anna horner media 2016/17

Meabh in the water at Bloody Bridge, I was standing at the side holding lots of towels and a change of clothes for  her  because it was so cold.  Meabh wrapped in towels immediately after filming.  Another photo of us on set, taken by Meabh. We were just about to set up.  This is Anna placing the Go Pro in the water. It was easy enough to get it in the right position. Havin' a ball in N'castle!:-) At location, soakin' up the rays! Selfie Saturday! This is Anna, Meabh and I on set. Anna was doing camera work, I was holding the towels ready for Meabh coming out of the water and Erin was taking photos of everything we were doing.

When we were filming Meabh running into the clearing beside the house, it started raining quite heavily and it was also very windy. Of course we had umbrellas and I've included a photo of me holding an umbrella over the camera. It was also really cold and in terms of staying motivated and not complaining we worked together as a team and bounced ideas to deal with these problems off each other. I also included a picture of Anna holding the camera in a bush. This was when she was recording the final shot of the house when the camera rises and it ends on a still of the sky with branches in the way. It was also hard when we were filming the pan shot of Meabh because of the fact the camera circled Meabh and Erin and I kept hiding behind rocks so as not to be included in the shot. We had to take this shot four or five times.

In terms of makeup, we wanted Meabh to look natural and realistic. The idea that we are suggesting is that she has been dead for years and so we knew that makeup was the most important aspect of costume that we could control the ideas of the viewer with. The makeup was completely done with the Sleek Eye Devine palette, and Erin, who was in charge of costume, used brown, purple, black and grey tones to show bruising on Meabh's face. We also had Meabh's wrists and neck 'bruised' with these colours to extend the idea to the viewers that Meabh had been forcibly brought towards her death, typical of the death of a suspected witch in the 1700s. As for the actual costume, Erin was put in charge of this as well. She took a plain white dress belonging to Anna and poured dirty water and then stamped on it in mud, making it completely dirty. She then left it outside in the rain overnight. This made the dress look worn, extremely old and really grimy and dirty. Coupled with ...

Last week we went to film in Newcastle, County Down. We had to do a lot of walking from place to place and get buses and taxis to our locations. In order to save Meabh time being cold from the water, we filmed the forest scene first. About 15 minutes walk from the main road that the taxi dropped us to was our first location, the abandoned house in the forest. The isolated location was exactly how we had imagined it and we were so happy with how the shots turned out. There was no one there to disturb our filming and we had complete silence; no road noise or people talking or shouting.  The second location we used was Bloody Bridge. It suited the idea perfectly and we used the weather and setting to our advantage.  This is where we filming Meabh coming out of the water.  This is a photo of Anna getting shots of the scenery around our location. The aim was to fill any spaces we saw fit with scenery shots such as these.  This was taken f...

The moving image extract incorporates numerous ways in which age is represented and shown. In the first scene, there is a wide shot of lots of characters hard at work. The way in which age is shown through this is by portraying a large and physically fit team of people doing manual labour. In order to be able to carry out this work, the people must be of a certain, similar age. Another way that age is represented in the first scene is the dark colours they are all wearing, matching the outdoor colour scheme. All of the clothes are similar which would suggest that perhaps all the people fall within the same rough age bracket. The second scene is Amy and Ewan talking.  Immediately it is obvious to the viewer that Amy is younger than everyone else and this is subtly pointed out to the viewer through the colour of her clothes - a bright yellow top and blue jeans. The bright colours could symbolise innocence, happiness and a lack of conformity; all of these things showing her young...

This Thursday we are planning to film in Newcastle. I've included a timetable of buses to Newcastle on this day. We're leaving early in the morning so as to get lots done. From Newcastle bus station we have to get a taxi which will take 5 or 10 minutes to get to Bloody Bridge. We are going to film the forest part first, which is right beside Bloody Bridge. This is because we don't want Meabh to be cold and having to run in the wind after being in the water. After the water scene she will be able to get changed into warmer clothes. The weather is set to be wet during the day and brightening up later on. We will need to prepare with warm clothes and warm food etc. The weather doesn't matter much, in fact the rain may add to the atmosphere.  This is a list of the buses we could get home, we will probably get the one at 17:45.  This is the train that I have to get to the bus and train station tomorrow morning. 

To bring with us... Anna C - Go Pro, lights,  change of clothes (trousers and socks and shoes) flask of soup Anna H - Camera, umbrella, change of clothes (trousers and socks and shoes) flask of soup  Meabh - Tripod, bottled water, makeup, change of clothes, flask of soup  Erin - 3 Towels, Meabh's costume (white slip or dress),  change of clothes (trousers and socks and shoes), flask of soup  Food money - £10  Taxi Money - £3 Bus Money - £6 or £7,  Bring £20 or £25 to ensure we are prepared. 

For Origin we plan to compose our own music to make it specific to the film. For us, the music is so important because it replaces dialogue. Meabh is the only character and so there is no dialogue. It is also crucial for us to not overpower the shots with the music. We want to have a simple piano melody that conveys emotion but will not take away from our shots. Music that we have taken inspiration from: Together we will live forever Preludes: La Colombe (The Dove) To record the soundtrack we will be using Garageband. We haven't decided if we are going to incorporate voices yet, if we do it will be have the voices very distant and haunting again to be noticeable but never to take away from the shots.

Our film is set in the rural setting of Bloody Bridge, just outside Newcastle, County Down. We wanted a secluded, isolated location that could be virtually unchanged by modern developments, in other words be as rural as it was in the 1700s.  Another reason that we had to choose Bloody Bridge as our location was the eery history surrounding the name of it.  There is speculation as to what exactly happen here.  In his 1898 `Guide to County Down and the Mourne Mountains', Robert Lloyd Praegar writes, 'It derives its gruesome name from the massacre of a number of protestants of Newry, including their minister, in the troubled year of 1641 at the instigation of Sir Conn Magennis.' Other accounts of this have been recorded by Harris, who wrote what he heard over the truth and for this reason he is not sure whether 24 people or 50 people die. Either way, the people were barbarically killed hence the name Bloody Bridge.  The unnerving stories surrounding this place cre...

Costume & Makeup  'Origin' has one character,  Meabh. She is a young woman who has, assumedly, been convicted of witchcraft and has been killed by drowning. This was a common way of killing witches in these times, the 1700s.  Clothing in these days was plain and quite unshaped for women.   This stemmed from the idea that a woman's shape should be covered by many layers of unflattering clothing.  In terms of makeup, we won't be putting very much makeup on Meabh for two reasons.  1. Makeup in these days was not what it is today. It was a sign of aristocracy and it was not meant to look natural. Faces were literally painted, and males and females wore this. We want to create the idea that Meabh wasn't upper class in her life in the 1700s. The lack of makeup coupled with her plain nightdress will help us to sculpt this idea for the viewers.  2. We also want to show that Meabh was taken in the night, and this could be a reason for her lack...

This is the Prezi we made as a group to present our idea to our class.