Pre-Production Planning

Research on Domestic Violence:

Domestic Abuse

We got inspiration from these examples of domestic violence videos that we had researched on YouTube. 

From source A, we have decided to mimic the props that had been thrown on the floor in the opening shot. We think that this technique shows a good affect as it instantly pulls the audience in. 

When analysing the clip from source B, we liked the way that the camera establishes the female character's shadow, whilst she is getting abused. This creates a sense of vulnerability which we thought created a strong sense of emotion in this particular shot. 

We wanted include dialogue into our opening, we used source C as an inspiration as it has an voiceover of the character telling the story of the events.

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Domestic Abuse Campaigns

                                                              HOLLYOAKS CAMPAIGN

IT RARELY STOPS

These are some examples of recent campaigns against domestic violence.

This is Abuse Website:

This is a previous website campaign, this website explains relationship abuse and how people can help.

I saw a recent video campaign on Facebook about domestic violence on women..

                

A Woman shares her day through google glass..

StoryBoard- Gemma

Here is our Storyboard..

Punching Scene- Hannah

In our film we wanted to include a scene that shows the woman getting abused by her boyfriend, showing a punching scene can be very difficult when filming, so we decided to research different techniques to get this to look realistic. In order to proceed with this affect we want to have the abuser punching into the shot. We will then make the camera become distorted as if the camera is the victim.

How we are going to do it:

The camera will be used from Gemma's point of view, the aggressive partner will be punching into the camera, this will make it look like to the audience more realistic and feel like they are part of the disturbing scene.

A video of us rehearsing the punching scene:  

Here are some videos of me and Gemma trying out the punching scene:

Problems we found with the punching scene: During are practise time we found it hard to be on time with the camera moving and the punch, i think when it comes to filming we will make sure we are in sync :)

Filming..

When we filmed our thriller, the punching scene worked out really well, our actor Tom, really did a good job and its look really effective and realistic.

Heres a Preview..

Equipment List  

Here is some of the equipment we will be using:

1. Camera
2. Tripod
3. LED light and Stand 
4. Final Cut Pro
5. Mac Computer
6. IPhone

CAST LIST

Gemma-  is playing the girlfriend who is getting abused.
Tom- is playing the abusive partner.