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This blog lets you see what my team and I will be doing towards our AS Media. The theme is horror and we will be posting new short films.

Thursday, 17 January 2013

Props and Costumes

* Props ;
-Watch  - Will be used when Anna is looking to see what the time is after just waking up on the park bench
- Hospital tag  - Will been show so that the audience can start to suspect that the character has some kind of illness
- Dog   - Will be used to seem as a threat to Anna as she is paranoid to anything in the outside world.
- Knife  - Will been shown numerous time in the opening to emphasise that Anna is dangerous
- Plasters  Will been shown on Anna to show that audience




* Costumes;
      - Main Character (Anna Smith) Costumes - Ripped jeans, plain T-shirt, big hoodie, rough looking trainers
We have chose this costume so that the audience can see that her appearance does not matter to her at the moment to show that she has had a rough time. We want her to look vulnerable and stereo typical  like a typical teenager through the eyes of an adult.


      -  Make up   - Cuts on arm covered with plasters, bruised face, tired looking eyes, messy hair 
      - Dog walker  - Blue Jeans, Brown Leather Hoodie and Red Vans 
      - Mysterious Person - Burgundy Jogging Bottom, Blue Body Warmer 

What We Think Anna Smith Should Be Like


This is a trailer to The Ward and what we think Anna Smith's character should be like in our task. Since Anna Smith has recently escaped a mental institute and this trailer is of "Christian" a female who is also believed as crazy/insane we would like Anna to have same characteristics for example the bruises, messy hair this has helped our group get really create Anna.

Actor Details


Actor Details
For our main task we have chosen a member from our group to play the character, reasons as to why our actor (Rosaline) was chosen over anyone else is because she fits the image that we imagined, such as having brown/blonde, long hair, tall and looks older than the rest of our group. Our traget audience will feel like they can relate with the actor as they will be roughly the same age, and can look up to the actor which would only work if they look to be in the same age group.The fact that the actor is in the same age range within the target audience will make the audience feel as if what happens in the movie could happen to them. 




Character Details

The character that Rosaline will be playing (Anna Smith) is a young adult who has just escaped from a mental hospital, and is scared she is being hunted down. Because of this intense plot the character will be shown to still have symptoms of hallucinogen related Disorder and is feeling more and more vulnerable during the process of trying to find somewhere 'safe'.
In the characters past life, she was a young adult who was succeeding in school and was on a successful path for her life ahead. The reason as to why her life was drastically changed was that her parents were killed in a severe car accident, and passed away. After dealing with this Anna Smith was forced to live with her aunts and became involved with drugs with the wrong crowd at school. After a period of 6 months Anna's Aunt found out and forced Anna to commit to a rehab programme, but all went wrong as Anna's withdrawal symptoms were not normal and had no choice but to go to a mental hospital, where the therapists and scientists realised just how severe her symptoms were.And this is where we pick up from. In our opening sequence we will show her coping after escaping from the hospital, and after our sequence this is when the film would reverse back and show the audience why and how she has became in this position.