Dialogue

To add to the effect of the first scene of our movie intro, we will not be using any speech. We feel that the emotion within the scene will come across more effectively if only music and quiet sound effects are used. In the following scene, we plan to have a short piece of dialogue while a young girl is singing a nursery rhymne in the corner of a dark room.

We will include a few pieces of diagetic sound during the intro so that it doesn't look like a music video. And adds more depth to clips.

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Camera Hire

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As a team we are very passionate about films, and we are all very keen to get started making our own intro. This is a piece of work that we want to be proud of, however we feel that the quality of the cameras our school can provide are not of sufficient quality to make a professional looking piece.

We intend to hire out a camera for approximately 3 days and this will cost us around £60, including a £150 deposit. As we only have the professional camera available for 3 days, we must make sure that our production is planned down to every detail so that we can go to the locations, shoot as few takes as possible and then move on to the next location.

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Potential Actors

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We have been told by Scott that hiring actors from an agency would significantly boost our overall mark. Due to insufficient amount of time, we tried getting one of our fellow younger students from drama to hopefully participate in our production in hope it will aid their portfolio.

Continuing from this we went to see Mrs Micilock who is head of drama at this specific time. She said she will look further into this matter and get back to us.

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Costumes and Props

 

In the first scene, the father figure / brother is sitting on a bench while a time lapse takes place while the sky changes from blue to a hazy sunset. His clothes will be dark and plain as he shows little emotion, and black also represents danger. His clothes may be scruffy as he has let himself go due to the loss of his daughter / sister. Droopy eyes show lack of sleep aswell.

The girl in the corner will be wearing clothes that are either 'normal' to show that she is an average girl who the audience can relate to, or black as it symbolically shows danger to the audience.

 The main majority of the opening scene will be at cuckoos hollow on a chosen bench looking out of the lake. We will be using a photograph of the girl and the public bench as our props. One of the scenes features the main character 'drowning his sorrows' so we will also be using a beer bottle which along with his stumbling shows to the audience that he is drinking/drunk.

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Target Audience

Our target audience is teenagers to adults, as our film will be considered a Thriller/Horror. We intend to include scenes which may be seen as unsuitable to children and deemed disturbing, so our film will be made to meet 15 rated guidelines. By limiting ourselves to a PG or 12 rated movie, it might mean eliminating many of the ideas we originally thought of.

After reading about film rating guidelines, we came to the conclusion that the bbfc (british board of film classifciation) would most likely classify our film as a 15. If our scenes were too mature for a 15 certificate then we would work to change our film to meet the required standards, as otherwise we could lose part of our target audience.

To rate our film ourselves, we looked at the ratings guideline which can be found here:
http://www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/guidelines/

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