Monday's Filming Session

On Monday, Jamsheed, Myself and the entire acting crew was at Tyler's home filming scene one of: Tyler being late turning off his alarm.

Tyler in bed about to film scene 1

Here we tried to adjust the lighting from outside and the lighting within his room.

Directing crew!

Jamsheed Filming

Myself and Boom Stick

Our Lovely Actors!

Again

And Again With Jamsheed

We are not doing well for time though, as the actors are not available until next Friday 9th which is near our deadline day!

Prezi Second Draft On Tough Luck

Creative Production Account on Tough Luck on Prezi

 

 

The prezi second draft is in the attachment above, I have included all feedback from my teacher: "A good prezi Yusra although I think you could have been clearer on audience feedback. You could also add some more visual aspects. So far there are some useful blog entries. You could do with embedding some of the multi-media aspects such as YouTube links and prezis."

 

•I have ensured I inserted all things which needed to be put for example: embedding YouTube videos, pictures and what is happening with the filming production so far.

Prezi on 'Tough Luck' About Research and Planning

http://prezi.com/acj9e2tjvbyg/creative-production-account-on-tough-luck/
The above link is on my production "Tough Luck" and the research and planning included.

DEADLINE BEFORE HALF TERM!

Today, everything production planning/ research needs to be sumbmitted and handed to the teacher. However, we are encountering some issues with the actors filming today, as he has got an appointment he cannot be late to. Although, we did give an advance notice of week -that we would be filming on the 24th October. Also yesterday, my group and I discussed what was our schedule going to be like, as we will be filming most over half term! Also, we discussed our treatment again and helped each other resolves problems of route of transport in order to get to our destination of filming.

Meeting with Jamsheed, Ela and Myself

Today my group and I discussed what is needed to be done:

• Recee and Storyboard needs to be handed in
• Redraft case study again - elaborate how the 3 films inspired you
• Make a prezzi and add images of what ahas been done so far in the film
• Embed links of YouTube Vids on my final drafted case studies!

Already we have confirmed that Wednesday will be the start of filming!

Scripting for our film

Script

--Monday--

(In Tobias’ room, alarm clock can be heard)

Tobias: (Voice over) I’m Tobias.

(Shuffling under the covers)

Tobias: Crap! I’m late...

(Brushing his teeth)

Tobias: (voice over) and this is my normal routine.

Tobias: (muffled) I’m late. I’m late. I’m late. I’m late

(Putting on clothes)

Tobias: I’m late. I’m late. I’m late. I’m late

(Running down the stairs)

Tobias: (offstage) Bye mum!

(Slams door and runs out)

(Outdoor sounds, occasional sound of cars driving by)

(Waiting at a bus stop nervously)

Tobias: (voice over) sometimes, I hate my life. (Voice over ends)

Aaah, hurry up stupid bus. Where are you...?

Tobias: (Voice over) oooh who’s that?

(Girl smiles at him)

Tobias: Damn! She’s fiiiine

(Girl gets on her bus)

--Tuesday—

(In Tobias’ room, alarm clock sounding again)

Tobias: Not again!

(Scenes from Monday happen in Time-lapse)

(At the bus-stop, Tobias looks at the girl)

(Girl smiles and waves at him, and gets on her bus)

--Wednesday—

(Tobias wakes up and looks at the clock, where he is on time for once)

Tobias: Woo! On time!

(At the bus-stop)

Tobias: (voice over) Yes! She’s here!

(Rummages through bag and pulls out a notepad/book and a marker)

Tobias: (voice over while he writes on the page) Dinner on Friday?

(Girl pulls out a notepad and writes “yeah sure” and smiles)

 Tobias: (voice over while he writes on the next page) Cool... At 5?

(Girl shakes head and holds up her page which says “busy”)

Tobias: (voice over while he writes on the next page) How about 7?

(Girl smiles and shows him the page which says “okay”)

(Tobias gets on his bus)

--Thursday—

(Tobias gets off his bus and walks)

(He comes to a coin lying on the ground)

(Cartoon devil appears by his shoulder)

Devil: (New York accent) this could be yo lucky day man! That coin’s lucky!

(Cartoon angel appears by the other shoulder)

Angel: (posh English accent) No! You mustn’t take what is not yours! And that coin definitely isn’t yours.

