A draw up of the location of my 'fish out of water' film idea 'dyingwish'

This lay out and location outside will fit in perfectly with the scene of Frank talking to Sophie, a wife of a man he killed, in the care home and finally coming clean on who he was and what he has done for many years and the number of men he has killed. 

The location outside being one big house alone with a forest at the back of the garden areas surrounding the building fits in with the flash backs Frank has about were he has put the graves of many men. .

A lay out of a building and the location outside

This location and set out of a building could fit a horror film with a number of different houses around and windows looking into the house it will be perfect for a killer to never be found. 

The lay out of the open planned down stairs and big windows in every room fits in with the killer watching and following his victim.

Writing for the screen

Clearances and copyright

Legal problems
No pro-mission to film in that place or no promission from the people being filmed

copyright deals must be in place
Clearances for music
Use of found film ( someone else's filming)

Brands shown on films could be supporter or product placement.
When rating a film they must keep to their rating for example 18 or PG

What is a Proposal?

A proposal is to sell your idea and it is used to gain funding. The proposal will have to explain the concept of your idea and also make the film sound interesting and exciting. However the idea must be achievable.

In a Proposal you must include: 

• Your name, contacts and company name
• A working title for the project 
• The intended audience 
• Brief description of the main sequences and characters
• Names of any other major creative participants on the project 
• Any major technical or stylistic considerations ( a particular visual style, special effects, how sound will be employed, etc.) 

10 minute short film

Proposal

Company: Magic Cam inc. 

Intended audience: 18-50

location: Side walk in Kent

DRAIN TROUBLES

Old man is 64 and the young lady is 19 years old.

Genre:

Old man's name: Jonathan 

Young woman name: Sheila

An old man who gets his shoe in a drain in Kent on a foggy Thursday evening, a teenage girl comes to his aid and helps him get free.

The old man learns that not all teens are trouble. 

Man thinks teen is going to bung him but just wants to help. The man finds out that not all the new generation are all thefts and muggers.


Budget:
£1000

Costs: actors for a days
Man: £100
Woman: £100
Costumes, normal day clothing: £70 - £100
Equipment: £600
Travel: £100
= £1000


Scene 1:
Man getting off the bus and walking home with his hands full of shopping bags.

Scene 2: 
Man walks around the corner and the back of his shoe gets stuck in a drain.


Scene 3:
The evening starts to turn to night and the man is still trying to get his shoe out.


Scene 4: 
A teen who is listening to her music finds the man as she turns the corner. She tries to help him but he shots out thinking she is going to attack him.


Scene 5:
Teen calms him down and tells him she is just going to help him


Scene 6: 
Teen takes off the mans shoe so he is free and then pulls the corner of the shoe out of the drain


Scene 7:
Man thanks the scene and says he thinks that teens are own as being trouble and mean people but she is  different


Scene 8:
They go their different ways.

Second part of story board

Camera movement from three different types of films - Hard boiled

Hard Boiled 

Angles used in the clip 

• High angle 
• close up
• low angle
• medium
• long shot

Camera movement in clip

• Slow motion 

Motion represented 

• the impack of bombs blowing up 

Camera techniques represent 

• Fast past link to genre action 
• dramatic cuts 

Camera operated 

• Tripod
• dolly 
• crane

Camera movement from three different types of films - James Bond

James Bond


Angles used in clip

• Close up 
• high angle- birds eye view
• low angle 
• extreme close up
• medium 
• long shot

Camera movement in clip 

• slow motion 

Motion represented 

• Danger 
• power 

Camera Techniques represent 

• fast past links to the genre of action  

Camera Operated 

• dolly
• hand-held
• crane

What goes into a storyboard

On a storyboard there will be

• The shot number 
• The shot type
• Shot description (what you can see in the shot)
• The Location in the shot 
• The actors you can see in the shot 
• Edit/transition (fade in or out, straight cut)
• Audio (what you can hear in the shot) 
• Duration (the time of the shot- how long you see that shot before it changes to another one)

First part of storyboard

Online safety

ISP: Internet Service Provider e.g. Talk talk or sky



Hackers: Someone who breaks into your computer and can take the information off it



Wiki: Open source: anyone can edit or put information on it. its open to everyone online



Tool bars: full of different functions


Browers: Tool bars, security settings, Parental control

Script format

• Dialogue has to be placed into the middle of the script to know that it is dialogue and keeps it separate from everything else.

• Character names/cues are in capital letters. Such as COREY

• Scene Headings are placed at the side so separate them from the dialogue. For example INT. (interior- the inside) or EXT (exterior- outside) 

• Scene description are also placed at the side and if inducting a new character their name will be also be in capital letters. 

• The font style has to be courier. the font size should also be at size 12. 

• Cut to: can be used to imply the movement from one scene to another. 

First script - Oak Killer

                           OAK KILLER

FADE IN:

INT. OLD WOODEN CABIN 

                           

Sound of heavy wooden door SLOWLY opening. 

JANE appears from behind the door and closes it behind her on. On the phone. JANE is 19 years old. She is wearing a black crop top. holding a paper bag full of shopping close to her chest. 

                             

                                JANE

        I told, I will be fine on my own. 

      Its only for the night. 

DARREN's beep voice reply's on the other end of the phone.

DARREN

(on the phone)

Are you sure? I don't mind staying with you for the night if it will make you will saver? 

The phone line is SILENT 

JANE

Hello? 

Darren? 

Are you there? 

Hello?

JANE puts down the paper bag on the kitchen counter.

She tries to re-cell DARREN. 

Phone beeps. she places the phone down on the counter 

The door bell rings and JANE turns.

Track starts.

EXT. OUTSIDE CABIN - MIDNIGHT

FADE IN 

INT. INSIDE THE KITCHEN

Phone rings. JANE turns to pick up phone off the counter.

