Monday, 29 October 2007
Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Section 5
Section 5
Treatment:
Ellen Wilkinson, Brett Harrison, James Sture
Synopsis:
This short film shows one man reliving his day over and over, with inspiration from Groundhog Day, it shows how each minor detail of the day eventually accumulates and results in a bigger event.
Detail of Target Audience:
The pieces purpose is to solely entertain, targeted at adults, as the intertextuality from Ground Hog Day will not be appreciated by younger audience, the piece will appeal to both men and women over the age of 17 however a more mature audience of 40 and over may not be as appreciative of the themes of be interested in the narrative.
Plot Summary:
The film will show a Monday morning repeated three times for the protagonist, each “new” day would start the same. The protagonist hitting the alarm, leaving his house then taking his route to work. Along that route certain events will happen, leading up to his eventual death.
Characters:
• Protagonist: Alec
The character will be a complete sleaze ball, he is convinced he is gods gift to women, he is top of his game in regards to his job and is a business man within an insurance company, he makes a living ripping people off.
He will be dressed in a suit, which looks expensive and walks with a swagger.
• Bus Stop Girl: Angelina
She is a girl that by coincidence is by the bus stop when Alec walks past every day. She is not particularly his love interest but a girl that he leers at her, as he enjoys the attention and the fact he can embarrass her.
She is dressed in black trousers with a beige coat and heels with a handbag, she looks professional but young.
• Driver:
He is not a main character, and only seen briefly.
• Homeless guy:
Not a main character, dressed in rags, and unshaved un groomed longish hair male. Wrapped in a blanket with a cardboard box and newspaper as a seat. He is sat a few meters away from the bus stop.
Scene Locations:
1. The morning scene will be shot in a “bachelor pad” giving the audience the idea of what type of character the protagonist is.
2. The second location were the majority of the film is shot; will be on a street, but within an affluent area to connotate that the character lives in a well off area. It is crucial that the street has a bus stop as when the protagonist meets his love interest its at the bus stop.
Style Notes:
The film will start with it pitch black and the sound of movement followed by a cigarette being lit and just the cigarette casting light on the scene.
The idea is that this opening gives a broody feeling and almost gangster feel to the piece, then the mood is broken by an alarm going off.
The purpose of this is showing the audience that Alec believes he is a gangster and that he is living the ultimate life. It is ironic as he is far from that and the only one thinking this.
We want to experiment with camera angles, especially when he is run over by the car. We plan on shooting this from both the drivers and Alec’s point of view.
Treatment:
Ellen Wilkinson, Brett Harrison, James Sture
Synopsis:
This short film shows one man reliving his day over and over, with inspiration from Groundhog Day, it shows how each minor detail of the day eventually accumulates and results in a bigger event.
Detail of Target Audience:
The pieces purpose is to solely entertain, targeted at adults, as the intertextuality from Ground Hog Day will not be appreciated by younger audience, the piece will appeal to both men and women over the age of 17 however a more mature audience of 40 and over may not be as appreciative of the themes of be interested in the narrative.
Plot Summary:
The film will show a Monday morning repeated three times for the protagonist, each “new” day would start the same. The protagonist hitting the alarm, leaving his house then taking his route to work. Along that route certain events will happen, leading up to his eventual death.
Characters:
• Protagonist: Alec
The character will be a complete sleaze ball, he is convinced he is gods gift to women, he is top of his game in regards to his job and is a business man within an insurance company, he makes a living ripping people off.
He will be dressed in a suit, which looks expensive and walks with a swagger.
• Bus Stop Girl: Angelina
She is a girl that by coincidence is by the bus stop when Alec walks past every day. She is not particularly his love interest but a girl that he leers at her, as he enjoys the attention and the fact he can embarrass her.
She is dressed in black trousers with a beige coat and heels with a handbag, she looks professional but young.
• Driver:
He is not a main character, and only seen briefly.
• Homeless guy:
Not a main character, dressed in rags, and unshaved un groomed longish hair male. Wrapped in a blanket with a cardboard box and newspaper as a seat. He is sat a few meters away from the bus stop.
Scene Locations:
1. The morning scene will be shot in a “bachelor pad” giving the audience the idea of what type of character the protagonist is.
2. The second location were the majority of the film is shot; will be on a street, but within an affluent area to connotate that the character lives in a well off area. It is crucial that the street has a bus stop as when the protagonist meets his love interest its at the bus stop.
