Story Board

Shot List

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Example 3 

My Shot List

Call Sheet

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Example 2

Example 3

My Call Sheet 

Primary Research for my Opening

Kieran Panchal 

Although romance is not my preferred genre, I like the narrative that Grace has proposed for her opening. Firstly, the title idea is very suited to the plot and therefore they work effectively together. Also, the entire production seems completely achievable, as there are no complexities in terms of character and setting etc. Also due to this, the opening will look more realistic as it will resemble day to day routine of the characters better, also making the overall feel of the opening more realistic.

Nathan Rawlings

I like the story structure that Grace has chosen for her film. The films seems as if it can blend genres such as comedy and romance together in order to engage a larger target audience. The story seems grounded and will be easily achievable in order to capture the full extent of her vision, while allowing audiences to relate to the story and characters.

Dylan Mann-Hazell

I think the storyline for this film idea has great potential and could end up being quite controversial in terms of being a romance film. I can see how Grace can film this with ease, and by the sounds of it, it has great potential to earn a high grade. Also, due to the age of the protagonist, the target audience for this type of film could branch out to more than one audience, which is a good idea.

Scarlett Christou 

I like the storyline and think that the title of the film suits it very well. It establishes genre well and ends on a cliffhanger in order to create enigmas for the audience. It will not be too complicated to film and can be easily achievable but at the same time include a lot of conventions of a romance film.

Emma Blake 

I think this shows your genre very well and is an engaging start to your film. I think although it is a simple idea i think it will be effective in making a good opening. I also think people can relate to the characters which will help draw people into watching your film. There are also many conventions of romance films in your opening alone making the genre clear to everyone.

Gracie Tobias 

I think that the idea of this film opening is unique and i would personally make an effort to go see this film if it was in cinema. i feel that this is a film that i would typically watch and one which i would be interested in. I believe that this would make an intriguing opening as it doesn't give much away and doesn't allow the view to guess any of the plot like some dilm opening do. Also i love the film title as i think that it would catch my attention if i saw the name or a poster opt the film and want me to find out more.

Plans for Shooting

Hair and Makeup

Main Female Character- her hair will be down and very simple with nothing in her hair her make up will be very natural and hardly noticeable to give her a sense of innocence that is need. This will be done at home as the make up will need to be done the actress so she is comfortable with the make up she is wearing.

Main Male Character- his hair will be styled to look like the following picture

this will be done at home by the actor but then I will provide gel at the filming location so that we can keep it looking the same and so it doesn't become to static and stuck to his face, the gel will be used to keep the volume in the hair. No make up will be used on his face however I will use foundation on his hand to blend the tattoo sleeve into his hand to make it look like the tattoo's are real.

Extras-  

Female- The female extras will have both simple hair styles, either down or in a ponytail. Their make up will not be over the top as it would not fit the story line as they are at a college. 

Male- The male extras will have hair that has been styled either at home or on set, depending on whether or not their have gel at home, it will be styles in a similar way to the male leads.

Costumes

Main Female Character-  A simple look consisting of a plaid shirt with a black top underneath with blue  jeans and a pair of Timberlands, she will wear a simple plain pair of earrings and a simple chain necklace. This outfit will come from the actresses wardrobe.


Main Male Character - He will wear a simple grunge look consisting of a plain black t-shirt to show the tattoo sleeve and grey jeans and have converse shoes on. This outfit will come from the actors wardrobe apart from the tattoo sleeve which will be provided by me.

Extras- Extras will wear simple clothing such as jeans and t-shirt to give the setting a feel of being in a college, these costumes will be provided by the extras.

Lighting

The lighting at my location is good apart from at the bottom of the stairs as there is no lights there only a fire exit door which is all windows so while filming here I will need to take lights with me to allow me to get the right kind of light that I need within the scene. While filming outside the area is not very dark and the lighting is good however if I film there too late in the day, after sunset, then the lighting will be wrong and I will have to go back and film it again on a different day as it will too hard to make the area look like it is during the day, so I need to make sure that I am able to film the outside piece before it gets to dark

Shot Types

An Establishing Shot
A Tracking Shot
A medium Shot
Extreme Close Up
High Angle medium close up
Tilt
Lock Down Shot

Locations

Epping St Johns
- Corridor
- Stairs

Just Outside the School Gates
- Overgrown Path

Props 

The props that will be used within my opening will be very basic, props such as a handbag/school bag for the female characters and then rucksacks for the male characters. The main character will also be hold a folder that I will bring from home. In my opening there is a scene where the main male character is selling drugs so a small plastic packet will be provided and it will look like it is filled with drugs however it will just be talcum powder.

