research and planning
1) State the genre you have chosen - horror or coming of age drama.
- Coming of age.2) Choose at least five films in your selected genre and watch the trailer and one scene from each film. Make bullet-point notes on everything you watch, commenting on camerawork, editing, sound and mise-en-scene.
- Kidulthood:
- Honeytrap
- Girlhood
- Shank
- The Chase
- My murder
3) Write a 250 word statement of intent for your film scene. This should follow AQA's guidance (look in your coursework booklet) and clearly lay out how you will use media language to meet your brief. You should also discuss what representations you plan to create (either reinforcing or challenging stereotypes) and how your scene would appeal to an audience.
4) Write a script for your film scene. You'll find guidance for writing a script in the BBC Writers' Room (click on the Script Library to read real examples of professional scripts).
6) Write a shot list containing EVERY shot you plan to film AND additional shots to create flexibility when editing. These additional shots are often close-ups, cutaways, alternative angles or similar. I advise using a simple table on Microsoft Word to set out your shot list - you can find an example here.
7) Plan your mise-en-scene: what iconography are you including to ensure your audience understands the genre? Plan your cast, costume, make-up, props, lighting and setting.
My actor is not supposed to look like a stereotype of what a girl that lives in a poor estate looks like because the audience is supposed to be aware that she makes money illegally which is why she affords expensive things.
It is in the night time so there is not much lighting but this also creates more tension because the audience are aware she is setting somebody up.
8) Plan a shooting schedule that will ensure everything is filmed by Wednesday 27 June. Include when, where, who is required and what shots you will complete at each time/location.
- Coming of age.2) Choose at least five films in your selected genre and watch the trailer and one scene from each film. Make bullet-point notes on everything you watch, commenting on camerawork, editing, sound and mise-en-scene.
- Kidulthood:
- They are wearing tracksuits which helps show their age and is typical of a coming of age film
- It is set mostly in houses and school
- Honeytrap
- They use props like cigarettes and drugs
- Young actors
- Girlhood
- Set in parties, houses, school etc
- Also use young actors
- Shank
- Use stereotypical image of gang (black, young, balaclava)
- knives and violence
- The Chase
- Show the main actors journey growing up
- Set in school and houses
- My murder
3) Write a 250 word statement of intent for your film scene. This should follow AQA's guidance (look in your coursework booklet) and clearly lay out how you will use media language to meet your brief. You should also discuss what representations you plan to create (either reinforcing or challenging stereotypes) and how your scene would appeal to an audience.
- I am planning to make a 1 minute long film scene from a
low-budget coming of age drama feature film. Them mise-en-scene in Kidulthood
has inspired me; they used the perfect costumes, settings and actors. They use colloquial
language. In my film scene I want to use at most two actors and I want the narrative
to be about someone being made to set up a friend because their own life is
being threatened. They are being made to do this because they witnessed a
murder so instead of killing them they made a deal and said to bring the friend
instead. This narrative is very close to Honey Trap and My Murder. I am going
to make sure the actors are young because it would fit more with the genre and
I will probably record around the evening (8pm - 9pm) seeing as the lighting
will not be too bright so it doesn’t give the film scene a happy vibe. There
will be a conversation on the phone with someone the viewers will not meet in
the film scene but they will clearly know it is the person who is threatening
one of the actors and making them set up the other one; I will make sure the
actor who is being forced acts extremely nervous so it’s more believable. They
will both meet to go get food from a local Mac Donald’s which is not an
expensive place so it fits with the coming of age theme, and on the way there,
the people who want the friend will be seen and it will end with her running
the opposite direction.
FADE IN:
READY TO SET UP HER FRIEND
*Phone rings as she is leaving the house and she has a conversation*
LORENA:
Hello
LORENA:
Yeah I’m ready
LORENA:
How long would you be?
LORENA:
No, he doesn’t know a thing
LORENA:
I told him to meet me by… the park
LORENA:
The first entrance yeah
LORENA:
*Walks down the stairs and phone rings again*
LORENA:
Hello
LORENA:
Yeah, he’s here now
LORENA:
Alright, bye.
*Energetic music fades in*
THE END
6) Write a shot list containing EVERY shot you plan to film AND additional shots to create flexibility when editing. These additional shots are often close-ups, cutaways, alternative angles or similar. I advise using a simple table on Microsoft Word to set out your shot list - you can find an example here.
Shot list
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|
Close up
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When one of the actors talks on the phone
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Wide shot
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When the friends meet up
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Medium shot
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When they are talking
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Close up
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When they are walking and talking to show the nerves
of actor no.1
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POV
| walking |
When they enter the park on the way to Mac Donalds
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7) Plan your mise-en-scene: what iconography are you including to ensure your audience understands the genre? Plan your cast, costume, make-up, props, lighting and setting.
My actor is not supposed to look like a stereotype of what a girl that lives in a poor estate looks like because the audience is supposed to be aware that she makes money illegally which is why she affords expensive things.
It is in the night time so there is not much lighting but this also creates more tension because the audience are aware she is setting somebody up.
8) Plan a shooting schedule that will ensure everything is filmed by Wednesday 27 June. Include when, where, who is required and what shots you will complete at each time/location.
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