Shooting Schedule (3)

Date: 2/11/12

Time: 10am-3pm

Location: Chiswick

Shots: 9-12; 17-21

Actors: Callum, Sergy

Crew: James (camera and director)

Costumes and Props: Bag, School Uniform

Equipment: Camera, SD Tape, Tripod

Potential Issues: Weather- due to it being winter we will have to plan the times we film adequately; Lighting- linking into weather, lighting in winter is a potential problem; Trip Hazards- since we are filming these scenes outside, we will have to make sure we don't present a danger to the public

Risk Assessment: Medium- We will have to watch out for cars when filming on the streets.

Shooting Schedule (2)

Date: 30/10/2012

Time: 10am- 3pm

Location: Callum's House, Chiswick

Shots: 10; 18-20

Actors: Callum

Crew: James (Camera and Director)

Costumes and Props: Alarm Clock, Wall Clock, Watch, Pyjamas, Bag, School uniform

Equipment: Camera, SD tape, Tripod

Potential issues: Lighting- daylight could be a problem, we have to make sure that the lighting for different scenes looks similar.

Risk Assessment: Very Low- no real dangers since we are filming inside a house

Shooting Schedule (1)

Date: 26/10/2012

Time: 11am- 12.50 pm

Location: School Grounds- Gunnersbury Catholic School
                 Bus Stop opposite school

Shots: 11-12; 20-21

Actors: Sergy, Callum, 6 extras

Crew: James (camera and props) Callum will also act as director

Costumes and Props: Tables and chairs for exam hall, paper as a prop for the exam

Equipment: Camera, Tripod, SD tape

Potential Issues: Noise-  Filming in a school means that we will have to be cautious of the noise levels caused by pupils across the school grounds. Also, we may need to continuously halt filming due to large numbers of students in the area.

Risk Assessment: Low- we are filming in a safe area within our school, the only thing we have to keep in mind is the trip hazards we may cause whilst we film.

Location Research

Most of the film will be shot at the main characters house, this in my opinion is extremely convinient as I am already very used to the environment and i will feel in my comfort zone, therefore i will be relaxed and be able to pull of a great performance.

For the scenes which take place inside we will be able to adjust the lighting, which will work as a great advantage.

The Kitchen: The kitchen will appear in one  of the scenes, in terms of safety it is important to make sure that appliances such as the cooker, stove etc are turned off and sharp objects likes knives etc. are out of the way. 

Bedroom: Typical teenagers bedroom, this will be suitable for the character as he is a teenager.

Bathroom: As regards to filming in the bathroom, it is important that we keep electrical appliances away from the sink/bathtub/shower etc. in order to avoid any problems.

Bus Stop: The bus stop is very convenient to us, it is just a few minutes walk from our school which is useful as we will be able to travel to and from the different locations for filming. The bust stop is situated on a main road so we must be careful when filming, we must avoid cars or buses which may drive past, furthermore we will be filming out on public, therefore we may experience members of the public walking past and interrupting our filing sessions. 
This links in well with the British theme of the film due to the fact that this is a typical London bus stop, which is recognisable as British.

School Gates: Main school entrance, this is once again very convenient as the school setting is very suitable and suits in well with the whole theme of the film, the only problem that we may encounter is that cars may drive in or out of the school, so this may interrupt our filming sessions.

Character Research

The main character (Hubert Clive) will be played by sergy. Hubert is a teenage character, therefore the fact that I myself am a teenager, makes the role that will be played come across as a lot more convincing as well as suitable. Furthermore the Hubert, goes through a series of unfortunate events within the film, therefore the fact that I come across as innocent allows the audience to feel sympathy and grow attached towards the main character Hubert. Finally the character attire will be important, so to fit the role of Hubert who is a school boy, I will be attired in a school uniform.

The school uniform will link in to the theme of British identity, Britain are notifiabley known for sending children to school in uniform, therefore the school uniform will be very iconic as well as symbolic in terms of representing the British identity.

The thief will be played by Callum. Callum is physically bigger than the character of Hubert, therefore he will come across as a lot more intimidating to the public, furthermore to denote the fact  that  Callum is indeed a thief/criminal, he will be attired with dark clothing with a hoodie, which is stereotypically associated with crime.