Devil: (to angel) and who invited you here? (To Tobias) That coin is lucky, and you my friend definitely need some luck

Angel: No! That coin isn’t yours! Don’t pick it up!

Devil: (mimicking angel and his accent) that coin isn’t yours. Don’t pick it up! (New York accent) Get outta here! (To Tobias) See a penny, pick it up all week long you'll have good luck!

(Tobias picks up the coin)

(The coin starts to glow in his pocket)

--Friday—

(In Tobias’ room, alarm clock sounding again)

Tobias: oh hell no!

(Scenes from Monday happen in Time-lapse)

(At the bus-stop, Tobias looks for the girl)

Tobias: (voice over) what the... she’s not here?

(Tobias sits around waiting for his bus, which takes ages to arrive)

 (Tobias walks home holding flowers and chocolates)

Tobias: (voice over) Time to get ready and look delish.

(Tobias is in the shower, and then he stands in front the mirror experimenting with hairstyles, oblivious to the fact that time is wasting; meanwhile the girl is already at the place where they were supposed to meet)

 (Tobias walks out of the bathroom and sees the time)

Tobias: Aaah I’m late... again!

(Tobias hurriedly changes into his clothes, and falls down while putting on his trousers)

Tobias: I’m late! I’m late! I’m late! I’m late!

(Tobias runs out of the house and then back in as he forgot his phone and the flowers, and the girl is no getting tired of waiting)

(Tobias anxiously waits at the bus stop)

Tobias: (voice over) Today is not my day. And where is this stupid bus?!

(The bus doesn’t come, and Tobias starts running)

(Another boy sees the girl and sits down and starts talking to her)

(Tobias arrives at their meeting place in time to see the boy and the girl walking away holding hands)

Tobias: (voice over) as I was saying, sometimes I hate my life

(Tobias is heartbroken and sits down, with flowers that have no petals on them)

Tobias: (voice over) ...and sometimes I love it.

(Tobias stares at the flowers, and then the chocolates he was meant to give the girl. He smiles and then unwraps the wrapper)

Finalised Planning

The above images are the release forms of our actors, we have ensemble as a group and have decided the commencement of when and where we shall be filming which shall hopefully be this Wednesday.

Pre production schedule deadline!

Today Jamsheed, Ela and Myself are submitting all work for the pre production schedule; however are encountering some problems with the internet. We met with actors and confirmed our schedule and filming times!

Group Meeting

Today, we discussed our targets for next week:

• Finish all pre-production
• Ensure we have the main actors needed
• Finalise Location

In Today's Lesson Ela, Jamsheed And Myself went over all our tasks for pre-production and helped each other on our work.

Fimling Pre-Production Schedule For Our Group

Wk. 1 October	Monday 22nd	Tuesday 23rd	Wednesday 24th	Thursday 25th	Friday 26th	Saturday 27th	Sunday 28th
	Shooting film EJY Go over storyline and character roles with actors.	Ela+Jamsheed	Shooting film EJY	Day Off	Shooting film EJY	Shooting film	Day Off
Wk. 2 Oct/Nov	Monday 29th	Tuesday 30th	Wednesday 31st	Thursday 1st	Friday 2nd	Saturday 3rd	Sunday 4th
	Shooting film EJY	Shooting film Ela+Yusra	Shooting film EJY	Shooting film EJY	Shooting film EJY	Shooting film EJY	Shooting film EJY
Wk. 3 November	Monday 5th	Tuesday 6th	Wednesday 7th	Thursday 8th	Friday 9th	Saturday 10th	Sunday 11th
	Shooting film EJY	Shooting film EJY	Shooting film EJY	Shooting film EJY	Shooting film EJY	Shooting film EJY	Shooting film Day Off
Wk. 4 November	Monday 12th	Tuesday 13th	Wednesday 14th	Thursday 15th	Friday 16th	Saturday 17th	Sunday 18th
Final Week Of Filming	Shooting film EJY	Shooting film EJY	Shooting film EJY	Shooting film EJY	Shooting film EJY	Shooting film EJY	Final Shooting of film EJY Go Over All Filming Begin Editing.

