Technical Aspects

Content
Themes/ideas/issues

Form
Cinematography/camera

Narrative
Story of plot - Order of events
1. Beginning
2. Middle
3. End

Type of shots
LS - Long Shot
MS - Medium Shot
CU - Close up
ECU - Extreme Close Up.

Angles

• Low
• High
• Wide

Camera movement

• Stationary
• Pan R -------->
• Pan L <--------
• Zoom
• Tracking (on wheels)
• Dolly (not on wheels)
• Shot reverse shot. 

Sound

Diagetic = Everyone hears

Non-diagetic = only audience hears (music)

Voice over 

Cacophony = notice all at once 

Mise-en-scene

• Everything visual in a scene
• Settings/propps/lighting

Characters

• Costumes
• Make up
• Hair

Editing 

• Continuity = ERRORS
• Time
• Transitions
• Fade in/Fade out
• Dissolve/Wipe
• Music = makes cuts turn invisible to audience.

Pre-production practise.

10 shots in one scene! 

Mum! I'm pregnant.

Shot 1; Hand opening the door.
(Daughters hand)

Shot 2 ; Long shot of mum at the end of the hall way.

Shot 3 ; MS (Medium shot) of daughter looking down at the test.

Shot 4 ; Full tracking shot of the daughter walking down the hall way.

Shot 5 ; MS (Medium shot) with talking space.

Shot 6 ; MS (Medium shot) of the mother washing up, oblivious to the fact her daughter is upset.

Shot 7 ; CS (Close up) of daughters face telling her mum the news.

Shot 8; MS (Medium shot) behind mum rotates around slowly, Zoom in.

Shot 9 ; CS (Close up) daughter crying.

Shot 10 ; Wide view of the dinner table.



By Deanna Ricketts & Maddie Govier.

What Is The Treatment?

The Treatment

The Treatment is the development of your idea, from the proposal. In other words a more detailed version of the Proposal.
The Treatment should include;

• An indication of the size and content of the product.
• An initial script/storyline.
• An estimate cost for production.
• An idea of the personnel involved in the project. 
• A contingency plan.
• Any research carried out for the production. 

Introduction

 A short opening paragraph that summarises the original proposal and the approach that you will take to develop the idea. **Use the opening to sell your idea**

- An out line script

- Outline budget 

- Talents

- Producing staff 

- Contingency

    (things that could go wrong)

- Research

Undercover Misfits Structure.

Undercover misfits

Act 1- 
Set in the presents, not local some where hidden in mid day.
A Family society called the Smiths.
Two non-identical twins George and Brianna have been brought up being taught special skills for undercover cases.
George Smith who has been specialised in the art of mixed marshal arts which includes karate & boxing. He's sisters who has been taught the art of defence and educated beyond any normal human being.
The goal they need to achieve is to be sent away undercover to bring down a similar family who has made a society of another family who steal children and teens to form an army by indoctrinating and manipulating for them to believe this is where they belong and that this is their family.

Act 2-
Conflict happens when a child discovers what they are up to and is led to force the Smiths to tied up and hidden. They have to do what needs to be done.
When the child is discovered by the society, they set out to find them. but they can't be found. The Smiths have a plan to stop the plot and bring the children home to where they belong.

ACT 3-
The children have been assembled in to the main hall a projector or tv is turned on suddenly. A past recording of the news has been put on of the children's parents and photos, quoting they desperately want them back. The children are soon too realise the truth and become angry.
The smiths reveal themselves and tell them the facts of what has happened to them and where they belong. The missing children agree and take over and leave with them. The Case has been resolved.

Undercover Misfits- Film Proposal

Film Proposal

Dear Sir or Madam

My name is Deanna Ricketts, I am writing to inform you about my 10 minuet film proposal project. In which I hope you may be interested in.
My working title is called Undercover Misfits. My intended audience was from 13 to 30 years old.
My Film is about a family of two un-identical active twins, who have special trained skills.
They need to go undercover to free the missing children who have been kid-napped and manipulated to work for a similar society with bad intensions.

Characters;
George Smith
Brianna Smith
John smith
and approximately 6 extras.

The Acts that will take place will be;

Act 1- 
Set in the presents, not local some where hidden in mid day.
A Family society called the Smiths.
Two non-identical twins George and Brianna have been brought up being taught special skills for undercover cases.
George Smith whom has been specialised in the art of mixed marshal arts which includes karate & boxing. He's sisters whom has been taught the art of defence and educated beyond any normal human being.
The goal they need to achieve is to be sent away undercover to bring down a similar family whom has made a society of another family who steal children and teens to form an army by indoctrinating and manipulating for them to believe this is where they belong and that this is their family.

Act 2-
Conflict happens when a child discovers what they are up to and is led to force the Smiths to tied up and hidden. They have to do what needs to be done.
When the child is discovered by the society, they set out to find them. but they can't be found. The Smiths have a plan to stop the plot and bring the children home to where they belong.

ACT 3-
The children have been assembled in to the main hall a projector or tv is turned on suddenly. A past recording of the news has been put on of the children's parents and photos, quoting they desperately want them back. The children are soon too realise the truth and become angry.
The smiths reveal themselves and tell them the facts of what has happened to them and where they belong. The missing children agree and take over and leave with them. The Case has been resolved.

My budget plan:

BUDGET

EQUIPMENT	QUANTITY	COST
Actors	10	£0.00
Cameras	3	£0.00
Tape	1	£2.50
Lighing	2	£0.00
Costumes	10	£0.00
Phone	1	£0.00
Location hire	2	£0.00

Please contact: 079********

Email : **********@gmail.com

Thank you for considering my film proposal.
Your sincerely
Deanna Ricketts

GLADIATOR

GLADIATOR

Mise-en-scene & Sound

Gladiator is set in a time period of the Romans and the Barbarians. The Films starts of with a haunting non-diegetic sound, full of emotion and sadness. This gives the audience an impression of dark times and sense of what the film is about and what they'll be expecting.

