Wednesday, 30 November 2016

ancillary task 2 Magazine cover rough sketch



I have drawn 4 different main poses I think will best represent the character types of the characters I have planned to use in my ancillary task 2. Using my Bitch and Unstable characters, I want to try and make my unstable one seem down, unhappy, perhaps hungover or on a comedown and holding his head, something to show he is in some kind of pain. My bitch character I want to play off this, being distant and ignoring my unstable characters pain, so I have had her in poses such as crossing her arms, and turning away from him.

TV TRAILER - Opening scene shot list




Monday, 28 November 2016

Shooting diary day 3-4 - Kind

Date: 20th November, 27th November 
Location: Raynes Park Lucy's house, Fulham My house
What happened: On the 20th I went to Lucy's house in Raynes Park and filmed her scene with her mother, I later got her to come round to my house to finish filming her phone call scene. However the shots were too dark making them blurry and so I had to get her to come over again the following week. We retried it but the lighting in the room wasn't working so we tried another room and finally got the shot I needed.
Rushes: 
What went well: I got a very wide variety of different shots to choice from 
What still needs to be done: I need to get my bitches scene with he phone call so I can edit them together.

Monday, 14 November 2016

Shooting diary day 2 - Unstable


Date: 2nd November 
Location: Wimbledon Station 
What happened: This time I got the final shots I required for my unstable part. I filmed in Wimbledon outside which means that there was quite a lot of extra sound making some dialogue difficult to hear. But I can fix this by using a voice over.
Rushes:


What went well: I got the final shots I needed for my unstable scene in the trailer.
What still needs to be done: I need to have voice overs for the dialogue and maybe some foley sound added.



Ancillary task 2 Magazine cover



Location: Mr Murray's studio

Costume:
  • John: Dark clothing, dirty hoodie - Emphasises that he is a mess, and his life is bleak and dark
  • Bella: Sporty jacket, skirt, hair tied back - Emphasise her more confrontational confident attitude 

Characters:

  • John
  • Bella
Lighting:

  • Bright
Pose options:
On the day I plan to take a large number of pictures, however some of the options I have already considered for how they should pose are:

  • John looking dazed and not looking directly at the camera. Bella looking at him with a disappointed look. 
  • Bella looking directly at the camera with arms on her hips. John holding arm across body looking at the camera slouching
  • John looking at camera with hand on face and Bella crossed arms looking to the side
  • John standing normally, Bella has her arm on her shoulder looking stern
  • John and Bella standing next to each over looking in opposite directions 


Ancillary task 1 POSTER

Props:

  • Vodka bottle - unstable 

  • work folder - nerd

  • Cigarette - bitch

  • Pen - kind

Location:

  • Back of Lucy Walkers garden house
  • Street

Costume:

  • Nerd - shirt, blazer
  • Unstable - hoodie, tracksuits or dirty jeans
  • Lesbian - bright colours
  • Bitch - dark clothing, dark lipstick, possibly overdone makeup
  • Kind - neat clean clothes
  • Fool - flowery shirt 

Characters:

  • All characters: Nerd, bitch, fool, unstable, kind, lesbian 

Lighting:

  • Back lighting
  • Afternoon grey




Wednesday, 9 November 2016

Shooting diary day 1 - Unstable

Date: 30th October
Location: Fulham - Eel brook common
What happened: I had my character filmed saying saying to his parents he is taking the dog for a walk, walking the dog into eel brook, sitting on a bench calling a drug dealer and then drinking vodka.
Rushes:

What went well: The weather was what I wanted, cloudy and also the dog was not a hassle. I also managed to get more footage than I actually needed.
What still needs to be done: Shots of unstable and kind having lunch.

Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Tv trailer - narrative outline

1.    Opening: – start with group having fun – party/gathering. John slips away from the group to take drugs. As John gets up to go Katie looks over worried. Bella tells Katie to ignore John. Ted looks after at Lola(Only Ted and Bella are unaware Lola is gay). From body language can see that Ted likes Lola. Finn gets attention by doing something dramatic (burst ins room wearing dress) Whole group laughs except Lola who tells off Finn and walks off with him tells him to change – cut to John doing lines in bathroom where Finn is sent to change. John looks shocked and Finn slaps him on the back. Finn leaves and John laughs and goes back to finishing his line.