FINAL Draft Of Case Studies

Research and Planning-Case Studies

My first narrative is similar to James Lee: ‘short and sweet- A cute animation’ (February 3^rd 2012) as his story is about adorable, little creatures trying to find love. The extract follows a linear narrative structure of the pink creature longing to be loved and find the right person, which is shot using animation to display a comic affect for the audience. The theme expresses the concept of love being hard to find and how people are so determined to acquire it. The characters are represented via their colour which is stereotypical as the female is pink and the male is blue; however the person the pink creature admires the most is a taller peachy-pink male, who appears quite laid back: wearing glasses and smoking whilst tossing a coin. Initially, the audience are aware of what characters represent what gender; yet I believe the moral of the story is to fall for your own kind; hence the cooler male being a peachy-pink colour it connotes how your own kind is better rather than falling for someone who is completely opposite for you. The cutting rate is quite slow throughout the movie to depict the drama going on within the long shots; although it also uses close ups to show the pink creature’s facial expression so we gain an better understanding of what is occurring. There are numerous sounds being used for example: the establishing shot begins with a non-diegetic upbeat tempo accompanied by the pink creature happily walking; whereas further on in the scene we hear diegetic sounds of the creature speaking and rain falling to portray a reality crisis and gloominess falling down upon them, yet in the animated world. The film is targeted at a unisex range of people aged 10-27 years of age who enjoy comedy through the great wonders of animation or people in general who want entertainment to relax.

This short film gave me a concept of a teenage girl and boy meeting every Wednesdays at opposite sides of a tube station, they will only communicate through various types of body language, smiles and writing on notepads (animation will be included here) as they both are returning from college. It will consist of a simple narrative structure of them both wanting to go out; yet the girl being stood up by the boy.  In addition, the following  Wednesday the boy see’s the girl yet with another guy, whom he previously encountered problems with, on the day he was supposed to go on his first date with the girl on the other side of the platform. The technique which inspired me from the extract is the use of exerting animation which keeps the audience entertained and the form of how they openly display emotions of the creature smiling- when she saw the tall handsome male and crying, sad or upset- when she was rejected due to her height - these are all stereotypical features of teenage girl; hence are audience is predominantly female as they can relate to the feelings of rejection being expressed. Whereas in reality films, the character always expresses emotion through body language only. However animation breaks that condition of making the emotion come to life as all its surrounding for example: the weather, location and atmosphere are reflecting reality which emphasises being in love can happen anywhere at any time, this also emphasises with the audience of females as they can relate to this with real life scenarios of being in love or facing rejection.

My second short film is a romantic comedy following a simple, linear narrative structure: ‘Ben and Jackie’ by: JMGmedia (February 28^th 2011). It is about a taxi driver (Ben) who falls in love with a passenger (Jackie) that he takes shopping every Monday. The film is shot in live action, through a master shot of the exterior of the front car window, which give us an insight of what is occurring. The establishing shot features captions to introduce the predominant characters, which also provides us with selective focus on depths of fields, which supplies us on feeling included and gains us a clear focal view of action taking place. This is aided by the diegetic sounds of the radio being played, people talking, and a voice over of Ben which reinforces the realism of his stereotypical life of being represented as an archetypal taxi driver who is alone and has a low-paid job; whereas, Jackie is connoted as being a beautiful young girl who is a regular customer. The narrative applies Todorov’s theory (1960), of a state of equilibrium which held a peaceful and calm beginning  of him taking his passengers to their destinations; Yet, ends with a recognition that a change has occurred which is Jackie introducing her boyfriend to him.  The general narrative problem is of Ben living an average life of a single male who has no hope in the future; until he meets the women of his dreams but they cannot be together as of the people in her life, which Ben falls onto the belief of him always being unlucky and hopeless. The main target audience for this film is anyone who can relate to narrative or has difficulties expressing themselves to their loved ones which is predominantly the unisex gender of both failing to attempt to tell the opposite sex their feelings for another. However, the element of comedy displays Ben always having the worst customers for example: the Muslim male who calls Ben a racist, the group of boys fighting in his cab and the drunk who vomits- these are all portrayed to highlight the funny and hilarious scenes which keeps the audience engaged and entertained throughout the movie as well as the romantic genre flowing through, giving the overall view of the short film being simplistically sweet yet sad.

