Wednesday, 14 April 2010
Target Audience Research
This is a table showing a group of teenagers which we used to find out what genre films they enjoyed the most.
Production Brief
Opening Sequence Title – Estate of Mind- 2 minutes
Group Members
Terry as himself (Co-Editor & Drug Addict), Myrin as himself (Co-Editor & Drug Dealer), Josephine as herself (Producer & Drug Addict) & Duane (Editor, Director & Camera-man
Content Overview
The film follow the life’s of to young south London teenagers trying to find a way to escape their lifestyle but are really leading themselves to their death. Josephine is a 17 year old mother, who is addicted to alcohol and drugs, she doesn’t realise that what she is doing is not only dangerous and harmful to her, but it also has a significant effect on the people around her, especially her 8 month old baby.
She is juggling the life of a teenager with motherhood and is finding it difficult to cope; she doesn't want to take care of her baby as she feels this requires time and dedication two things which she does not have. Josephine likes to party, which you should be able to see from the opening sequence, she is out one night when she is confronted by a man (Myrin) offering her drugs, she has just come out of the club where she has spent most of her money, she doesn’t have enough for the drugs, but she is reluctant to turn down such an offer, she tells Myrin that she doesn’t have any money on her, but promises to pay him on a later date is he gives her the drugs in exchange for her phone number.
Josephine goes home with three of her friends, while she exits the room to go to the toilet, her friends go into her bag and open the bag of cocaine which Myrin has given her, when Josephine comes back her friends have already gone through half of the bag, one of her friends tells her that this bag is one which she has brought from home, so Josephine is more than happy to join in.
Later on that night she realises that the bag she had bought from Myrin has gone missing and she starts to suspect that the bag which they all took from had in fact been the bag she had bought of Myrin, she asks her mother for money, but she refuses, and Josephine soon realises that she is in trouble. She doesn’t have enough money to pay Myrin back. One day Myrin follows Josephine home and takes her baby from her.
Terry (me) is also 17 years old trying to make something of his life but finds himself confined to selling drugs on a estate but there are other dealers who want to see him dead so he starts to carry weapons. When he gets to a dead end he realizes that “Bad boys don’t have to stay bad forever” and changes his life proving society wrong that teenagers can change.
Josephine and Terry fall in love. Terry tries to get Josephine out of the trouble she is in and get her child back but this just makes Myrin, Terry’s enemy mad. Terry gets killed and Josephine escapes.
Target Audience
Our target audience is both male and female teenagers from different backgrounds, different likes and dislikes because every teenager knows about the drug dealers, gangs, weapons and killings whether it is from seen on the news or in real life. The film includes everything that is happening in real life from selling drugs on an estate to robbing teenagers on the streets for no reason. Every teenager knows about what goes on, on the streets that they live on especially if they live in London.
Research
In researching for our opening we looked at films and programs that are dramas and are targeted at teenagers. From this research we were able to see what type of things interests and attract teenagers to the program/ movie. It then gave us an idea of what are opening was going to include to make our film exciting and an attractable opening. Also from watching mainly dramas we was able to see what conventions a drama has, that we need to include. Our main influence was Kidulthood.
How will we check the movies success
To see if our opening is a success we will show it to the class and a fewer friends to see if they would watch this film. We expect that we will get a positives and negatives, which we want so that we will be able to improve our film to make sure that we attract as much of our target audience as we can. After we have improved the film opening we will re-show it and see what the audiences think about it, this way we make sure that our opening will be the best it can be and the way the audience wants it.
Group Members
Terry as himself (Co-Editor & Drug Addict), Myrin as himself (Co-Editor & Drug Dealer), Josephine as herself (Producer & Drug Addict) & Duane (Editor, Director & Camera-man
Content Overview
The film follow the life’s of to young south London teenagers trying to find a way to escape their lifestyle but are really leading themselves to their death. Josephine is a 17 year old mother, who is addicted to alcohol and drugs, she doesn’t realise that what she is doing is not only dangerous and harmful to her, but it also has a significant effect on the people around her, especially her 8 month old baby.