Story Board

Scripts Analysis

I believe that the script works really well in terms of setting out the story, furthermore in terms of linking our film to the theme of Britishness, we are focusing more on the aspect of British iconography, in order to identify our film as British, for example the school uniform is very identifiable as British as not many, countries have school uniform, further more the iconography of the streets, small details such as lamp posts, bus stops etc. are once again easily identifiable as british.

10 (Ten) Minutes

This is a new idea that we have come up with as a group. The main character has two stories, one of which he is ten minutes late. As a result of his alarm going off ten minutes later than it should of, this results in a series if unfortunate events which causes him to be late for an important exam, resulting in him not being able to sit the exam.

The other side of the story is that his alarm goes off at the right time. The series of unfortunate events that occurred during the first story do not happen and now the day favours him. He is now on time for his exam and goes on to gain good grades.

'10 Minutes' Screen Play Format

INT. Main character's bedroom. Night

MAIN CHARACTER. Prepares himself and slumps into bed falling asleep immediately. 

INT. Bedroom. Day

A calendar is present, on the bedroom wall, showing that today is the day of his final exam.

The following day he wakes up 10 minutes late at 8.10am on the day of his final exam, due to not setting alarm. He panics and rushes out of bed.

INT. Main character's house corridor. Day

MAIN CHARACTER. Rushes to the bathroom and begins banging on the door which is locked.

INT. Bathroom. Day

BROTHER. straining on the toilet seat

 BROTHER

"sorry mate I'm gonna be a while"

INT. House corridor. Day

MAIN CHARACTER. Frustrated, slumps himself against the wall, impatiently waiting for the bathroom. After a time laps brother walks out of the bathroom, allowing the main character to enter.

INT. Kitchen. Day

MAIN CHARACTER. walks into the kitchen to grab a bowl of cereal before he leaves, as he is about to pour his milk into the cereal, he realises that there is no more milk left.

INT. House Corridor. Day

MAIN CHARACTER. Leaves the house

EXT. Street. Day

MAIN CHARACTER. Makes his way to the bus stop, he places his bag on the floor and checks the bus time table, oblivious to him, a man creeps up to the bus stop grabs the bag which contained the main characters valuables and makes a run for it. Main character realises his bag has gone missing but it is too late, the thief was too far away. Main character is now forced to walk to school, making him late.


EXT. Outside school. Day


MAIN CHARACTER. Reaches the school gates which are locked, he is now unable to take part in the exam, he is devastated.

INT. House Corridor. Day

A letter is received through the post containing the final exam results, he had failed.

Scene rewinds back to the beginning.

INT. Bedroom. Night

MAIN CHARACTER. Sets his alarm and prepares himself for sleep. Fortunately this time he wakes up on time.

INT. Corridor. Day

MAIN CHARACTER. Strolls into the bathroom, before his brother has a chance to get there.

INT. Kitchen. Day

MAIN CHARACTER. Has his breakfast, a bowl of cereal

INT. Corridor. Day

MAIN CHARACTER. Leaves the the house and shuts door.

EXT. Street. Day

MAIN CHARACTER. makes his way to the bus stop, on his way there he crosses paths with a hooded figure (The man who had previously stolen his bag) He therefore avoids getting robbed. He finally reaches the bus stop and catches the bus on time.

EXT. Outside school. Day

MAIN CHARACTER manages to get to school on time, and enters.

INT. Exam hall. Day

MAIN CHARACTER. writing up the exam.

INT. Corridor. Day

A few months later, a letter is slotted through the letter box (Final exam results)
MAIN CHARACTER. walks towards the letter, opens it which reveals that he had successfully passed the exam.





'10 Minutes'

As a group, we came up with a new film idea about a school boy who's life changes due to the setting of his alarm. We thought that this would be a good idea to use because it covers many genres; comedy, social realism, among many others. This makes it an easy film for us to relate to, and produce. 

The new idea (10 Minutes): 

This film is about a schoolboy who has an upcoming exam, and (in one half of the story) wakes up late, causing a series of unfortunate events and, ultimately, ending up with him missing his exam. The other half of the story shows the opposite of this, the boy wakes up on time, causing him to avoid all of the previously shown unfortunate events, and eventually he turns up on time to his exam.  This results in him receiving a good result, setting him on a good path for the rest of his life. 

