Original Story Board

Story Board - British Film Romantic Comedy

Preliminary Task

Centre Number - 17539
Candidate Number - 7131

In the preliminary task we have shown our understanding of the 180 degree rule, match on action and shot/reverse shot.

Production Log

This production log is to show my progress throughout my filming and to show if I kept to my time management scedule. If I dont I will list it in my production log.

Monday 21st March - Uploaded pictures for character profiles
Thursday 17th March - Uploaded finished preliminary task and story boards to blog
Wednesday 16th March - Edited Premilinary
Tuesday 15th March - Filmed preliminary
Thursday 10th March - Uploaded ideas for titling on final piece
Monday 7th February - Uploaded shooting script
Wednesday 26th January - Uploaded location recce  

Deadlines for 2011

March 18th - Deadline for preliminary task
March 28th - Rushes presentation to class
April 15th - First deadline for final piece
May 2nd - Final Deadline for evaluation

Titling

Font: Latha

Size: 28

After looking at other film titling from the same genre I noticed that large font is used. I think this is because many of these films are aimed at a young audience and so the titling needs to be big, simple and straight to the point. Teenagers for example, will not pay any attention to the titling if it is small and there is loads of writing, they will have no interest in reading it.

I wanted to use colours on the main title so that it draws in the viewer. The reason i have chosen the colours red and green is because I associate those colours with the words 'right' and 'wrong', however I have switched the colours so that the colour i associate right with;green, is actually the colour of the word 'wrong'. And the same for the colour red. This is because I think it ties in well with the storyline of the boy being confused about what is right and wrong in his eyes and in his peers opinion.

February Calendar - Time Management

Development of Planning & Shooting Script

Plot: The plot of our film is the conventional 'boy meets girl' storyline. However the usual girl falls for boy is not what we are planning. We will have an outcast girl who's prettyness is disguised by glasses and odd clothes. Her quiet nature allows her to blend into the background and to go unoticed. When she comes to a new school she is noticed by one person; the popular cool kid. When he falls for her he has to decide if he will go against what his friends and peers think or if he will conform to what is seen as acceptable in their teenage society. 

Characters: We have chosen to be unconventional in our choice of how characters will be ued. The plot of our film is that there will be 2 main characters one boy (Charlie) and one girl (Mia)
Charlie Davis - Popular, good looking, from a well off family, rebellious 'bad boy' at school. Played by Liam Henderson.
Beth Cooper - New girl in school, outcast, disguised prettyness, individual, no/few friends. Played by Cerys Robertson.

Costume: 
Charlie will be wearing dark jeans, white v-neck top with a leather jacket, cross body bag, vans.
The reason we have chosen this outfit for him is because this is a very typical fashion trend for young teenagers. We have stuck to black and white clothign and accessories in order to show that this character is not fussy, simple and easy going.

Mia will wear denim shorts, a baggy vest/t-shirt, knitted cardigan, cross body bag,  biker boots, grey socks. The reason we have chosen this outfit is because it is very mix and match, funky and unique which is how we want our main girl to come across. As she is the new girl at school we want her to stand out like any new person would at school. Also all teenagers know who at their school is considered as odd and this is who we want this girl to represent.

Set: The majority of our filming will be done in Nicholas Breakspear school. We will use corridors for most scenes and we will record classroom noise to use as diegetic background noise so that music will not have to be used all the time.

Prop List: cigarette's, badges, books/folders, football.

Music: As our chosen genre is 'British Film' we want to stick to predominantley British bands and artists we will use are:

Paloma Faith - Stargtazer

Paolo Nutini - Jenny Don't be Hasty (Instrumental)

Lighting: We will try to use natural lighting as much as we can in filming as it is conventional of our chosen genre. However, some lighting in corridors may need to be artificial so that we can see all the features and details of charachters, porps, costume etc. We will use lamps and tourches in order to get the correct lighting that we want