Auditions poster

We decided to hold auditions for our short film to create a more realistic and effective story for the audience. In order for this to happen, we decided to hold auditions so we distributed this poster out within the college.

Group pitch evaluation

We were told to present our short film pitch to the class so that we could gain some feedback. It also gave us the chance to ask for ideas or anything that we could add to our short film to make it more appealing. During this session, we were asked to clarify certain aspects of how the film worked, for example, we were asked if the stereotypes would offend any of the audience. We answered this by saying that that was part of the concept of the film, in the sense that we are showing the audience that you shouldn’t ‘judge a book by its cover’ as our characters will show who they really are towards the end. This will also teach a moral to the audience.  We were given good feedback and was told that the story line was good and had some purpose to it. As well as good feedback, we were given constructive criticism, for example, we were told to be careful with how we portray the stereotypes in order to not deeply offend anyone. It was also said that we need to develop how the three characters in our film relate to each other.  We took this feedback on board and after the class discussion, we took time to focus on how to entwine the three characters together and how they would cross paths. Overall, presenting our pitch to the class was beneficial as it helped us to work harder on the film production.

Group pitch

Final Treatment

3 Blind Eyes | Infographics

Treatment ideas in production

Stereotypes play a big part in our short film and happen to be one of the main themes. As the film teaches a moral at the end, we decided to use a famous quote to show at the end of the film that would reflect why stereotypes portrayed can be wrong and should not be used as judgement upon others.

We will be deciding which of these quotes we will use  

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
Harold Evans

Don't live up to your stereotypes.
Sherman Alexie

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.
Junot Diaz

Treatment draft and production

Treatment

We will be producing a short film which will be five minutes long.

Synopsis

Genre: comedy

Summary: This movie takes you on a journey of three different characters with three different stories. During their travels they cross paths...

                                                                                                                                                                                          

Character Profiles

Name: Anastasia ‘Anna’ Crawford

Age: 19

Characteristics: The character comes across as a dumb, clumsy and forgetful person 

Occupation: Anna plays a teaching assistant that works at a local primary school.

Appearance: Blonde and a full face of makeup.

Clothing: black Middy skirt and a pink top and flat shoes.

Name: Edward Rupert Charles

Age: 19

Characteristics: A posh, well mannered, sarcastic, serious young man.

Appearance: Glasses, black hair.

Clothing: Suit and carries a suitcase with him. 

Name: Joseph Obewele

Age: 19

Characteristics: Plays a loud, character who speaks his mind and is a mamma’s boy and a gentleman.

Clothing: Traditional African clothing/ patterned colourful shirt, beige trousers and black sandals.

Occupation: CEO of a charity 

 

We will be using a camera to film our short film and sound equipment.

 

The film will be shot in various locations such as the college classrooms, streets of London such as a chicken shop and houses.

 

We will be holding auditions for roles in the film.

 

Our film will be distributed on YouTube and Facebook. We will be announcing the release of the film on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook as well as colleges, local streets as that’s where the target audience will commonly be and outside cinemas. This will attract individuals that are interested in the film.

 

The film is aimed at an audience of teens and young adults ranging from the ages of 13-21 as they are more likely to relate to the situations that take place in the movie. The short film will not have any foul language which will make it appropriate for a younger target audience of young teenagers. 

 

The movie that inspired our short film is ‘Mean Girls’ with the similarity of a comedy genre film.

Case Study 1

Case Study 2

Case study 3

Film ideas

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Characters Ideas

We had a meeting of the type of characters that would be in our film in more depth. We brainstormed our ideas and elaborated on them.

Short film ideas - first set of ideas

Short film ideas

The short film will be a comedy that will be based on stereotypes and revolve around various characters that differ from eachother.

Brief character profiles:

These are ideas and brief personalities. We will not be using all of these characters

The ditsy 'blonde'
This character will be portayed as a clumbsy, ditsy individual,

The  'Freshy'
This person will be from some part of Africa and has come to the UK for the first time. He will have a jolly and enthusiastic personality.

The 'Poshy'
This individual will be portayed as a stuck up, reserved person who has no sense of humour.

The 'Angry one'
This character will lash out and get angry over irrelevant things.


Although these characters seem cliche, there will be a slight twist in the story to make it different.

Group meetings

To keep in touch, my group and I shared email addresses, phone numbers and decided to Skype each other so we could all be up to date and so that we could work on our coursework out of college hours.

After much research, I have decided that I want to do a short film for my coursework. I will be working in a group of three which will come to an advantage as we will all be able to entwine our ideas and concepts together to develop a good short film.

Production Schedule

 

	Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
	11th Sep, 2013	Creative ideas and scheduling	Start planning groups and do research on the type of short film that will be produced
	13th Sep, 2013	Creative ideas due	Final brief ideas and an outline of what the short film will be about
	14th Sep, 2013	Research and case studies	Start working on case studies that inspire our short film
	16th Sep, 2013	Research and case studies due
	17th Sep, 2013	Start working on short film treatment	Start writing deatailed overview of the short film with my group and do some more research on how to make a successful short film
	19th Sep, 2013	Carry on with short film treatment	Gather everyone's ideas for the treatment from the group, expand and improve of them
	22nd Sep, 2013	Final overview on short film	Overview on final ideas for the treatment with my group
	23rd Sep, 2013	Present treatement	Present the treatment to the class and teacher for critical feedback and opinions that could help improve the short film.
	26th Sep, 2013	Auditions for cast	Hold auditions for parts in the short film
	30th Sep, 2013	Final cast confirmed	Make a final decision as to who will take part in the film
	1st Oct, 2013	Pre production	Audience feedback - ensures target audience
	4th Oct, 2013	Audience feedback and evaluation due
	7th Oct, 2013	Start pre production
	10th Oct, 2013	Detailed storyboard
	14th Oct, 2013	Pre production: release forms, call sheets etc	Seek permisiion to use locations, produce call sheets, allocate production team roles (director, camera man etc), costumes and props
	18th Oct, 2013	Location hunting	Start looking for appropiate locations
	21st Oct, 2013	Have pre production approved	Have pre production approved by the teacher
	30th Oct, 2013	Final ideas	Get final bits and ideas together
	1st Nov, 2013	Shooting the video	Start shooting the video
	11th Nov, 2013	Video shoot complete
	13th Nov, 2013	Start editing film	Book editing time with the technician and start editing video
	6th Dec, 2013	Final film due
	9th Dec, 2013	Plan DVD cover and advert	Start case studies and mock ups of DVD cover and advert
	18th Dec, 2013	DVD cover and advert due
	6th Jan, 2014	Research and planning documents due	record and evaluate feedback and documents due
	10th Jan, 2014	DVD digipack ad	Produce photography call sheets
	13th Jan, 2014	DVD photography due
	24th Jan, 2014	Digipack due
	25th Jan, 2014	Post production focus group	Screen short film and recieve feedback
	27th Jan, 2014	Post production focus group work due
	30th Jan, 2014	start working on evaluation
	14th Feb, 2014	Evaluation due
	3rd Mar, 2014	Edited evaluation due

Introduction

On my blog, I will be recording the development of my A2 media project which will entail a short film. The blog will include the progress I am making, ideas that my group and I have come up with and have developed further and detailed work to show how my music video is coming along.