Thursday, 24 November 2016
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
Film Trailer = Casting
Millie and I realised that our plotline required a somewhat high level of acting as well as maturity, as some shots are quite intimate and require good focusing. Because of this, we decided to contact the drama department in our sixth form and ask if the teachers could talk to their A Level students about participating. We preferably wanted actors between the ages of 16-18 to participate in our trailer, as we believed they would be able to take it more seriously. After initially emailing the head of drama, she replied asking more a few more details in order to give her students a better idea to what they would be helping with.
Millie then created a poster which we emailed to the head of drama but also stuck around school to get us a better chance at volunteers. We specially choice the sixth form common room and the sixth from corridor to target our correct age group. As well as placing it there we also put some in the drama rooms as well as the drama notice board, to again attract the correct audience. The poster stated what the plotline included and what we needed the participants to do. At first we didn't receive a lot of interest in the poster but after a week or so we had a few emails from students asking further about the roles. We now have the students we need and have organised to film on Thursday 24th November. Unfortunately this is slightly later than we had originally planed, but due to the absence of the main protagonist we had to delay the filming schedule.
Millie then created a poster which we emailed to the head of drama but also stuck around school to get us a better chance at volunteers. We specially choice the sixth form common room and the sixth from corridor to target our correct age group. As well as placing it there we also put some in the drama rooms as well as the drama notice board, to again attract the correct audience. The poster stated what the plotline included and what we needed the participants to do. At first we didn't receive a lot of interest in the poster but after a week or so we had a few emails from students asking further about the roles. We now have the students we need and have organised to film on Thursday 24th November. Unfortunately this is slightly later than we had originally planed, but due to the absence of the main protagonist we had to delay the filming schedule.
Sunday, 20 November 2016
Film Trailer = Production Logo
Here is a link to our final production logo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Film Trailer = Production Logo Ideas
Millie and I started thinking of ideas for our production logo by thinking of what connotations came with the independent art house genre. We came up with connotations such as individualism, grunge and ideas such as a cigarette packet, silhouettes of city building and smoke.
After looking into these three ideas further we decided that we liked the cigarette packet the most as we believe it best represented the genre we chose for our film.
Monday, 17 October 2016
Film Trailer = Plan Alterations
After Millie and I started to draw up our storyboards and having a talk with our media teacher, Millie and I realised we didn't have a unique selling point. We decided to come up with some ideas that could slightly alter the plotline to provide a USP.
Idea 1:
Alice and Maggie have a secret relationship which is put under pressure when Maggie wants their relationship to be known by their family and friends. This is a problem because Alice isn't openly gay where as Maggie is. Alice isn't ready to open up to her family and friends and has to decide whether to come out and be with Maggie or to stay in the closet and deal with the consequence of losing Maggie.
Idea 2:
Maggie and Alice fall deeply in love and are both open about it to their friends and family. But suddenly Maggie dies, by either a tragic accident or suicide. Alice is left alone to recover from her broken heart with no support from her friends as they all fell out when she started her relationship with Maggie. Due to Alice being left alone the plot line then shows her regaining her strength.
Idea 3:
Alice and Maggie are keeping their relationship a secret but not because one of them I sin the closet because Maggie has a boyfriend. To make matters even worse Maggie's boyfriend is the local crime goer and if he found out about the relationship both Maggie and Alice would be in great danger. The plotline then shows them risking keeping the relationship a secret to be with one another and then having to run away from Maggie's ex-boyfriend and his friends.
Idea 1:
Alice and Maggie have a secret relationship which is put under pressure when Maggie wants their relationship to be known by their family and friends. This is a problem because Alice isn't openly gay where as Maggie is. Alice isn't ready to open up to her family and friends and has to decide whether to come out and be with Maggie or to stay in the closet and deal with the consequence of losing Maggie.
Idea 2:
Maggie and Alice fall deeply in love and are both open about it to their friends and family. But suddenly Maggie dies, by either a tragic accident or suicide. Alice is left alone to recover from her broken heart with no support from her friends as they all fell out when she started her relationship with Maggie. Due to Alice being left alone the plot line then shows her regaining her strength.
Idea 3:
Alice and Maggie are keeping their relationship a secret but not because one of them I sin the closet because Maggie has a boyfriend. To make matters even worse Maggie's boyfriend is the local crime goer and if he found out about the relationship both Maggie and Alice would be in great danger. The plotline then shows them risking keeping the relationship a secret to be with one another and then having to run away from Maggie's ex-boyfriend and his friends.
Film Trailer = First Draft of Plan
Shot 1: Central Protagonist: Alice is in the shower, looking into the mirror. Lighting is artificial and has an orange tint to it. We will use an over the shoulder shot to show her reflection in the mirror.
Shot 2: Shows Alice in a natural setting which we've chosen to be her school, a wide shot is used to show off location.
Shot 2: Shows Alice in a natural setting which we've chosen to be her school, a wide shot is used to show off location.
Shot 3: Shows Alice with her friends and meeting the romantic interest, Maggie. They meet by making eye contact across the room or hallway, they haven’t yet met before. Camera tracks Maggie from the perspective of Alice, so it's like through her eyes and then tracks around to show Alice looking at Maggie as she walks by. This scene could have bright lighting, to portray the characters happy emotions.
Shot 4: Dismemberment shots of Alice and Maggie lying in a bed. We will make sure there is a smooth transition from each shot to highlight how there isn’t a large transition of time between the shots. Shots show their hands and legs and hair etc. without directly showing either of their faces.
Shot 5: Alice is in the middle of two of her friends who are taking funny photos, such as kissing her cheeks either side or making peace signs with their hands. Then a sound bridge to the next shot with dialogue 'do you ever wonder what | their reaction might be?' This is talking about the reaction of her friends.
| = new shot. Next shot shows her finishing her sentence as she looks up at Maggie.
During the end of this dialogue, the music stops. This allows for a new song to be played which will be more solemn in a contrast to the song that was being played before which was upbeat and happy.
Shot 6: A high angle shot of Alice looking up at Maggie, close up shot to show her emotions, in this intimate situation. The high angle shot puts them in a position of vulnerability, especially Alice.
Shot 7: This shot shows that all of Alice and Maggie’s friends have found out about their relationship and their reactions aren’t good. Alice is looking on social media and is seeing all of the negative things people are saying about her.
Shots after this could speed up and become shorter. Final shots switch from negative to positive content, back and forth.
Shot 8: This shot is continued on from the first shot and shows Alice in the shower again. We will keep the artificial lighting as it shows how she believes her friends won't be open to the idea and could suggest that she believes the way she feels towards Maggie is 'unnatural' like the lighting.
Shot 9: Alice and Maggie are shown arguing/shouting maybe in a private place such as a bedroom or in the school environment so the situation is more intense.
Shot 10: Returns to the dismemberment shots (shot 4) of Alice and Maggie again.
Shot 11: Alice is scrolling through the negative posts on social media on her laptop. Shot reverse shot is used to show the audience the comments on the screen and then to show Alice’s reaction to these comments.
Shot 12: Alice then says ‘All has changed since loving you’. The shot then fades out to black to reveal the title ‘Loving You', which appears as the words are said.
End
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