Editing snaps
Few snap shots of how i got to my final product.
IDEA CHANGE
IDEA CHANGE
Already booking my camera i had my actors work around the schedule of the camera than working around the schedule of my actors because of everything had to be set and ready to be filmed.
The day of filming all my actors cancelled last minute leaving me with no way of filming anything at all as all the equipment was in their possession. I was able to find actors at short notice but the problem was the didn't fit entirely to my story- but with slight changes i was able to adjust and make it work.
Although majority of my production has changed i tried to keep it as close to the story line as possible so now its a orphan little boy grown up in an estate and has been rolling in a gang for al his young life. he looks up to the members as brothers and sisters and would do anything to fit in. so its still along the same lines as the original idea but slightly altered.
Originally i was meant to be doing the 2 minute opening to my script but with the footage and my scene selections it was hard to edit all the footage into 2 minutes and it was even harder to cut bits out without it not making sense.
Remaining with the original footage i decided to create a trailer, it was a struggle to come up with something a little different but it worked really well in the end.
Location -Grove park (LONDON)
Music-
With my previous idea i was going to use original music i produced myself because it was an adaptation towards the story line and the 2 minute opening. but after recently listening to a song by Kendrick Lamar-dying of thirst from a friend i realised the lyrics fit the mood in which the trailer was presented.
Cast
Jamal and Troy
Alexia and Had
SHOT LIST
SHOT LIST
Writing a shot list before hand helped as it allowed me to focus on what scenes i needed to focus on more that fits to the run of my story.
- Establishing shot- Wide shot- Bedroom
- Pan- Starting from the opposite end of the room from the door and ending at the bedroom door.
- Wide Shot- Main character enters bedroom
- Wide shot- drops down in chair
- Over the shoulder- Main Character holding note pad with lyrics on paper
- Blurred shot- phone on side table- main character in focus phone out of focus
- Blurred shot- phone on side table ringing- phone in focus main character out of focus
- Close up- of missed calls and message
- Wide shot jumps up to leave
- Long shot- walks through front door
- Tracking shot- walking through estate
- Long shot- walking to gang
- Close up - two characters exchanging task
- Multiple shots- The main character nervously walking around before walking up to estate
- Close up- Rings doorbell.
Script writing 1st draft
SCRIPT WRITING 1st DRAFT;
My first draft for 'THE MEETING'- completed and stapled in the top left had corner. My script was evaluated and i was given feedback on my progress. I nailed the story idea itself but the script layout was off and not enough detail for a 10 minute script.
STORY BOARD
Storyboard shows the setting and order i want the first part of my 2 minute opening to be presented in. I didn't only just do it how i envisioned it but according to me shot list to.
- Studio set up
- phone vibrating
- leaving bedroom
- leaving through door/ walking though estate
- meeting the gang on wall
- being handed the task.
Created trailer for 'soft'
Creating a trailer for "Soft"
Own perception of how the trailer for 'Soft' might be..
By C. Anderson and S. Laniyan.
We researched short films and other "soft" trailers to get inspiration for out own our biggest inspiration was;
The Strange Thing About The Johnsons.
'The Strange thing about the Johnsons' is a short film that about a young bout that grows up continuing to have sexual feelings for his father- I looked at this film to analyse the different sort of relationship and issues a family could have.
This film helped us to understand how to focus our trailer on a particular theme, i.e. The relationship between the two main characters rather than putting everything in and making it hard for the audience to follow.
Script Test- "THE JOURNEY"
Writing a script- Experiment
We were set a task to write a script with a partner based on our journey to the studio.
My partner (Shannelle Laniyan) and i chose to combine both our journey's together to create and interesting story line. We then handed it to our Tutor who evaluated our script and gave us feedback on what went wrong and how to improve it as a starting point to our own scripts.
Developing chosen idea even more...
- Genre; DRAMA
- Location; STUDIO/ STREETS
- Characters; TWO MALES
A young aspiring youth that has a passion for musuc but is involved in a gang.
on the streets his mates push him to mug an up coming pedestrian- already feeling like an outsider, wanting to fit in he agrees. Once the pedestrian is mugged and runs away the group of youths search the stolen wallet. as he does so he notices buisness cards with the title "music production" . he tries to sneak the card into his pocket and later goes in search of the persons house.