We decided to use this idea for our film because, the basics of it has proven to be successful by mainstream films. Films such as 'Run Lola Run' and 'Smoking or not smoking' have used the same idea as we plan to, and have become successful and well known as a result of this. Our film will follow two stages of our main characters life. One will be the unfortunate side, where he wakes up late and misses his exam. The other will be the good side, where he wakes up on time and does well in the exam. 

We also felt that this idea would easily relate our film to our target audience, adolescents. Using a young schoolboy helps us do this, along with the themes of comedy and social realism. 

Early Stage Planning: New film idea

After some careful consideration, we decided to take a new approach to our initial film ideas and we came up with a new idea:

10 Minutes
The film follows the main character over the course of an eventful day. There are two sides of the film both displaying differents paths taken by this main character. Path 1, the character forgets to set his alarm on the day of his final exam, therefore waking up 10minutes late at 8.10am, this is then followed by a series of unfortunate events which ruin his day and potentially his future as it causes him to eventually miss his final exam.  Path 2 his whole day then rewinds back to the start, whereas this time he remembers to set his alarm, allowing him to wake up on time at 8.00 am, and due to this 10 minute difference, the main character manages to avoid the unfortunate events, he had encountered when he had woken up late, which has a much more positive effect on his day.

 

The narrative structure of this film was very much influenced by the german film 'Run Lola Run'. Unlike normal hollywood mainstream films which have a common beginning, middle and end, this film follows an unusual pattern.The beginning will present the time, the setting and the key characters of the story, and portray their lives in a ‘normal’ situation. This initial ‘normality’ is then broken by some kind of event or action which alters and distrupts the sequence of events.

We really wanted to play on the fact that certain decisions made, can have a huge impact on our lives, even the smallest detail can make a huge difference and this is something that we never think of or even realise.

Audience and Purpose

As a group, we decided to target adolescents (i.e. anyone from the age 13-19). We thought this would be the best audience to target because we can easily relate to them, being teenagers ourselves, and the themes of our film (comedy, social realism) satisfy the typical adolescent needs when viewing a film. Furthermore, we felt it would be easier to cast people of a similar age to ourselves and our target audience, rather than trying to cast adults or very young children. This is another reason why our group decided to target teenagers.

The first ideas for our film were based around the themes of violence and racism. Further down the line, we moved towards love as our main theme before finally deciding on comedy and social realism to be the two themes we centred our film on. The film idea we came up with focuses on a schoolboy and two paths he takes that result in him waking up late, causing a series of unfortunate events, before finally missing his important exam. The other side of the story focuses on the lighter side, the boy wakes up on time, causing him to luckily avoid all of the events the audience have previously seen, before finally sitting his exam and achieving a good grade. This film, as a whole, is solely based around school and pupils, something every teenager in the UK can relate to.

Moreover, when thinking about our target audience, we decided that our film should be able to target teens of all classes, and both genders. The themes of our film can relate to anyone, despite their gender, class, sexual orientation, and so on. This gives us a wide audience to show our film to, instead of pinpointing a small section of society and ignoring everyone else. As a group, we felt that this would be the best idea for our film.

Early stage planning: Film Ideas

We had previously intended to target a teenage audience, ranging from the age of 15 and above, therefore whilst planning the film it was important to consider the theme and many other aspects of out potential film, so that it is appropriate for our audience.

The purpose of the film had not yet been decided it was a decision between a film to raise an issue or a film simply for entertainment purposes or even perhaps combining the two purposes.

The brainstorming for the film ideas had begun. With such a broad range of themes to aim at we found it difficult to spark up original ideas, we were suffering from writers block. However we had finally settles down up came up with a few ideas:

Idea 1: Creating a fake documentary style film, following the daily lives of the rioters as they explain there own version of events.

Thee concept of this idea was a good one, however filming a documentary will limit the amount of different camera techniques to use, furthermore there will be a lot of dialogue taking place, which could also be an issue.

Idea 2: A film which showed the everyday life of two different people from contrasting backgrounds, showing how life can be so difficult for some people where as for others life is a walk in the park.

