In this video the group Skupina Studios talk about the strengths and weaknesses of the film making experience. The video outlines our struggles that we had to go through and also top tips from Ms Humpleby that allow us to look at the fails optimistically

Fairy Tale Challenge - Planning

As a group, we thought about many fairy tales, however we decided on Cinderella as our final idea as we know the story well and think that we would adapt this well to be a Neo Noir.

Casting 

Prince- Matty Levesley

Cinderella- Niamh Gallagher

Ugly step sister- Heather McDonald

Step dad- Jack Grimshaw

Extras- As we have a small group, we decided to use our friends and family to help us out.

Director- As a group we thought it would be best to all direct it and work together in a team as we didn't want just one person to do it. 

Camera-As there are different scenes requiring different actors we all filmed certain sections. We used a camcorder to record the film and an iPhone 6 for the still photos. 

Editing- Matty and Jack did gcse media studies so they took charge of editing the film and helped teach Niamh and I. However Niamh and I both did GCSE photography and now do AS photography so we edited the still photos as we are more experienced with photoshop, we also helped teach the boys how to use photoshop. 

Storyline

To transform Cinderella into a Neo Noir we had to change the plot slightly for example, in place of the fairy God mother is a 'pill' , instead of a ball Cinderella goes to a house party this is when the prince falls in love with her, Cinderella leaves her phone at the party and the prince asks the 'ugly step sister' who claims the phone is hers to unlock the phone instead of trying on the glass slipper. The ending is the most unlike the original story, in the typical story Cinderella and Prince Charming fall in love and have a happy ever after, in our film they believe they will have a happy ever after but sadly the prince gets shot by the Step Dad as he wants the prince to marry his real daughter the 'ugly step sister' who is our Femma Fatal.



This is our storyboard that Niamh edited. This helped us with filming as we had an idea of how the film was going to be made and what scenes we needed to have.

Storyborad from niamhx