Classification Screen and Company Logo

Company Logo

Constructing an opening

My Opening

A girl is searching round the college trying to find her friends. She ends up falling up the stairs and lands at the feet of the leader of the college's bad boys. He surprises her by helping her to her feet, making sure she is okay and asking her out on a date. She is unsure whether to accept or not due to the rumours she has heard about him. 

How it engages my audience 

My opening engages my audience because it is based in a place recognisable to most people and is about a topic that many people will have either dealt with or will have seen people dealing with. My opening creates enigma codes such as, Who is the Boy and what has he done to get this bad reputation from?, it also creates questions that will last throughout the whole film such as, Will the get together? and Will she ever fall in love with him?. 
The opening will also engage my audience because there is a crisis involved and people will want to see if the crisis can be resolved and see if what they want to happen will actually happen this keeps them watching and it keeps them engaged with the film as it continues.
My opening contains convention that would normally be found in a romance film. I will establish who my main characters are to allow the audience to understand who the film is about and how they have met, this allows that audience to really get involved in the relationship between the characters as they are watching the relationship between the 2 main characters grow

Brief Story Structural Outline

Title- Opposites Attract 
Genre - Romance 
Protagonist- A girl aged around 17, a student.

Opening 
A girl is searching round the college trying to find her friends. She ends up falling up the stairs and lands at the feet of the leader of the college's bad boys. He surprises her by helping her to her feet, making sure she is okay and asking her out on a date. 

Crisis 
She is unsure whether to accept or not due to the rumours she has heard about him after she catches him selling drugs. 

Middle 
The boy tries to convince the girl that he likes her and is willing to do anything to be with her. His gang don't like her and are constantly ruining the boys plan to be with the girl, by always being around when he is talking to her and making sure he catches him while he is doing things she won't like, such as getting into fights and selling drugs. 

Ending (resolution) 
The girl and the boy both realise that it doesn't matter how hard their friends try they do like each other and want to be together, no matter what happens, the film ends with the girl and the boy confronting their friends and telling them their true feelings and their friends finally allowing them to be together. 

Location Scanning

Initial Filming Locations

Harlow College (Harlow)
Epping St Johns (Epping)
Lower Swaines Park (Epping)
St Marks (Harlow)
Birchwood (Bishops Stortford)

Refined Ideas 

Location 1 (Epping St Johns)

Location 2 (Lower Swaines Park Epping)

Location Scanning Sheets 

Location Release Form 

Location Scouting Sheet

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Location Details

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Interior          Exterior

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Phone Number ……………………………..

Availability

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Special Arrangements

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Miscellaneous

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Audio Permission

Email that was sent to the record companies 

Re: Copyright Permission

Dear Mr Lau and Mr Nalbet 

My name is Grace Cambridge and I live in Essex in the UK where I am studying A levels at Harlow College. I have chosen Media as one of my A levels and am currently completing coursework requirements where I have an assignment to make a 2-minute film opening.

My chosen genre is romance and I would very much like to use the music of The American Authors as the soundtrack to this opening as I feel that it would be best suited for my film. I would like to use either the track “Trouble” or “Love” as I feel they will both fit well with my film opening sequence. I am a huge fan of the band and have seen them play live twice, once in Camden and once, more recently, at Embankment. I also had the pleasure of meeting the band after one of their gigs.

The film opening will only be used as the main part of my coursework and being able to use either of these tracks would mean a lot to me. I feel one of these song would not only be the best fit for my film opening but also be personal to me as a fan of the band. The music would not be used for commercial purposes and a completed copy of the film opening would be sent to you when it is finished.

Thank you for taking the time to consider my request in this matter and I await your response 

