Shooting Script
We created our script as we wanted to know what shots we were going to film before production so we knew what we had to do when we start to save more time for post-production.
Monday, 11 March 2013
Treatment
Treatment
The treatment breaks down our opening and shows each section such as technology, representation and narrative etc in more detail for the opening in specific.
http://prezi.com/ofh_bmqoff0o/untitled-prezi/
http://prezi.com/ofh_bmqoff0o/untitled-prezi/
Sunday, 10 March 2013
Production log 5
Production log 5
The key issues of this week have been making sure that we like our idea and that the audience will like it enough to watch the rest of the movie. Also we found that an issue of pre-production was that we had to decide everything really quickly such as when we were going to film and where. We also had a problem with how we wanted to star as the main character as we wanted someone who could be serious and be believable but not to perfect. With our new idea we also found that if we didn't film it in the right way a young audience may not be interested and not watch the rest so we had to plan it in a way that it created enigma and highlighted the problems of illness for young people nowadays.
The decision we both agreed to was changing our idea completely as we didn't believe we could make an opening with our previous idea as it dealt with too many issues and the audience research agreed with us. Also we had to decide on a new idea, but we found it hard thinking of an idea as we wanted to make an idea which is new. We then chose the issue of illness to deal with as we felt it hadn't been dealt with on its own in BSR films. After deciding our idea we then had to think of ways to portray and what illness we wanted to show. We also has to make the decision of what we were going to call the film and we had to come with a narrative for the new film as we changed our idea a lot compared to the first idea. As we didn't have feedback from the audience we also had to be careful as we didn't know if people would like it or not but we think we could create a film which people would be interested in.
Monday, 4 March 2013
Narrative
Our narrative
Exposition
We are first introduced to the protagonist when we wake up with her to being her every-day life. The audience and her know she has an illness however the other characters in the story have no idea. Our main character (protagonist) is called Rosie, she is 19 years old, she finished her education after GCSE and was lucky enough to get a job at JMW shopfronts office. Her job is a very boring and repetitive job. Her dreams and hopes were left behind when her mother died when she was 15 years old. Everything is building up but she keeps it all hidden away to avoid problems for her dad. She is 1 of 5 children and has become a big part in the family role as her father trust her very much. She has had this illness from birth but it has become more apparent now as she is suffering from depression.
Agent/ of change
We meet her work colleague and friend Claire who is so self involved she doesn't she that Rosie has an illness. Not only is the friend dependent on Rosie but so is her family, people rely on her. The audience are clearly made aware of Claire's problems as it takes the attention away from Rosie's illness. However later on Rosie receives a letter from the doctors requesting her to urgently see a doctor, but she tucks the letter away into her pile of work.
Conflict/Complication
Rosie calls work to let them know she's ill, however Claire being so self-involved knocks over the pile on Rosie's desk. When see comes across the letter which Rosie received from the doctors, she does't believe that Rosie has kept this from her and everyone else. However Claire likes to play games so she carries on like she doesn't know what is happening but books an appointment for Rosie. Rosie's likes to carry on like nothing is happening but when she gets to work to find a letter with urgent on it, she opens it up surprised to see an appointment for tomorrow. Claire comes over and rubs her nose in Rosie's business when Rosie becomes aware on Claire's involvement. Rosie avoids talking about the matter when finally she goes to Claire. They eventually end up having lunch in a cafe where they decide to scream and shout at each other over the matter, when finally time for lunch finishes.
Elaboration
Between all this drama Rosie's sister is being bullied and she is trying to help but she keeps forgetting to deal with it, to the point were Rosie's sister rejects Rosie and also avoids talking about and takes what the bullies are giving her.Rosie's likes to carry on like nothing is happening but the awkwardness between Claire and her gets to much for the office. Rosie can't deal with losing her friend over something she was trying to protect them from. Rosie's does what she does best and avoids her problems, she finds her self in the chip shop grabbing dinner when it becomes to much and finds herself laying on the floor. The man helps her up when she realises who's in the shop. Rosie notices Claire's boyfriend sitting with another girl, when he gets up and grabs her. Her threatens her about what she has seen, un-aware about her faint.
