Practising with the camera:

Before filming our real opening Nhadia and Sasha went to St Mary's church in upper street, Islington to practice filming our required shots needed for our final production. When we was at St mary church we thought about specific places in the park where we will eventually shoot our different scenes.

The first shot we took was a long shot of Nhadia walking through the park, with her back towards the camera. This would make the audience question who character is as their facial features are not revealed.

This shot is a medium close up of Nhadia walking around the tree and brushing her hand around the tree. This still causes suspense as you still can't see the character face.

This shot is a close up of Nhadia feet when walking towards the camera. The closer Nhadia got the camera showed her clothing this would effective when filming as the use of costume of the white bloody dress would be seen.

This shot is a long shot of Nhadia walking towards the camera slowly. This is the first time we get to see a bit of the characters identity which builds up suspense.

This shot shows a close up of the main characters face. When editing we will use special effects to make it look more scary.

The final shot we filmed was an over the shoulder shot. When we film the real thing we will shoot this scene twice once with the little girl in the background and one without so when editing we can edit it to make it look like the girl is not really there.






Sasha: "By doing this i learnt how to use the camera better so when it comes to filming our scenes, I feel more confident and that i will be able to successfully film these scenes."

Title ideas and title sequence order

When coming up with ideas for the way we want our title sequence to run, we decided that we will have it in this order:

• DNSN productions

• DNSN presents... in association with CANDI entertainment

• a film by CANDI studios

• Sasha Powell

• Aaliyah Powell

• AFFLICTION OF MEMORY

• Editor: Danriet Kemoi

• Production design: Nawar Saleh

• Costume Design: Nhadia Hussain 

The type font we were going for wasn't the cliche font everyone associates with thriller movies because we didn't see that as professional. Instead we decided on 'Lithos Pro regular' with black colour font for the normal titles and dark red for the subtitles eg: "in association with" and the main tittle "Affliction of memory. We didn't want to make our title sequence too complicated so we decided on going for a fade in and out effect which is the most simple one. 

Setting Pictures for our Opening Scene

Location of St Mary's Church

This is the map of the Location of St Marys church which is taken from Google.  It is located in Islington near Upper Street N1 2TU

Production Schedule

We wil be filming our opening scene to Affliction of memory on Thursday the 9th of February.  Although we alternatively want to film in the half term on the 13th of February which is a monday where we will be filming from the furthest location which is St Marys Church due to the fact that if anything goes wrong during the filming we will have the time to go back and film in that same location again.

The first footage we will be shooting wil be the bedroom scene where the character ie the mother of the dead child will be sitting in the bedroom in the dark by the table flicking through pictures of her late child whom she misses terribly. This will presumably be in Sasha's house. However we have a deadline and have decided to filming it inside a classroom, but we are still debating on this. 

Our story will be uploaded on to blogger very soon as it is complete! :). The first scene in the story board is a scene in the park where we see the child from a long distance shot but we do not see her we only see the back of the child standing in the park. Our storyboard ends with the mother in the park who then turns around thinking she saw her daughter but its only her standing there. 

The props we will be needing are: a wine glass and a bottle of wine, an ashtray with a cigarette butt burning, a bloody stained white dress, fake blood and old photos. 

To get the old photos we are going to get pictures of sasha's sister photocopy them and then paint them down with tea bags to make the pictures look old to give it that fading effect.

We have 2 locations and these locations are Sasha's house or a dark class room still deciding and St Marys church for definite. 

Planning: Final Pitch Presentation