Storyboard
Monday, 15 October 2012
Research and Planning - Video
Short film script
Scene 1:
Character 1: Honey I’m home! (Heads up the stairs)
Character 1: (Finds
letter and starts reading it) From your dearest fiancée. You may have noticed
that I’ve not been myself lately. Things happen for a reason. A few weeks
earlier I was notified by the doctor that I’ve been diagnosed with cancer. I
don’t think it’s going be fair for you to live with that. I wouldn’t be able to
live with myself if I made you go through all this sadness. If only you could
look through my heart to see who it is beating for, you would know the depth of
my love for you. And no matter the seasons that will come and go you will
always be here in my heart. I will be watching you from heaven; I will make
sure that you are always safe. The time we’ve had together has been sown by
perfection. But now our time has come to a halt. An eternal halt. When I met
you it felt as if destiny brought us together but destiny has now also departed
us in the coldest way. Writing this letter is piercing my heart into pieces. You're
my heart, my best friend, and my one true love. I’ll always love you.
…..
WHAT!
Character 1: WHY! (Punches the dashboard in anger)
Character 1: (In the car) How did I not realise what we she was
going through! This is all my fault.
(FLASHBACK SCENE 1)
Character 1: Honey wake up, its past 12. We need to go.
Character 2: Please baby 10
more minutes, I’m really tired.
(FLASHBACK SCENE 2)
Character 1: Hospital?! Oh it must be nothing, just them normal
women things.
(FLASHBACK SCENE 3)
Character 1: Honey what are these pills?
Character 2: (Grabs pills off him) It’s nothing! Don’t worry about
it
Scene 2:
Character 1: This all makes sense now.
Thursday, 11 October 2012
Research and Planning - Video
Concluding the recce was extremely supportive because when I went to take the pictures of our locations I visualised where we could shoot each scene and shot. And also helped me in finding any obstructions that could be there. This ultimately helped in completing the risk assessment form. The recce was a very helpful task.
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Research and Planning - Video
Recce
Locations:
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Whipps Cross Hospital
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Whipps Cross Park
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Pamela’s House
The image on the left is the room that we are going to
use to shoot the beginning of the film. Checking out this location gave us
a good notion of where we could place our characters and the kinds of shots
that we can use. We are going to use this location to show the relationship
between the protagonist and antagonist, as they are living together it
illustrates that they are in a serious relationship. We are going to use
this house as a motif to show the solidarity of the couple.
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| On the right is the hospital that we are going to use to
show the antagonist coming out the hospital. Here we are going to shoot the
penultimate scene where the crash scene takes place. The hospital is going
to be used as another motif. Hospitals generally connote trouble and death.
So therefore, we are using the hospital to abode that something bad is
going to happen. The proximity between Pamela’s house and the hospital is
very close, this another reason we’ve decided to use this specific hospital
as moving between the hospital and Pamela’s house will not be time
consuming therefore we will have more time to shoot. |
On the right is the park we are going to use to shoot the scenes where the couple meet and develop their relationship. This is a good place to use as it is very quiet and this will make it easier for us to film as there will be no obstructions. This is also a nice setting to show romantic scenes. Another we reason we decided to use the park is because it is placed opposite the hospital and this also makes things easier for us.
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Friday, 5 October 2012
Research and Planning - Video
Completing the treatment was very helpful, it helped us consolidationg our idea. Both me and my partner were very happy with our storyline and the locations we could use. Also the feedback from the class was extremely handy as it evolved our ideas. This lesson I tweaked the treatment and made some improvements to it. I showed my partner and she agreed with the idea's in the improved version of the treatment.
