story boards and scripts

Scripts

In our film we did not want to much diegetic dialogue, we wanted the main focus to be around the main character in order for them to get to know her traits and personality. We also wanted her to introduce the other characters so that we get an impression of their social status in school, what other people think of them and to find out what the main characters relationship with the other social group is/was like.

In the voice over, Jessie, the main characters played by Courtney talks about her life previous to the present day (this is what it comes across as to the audience). She spoke about this in a lot of detail in combination with her relationship with other social groups talking about what their social status was before with the group and what it is in the present day. She explains to the target audience what the other stereotypical social groups think are of her now.

At the end of the voiceover she says 'And Lastly this is me, Jessie and this is my story'. This tells the audience specifically that she is the main character and you will be watching her story right from where it went wrong and how she ended up where she did. However we trick the audience by making them think that this is the present day. The present day actually is her in her new school. We did this so that the audience think there is not a happy ending.

Story Boards

Here are my films story boards and shot lists.

 

 

 The story board contains what dialog will be included, what shot type it will be and what shot number it is. The pictures show where the shot will be set and who will be in the shot and what the characters will be doing.We typed up our shot list separately as well so it was clearer when we were filming what shots we would be taking, what of and where.

Initial Ideas And Risk Assessment

These are the the papers where we wrote our initial ideas to our film and the risks we need to consider.

Initial Ideas

First we wrote all the cliche idea for teen angst film these included

• Sex
• Party's
• Alcohol/Drugs
• Parents Splitting Up
• Abuse
• Mental Health
• A Loved One Dying/Terminally Ill
• Moving School/City
• Bullying
• Bitch Girls
• Fall Outs
• Pregnancy

We liked the idea of pregnancy because not may teen angst films have made a film revolving around pregnancy. Also we knew if we were to follow through with this idea we would add our own twist on it. We considered what generic conventions of teen angst films we would include Such as

• High Key Lighting
• Girl As Main Character
• A Voice Over At Beginning And Throughout By Main Character
• Different Stereotypical Social Groups
• Bitchy Girls
• Main Setting In School

We included all these generic conventions of teen angst films in our film in order for our audience to be able to recognise what type of film this was so it would attract them and in order for the audience to be able to relate to our film. It was important for us especially to include many different social groups, this was so we attracted many different social groups in real life as they would relate to the characters and they would want to see how the characters life's planned out and how they are similar.

Risk Assessment

Once we had an idea about what shots we would be taking and using we had to think and the risks that would come across when filming. One of the main factors for use was the chance of getting hit by a car as we were filming a mildly busy road. There was three of us making our film at this time one of us were acting the other was filming and one of us was checking for cars and other vehicles and people that we needed to watch out for, both for the purpose of ours and others around us safety and in order to make sure nothing interfered with our filming.

When the main character is walking past the sixth form room someone could have walked into her. As this was a possibility we filmed when the sixth form common room was not that busy in order to decrease the chance of this happening. However when we was filming someone did walk out but round the characters. We felt this made our film better as it looked lively and full.



Mood Board

This is my mood board for teen angst films

I choose specific images to portray the generic conventions of a teen angst film such as the popular blonde girls(as seen in Mean Girls, High School Musical and Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging), the good looking sporty boys which is seen in most ever teen angst film and cheerleaders, party's,social gatherings and school dances,different social groups(the typical geeks), drug and alcohol use, money and shopping, American high schools, stress, secrets and rumours and relationships and break ups.

Research On Teen Angst Openings

We researched and analysed several different teen angst title sequences and opening scenes in order to get some ideas of our own for our film. We spotted and noted the typical generic conventions of a teen angst film. We looked at Easy A, Footloose and clueless.

The generic conventions Easy A included was:
-High key lighting, this suggest realism and it sets a soft atmosphere to it.
-It is set in an high school(college)
-Main characters a girl
-Monologue/voice over of the main character talking about our characters
-Represents bitching which is typical of a teen angst and is stereotypical of teenagers.
-Slang is included, shows the target audience is teenagers as the older generation would not understand.
-Titles are places in odd places such as floor suggesting that high school and teenagers lives are busy
-Low key lighting is included when adults are in the scene. shows contrast, adults have low key lighting, teenagers have high key lighting -Main title is placed in a tree, this points out a pair of shoes in the tree emphasising that teenagers mess about and get in to trouble
-Main characters book are knocked out of her hands, emphasises the school setting and that bullying takes part, also it shows that there are popular people higher than her in the school and that can do what they want.

Generic conventions of Footloose
-teenage party (stereotypical of teenagers)
-young teenagers/adults
-upbeat loud dance music
-alcohol
-high key lighting
-empty red cups, this is using iconography and stereotyping teenagers as being messy
-close up on feet suggest dancing and performing
-no adults/old people, disabled people and children
-they value drink, music, friends and being with friends(hedonism and hedonistic)
-different social groups with mixed-sex male and female, mix ethics are seen(white, black and Asian country's)
-title 'Footloose' looks like stage lights, connotes the performing aspect and some are hand written connoting they are still at school
-they are dancing on a stage
-diegetic sound (them singing emphasis's their interests in music further)
-layer sound, diegetic and non-diegetic


Generic conventions of Clueless
-high key lighting
-upbeat current music
-voice over to introduce characters
-main characters an American girl
-layered sound including cars, music and laughing
-they value power, fashion, popularity, parties and money
-shots are not chronological connoting that stereotypically teenagers life's are a muddle, manic, busy and confusing

Title Sequence

The class was shown different title sequences within different genres such as horror, teen angst and comedy.We was shown the title sequence of Juno and with it a time line of when different title came in. after we analysed the title sequence and time line we was told to create one of our own. Here is my title sequence of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

0:10 - Warner Bros Picture (logo)
0:16 - Village Roadshow Pictures
0:26 - Warner Bros Pictures Presents
0:30 - in association with Village Roadshow Pictures
0:34 - a Zanuck Company/Plan B Production
0:38 - A Tim Burton Film
0:42 - Johnny Deep (main character)
0:51 - Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
1:00 - Based on the book by Roald Dalh
1:06 - Freddie Highmore
1:12 - David Kelly
1:15 - Helena Bonham Carter
1:21 - Noah Taylor
1:26 - Missi Pyle
1:31 - James Fox
1:36 - With Deep Roy
1:42 - And Christopher Lee
1:46 - Adam Godly
          Franziska Troegher
1:55 - Annasophia Robb
          Julia Winter
1:59 - Jordan Fry
          Philip Wiegratz
          Blair Dunlop
2:03 - Liz Smith
          Eileen Essell
          David Morris
2:10 - Casting by Susie Figgis
2:18 - Visual Effects Supervisor Nick Davis
2:26 - Music by Danny Elfman
2:51 - Co- Producer Katterli Frauenfeldor
3:00 - Costume Designer Gabriella Pescucci
3:10 - Edited by Chris Lebenzon A.C.E
3:19 - Production Designed by Alex McDowell
3:25 - Director of photography Philippe Rousselot A.F.C/A.S.C
3:30 - Executive Producer Patrick McCormick
3:36 - Executive Producers Felicity Dahl
                                          Michael Siegel
                                          Graham Burke
                                          Bruce Berman
3:41 - Produced by Brad Grey
3:55 - Produced by Richard D. Zanuck
4:03 - Screenplay by John August
4:10 - Directed by Tim Burton