Wednesday, 13 October 2010

Group work for short film 1

Synopsis:

During the day, a young girl is in a park with her mum and her toys, the mum doesn’t show her face. Her mum gets a phone call and leaves the child to play on her own with her toys for a bit. She is making her toys act out stories that seem rather morbid, such as a ‘daddy’ toy hurting a ‘mummy’ toy. She makes them argue, obviously thinking it’s the normal thing that parents do. The story she makes with the toys takes up most of the film, before her mum tells her that they have to go. The audiences finally see the mums face, which is shown to have cuts and bruises on it, and they walk out of the park as the film ends.
Hopefully from this, the audience will see that the mum is a victim of domestic violence, and the child is a witness to this, thinking it is a normal, everyday thing. The ending doesn’t give away whether or not they’re going to get away from the violent person, or if they’re going backto him, this is left up to interpretation.
I like this idea because it’s supposed to make the audience think a little bit. It shows that children perceive things differently than adults; they might think something is normal when it really isn’t. Maybe it will make people who have witnessed domestic abuse tell someone about it, or get help for it.


Location Research

Jubilee Gardens, South Bank London:
Our short film is going to be set and filmed in only one location, we have chosen Jubilee Gardens at South Bank London for this. We decided on Jubilee Gardens for a few reasons:

• It is very aesthetically pleasing as the river Thames can be in the background, as well as the London Eye, and it is a valued tourist attraction.

• Jubilee gardens is opposite Waterloo railway station, making it easy to get to.


• The trees and grass in the park will hopefully make for visually attractive shots if the weather is fine. However, if it is rainy and windy, we can consider filming on a different day, or we could go ahead and film anyway. This wouldn’t be a bad idea, as the horrible weather could represent the awful feelings and message lying in the film (about the mother’s abuse), as a pathetic fallacy.


Production Schedule

Equipment:
Collecting camera, tripod and boom mic: 14/10/10
Returning camera, tripod and boom mic: 01//11/10

Filming:
• We will aim to get to London South Bank at mid day so we can film during the day when it’s light.
• Filming at Jubilee Gardens will take place on the same day, once we’re finished filming at South Bank.
• We’re going to allocate about four hours to set up the equipment and do the filming

Date(s):
• We plan to do all of our filming during the afternoon of Tuesday 19th October.


Jobs:

Sam:
Storyboard
Casting
Props/costumes
Sammi:
Script
Shot list
Location Research
Both:
Pitch presentation

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