Divine Decree - Film Opening Planning

Storyboard

Font & Title Ideas 

Script

Girl answering phone - Hello, Hello, hello, hello then screams

Bullying 

Bullies  - Satan, Loser, Freak (general nasty comments)

Victim of Bullying - Leave me alone

end of film - LEAVE ME ALONE (shouted) 

Shotlist for Divine Decree

Shot 1 - Establishing High angle shot (pans slowly of houses through rails)

Shot 2 High angled mid shot (zooms in slowly) of mobile phone laying in gutter 

Shot 3 - Extreme close up of screen (unknown number)

Shot 4 - High angle shot, mid shot of girl reaching mobile phone then fades to black

Shot 5 - Picks up phone mid shot - screams and runs off 

Shot 6 - Two weeks earlier appears on screen - flashes to the past

Shot 7 - Low angle establishing shot of trees - fades to white 

Shot 8 - Low anngle, following tilt shot of 3 girls following younger girl - fades to white

Shot 9 - POV shot 

Shot 10 - High angle wide shot of girls bullying abby (180 degree rule)  - fades to wbite - Girl walks off goes inverted

Shot 11 - 2 shot, pan of girls 

Shot 12 - Fast Pan of fences - Eye level shot - inverted - close up

Shot 13 - High angle shot of Girl in cabin - fades to white

Shot 14 - High angle shot of girl sitting at table - wide shot

Shot 15 - Close up, eye level shot of tablets

Shot 16 - Mid close up of car 

Shot 17 - Pan shot of gate - medium close up

Shot 18 - Following shot - long shot (continuity shot)

Shot 19 - close up of door handle/hand on door - high angled

Shot 20 - continuity shot - high angled of door opening

Shot 21 - Low angled mid close up of feet (flashes back to previous scenes)

Shot 22 - Tilt shot of door 

Shot 23 - Mid Shot of Girl 

Shot 24 - Wide Establishing shot of outside of cabin- Low angled 

Shot 25 - divine decree title

Asset List & Production Schedule 

Asset List 

 Actress/Actors x3/4

Phone (unknown Number)

Tablets

Car

Woods

Log Cabin

Kitchen Table

Fences

Outside scene - to show where the setting is

Casual costumes 

Camera

Tripod - when appropriate

Tape

Cable 

Production Schedule 

Who ? Abby, Bryony, Sophie & Mel (4 main characters within the film opening)

Where? House, Log Cabin, Rural Area, By road

What? Doors, bullying, Girls arguing, Phone, Lights, Darkeness, Cars, tense atmosphere, tablets...

When? Winter, Late at night, and the next morning (for the flash backs)

Film opening Ideas

I have come up with 3 main ideas for the titles and opening of a new fiction film, I have come up with ideas in different genres to give more of a variety and choice into the film opening I would like to make, the first idea was within the Horror Genre.

Idea 1 

 My idea for this was to base the story around a 16 year old girl who has been bullied ever since starting school being slightly strange due to her strong belief in the devil and paranormal activity, no one took much notice of her warnings and continued to bully her -  distraught and suicidal she takes her life,  no one batters an eyelid, no one remembers who she is until her mobile is found and the disturbing paranormal experiences she experienced becomes a reality, as the young girls study the phone  they begin to realise 'the wierdo' thats now gone may have been the only one to help them, as they continue to search through the phone more and more secrets become unlocked, more and more evil is released and more and more trouble begins to head their way.  From 4 normal lives the girls begin to live a nightmare, reliving Jades life of torment from their bullying, but in a way they would never imagine, and as a 'stranger' calls they begin to realize that their tormenter knows them only too well and wont stop until revenge has been had. 

I would call this Devils Calling, and would use a range of footage including footage of 4 girls, mobile phones ringing, strange paranormal activities, I may also include a voice over of the young girl who had been bullied to make it more effective. Images of memories relived would also be added to introduce the setting and also a variety of objects close up to create tension. 


