Archive for December 2014
Our main character is on a mission which she is told to abort due to complications but continues anyway, successfully. Despite her success she is still in trouble for disobeying orders and recklessly endangering herself so the agency director hatches a plan to put her in charge of a team to teach her responsibility. The team is all female and covers a range of different personalities in order to show women in all their forms, similar to in the show Orange Is The New Black. Tonally this film will have similar qualities to Ocean's Eleven however it could possibly have some more somber and reflective elements. As well as the aformentioned I will also take influence from the director Edgar Wright's humour and wit that he incorporates to his films.
The main Character will be played by Rachel Simons and Beccy Swanson is composing a backing track for the trailer. It will start initially quite fast paced and jazzy and will build as the trailer goes on however at the end as the reflective element is introduced it will become more serious.
1) Explain your film trailer - own film treatment
2) Explain what has influenced your production
Close up of Rachel talking in earpiece while walking down a path by the river.
Rachel: I'm in pursuit.
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Close up of Rachel looking out from behind a corner.
Director: How many?
Rachel: 5
Director: You need to wait for back up.
Rachel: Frustrated They're about to leave!
Director: Hold your position.
Rachel:No, I can do this.
Director: Negative. Do not attempt...
Rachel rips earpiece out.
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Mid shot inside car, match on action with driver as they start to pull away.
Passenger: Nervous Hurry up!
Driver: I'm going!
Mid shot as Rachel runs and reaches out for the car. Over shoulder shot inside car.
Passenger: Relieved We lost her.
Over shoulder shot of Rachel watching car drive off in the distance.
Rachel: Reattaching earpiece Bug in place.
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Mid shot of Rachel on phone
Rachel: You want me to do what?
Director: Lead a team.
Rachel: That's not going to work. I don't do teams.
Director: You don't have a choice.
All 5 characters are in a circle in a field. Close up on Rachel's face back to the previous phone shot.
Rachel: You've gotta be kidding me.
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Close up on Rachel's face with her wrist visibly bound to a pipe in the background.
Rachel: Screams No!
Shot of hand limply dropping to floor.
Director: We wanted you to be a leader.
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Close up of Rachel looking out to see from a cliff top, pans around her, reflective tone.
Rachel: I never wanted any of this.
2. The second image represents the technological element of the film. When you ask a child what they like about spy films, they will often say the gadgets. As my film has a far, far smaller budget than the Bond films for example, I won't be able to have such complicated equipment. However I feel that this is a genre convention that it is important to uphold and so will be showing my characters using things like earpieces and tracking devices.
3. The explosion represents the action element of the film, what people like about action films is their ability to get the audience's hearts racing with thrilling and complicated action sequences. As I am only filming the trailer I most likely won't end up showing any sequences I film in full, however I plan on filming at least two full sequences which I can the cut up in the editing process to make the trailer more ambiguous. It is important that I keep this ambiguity because my questionnaire showed that people don't like it when a trailer shows too much of the film.
4. I wish to subvert the stereotype of females in action films only being there for eye candy, while yes I believe that the female characters can use their femininity as a weapon and do show one of my characters doing that, I also feel that women in this genre need to be shown in far more complexity and variety. As a result I have an incredibly female led cast and lots of different personalities to showcase the potential gains of giving women more of a role in the genre.
5. The laughing children shows that I want my film to be witty. Often action films have their leads quipping witty one liners and, as my questionnaire showed, I am not alone in enjoying this convention. It can give relief from the intensity of action sequences and endear characters to the audience, there is a reason why Tyrion Lannister is such a popular character after all.
You have not created any posts in December - remember your Research and Planning needs to be completed by Christmas.
1) Explain your film trailer - own film treatment
2) Explain what has influenced your production
3) Moodboard
4) Representation of the characters in your film - are they stereotypical or not
5) Audience Research and Profiling
6) Online Tutorials to help you with your filming and editing - explain the techniques you have learnt
7) Soundtrack Research - non-copyright music - explain whether it is conventional and why you chose the music
8) Opening titles - research titles in the same genre - analyse what is effective about the titles, practise creating your own titles and evaluate these
9) Script
10) Animatic storyboard