Coursework: Preliminary exercise
Coursework: Preliminary exercise
1) State the genre you have chosen - horror or coming of age drama.
I am possibly going to do a coming of age drama as it appears to be easier.
2) Bend It Like Beckham
-the film appears to have a main character who is from an Asian background and that's where the problems in the movie come from.
- the trailer seems to be giving details about the character in the trailer e.g family, friends, goals and ambitions
- a song from the 90's or 00's seem to be playing in the background
-there are a lot of shots showing the football which appears to be fast-paced and quick.
Moonlight
- the film has three segments of the main characters life which the camera keeps cutting back to
- the shots seem to show characters talking to each other showing the movie has a lot of dialogue .
-the music background is different to other movies showing how this movie is focused on character.
Coach Carter
- the trailer has shots that show the key characters
- some shots appear to be focusing on the basketball
- there are shots that show dialogue between characters which could show things like conflict which could show the themes and aspects the movie is going to focus on.
Harry Potter
- the trailer has a music background which matches the shots and theme of the movie.
- the trailer has characters that are central to the movie and shows them talking to each other.
- the film has shots which focuses on the characters and the locations that are going to be included in the film
- the film shows a range of characters but mainly focuses on the main character and the supporting characters.
The Karate Kid
- the film shows the main character and supporting characters
- the film uses shots and dialogue to show conflict and set up motivation and goals for the main character.
- the film also uses soundtrack to heighten and build on the scenes shown on the trailer which will eventually appear in the movie.
3) I will be focusing on making a 1-2 minute film scene from a low budget film. Most coming of age dramas focus on a problem or focus on the main character reaching adult hood and because of this, the audience for coming of age dramas tend to be young people as they're probably going through the stage or have passed the stage. Also, coming of age dramas tend to have comedy or humour since its usually about young people so that they might be an aspect that I would probably focus on. Coming of age dramas also have a problem that is central to the main character and causes him difficulty throughout the film however this would be hard as it would be only a short film scene ranging from 1-2 minutes.
Also, the sound track or background music would be normal as it is a coming of age drama and there aren't a lot of background music that are used for coming of age dramas when compared to other genre's such as action, horror and thriller,
4)
SCRIPT FOR SHORT TRAILER SCENE:
5)
6)
SHOT 1: An establishing shot that shows the location of the scene
SHOT 2 : An shot that follows the protagonist walking towards the benches
SHOT 3 : An OTS shot that shows the protagonist slowly walking towards the benches.
SHOT 4: A Medium shot that shows the character sitting down
SHOT 5: A long shot that shows the two characters facing towards each other.
SHOT 6: A shot that cuts back and forth to each time the characters are talking to each other.
SHOT 7: A shot that shows the protagonist that walking away from the benches.
SHOT 8: Establishing shot
SHOT 9: Long shot
SHOT 10: A fade out
SHOT 11: The outro
7) Cast-
A teenager as the story focuses on a character around this age and also focus in a school therefore making the obvious decision of choosing a teenager as this makes it much easier.
Costume/Make up-
The character is going to be wearing casual clothes.
Props-
I haven't decided on what Props that are going to be used but one Prop that is possibly going to be use is a phone.
Lighting-
The lighting that is going to be used s natural lighting as some shots that are going to be outside where the natural lighting is going to originate.
Setting-
One of the settings that are going to be is outside as that going to be one of the locations where the characters
-the film appears to have a main character who is from an Asian background and that's where the problems in the movie come from.
- the trailer seems to be giving details about the character in the trailer e.g family, friends, goals and ambitions
- a song from the 90's or 00's seem to be playing in the background
-there are a lot of shots showing the football which appears to be fast-paced and quick.
Moonlight
- the film has three segments of the main characters life which the camera keeps cutting back to
- the shots seem to show characters talking to each other showing the movie has a lot of dialogue .
-the music background is different to other movies showing how this movie is focused on character.
Coach Carter
- the trailer has shots that show the key characters
- some shots appear to be focusing on the basketball
- there are shots that show dialogue between characters which could show things like conflict which could show the themes and aspects the movie is going to focus on.
Harry Potter
- the trailer has a music background which matches the shots and theme of the movie.
