Last Period script

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EXT rough estate mid-day  

SHANE is walking through an empty rough estate and listening to hard drill music wearing tracksuit bottoms, hoodie and a cap.     

Shane's phone rings phone rings he picks up the phone   

SHANE 

Yo, 

FRIEND 

Yo, what happened? You didn't come back with us last night. Where were you? 

Shane pinches the top of his nose clearly in pain from last night before taking a brief pause  

SHANE 

Nah, I don't shag and tell. 

Friend laughing 

FRIEND 

Get in there! She was well fit.  

Shane smiles to himself 

SHANE 

Yeah man, I don't know if I'll see her again. You know them tings.  

FRIEND 

Yeah, I get you. 

Sighing  

SHANE 

So, how was your night? 

FRIEND 

Yeah it was great I met this girl and 

Shane shakes his head and cuts him off as he's about to go to the job center to job seek.  

SHANE 

Sorry mate I've got to go, I'm at work now, tell me when I see you later.  

Shane walks into the job center with his head down still in his tracksuit bottoms and hoodie. He is holding his head from last night clearly still hungover.   

EXT outside the job center 

Shane walks outside then sits on the steps sighing with his head in his hands, Shane gets a phone call from an unknown number. 

SHANE  

Urgh, hello? 

STACEY  

Hi its Stacey... 

Shane looks confused whispers to himself. Pressing his phone against his shoulder  

SHANE 

Stacey, Stacey, Stacey? 

Shane has a look of realization, puts the phone to his ear. 

SHANE 

Ohhhh Staceyy!! How are you darling?  

STACEY  

Yeah, I just wondered if you wanted to come over tonight? 

SHANE  

Yeah sure babe  

STACEY  

Cool, oh before I forget can you bring drinks? 

Winters Bone techniques

Winters Bone Techniques Used

• Hand held camera 
• Lens flare
• Chiaroscuro
• Non actors 
• Some trained actors
• Some actors are family 
• Mostly natural lighting 
• Super 8 camera used in flashback
• Real set no studio used 
• Clothes an't made for the film they are 2nd hand
• $2,000,000 budget for entire film 
• $6,500,000 money made
• Natural weather 
• Some exposition but not much
• Improvisation used throughout between Ree and Teardrop
• Active spectatiorship is encouraged due to the lack of exposition 
• Low key lighting used most of the time 
• Strong use of guns and violence from the male characters

Winters Bone

Winter’s Bone

We start with a shot of Dolly washing her face in the sink and her brother and sister playing on the sofa. We then get a shot of Dolly cooking some food by cutting up some potatoes and putting them in the pan. The room that they are in is very cluttered and dimly lit, The only source of light is coming out of the window which has a red curtain over it. All of the things that Dolly is doing are something that we would expect a mother to do. This isn’t the case because Dolly is doing it. From the start of the film we can clearly see that Dolly will be doing all of the work and is the main mother and or father figure to her brother and sister. Dolly then opens the fridge and pulls out a tub of food that is for the dog . She then opens it and sniffs inside it and says “Better than nothing”. This is food for the dog, later on in the film we find out that they haven't fed their horse for 4 days. There is a clear pattern of lack of food. Even the food that Dolly is putting on is very plain and sparse, only potatoes. Dollys sister then takes the dog food outside and the dog is chained to a pole outside their house. The dogs tail is wagging and the dog looks to be very excited to be eating, this may be the case with the horse. This may be the dogs only source of food for a while. The dog's rib cage is clearly visible which is another indicator that the dog doesn’t get fed as often as he should.

One of the next shots is through a mirror showing Dolly brushing her mum’s hair. The mirror has a large hairline crack in the middle of it. The line is cutting through Dolly. I think that this represents the split personality that she has. She aspires to be a part of the army and be a mother and or father figure for her brother and sister. In this shot we see that Dolly is brushing her mom's hair. This backs up my point that she wants to be a mother and a caring figure because she is doing something that a mother would do to their child. We then get a mid shot of her brother walking in with a dog in his hands. Dolly asks “who’s this?” Her brother responds with “peanut butter” Dolly says back “where did you find peanut butter?” The brother responds with “in the woods” Dolly strokes it in his hands. This shot is the same shot that we left off at. It clearly looks like Dolly is the image of a mother figure, she is taller than everyone else in the room and doing things motherly while her Mum is in the room. We then get a tracking shot of Dolly with her brother and her sister walking down a path. Dolly is helping her sister spell house. Her sister is struggling and Dolly is helped her. Her sister at this age should know how to spell. This shows that she isn’t educated and that it’s hard to teach when Dolly has lots of things to do as well as teach her brother and sister.