JANE

Hello?

Track stops

HEAVY breathing at the other end of the phone.

Track starts

 JANE

Darren is that you?

Heavy breathing continues 

Track stops 

DEEP VOICE ANSWERS

Its your worst nightmare.

                              

                           

Film idea

 Dying wish

'Fish out of water plot'

Tagline: This wasn't in the job description 

Setting: New York in 1930 

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Synopsis:

An old american gangster, known as Frank, has lost his wife Maria. After his wives death he finds in her will Maria's dying wish was for him to stop his business (of being a gangster) of over 50 years and start to give back to the people of New York. In her will she says she would love for him to start working at the local hospital. Frank listens to his beloved wives dying wish and does it. what he didn't read was that she wants him to do it for the rest of this life and never go back into his prevues business. His forced to stay working there by Maria's memory. He ends up meeting one of the wives (Sophie) of a man his killed years ago. he speaks to her everyday and regrets his killing however when Sophie says to him she wishes she knew who killed her husband just so she can look him in the eyes and ask him why before she pasts. Frank hears from other working that Sophie hasn't got long left he finally comes clean and tells her. Sophie asks the questions she has wanted to new the answered to for years and that night past away. This makes Frank release what he has done wrong most of his life. He tries to fix all his problems with in the time he has left of his life. 

Characters & Casting:

 Frank: Robert De Niro

Maria: Helen Mirren 

Sophie: Meryl Streep

Poster Idea: 

Robert De Niro dressed in classic gangster suit style. but where his jacket pocket would be there is a red cross and in this right hand there is a case. Behind him there is a outline shadow of a gun to represent his past and his old business.

Where scripts will be used

                                            

• News 
• Talk shows
• Book readings on the radio
• Tv soaps 
• Tv plays 
• Magazine Tv shows
• Sitcoms
• Documentary
• Live events 
• Adverts 
• Quiz Shows
• Feature films 

Camera shots and angles

Subjective: one sided argument

Objective: both sided argument

 4th wall: a wall no one looks at. for example friends. never see the wall were the cameras and audience are and the actors stay away from it.

The shot reverse shot

         

High camera angle can make a person look weak.



Low camera angle can make a person look strong and all most God like.



Introduction to film

 

Deconstruction: breaking down the film.

Construction: building the film.

Content

Narrative- story/plot: what it's about

• Story is the events 
• Plot is the order of the events.  Beginning, middles and end. The story is what the plots are based on.
• Story board/shooting script. 

Genre, theme: same story but can have two different types of events and plots.

Form

How it's constructed 

• Editing 
• Script
• Sound

Theme/issues 

The big thing the film is about e.g. Good vs. evil, right v.s wrong.

Cinematography

(Camera) 

• Type of shot: long, medium, close up ect
• Camera angle- low: looking up at the body- making them look god like. High: to look small and weak. 
• Crane shot/ birds eye view

Camera movement 

• Static/stationary 
• Hand-held
• Zoom
• Shot reverse shot 
• Pan left/right 
• Tracking/dolly shot: dolly wheels to move a long but have freedom to move unlike tracking which can only move where the tracks are placed. 

Sound

Diegetic 

Sound from talking/ from the scene. 

Non-diegetic

Sound being put into the scene e.g. Music, voice over, sound effects 

Diegesis

World of the film

Lighting

• Light and dark- shadows 
• Lighting can effect the feelings of the audience
• Colour: black and white
• Colour can also be symbolic: black darkest use to be looked at as bad/ evil however has changed to good. For example batman

Editing
Broken up into shots
Films made of scenes
Scenes made of shots


Continuity
Lighting and sound continuity is important. Using the different types of music is a good way of linking the shots.


Transitions

• Fades (in and out)
• dissolve (one disappearing and one appearing)
• superimposition: one shot over another shot
• normal cuts: no transition
• wipe: movement from left and right. (old action to new action)

Pre-Production

                                                                  

pre-production is all the planning that takes place before the filming takes place. 

After pre-production its followed up by production is the filming. 

Then is post production which is putting all of the scene's together and editing them with sound and special effect. 

Pre-production planning

• Scripts (dialogue) 
• Stage directions
• location/location recce 
• props
• music  
• risk assessment (rules that are put in place)
• Story board (drawings of scenes in the film) 
• location recce 
• mission for filming at that location 
• location release forms
• actor release forms

Personnel

• producer/co-producer  
• editor 
• writer 
• concept artists 
• director 
• scriptwriter 
• runners 
• composer 
• casting 
• finance 

The producer looks over everything the whole production and is the head of the production.

the editor is given all the scenes after the filming has finished and starts to put all the shots together to form the film and make sure there are no mistakes. also they would put in special effect and sounds such as music.  The script writer is the person who starts everything by writing what is going to be filmed in the first place and its their ideas what make the film. The concept artists draw what the writer and director have as their idea of what the location will look like so when the writer is still writing the concept artist start make the scenes come to life.



Budget costs

• location
• equipment (camera, mic's, lighting)
• casting
• crew
• costumes
• props 
• travel
• music used in film 
• catering

Ways to save money  

• location in public places (normally free to film there) 
• use music of unknown artist (wouldn't cost a lot of money compared to a famous piece of music) or use music by a person you know (might allow you to use it for free) 
• travel for crew and cast (drive groups of people your self to the locations) 
• use normal day clothing or re-owned clothing (lower cost) 
• props- use re-owned props or ones what are very day used e.g. phones, bags (lower cost)  

Hire for a day costs

camera hire: http://www.pec.co.uk/pecvnew/video-equipment-hire/camera-hire.html

cheaper cost days away in Europe: http://www.avis.co.uk/latestoffers/Free-days-7-for-5

rent a car for a day: http://www.daysrental.co.uk