Audience feedback

Location: "Group Help Meeting" - SAVIOUR

These photographs are the choices of location for our final scene in the "group help" meeting. We have decided that we are going to choose the location which is displayed in the first image because it looks more professional and a lot more spacious. 

The reason why we did not choose the second location is because we thought that it looked a bit too much like a classroom and that may give an impression that our short film is very amateur. 

Shooting Script - SAVIOUR

Due to the fact that we require all of our scenes to look dark and at night time, we are unable to use our lesson time to film because it is still light skies. Therefore, we are using our out of lesson time to film, including weekends and week nights. We have also been staying back after college at 4pm for a couple of hours, to try and get as much work done as possible. We have been using our lesson time to focus on other tasks, such as: Ancillary tasks and soundtracks etc.

Inspiration - SAVIOUR

INSPIRATION

The ideas that we gathered for our short film, 'SAVIOUR' were initially completely our own. However as our ideas became more productive we found a music video by Lana Del Rey which was basically displaying our thoughts and ideas for real. Therefore, this music video inspired us even more and it encouraged our ideas further.


Here is the music video:



Other videos which inspired us were:

Storyboard - SAVIOUR

 

Storyboard for our short film - SAVIOUR

I thought that it would be a good idea if me and Beth put all of our ideas down onto paper so that we could both clearly see what eachothers ideas were. This is when we created the storyboard. Underneath each image we wrote what was happening in the scene, we thoguht that people would be able to understand the scenes better this way.

Risk Assessment - SAVIOUR

Risk Assessment

Safety is a massive aspect which you must take in to consideration when creating a film. Without assessing the level of safety of some items, peoples lives could be put at risk and that should be the least of your worries when creating a film.

Wires

Creating a film means that you will be using cameras, technical lighting, extension leads etc. which all have wires attached to them. These wires could easily be tripped over and could potentially cause damage to the victim. The best way to avoid tripping over them is to make sure that they are securely fastened to the floor, by something as simple as tape. By doing this, you are saving yourself from potentially having to pay somebody a lot of money if they decide to make a claim.


Technical Lighting

The lamps and other lighting that we use sometimes get incredibly hot. The idea that we had was to turn them off when we are not using them to ensure that nobody gets burnt if they mistakenly touch one of the lamp heads. By turning the lamps off when they aren't in use, not only prevents people from burning themselves, but it also ensures that the lamps aren't going to overheat and potentially smash the lightbulbs which could also lead to further problems regarding safety.

Reduced Visability

We wanted to add some effects with different lighting. Throughout some of our scenes, we want to have dimmed lighting to add a mood to our scene. However, because of the lighting being dimmed, this means that our actors visibility will be reduced, which could potentially become an issue of safety. To prevent any accidents happening whilst the visibility is reduced, we must ensure that there are no objects placed in the acting area, so that there are no possibilites of anybody tripping over and injuring themselves.

Scenes - SAVIOUR

Below are the scene descriptions for our short film. We may decide to add more, or alter, these scenes but it gives a rough idea of how we want our film to look and the characters/actors we may need.

Scenes

Opening Credits - Alleyway

Location: Alleyway

Character(s): Madison

Length: 30-45 seconds approx.

CU: Boots walking into alleyway from around a corner.

ECU: Eyes.

CU: Putting headphones on and pulling hood up. Music begins to play.

CU: Putting cigarette into mouth and lighting it. Blows smoke out.

ELS w/ HA: Madison walking into the distance of the alleyway.

Credits playing throughout. Fading from each side.

Production name appears in typewriter style with flashing cursor.

First Scene –Argument w/ Father

Location: Bathroom/Bedroom

Character(s): Madison, Owen

Length: 30-60 seconds approx.

Music still playing.

MS: Shows steamed mirror. M splashing face (out of camera shot). Lifts head up and wipes mirror. Camera on mirror and shows M.

P: Pans left as M walks into room and sits on bed.

MS: M sat on bed crossed legged. Headphones on. Hears door, takes one part of headphone off and looks up.

LS: O stood in the door with a beer can in hand. Camera tracks O as he walks over shouting at M. Throws beer can on floor and walks out. Tear on M's face. Reaches down her top and gets necklace.

CU: Necklace.

Voice over starts.

