location and Recce

Victoria halls

Grave yard or dark alleyway.

castle street



Victoria Halls

basic script/plot

Number of actors used: 12 maximum

Script:
music
Opening in a dark alley a girl running looking back, looking scared.
Heavy breathing over both scenes

Cuts to a scene earlier in that day
guy meets up with mates in the day.

main guy and friend have a normal conversation
Guy gets text from anon

Looks over shoulder
friend mentions party

Cuts to the girl meeting up with her friends
talks about a tv show (for shadowing)
looks over shoulder
gets a text from anon
friends mention party

Both at a party (don’t know if they’re at the same one or different)
with friends talking but looking around
exact same scene but with both girl and guy

lad gets a hang up call
then unknown text
cuts to the guy chase.

In bedroom guy, feels like someones watching him
Goes to computer,
looks out the window

Cuts to girl looking scared at her phone like she got a text at
her place

same music from the beginning.
cuts to the girl chase again

see’s girl outside boys window.

Pitch for the fiction.

Title:
Genre: Thriller
Target audience: 15+

A fast paced psychological thriller with a twist. It plays on the gender stereotypes of society in order for the twist at the end. It miss leads the audience into thinking one thing before revealing a twist.

Research

After I was given the initial project I then brainstormed ideas of fiction and the ideas I came up with are

Thriller
Comdey
Web series
Drama


After coming together we decided that the ones we had most in common were Thriller and Comedy.

Comedy
Comedy's are very popular, so we thought that it would be a good idea to make a comedy as many people are familiar with the way it works and everyone in the group understands the formula.

Thriller
We also agreed on thriller as it would be a fun thing to experiment with as well as the fact that it's also a genre that everyone is familiar with.


After dilberation between the both we decided to go with a thriller since there are so many comedy's already and it would also be to hard to stick to the formula such as a laughing track.

second project brief

2^nd Project: Fiction

20% of Final Assessment (Total video part of module = 50%)

Guidance and notes are still relevant from Project One, but this time you will write, schedule, recce, prepare both a storyboard and shot list, shoot and edit a short drama, 3 to 5 minutes long. You will need to shoot lots of cover, pay great attention to camera placement, improving the quality of your recorded sound over the first project and constructing sequences that will edit together effectively. Also you may want to consider use of music (but not throughout), graphics (which can be very effective during a fiction piece to set the scene, identify characters, to establish that time has passed etc) and possibly voice-over.

The finished piece must contain at least one scene of sync dialogue and also at least one internal and one external location. It can be serious, a comedy, a mockumentary, a thriller or any fictional genre but it cannot be an MTV-style music video (ie shots cut non-sync over a music track)

You will need to give careful thought to who your actors are going to be. Use mates who are willing to be actors (especially if they are on the Performing Arts degree here) or, as a last resort, members of your own crew (this can be tricky though, they will have a lot to do on camera and sound, organising the shoot, organising props costumes, etc). Often students on the DMU Performing Arts degree are keen to acquire a showreel ie examples of their acting. But be very clear from the outset what their commitment will need to be in terms of availability and time.

Remember

• Fiction is about involving your audience and also about change. A good drama scene is one which is convincing and also where things are not the same at the end of the scene as they were at the beginning.

PROJECT TWO.

final video

Release forms.

This is a release form to show that we can use the footage and music without breaking the law.

Snap shots of editing.

This is a few screen shots of the editing process in order to complete documentary.