Journal

in todays lesson we began to create the inside pages of the little girls book that we see at the beginning of the sequence. We all took it in turns to draw and colour separate parts of the pages and each page consisted of a child like drawing as we wanted to show that it is the girls drawing book that we are being shown. We managed to finish three pages in todays lesson. the first page consisted of a child drawing of the outside of her house as it was us who had to do the drawing, we had to take our selfs back to when we was little and think about how we use to draw this helped us a great deal and we managed to draw a house with the blue coloured sky green grass and and round yellow sun in the corner. it appeared to be a very normal Childs drawing of her house however if taking a closer look you could maybe pick out the other elements such as the use of red to show death blood and danger. also we used the smokey chimney which is questionable wether it is a safe innocent part of the drawing. we included the number 2 on the door to subtly hint to the audience the duality within the film.
the second picture we drew was of a girl in the form of how a child would draw it. The audience gets the impression that the girl has drawn herself next to another girl who is totally coloured in with black and her identity is hidden from the audience this immediately becomes an enigma getting the audience questioning who is it? why are they there? why is she coloured in and more. On the third page that we drew in the lesson was of a list of names "that the little girl had written" it looked like a check list and it had names crossed out in red we used it to subtly indicate that they have gone and also names that were circled to show that they are next. we wanted to still show that it was the little girl who had written this so we added small flowers to show the girly innocent side of her in contrast to this quite disturbing list the imaginary friend could of been involved in.  we will continue making the pages for the book in next lesson. we feel that the pictures are effective in showing the themes of our film and keeping the audience interested.