The first visual shot of an (ECU) Extreme close up, of the left hand brushing though the corn fields gently, embracing a full-filling memory of nature, freedom and brightness. The Shot then end which looked like a flash back to the presents of which the main character is standing in a fury overthrow, which of course is representing the commander. After the tracking shot of the main character establishes  power. The lighting and the contrast changed dramatically from light and peaceful to a dark and dull atmosphere.

As the commander is alone their is a medium shot of him acknowledging the bird on the branch, as the bird fly's of his emotions are shown in the audience of a (CU) Close up of him lifting his head, given the audience a sense of what he wants himself, freedom.

As the non-diegetic sounds builds up tension along with the diegetic sounds with the help of an establishing shot shown of the men talking and preparing themselves, making the audience feel mentally and physically involved.

Their is an wide shot that follows which contributes to the film showing the import-ants and a brief number of lives on the line preparing for the war, which also reveals to the audience this film is produced and shown on the Romans perspective.

Near on to the fight one of the Barbarians introduces him self throwing a head of one of the Romans men, on a Romans perspective it gives the audience the impression that there're the enemy.

As commander is encouraging his men 'unleash hell'  this shows great hatred upon the Barbarians, making it clear what his attentions are. He also encourages he's soldiers by quoting 'if you find your self alone, with the sun on your back sweeping though cornfields, do not be alarmed. You are in Elysium' this is a religion they believe in, in another words Heaven. As he trots along in between his men, The soldiers stand up showing respect, power and honour. 

As the Fight begins between the binary oppositions, The non-diegetic sounds get more dramatic and build up tension as the fight starts the diegetic sounds of swords clashing, arrows shooting, men shouting it brings the audience to an understanding of how dramatic this fight will become. The camera pans on the Barbarians focusing on the actions being taken by the binary opposition. Whilst the camera pans it shows a clear picture of the difference's between them such as;

The Romans are well prepared being armed, civilised and have a clear planned attacked. On the other hand the Barbarians were un-prepared, un sophisticated, premature and didn't have a clear plan of attack, which shows weakness.

As the war comes to an end there is an increasingly slow and soft non-diagetic sound with the camera panning along the soldiers, Focusing on the actions of the Romans killing their binary opposites. They use this in a slow motion effect to show the audience the war is at an end and the soldiers are emotionally relieved winning for honour, loyally and hope.


By Deanna Ricketts



Hard Love Cover.

Hard Love; Cover!

Fish out of the water!

STUCK UP SAMMY!

We learned fish out of the water had to be an outrageous personality, in their discomfort area. Something that teaches them self a lesson. 

This idea came from my self and Maddie Govier.

Stuck up sammy

Sammy who'm has an awful personality, who seems to think she is better then everyone else.

Her mother and father sends her away to work in a homeless shelter hoping she'll realise her lifestyle is a luxury and to be greaful for what she has, for one month.

When stuck up sammy gets to the shelter, eventually she starts to realise, she is lucky to have what most people don't.

She then looks back at her lifestyle and changes what needed to be changed, because money doesn't last forever. she now makes donations to charitys.

By Deanna Ricketts & Maddie Govier.



 

Key Camera Angles & Rule#1

Key Camera Angles

ELS = Extreme Long Shot = This is conventional for the start of the film, such as cites. 

LS   = Long Shot                = Long shot shows from head to toe.

MS  = Medium Shot           = From waste up, conventionally for when a dialog is occurring.

CU  = Close up                   = Face view to show emotion.

ES   =  Establishing shot     = This shot is designed to establish a lot of information. 

WS  = Wide Shot                = A Shot view of more than one person or more information. 

Reverse Shot

When Doing a medium shot of two characters talking this may also be a reverse shot. This is when two people are talking there must be space between them and eye contact with each other. This angle will be shot from behind one of the characters facing the other opposite.

Wide shot for Suspense

To create a suspense wide shot is to have a character whom is close to the camera, when behind the  character in the back ground of a object / house / ghost  or another character.

RULE#1

DONT BREAK THE FORTH WALL!

= This is meant that in a room a forth wall that is not technically there, is where the set is based with the equipment, if a character makes eye contacts at the forth wall, ruins the scene. 

    

Validation.

The budget that could decrease in Validation.

• Costumes (could go charity shops, car boot sale or even where their own cloths)
• Cars (use actors car or borrow)
• Props (Car boot sale, Charity, Own stuff)
• Actors (Find friends or a cheap actors or drama students)
• Equipment (Borrow, Use your own, Hire)
• Friends for extras 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv7uuKc_cE8

Sign Language-

Sign Language is a 5 minuet short film.

This film had to do consider.

• An appropriate location.
• Permission to film in a public area.
• Health and Safety.
• Budgeting.
• Pre-pare for the weather.
• Plan the theme.
• The Time of day.
• Plot.
• Propps and costume to make it realistic.
• Noise that may surround them whilst filming.
• Quality of filming and sound.
• Non-diagetic music
• Other people who may not want to be seen on film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TN3VtWwks4

The 3 stages of film production.

The 3 stages of film production.

Stage 1; Preproduction

This requires to consider important aspects such as Planning Scripts, Budgeting, Props, Costume, location, Time, Casting Director and Story boards.

Stage 2; Production

This means that you need to consider Directing, Actors, Cinematography, Make-up, Costume, Props maker and Contineuity.

Stage 3; Post Production

Means that after the stages of 1 & 2, you want to consider Editing Visual aspects, colour grading, physical special effects, Screen graphics and ADR (Additional Dialogue Recording).