(POST 28) Working from a script 9- Directing your actors

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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.

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