Little Red Riding Hood Comic Strip

 

I have created this comic strip using the app: Comic Life. This app allowed me to transform my pictures from the first photo shoot into a comic strip/storyboard of what is going to happen in our short film. This app was brilliant because it was extremely simple to use including adding own photographs, text and changing borders and colours. There are many ways to create it so that it looks like your own, and very unique.

 

 

Reflective comment:



I believe that the app itself was exceptional to use and had many simplistic and easy features that you can use. However, I found it highly difficult to save it as a jpeg. or just a simple picture. I had to play around with different ideas on my laptop to save it rather than it just opening on the app, and discovered that if I were to save it onto a word document as a print screen and then crop it I could then save it as a picture. I think I would use this software again as it was interesting to be able to create your own comic strip absolutely free and because it was just so simple.

Props and Conventions of our Fairytale Neo-Noir

Autumn and I have decided that we wish to refuse the ideal general conventions of film noir and create our own neo-noir in the style of Little Red Riding Hood. We have discussed and agreed that we feel the photographs at least should be black and white with only red as the colour standing out. This is usually used to draw attention to the femme fatale, however it will draw more attention to Little Red, the innocent. We will edit the photographs on Adobe Photoshop together. The three photographs below are some quick examples of how we will use the red to draw attention:

The photographs are fully black and white only focusing on the red. We have decided to incorporate the convention of Sin City into our film. These images were taken in today's lesson when we were interested in playing around with colour. 

We have spoken about props for the photo shoot that is happening tonight and we have decided on using a long red skirt as a cape for Little Red. This will be in vibrant red in the photographs. We also believe that Little Red should have red nails and lips too. This may make the audience believe at first that she is the femme fatale. Leading it to mystery.

For the wolf we had rummaged through the drama studios and found a furry hat and a leather look, old waist coat. This waist coast looks dirty which is great for the wolf as he is supposed to be a wolf that is used to the great outdoors. We wanted the wolf to be walking around with a cigarette as well to show he is supposed to be the femme fatale as he will also be flirty towards Little Red. 

We are still unsure whether we are going to have the gran in the story and whether we are just going to leave her locked in the wardrobe screaming telling Little Red to run away and hide from the evil wolf. However, if we are to use the gran in the story we could use a soft, knitted shawl as it is a stereotypical grandma type of clothing. We could also add some big glasses too.

For the axe man we have decided he must have some kind of tool on him to show the film is modernised and because he is the girl next door saving the day. We think he should wear either tartan or blocks to make it seem like they are really in the forest. He should wear rough jeans and should have a dirty face and be tired out from all the work he has been doing all day.

The four photographs to the right are of some of the costumes we will be using to try and set the scene properly. This photograph was taken by Autumn.

Planning Fairytale Neo-Noir

We have decided as a group (Autumn and I) that we are going to create a modern 2015 neo-noir of Little Red Riding Hood. To do this we will need to add film noir aspects into the short film therefore we have decided to change the characters around so that they are stock characters: the everyman (anti-hero) will be Little Red who is harmless, the wolf will be the femme fatale and the axe man will be the girl next door. We have decided to have Little Red as the everyman because she is very quiet and does not get into any trouble therefore having the femme fatale as the wolf trying to seduce her into having her as his dinner works perfectly because he is top of the food chain and that is his plan after all. The axe man in the original story ends up saving Little Red and her gran from the wolf so I have decided to make him the girl next door. Obviously the characters being different genders makes it slightly neo-noir. But we would like to get creative and make the film and photo shoots black and white and only have the red cape of Little Red's that is coloured a vibrant red, we realise this will be very difficult to do for the entire film. We have created a storyboard that can be seen below: 

These are photographs of the storyboard Autumn and I have drawn up about specific scenes we would like to include in our short film.

Scene 1: 

Little Red Riding Hood leaves her house. We have thought about using my front door as the setting and have it set in the evening when it is dark and gloomy. We want to capture this scene very mysteriously and would like to play with shadows.

Scene 2:

Here Red Riding Hood will be skipping into the woods, we have decided to use the Sprowston woods outside my house as it is hidden and discreet.

Scene 3:

Red Riding Hood bumps into the wolf and he startles her. This is where the scene will become much more dramatic and the audience will start to realise the stock characters. The expression on Red's face will need to be a dramatic shocked face to represent what will be coming soon.

Scene 4:

The wolf tries to seduce Little Red showing once again who the stock characters are with the wolf being the femme fatale this shows how we are creating this much more neo noir than original. I believe that the wolf should be smoking to create the atmosphere and seductive femme fatale.

Scene 5:

Little Red ignores the wolf and carries on her journey not aware that the wolf is behind watching her every step. We are thinking of eyeline-match here to show the wolf constantly watching her every move and many shadows with him in the background. This will create a dramatic yet horrific atmosphere for the audience.

Scene 6:

This will be our continuity task of having Little Red walking through a door and greeting the wolf in her grans rocking chair and having a short discussion. This will be a trial and we will most likely take this in the photography block and the studio.

Scene 7:

This is where the wolf if in the grans living room and is sat in the rocking chair still trying to seduce Red to be with him, when we all know his plan is to have her as a meal. Rather than a date. Here we could use many shadows in this scene and the smoke from the cigarette the wolf is smoking.

Scene 8:

This scene is when gran is screaming from the wardrobe that the wolf has locked her in. She is screaming for her granddaughter to run away and hide.

Scene 9:

The axe man turns up at the grans house as he hears the screaming and rescues Little Red and the gran. In this scene we could use many close-ups to show intimacy and the courage from the axe man.

Scene 10:

This scene will include a happy ever after for Little Red as we believe the everyman should get his chance with the girl next door. This scene will also have close-ups and focal zooms, for intimacy.

Reflective comment:
The next thing we will be doing is looking at writing up our script for the actual film we will create ourselves. However I will need to create the photo shoots over the week too as will need to create some photographs in the evenings in our spare time.