Ellen Cartwright AS Main Task: October 2013

Tuesday 22 October 2013

Picture storyboard

Here is our picture storyboard that we created on Final Cut Pro:

Final Idea Storyboard

In our group we decided to split the storyboard up into three so we could all complete a certain part of the storyboard, here it is:

Bryony's drawing

Molly's drawing

My drawings

Final Shooting Script

This is our final shooting script, overall we have 11 scenes, and around 40 shots, but this could change when we start to film, as some shots may not work.

These are our first drafts of our shooting scripts, we asked another group to analyse our shooting script, so that when we did our second draft we could use the advice given on these to use on our 2nd draft.

Monday 21 October 2013

Final Idea

Our final idea is quite complex, however a lot of our audience feedback from the questionnaire helped us decide on our idea. Firstly within our film, there is only going to be one character, which is a young boy. However, he is shown at two different stages within his childhood in our film, age 10 and age 16. To be able to show the age gap we will use faced pace and snappy editing. In our film, the boys parents die in a car crash when he is around the age of 6, and after this the boy becomes mentally traumatized, and in a routine like manor he retraces several important places within his childhood everyday, and we show this with both ages. We try to compare each of the boys ages by putting them in the same places at different times of the extract. As the boy has been through care since the age of 6 has has various anger problems, and we are going try and portray how it has got worse by the clothes that each of the boys wear. As the younger boy will be wearing quite smart yet casual clothes, however the older boy will be wearing quite scruffy tracksuit bottoms and a large hoodie. To keep the audience gripped to our thriller extract, we have chosen not to show the face of the boy until the end of the extract, as this will keep the audience guessing about the age, and state that the boy looks. We will try to get permission from the exam board to allow us to use a few seconds of footage for a car crash towards the end of our extract, as it is not feasible to film this, however it would be a good thriller contribution towards our extract.

Final Idea pitch audience feedback

For my audience feedback, our group decided that would would film it, this will allow the examiner to get a clearer understanding of how the audience feedback took place. Moreover, rather than just a few words given on a questionnaire, we have go a conversation recorded with various members of the class, therefore we can watch it back get exact points on what people said.