The next day arrives when she finds her self staring at Claire, wanting to tell her so bad but its too late when Claire's boyfriend comes shooting in with a bunch of flowers.
More and more people are becoming aware of Rosie's illness, When her bosses find out they call her to the office to talk to her about their needs and contract. Not only does the meeting end but so does Rosie's job at JMW. Rosie is shocked that she has been fired so she starts dishing it out to her bosses how she's the only one in the office that does the work properly and this and that when she find herself laying on the floor again. Not only does she have to tell her father that they have lost their only income but why she has been dropped home in an ambulance.
Rosie's father sat her down, confused in why she would have kept the illness a secret un aware of how much her relies on Rosie. They have a big argument as Rosie doesn't believe she can get better and explains how she has researched it and the treatment cost too much for them. As they can barely get enough money for rent and weekly food.
Rosie finds herself crying alone in her bedroom talking to her mum, She realises she has let this all get out of hand. She picks up the appointment letter which Claire made and she gets so angry that life chose her, she's so young.
Climax and resolution
Over the time Rosie has spent hiding the illness and fighting with people, it becomes to late to deal with the illness as it has got out of control. Rosie wakes up to find her self on a hospital bed attached to pipes with her father, brothers and sisters and Claire. Finally Rosie agrees to have her treatment to try and help her illness only because her father has begged her. The treatment goes on for a few weeks when Rosie starts to feel the change, not only with her illness but with her life. Rosie has a last appointment with her doctor when he reveals that the illness will never go away as its genetic however she can cope with it if she sticks to the plan. However Rosie doesn't realise that the family have sacrificed their saving to pay for her treatment. This leads her to think about other routes in her life as she wants to pay her father back, but is to weak and sick from her illness and treatment to deal with anything.
Coda
We then see a blank white screen with 4 months later on it, Rosie appears taking her pills and we see her carry on her boring every day life but she does have a happy ending as she has dealt long term with her illness which was pulling her down keeping it from everyone and mentally and physically. However she does still have to deal with all the other issues such as her family and work life, but do the pills work forever?
Thursday, 28 February 2013
Primary audience research
Primary research
We created a vox pop as we felt that we could get the most out of the information as we receive feedback from a wide range of people.
Results
Most people knew what a British social realism was but others had no idea that BSR was genre, therefore i showed them my trailer, which i created by mashing up some BSR trailers. This helped people get a rough idea to answer some more questions for me.
I then asked different people to define BSR to me most said that they show the reality of living in Britain, one answer that stood out was someone who said it shows what Hollywood doesn't.
I was also shocked about the amount of people who have seen adulthood, kidulthood and attack the block as they are BSR. This shows people watch BSR even though they are un-aware what genre it is, however i was also shocked that people who answered different questions haven't seen any off the BSR which were distributed by big companies.
I also asked people what would they put into their story if they had to create a BSR, overall people said they would create something that shows both sides of whats happening as they believe people judge people without knowing their story which i think is a good idea to change the representation of Britain and BSR being negative.
Another question was what issues do you feel go on in modern day, most people said drugs, alcohol and sex which is beyond common in our generation however their are other important issues which someone outlined in the video as being gun crime and knife crime, i feel that each issue that could be dealt with all are equally important.
We also asked people what issues they would expect to see in a BSR, they mainly replied with negative answers such as violence and drugs. I feel that we could possible make our opening sequence challenge this idea to make people aware that not all issues are negative their just shown to be realistic.
Leading from this question i then asked what issues do you feel go on in modern day and the general response again was drugs and poverty. I feel these response have come from what people see and walking around London we see a lot of homeless people and we see young teens taking drugs.
Peoples view on the locations was all the same as they expected run down places such as estates and alleys. This is a very common view however this could be challenged as some estates are not all bad or to be what people expect.
Something i feel that would help me and Ella was the question about what grabs your attention. Peoples response were something that happens out of the blue and un-expected. I feel this could be done in the genre of BSR as it would be realistic as most things in the characters like would happen un-expected.
In terms of our idea the feedback was very helpful as we didn't have much of a vision but peoples views help us. People thought our idea was different and something that could happen to someone easily in modern day but the also thought that it would be un-realistic and they felt that the situation could be more extreme and focus on one issue to may it more dramatic and intense.