Second Scene –Mother Flashback

Location: Living room

Character(s): Madison, Owen, Serena

Length: 10-20 seconds approx.

LS: Shows living room and scene. M's birthday and everyone looks happy, including O. S gives M a box.

MS: M opening box to show necklace. Hugs S.

Third Scene - “Now what have I become?” Friends and Drugs

Location: Alleyway and street corner

Character(s): Madison, Drug Dealer, 4 extras 'friends'

Length: 20 seconds approx.

LS: M, friends and man stood close together. Him looking around suspiciously. Friends all talking seperately.

MS: M and man centre shot and shows exchange of hands. M looks up at him. He nods.

Fourth Scene –Arrested

Location: Street

Character(s): Madison, Police Officer, Onlookers

Length: 10 seconds approx.

MS: Police officer putting handcuffs on M and her resisting.

Fifth Scene –Alleyway Stumble

Location: Alleyway

Character(s): Madison

Length: 5-10 seconds approx.

LS: Shows back of M stumbling down a dark alleyway.

CU: Face looking tired/depressed.

Sixth Scene – 3-5 Cars

Location: Road and path

Character(s): Madison

Length: 2-5 seconds each approx.

LS: M walking up and down road and cars come. Looks through passenger window. Fades to next car. Indicate she has done it lots of times.

Seventh Scene –Married Man

Location: Road, path and doorway.

Character(s): Madison, Man

Length: 60 seconds approx.

MS: Car window and man leans to open door.

CU: Wedding ring on hand.

MS: M gets in car. Looks down. Drives off.

LS: Building they are going to.

Cuts to a doorway.

MS: Man opens the door and goes in. M follows. Door shuts behind them.

Eighth Scene –Overdose

Location: Motel type room

Character(s): Madison, Brendan (paramedic)

Length: 60-90 seconds approx.

CU: Money on bedside table. (Hear door slam – man leaving).

MS: Pans at a high angle to M in corner of room with head in her knees. Shows hand reach down next to her.

CU/MS: M looking at bottle of pills and blinks and tear comes out.

MS: Pours pills onto hand and puts hand to mouth but hesitates. Then does it.

Screen goes black after. Makes audience think film has ended.

5-10 second blank.

Ambulance sirens.

POV: Eyelids opening and closing. Sees blurred man standing over her. Moving vision like she is being pushed on a hospital bed. Paramedic talking to someone above. Vision becomes clear. Shows man “You're going to be fine.”Hear machines.

Concluding Scene –Group Help Meeting

Location: Hall

Character(s): Madison, Brendan, 5-7 extras

Length: 20 seconds approx.

P: Pans from left to show the people sat on chairs listening to M talking.

MS: Shows B put his hand on M leg/hand and smiles.

MS: M in centre sat on chair and says final line.

Credits.

Costume & Props - SAVIOUR

Props make up a big part of a film. Without props, characters would have no identity other than their own appearance. I believe that a film without props would be boring.

Props help to convey things ion a film, such as: 

•  Genre
•  Style
• Mood etc.

By writing a list of the props that we require, it helped us feel a bit more organised, as we knew what we needed.

Props

Cigarette

Headphones

Beer can

Diary

Necklace w/ box

Birthday Party items e.g. balloons, presents

Small plastic bag w/ talc

Handcuffs

5 cars

Wedding ring

Money

Bottle w/ paracetamol and tic tacs

Bed/table w/ wheels

Chairs

Costume

Police Uniform

Paramedic Uniform or Dark Green shirt w/ badge

Long white T-Shirt

Black military boots

Black jeans/ skirt and tights

Black hooded jacket

Black shoulder bag

Other outfits for different scenes

Own Short Film - SAVIOUR

SAVIOUR

As a part of our final grade in A2 Media, we were asked to create a short film. Myself and Bethany D'inverno paired ourselves together to work as a group of two. We became friends through Media and we both thought it would be a good idea if we worked together.

We began discussing our own individual ideas and we placed them both together and we ended up with quite a strong first initial idea of a story line. As a few lessons passed, we both kept on coming up with several different ideas and we just kept adding them on to what we already had. We were so excited to just go ahead and get on with the process of creating our short film but we both knew there was so much more we had to add before we could do this.


This is the Powerpoint that we have created, which is what we will be presenting in our pitch.

INTRO

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Cast List - SAVIOUR

Cast list powerpoint

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