School shots

Costume - Geek

After we attended the Media Magazine conference me and Tayler decided that we should put extra effort into our costumes so that we won't lose any marks from them. We made three main costumes for the three main characters and then for any extras we paid less attention but still made sure that they were wearing costumes which fitted in with our movie.

Georgia Nicholson - The Geek.

Making the costume:

We didn't make the costume for Georgia, we just constructed it out of items of clothing that we all had. However, we wanted something that would make it obvious that she is a geek, and not a very popular girl. We paid particular attention to her hair though, as we have seen in Princess Diaries that Anne Hathaway portrayed a geeky school girl and looked like the picture on the right. So we took inspiration from this and we crimped her hair,and also made it look very frizzy, which is shown above. Bella, who is playing Georgia also bought in some of her Dads milkbottle glasses which we thought completed the look. The final costume is posted below.

Process of making the costume and the final product:

Coop Shots from below

Another idea that we had had was to shoot to Bella from below the building, to show the disruption that she may of caused to other passers by. We learnt easy on that the camera and tripod was quite difficult to control, as it was a bit shaky, and we were quite trigger happy! It took quite a lot of takes for us to make a smooth zoom all the way from the ground up to focusing on Bella. We then zoomed in and simply got some shots of Bella swishing her hair, as is stereotypical of many feminine superheroes, for example Wonderwoman. This worked quite well, although you can't really tell that Bella is high up on top of a building. Our last idea for this shot was to have someone standing below and pointing up to Bella, to show that she caused a bit of disruption and confusion to members of the public. We decided to follow Eloise's arm point up towards Bella, and zoom in slightly as we went towards her. This worked quite well I think as it followed through very smoothly. This scene is stereotypically British, which enforces the fact that this is a British made film, as it includes a cobbled street, a war memorial, a typically British pub and some British flags flying off of the building that Bella is stood on.

Problems and solutions:

- We had the problems of the tripod balancing on the cobbled streets was quite difficult and could of created some wonky shots, so we took a platform with us to help even this out.
- Bella wasn't incredibly visible on the shoots where it isn't zoomed in, so we pulled in an extra to help draw attention to her.
- Asking Bella to do what we wanted during film was quite difficult because of the distance between us, and we didn't really want to shout unless necessary as it may of caused alarm to any passers by, so we had a spare person who we bought along with us to stay with her on the phone so we could keep in contact.
- We also had the age old problem of people interfering with the camera and walking in front of it or ruining our recordings. To combat this we placed a sign around us which informed the public that we were recording for our coursework and we would really appreciate it if they could not interfere.

Coop Shots from above

This was one of the first shots that we did with Bella, and it was one of the first ideas that we had altogether. The first few shots are of us zooming in to Bella and asking her to whip her hair and head around to look straight down the camera. We also had the idea of following down the church to give an idea of height from the top of the building. This is one of my favourite shots from this location, as I think it establishes the shot very well. I also thinks it shows how high up we are on top of the building, which makes it look even more impressive. We took a couple of takes for this to ensure that it was succesful and we wouldn't have to redo it. We also then zoom into Bella and ask her to spin her head around to do the same effect as before.

Problems and solutions:
- The floor was uneven so we needed to create a platform to combat this.
- The time when we decided to film this the weather was quite windy, which often blew Bellas hair out of her cape, which then ruined the shot, so we tucked it inside her cape to avoid this.
- Also, we didn't think about how the time when we filmed would effect how many people below there were, so it didn't look very busy which ruined the dramatic effect. We could try reshooting this scene at rush hour so as to create more drama.

Co-op film shooting

One of the first shots that we had planned to shoot was one which Topaz Spectre was on the top of a high building, and we were looking over her shoulder and one from the ground. We tried to think of places where it was possible to stand on top of tall buildings, and the idea of a multi storey car park in Newport Town Centre which is situated here. We checked that it would be possible for us to go up there and take some shots before we did. We also made sure that Bella would be completley safe by positioning her behind the wall on the car park, which is why in the shooting you can't see her whole body. We also ensured that she remained at least 2 metres away from the edge at all times.

Costumes - Topaz Spectre

Making of the costume:

The costume of Topaz Spectre we made mainly by hand, because we didn't really have anything already done that would suit our style. So, we found some fabric which I had down my garage, which was in both white and black, and we decided that this would be perfect for the contrasting personalities of the villian and hero. We also saw from our research that the villains were stereotypically dressed in darker colours, and the heroes were in brighter colours. So we took the white coloured material up to our art department at school, which you can see above, and folded it in half and painted a border around. We had decided that due to the superheroes name being Topaz, one of the main colours would be blue, and from our research, a lot of superheroes such as superman and [ENTER MORE] that one of the main colours of their costume was yellow. So we painted the border and also the main logo which we decided in an earlier post. [LINK] The rest of the costume was clothes which we had bought in from home, which also continued on with our colour theme, with electric blue leggings and a bright yellow top. She also had a pair of blue boxers on over the leggings, and bright stripy socks on, also continuing with the colour. The final piece of the costume was a mask, which we bought from a costume shop on the Island, and then painted on the make it stand out more. She also wore bright red lipstick and blue eyeshadow, to carry on with our feminist theme of making her even more womanly. Below is the final product of our costume.

Superhero logo