Thursday, 1 March 2012

Narrative-Opening Scene

In our film 'Mr Smith', it begins with the main  character walking to school however, the audience do not know this as we only show his body parts - his foot, back of the head/body and his hands. We also do not show his face so it mysterious and eerie to the audience (enigma code).
When the main character (Mr Smith) walks into the classroom that is the first time that when the audience see his face, but it is not a  clear shot as it is through a window so the atmosphere is still mysterious. We have decided to do this because we want the genre of our film to be very clear to the audience and also for them to be drawn into the film and are eager to know what is going to be happening.
The audience get to see his face clearly at the end of his lesson, when he comes out of the classroom, as Mr Smith is a quite, humble teacher there is not much speech from him so that also adds to the eerie atmosphere.

Structure of Mr Smith:

(the graph)

Filming

Today is the last day of filming, we got a lot done today. We managed to film the climax scenes (Mr Smiths disappearance) and a few more office shots and walking shots, as well as the present scene shots in the new building which did not make the final cut of the film.
Here are a few images:











Going back to film a few scenes:





Filming

Today we filmed the graveyard scenes, we managed to get most of it done but towards the end it began to rain, and our camera also died luckily we had had taken enough shots so we did not have to go back to film.

But we had a problem beforehand, the date which we had set to film these scenes were not done as the person responsible for the the graveyard premesis was not there and forgot that we we're meant to be filming, so we had arranged for another date.
Here are some images of when we did film the graveyard scenes:







Filming

Today is the first day of Filming, we managed to film the opening scene of our film when Mr Smith enters the school building, we also filmed the teaching scenes and a few of the office scenes.
Today's session went really well, we all had met before the actor came and organised everything, making sure that we had all the right equipment and props. Here are a few images of the scenes we filmed.