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Production Title: Life’s Hold

Director: Emily Bennett, Katie Manchester, Olivia Park, Shelby Batty and Caitlin McPherson

Scene 1
Sequence/Scene Name: First Scene- Outside House scene
Editor: Shelby Batty
Sequence/ Scene Name: Outside House Scene & Front Door Scene
Shot Description:
Walking up to the house. Full view of house and teenager walking down the street towards it.
Walks into front door and talks to mother, dumps bag and runs into house.

Scene 2
Sequence/ Scene Name: Mother and Susie Argument
Shot Description
In the Kitchen Emily enters the kitchen where her mother is grating carrot.
Emily’s Conversation; Emily asking and responding to questions from Shelby.
Shelby’s Conversation; Shelby responding to questions asked by Emily, and asking in return.

Scene 3
Sequence/ Scene Name: Park Scene
Shot Description:
Susie (Emily) runs to park and is upset. Then gets beat up and killed (shot) by two gangster men.

Scene 4
Sequence/ Scene Name: Calling Police
Shot Description:
Mother is calling police about missing child (Susie), then Jess walks on and asks if Susie is ok, mother replies that sure is not sure.

Scene 5
Sequence/ Scene Name: Funeral
Shot Description:
Priest (Emily Birch) reads from bible and then comforts mother and tells her to take Jess home.

Scene 6
Sequence/Scene Name: Waking Up
Shot Description:
Waking up and no one’s around Susie’s is waking up in her bedroom and she is calling for her family and no one is answering.
Susie runs down stairs to find Letty waiting for her. Letty tells Susie that she’s dead.

Scene 7
Sequence/Scene Name: Explanation Scene
Shot Description:
Emily Katie Dog Emily and Katie are talking on the stairs outside about Emily being dead.
Dog Sister Close The camera moves form Emily and Katie outside to the door where Amelia comes out.
Emily Sister Door Amelia, with the dog, sees Emily and runs to the door.
Through Door Sister Amelia is let in through the door by Emily.

Scene 8
Sequence/Scene Name: Mothers argument with Jess (second child)
Shot Description:
Daughter runs into Susie’s room to find her mother cleaning up. She tells her mother she saw Susie and they have an argument.

Scene 9
Sequence/Scene Name: One Year Later
Shot Description:
Dinner A year later when Susie’s mother and sister are in the dinning room living a normal life and accepting Susie's death.

Scene 10
Sequence/ Scene Name: Happily Ever After
Shot Description:
Letty tells Susie that everything is going to be ok... Then Susie agrees its time to go home and thye link arms and walk off into the sunset.

Props, Clothing & Setting List

Production Title: Life’s Hold
In charge of props: Emily Bennett, Shelby Batty, Katie Manchester

Scenes 1 to 13 (in more detail)

1. Arriving Home

CHARACTERS: Susie

CLOTHING: School Uniform,

SETTINGS: Susie’s house, Empty Neighbourhood

PROPS: School bag, hat


2. Kitchen Scene

CHARACTERS: Susie & Susie’s Mother

CLOTHING: School Uniform, Causal clothes for the mother

SETTINGS: Kitchen

PROPS: Kitchen equipment e.g. knives, chopping board, food, kitchen table, Laptop, Chair

3. Running Throw the Park

CHARACTERS: Susie, Two Men

PROPS: School Uniform, Gangster clothes for the two men characters

SETTINGS: Empty Park


4. Killing Scene

CHARACTERS: Susie, Two Men

CLOTHING: School Uniform, Gangster clothes for the two men characters

SETTINGS: Empty Play Ground

PROPS: Swing, Toy Gun, a Fence, Sand


5. Waking Up

CHARACTERS: Susie

CLOTHING: School Uniform

SETTING: Bedroom

PROPS: Bed, pillow, stuffed toys, bedroom equipment e.g. table, photo frames,


6. “Aren’t you Suppose to be Dead?”