We asked people what would they put in a BSR if they had to create a movie, their responses focused on one issue which would be easy to connote to the audience. But they would do this is a cross-cutting effect between two characters which i think is a good idea to show two views of a the same lifestyle.
I was also shocked about the amount of people who have seen adulthood, kidulthood and attack the block as they are BSR. This shows people watch BSR even though they are un-aware what genre it is, however i was also shocked that people who answered different questions haven't seen any off the BSR which were distributed by big companies.
I also asked people what would they put into their story if they had to create a BSR, overall people said they would create something that shows both sides of whats happening as they believe people judge people without knowing their story which i think is a good idea to change the representation of Britain and BSR being negative.
Another question was what issues do you feel go on in modern day, most people said drugs, alcohol and sex which is beyond common in our generation however their are other important issues which someone outlined in the video as being gun crime and knife crime, i feel that each issue that could be dealt with all are equally important.
We also asked people what issues they would expect to see in a BSR, they mainly replied with negative answers such as violence and drugs. I feel that we could possible make our opening sequence challenge this idea to make people aware that not all issues are negative their just shown to be realistic.
Leading from this question i then asked what issues do you feel go on in modern day and the general response again was drugs and poverty. I feel these response have come from what people see and walking around London we see a lot of homeless people and we see young teens taking drugs.
Peoples view on the locations was all the same as they expected run down places such as estates and alleys. This is a very common view however this could be challenged as some estates are not all bad or to be what people expect.
Something i feel that would help me and Ella was the question about what grabs your attention. Peoples response were something that happens out of the blue and un-expected. I feel this could be done in the genre of BSR as it would be realistic as most things in the characters like would happen un-expected.
In terms of our idea the feedback was very helpful as we didn't have much of a vision but peoples views help us. People thought our idea was different and something that could happen to someone easily in modern day but the also thought that it would be un-realistic and they felt that the situation could be more extreme and focus on one issue to may it more dramatic and intense.
We asked people what would they put in a BSR if they had to create a movie, their responses focused on one issue which would be easy to connote to the audience. But they would do this is a cross-cutting effect between two characters which i think is a good idea to show two views of a the same lifestyle.
Meet my audience
I then created my perfect target audience, i used the research to make my idea fit for one person. I chose a boy due to the stereotype of boys being more into the idea of violence and abusive relationships.
http://issuu.com/taramann/docs/he_is_my_audiencex
http://issuu.com/taramann/docs/he_is_my_audiencex
How has it helped?
The research has helped develop our idea a before we started we had no idea where or what to do with our idea. The research has helped my understand my audience more to the point where i know what kind of things would grab their attention and what issues they feel they can relate more to. Asking the audience about our idea has helped me developed the idea into a better shape as we know what we could possible involve in the idea to make people want to watch the rest of the movie after the opening. However i still believe we could expand and develop more on our idea as we could make the situation more extreme (as the audience research shows) but encode the message into the text.
I also feel that i understand BSR more know as i have taken peoples views and ideas in, I take inspiration from their ideas.
From the feedback i think i would like to make our idea less complex as we asked people what they thought of our idea and we received feedback such as it being to complex and un-realstic. I agree with their views as looking at our idea know it would be hard to fit that much in to an opening sequence to make the audience want more.
I also feel peoples view are different to mine and Ella's which is interesting as it helps us make our idea more verstile to the audience to attract as many people as we can and create information which will help people relate to or just realise how life can be for people.
I think me and Ella have a lot of room to improve our idea as the audience researched helped us look more into our idea and break it down.
From the feedback i think i would like to make our idea less complex as we asked people what they thought of our idea and we received feedback such as it being to complex and un-realstic. I agree with their views as looking at our idea know it would be hard to fit that much in to an opening sequence to make the audience want more.
I also feel peoples view are different to mine and Ella's which is interesting as it helps us make our idea more verstile to the audience to attract as many people as we can and create information which will help people relate to or just realise how life can be for people.
I think me and Ella have a lot of room to improve our idea as the audience researched helped us look more into our idea and break it down.
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