She is juggling the life of a teenager with motherhood and is finding it difficult to cope; she doesn't want to take care of her baby as she feels this requires time and dedication two things which she does not have. Josephine likes to party, which you should be able to see from the opening sequence, she is out one night when she is confronted by a man (Myrin) offering her drugs, she has just come out of the club where she has spent most of her money, she doesn’t have enough for the drugs, but she is reluctant to turn down such an offer, she tells Myrin that she doesn’t have any money on her, but promises to pay him on a later date is he gives her the drugs in exchange for her phone number.
Josephine goes home with three of her friends, while she exits the room to go to the toilet, her friends go into her bag and open the bag of cocaine which Myrin has given her, when Josephine comes back her friends have already gone through half of the bag, one of her friends tells her that this bag is one which she has brought from home, so Josephine is more than happy to join in.
Later on that night she realises that the bag she had bought from Myrin has gone missing and she starts to suspect that the bag which they all took from had in fact been the bag she had bought of Myrin, she asks her mother for money, but she refuses, and Josephine soon realises that she is in trouble. She doesn’t have enough money to pay Myrin back. One day Myrin follows Josephine home and takes her baby from her.
Terry (me) is also 17 years old trying to make something of his life but finds himself confined to selling drugs on a estate but there are other dealers who want to see him dead so he starts to carry weapons. When he gets to a dead end he realizes that “Bad boys don’t have to stay bad forever” and changes his life proving society wrong that teenagers can change.
Josephine and Terry fall in love. Terry tries to get Josephine out of the trouble she is in and get her child back but this just makes Myrin, Terry’s enemy mad. Terry gets killed and Josephine escapes.
Target Audience
Our target audience is both male and female teenagers from different backgrounds, different likes and dislikes because every teenager knows about the drug dealers, gangs, weapons and killings whether it is from seen on the news or in real life. The film includes everything that is happening in real life from selling drugs on an estate to robbing teenagers on the streets for no reason. Every teenager knows about what goes on, on the streets that they live on especially if they live in London.
Research
In researching for our opening we looked at films and programs that are dramas and are targeted at teenagers. From this research we were able to see what type of things interests and attract teenagers to the program/ movie. It then gave us an idea of what are opening was going to include to make our film exciting and an attractable opening. Also from watching mainly dramas we was able to see what conventions a drama has, that we need to include. Our main influence was Kidulthood.
How will we check the movies success
To see if our opening is a success we will show it to the class and a fewer friends to see if they would watch this film. We expect that we will get a positives and negatives, which we want so that we will be able to improve our film to make sure that we attract as much of our target audience as we can. After we have improved the film opening we will re-show it and see what the audiences think about it, this way we make sure that our opening will be the best it can be and the way the audience wants it.
Conventions of a drama:
- Serious
- Realistic character
- Realistic settings
- Real life situations
- Plot driven
- Development of characters
The problems that we may encounter:
- Not all of us are based at one site so we will not be able to meet during breaks to discuss and work on our films
- We will only have certain days which we can film because of other subjects which may cause a problem because other people may need to use the cameras on days that we are free to us
- We will not be able to take the HD camera off school site
- We will need a lot of help with using Adobe Premier Pro and Adobe After Effects as we have never used them before.
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Location
When In search for a location, this is a list of what we were looking for:
- A city view of London
- An Estate
- An open space (prefrably indoors)
- A Living room
Carpark - South Norwood
This is the location in fron of the estate, where we filmed Myrin following me.
Estate - South Norwood (Confrontation Scene)
This is the estate of which our short film was based around we used this estate for various shots in our opening sequence. Including the tracking shot of me entering the estate and also the confrontation between me and Myrin.
Living Room -Penge (Drug Scene)This is the location where the dance and drug scene was shot. We wanted a typical family living room, which would make the actions of the characters more believable and yet still shocking. In the first picture you can see a baby car seat, where when they are taking drugs and dancing the baby would be sitting in the corner inhaling the fumes and bad bahaviour and language.
Locker Scene - South Norwood
This is the locker scene where I used a trunk shot to show me placing drugs in my locker.