There would be not much  talking in this film opening to create tension and also enigma about the film, however there would be mobile phone sounds (text message alerts) and also a rhythm in the background to make it more tense. The titles within the production would be basic text to fit in with the modern films  connotations today.  


I would vary the shots used within this film opening alot with close up of mobile phones to establishing shots of the graveyard where she Jade has supposedly been buried. 


I got my inspiration from this film from a few horror films such as sority row - due to the fact there is a group of girls used within this film who have done wrong in there life, it is also along the same lines as saw due to the fact that the people who have caused other people problems have to pay for this in an unimaginable way - however my film will not be as gory as this! 

The genre for my second film was friendship. I based the story on 2 girls who have grown up 2 doors apart ever since they was 2 years old - inseparable they were like sisters and had so many plans and enthusiasm for their life to come - approaching 21 they had their whole lives ahead of them and a load of events planned,however fate had other plans and as the day to celebrate ones 21st birthday devastating news is received, which will change both of their lives, Crystal has been informed she has cancer of the kidney, and without a donar will have only months to live, after looking for hundreds to fit, they have one last try, Hope (the best friend) fortunatley it is a match however after the opperation both girls fail to recover and are both told they have a limited time to live, the 2 girls embark on a journey where all they have ever dreamed of doing is done... they know that there life is to short to worry about little things so whatever opportunity comes along they no longer hesitate to take it up - their lifestyles are totally changed and so are their views on life. 


My inspiration for this opening title came from the film my sisters keeper - this is about a girl who was generically made to help save her sisters life who has cancer, this is upon the same principle apart from the fact that they are both closest of friends and they were not made to help save one another if an illness happened to affect one of them - unlike my sisters keeper both girls do not recover from there operation and therefore they spend the time they have left together doing things they have always dreamed of. However after both girls sadly pass there is an inquest into reasons why they have both died, as a shocking discovery is made both girls parents do not hesitate to find the man that caused this tragedy. 

The third film idea I had was about a group of 5 close friends, celebrating their graduation they head happily for the local club unaware of the problems they are to face as one of the girls swans off to meet a 'lad' she has been talking to over Facebook, blissfully unaware of the experience she is about to comprehend and despite the disapproval of her closest friends she brainlessly dissapears into the sea of people, in hope she will find her Facebook 'friend','her knight' and sure enough she does but her excitement soon turns to fear and anxiety as she awakes in the back of a truck hands tied, and gagged to see a middle aged man peering deeply into her eyes. 

The disapproval and words of her friends continues to flood back to her, as she feels all hope has gone, however by the next day she is reported missing, as her friends begin a bid to save her they too don't realise what they are about to comprehend, with their identities also being leaked their friendship becomes stronger but group becomes weaker as girls are lost along the way. 

I think this would be a good film to make as internet abuse and fake identities are big problems in society today particularly on social networking sites it would be therefore beneficial for both the male and female gender to understand the consequences of meeting and talking to the wrong people. It would be called That Knight - a play on words considering the knight the girl thinks she will meet and also the night it happened. It would be narrated by the first girl to go missing to make it more realistic and touching. 

My inspiration from this came from the film Taken, due to the fact it shows how stupidity and how leaking your identity and details to strangers can cause a whole lot of fear and terror for a number of people ...

