presente

Age: 18 years old

Hair Colour: Ginger

Eye Colour: Brown

Costume: Blue (to enforce colour scheme)

We used Silvia last year within our piece 'Psychosis' and decided to use her again, as due to her dramatic training and aspiration within the theatre industry: Silvia has a personable, gripping and in some cases haunting skill when expressing emotion in her authentic performances. As an actress of a skill level that is incomparable to any other actors we know, she is always a priority within our coursework pieces due to her convincing acting through our camera lens. Always ready to do anything and everything to ensure our pieces are the best quality possible, she will not hesitate to put her full effort into each second of shooting to make her footage incredible.

LOCATION RESEARCH- OXLEAS WOODS

Since we wanted to have our location within the woods, to film our match on action etc when she is remembering the ordeal that she went through. We decided it was essential to have a woodland that was surrounded by nature, to ensure that within our footage that she is immersed in her surroundings. Further we needed there to be a great amount of shrubbery such as trees above to create a sense of claustrophobia within the shots, and the sense of entrapment not only within the location but in the past where the event took place. Therefore, we decided to film in Oxleas Woods based in Eltham which is 8,000 years old and over 8 million square feet, a wild woodland that is a complete contrast to the concrete jungle that surrounds it. Not only is it a commutable distance for filming for both us and our actress, but due to its sheer size it loses the likelihood that we will be interrupted within filming by dog walkers etc. meaning that we can film longer shots of our actress especially in her disjointed state.  Below are some photographs from our location scouting of Oxleas Woods:

Colour Palette

Initial ideas of colour:
Red- American beauty and hard candy
Blue- blue is the warmest colour
Yellow- the lovely bones
Pink- the grand Budapest hotel

After considering the initial ideas of colour and looking into the work of Wes Anderson, we decided that our colour palette for our film trailer should slightly subvert the usual conventions of a film like this however still be creepy and off-putting to the audience.

Blue is often seen as a colour of sadness and therefore would be particularly useful for us. Our original idea of subverting the stereotypes and using a yellow colour palette as "The Lovely Bones" did was altered by our idea of a colder, blue scheme. Once our filming started, we found that our footage was mostly suited to a blue tungsten filter. With this applied, our colour scheme became easily recognizable and more effective.

Location- Oxleas woods bunker

The location of the sexual assault was to be in a public place that can normally be associated with innocence, to show a subversion of our chosen location.

The Bunker was used to create a burst shot that consists of  POV shot of the opening and the surrounding clearing. We filmed this multiple times in a similar fashion and through overlaying of clips we were able to create a burst of shots, each a split second apart from one another.
We added a tungsten-colour tint to our frame to create an eerie and cold tone to the shot. This allowed us to present the view as an uncomfortable shot. This location is the implied location that our actress finds herself in after her attacker leaves her. The distorted shot shows her dizziness and lack of stability after her attack.