Day 5: 13/9/2010

During today's lesson, we started off discussing our homework on different camera techniques, camera angles, and camera distances. With that in mind, we reviewed it by watching the first couple minutes of a movie called "Vanilla Sky", starring Tom Cruise. Throughout the couple minutes we watched, what we all did as a class was use all the skills we learnt so far to analyze the film. While we were discussing it, I never realized how much someone could tell just from the first few minutes. We talked about the music played in the beginning, signifying that the movie is suspenseful and the genre of the movie is most likely either a horror film or an action film. Not only did we talk about the music, but we also talked about the way the movie was shot from the different angles and I think that the way the dream was shown in the beginning gives me the feeling that it's something that is going to be bigger than just a dream, might even develop into the center of the story.

After we analyzed and finished discussing the film, Ms. Wong told us about the assessments we are going to have during this action films unit. Our criteria B assessment was called "Me and my super-self". For this assessment, we have to create a film about an ordinary teenager who has a superhero power in groups of 4.

Our film is going to be about an ordinary teenage girl with the ability to go invisible.

It starts off with the ordinary teenage girl, set during a saturday morning with her not wanting to wake up. At 8AM, her alarm clock rings and she wakes up, but because she was exhausted that morning, she went back to sleep. At around 10AM, her mom comes in and starts yelling at her to wake up so she decides to sit up on her bed and tell her mom to get out, slamming the door in her face whilst doing so. Because she was exhausted that morning, once her mom left her room after yelling at her to wake up, she momentarily wishes that she was invisible while she lays down on her bed planning on going back to sleep. She thought that it was just a wish, but then she started slowly disappearing underneath her blanket, and before she knew it, she was invisible. She might have the ability to go invisible, but not only does she not know how to control it, but she is only invisible in the appearance; people can still hear her and they can also touch her...

I'm not sure how the rest goes as we did not finish the synopsis as a group because Betty took it home with her to finish, but I think that the story is going to be kind of fun to shoot and it's something I'm definitely looking forward to as it's my first film, ever. :)