Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Change of location
At first we were going to have the location named as where we shot it: Menston, Leeds. But we then realised that to a wider audience, such as the American market this wouldn't be reconisible so we have changed the location to London. We realised this from our case study Working Title who tend to stick to stereotypical English locations to appeal to a wider audience.
Things to add to final peice
- Titles at the beginning and end
- New shot of letter
- Location and date information over first panning shot at begining
Hair ideas
Keira Knightley in The Edge Of Love
· Long curly hair
· Loose, natural looking
· Clipped to the side to show the actress’s face.
· Natural hair signifies that the actress is in a country at war and therefore cant afford to have it styled.
1940s Hair Styles
Modern take on 1940s hairstyle.
Final idea - Lost in Love & War
Lost in Love & War
Genre: Romantic drama
Setting: England during World War II
Target audience: 16+
Rating: 12
Music: Throughout shots - sad, slow tempo
Location: In a cottage garden
Casting: Early twenties woman
Early twenties man
Garden must fit in with 40's setting
Starts with a black screen which has production logo and names. This has war type sound effects over. The sound effects then fade out and the slow non diagetic music begins. It then fades into a panning long shot of the garden with the woman at the end lay on a blanket reading. There is writing over this saying the date. There is then a front view of the woman lay reading, looking content and at rest. It then moves to a medium close up of the woman, she hears a noise in the distance then looks up and moves her head to face the camera. This then moves to a medium long shot of the woman standing up, in a state of shock, still facing the gate, she then drops the book and walks out of the shot. The scene switches to a medium shot of a man in army uniform stood at the gate, holding a letter and what looks like a notebook. This moves to a long shot of the woman walking towards the man, again in a sate of shock, this shot portrays what the man is seeing. There is then an over the shoulder shot of the woman walking again towards the man. This then fades into an extreme close up of the man and woman's hands exchanging the letter and notebook. There is another over the shoulder shot of the woman to show her emotions. This goes into a long shot of the woman walking back up the path to the doorstep. The woman is then seen from a medium shot sat on the doorstep staring at the letter. This fades into an over the shoulder shot of the woman opening the notebook and pulling out what looks to be a wedding photograph, she stares at it, then strokes it, then opens the envelope and pulls the letter out. It then moves to a tracking shot of the letter so the viewer can see what’s written. This is accompanied by a voice over reading the letter. The voice over is the woman In question in present time looking back on these events. The shot goes to an extreme close up of the woman’s face to show her emotions. It then moves to a long shot of the woman, still sat on the doorstep, she composes her self, stands, takes a deep breath then walks out of the shot.
The film would then go onto an elderly woman looking back on the events that happened after this.
Genre: Romantic drama
Setting: England during World War II
Target audience: 16+
Rating: 12
Music: Throughout shots - sad, slow tempo
Location: In a cottage garden
Casting: Early twenties woman
Early twenties man
Garden must fit in with 40's setting
Starts with a black screen which has production logo and names. This has war type sound effects over. The sound effects then fade out and the slow non diagetic music begins. It then fades into a panning long shot of the garden with the woman at the end lay on a blanket reading. There is writing over this saying the date. There is then a front view of the woman lay reading, looking content and at rest. It then moves to a medium close up of the woman, she hears a noise in the distance then looks up and moves her head to face the camera. This then moves to a medium long shot of the woman standing up, in a state of shock, still facing the gate, she then drops the book and walks out of the shot. The scene switches to a medium shot of a man in army uniform stood at the gate, holding a letter and what looks like a notebook. This moves to a long shot of the woman walking towards the man, again in a sate of shock, this shot portrays what the man is seeing. There is then an over the shoulder shot of the woman walking again towards the man. This then fades into an extreme close up of the man and woman's hands exchanging the letter and notebook. There is another over the shoulder shot of the woman to show her emotions. This goes into a long shot of the woman walking back up the path to the doorstep. The woman is then seen from a medium shot sat on the doorstep staring at the letter. This fades into an over the shoulder shot of the woman opening the notebook and pulling out what looks to be a wedding photograph, she stares at it, then strokes it, then opens the envelope and pulls the letter out. It then moves to a tracking shot of the letter so the viewer can see what’s written. This is accompanied by a voice over reading the letter. The voice over is the woman In question in present time looking back on these events. The shot goes to an extreme close up of the woman’s face to show her emotions. It then moves to a long shot of the woman, still sat on the doorstep, she composes her self, stands, takes a deep breath then walks out of the shot.
The film would then go onto an elderly woman looking back on the events that happened after this.
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Letter recieved by woman
For filming we used an original envelope from the 1940's sent from the war and we used a letter holder and a wedding picture that were taken to war by a soldier.
This is the letter we composed
Army Air Forces
This is the letter we composed
Army Air Forces
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Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Production Name
We have decided to name our production company 'Spotlighted'. We were originally going to name it Spotlight but discovered through research that there was all ready a company called this. Our next course of action will be to design a logo for our name.
We decided to use a city skylight with a spotlight across it with the name Spotlighted at the base of the spotlight.
We realize that this production logo doesn't match with a World War II theme but we see our company as one that would work in a wide variety of genres unlike Merchant Ivory who only produced costume dramas. So this logo would be acceptable.
Friday, 6 March 2009
Preliminary Task: Soulja to cry on
TASK: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom he/she then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.
Our target audience for this film is probably teenagers. The anchorage for this is the characters themselves and the location: a school. There is little dialogue as it adds to the effect. It also allows the dialogue that is spoken to be the centre of attention as it outlines the main plot. The text also gives anchorage for what the main character is about to do.
I learnt from this task that a range of camera angles have to be used to add affect. Also more care needs to be taken with filming as the camera footage is a bit shaky. The editing needs to be done so that shots run smoothly into eachother so the character is seen moving to a different location.
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