I believe we ticked all of the boxes for the perfect locations for what scenes we wanted to shoot.
Equiptment List
The Confrontation
Terry
White hat, Black Jacket, Grey hoodie
Myrin
Red hoodie, Pair of black gloves, Dark trousers, Dark trainers,
Drug and Drunken night
Sugar, Flour, Grass, Leaves, Penicil sharpenings, Ciggerettes, Lighter, Bottle of vodka, 3 shot glasses.
Josephine
Long shirt, Red bra, Tights, Heavy chains,
Bianca (extra)
Skinny Jeans, Grey top,
Regina (extra)
Leggins, Long top, Messy hair,
Hidden package
Terry
Black pouch, Locker, Black hat, Dark clothing.
Terry
White hat, Black Jacket, Grey hoodie
Myrin
Red hoodie, Pair of black gloves, Dark trousers, Dark trainers,
Drug and Drunken night
Sugar, Flour, Grass, Leaves, Penicil sharpenings, Ciggerettes, Lighter, Bottle of vodka, 3 shot glasses.
Josephine
Long shirt, Red bra, Tights, Heavy chains,
Bianca (extra)
Skinny Jeans, Grey top,
Regina (extra)
Leggins, Long top, Messy hair,
Hidden package
Terry
Black pouch, Locker, Black hat, Dark clothing.
Monday, 22 March 2010
Character Profiles
Terry Boateng
Similarities to...Aml Ameen (who plays Trife in Kidulthood)
Myrin Hall
Similarities to...
Similarities to...Noel Clarke (who plays Sam in Kidulthood & Adulthood)
Storyboard
A very rough sketch which helped us visualise our opening sequence in order for us to create our finished product. This was a method of planning which we found very effective, when it came to doing our dialogue, shooting our various camera angles, etc.
Treatment
For our film opening we wanted to incorporate the things that teenagers come into contact with whether it is from seen on the news or in real life.
• Drugs
• Addiction
• Weapons
• Gangs
• Theme of escapism
• Street wars
• Low class lifestyle
• Street reputation.
We wanted our title to represent the film and what the film is about. After we had done so editing we started to come up with titles. Each of us would pick their own name and we would see who’s was the best.
The titles that where suggested:
• Estate of Mind
• Here today gone tomorrow
• The better life
• Eyes of a teenagers
The title that we decided that we was going to use as Estate of Mind because the film is based on a estate and to survive on the estate you need to have your mind focused to make sure that you are not killed.
We then came up it a statement for our film opening; An Estate is not only a low class building it is a state of mind... Estate of mind.
The film follows the lives of two young south London teenagers trying to find a way to escape their lifestyle but is really leading themselves to their death. Josephine is a 17 year old mum who struggles to control being a mum, a student and a broke drug addict. As she tries to quit the addiction she finds herself get more addicted which makes her lose everything she has. She is wanted by her abusive ex boyfriend, who is her drug dealer because he wants his money. Terry is also 17 years old trying to make something of his life but finds himself confined to selling drugs on an estate but there are other dealers who want to see him dead so he starts to carry weapons. When he gets to a dead end he realizes that “Bad boys don’t have to stay bad forever” and changes his life proving society wrong that teenagers can change.
Josephine and Terry fall in love. Terry tries to get Josephine out of the trouble she is in and get her child back but this just makes Josephine ex boyfriend, Terry’s enemy mad. Terry gets killed and Josephine escapes. Our opening has a mixture of scenes and a smoky effect where the titles of the film appear. We did this to create suspense to see what is going to happen. It starts with an establishing shot of London to show that it is set in London. Then cuts to a drug scene with a few teenagers taking drugs. After that Terry is seen walking into the estate that he sells drugs but then is robbed and threatened.
In our opening you cannot tell the narrative as we wanted to make it attract the audience to carry on watching the film to find out what happens at the end. We do indicate who the main characters are.
Our target audience is both male and female teenagers from different backgrounds, because every teenager knows about the drug dealers, gangs, weapons and killings whether it is from seen on the news or in real life. The film includes everything that is happening in real life from selling drugs on an estate to robbing teenagers on the streets for no reason. Every teenager knows about what goes on, on the streets that they live on especially if they live in London.