Style Notes:
The film will start with it pitch black and the sound of movement followed by a cigarette being lit and just the cigarette casting light on the scene.
The idea is that this opening gives a broody feeling and almost gangster feel to the piece, then the mood is broken by an alarm going off.
The purpose of this is showing the audience that Alec believes he is a gangster and that he is living the ultimate life. It is ironic as he is far from that and the only one thinking this.
We want to experiment with camera angles, especially when he is run over by the car. We plan on shooting this from both the drivers and Alec’s point of view.
Monday, 15 October 2007
Casting Poster
Casting Session Coming To A Town Near You!!
We are a group of A2 Media students at Ilkley Grammar School and we are producing a short film for our coursework.
The film is going to be in the style of the highly acclaimed film ‘Groundhog day’. It is about a middle aged man called Alec who us highly successful and we goes to work on a ordinary day but the next day he faces the same day but acts rather differently each day until one day he meets his death by something which is sees everyday but is unknown to him and the audience.
So we need volunteers to play the roles of
Alec- He is a tall man with dark mid length hair and set facial features, he will have to wear a suit so to have one will be a plus.
Angelina- She is a beautiful blonde young women, who dresses smartly e.g. pencil skirt, shirt and jacket.
We will start shooting as soon as we have chosen someone from the casting session. We will need a certain amount of commitment due to our time deadline of 20th December, which includes all filming and completed film.
If you are interested in coming to our casting session in the Ilkley Grammar School 6th form centre
Call Brett on **************
Thank you and we hope to see you soon.
We are a group of A2 Media students at Ilkley Grammar School and we are producing a short film for our coursework.
The film is going to be in the style of the highly acclaimed film ‘Groundhog day’. It is about a middle aged man called Alec who us highly successful and we goes to work on a ordinary day but the next day he faces the same day but acts rather differently each day until one day he meets his death by something which is sees everyday but is unknown to him and the audience.
So we need volunteers to play the roles of
Alec- He is a tall man with dark mid length hair and set facial features, he will have to wear a suit so to have one will be a plus.
Angelina- She is a beautiful blonde young women, who dresses smartly e.g. pencil skirt, shirt and jacket.
We will start shooting as soon as we have chosen someone from the casting session. We will need a certain amount of commitment due to our time deadline of 20th December, which includes all filming and completed film.
If you are interested in coming to our casting session in the Ilkley Grammar School 6th form centre
Call Brett on **************
Thank you and we hope to see you soon.
Section 4
Section 4- Industry Context
Film4
Unlike its rivals, Film4 does not focus on broadcasting blockbusters. Instead, it aims for a more niche and highbrow market by showing a mixture of old and new independent, art house, British, foreign language and specialist cinema, along with some critically-acclaimed Hollywood films. Film4 put money into amateur film producers/directors. For instance they have just announced a competition to get teenagers into the industry by making them to send their ideas for a short film highlighting the effects of smoking, the winners get to go to their head quarters in London and devise their idea with professional directors and producers.
EmMedia
EM Media is the Regional Screen Agency for the East Midlands, one of nine agencies across the UK. Since 2001 EM Media has supported the region's film, television and interactive media (games, digital media and new media) through talent development, investment and business support.
Their aim is to develop the range of markets, audiences and opportunities for consumption of digital product and encourage participation, understanding and engagement with all forms of media product, especially as tools for learning.
UK Film Council
Their aim is –
‘’To stimulate a competitive, successful and vibrant UK film industry and culture, and to promote the widest possible enjoyment and understanding of cinema throughout the nations and regions of the UK.’’
The Development Fund aims to broaden the quality, range and ambition of British film projects and talent being developed. More specifically, the aim is to raise the quality of screenplays from the UK through targeted development initiatives. The annual budget for the fund is £4 million.
The New Cinema Fund which aims to support creativity, innovation, new talent and ‘cutting edge’ filmmaking. The annual budget for the fund is £5 million. Feature film funding is central to the Fund's role, but it also support over 100 short films each year through its short film schemes: two flagship schemes, Cinema Extreme and the Completion Fund and the devolved schemes Digital Shorts Scheme and Digital Shorts Plus administered via the regional screen agencies and national screen agencies.
