Audience Research (Post 7)

Feedback from my audience research led me to change my idea for the setting and elements of the plot. Initially my short film was going to be set in a more rural setting, I was leaning towards long countryside roads, fields and forests, however the feedback I received influenced me to give the film a more realistic setting as to better enforce the realism of the film. I also changed my antagonistic force within the film, changing the main 'villain' to a mugger as to enhance the realism.

Script (not finished) (Post 8)

Script

 

Characters (Post 10)

 Characters

Friend 1, Friend 2 and The Mugger 

Profile's

Friend 1 - A young man (late teens/early twenties) from a working class background, easily frustrated due to his socioeconomic circumstances, he lives pay check to pay check and is fretful of quitting due to the fact he doesn't want to be out of work due the risk it poses.

Friend 2 - A young man (late teens/early twenties) from a more middle/upper class background, more chill and calm due to his comfortable socioeconomic circumstances, he has no worries about work and lives a comfortable a life and so is ignorant and unknowledgeable about the problem his friend faces.                    

Final Setting (Post 9)

 The 4 settings within my film are a bedroom, a roadside, a park and an estate.

For my bedroom I will use a bedroom in my house as thee are easy to access and film in.

For the roadside, any roadside would work but I would go for one with little traffic as that would interrupt the audio of the film so a less used road would be more convenient.

For the park, I would use of the parks in village I live in, there's 4 available meaning if one is being used by other people I would have back up locations to fall back to. Below are photos of 3 of the 4 parks.

For the estate I will use the estates in Mulbarton, including Larkrise, Blueberry Road, the estate behind the Co-op and Oakley Park. I would use the estate with the least amount of foot fall and traffic as to best film the video uninterrupted. 

The time of day for the film will be implied to be the afternoon, this will be implied through the dialogue as one of the characters has just got off work and so the film will be shot in the afternoon to add to the realism and it's generally more convenient to filming the afternoon as the people working on it would be more active.

The season of the film is unimportant to the plot or meaning so will just be the same season as t=when the film is shot.

The decade/era for the film will be modern day and it makes the initial situation of the film more relatable which in turn strengthens the message of the film due to the audience having amore personal connection or relatability to the events.

The reason I want to create these setting is that they add to the realism of the film, and the more realistic the film is and appears to be, the more relatable it can be to an audience member as it can reflects their lives or similar events. 

The setting will also create more realistic mise-en-scene, due to the outdoor locations there will be natural lighting to add to the realism and the costume, props, hair and makeup will be reflective of the environment and so also add to the realism.

The realistic setting adds to the drama genre as it would serve to make the drama more realistic.

Final Idea Pitch (Post 6)

 

Production Diary 1 (Post 5)

 Idea

Why do I want to make the short film, what purpose will it serve?

• I want my short film to present a political message, the myth of choice for the working classes in capitalism and the fim will present this message through dialogue and allegory.
• The reason I want to do this is for the purpose of educating the audience and attempting to disprove the freedom of choice that the working class has under capitalist systems.

Location

There are 4 primary locations within my short film, the bedrooms, the park and the estate

• The bedrooms will have to look distinctly different to further represent the class divide, this will be done through the mise-en-scene.
• The park will be one of the parks in the estate behind the Co-operative Food in Mulbarton, this is a relatively medium sized park and so should be spaced out enough to film in without being interrupted but also adding realistic and diegetic background noise.
• The estate will be the estate behind the Co-operative Food in Mulbarton

Inspirations from previous films

• I plan to make my film quite dialogue heavy, this is taken primarily from Skinny Jeans as the dialogue drives that narrative, similarly to how it drives this one and sets up the main main message of the film.         
• I'll have the opposite focus on aesthetic when compared to the student short film "Anniversary", which used to flashy editing to increase the focus on aesthetic effect, whereas my short film focuses more on narrative and the message and so the editing will be more naturalistic to keep the focus on dialogue and not aesthetic.

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