Yours Sincerely 

Grace Cambridge

Timed Analysis of He's Just Not That Into You

0:00 to 0:14 - the opening shot fades in showing a children's park and begins to pan round the playground showing all the children playing.
0:07 title 'New Line Cinema Presents' fades in
0:10 title fades out
0:14- 0:16 the shot changes to a long shot of a young boy walking towards the camera
0:17- 0:18 the shot changes to a medium shot of a young girl building a sandcastle and an asynchronous non-diegetic monologue begins as the camera pans round the sand castle
0:19 the camera shot chases to a medium close up of the young boy
0:22 the shot returns to the girl however the boy can be scene in the right hand side of the screen
0:25 the shot returns to the medium close up of the boy as he reaches the girl
0:26 the shot then shows both of the as the boy pushes the girl
0:28 the shot changes to a high angle shot of the girl falling on to the sand.
0:29 digetic sound of the girl questioning the boy is used
0:31 the shot changes to a medium shot of the boy as he answers the girls question
0:32 - 0:38 shot reverse shot is used between the girl and the boy as he answers the question
0:38 the monologue returns over the top
0:39 the shot returns to the boy as he runs of
0:42 the shot changes to the young girl talking to her mother and shot reverse shot is used during their conversation as the mother comforts the girl, a long shot is used to show that they are still in the park (0:49) and zooms in back to the shot reverse shot.
0:57 a reaction shot is used to show the girls reaction to what her mother has said
1:03 the shot returns to shot reverse shot as their conversation continues
1:17 the scene changes to an older women cry as the camera zooms out we see she is with her friends
1:23 diegetic dialogue is used to show the friends consoling the girl
1:28 the shot changes to a close up of a phone
1:30 the shot then goes to a low angle shot looking up at 2 girls looking at the phone
1:31 the girl on the left of the screen then talk to the girl on the right about the reason thee guy hasn't phoned.
1:36 the scene changes again to 2 women in a kitchen and again the one of the women try to comfort the other about a man
1:41 the scene changes again to 2 women shopping, one is also trying to comfort another about the reason a guy hasn't phoned her. Subtitles are used to tell the audience what they are saying as they are speaking a different language. A traking shot is used as the women seem to walk out of the shop.
1:51 the scene changes to 2 women power walking a tracking shot is used as the continue to walk down the street again one is tell the other why a man hasn't been in touch
1;55 the scene changes again to an army training session where again a women is consoling another women. It uses a tracking shot as the women are running
1:59 the scene changes again and pans round a mud hut showing a change in community
2:03 a long shot is used to show 3 women working outside again subtitles are used to show the audience what they are saying as they are speaking a different language
2:09 the shot changes so it is next to the lady who was on the left of the screen  looking down the line while the one on the end of the line talks.
2:12 the monologue returns to over the top of the scene
2:14 the shot returns to panning around the community that the women were in
2:21- 2:23  the scene fade out to a black screen
2:24 to 2:27 the Title appears one word at a time 'He's just not that into you'
2:28 the word not turns green
2:31 the title fades out and music begins to play

Timed Analysis of Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging

First 2 minutes (excluding company logos) from 0:34 to 2:34
0:34 a medium close up of a character in a car talking to a character walking alongside the car
0:37 the characters begin to speak
0:52 the first title appears 'Paramount Pictures international and Nickelodeon Movies present
0:55 the title disappears and the shot changes so we can see the car and the character walking next to the car
0:56  a title appears saying ' a Gurinder Chadha film' while the character and car move closer to the camera
1:00 the title disappears
1.01 the shot changes to the inside of the house and shows a group of teenager sitting in a lounge dressed up as different characters.
1:02 diegetic sound of the characters gasping
1:03 the shot turns round so the audience can see what the characters are looking at and people in the background begin to ask questions
1;07 a medium shot of the main character used to show her reaction
1:08 the shot changes to show a character burst out laughing
1:09 the shot changes to a shot of 3 girls looking rather embarrassed
1:10  the shot retunes to  the main character but laughing can still be heard in the background
1:12 the shot returns to the girl on the sofa as she talks to the main character
1:15 the shot is back with the main girl as she address the other girls question
1:17 the shot goes back to the girl on the sofa as she makes a joke about the girls costume
1:19 the shot goes back to the main girl and the to the girls in the corner
1:21- 1:24  the shot is then from a high angle as she walks across the room to the girls in the corner the shot changes to show her bumping into things as her costume is to big.
1:25- 1:55 shot reverse shot is used continuously to show the conversation going on between the 4 girls as the main girl questions them
1:56 the shot changes to show the main girl leaving the party and a low angle is used to show her destroying things as she passes, asynchronous sounds of her friends calling her are heard.
1:59 the shot then focuses on the girl who made a joke about her being a stuffed olive.
2:01 a low angle shot is used to show her running down the stairs away from the party.
2:03 a tracking shot is used to show her running and a non-diegetic music track starts
2:21 tracking shot is changed so that the audience keep moving with her
2:21 the title 'Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging' fades in
2:25 the title fades out
2:26 - the shot changes to a medium close up of the main character and moves backwards as she continues to run
2:28 the credit 'Georgia Groome' appears
2:30 the credit disappears
2:32 the shot changes to a high angle shot of her running
2:33 the shot changes again to show her still running
2:34 the credit 'Alan Davis' appears.