This has helped me to illustrate a narrative structure that will be about a man on a quest to find love and experience it which is in similitude to ‘Ben and Jackie’ but it will be more modern, containing comedy. The egoistic male will approach any woman and try his luck in a weird, ridiculous manner; but the man will be rejected by all women until he learns that he needs to let love find him. This affects the audience as it can implicate love cannot be searched but it can be found. The techniques I will be demonstrating is: using voice over of the male character to portray what he is feeling and thinking, long shots on when the male and female character so the audience can identify their characteristics for example: their clothing, accessories and what they do for a living and master shots to get a clear and precise view of what is occurring throughout the short film which will also

 

My final example: ‘Just My Luck’ directed by Donald Petrie in 2006. In Manhattan, Ashley Albright (Lindsay Lohan) is a lucky woman and very successful in the agency where she works. The clumsy Jake Hardin (Chris Pine) is an unlucky aspirant manager of the rock band McFly, who is unsuccessfully trying to contact the entrepreneur Damon Phillips to promote his band. When Ashley meets Jake in a masquerade party, they kiss each other, swapping her fortune with his bad luck. The scene which has enthused me the most is when Jake is firstly introduced in a medium shot scene he is represented as a messy nerd,  in a car key green outfit portraying him as scruffy and dishevelled. The scene of him exiting his house, whilst the non-diegetic sounds of a ‘splat!’ of bird poo falls onto his shoulder and him hopelessly responding “thanks” shows it is a normal routine that he wakes up to in the morning. Also, him walking across the streets and nearly getting run over by a man on a bike and car shows how he is not careful and also seems to be tied misfortune. This has given me the idea of inserting a comedic effect in my short film of the male character always stumbling on bad luck, for example: being late, forgetting his wallet, keys and phone, missing the bus, and getting splashed by a puddle- which will entice the audience and keep them amused. Throughout the film of ‘Just My Luck’ there is a slow cutting rate of how the event of good or back luck appears for both characters as it appears spontaneous and natural- I will be applying this method in my film to show how unordinary and unexpected events can occur.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e53isqoUvGI -Link to Short and Sweet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BK4itJCfX8 - Link to Ben and Jackie

Could Not Find Specific Scene For 'Just My Luck' On Youtube.

 

 

 

Discussions in class

Today Ela, Jamsheed and Myself discussed the issues concerning our narrative and re-arranged the entire movie to rom-com, we went through this idea and had gotten feedback from our teacher and reached a decision to have a goofy Rom-com short film. I have just finish writing the final treatment.

Final redrafted Treatment

It begins with a boy waking up late for college, (caption Monday is denoted here) he quickly brushes his teeth, puts on his clothes and walks out the door. Arriving at the bus stop in a hurry, he becomes mesmerized by the girl on the opposite bus stop and gazes into space, without realising he has missed his bus. On the opposite side, the girl smiles politely and gets on a bus going to college. The boy repeats this pattern for the next following four days. Until Friday when he randomly wakes up early and arrives at the bus stop just in time to see the girl on the opposite side, standing across her he persistently tries to gain her attention. He writes he writes on his A4 notepad- “Dinner tomorrow @ 5?”(Animation is shown here) – She being very vulnerable replies back denoting “Sure, meet me @ (location not confirmed yet)”, she then departs for her bus (both smiling back at each other). The boy feeling overly confident and invincible sees  a penny on the ground, he stares at it curious and says (voice over): “see a penny pick it up, all day long you’ll have good luck.” The boy feeling very fortunate picks it up knowing this will gain him more luck, yet what he is not aware of, is that him picking up his coin reversed his good fortune. So the next day the boy wakes up late for his date, this follows a series of unfortunate events of him: forgetting his keys, wallet and phone, having car splash water all over him due to the rain and him missing his bus.  Meanwhile, the girl impatiently waited for twenty minutes, yet decided to leave as of his poor punctuality. When he arrives near his destination, he sees a florist and buys a bunch of roses to apologise, he then realises he is running out of time and begins to running; whilst that his petals start to flow away, it is not until he arrives at the location he realises. Covered in water, being late and losing the petals off of his roses the boy searches for the girl; however she is nowhere to be found (he goes home sad with a raining cloud on top of his head). The next following Monday, the boy sees the girl, but she is with another guy holding hands walking off into the distant.