Taken Trailer 

Preliminery Task

Preliminary Exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Shot list                Scrip 

Production Schedule 

Me working

Lily Working

Tom working

Today we filmed our prelim task, our idea was to have a boy and girl in detention - the girl being a geek and the boy a rebel! we filmed this within an office in the school because the corridor was of a good size and due to it being in detention we thought the 'head teachers' office was appropriate. Our video included Tom walking down a corridor opening the door,  crossing the room and sitting in a chair where he exchanged words with Lily, as the task explained we had to use match on actions, shot/reverse shot and also demonstrate the 180 degree rule, this made the filming much harder due to the fact you had to think of the shots you were going to use and the positioning of the characters, props and also where the camera will be, therefore it was fortunate that we had made a storyboard previously with the shots for each frame easily identifiable. We firstly conducted a practice run through of the filming to check that people knew what they were doing/saying and made sure we knew which shot was needed for each frame. We then started recording however after we had recorded we re watched the footage to check it looked okay. After importing the footage on the computer we captured and edited it in premier pro cutting and joining the clip so that it ran smoothly with no mistakes.   I am pleased with how the video turned out as it meets the requirements, however if I was to do this again I would make some of the cuts less obvious and alter the variety of shots.

Production Log for Divine Decree

Thursday 4th November 2010

Today I came up with 3 film ideas to base my opening sequence on, firstly about some high school bullies who get what iscoming to them when the girl they drove to death gets revenge. I gained my ideas for this from sorority row. 

My second idea was about friendship, based on 2 best friend who had grown up together, when one gets cancer, a transplant is the only thing that can save her, the best friends a match, however both girls fail to comply with justone kidney after their operatoin and as fate takes matters into its own hands the girls start to realise how much they have missed out so far on life. Here i gained my inspiation from my sisters keeper. 

My third idea was about a girl awho was going cubbing to meet her friends & a 'boy' she had been chatting to over the interent, hours in to the evening she dissapears to find this boy, but never returns, hands tied in the back of a van she realises her friends were right. 

To help with getting inspiration for my film i also watched a variety of film openings and trailers on youtube, i think that i have done quite wel with coming up with three ideas, was they are relativley different however quite interesting and mysterious. 

Monday 8th November 2010

Today i chose which film idea I was to choose for my opening titles, i chose the first idea however I altered it slightly due to the fact that i thought the final out come would be better. 

Thursday 11th November 2010 & Monday 15th November 2010

During these two days I created a variety of media documents to help me when filming my opening titles - i created a storyboard, script, Shotlist, Production Schedule, asset list and also various other things such as a film title and font styles. I also took the camera home to start filming. I also practised with the camera for a small amount of time to ensure that I was to know what I was doing and how to using the filming equiptment when it came t0 filming. I also took the camera home today so that I could film my opening when home. 

Over the next 2 weeks I continued to practise with the camera equipment and also with the editing equipment to ensure that I would be comfortable when filming, i also continued with my story board etc. I made sure that my blog was up to date and added my production schedule, asset list, script etc - all very important when filming.

Monday 6th December

I started filming for my opening sequence at my house this evening, overall it went very well and was able to get alot done, it so far looks very good - I have filmed alot of footage which I hope will be relavent and useable within my opening - after looking back there are many pieces that need to be cut out however there is some good footage involved. 

Thursday 9th November 2010 

Today I did some more filming for 'Divine Decree' i also used my lesson time to ensure that I was up to date with my blog, I also added some of my footage onto adobe premier pro and started to edit my film clips

Sunday 12th December

I was able to finish the filming off for my opening title today, again the filming went well - the 'actresses' all turned up on time and the weather was dry and fitted my storyboard well,  was able to use the camera well and again followed my storyboard sticking as closely to it as possible however alternating parts if they did not look right, i ensured that all filming was done today so I can get on with the editing tomorrow. 

Monday 13th December  

I continued with my editing today on Adobe Premier Pro, everything captured well and i was able to get some good clips from the footage i had taken, i captured within small pieces to make it easier to edit and cut, i got alot done within this 3 hour lesson almost half way. Throughout the day i also used spare time to ensure that i would meet the deadline 

Thursday 16th December 

I finished editing Divine Decree today and was very please with the out come everything went well and found some good royalty free music to go with the storyline which i think works very well. My piece has come out well and i think that i have created an effective and professional looking film opening 

Throughout i was constantly updating and checking my blog to ensure that nothing was left out and so it was detailed.