Idea 3: This idea combined the idea of following the everyday life of two contrasting families or people, however this idea would consist of a life cycle, showing a baby growing into a child, teenager then adult.

The cast would be a clear issue for this idea in particular, it will be difficult to find or assemble all these different characters.

Idea 4: The previous ideas that we had thought of tackled serious issues and themes within society, which were aimed at raising an issue, therefore we now decided to think of a much more light hearted film, which aimed to entertain.

We came up with the idea or teenager love/lust as we all have experienced this during s period in our life making it easier to relate.

The idea for the film is a boy who loses his wallet and soon realises that it has gone missing and goes into a state of panic, not known to him an attractive girl stumbles across the wallet. She is now determined to return this wallet to its owner and goes on the search. The boy re-traces his steps desperately aiming to find his wallet, both boy and girl suddenly cross paths, the wallet is returned as they both awkwardly stare at each other with lust. However that is the end of it they both begin walking in opposite directions.

This is just the outline of the film, there is still a lot to do in terms of developing the scripts.

  

Film Idea 2

Are we really different?

Two sides, black and white. Two colours that are completely different from each other. One group of white adolescents are returning from a football match, eager for a fight with the opposing teams fans. One group of black adolescents are hanging around on a street corner waiting for their next victim to mug. The two groups get closer and closer to one another. Suddenly both groups are parallel to each other hurling abuse to the opposing race, and waiting for someone to make the first move. The tension builds and builds until the groups charge at each other, hurling missiles as they get closer. Suddenly, the camera shuts down and a black screen appears.

The scene reappears, but the situation has changed. Everyone is getting along with each other and race seems to be nothing but a colour between friends. The group of teenagers clearly share the same interests and hobbies, and walk off together. After this, a title appears asking 'Are we really different?', followed by 'Stereotypes cause violence, think before you judge'.

As a group we decided that this idea is just a back up in case Idea 1 doesn't work out. Although this is the early stages of planning we felt that this film needed to be developed further, and we may decide to use it if we can find a way to add some sort of twist to it. 

Film Idea 1

Lost and Found: 

Lost and Found is a Rom-com about a boy and a girl destined to fall in love. The boy in the film loses his wallet on the way home from work, and is devastated because it contained all of his money, credit cards etc. However, a beautiful young girl finds the wallet and makes it her top priority to return it to its rightful owner, and her journey to find him begins. When the girl finds the boy and returns his wallet it's love at first sight. However, they are both too nervous to talk to each other and go their separate ways almost immediately after they meet.

This is the most likely idea we, as a group, will use for our short film. We feel that it is something we can relate to our target audience, and is also a genre that provides us with a platform to make the film entertaining and fun. 

UK Film Magazines

EMPIRE MAGAZINE

Is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer Media. From the first issue in July 1989, the magazine was edited by Barry McIlheney and published by Emap Bauer purchased Emap Consumer Media in early 2008. It is the biggest selling film magazine in Britain. The target audience that Empire tend to tagert is 16-25 year olds because of advertisement and semi naked pictures of women in some issues. However it it suitable for both male and females, as it has a balance of action and feminine issues.In common with most British film magazines, Empire is populist in both approach and coverage unlike less irreverent and more 'serious' magazines such as Sight and Sound. It reviews both mainstream films and art films, but feature articles concentrate on the former.

As well as film news, previews and reviews, Empire has some unique regular features. Each issue  features a Classic Scene, a transcript from a notable film scene. The first such classic scene to be featured was the "I could have been a contender" scene from On the waterfront.

TOTAL FILM

 is a British film magazine published 13 times a year every four weeks by Future Publishing. The magazine was launched in 1997 and offers film, DVD and Blu-ray news, reviews and features. Guest editors have included Peter Jackson, Kevin Smith, Kermit the Frog, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Mer. It is the second-biggest selling film magazine in Britain, after Empire.Each month, Total Film provides a range of features, from full-length interviews and photo shoots with established and up-and-coming actors and directors, to major film previews and retrospective pieces. All issues contain the Total Film Interview — an in-depth chat with a celebrated actor or director, along with a critique of their body of work; the Abridged Script - a one-page parody of a recent release and Total Film loves..., a one-page celebration of a film, a scene or a performance.