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Scene Breakdown

Script Most Recent Draft

Script 1st Draft

Short Stories I Researched

This is the first Short Story I studied.

This Story is about a mother that is unable to look after her kids. She is constantly having arguments with her kids about whether they have completed their homework, how much television they are allowed to watch and how many songs they are allowed to listen to.

This could be turned into a film by giving it a simple beginning, middle and end structure. The beginning would show the mother getting along with her kids and them playing happy families.

The middle could be the point of attack, when the dreaded question is asked and she starts having an argument with her children about school work. This is when everything starts to go wrong for the mother.

The end could be when the arguments is resolved and she makes up with her children. This would follow the structure of most films with the beginning, middle, end structure, with the ending being a good one.

There would be five characters used in this film, if I were to go ahead and make it. The main character being the mother, of course.

I picked this story because I like the fact it is about family. I would like to make a film that focuses on family as this one does because to me it is one of the most important subjects to address.

Production Meeting - Roles

ROLES

Petros

• Producer
• Camera
• Editing
• Music
  
• Scheduling
• Casting

Franklin

• Director
  
• Costume
• Location
  
• Title Sequence

Edward

• Camera
  
• Sound
• Location
• Props
• Casting
• Set Design

Charley

• Editing
• Sound
• Sound FX
• Location
• Casting
• Make-up
• Costume
• 
  

In this meeting we discussed what we have to do and then who is going to do what and got completely organised. By getting organsied we will hopefully have less problems in the production of our film.

Research

We have decided to make a comedy. The programs that we are getting ideas for the style of our film is The Office, The Inbetweeners and Curb Your Enthusiasm.


The camera work is handheld which gives the impression of reality in the programs. it is extremely similar to the style in which documentaries are filmed. This style of camerawork is difficult achieve because a lot of the time there has to be more than one camera shooting at the same time. This is because a lot of the acting is improvised. The reason for this is to achieve continuity. The people in control of the cameras have to be on the same wavelength. For example you have to make sure you do not break the 180 degree rule You have to be careful not to get a camera in one of the shots. One person may be in charge of the close ups and capturing facial expressions, gestures and reaction, whereas the other has to concentrate on wider shots to show locations, other characters and to set the scene. Zooming is a big part of this type of filming, the cameras follow the movement of all of the characters.


The editing is quite basic. There are not many transitions and effects used. This is because it would make the program seem unrealistic otherwise.

In these styles of filming ambient lighting is used as it gives it a realistic feel to each scene.

Scene List

This Is Our New Idea

Scene 1.

Wakes up gets out of bed puts on a tracksuit.

Scene 2.

Goes down stairs looks at note on fridge saying his dad is out on business (out for the weekend again. sorry). He opens fridge gets milk smells it, it smells disgusting.

Scene 3.

Goes out to get milk. walks past the card section and picks up a card. shot with open framing, him standing alone looking down at the card with the music playing.

Scene 4.

Cuts to him later in the day playing FIFA 11, gets beaten badly (commentators voice over saying how badly he is doing), throws the controller on the sofa then decides to have a microwave lunch by himself, puts ..... in the microwave and it explodes so he cant eat.

Scene 5.

Trying to call his friends to get them to come to his house for his birthday but it keeps getting to there anwser phones. leaves for his job as a dog walker, as he is out he keeps getting to his friends happy answer phone messages in the background of the action. the dog does a poo, he doesnt have any carrier bags, he does know what to do, he 1. covers it up 2. kicks it away 3. runs away and someone steps in it 4. he steps in it

Scene 6.

Then starts journey home, drops the dog off at the owners house the owner runs out of the house and shouts "how nice to see you!" but she goes for the dog over him, takes the dog and slams the door and he walks off. after he goes past a man washing a car. as he walks past the man throws the whole bucket of water over him. stops at the same corner shop as before, buys a porn magazine (the audience dont know its porn) and some tissues, because he feels he will be alone for his birthday.

Scene 7.

Arrives home, opens the door, walks into the main room with the magazine and tissue in hand, then he is caught by all of his friends who have been waiting for his birthday party. over the shoulder shot of him facing his friends. cut to him holding up the porn and tissues. cut to black.

This Is Our First Idea

Scene 1.

Wakes up gets out of bed puts on a tracksuit.

Scene 2.

Goes down stairs looks at note on fridge saying his dad is out on business.

opens fridge gets milk smells it, it smells disgusting so gets dressed.

Scene 3.

Goes out to get milk. looks at the card section opens an audio card playing happy birthday.

Scene 4.

Cuts to him later in the day playing fifa, gets beaten, throws the controller so decides to have a microwave lunch by himself.

Scene 5.

Trying to call his friends to get them to come to his house for his birthday but they all make excuses. after lunch he leaves for his job as a dog walker close up of him picking up dog poo, dropping off dogs at houses.

Scene 6.

Then starts journey home in dusk gets sprayed with water as a car goes through a puddle, stops at the same corner shop as before, buys a 6 pack of beer, because he feels he will be alone for his birthday, to make matters worse, it becomes clear to the audience that he is being followed home, shown by a series of P.O.V and handheld shots.

Scene 7.

Arrives home to find the door ajar, appears his house is being burgled, walks in to investigate grabs a bat walks up to the kitchen door slowly turns the door handle.

Scene 8.

Finds he has been thrown a surprise birthday party.

An Idea For Our Film

We have changed the story of our film. We are not using binary opposites as we were before. Before it was conventionally a horror film. We have made it into a quirky slapstick comedy.

The story follows a seemingly depressed 18 year old male waking up home alone, puts a tracksuit on and smelling the milk is off. He then goes out to get more milk, buy a birthday card for himself at the same time.

He goes home and tries to call his friends but it keeps going straight onto their answer machines. He then plays FIFA 11 and loses. Attempts to make himself a microwave lunch, it explodes, so he gives up and goes to do his job as a dog walker on his birthday.

He then drops the dog off and starts walking home. He stops off at the same corner shop as before and buys a porn magazine, but the audience do not know that it is a porn magazine. He also buys a box of tissues.

He then goes home to the embarrassment of all of his friends at his house for the surprise party they have organised for him while he has the porn magazine and box of tissues in his hand. It then fades to black.

For this idea we combined 2 pieces of research being "Lovefield" and "The Empty House" and came up with this idea.

The story follows a seemingly depressed 18 year old male leaving a friends house saying, "see ya mate", the friend replies "happy birthday see you soon". The camera follows him on various parts of the journey home, with P.O.V shots of someone following him behind, the objective for this is to build as much tension as possible and to create the illusion that the protagonist is in danger.

As he arrives home he see's his front door ajar and his belongings strewn across the floor. "oh shit", he immediately thinks his house has been burgled, he cautiously enters his home and hears a noise coming from the living room, he grabs a bat and approaches the room. By now the suspense will be at its peak, he slowly turns the door handle and swings the door open. "SURPRISE", a look of relief crosses his face as he realises he has been thrown a surprise party.

The film Lovefield shares comparison to ours in the sense that the illusion of one thing is contradicted near the end. The empty house story gave us an idea for the setting and tone we want to create. The style we have in mind for the film is a realistic documentary style, perhaps taking the shape of the Dogme 95 style.