This is roughly what are idea is based on. This video came out around the time we were coming up with ideas and this is what influenced us in making our film. We took influences from this music video such as the telegram she gets saying her husband is dead, the style of clothing, location etc.
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
Final Group Scenario
After looking for cast, location etc we have settled on our final group idea.
This idea has only changed slightly from the last one. We have decided to do a similar theme to The Notebook and Titanic which is to have an older character looking back on there past. We at first thought about incorporating a new character (the main character but in her 70s/80s) looking back over the letter at the beginning of the film opening, starting the film off with her memories of that time in her life making the audience curious to know why she's looking back over this period in her life. We choose not to incorporate this character into our film opening because we found it hard to find a women in her 70s/80s that would be willing to act for us, so we changed the idea into having a voice over of the women reading the letter over the shots of our main character reading the letter and getting up which would finish our film opening. This also tied into how we needed dialogue in our film opening which this helped with. We also got rid of the idea of having a child in the background of the film opening, like before we found it hard to find the right actor because with them being so young they would need parental supervision etc.
Our film opening would develop into a story of our main characters life after and before that scene at the beginning. It would take us through her dealing with her loss and what her life was like before to contrast with her life after his supposed death. But she finds out he's alive just when she's moving on with her life.
Our target audience is female 15-80 year olds because the genre isnt specific to one age group and will apple to most women.
This idea has only changed slightly from the last one. We have decided to do a similar theme to The Notebook and Titanic which is to have an older character looking back on there past. We at first thought about incorporating a new character (the main character but in her 70s/80s) looking back over the letter at the beginning of the film opening, starting the film off with her memories of that time in her life making the audience curious to know why she's looking back over this period in her life. We choose not to incorporate this character into our film opening because we found it hard to find a women in her 70s/80s that would be willing to act for us, so we changed the idea into having a voice over of the women reading the letter over the shots of our main character reading the letter and getting up which would finish our film opening. This also tied into how we needed dialogue in our film opening which this helped with. We also got rid of the idea of having a child in the background of the film opening, like before we found it hard to find the right actor because with them being so young they would need parental supervision etc.
Our film opening would develop into a story of our main characters life after and before that scene at the beginning. It would take us through her dealing with her loss and what her life was like before to contrast with her life after his supposed death. But she finds out he's alive just when she's moving on with her life.
Our target audience is female 15-80 year olds because the genre isnt specific to one age group and will apple to most women.
Names for our film
We want the name of our film to en corporate the genre (war romance). A few ideas we have our:
- engaged in war
- lost love
- make war
- war valentine
- give up arms
- my wartime love
- war letter
- lost in war
- lost in love
We have decided on "Lost In Love & War" because it reflects our gnere and film idea well and the audience will know what to expect from it.
Storyboard
The establishing shot is going to be a long shot of a tranquil garden, peaceful.
It then moves into a high angle focusing on a woman lying down reading a book, front view.
We then move to a side view of a medium/close-up shot of her turning her face towards the camera.
It then goes into a medium shot her leaning up, still looking at something in the distance.
The camera then goes into a long shot of a man waiting at a gate, then goes quickly into a medium shot so we can see some emotion and identify the new character.
We then go to an OVTS shot from the man looking at the woman walking towards her
When she is nearer we are in a new shot, a medium-close up of her face.
There is then a close up shot of hands passing the letter, then quickly an over the shoulder shot from the man to see the woman's emotions.
There is then a medium long shot of her sitting down an the doorstep opening letter, then going to an OTS shot of her reading the letter and a close-up of the letter and then a low angle shot.
We then go to an extreme close-up of her face, to show her emotion.
It then ends with a medium-long shot, while the woman walks out of the shot but the camera does not track her.
This is what is on out storyboard so a couple of the camera angles might change depending on when we film, what we feel works better.
It then moves into a high angle focusing on a woman lying down reading a book, front view.
We then move to a side view of a medium/close-up shot of her turning her face towards the camera.
It then goes into a medium shot her leaning up, still looking at something in the distance.
The camera then goes into a long shot of a man waiting at a gate, then goes quickly into a medium shot so we can see some emotion and identify the new character.
We then go to an OVTS shot from the man looking at the woman walking towards her
When she is nearer we are in a new shot, a medium-close up of her face.
There is then a close up shot of hands passing the letter, then quickly an over the shoulder shot from the man to see the woman's emotions.
There is then a medium long shot of her sitting down an the doorstep opening letter, then going to an OTS shot of her reading the letter and a close-up of the letter and then a low angle shot.
We then go to an extreme close-up of her face, to show her emotion.
It then ends with a medium-long shot, while the woman walks out of the shot but the camera does not track her.
This is what is on out storyboard so a couple of the camera angles might change depending on when we film, what we feel works better.
Audience Feedback
We showed a few people our 2 min film opening to get some audience feedback, we told them that it wasn't full edited and that there was some voices in the background of some clips which we need to cut out.
Charlotte, Abi and Emily (all 17 years old) - said that the location was good, the costumes and black and white filtering made it look 1940s. They thought that the beginning were the panning is medium then goes to long panning doesn't look right and that there are to many letter shots towards the end.
Mandy (40 years old) - it looks professional and the soundtrack suited the subject very well and really enhanced the mood of the scene.
Mark (40 years old) - could understand the story line easily, the music and location suited the style and genre of the film but the voices in the background could be heard.
Charlotte, Abi and Emily (all 17 years old) - said that the location was good, the costumes and black and white filtering made it look 1940s. They thought that the beginning were the panning is medium then goes to long panning doesn't look right and that there are to many letter shots towards the end.
Mandy (40 years old) - it looks professional and the soundtrack suited the subject very well and really enhanced the mood of the scene.
Mark (40 years old) - could understand the story line easily, the music and location suited the style and genre of the film but the voices in the background could be heard.
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
rough cut
This is our first rough cut and has defiantly helped us to realise what we need to prepare for our final filming. One thing we have learnt from filming this is that we need to double check that we the camera/equipment is properly charged because around 80% of this we had to film on Bethans camera making it poor quality. We also realised that any hand held camera can make the video shaky, which we don't want because our film isn't a docudrama or a real life film so the shaky camera doesn't fit with our war romance genre. With having the technical fault with the equipment it means that this film opening is shorter than we want in our final thing, its also made us realise that we may need to 'beef it out' with more shots and titles etc e.g we will incorporate a panning shot at the begging.This rough cut also made us realise how important costumes are to signify that its a 1940s war romance, we didn't use costumes for this cut because it was only a rough cut and we wanted to test the equipment out, the actors and actress's, the location and the shot types and camera angles first because we felt these were more important to get right.
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