Wednesday, 20 March 2013

TASK 2.1 : Script to short film


Title: The Revenge

Genre: Revenge, loss, death, anger, love, hate, desperation, jealousy, greed

Content:
It’s about two married couples who lives in a wealthy lifestyle. They both had a daughter and when she turned 6, her mother died and the father had to raise her himself. The father re-marries and then years later died as well. He left a will to his daughter where the stepmother discovers the will and plots to kill her and take away all the families fortune.

Pilot scene:
Starts off with the daughter finding/recieving her will from her father; then cuts off into a scene of the stepmother sending someone to murder her daughter. (night time)





Opening Script:

[EXT. OUTSIDE THE HOUSE THAT THE DAUGHTER IS HIDING, AT NIGHT TIME,
INT.  IN HER BEDROOM UNPACKING HER STUFF]

Voiceover (daughters voice) whilst unpacking: It was march 27th, the day I just arrived in my new home after I find out that my father just passed away a week ago. The thing I feared the most. Even rose didn’t expect it. She said that death is nothing to be scared of, it’s a new beginning. I’ll never get used to the feeling of loss and dissatisfaction that I’ve faced my whole life, crying is the only way I can let it out without getting caught oh, and the box that carries all my memories of my father, it contained every soul, thought, memory and feeling. Me. I don’t seem like anything anymore.

[Finds an envelope in the box and reads the will]


[NEXT SCENE; EXT : IN THE STEPMOTHERS HOUSE AT NIGHT TIME, SHOUTING AT AN ASSASIN OF HOW HE FAILED TO MURDER HER STEP DAUGHTER THE FIRST TIME AND EXPLAINS HOW SHE WANTS HER DEAD AND WHEN]

Stepmother: I gave you simple instructions. Gave you everything you need and a so-called ‘’professional’’ assassin like you, can’t even get his job done properly.  Your useless!

Assassin: my job is to do a silent kill so no evidence or suspects will be left behind, but once this is done, you can walk away with your will and I’ll go home with a grand in my pocket.

Stepmother: I don’t care whether it’s a silent kill or not, I want her gone and I want her gone now! That will is suppose to belong to me and I know that bitch has it on her, get it now or you won’t see the day of light ever again.

Assassin: you have my word.

[STEPMOTHER GIVES A SMIRKY GRIN]

[END SCENE]

Tuesday, 19 March 2013

TASK 2 : Short Film : Characters Profile

Step - Mother
Personality - cunning, clever, selfish and vicious. she will do anything and everything to get what she wants even if it involves hurting people or going behind peoples backs to achieve her goal. Money is her motivation. She's stunningly beautiful but ruthless, no-one stands against her and fear that they would lose their job or their life.

Age: 32
relationship status: Widow
Children: 0
Occupation: Unemployed




Daughter
An 18 year old living in the countryside with an auntie and an uncle not knowing that her father has left a fortune behind for her. Innocent, naive yet determined and very family-orientated, she puts family over anything as she was brought up by a loving family in the countryside with her auntie and uncle. Her innocent and charming personality melts everyone's heart so much that anyone can be jealous of her and may want something that she has got.

Age: 18
Relationship status: single
Children: 0
Occupation: Farmer





Assassin
A middle aged man who works for the step-mother was sent to murder her step-daughter in order to claim her husbands will. His (Assassin) wife passed away 2 years ago and was left with two kids to raise on his own, he disagrees with what the step-mother makes him do but threatens him to lose his job and his kids if he doesn't do what she wants him to do. He does anything to protect his kids and makes sure that he raises them well.

Age: 39
Relationship status: Widow
Children: 2
Occupation: Assassin




Conclusion Script to Vox Pox

Conclusion :
So far the scientific research has not yet confirmed if this fact is true or not. scientists are still trying to find out answers to these questions. There are loads of facts that we might not know about dogs and there sixth sense, not only can they sense our emotions they can also tell when someone has cancer, diabetes or epilepsy, your dog might be the first to know. Dogs are one of the most diversed animals in the world yet they are still able to be a ''mans best friend'' which whats makes them more special to humans.

Friday, 8 March 2013

TASK 1 : features of Single camera Production



Single camera production is when one camera operates at a time. A huge difference between multiple camera and single camera is the order that they are shot in, for example, multiple camera set-ups are filmed chronologically whereas a single camera is in order during editing.


There are some advantages and disadvantages of single camera production:
  • the use of single camera work makes it look like the creators used different cameras because of the use of different shots and with the techniques of editing.
  • the cost of filming the media product would be cheaper.
  • the director can choose and select what scene would be in the footage.
  • quality of the scenes would be the same as only one camera is being used, so the quality won't be altered.
  • Since only one camera is used, the mobility of the camera crew and resources are easier as there's less to carry.


Disadvantages of single camera production:
  • the scenes would have to taken repeatedly.
  • the use of single camera techniques takes longer to edit, as there are more clips to gather and filter.
  • the camera has to change positions to get the full scene.
  • there are no back up shots to replace scene that have gone wrong, so the crew would have to be more tentative to capture the shots.




Different forms and examples:

  • Single strand narrative = one story told from start to finish, usually with a point or moral that producer is trying to make or get audience to engage with. Usually follow set format of equilibrium-disruption-equilibrium.
  • Multi-strand narrative = tells two or more stories alongside each other. They often cross over each other to offer an alternative ‘reality’, e.g. many TV adverts do this mixing a fictional narrative as a short drama mixed with a product information narrative as a voiceover. The different narrative threads of the story may also come together in key scenes.
  • linear = Telling a story from ABCD
  • non-linear  = e.g. middle-middle-beginning-flashbacks-ending
  • narrative devices, e.g. flashbacks, cliffhangers, dramatic irony
  • realist – e.g. The Inbetweeners,
  • anti-realist – e.g. CSI, Doctor Who
  • open endings - e.g. cliffhangers
  • closed endings - story resolution