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My film poster

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Prop and Character List

Props:
Mobile Phone
Diary
Wine/glasses
Car

Characters:
Isabelle - main character, acts as the 'victim'.
Simon - best friend - 'hero'
Ben - 'false hero'
Doctor

As it is only a short film, my list of characters is kept minimal to reduce too many things happening at once for the audience. It only lasts 5 minutes and therefore if too many characters were represented, the storyline would not make sense.

Plan for my Poster

Here I have created a plan to identify how I want my poster to look. I have researched mainstream influences to help me to plan my poster (examples below), and took into account to conventions of a typical chick flick genre poster.

Radio Trailer Plan

I have researched short film radio trailers and they have gave me a background idea about what to include in my trailer. For example, earlier in my blog I have posted the trailer for 'I'm Here' by Spike Jonze, this included clips from the short film, and also a voice over explaining the genre and title of the film.

Therefore, as this film is closely linked to mine, I plan on following this technique when creating my radio trailer. I will use Final Cut Pro and GarageBand when creating my radio trailer so I can cut clips from my original short film and create voiceovers to place into it.

I will use the music from my ending credits as the background music for my trailer as I think this reflects the genre of the film and gives a clear indication to the audience about the genre of the film.

Mise En Scene

Mise En Scene on Prezi

Mainstream Influences for Ancillary Task

As the genre of my film is chick flick and romance, in my research and planning I looked for mainstream film posters that I could relate to what I wanted to create. Here are some examples which helped my design my own poster.

As the genre of these films are all romantic dramas/comedies it relates with the genre of my film and I could use the ideas from these to create my poster. To set the 'romantic' element to the poster from the film the use of the colours red and pink are used a lot which indicates the genre to the audiences. Therefore in my poster I am to use these colours as the main theme to aid the audience in what the film is about. The main characters are diplayed in all these film posters which also suggests who the important characters are and allows the audience to guess the narrative of the film. As my film is only a short film, I will try to include every character on my poster so the audience have a very clear idea of the genre and maybe a guess of the narrative.

Forms and Conventions of Short Films

Short films typically involve a small number of people and only follow a small narrative. Often they don't have a genre as they are not long enough to have a genre that typically fits to it. However, blockbuster and mainstream films follow conventions of genre and narrative which appeal to a vast range of target audiences. An example of a short film I have studied is 'Across the Hall' and this is the theatrical trailer.
When composing trailers for short films, it is very hard as the film is very short and therefore it is hard not to reveal too much to the target audience. This short film is also a very good example of what can happen for short films; it has been re-constructed to become a mainstream blockbuster film due to the popularity and success at film festivals. This means that more from the film is revealed and narrative can be fully introduced. Most often in short films they introduce hybrid genres as keeping to one genre can be difficult. Because so many things happen in a short space of time, a little may be action and some may be romance and therefore the genre has to be a hybrid to make sure the different genres included in the short can be shared with the audience. Short films follow blockbuster and mainstream films in the way of promoting themselves through film festivals. This year, the London Short Film Festival took place in January, they promoted and awarded short films for example 'Here Come the Girls' and 'London Lives'. From my example above, Across the Hall went from being a short film to becoming

Basic Script for my Short Film (not exact)

Scene 1- Isabelle knocks at Simon’s door, Simon answers. Scene 2- In hospital,Isabelle in bed Doctor speaks to Isabelle ‘Isabelle , how are you feeling?’ Isabelle –‘whats happened?’ Doctor- ‘everything is OK now Isabelle, you where in a accident, a car crash . Can you remember that Isabelle? Can you remember anything from that night?’ Isabelle-‘ Not really but I can remember being at his house’ . Doctor –‘you should rest Isabelle, you have had a terrible past week. Although you have had a lot of company, visitors have Ben in and out. One young man named Simon has been here everyday since the accident. Some of your belongings are in the draw’. Isabelle- open draw and reaches for diary. Looks at the last diary entry from before she went to Ben's. Diary entry narrated. Puts diary away and looks at phone sees missed calls and texts from the night Scene 3 FLASHBACK- to the night of the accident Ben- ‘have another glass of wine Izzy come on let your hair down for once’ Isabelle- ‘no honest Ben I've had enough’ Both watching film Ben puts his arm round Isabelle, Isabelle looks at clock . Isabelle- ‘its getting late I think I should call for a taxi’ Isabelle looks at phone and ignores Simon's calls Split screen of Simon and Isabelle. Ben- ‘Are you kidding Isabelle its not even late! and anyway I’m driving you home’ Isabelle- ‘you have had too much to drink Ben, I’m ringing a taxi’ Ben- ‘Izzy its fine come on, ill take you now’. Scene 4- in car Isabelle- ‘slow down Ben your going to fast. I don’t like it Ben , stop showing off’. Ben- shut up! Turns up music loud in car. Both look at road- crash, black out sirens and beeping of life support machine Scene 5- flashback over back in hospital looks through phone again, listens to voice mail of Simon Looks back through diary of days she spent with Simon- narrated Isabelle realises feelings, crying Doctor walk in curious about the crying- are you OK Isabelle an I get you anything. Isabelle- no I think I remember everything now Doctor- well that a good thing, I think your parents are here to pick you up I think your ready to go home now.

Time and Technology

In our film we had to show aspects of time and technology. Here are the ways we used these techniques and hoe we could have used them.

Genre For Our Short Film

Here are the variety of genres we had to chose from for our short film and names we came up with to call our short film.

Narrative Structure and Narrative

This is the narrative to our short film, and the picture below represents the stages that it will flow in. As you read our narrative you can relate to the narrative structure and see where each stage fits into.

Chris Anderson Longtail Theory

"The theory of the Long Tail can be boiled down to this: Our culture and economy are increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of hits (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve, and moving toward a huge number of niches in the tail."

What drives this Long Tail and the niches that populate it? Anderson identifies three 'forces'.

1. More stuff is being produced. Technology and the internet make it cheaper and easier to record and distribute your own songs, publish your own writings and so on. This lengthens the tail.


2. There is better access to niches, again thanks to the reach and economies on the net. This fattens the tail.


3. Search and recommendations connect supply and demand. This drives business from hits to niches.

Pitch For Short Film

Synopsis

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