Industry context
There are many mainstream outlets of media in today’s world. Many of them fund and help new film producers establish themselves in the industry. E.g. FilmFour and EmMedia and UK Film Council.
All these offer help through the Internet via forums where people can talk to others and help each other.
Current themes and ideologies
FilmFour is one of the biggest British outlets for media and the short film industry. On their sky channel they have different themes such as English produced films, where they show the best of British filmmakers. Because of short films reputation, they often contain rather strange plots.
Audience targeting
Take FilmFour as an example, their target audience would be middle class and working class now that it is accessible on Freeview. They aim to older men and some women.
Audience analysis
Audiences are grouped on their ocuppation.
Professional
Semi professional
Semi skilled
Unskilled
Unemployed
Funding issues
The funding for amateurs is widely available in form of grants to pay for the costs of producing a short film from organizations like the UK Film Council which is Government and the National Lottery funded. All details can be found on their web page.
http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/filmmaking/
There are also Government initiatives to get help new British film maker’s get established. Noel Clarke’s ‘Adulthood’ was funded by this new initiative. not everyone can receive funding, they have to apply and they need
The hyperlink below shows a government debate on the British film industry.
http://www.culture.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/454EF51B-EC50-4180-911B-24E212B4FAC3/0/907134
Brett, Stoobi and Ellen
Film4
Unlike its rivals, Film4 does not focus on broadcasting blockbusters. Instead, it aims for a more niche and highbrow market by showing a mixture of old and new independent, art house, British, foreign language and specialist cinema, along with some critically-acclaimed Hollywood films. Film4 put money into amateur film producers/directors. For instance they have just announced a competition to get teenagers into the industry by making them to send their ideas for a short film highlighting the effects of smoking, the winners get to go to their head quarters in London and devise their idea with professional directors and producers.
EmMedia
EM Media is the Regional Screen Agency for the East Midlands, one of nine agencies across the UK. Since 2001 EM Media has supported the region's film, television and interactive media (games, digital media and new media) through talent development, investment and business support.
Their aim is to develop the range of markets, audiences and opportunities for consumption of digital product and encourage participation, understanding and engagement with all forms of media product, especially as tools for learning.
UK Film Council
Their aim is –
‘’To stimulate a competitive, successful and vibrant UK film industry and culture, and to promote the widest possible enjoyment and understanding of cinema throughout the nations and regions of the UK.’’
The Development Fund aims to broaden the quality, range and ambition of British film projects and talent being developed. More specifically, the aim is to raise the quality of screenplays from the UK through targeted development initiatives. The annual budget for the fund is £4 million.
The New Cinema Fund which aims to support creativity, innovation, new talent and ‘cutting edge’ filmmaking. The annual budget for the fund is £5 million. Feature film funding is central to the Fund's role, but it also support over 100 short films each year through its short film schemes: two flagship schemes, Cinema Extreme and the Completion Fund and the devolved schemes Digital Shorts Scheme and Digital Shorts Plus administered via the regional screen agencies and national screen agencies.
Industry context
There are many mainstream outlets of media in today’s world. Many of them fund and help new film producers establish themselves in the industry. E.g. FilmFour and EmMedia and UK Film Council.
All these offer help through the Internet via forums where people can talk to others and help each other.
Current themes and ideologies
FilmFour is one of the biggest British outlets for media and the short film industry. On their sky channel they have different themes such as English produced films, where they show the best of British filmmakers. Because of short films reputation, they often contain rather strange plots.
Audience targeting
Take FilmFour as an example, their target audience would be middle class and working class now that it is accessible on Freeview. They aim to older men and some women.
Audience analysis
Audiences are grouped on their ocuppation.
Professional
Semi professional
Semi skilled
Unskilled
Unemployed
Funding issues
The funding for amateurs is widely available in form of grants to pay for the costs of producing a short film from organizations like the UK Film Council which is Government and the National Lottery funded. All details can be found on their web page.
http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/filmmaking/
There are also Government initiatives to get help new British film maker’s get established. Noel Clarke’s ‘Adulthood’ was funded by this new initiative. not everyone can receive funding, they have to apply and they need
The hyperlink below shows a government debate on the British film industry.
http://www.culture.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/454EF51B-EC50-4180-911B-24E212B4FAC3/0/907134
Brett, Stoobi and Ellen
Feedback
15th October - Just got feedback from vicky, as a group we're going to go through the whole planning file, doing amendments to the folder on each of our files. We are going to concentrate on the small edit's first and then go onto the other bigger sections as a whole group.