Followed Evaluation

Followed Evaluation

Our plan for the film had changed lots over the course of 3 weeks. We originally wanted the film to have a boy and a girl coming home from a party with the boy acting more manly and wanting to show off to the girl. This changed to two girls coming home from the party and seeing a doll everywhere they go and that they can’t escape it. We have a cyclical story so that it makes the viewer feel more engaged and into the film. It was ambitious because we didn’t know if the story would feel too repeated in a way that the audience would get bored and not enjoy it. We stuck with the cyclical storyline but we mixed up different shot types so that the beginning and the end didn’t feel the exact same. We made sure that the main part of the setting was visible so that the audience knew that the story was cyclical. The reason that we changes from a boy and a girl was because the two actors couldn't make the shoot so we had to improvise and change up to story. The editing was very fun to do because it was all of our first times doing it and I feel like we used most of the features that it offered us. Using a range of music and effects to make the film work as we intended.

Followed story board

Followed horror story synopsis and ideas

Followed

Synopsis:  We start how we end with the girl or guy on the floor and we zoom out from this shot out of the girls eyes. What triggers this is the guy snapping his fingers in the girls face to get her to come back after drifting away. (Still in thought in names for the characters) Two people walking from a party a Guy and a Girl the Girl a little drunk and the Guy slightly sober. The Guy wanting to impress parents in not bing too drunk. They are talking too each other and the talks are full of giggles and laughs. They are walking to get home and the Guy want to get home quickly to impress his parents that he is on time and not drunk. They end up walking the fastest route home. Along the way home they see a doll around them at different parts of town. They don't take much notice especially the girl since she is drunk. They go through a tunnel to go home and they encounter the doll again. (Still in thought of how they encounter and or deal with the situation. We end ho we start making the film a cyclic narraitve 

Cinematic ideas:

Birds eye view shot
Using a drone for establishing shots
Voice over narrative for some back story at the start of the sequence
Only voice over at start not a lot of exposition
Low angle shot to show the object
Low key lighting
No names established
Heels for the girl to add noise and suspense
Boy: Jeans, polo and trainers

Pan's Labyrinth essay

Pan’s Labyrinth

With close reference to two scenes from ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ explore how cinematography and mise-en-scene is used to create meaning.

The first shot is of Ofilia looking into the book that tells her the next quest for her to do. The image in the book is of the pale man with the steps of how to get into where he lives and what to do. The steps are shown through a circle in his left arm, right arm and his legs. The entire image of the pale man looks like a mouth and eyes. This is a recurring motif of the eyes and open mouths, it is to represent how what you see in this world is sometimes best to not be told. In the little image on the bottom we see the girl (Ofilia) go to the middle key hole out of the three. This is something that I will talk about later because she keeps on breaking rules and keeps on not obeying the right commands. There are lots of props used in the film that are related to fantasy. The big opening book, an hourglass, chalk drawings leading into a secret area. These are all typical things used in fantasy films, but Del Toro uses this specific mise-en-scene to trick us into thinking that this will be a normal fantasy film and tricks us into feeling like we know what is going to happen next. “Let the fairies guide you.” This is something that Ofelia doesn’t do which is what consequently is another reason for her death at the end of the film her not obeying simple rules and being reckless. “Don’t eat or drink anything during your stay” Everything that the book is telling her not to do she does. This is all leading up to the scene with the pale man and we have been told strict rules on what to do and not do. If this were a normal fairy tale film then she would just follow these rules and do the quest. “Come back before the last grain of sand falls” This backs up my point that these specific rules that have been set out for her to follow have been disobeyed by her during this scene. Del Toro has used the stereotypes of fairy tale movies and completely flipped them and making the main character someone who doesn’t follow rules.