CHARACTERS: Susie, Letty

CLOTHING: School Uniform, Casual Clothes for Letty

SETTING: Couch

PROPS: Pillows, Stairs


7. Funeral

CHARACTERS: Priest, Mother

CLOTHING: Priest clothes (track suit jacket inside out, hair band around the neck), black clothes

SETTING: Cemetery

PROPS: Bible


8. Questions

CHARACTERS: Susie, Letty

CLOTHING: School Uniform, Casual Clothes for Letty

SETTINGS: Porch of the house

PROPS: Stairs, Dog, Chairs in the background


10. Appearing, making the Dog come

CHARACTERS: Susie, Letty, Milly

CLOTHING: School Uniform, Casual Clothes

SETTING: Back of the house

PROPS: Toy for the Dog, Door


11. Fight Scene

CHARACTERS: Susie’s Mother, Susie’s Sister

CLOTHING: Casual Clothes

SETTING: Susie's bedroom

PROPS:Bedroom e.g. toys, bed, pillows, photo frames, lamps


12. Few Months Later

CHARACTERS: Susie’s Mother, Susie’s Sister

CLOTHING: Casual Clothes

SETTINGS: Kitchen

PROPS:Kitchen Equipment e.g. pot, kitchen knives, stove, work bench, food (carrots), knives and forks


13. Dinner

CHARACTERS: Susie’s Mother, Susie’s Sister

CLOTHING: Casual Clothes

SETTING: Dinning room

PROPS: Plates, Knives and Forks, Empty Cups, A pot, Place mates, Chairs, Dinning room


14. Walking away

CHARACTERS: Susie, Letty

CLOTHING: School Uniform & Casual clothes

SETTING: Porch of the house

Reflection

This week I worked on Garage Band producing my edit.
I then noticed that I had spelt something wrong in my credits and had to go back to Final Cut and correct the spelling.
I am happy with my edit and I am very happy with my music that I have chosen to end my movie. I think it ties in with the genre and creates a mood that is needed.
I corrected a few errors that became apparent in my movie in Final Cut Pro when I was back into it.
I am happy with the few changes I made to my edit and now am going to drag it back into Garage Band and hope all the songs still match up. A few adjustments may need to be made. I still need to record voices for the outside scene as you can not hear anything.
Mr Andrews showed me how to adjust music in Garage Band so it fades in and out which will be useful so the music does not just stop, which sounds weird.
I have big expectations with my Movie and I am now starting to realize that it is really good (apart from my acting).
I think Katie did a really good job as her character. My favorite scene is the end when they are walking away and Katie is talking to Emily. I think that was a very good scene that Katie did. I also love the funeral scene when Emily Birch is reading from the Bible. I think that is really good and the background is nice. With the chirping birds and trees, its very peaceful and suits the scene.
There are a few scenes that I am not happy with... The one with Emily running through the house. I personally believe the lighting is to dark.
I love my movie! I am so proud of it even though I know it is not the best job that could be done and I hope I can use all of its potential to the highest possibility.

TO DO List:
I need to record for outside scenes.
I need to finish correcting all my things in Final Cut Pro and then drag it back into Garage Band.
I need to update my blog and make reflections more detailed.
I need to add some back gorund music for my edit in Garage Band and etc...

By Shelby Batty

Reflection

This Monday our edit was due but our class was not organized and now it is due next Monday. I was not finished I had a bit more tweaking that had to be done and I'm sure others had this problem too. I had a few problems with editing because I converted all my scenes made my movie and then found out they had to be "rendered". I had delete half my video and re- render the scenes. Now I have re-edited everything and am back on track. This experience was an inconvenience and took a long time to recover from. I have multiple copies of my recent edit on my computer, external hard drive and USB.

By Shelby Batty

To Do List:

PART A: Film and capture your production footage
During the production stage your group should:

DONE:
• Record the required footage and audio
• Capture the footage to a hard-drive or USB
• Ensure a backup of the footage exists
• Log the footage in preparation for editing (using an Edit Decision List).