FInal Film trailer

Today i completed my script for the trailer.

In the trailer i wanted to introduce to the audience briefly what characters are involved in the film, and create an initial impression for them. However, i dont want to reveal too much of the plot, and only give brief glimsps, finally, i want to end the trailer at a climax where the audience is left to find out what is going to happen.

My trailer starts by building up the cahracters background, here i suggest that she is a nice girl and also very likable, however i end with the narrator saying " but she wanted more", to set a more serious tone to the film.

AFter that, the trailer gives hints that the character is changing, and in order to create a suspense, i chose to end the trailer with a cliff hanger. Where the phone is unanswered, instead a voice machine is heard. to add the tense mood of the shot, i have chosen to black out the shot right before the line, tehrefore alienating the audience, and creating a sense of mysteriousness. Also, the ending will be ambigious we dont know what the last line " sorry the number you have dialled is temporarily unavailable" applies. Whether to his friends or to the modelling agent.

Final Film Script 20th September

After meeting up with the Cinematography, we nearly completed the film script, except for a few scenes which we need to discuss with the editor.

We had some difficulties with completing the script, even though the plot of the storyline had been figured out, there were many important details that needed to be filled in. After considering the difficulties of constructing some shots.

I.e In the first scene, creating a dreamlike sequences of the character on a catwalk. We realised that this would be very difficult as it would be difficult to find a suitable location, and also the dark atmosphere would be hard to film using the current cameras. Furthermore, the scene would need to be heavily edited to create the dreamlike sequence. instead we altered the storyline, after some discussion, as the director, i decided that we would try and emulate a different feel in the scene, and that we will be trying to reveal a nicer, and kinder side of the character instead of suggesting that she is spoilt and hungry for success.

Final Film Locations

After completing the draft of the script. I created a shortlist of the locations we needed. I listed out the locations within the film, and selected possible places to shoot for the locations. I will be presenting the short list to team members, and we will be coming up with a final list of locations.

Final Film 3 Acts

We will begin our scriptwriting by planning out the three acts of the story.

Act I

Equilibrium: A fashionable, stylish girl is introduced with boosting confidence and many friends.

Inciting Incident: She meets a modelling agent, and is flattered, and told she has potentional

Reversal:

Act II

MidPoint:

Reversal: It is revealed that the modelling agent, and a scam, and she realises that she was being fooled all along

Act III

Climax: She has no where to go, and has lost all her money, she realises that she must tell her firends of the incident, and ask for forgivness

New equilibrium/ Resolution: Her friends forgive her, although they remain slightly unhappy. However, the girl has learned her lesson.

Final Film Idea

We finally settled on the Fox and the Crow fable.

We will be modernizing it by changing the characters:

Crow- will be changed into a fashionable girl, who dresses in very up to date, preppy, flashy clothes. She is very pretty, and attractive, with lots of self confidence

Fox- A sly scammer from a modelling agency.

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/FoxCrow.shtml

and example piece of dialogue :

" how gloss your boots, how sharp your sunglasses, i feel your purse must surpass that of other woman, just as your dress does; let me see about it at one glance from you , that i mayg reet you as the queen of fashion"

In order to extend the storyline, we will be adding additional character(s) who try to warn her of the scam, however she ignores them.

Also we will try and set up the story by introducing the crow with many close ups and flashy edits, and try to replicate a catwalk tone. to highlight her fashion consious image.

Final Film

So far we have decided on our roles.

Director: Me
Camera man: Winston
Editor: Su li

other roles will be shared out...

Our original idea was to modernize a Lotr style adventure..however we realised that our idea would be very difficult to be created on screen as it would require many actors and many locations and also a longer film time.

We settled on a new theme about Fables. We are aiming to reference a fable by modernizing it, but keeping the backbone of the story the same, especially the moral of the story.

Today we finalized on a few fables or stories. They were:
- Goldilocks
-The fox and the crow
- the hare and the tortoise.

2nd april 2009

my finalize script;

Characters in scene: Ricky Bobby, Cal Naughton Jr., Lucius Washington
Cal: Hold on man, hold it... We gotta tell him.
Lucius: uh, not..now.
Cal; I don’t care what the doctors,said, we got to tell him now.
Lucius: Ricky, the doctor told us, that we should let you work it out on your own sweet time. But, Ricky you can walk.
Ricky: ‘watchu’ just say?
Cal: He’s telling you the truth man, its all on your head.
Ricky: No(low voice), You SICK sons of bitches! I mean, you walk in that door, on your two legs, all fat and cocky. And looking at me in my chair. And you tell me it’s all in my head? I hope that both of you have sons, handsome, beautiful, articulate sons who are talented and star athletes. And, and they have their legs taken away! I mean, I pray, you know that pain and that hurt!
Lucius: don’t you put that evil on me! Ricky Bobby! Don’t you put that on us! YOU ARE NOT PARALYSED!
Ricky: I AM SO PARALYSED!
Lucius: NO NO NO
Cal: Your rough on him now.
Lucius: No, he needs to know.
Cal: Okay...
Lucius: He’s always cry’in.
Cal: Tough love it is, tough love. WAKE UP IDIOT!
Ricky: You wanna know what I am!? You wanna see what my life is!?
KNIFE SOUND
Lucius: Don’t do it,
Ricky: AH!
Lucius: Don’t do it.
Ricky: you wanna see whats goin’ on here?
Cal: don’t you stick that knife in your leg.


Also today, we planned our filming schedual over the holidays.

26th march 2009

today we decided on the final actors for the clip.

Lucius: Rupert
Cal: Ward
Ricky Bobby: Anthony

I will be in charge with the camera.

19th March 2009

During this lesson, we confirmed our film clip which we will be using for our reverse engineering assessment. We chose a clip from Talladega Nights (2006). I was responsible for the script.