Post 9: Final setting

Final Setting:
I have chosen for the final setting of my film to be my local train station. Due to Covid-19 I may have to film slightly later due to restrictions being lifted but i simply need the character to be on a train and i need to see the window behind them showing movement to show time passing so his decision seems hastened, i also need the actual train station but this will be easy to film without going against restrictions.

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Post 5: Production diary

Brainstorm ideas Having discussed with my teacher about my idea, I wasn’t completely sure on the location of my short film that I proposed, I was thinking a bus or a train but using these would mean I have to cancel out the noise of the train completely with the voice over. My main idea was to have a lead character sitting down on his seat on the train (next to a window preferably to show the passage of time and space) and then have an inner monologue of a troubling and maybe even dangerous situation he’s involved himself in to do with maybe a drug deal, as in the journey on the train or bus is the journey to what is going to happen. Im also quite stuck on how to end the short film, I was possibly thinking that I could end it with getting g a very low angle and show him getting of the train or bus and letting the audience decide whether or not he decided to do it, or is he chose safety and good conscience. Almost like a battle of inner good and evil. My inspiration for this idea ...

Post 7: Audience research

Audience research In my eyes there should be a target audience, with an approachable yet very specific main character and he should fit the part of a normal British teenager, so he can be related to, most people I have spoken to about this have said it’s a good idea to try and relate my protagonist to the audience that its targeted at and I want to achieve it through micro elements. Using the way they dress or perhaps their character expressions, movements and speech etc. this will really help my audience see the main character as someone they could know, someone this could happen to. However making the main character a ‘typical’ teenager from 17 – 19 could come across as non relatable depending what the audiences view on the norm of what a teenager looks like, and it could come across with the wrong idea and then it becomes almost like the comedic idea of what a British teen looks like, and that is not relatable and is not the intent behind the character. I want my cha...

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Narrative Equilibrium – Connor is a boxer who likes experimenting with make-up, but no one knows. His dad is his coach. He has a girlfriend named Lola and a best friend called Archie. Disruption – Connor has put on a dress and make-up and sees Archie being chased by people that want to beat him up. Connor goes out to help him. Recognition – Connor tells Archie why he’s dressed like he is and shows him his box of make-up. Attempts to Repair – Connor goes to a birthday party dressed up, thinking that no one will think too much of it, but everyone mocks him. Archie kisses him, thinking he’s gay, and when Connor punches him, he exposes him to everyone and Lola is not having it. New Equilibrium – Everyone knows about Connor and Lola isn’t with him anymore and he is left feeling very angry. Everyone in this film is the villain in one way or another. They all laugh at him at the party. Lola completely turns against him. Archie, who he thought was understanding, tells everyone what...

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