Call sheet

Call Sheet Forms:

Importance of Call Sheets:

Call sheets are important within the creation of a media production because they answer the questions that everyone amongst the cast and crew will be asking. Who, when, what and where. A call sheet enables all this important information to be simplified in a straightforward way. Call sheets are to be given to everyone involved in the shoot of the media, the crew, direction and actors will all have one just to make sure that everyone knows what they're are meant to be doing and when. 

This is copied from Megan Byrne's blog as this was what she had to do.

Evaluation- How did you attract/ address your media product?

Even though I had already made an evaluation post including a powerpoint, I wanted to expand on the question of "How did you attract/ address your media product?" on the media application "prezie". This was to show an expanding of my media knowledge.
Using this was quite simple, I learnt this very quickly, all I had to do was make different slides and it formed this.

Timed Analysis- Insidious Chapter 2 (2013) Child's Play (1988) Annabelle (2014)

Trailer linked here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBbi4NeebAk

00:00- 00:02- BBFC- Film Certificate
00:03- 00:07- Shot reverse shot of lady looking out the window of father and son playing- fade in, fade out
00:08- 00:09- Credit- fade in, fade out "It began two years ago"
00:09- 00:10- fade in long shot of house, car driving up drive.
00:10- 00:13- Fade transition- far shot of a family greeting- kissing each other but the front door
00:13- 00:14- Credit- fade in and out "Their child inherited a gift".
00:14- 00:17- Jump shot from tucking in the child- far shot to kissing him on the head- close up
00:17- 00:19- Short zoom in to father son mother sat on the sofa, looking worried
00:19- 00:22- Shot reverse shot between father comforting mother.
00:23- 00:26- Fade in, mother shown looking down, Eye-line shot to a baby lying in cot, fade out
00:28- 00:33- Over the shoulder shot, showing half mother's face, seeing an empty baby walker move in.
00:34- 00:44- Jump shot showing mother moving around the sitting room, pacing- then when she walks                                back reveals a woman sitting on the sofa- who wasn't there before.
00:50- 00:54- Shot reverse shot between mother and baby monitor- mother looking worried, some woman                          is singing to her child.
00:54- 00:58- Showing mother about to run up the stairs- quick jump shot to her at the top of the stairs                                trying to enter a bedroom which door has just slammed shut.
00:58- 1:00- Credits- "From the makers of saw and paranormal activity"
1:02- 1:04- Slow zoom to a silhouette behind a house door.
1:06-1:10- Shot reverse shot between the word dice and the woman- showing whatever it spells out is scary-                   showing the woman's shocked face.
1:10- 1:18- Jump shot of shot reverse shot, showing double shot of son hiding from father, to single shot of                     father to close up of father, far shot of son looking around the corner.
1:20- 1:28- slow fade in, father pulling out a tooth, quick shot out- straight to black
1:28- 1:30- Credit- "This Fall".
1:30- 1:38- Quick jump shots- between a conversation between 3 people to the worried mother, to the                            searching in an abandoned building with touches- touches revealing- bodies covered in blankets,                    to close up of the rotting hands of the victims int his cinema-like set up.
1:38- 1:40- Credit- "The terrifying secret".
1:40- 1:43- Jump shot between two men, to empty rocking horses which are dusty and rocking on their own
1:43- 1:44- Credit- "Will be revealed"
1:44- 1:57- Quick jump shots varying of the conversation played as narration- showing creepy faces behind                    nets, to the "ghost hunter" touching a costume and seeing the creepy woman black bride and the                    baby walker chasing in the air. Sharp cut off
1:58- 2:10- Shot reverse shot- between conversation of old man and father- showing close up of old man-                      side profile silhouette of father by the hand held lantern.
 2:12- 2:22- Credits- Title screening "Insidious Chapter 2"- September Friday the 13th.
2:22- 2:24- Credit fades to black screen.

Through this trailer, there is a variety of different sounds. For example, when we see the somehow walking on it's own baby walker, we can hear nursery rhymes. When we see the baby monitor we hear the sound which would have been played during the film. This shows how there is a different between the sounds- sometimes they are placed on top and aren't really there- non-diegtic sound and sound which we can tell is part of the film- diegtic sound. There is also time when the narration is placed alongside other sounds- creepy eerie music to build tension. As the editor this has massively had an impact on our idea because it gave me the idea of overlapping different sounds in making that horror genre atmosphere.

