Nine key frames note

Nine key frames note

Planning title: location report

Go to the location and take photos

1. Report on health and dafter - trip hazard and dogs etc

2. Why is it suitable - for your film

3. Google map directions

4. Public usage - how many people

5. Electrical points

6. How big is it - can you fit a film crew there 

Create a new blog - film coursework

Artefact - script extract and none key frames 

Must have props, costume, choice of actors

Animatic - 9 key frames with music and script 

In an hour I will have feedback from my script and decided on my nine key frames, maybe decided on actors

Film quiz - blockbusters

Film quiz things

• How many questions and what topics?

Questions are divided up into A and B, with 10 questions but only seven need to be answered. Topics include: contemporary "English-language film", “cinema in context" and "the rise of a blockbuster, format wars and multiplexes"

• What relevance are knowing about blockbusters?

• What case studies are you writing about?

• What is production?

There are four main stages of production: development, pre-production, production and post-production. 

- Development: finding finance, script development, getting actors, director, other key crew

- Pre-production: finalising script, scheduling, budgeting, casting, crew contracts, story boarding, location scouting, equipment hire

- Production: camera crew and equipment, sound crew and equipment, lighting crew and equipment, production design (art direction and dressers), actors, costumes/props, makeup/hair, special fx

- Post-production: editing, re-shoots, sound mixing, foley, music

• What is distributing and marketing?

- Distribution: launching a film, distributor acquires the rights to film, could invest in film at the beginning, part of a larger company and automatically produce films (conglomerate)

• What is exhibition/exchange?

• What do we mean by context?

• Name the two most influential directors of films in the 70s and 80s.

Locations for key frames

Mental ward - bedroom or living room

Park - Dartford park

Restaurant - The Harvester/Nando's

Living room - living room

Building Castles in the Sky

Half Term Homework

Task 1
What is so significant about Jaws?

• Jaws was so significant because it was released nationwide rather than in cinemas at different times, and it was the highest earning movie in history, before Star Wars, at $260,000,000, and it was also the first film to ever exceed $100,000,000. Unfortunately, it also changed the way people looked at sharks, and so a lot of people are now scared of them, and so whenever there is a shark attack, people hunt and kill them. 

Outline the characteristics of a blockbuster.

• A blockbuster must have a simple storyline that will appeal to everyone, there must be simple characters with simple motivations. It must be marketed on their looks, rather than the dialogue and substance, and it must be marketed as a brand, franchising toys and clothes.

A Blockbuster in the cinema

• Tinkerbell and the Pirate Fairy

Advertising - to advertise Tinkerbell and the Pirate Fairy, merchandise has been displayed in the front of Disney stores and animated banners have been placed in shopping centres. 

• Merchandise such as toys, clothes and home accessories are available at the Disney store, and books are available in shops such as Waterstones and WHSmiths. 

Script - first draft

Grade boundaries

Translation of grade boundaries

• Apply our knowledge of films; narrative, representation etc into our scripts // use is film words and how scripts are made

• Ensure it is related to the textual analysis & macro

•  Show knowledge creatively through script and key frames 

• It has to look like a real Hollywood script and the dialogue has to move the story alone

•  Themes and messages are app aren't

• Make sure things are in before the deadline 

He has a good idea, but it isn't arrows out well - it doesn't look professional. 

Film language = micro

~Key frames~ 

Lighting, shots, MES, performance

~Script~

Dialogue, lighting, performance

Correct translation of Mark scheme

• (Script and key frames) controversial ideas - go against conventions - put some effort into locations and actors [must change locations in script] - start with an establishing shot

• (Script and key frames) - links macro and micro - how work links to the films we looked at ~ VISUAL

• (Script and key frames) use imagination of what you know to create something unique

• (Key Frames) productions skills - how good the key frames are

• (Script and key frames) excellent ability to get cross your conclusion in a creative way

Music - sets the scene makes it more romantic

Dude in the uniform sounded sarcastic - character motivation

Weather - pathetic fallacyw

End of the film because they part - go their separate ways

First ever script ideas

Writing a script

Barbara Streisand's "Memories" is playing in the background

The dude is in a psychologist's office, the psychologist asks him if he is sure the relationship was real, and then he has flashbacks

1) at a restaurant, the waitress asks only him what he wants

2) in a library, he is with the dude laughing and they're getting funny looks

3) a park, cuddling on a bench and getting weird looks

4) outside a cinema, they're walking hand in hand

Dude comes out of the flashback

Psychologist is a woman - more masculine than the dude who sees he

But where he realises he wasn't real- she's the one bringing him to reality, rather then being empathetic. 

Get your head together - more blunt with him - get ire himself. 

*******

Talk to him - what is his name - keep the conversation rolling - he's not real

What do you mean

It doesn't add up. I'm sure you've made him up

Getting defensive and confused

I know he's real - talk about features - the person he's describing looks like the dude on a magi one

Psychologist holds it up - like this 

He gets confused and angry. 

Beginning - describing relationship

Middle - arguing

Ending - him accepting it or rejecting it.

I love him - I know he's real // he breaks down and she cares for him and helps him get back in track.