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We are using the weather as a main component to create the feel of Narnia, In the original film throughout we can see the snow, in order to recreate the snowy feel rather than snowing throughout when the Pevensie's make it to the beavers house we can see them brushing off snow showing that it did snow, the audience then makes the assumption that it was snowing adding to the whole feel of Narnia as snow has connotations of utopian weather. We also are adding clips of snow at the end of the production adding to the whole feel or Narnia. As well as this in editing we are going to add fog effect to create a mysterious feel to the video.    The next component to create Narnia was the setting, Throughout we are setting the location in the wood, we wanted it to be in the wood to create a natural setting that isn't man made, this creates a woodland feel and transports the audience to another out of this world place which is not on earth all adding to the feel of Narnia. We created

  In this production we are mostly going to create our own style with aspects of Hitchcock moulded into this, We have chosen to use aspects of Hitchcock style as he mostly relies of the visual medium making sound secondary, therefor the audience don't need the sound to gather what is happening rather the emotions they will be portraying will be fare of informative. we feel that this would be visually interesting and allows up to build on the creation of Narnia as every shot builds on the ambience of Narnia.     Secondly Hitchcock uses suspense as a main part of his style building it up with his steady development of plot allowing the tension to build, this relates to the moment the children find out their prophecy therefor we will slowly building up the anticipation throughout the scene creating an interesting scene for the audience to view.     Lastly another part of Hitchcock style is creating a whimsical setting, this relates to Narnia as our main objective with setting it t

When talking to the editor on how we want the final piece to look, we came up with a few ideas. Firstly, because when we were filming Narnia it wasn't snowing, we want to have a mist effect on the final film to give the impression that it was snowing, or had been. Also, the transition between the children meeting the beaver in the woods and then going back to his house would be a fade to show that time had passed and we had been walking for a long amount of time. The whole process was very time consuming however everything ran smoothly and we are sure that the final outcome will be just as successful as we picture in our minds. Here are some pictures and screen grabs showing the whole process including the final storyboard, communication with actors and class mates and pictures of the director directing the actors. Pictures of the annotated script stating how we want our actors to perform whilst the camera is rolling: Pictures of annotated story b

Here is the storyboard, it shows how the annotation on the script was translated to a visual. The framing wasn't always perfect within these sketches so every now and then there are notes on how the final take should be shot on some of the squares. The Final Shots We followed the storyboard quite well, and referred to it not only for the shots but also as a sort of secondary script whilst filming. We strayed from some shots because we became aware of how different shots would work better around the set choices. We also cut out some of the last shots, as we though that ending it on Peter telling the others to hurry as he leads them to Edmund was a more dramatic and tense ending than what was originally planned, even if this did cut out a tense argument between Peter and Susan later on. Here are some comparisons between the storyboard and the final shots. The first shot where the four Pevensies are standing in