Another factor which I didn't notice at first, the gradual pace of the trailer slowly picks up. Originally, the trailer starts with moderate length clips, fading in then fading out. However as the trailer progresses, the clips begin to shorten. Also, the frequency of credit shots increase as the trailer progresses. As the editor, the also gave me the idea of building a pace up as my media product progresses, this is a good way in forming that tension- putting the audience on edge, as if they have to prepare themselves whether there will be a scream or something to make them jump.

Another timed analysis was done by Kaya…

Annabelle 

0.00 - 0.01 - Fade out black screen, non diegetic sound of birds.

0.02 - 0.05 - Dietetic sound of woman taking to man. Sets tension 'John wake up, I heard a scream.' 

0.04-0.05 - Jump cut, black screen, man opening door. Dialogue ' Ill go check it out'

0.06 - 0.06 Woman standing on porch calling out husbands name in the middle o the night.

0.07 - 0.09 - transition into next doors house.

0.09 - 0.10 Sudden non0diegetic sound of a crash and 'John' comes running out.

0.11-0.14 - panicked dialogue between husband and wife & wife runs.

0.15-0.18 - Following shot of two bedrooms, wife disappears whilst the camera turns into another room to see a silhouette of a woman carrying a doll.

0.18-0.19 Black screen with someone whispering "I like your doll", sets tension, allows heart to race.

0.19 - 0.22  Very fast cut and junp cut shots with strobe effects. Mise en scene shows fighting, blood and you can hear the diegetic sound sof screaming.
0.23-0.23 A white flash transistion
0.23-0.24 Women looks like she is in a traumered state whilst man is panicking and shouting at her, looks like he is trying to move her.
0.24-0.25 Zooming in on a woman sitting agains the wall with blood dripping
0.25-0.26 Jump clut to close shot of dolls face and a drop of blood. Tense music rising.
0.26-0.30 continous zoom of dolls face, constant tension music.
0.30 - 0.31 Black screen to a transition of WarnerBros company Logo
0.31 - 0.32 Replacement of New Line Cinema diolouge of a man talking over the top
0.32-0.35 A man sitting talking to the couple seen in previous scenes. Shot reverse shot between couple and man then junp cut to couples hands. Dialouge man saying the couple shouldn't be scared anymore.
0.36-0.39 Cut of a flat and man walking with boxes
0.39-0.41 Black screen then fades out to woman pulling doll out of box
0.42 -0.43 husbands diolouge saying 'how did that get in there, i swear I threw it out'  this sets tension for viewers as they know the man threw it out.
0.43 - 0.45 Back of woman putting the doll onto a shelf and turning and smiling at man
0.45-0.49 camera zooms into doll whilst a clapping noise starts and a baby noise

0.49-0.52 transition of credits to a ticking clock matching the non diegetic sound, becoming diegitic.
0.53 -0.53 Parents/couple laying in bed
0.53 - 0.55over the shoulder shot, dolls head whilst the background is fuzzy, however the door closes but no one can be seen closing it.
0.56 - 0.58 cut to stereo turning on, lights glow up blue
0.58-1.01 camera goes up and music starts playing
1.01-1.03 Text saying 'before the conjuring' displays
1.04 - 1.08 mise en scene, woman asleep on couch whilst someone walks through the corridor in the background
1.10-1.15 someone appears infront of the sleeping woman and looks down into the babies cot.
1.15-1.16 text saying 'there was annabelle'
1.16-1.18 shows woman sewing.

I think this trailer shows horror very we as it uses lots of different paces in shots. It also shows a story line, whilst distrubing childhood innocence which we also tried to do in our product.
The trailer shows lots of jumpy bits but also hides what is happening within the movie.

This is copied from Kaya Dalton's blog.