This is how the opening is going to go;
We had the production logo followed by the ‘Solomon pictures’ with the soundtrack beginning. After we have the establishing shot followed by a title. Then we have a bird’s eye view of Me walking followed by a title. Next we have a close up of vodka bottle pouring drinks but the drink gets less than more followed by a title. Then we have a long shot of Me being followed by Myrin who is a drug dealer who wants to see me dead, then a title. After we have a close up on the vodka bottle to show that the teenagers are drinks alcohol, then a title. After we have an extreme close up of Josephine’s lips as she smokes followed by a title. Then we have the confrontation of me and Myrin, followed by a title. Next we have a dancing scene that has an effect to show that they are drunk followed by a title. After a cocaine scene followed by a title. Then a scene of me putting the drugs into a locker followed by a title. Then a spilt scene with all three main characters and a voice over followed by the main title of the film.
• Drugs
• Addiction
• Weapons
• Gangs
• Theme of escapism
• Street wars
• Low class lifestyle
• Street reputation.
We wanted our title to represent the film and what the film is about. After we had done so editing we started to come up with titles. Each of us would pick their own name and we would see who’s was the best.
The titles that where suggested:
• Estate of Mind
• Here today gone tomorrow
• The better life
• Eyes of a teenagers
The title that we decided that we was going to use as Estate of Mind because the film is based on a estate and to survive on the estate you need to have your mind focused to make sure that you are not killed.
We then came up it a statement for our film opening; An Estate is not only a low class building it is a state of mind... Estate of mind.
The film follows the lives of two young south London teenagers trying to find a way to escape their lifestyle but is really leading themselves to their death. Josephine is a 17 year old mum who struggles to control being a mum, a student and a broke drug addict. As she tries to quit the addiction she finds herself get more addicted which makes her lose everything she has. She is wanted by her abusive ex boyfriend, who is her drug dealer because he wants his money. Terry is also 17 years old trying to make something of his life but finds himself confined to selling drugs on an estate but there are other dealers who want to see him dead so he starts to carry weapons. When he gets to a dead end he realizes that “Bad boys don’t have to stay bad forever” and changes his life proving society wrong that teenagers can change.
Josephine and Terry fall in love. Terry tries to get Josephine out of the trouble she is in and get her child back but this just makes Josephine ex boyfriend, Terry’s enemy mad. Terry gets killed and Josephine escapes. Our opening has a mixture of scenes and a smoky effect where the titles of the film appear. We did this to create suspense to see what is going to happen. It starts with an establishing shot of London to show that it is set in London. Then cuts to a drug scene with a few teenagers taking drugs. After that Terry is seen walking into the estate that he sells drugs but then is robbed and threatened.
In our opening you cannot tell the narrative as we wanted to make it attract the audience to carry on watching the film to find out what happens at the end. We do indicate who the main characters are.
Our target audience is both male and female teenagers from different backgrounds, because every teenager knows about the drug dealers, gangs, weapons and killings whether it is from seen on the news or in real life. The film includes everything that is happening in real life from selling drugs on an estate to robbing teenagers on the streets for no reason. Every teenager knows about what goes on, on the streets that they live on especially if they live in London.
This is how the opening is going to go;
We had the production logo followed by the ‘Solomon pictures’ with the soundtrack beginning. After we have the establishing shot followed by a title. Then we have a bird’s eye view of Me walking followed by a title. Next we have a close up of vodka bottle pouring drinks but the drink gets less than more followed by a title. Then we have a long shot of Me being followed by Myrin who is a drug dealer who wants to see me dead, then a title. After we have a close up on the vodka bottle to show that the teenagers are drinks alcohol, then a title. After we have an extreme close up of Josephine’s lips as she smokes followed by a title. Then we have the confrontation of me and Myrin, followed by a title. Next we have a dancing scene that has an effect to show that they are drunk followed by a title. After a cocaine scene followed by a title. Then a scene of me putting the drugs into a locker followed by a title. Then a spilt scene with all three main characters and a voice over followed by the main title of the film.
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