AS Foundation Portfolio: November 2016

Friday 25 November 2016

Untamed script

UNTAMED SCRIPT

Aubrey is walking home from a party where the girl who she likes (Riley) just was. She seems absent minded due to being drunk still from the previous events but with a slight smile as she is reminiscing the enjoyable night she just experienced. Aubrey is seen stumbling and kicking puddles distractedly.

(Aubrey arrives home and drunkenly stumbles into the house)

Mum: Where have you been?

Aubrey: (drunkenly puts her hand over her head and sways whilst she speaks. Speaks slowly and stammers slightly. Says aggressively) I told you were I was. You know I had a party.

Mum: (speaks with an overall disappointed tone) I told you 11 at the latest. It’s 2am for goodness sake, what were you even doing?! (long silence, begins to speak slowly and sternly) You were with that Riley girl again, weren’t you?

Aubrey: who cares who I was with

Mum: I know whatever this is, is not just friends and I do not in the slightest approve of it. You are a child of God

Aubrey (Looks straight at mum, begins to answer but then gets cut off) it’s not what you think… and even if it was like that, I don’t see what’s wrong with it.

Mum: (tears in her eyes, straight face and stern voice) I’m sick of looking at you. Get out of my sight now.

(Aubrey storms up to her room. A short clip is shown of her packing her bag and slamming the front door.)

(Aubrey runs towards a field, wiping tears from her eyes)

(Upon arrival at the field, she slumps down to the floor and puts her head in her hands for 5 seconds. She then looks around in a distressed manner; she spots Riley walking towards her from the distance- long shot)

(Riley caringly approaches Aubrey, sits down next to her and grabs her hand – emphasis on this moment -)

Riley: (quiet and lovingly) I heard you slam the door.

Aubrey: (wipes tears from her face) Its nothing. My mum just doesn’t understand

(Riley lights a cigarette and has a puff, then passes the cigarette to Aubrey)

Riley: I understand, my dad doesn’t approve either

(long silence and stare longingly at eachother, background music builds up and gets louder, then stops all at once. Black screen with title shows (untamed))

Thursday 24 November 2016

Shooting Schedule 2

Filming went well. We ran into very little issues, only lighting issues and the camera battery dying - which was easily fixed. The filming process was very swift (overall, filming took 6 hours over the two evenings), mainly due to sufficient planning, such as scripting and having this shooting schedule.Although, it could have gone better due to Katie being absent in the first filming day (25/11/16) due to a last minute inconvenience, therefore we had less help which prolonged the filming. Additionally, as it was our first time filming to a professional standard, it took us some time to figure out how to make the camera work as good as possible (lighting, settings, lens, zoom, panning, shots).

Risk Assessment

Untamed story board

This is a storyboard which our group have created using 'Emaze' and have added a voiceover explaining in detail each shot and scene we are trying to achieve in our film opening. This helped us in getting our thoughts for the opening scene in order to see whether our overall desired effect would be possible.

Friday 18 November 2016

Girls Can't Play Prelim

Our finished prelim, called 'Girls Can't Play'.

In this lesson we reflected of what went wrong in our prelim. To improve our movie we could have analysed our shots more, we should have uploaded the videos straight away. The reason why we do not have great deal of different shots is because we ran out of time and had to use the ones we had. Over the few days shooting we all wore different clothes and that could easily confuse the audience, also we should have used better use of our time and create a more detailed plan. When we filmed on separate days there was completely different weather in the
background for example at the beginning the sky was quite grey then at the end of the video, the sky was a shade of blue, this made it obvious we filmed at different times of the day. Because we found it quite difficult to get the same lighting in every shot we could have filmed it all in the main basketball hall, as we had previously planned. Finally the last part which I believe could be changed is the issues we faced with our equipment, for example some parts we filmed included quite a shaky frame we could have improved this if we had used the tripod for all the shooting.

Props- Film Opening

The following items are going to be featured in our film opening to make the sequence seem realistic and give the best effect:

- Beer bottle
- Cigarette
- Phone
- Dry shampoo
- Wine glass
- Rucksack
- Clothes to put in the bag
- Lighter

Costume -Film opening

The following costumes will be used in our film opening to portray the different characters realistically and make it clear to the audience what type of person they are:

- Denim shorts
- Plaid shirt
- Cropped top
- Superstars
- Dressing gown
- Slippers

Shooting schedule

This is our groups shooting schedule for our final film task. We have drawn out a table to show where we have time to film and where our commitments are. We will stick to the schedule as well as creating an imessage group chat to arrange any other filming dates and last minute arrangements.

Thursday 17 November 2016

Individual Film Pitch

As a group we discussed movie opening ideas, we decided on the idea of a teen drama film as we felt this was relatable and would, therefore, know our target audience very well.
We looked at other films such as Perks of being a wallflower and Fault in our stars for inspiration.
Here are our individual film pitches for the film opening...

Katie's film pitch: Young teenage girl struggles to fit into high school life and soon realises that her close friends are not who they say are. A film about lies and mystery. A mystery/ thriller/ teen drama.

Charlotte's film pitch: Teenage girl fancies most popular boy in school, however, he is also dating the most popular girl, little does she know he is gay and feels he's living a huge lie.

Holly's film pitch: Young rebellious girl runs away from home and experiences a life with no rules or a society to fit into.

Anneka's film pitch: A young smart girl gets in with the wrong crowd at school she begins drinking and taking drugs it ends up with huge life changing consequences.

After hearing all of our initial ideas and feedback, we came up with a film opening that almost combined our ideas. For example, we used a young teenage girl and incorporated the theme of rebellion with drinking/alcohol we also worked on the basis that our main character would feel excluded from society as she would be gay and feel the tension and hatred within her family home life.

Film Opening Pitch

This is our emaze presentation we pitched to the class.

Feedback we received
For our film pitch we got many mixed reviews in the different categories. For the category 'clear genre, themes and messages?' we got 6 positive reviews and 1 negative. The majority of the statements said that the film had a clear narrative and was vey relatable to the target audience but the one negative comment stated that there is not much enigma to the story line.
The next category was 'interesting characters?' which we received 10 positive comments saying 'interesting and can relate to reality' and main character had an interesting back story and 3 negative comments stating 'not original and traditional characters' which means that the film opening could be seen as predictable to the audience.
For the third category, 'is the target audience suitable' all 13 pieces of feedback were positive saying things such as 'the target audience is perfect for this film' and 'will relate to the target audience because it relates to teens. Overall, our film pitch received mainly positive feedback with a view negative comments. I believe that this is mainly down to the relatable narrative and characters.

Thursday 10 November 2016

Titles

In this lesson we analysed different programme and film titles. The reason for this is to research variety of techniques we could possibly use for when we create our film opening.