Storyboard

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As part of the planning process, it is a requirement to create a storyboard to help and guide us in the making of our film trailer. Below is the continuation the storyboard.

OPENING SCENE (Act 1)

Acts 2 and 3

Acts 4 and 5

As mentioned, this will help guide us in the making of our film trailer. We may or may not change the scenes throughout the filmmaking.

Nina
30.11.17

Feedback on Script

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Similar to the post on the feedback of our storyboard, we asked 3 people to give opinions on our script. These people are taking creative subjects for their A Levels such as Film Studies, ICT and Media/ Theatre Studies.

Overall, the feedback was positive, giving us a good amount of stick with and to work on. When it came to the last question, Emily and James suggested to include a scene which will shock the viewer and/or include the protagonist in the film trailer.

Nina
29.11.17

Film Exhibition (Part 2)

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After researching about film exhibition, I have gathered statistical data about the changes in cinema attendance, screening, age and gender profiles of the audience annually (starting from 2003). This research will help me with our chosen target audience.

Firstly is the cinema admissions in the UK and how it fluctuates over the years from 2003. According to the UK Cinema Association, the number of cinema admissions varied from an estimate of 160m to 170m from 2003 to 2016 with 2006 having the least amount of admissions. However, it has not exceeded (estimated) 170m and has not fallen below 160m showing the amount of admission has remained consistent.

Below is a bar chart from statista which shows the changing of age distribution cinema admissions from 2003. There is distinct clarity that young adults from 15-24 have dominated the cinema admission throughout the year especially in the year 2011. From 2003 to 2007, it shows a clear data that ages 45 and above would see the cinema, however, from 2008 onwards, it has been divided into 45-54-year-olds and 55 and above showing the various increasing of this age group. The age group of 7-14 stayed fairly constant with an increase in the year 2004 and 2009.

Lastly is the gender distribution in cinema admission (as of 2014). Similar to the age distribution, 15-24-year-olds dominated the cinema admission and within this 15% were female and 13% were male. Comparing the ratio of male to female in each age group shows that there is only a significant difference of 1-2% making females more than

Nina
29.11.17

Script

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Below is the script the characters will have to read through for their scenes. The ones italicised in red are the stage directions. This is script overview of the film trailer and an insight of what will be happening in each act and scene.

Nina
28.11.17

Film Exhibition

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I have researched on film exhibition, what's it about and its importance in the film industry. I will be making a part 2 of this which will show the statistical figures of cinema attendance, screening, age and gender profiles of the audience per year.





Nina
26.11.17

Purpose of Film Marketing and Distribution

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Below is a presentation of my research about the purpose of film distribution and marketing and how it is a vital process in the film industry.




Nina
26.11.17

Location Recce (Part 2)

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This is the second part of the location recce and here I will be talking about the locations we will not likely film for our film trailer.

1. This is the south building which looks like the perfect place to film trailer. However, we want our film trailer to focus on students our age which is mainly sixth formers, hence why we chose to focus on the sixth form building.

2. The car park would have been another great place to film our trailer, however, because the times of when we will be filming are mostly during the school hours until 5:00 p.m and the numerous cars around this area, it will be hard to set the atmosphere to match our genre.

3.  Although we have incorporated locations where stairs are available, we did not choose these two because (1st picture) it did not seem too eerie and (2nd picture) you could see a chunk of the north building which may deter the audience's attention.

Nina
08.11.17

Location Recce

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Part of our planning is to scout locations for our film trailer. Because my group has chosen to solely focus our film trailer at school, St Gregory's Catholic School, our location recce was straightforward to do.

1. This is the exterior of the sixth form centre and we chose this because it is great for an establishing shot at the beginning of the film trailer for the audience to recognise the prime location of the film trailer.
Alongside this point, we took this at a low angle to be able to evoke an empowering and intimidating aura and the eerie atmosphere, if filmed during dusk, will be able to entice the audience.

  2. These 3 images all share the same aspect of having leading lines which draws attention to the audience to the focal point of the image and it perfectly fits gives off a mysterious uncanny vibe fitting in with the genre of the film trailer.

 

3. Chiaroscuro is an effect caused by the contrast between light and shadow and we were looking for locations that would be able to match this description. The entrance of the north building hallway, wind tunnel, and south building lavatory evoke this enigmatic and perplexing representation.

4. Stairs are often used in mystery/ thriller films as a gateway for the plot to lead a character to the unknown. We have found various locations not only around the sixth form building but also around the courtyard and south building.

 

5. The balcony in the middle floor of the sixth form building is a great place to shoot any intense scene such as someone forcibly pushing another off the balcony or any heart-racing arguments.

6. These are miscellaneous locations where we could film scenes which involve a character running from someone or an establishing shot to introduce the beginning of the next scene.

7. Lastly is the gate outside the corner of the south building. Although it looks quite serene and peaceful during the day, when filmed at dusk it will be a sinister place to film the death of the main character or any flashbacks.

Nina
08.11.17