Another timed analysis was done by Megan Byrne

00:00-00:05 - Age Classification
00:06-00:09 - United Artists, Communication Company title
00:10-00:14 -"everyone has a birthday they'll always remember" dialog, birds eye view shot over sky scraper buildings - tension created
00:14-00:20 - Young boy opening birthday gifts, opens doll, very excited. Slow zoom towards doll
00:21-00:23 - Doll speaks, looking at boy smiling "Hi, I'm Chucky!"
00:23-00:25 - Mother looking happy "He's something isn't he!" evokes tension, whats going to happen
00:31-00:40 - Andy tucked into bed with his new doll, Chucky, kisses him goodnight as the camera zooms into Chucky's face, fades to black as Andy says "goodnight Chucky"
00:41-00:48 - hand held styled filming as though someone is running through the house, someone runs past door way, presumably Chucky, creepy music begins to play, lots of banging noises creating fear
00:49-00:53 - "Most accidents happen at home" narration, shot changes to flower split on floor
00:53-00:60 - Aunt "how did that happen?" shot changes to a close up of a hammer suddenly aunt gets thrown out of the window screaming
00:60-01:00 - police coverage of accident, quick shots of police scenes creating fear and tension
01:06-01:08 - Fast paced hand held zoom towards door
01:13-01:15 - Mid shot of a shadow walking with a knife in hand, evoking more fear
01:15-01:16 - Fast paced zoom towards womans face screaming helplessly on the floor
01:23-01:25 - Woman tries to remove batteries from Chucky, she screams in panic and drops doll to floor
01:28-01:33 - "why don't you believe me" as a close up of Chucky holding a knife is shown"because i'm sane"
01:37-01:38 - Chucky's head appears in an 'over the shoulder' shot in mans car
01:39-01:42 - Car crash in a mid shot, lots of fire evoking fear
01:43-01:46 - "theres nothing nice...about murder" use of pause creates tension
01:47-01:48 - Knife goes through door, close up shot of woman's profile as she screams
01:51-01:57 - Explosion in toy store, dolls get blown up showing corruption of the dolls. Slow motion shots used as narration states "theres nothing innocent about Childs Play"
01:56-02:00 - Childs Play titles roll, as the screen fades to black
02:00-02:06 - End titles roll

This was copied from Megan Byrne's blog.

Dolls Domain Primary Task Resultant footage

Talent release forms

Focus group release forms...

As we decided to film our focus group to use, instead of just using lost of questionnaires, we thought it would be a good idea to get all the people we included to sign a "personal release form", this is because it shows that we got consent from everyone in the process of our media product. This is also very important because them signing this gave us consent to use them in our work of "Dolls Domain the focus group". If we didn't end up getting these forms, the people we used wouldn't have given full consent and therefore wouldn't be able to withdraw their information. Even though this was only a small part of our work, the focus group did massively help us with forming our work because it showed us what people look for in horror movies. 

Our cast release form...

As we only had one person for our cast, it meant we only needed one personal release form for our primary task media product. However, the personal release forms are just as important to the ones shown above for the focus group. This is because it gave us permission to feature this person with in our film opening. Additionally, unlike the people above, this person was under the age of 18, so we had to get parental consent for her to be in our opening. This is another important factor because it by law, children under the age of 18 are in much more need of protection and sometimes their own consent, isn't always able to stand alone- we had to get a parent to sign us permission. 

Risk Assessments

Risk Assessment: 

Risk Assessments are very important a necessary for to do before shooting. This is because it shows us any problems we may face so then we can prevent them from happening.

An example of this, is when we went into the forest, we could have faced risks such as losing our way- getting lost in the forest. Or we could have went when it was wet and slippery and slipped over. Or we could have been approach by a gang (at worst case) and we could get caught up.

This meant we were able to look out and help prevent these from occurring.

For example, making sure if we did go far into the forest at least one of us could remember the way back, that we all had our phones in case for some reason we got separated and we never went some where with out signal so we could always contact someone if needed- this also helped if we were to be approached by people whom we did not know. Also we went on a moderately dry day, although we did start film outside the summer season so have a wet forest was going to be inevitable. But because we were prepared, it meant we were able to wear the appropriate shoes and didn't slip. 

Location scouting sheet

Location release Forms...

Location release forms are just as important as the ones we used for our cast and focus group. This is because it shows we have been deemed permission to shoot on these premises. Seeing as we didn't shoot in many private places- other than in the members of this groups homes, we didn't need to fill in that many forms.