Mise-en-Scène & Semiotics

Lighting:

School's strip lighting will be fine as it will make it look more like it was filmed in a school, because it will have been. I am not filming in any areas of the school which aren't well lit. When it comes to filming Eleanor Rose (Lucy Blake) on Mousehold Heath, I will make sure it is in daylight hours, it is now Winter and so they're fewer but as long as we film between 8am and 3pm we should be OK. I shouldn't need any external lighting added onto this but am aware there may be the shadows from the tree on Eleanor but that shouldn't be a problem.

Props:

• Blister Packs (shouldn't be a problem or any purchasing required as already take many tablet forms of medication so I go through blister pack trays often!)
• Tic Tacs (need to purchase some just so I know I have enough to waste - shouldn't be more than £2? so won't be a huge investment)
• Pregnancy test (need to purchase one from Tesco? May get some interesting looks and am unsure how much they are but I'm not wanting a perticularly accurate one as we won't be using it for it's correct purpose)
• Miniature MiniGrip clear plastic bags to put Tic-Tacs in in-order to look like drug-deal (easy to retrieve as they look just like the little clear plastic bags you get the spear-button in, when you buy a coat or jack from a clothes store.)

14.12.16 Update: all of these props have now been retreieved/purchased.

- I have two bags of blister packs - should be well over enough! 

- I have one pack of Tic Tacs - but the shop didn't have white ones so I had to get pink, but it shouldn't be too noticeable when it comes to filming, and some tablets can be pink anyway.

- I have a pregnancy test - Poundland sell them! So I bought one - and as predicted, I did get some interesting looks from other people.

- Found some miniature minigrip clear plastic bags at home so that's fine.

Costume:

I will ask my actors/actresses to wear the clothes they usually would at sixth form as they're playing the roles of sixth form students. As long as no one wears anything explicit or offensive it should be fine.

Semiotics

I am unsure what to use for my semiotic symbol.

Plot and Planning of Reverse Narrative

Pling Notification Alert

Reflective Comment:
This was very complicated to think through however I think it'll be worth it for the reverse-effect. Finding the 'ping notification alert' has also saved me a little bit of time, rather than trying to find that whilst doing all the editing. I am confident about the rough idea and think it'll be interesting to see the final result.

Who is Who?

I am aware having multiple narratives, multiple characters, multiple relationships and especially in a cocktail of reverse narratives is quite a complex structure. To help myself, my actors and my teachers understand the general plot and 'family-tree' of my idea I made this little Prezi. It breifly explains who is who, how they're related and their general story I'll be trying to get across in my TV trailer, poster, and front page of TV listings magazine.



Reflective Comment:
This has actually helped me a lot from making this and I now feel I have more of a clearer idea of what was in my head! It has also helped to send to Eleanor Rose, Molly Bishop, Pixie Clinton and Harry Colgan so they also get an idea of what's happening and who they are to each other. Happy I made this and won't be making any changes to it - but I do need to sort through who will be playing John and Lisa Blake.

Reverse Chronology Narrative

Reverse chronology is a method of story-telling whereby the plot is revealed in reverse order. 

In a story employing this technique, the first scene shown is actually the conclusion to the plot. Once that scene ends, the penultimate scene is shown, and so on, so that the final scene the viewer sees is the first chronologically.

In 2002, Coldplay released the song 'The Scientist'. This song's music video appeared to feature Coldplay's lead singer, Chris Martin, singing the lyrics in the reversed footage, he had to learn to sing the song backwards, which took him a month.

This helpful to look at but I will not be using the technique of learning to say words in reverse order as this is quite complex and most of my actors are also doing A-Levels to to expect them to take time to learn a script in reverse order would be quite an ask. Instead, when it comes to speech in my trailer I will either have a scene where they're not doing anything obviously-reversed, or they can be still so the audience cannot tell.