After conversing with the man, the man then agrees to help him with his career. whilst up in the studio the youth gets continuous phone calls from the gang wondering where he is and if he doesn't appear soon, he's out of the gang, forever.
Suck between staying to record or go back to his past life the youth gets a glimmer of the producers true side with terrible attitude towards all his employees including himself.
resulting in him making a bold choice.
Transferring my story into a 25 word pitch.
"THE MEETING"
A gangsters loyalty gets tested when he's faced with the option of his career or his crew.
Brainstorm: THE MEETING; my ideas
Brainstorm; The meeting ideas
Expanding chosen idea.
From personal and other peoples experiences i've Chosen to expand on " A teenager has a passion for music but gets mixed with the wrong crowd" .
My Idea:
A typical youth aged between 17-19 has the talent of rapping and producing music. Hes invovled in a gang that loves setting challenges to test their members loyalty. After given the task of assulting a pedestrian who happens to be a music producer hes given the chance to redeem himself by working for him. However the more he works at the studio the more his loyalty is tested leave to pick a side....but which one??
Goal: To be apart of the music industry.
Problem: hes forced to make a decision between his passion or his crew
Change: he does't choose either
Change: he does't choose either
Introducing "Soft" and 25 word pitch
Simon Ellis- Award winning film 'Soft"
A man sets out to buy a pint of milk from the corner shop but gets involved in a tiff will a gang. walking home the man is followed close behind. reaching home his son confesses he was involved in a fight which happens to be the same gang the man was involved in a tiff with earlier.
outside the front door/ window the create noise and disturbance to the family not wanting to retaliate the dad denies to fight back then eventually he goes outside. But does he get his revenge?
Watching Simon Ellis award winning film "SOFT", was a great starting point because it shows how one general idea could possibly have more than one idea based around it for example although the film was about a boy looking up to his father as a role model others may think it was about the relationship between a father and son or even how bullying has evolved from just children to adults as well.
The short film shows a clear understanding for,
- Goal
- Problem
- Change.
Breaking a story down into a 25 word pitch:
Taking your idea and shortening it down to 25 gripping words thats used to pitch or story idea to anyone interested making them wanting to finding out more- like a blurb on a book or the brief reading at the back of a DVD cover.
25 word pitch should include:
- setting of the scene
- Tells the audience the man characters
- shows the problems
Taking soft as an example;
"A realistic drama of a timid father and son relationship that gets challenged will a class rivalry dispute."
I used a story i found on the news to create my own 25 word interpretation as a starting point for my own story...
Baby killed by baggage carousel in spain.
My pitch;
" A tragic tale of how a mothers mistake in an Airport could lead to her own baby's misfortune."
Group work "The Meeting"
Working in groups we were set a task to produce a short short story with the two characters and location we picked from a hat.
From the many choice out group had
- A bank robber
- and a serial dater
our location was
- An empty church hall
we brainstormed different options in which the story could have taken us keeping in mind the
Goal, Problem and Change structure,
In order to get a rough idea on how to create a good story, as a class we watched "witness" and "crash". They style of theses movies are written in completely different ways but the structure in which the incidents were presented never change. they all started with a goal, there became a problem and in the end the characters changed, some physically others mentally.
WITNESS (1985)
CRASH (2004)
Story- Telling Unit; "THE MEETING"
A story is a trail of events that contains a beginning, middle and end and is usually fiction or nonn-fiction.
STORY INGREDIENTS:
Goal- This will be the main goal of the protagonist
- Something they haven't got
- Something they need to solve
- Or something they need to find.
- A goal thats usually no longer wanted- they've spent the whole movie trying to reach their goal but once they've got it its something they no longer want.
Problem- A problem for your protagonist to overcome. The problem is the key to create drama- the more problems the more drama (as long as its not over- powering).
Change- At the end of every story there should be a change of affairs in your main character. The unexpected outcome . Change is the important element to a great story. The protagonist MUST change.
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