Research and Planning - Video
Treatment
The film is about a
couple and the girlfriend has health issues which she does not want to disclose
to her boyfriend, she believes that it is not fair on him that he has to live
with her illness so she decides to leave him. So one day whilst the boyfriend is
at work she decides to leave. She leaves in letter explaining her reasons for
leaving. The film starts with the camera is going around the couple’s room and
this will establish the scene, also here we will see a girl on the bed writing
a letter but the camera goes past and does not really focus on her. Then we use
a close up shot to zoom into a photo of the couple. As the camera is zoomed
into the photo, here we will us editing to add in shots of the couple a few
years back having a picnic. We will show how they got together through
flashbacks. These scenes are going to be shot in the park. When the flashback
ends the girl is shown walking out the room. An hour later we are introduced to
the boyfriend and he is shown coming into the room, we will zoom into a clock
to show time going past. As the protagonist patrols the room he discovers a
letter by their photo, he opens it and reads it. He is shocked by what he is
reading, reading through the letter he finds out about her illness and that she
has decided to leave him.
He runs out the house
and drives around looking for her. Millions of flashbacks are going through his
mind at this point and he figures out that she has been rather strange lately.
We will portray things such as the girlfriend being tired most of the time, looking
very ill and so on. There will also be a key scene here where he finds a letter,
whilst in the flashback, addressed from the hospital in her name but however he
does not pay attention to it. Here he will find out that he might have been
neglecting her. We will use the fade effect to convey each part of the
flashback and the transition from one flashback to another and also in the end
we repeatedly switch from one flashback to another to illustrate that the
protagonist is going ballistic and is not in the right state of mind. He drives
past the hospital thinking she might be in there so he turns back. Driving at
full speed to reach the hospital so he can see what is dearest to him, his
girlfriend, maybe for the last time. He drives closer and closer to the
hospital and is at a ferocious speed, not aware of his surroundings. He is just
focused on reaching that hospital. Suddenly as he looks at his windscreen he
sees a woman, he breaks but not hard enough and the woman comes thumping onto
the car and then the floor. He rushes out of his car to see that it is his
girlfriend. The protagonist, in disbelief, looks down and the film ends. Our
film is a romance film which has a very different twist to it and is different
from the typical love film where the lovers reunite in the end. We believe this
will appeal to our audience.
The genre of our film
is romance/drama. Our audience is people aged between 16 to 25, as the couple
in our film is a young couple. We’ve decided not to make our film no longer
than four minutes as it would be too lengthy and may bore the audience. For our
film we will need only two people and we want them to be engaged throughout the
film. Everything in film happens in the same hour so therefore we will not need
many props. The only place we will need some props is the scene where the
protagonist is going through the flashbacks. For this we will only need a
change of clothes for each character and this can easily be attended to. The
location of the film is mostly going to be on the roads so therefore we thought
we’d use small quiet estate roads so therefore it’d be easier to film the crash
scene without causing trouble for the public and other drivers. We are still
working on the getting our actors but this task can easily be handled as we
know many people who will be willing to be in the film but we just need to pick
the right person for each parts. We are planning our film to be mainly on
youtube, this will be our main platform. We are also thinking of also uploading
our film onto facebook.
Research and Planning - Video
Feedback
The feedback we received from our
group was very constructive. They helped us make the storyline of our film more
interesting. Our initial plan was fused with the ideas of some of our class
members. Some of the feedback was very helpful. Originally we did not have a
set location to shoot each scene of our film. From the feedback one of the
class members said that we could film the flashback scenes in the park, the
couples having a picnic and so on. This was a great idea and finally gave us an
idea of where could shoot some scenes of the film. The main section of our film
is when the protagonist is in the car and he is piecing together through the flashbacks
that the deuteroganist is in an ill condition. For this scene we thought we
would portray things such as the girlfriend always being tired and looking very
ill. But from the feedback we got ideas such as the protagonist could discover
prescribed pills and letters from the hospital. This was a great piece of
feedback and this would be a clever way which the protagonist could piece
together that she is in a bad condition. Another great piece of feedback we received was
that when the protagonist is seeing the flashbacks we could use the fade effect
on final cut pro to convey each part of the flashback and the transition from
one flashback to another and also in the end we repeatedly switch from one
flashback to another to illustrate that the protagonist is going ballistic and
he is not in the right state of mind which then results in the car crash scene.
On the whole, the feedback we obtained was very constructive and helped us
evolve our idea.
- This is the feedback that we received from the idea that we pitched to our class
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