Timed Analysis of Titanic

Timed Analysis

0:00 to 0;04- a black screen while a classical piece of music is played.
0:04- a sepia piece of video footage of the titanic leaving the dock is played along with the classical music
0:12 the video changes and shows the people waving from the boat down to the people on the dock
0:16 the first title appears saying 'Paramount Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox present'
0:20 the title disappears
0:25 the footage changes again and shows the people all round the side of the boat
0:26 the title 'A Lightstorm Entertainment Production' appears
0:30 the title disappears
0:32 the footage changes to a medium shot of the people on the titanic waving goodbye to the people on the shore.
0:37- 0:39 the footage fades out and a shot of the sea fades in
0:42 the title 'Titanic' fades in
0:50 the title 'Titanic' fades out
0:51- 0:55 she shot of the sea becomes a dark shot with just on small light making the area around it blue.
0:55- 1:02 the camera zooms in towards the light to reveal a sumbarine
1:03- 1:21 the camera zooms out as though heading for the surface, it shows a birds eye shot of the submarines getting further away.
1:22  A long shot of the submarine is shown at the bottom of the sea.

Importance of Genre

Importance of genre 

Genre is important for production companies because it helps them establish the things that people expect to see with in a certain film, for example in a romance film people would expect to see a couple get together at the end and different dates featured in the movies or in a crime film people would expect to see policemen and to see some sort of crime to take place. Genre helps the production companies because it tells them exactly what to put in their movies, all they have to do is make them fit the movie they are trying to create. Production companies would also use genre to know exactly who their target audience are, so they know they type of people who are going to watch their films, the target audience for a romance films are primarily women because they are the people that you would expect to see watching romance films. By knowing who their target audience is this makes the job of the production company easier because they know what kind of things those people want to  watch, for  example if a production company wanted to make a romance film for teenagers they would set it in the modern day rather than a long time ago because period romance films would not appeal to teenagers as much as  modern day romance film would, this is because it is relatable to them and they will find it easier to understand as they may have gone through some of the issues faced by the characters in the film.

Genre is important for audience as well because it allows them to recognise a films of certain genres and know if they want to watch it. Audience will recognise a films genre without even realising that they are, for example when people see a film poster with a man and a women looking into each others eyes, the audience will automatically assume that the film is a romance film because that is one of the things they associate with romance films, however if the audience saw a poster with a black background and just a person wearing a mask that would instantly suggests to the people that the film is a horror.

The audience use genre to understand the kind of thing they will see within the film, such as couples in a romance film or a weapon in a crime film or a fight scene in an action film all of these things help the audience to understand whether or not they will like the film, as there is no point paying money to see a film when as soon as a murder happens the audience freak out because the poster lead them to think that the film is a romance.

For My Opening 

Genre for my opening means that I know what kinds of things to feature in my opening. Genre also helped my understand the kind of stories to include in my planning ideas as I knew who I wanted to aim my film at. Genre will also help me decide what props to use, the setting, costumes and make up and lighting. The fact that my genre is already established means that I already have an established target audience of people who know what they want to see and what they expect, I am therefore not trying to entice people to come and watch my film because it already has an established audience. Genre also means that for my opening I what kinds of Romance did well at the box office and what didn't but it also tells me what films my audience liked and ones they didn't this helps me know exactly what kind of film my target audience would want to see rather than a film that has been 10 times before and my audience really don't want to see anymore.  Genre also allows me to understand things that are typical of romance films and things that aren't so I know what to include in my opening. Genre also allows me to understand the story ideas that my target audience like and the ones that they don't so I can come up with ideas that my target audience will like.

Classification Screen

Codal Analysis

Risk Assessment Form

Shot Types Practice

Title Ideas

I turned my prezi into a smart survey and posted it online and let people vote for which one they liked most for my film. These were the results

Taking into consideration these results my film title will be 

Opposites Attract.

My Title Ideas

- Last Love 

- Somebody to Love 

-The Final Goodbye 

- Last Summer 

- The Last Letter

- The Note 

- The Only One

- This is it 

- Once 

- One Chance 

- Unnatural Attraction

- Unequal Love 

- Punks Fall Too

- Opposites Attract

-Start Over

- Mixed Up

-Trouble 

- The Trip

- The One

- Love is my drug

- High on Love

The 4 names I have chosen to put to my target audience are 

- Opposites Attract

- Trouble 

- Love is my drug 

- Unnatural Attraction