Stoobi
Stoobi
Sunday, 14 October 2007
Casting Sessions
we are holding casting session in ilkley grammar school 6th form centre this wednesday at 1p
hope to see some of u soon!!
pictures of the casting session will be up afterwards
Brett
hope to see some of u soon!!
pictures of the casting session will be up afterwards
Brett
update!
we have now handed in the planning folder, well not all of it. but we need to section 10
lots of Things have happened since the last post but we are sticking with the groundhog day themed film
until next time bi!
lots of Things have happened since the last post but we are sticking with the groundhog day themed film
until next time bi!
Tuesday, 2 October 2007
an example of a screenplay
BLAIR WITCH II
By
Dick Beebe
Original Story By
Joe Berlinger & Dick Beebe
FIRST DRAFT (Revised)
January 10, 2000
BLACK SCREEN
And in that darkness, white words silently FADE UP:
The following is based on actual events. Some
dramatic re-creation was necessary for reasons
that will become obvious.
Beat. And then slowly swelling up is the sound of panicked
hyperventilation--spasms of words and weeping:
VOICE (HEATHER DONAHUE)
I'm...scared...to close my eyes--
SMASH UP ON
the teary and terrified EYES of HEATHER DONAHUE (the now ubiquitous
scene from "Blair Witch Project" of her confessing to the camera):
HEATHER DONAHUE
--I'm scared to open them.
(beat)
We're going to die out here--
--then, suddenly, this image of Heather FREEZE FRAMES. And we hear
the incongruously perky Voice of ABC's DEBORAH ROBERTS:
DEBORAH ROBERTS (V.O.)
--she'd be a much happier camper
if she'd lived to see this weekend's
grosses--
--abruptly, the freeze-framed image of Heather goes squeeze-boxing
up into the upper left corner of the screen, revealing:
That we're watching ABC WORLD NEWS SUNDAY--the date bannered at the
bottom of the screen: August 1, 1999. Reporter Deborah Roberts sits
behind the Anchor Desk reading TelePrompTer copy:
DEBORAH ROBERTS
In only its first week of wide
release, "The Blair Witch Project"
has taken in a whopping 36 million
at the nation's box office. Not too
bad for an independent film that was
reportedly made for less than the
cost of your average Buick--
CUT TO:
News Video - Day. The Angelika Theatre, New York City. Big and bold
on the marquee: "Blair Witch Project." Tracking shot away from the
theatre and down the street, to see:
By
Dick Beebe
Original Story By
Joe Berlinger & Dick Beebe
FIRST DRAFT (Revised)
January 10, 2000
BLACK SCREEN
And in that darkness, white words silently FADE UP:
The following is based on actual events. Some
dramatic re-creation was necessary for reasons
that will become obvious.
Beat. And then slowly swelling up is the sound of panicked
hyperventilation--spasms of words and weeping:
VOICE (HEATHER DONAHUE)
I'm...scared...to close my eyes--
SMASH UP ON
the teary and terrified EYES of HEATHER DONAHUE (the now ubiquitous
scene from "Blair Witch Project" of her confessing to the camera):
HEATHER DONAHUE
--I'm scared to open them.
(beat)
We're going to die out here--
--then, suddenly, this image of Heather FREEZE FRAMES. And we hear
the incongruously perky Voice of ABC's DEBORAH ROBERTS:
DEBORAH ROBERTS (V.O.)
--she'd be a much happier camper
if she'd lived to see this weekend's
grosses--
--abruptly, the freeze-framed image of Heather goes squeeze-boxing
up into the upper left corner of the screen, revealing:
That we're watching ABC WORLD NEWS SUNDAY--the date bannered at the
bottom of the screen: August 1, 1999. Reporter Deborah Roberts sits
behind the Anchor Desk reading TelePrompTer copy:
DEBORAH ROBERTS
In only its first week of wide
release, "The Blair Witch Project"
has taken in a whopping 36 million
at the nation's box office. Not too
bad for an independent film that was
reportedly made for less than the
cost of your average Buick--
CUT TO:
News Video - Day. The Angelika Theatre, New York City. Big and bold
on the marquee: "Blair Witch Project." Tracking shot away from the
theatre and down the street, to see:
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