- the trailer has characters that are central to the movie and shows them talking to each other.
- the film has shots which focuses on the characters and the locations that are going to be included in the film
- the film shows a range of characters but mainly focuses on the main character and the supporting characters.
The Karate Kid
- the film shows the main character and supporting characters
- the film uses shots and dialogue to show conflict and set up motivation and goals for the main character.
- the film also uses soundtrack to heighten and build on the scenes shown on the trailer which will eventually appear in the movie.
3) I will be focusing on making a 1-2 minute film scene from a low budget film. Most coming of age dramas focus on a problem or focus on the main character reaching adult hood and because of this, the audience for coming of age dramas tend to be young people as they're probably going through the stage or have passed the stage. Also, coming of age dramas tend to have comedy or humour since its usually about young people so that they might be an aspect that I would probably focus on. Coming of age dramas also have a problem that is central to the main character and causes him difficulty throughout the film however this would be hard as it would be only a short film scene ranging from 1-2 minutes.
Also, the sound track or background music would be normal as it is a coming of age drama and there aren't a lot of background music that are used for coming of age dramas when compared to other genre's such as action, horror and thriller,
4)
SCRIPT FOR SHORT TRAILER SCENE:
EX 1:
THE WEATHER IS
SUNNY AND BRIGHT AND IT APPEARS TO BE MIDDAY, THE SETTING IS A SCHOOL, THE
SCHOOL SEEMS TO BE EMPTY AND BARREN WITH THE STUDENTS APPEARING TO BE IN
LESSON EXCEPT FOR THE STUDENTS WHO AREN’T DOING THEIR GCSE OR AREN’T IN THE
LOWER YEARS.
PROTAGONIST IS WALKING TO A GROUP OF BENCHES AFTER HE SEES HIS FRIEND, HE HOPES TO TALK ABOUT
SOME THINGS THAT HE WAS THINKING ABOUT.
PROTAGONIST: SO,
I FINALLY FOUND YOU HERE
FRIEND: SO WHAT
TOOK YOU SO LONG
PROTAGONIST:
UNLIKE YOU, I HAD TO DO SOME WORK WHICH TOOK A VERY LONG TIME
FRIEND: SO WHY
DID YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT?
THE FRIEND SAYS
THIS AS HE USING HIS PHONE WHICH SHOWS A LACK OF INTEREST OF WHAT THE
PROTAGONIST IS SAYING HOWEVER THE PROTAGONIST DOESN'T REALISE THIS AND
CONTINUE TO TALK.
PROTAGONIST: I
WAS THINKING ABOUT A LOT OS THINGS, SCHOOL, HOME AND HOW THINGS ARE GOING TO BE
IN THESE UPCOMING YEARS.
THE FRIENDS GIVES
A SLY NOD TRYING TO SHOW INTEREST EVEN THOUGH HE DOESN'T REALLY CARE.
THE PROTAGONIST
CONTINUES TO TALK FOR A WHILE AND THEN IT ENDS WITH HIM SAYING BYE TO HIS
FRIEND AND LEAVING THE AREA THAT THEY MET EACH OTHER.
5)
6)
SHOT 1: An establishing shot that shows the location of the scene
SHOT 2 : An shot that follows the protagonist walking towards the benches
SHOT 3 : An OTS shot that shows the protagonist slowly walking towards the benches.
SHOT 4: A Medium shot that shows the character sitting down
SHOT 5: A long shot that shows the two characters facing towards each other.
SHOT 6: A shot that cuts back and forth to each time the characters are talking to each other.
SHOT 7: A shot that shows the protagonist that walking away from the benches.
SHOT 8: Establishing shot
SHOT 9: Long shot
SHOT 10: A fade out
SHOT 11: The outro
7) Cast-
A teenager as the story focuses on a character around this age and also focus in a school therefore making the obvious decision of choosing a teenager as this makes it much easier.
Costume/Make up-
The character is going to be wearing casual clothes.
Props-
I haven't decided on what Props that are going to be used but one Prop that is possibly going to be use is a phone.
Lighting-
The lighting that is going to be used s natural lighting as some shots that are going to be outside where the natural lighting is going to originate.
Setting-
One of the settings that are going to be is outside as that going to be one of the locations where the characters
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