Once the door has been opened we get music which is very dark and mysterious. Traditionally this would be the opposite in a normal film but Del Toro has decided to do this to make the viewer feel unsettled and unsure about what Ofelia is going up against. We get an establishing shot of the narrow hallway and the main colour in this particular scene is red. Red is linked to blood in this scene because the Pale man is shown to have eaten many little children. Once Ofelia enters the room we get a medium shot of her looking down the table with this amazing looking feast which she has been warned about. The fire behind the pale man resembles danger because how how dangerous he is towards children since he eats them. This set up of the table has been done on purpose because the pale man in this instance is supposed to resemble The Capitan. We get the same shot of The Captain in the same seat as the pale man and Ofelia may see the Captain in the pale man from this imagery. We then get a tracking shot of Ofelia walking alongside of the table while the camera is going through the table of food. This is trying to make the viewer want to try the food too because the food is dangerous and Del Toro wants us to realise that not everything that you see that looks nice may not be nice. The main colour in the food on the table is red. Red in this case is shown to be used for a sign of danger to emphasise that the food is bad and you shouldn’t go near it. Once we get the the end of the tracking shot we are met with the pale man. This is a metaphor for if you touch this food this is what you will be faced with. We get voice overs of baby’s crying and as Ofelia looks up we see ancient images of the pale man eating them. We have had only negative and dangerous signs towards the pale man so Ofelia should do as she is told to avoid him. We then get a pull focus on the pile of shoes on the floor to her looking at the floor. The pile of shoes on the floor is shown to be a representation of the holocaust. Millions of people died in the holocaust and this is reflecting upon this but also giving it the link to the pale man and that he has eaten lots of people.

Ofelia then opens the cage to her fairies and lets them go to look around. They go to the key holes like in the image that she saw in the book and the book shows that the girl goes to the middle key hold and the fairies all fly to it pointing at it saying to put the key here. She pulls out the key from her pocket and we hear a sound when she pulls it out and it's the sound of a sword being pulled out of a case. This shows that a key has a lot of power and it very dangerous because you may not know what you unlock and it may be dangerous. We then get Ofelia raise her hand up and put the key in the middle hole. We then get a close up of Ofelia’s face and she says “no, this other one” she is breaking the rule to one listen to the fairies and also do as the book says by opening the left door. She then opens up the hatch and finds a dagger inside it she then takes it out and pears over her shoulder to look over at the pale man. She walks over the the table and looks at the table of food. A harp plays in the background which implies that she is being convinced to eat something or take something. When we hear a harp we think of something divine and nice. This reflects Ofelia’s mood and that she wants to eat regardless of the consequences. The fairies all fly over the her knowingly that she wants to eat the food on the table. The food through mise-en-scene is shown to be divine and elegant so we can understand why Ofelia wants to eat it. She is disobeying yet another rule by eating the food on the table which she was warned about. Also another rule was broken in the fact that she is told to follow the fairies orders and follow what they say. The fairies warn her not to eat and yet she does anyway.

She continues to eat the food on the table even when the pale man is getting up to come for her. She doesn’t care at this point and is not regarding her actions in the fact that she could get hurt of killed by not following the orders. The pale man has his eyes on his hands which is a metaphor for what you see is in your hands and what you say about what you see is in your hands. All three of the fairies go after the pale man trying to buy some time for Ofelia to escape yet the fairies could be risking their lives in doing so. If the fairies are willing to risk their own lives to save Ofelia then she must be important even though she did break all of the rules that have been put in place for her own safety. The pale man eats two fairies and gives Ofelia time to run away. The colour white on the pale man really shows all of the red that has been stained on him from everything that he has eaten and the colour white really shows all of the reds that are on him. Ofelia runs down the hallway getting to the way out. We get a shot from the real world where the hourglass is and we see that the door shuts between the real world and the fantasy world. This a metaphor for that Ofelia’s fate has been set that she will forever be kept in the dream world and left from the real world. Ofelia climbs the chair that she has brought with her and stands on it to make a hatch above her to get out. She is working side to side on top of this chair and this is to represent that she is on the edge in both real world and dreamworld. She then makes a hole and climbs up it to escape the pale man and only just makes it out. Another rule has been broken here too because she is told to come back before the hourglass runs out and she escapes after. She has broken all of the rules that have been put in place for her and this has secured her fate in the dreamworld and the real world.