Thursday 20 December 2012

Time Table

There is a slight problem with frees and my actor's, but this sets up the challenge and shows I need my organisation skills to do my filming out of college time.



 
Charlie Sharkett
 
Monday - Last
Tueaday - Before dinner
Wednesday - Before dinner
Thursday - Period 2
Friday - Last
 
Joshua Worthington
 
Monday - first
Tuesday - afternoon
Wednesday - first two
Thursday - 3rd
Friday - afternoon
 
 

Friday 14 December 2012

Rough draft of film poster


Title of my short film

I have decided upon the name of my short which will be 'Matter of seconds'.
This title to me, connects with the story but also have this intensifying edge to it, which may intriged my audience and reel them in.
I had many other draft names such as 'Time', 'Regret' and 'What would you do?'
I like the short sharp titles, due to how much effect they can do upon people, but none of them really connected well with my short film.

Thursday 13 December 2012

Locations connected with storyboards


These shots will all be taken at my home location. This will be done in my bedroom and bathroom. Shots will also be taken coming out of my house. Im just really cautious about the ice, as this will it slippery for not just my actor but also myself, I'm also scared about carrying the camera while it is slippery.

 These shots(first 3)will all be taken at my home location. This will be done in my bedroom and bathroom. Shots will also be taken coming out of my house. Im just really cautious about the ice, as this will it slippery for not just my actor but also myself, I'm also scared about carrying the camera while it is slippery.

These four shots will be taken upon leaving my house and down my street, but I will use a cut shot using a close up of Joshs then zooming out, Im going to try this effect and see if it pulls off correctly. After this Im going to use the college ground, knowing this might not be very exciting and adventurious but this fit's in with my story very well.
 
(All the shot from now downwards) These will all be shot at college.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Tuesday 11 December 2012

Kate Domaille (2001) theory

every story ever told can be fitted into one of eight narrative types. Each of these narrative
types has a source, an original story upon which the others are based.

I believe my story fits into the:

 
Orpheus

The loss of something personal, the gift that is taken away, the tragedy of losss or the journey which follows the loss.

I believe it fits into this narrative type due to the fact he believes he is about to lose his life and this gift of life is taken away, but my narrative turns towards the end where this is flipped and he still has this gift of life and nothing personal is taken away.

Tzvetan Todorov (1977) theory

Stage 1: A point of stable equilibrium, where everything is satisfied, calm and normal – This is at the beginning of my narrative which takes place in my short film. This only lasts a couple of seconds where he thinks he takes some headache pills but this then disrupts his stable equilibrium(played by Josh).

 

Stage 2: This stability is disrupted by some kind of force, which creates a state of disequilibrium – his friend (played by Charlie) informs him they’re in fact morphine pills and informs him he only has five minutes to live.

 

Stage 3: Recognition that a disruption has taken place – My main character will recognise this and beginning his quest to fulfil before he thinks his going to die. On-going through his quest he gives away his wallet chucks away his phone and confesses to teacher his own opinion of him.

 

Stage 4: It is only possible to re-create equilibrium through action directed against the disruption. – My main character objective is to give back this mysterious box to his ex-girlfriend before he dies, but this is where there is twist in my story and this plays to the code and conventions of a thriller genre. The only way to re-create this equilibrium in my narrative is for actually ‘Charlie’ to tell ‘Josh’ he was joking, which he finally catches up to josh and tells him.

 

Stage 5: Restoration of a new state of equilibrium. The consequences of the reaction is to change the world of the narrative and/or the characters so that the final state of equilibrium in not the same as the initial state. – Finally Charlie informs Josh that it was a joke which creates this ‘new state of equilibrium’ but the final state is not in the same initial state as Josh did all those things before reaches his ex-girlfriend. So this creates a whole new story.

Monday 10 December 2012

Conventions of a film poster

The main objective of a film poster is to be eye catching.
To have an image which is intriguing. The title is normal displayed largely across the top. From the poster you may be able to understand the genre. It has to be appealing to my target audience.
I need to use such key factors as a tagline and always got to include an age certificate.
I think including the directors and producers give it this more professional look to it as well as it collides with the codes and conventions.

Film posters




Codes and Conventions of film review page

Conventions of film review  page would be such factors as obviously the name of the film.
Maybe with the films tagline including important details such as the release date, age rating, director,cast,running and plot. They would be a dominant main image from the film then around this image the main article(review). The magazine would give its own overall view and its own rating.

Conventions of film front cover page

I believe a front cover of a magazine has the same codes and conventions as a music magazine. Film magazine still needs to include such things as the Masthead of the magazine and no doubt an upcoming film with an image connected to it on the front cover. They only use up to the maximum of 3 fonts so it looks continious throughout. Other conventions such as 'buzz words', 'banners' and 'Anchorage text'. The use of coverlines are still used on film front cover magazines as well to make it look a lot more jam packed full of interesting stories.

Examples of film reviews




Examples of film magazine front covers



 



Cast Profile



Main character - Josh Worthington/18/Male

Josh Worthington will be staring as my main lead character in my short film. He also studies media and film so he understands the code and conventions of creating a short film and the genre of my short film. He fits in with my targeted audience very well and this will create a connection between the character and audience. The character is a young man and has just broken up with his girlfriend which connects to the story.

Main character friend – Charlie Sharkett/17/Male

Charlie will play the role of the main characters friend. Again he is in my targeted audience age group which creates a connection between him and the audience. His part in the story is he’s playing the joke on Josh which creates this catastrophe.






Main character ex-girlfriend – Abbie Hastings/17/Female
Abbie will play the role of Josh’s ex-girlfriend. She fits into the targeted age group so everything fits perfectly as well as the other actors.