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Location

Throughout this opening scene, the shots used are all focused on Cindy. These focusing shots are all shot in her bedroom, and this is due to a bedroom symbolising 'intimacy' as it is the most private room in a house. Due to the opening scene being shot here, it tell the audience a lot about the character and subjects them to her problems instantly. It provides a insight into the characters characteristics when she is not putting up a front in front of other characters.
The way the room is laid out and the way she is walking in the space suggests Cindy to be a careless, depressive character, but the substance abuse that is later shown changes these movements as they become more dominant and uplifting as shown when Cindy stamps her food down. This shows her dependence on the substance for confidence, therefor creating a paradox between her objective and supper objective. Her objective being that she wishes to take another hit, and her supper objective to become more confident.
This location automatically makes the characters problems more noticeable to the audience due to her doing these things outside of socialising, which creates more of an impact for the audience to watch. Due to her substance abuse not being filmed whilst socialising, instantly illustrates that she is an uncomfortable character who needs help. These shots present Cindy as a character who cannot socialise independently and therefor highlight her problems more than if shown in a 'partying' environment.
This is why we have decided to change our location from the previous one as we wanted the opening scene to have more of an impact on the audience and we wanted them to understand Cindy's point of view before they make their own judgment on the character. By bringing the audience into an intimate space, they suddenly pay more attention to the things within the scene, due to the excitement they will feel in being in an environment that they aren't accustomed to, as every bedroom has its own individuality that is created by the one who lives in it. Because the audience is paying attention to the props and objects within the scene, this now creates a connection between the character and the audience as they might notice things that they do in their own home, or have objects that link to this opening scene. In having this connection, it allows the audience to feel emotions towards the character. Consequently, due to the audience now forming emotions towards the things they see, this now creates a more hard hitting narrative that they can reflect on.

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Through this film, we have used new media technologies such as premiere and the sound booth that is installed onto mac's. WE wanted to keep the editing to a bare minimal as we did not want to detract the attention away from the context. These simple editing techniques that we have used such as saturating the color from its previous state to a more gritty tone helps with capturing our target audience, and the problems which we tried to convey.

Adobe premiere pro, is the video editing software that we have used. To use this, you simple drag your raw footage onto the timeline, and then from there you can edit your film using the tools provided. This software enabled us to cut out and past in pieces of the film that we believed fitted best together by using the ‘razor’ tool. Consequently, allowing us to refine our best pieces together to then play around with the transaction and sound tools.

Adobe sound booth is a sound editing software. We used this to take our recorded sound, and cut it up into different pieces so that we could create a different sound using the sound that we already provided. This meant that we could take the best recordings and place them together to make one whole track. Additionally, this enabled us to edit the sound of the voices and instrumentals by changing the tempo and tone to give our sound a different effect. We then changed this file to match Adobe Premiere and then further edited the sound so it was in-keeping with our opening scene.

Main character - Visuals 

Missoni – (Italian knit wear)

Cindy’s costume represents the younger generation of the 1960’s. Her dress is of the classic 60’s design with the hemline 6inches above the knee. The patterned dress consists of multiple shades of orange and red which were among the most favoured colours to place together. This Missoni inspired design was most popular in the 1960’s due to its array of colours.  The white tights that she wears were also very popular and were commonly worn amongst models. The nude shoes that Cindy wears are also to mirror the ‘nude’ look that was about during the 60’s. The pale, nude lips and skin coloured or white tights were amongst this look. We then finish off with the white rounded Ray Ban inspired sunglasses, which although were not featured in the final film, was a part of Cindy’s original costume. We believed having the sunglasses was not necessary due to the re-shooting being indoors.

Discussion

Today our group spoke with our teacher and we discussed our deadline, what we had done so far and what we needed to get finished. So far we’ve completed basic editing of our footage on premier. All that’s left is to add transitions and effects, which we shall be able to have a better grasp on once we’ve added our 1960s influenced music in.

The voices for the soundtrack have been recorded, we’ve chosen a male voice and then to have an accompanying female voice in the chorus. Due to our group refining the soundtrack we decided to take apart the instrumental  from the lyrics and edit them separably to our opening scene, we have done this so that the soundtrack is more in keeping with the timing of our opening scene.

 All that’s left to do is to finish adding percussion and effects on the computer, then to transfer the file into a file type that we will be able to play as a backing tack for our opening sequence.

Finally titles need to be added into our film opening. Based on our analysis of credits and 60s and 60’s influenced films we will discuss how we shall format our own titles in order to reflect a professional appearance. 

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Conventions of a DRAMA

A dramatic convention is a set of rules, which both the audience and actors are familiar with and which act as a useful way of quickly signifying the nature of the action or of a character.

Technical conventions can include lighting, dialogue, monologue, set, costuming and entrances/exits.

We use these dramatic conventions throughout Cry To Me Cindy to create a love hate relationship between the audience and the character. The lighting is low key, to accentuate the gritty teenage lifestyle, and the make-up is heavily applied to accentuate all the element of being a peer pressured individual. The costume was designed to represent this character as a spirited teenager, but the heels infer that she is taking on too much and might not be ready for what she is about to do. The location was specifically important in conforming to the conventions of a drama, due to it being the most intimate place where the character develops outside social areas. This in all signifies the true nature of the character and signifies her true identity before the façade is placed. 




Distribution companies


There are many distribution companies that would be suitable for distributing our film, such as the following:


Working Title 2
Film Four
Heyday Films
Fox searchlight 
Vertigo
BBC Films




The two distribution companies that i feel are best for distributing Cry To Me Cindy, is working title 2 and film four. This is due to the striking films that they have distributed such as slumdog millionaire, This is England, The Inbetweeners, The Iron Lady e.c.t and i feel that these films such as This is England and slumdog millionaire present a hard hitting narrative that the audience can reflect on. I believe Cry To Me Cindy has a hard hitting narrative that the audience can reflect on their culture and actions.