2.     Unstable – John: Dog walking/day drinking/dealer calling – Him and Katie having lunch, Katie asking if he thinks he’s alright and John shrugging it off. Katie talks about work and uni, John berates her for always thinking about work and to just have fun

3.     Kind - Katie: shot of mother hugging Katie dialogue like “Very proud, If your dad could see you now” Shows tiredness from staying up so late working. Katie while working gets phone call from Bella who says “coming to the party or what?” denies because too much work. Bella kindly accepts Katie 's denial then hangs up and bitches about Katie.

4.     Bitch –  Bella: Fool and Bella and Lesbian hanging out, Bella bitches about Kind. Lesbian says “at least we know Unstable will be there” and then Bella says. “Spending all night in the bathroom” rolls eyes. Says okay lets go get some men, Lesbian looks confused Fool says “Ladies I’m right here” Bella insults him.

5.     Fool – Finn: Teacher berates “Class clown, Lazy, Fool” Finn for his grades fool sad. Teacher says do something about this. Finn looks to Nerd for help, Ted gets more and more annoyed trying to help Finn. “Come on man I'm trying to help, call me when you’re ready to work”

6.     Nerd – Ted: Doing work at home, alarm goes off “pub time” cuts to him and unstable at pub. Having a laugh, Ted asks about Lola talking about any guys she likes,John laughs not realising what Ted is really asking, Ted fake laughs

7.     Lesbian – Lola: screen record of travelsites and Lola looking at it. Shopping with girls saying she'll miss them when gone. With group says “hope there are some fit girls” Ted and Bella look surprised while the others laugh. Bella startled “Wait what” Lola “what?”

8.     Montage examples:

·      John's parents find drugs confront him
·      Katie confronts Bella
·      Bella tells off John
·      Lola gets accepted
·      John and Finn shout at Ted “How could you not know”
·      Ted compliments Finns progress.
·      Sitting on tube

·      Being friendly and having a good time
    etc

tv trailer plan


  • song about 4 minutes = 240 seconds
  • 6 main characters
  • 20 seconds dedicated to individual characters showing activities and dialogue to represent their character and give some plot details = 120 seconds adding on titles 2 seconds each x 6 = 132 seconds long
  • Leaves 108 seconds for montage shots of all characters together or seperate These will be shown at the start of the trailer and then again at the very end after all the individual character montages 
  • In individual character parts I want them in at least 3 different clothing and it to be shots from 3 different days
  • In the montage at the beginning and the end I would rather it often featured 2 or more of the group in quick cuts of them doing group activities

Member possible individual stories:
  1. Unstable - John is on a path of self destructive behaviour and needs help as he is in denial and just out for what he considers a good time. He needs to accept and turn it around (Finn "I need some help" Kind"yeah you're not the only one ill tell you that"
  2. Fool - Fearing he needs to turn his work around but also just enjoys lazing around and having fun seeks aiding from Kind and Nerd
  3. Kind - worrying for Unstable and trying to help fool out with work also wanting to make it into her chosen UNI she challenges her friend Bitch for her harsher words about the group, lives with one parent
  4. Lesbian/gay - Leaving the country for a UNI over seas having a hard time knowing she will be leaving her friends
  5. Bitch - Colder towards Unstable feels he should be cut off before he drags members or the group down 
  6. Nerd - Studying hard and supporting Fool while also poking some fun at him he likes going out  with John has a crush on Gay/lesbian 
Individual character shots:
All need some close ups showing dramatic or emotional facial expressions
  1. Unstable - drinking, smoking, drug use, laughing, hanging out with Nerd. Dialogue asking for drugs, what the group are gonna do later suggesting plans
  2. Fool - saying some stupid things, trying to work but procrastinating, calling Kind for help, letting unstable distract him
  3. Kind - Walking, talking with mother, watching unstable with worry and doing homework with nerd and fool. dialogue discussing her worry about unstable needing to calm down,
  4. Lesbian/gay - shopping with bitch/kind, looking at uni's in america on a laptop, hanging with the group. Dialogue saying how much she's going to miss the group 
  5. Bitch - sitting bitching with kind, being aggressive/cruel, getting ready with lesbian and kind. Dialogue about letting unstable go, cruel comments about fool and sassy 
  6. Nerd - revising hard, helping fool, pub with unstable and kind, hanging out with lesbian
Montage group shots:
  • Getting ready
  • Shopping
  • Walking
  • Eating 
  • Drinking 
  • working
  • Fighting
  • Running
  • Hanging out