Alternate Genres

Golden Fleece - Has a road/path - signifies growth of characters has a team or friend represents things hero doesn't have, has a prize. 

Out of the bottle- Wishes for something granted by another, asked by hero, a spell which has rules, a lesson to be learned.

Fool triumphant -

Legally blonde

Forrest Gump

49 year old virgin 

- a fool whose innocence is their strength and whose a gentle man so this means they are likely to be ignored. 

- An Establishment the fool comes up against into which they don't fit.

- A transmution in which the fool becomes something new.

- monster in the house -

A monster which is evil at its core

An enclosed space (house) which could include family unit or town.

A sin some one is guilty of something. 

Monster in the house

Title - I'm back

Protagonist - Isabelle Fuhrman

Cast

Rachel McAdams

Ellen Page

Kaya Scodelania 

Synopsis

School, group of girls whom think they are better then the rest. Takes a toll on Isabellea when they push her to the limits of her life in jeopardy and gets put in a comma. Has she pushed to far? Time comes when she awakes. 

-> Dude with a problem -> Die hard

-> Rites of passage->Napoleon Dynamite

-> Buddy love -> Lethal Weapon

-> why dun it -> Blade Runner

-> Institutionalised -> Police Academy 

-> superhero -> Lion King

By Deanna Ricketts and I.

The Blake Snyder beat sheet.

Project Title - The Garage
Genre - Science Fiction
Date - 12-02-14

1. Opening image ( the hook, drags audience in to the film) - A weird looking machine in the garage, with a green wire on it and the camera will be zooming out from the green wire. (this is to get the audience thinking and questioning, why a re they showing us this?)

2. Theme stated (setting the theme, just say it!) - I will have my main characters best friend state the theme of loneliness. ( this will make the audience feel sorry for my main character and also get them thinking about his background )

3. Set-up ( setting the scene, 6 things that need fixing, how it is before things changed, work life, love life, home life, introducing their world ) - I will introduce the characters back life, job home and friends. ( this will give the audience an idea of what my character is like, was like and what he's going to be like )

4. Catalyst ( this is what will start my story, what knocks it over and the first thing to change ) - he's working in the garage when he's best friend says 'why don't you build a time machine' and he immediately starts thinking about it and how he could do it.

5. Debate ( obstacles, possibility, whether they can do it or not ) - he starts to doubt himself about if he can do it or not, but finally gets the motivation and the resources he needs.

6. Break into Two (beginning, middle and end, everything is different, things that need fixing would have been fixed, what's going to happen) - this is when he starts being more optimistic (this is fixed because he was more pessimistic) and he also starts to build the machine.

7. B story (background story of someone else, best friends story, something other than the main thing) -

The garage dialogue 1

Martin and his mum are talking about john.

Int.  Cafe.   Morning

Martin 

Mum, can I talk to you?

Claire
(smiles)

Yes of course you can.

Martin
(worried)

I'm worried about John, he doesn't seem himself.

Claire
(reassuring)

I'm sure he'll be fine when he finds the right person, you know what he's like, always feeling sorry for himself and thinking he's going to be forever alone.

Martin

Yeah I know, but he won't come out of his comfort zone.

Claire
He will just give him time.

Martin
You're usually right mum, I hope so this time.

Claire
(laughs)
ohhhh I will be Martin.

martin looks worried and shrugs his shoulders.

The garage - Main Character.

Who is your main character and what do they want?

My main character is lonely and nervous and he wants to feel relaxed and loved, he also wants to be more laid back.

What are the obstacles they must overcome to get what they want?

The obstacles are Nazis and other things, they are not going to all be physical obstacles some of them will be mental, things that he thinks he can't do and doubts, these will be most of the obstacles.

In the end, do they get it? Was getting it ( or not getting it) good or bad for them?

Yes, my character does find love and he does also work on himself bait ( mentally and emotionally ), this makes it a better story as its not just him finding love because for all the audience knows that could of been the start of the story but they do know how my character is at first and when they see him in the end he has a family and a wife and is very laid back and relaxed which looks good on him and is good for him.

Why do we care? Whats so damn compelling about this story that u should spend 110 minutes of my life watching it?

You might not care because it might not interest you, but i think its compelling because you have different kind of themes in it like action, history, horror, love, friendship and some more, i also think it would be a good film and inspire young people to believe in themselves as everyone doubts themselves and feels nervous and lonely and it just goes to show that you can find love, friendship and happiness whoever you are. The them of him being a time traveller is also very exciting if I must say :).

What does my main character need? How is this different from what they want?

My character NEEDS to believe in himself and he also needs love in his life this is different to what they want because my character probably WANTS a better job, or a better car and things like that but i try to ignore that as i don't want my character to seem selfish and just cares about the way he looks, my characters NEEDS things that cannot be bought.

Why now? Why is this story happening to my character now?

Because i think it is time for my character to find love and to stop doubting himself.

Diary Entry. The Garage

The most important day of their lives before the plot of your film begins. The day that made them who they are.

What is this diary like? - a daily thing, to get this emotions out as he hasn't got many people to talk to.

Optimistic or pessimistic? - optimistic


Martin Freeman. 10th April 2001

Today was the worst day of my life, i found out that my beloved girlfriend of 3 years has been having an affair with another man, i couldn't be more angry with her and myself for falling into it, i promise myself that some day i will find someone who will love me, care for me and most importantly not cheat on me and i will do the same for that person, so thank you Carrie, thank you for helping me realise that  you are not the right person for me but someone out there is.. and you never deserved my love because the right person does. have fun with your new man Carrie. Goodbye.

The garage - Pre Credits Visual Storytelling.

The garage - pre credits - no dialogue - visual storytelling.

Description of different visual tricks I'm going to be using;

The colour green symbolises - luck

Blue all in one - symbolises mechanic.

Red symbolises trouble/danger.

Martin will enter from left to right - to show he is a good person and he is funny.

The light will be shining on john to show his importance.

At the end shot i will make johns tool box look bigger than it is to show that he will use these tools to build the time machine, and then will zoom into them to fill the whole screen to tell the viewers that these tools will be important somewhere in the film.

In one shot i will have john looking from inside the garage to outside with a sad face and he will have uncomfortable body language. this will show 'lines' and 'boundaries' like john can't leave because he's lonely and depressed.

When john is walking around he will have his tool box in his hand and when the shot switches or follows him to martin the camera will follow the tool box to lead the audience.

John will accidentally go to drop his tool box but save it and then trip and nearly drop it a second time and save it again he will do it again the third time but not save it and when this is happening the audience knows that it is important as he nearly drops it twice and then does the third time, this symbolises importance to the viewers.

When John nearly drops it twice he will have a smirk on his face to show that he is smug about saving the tool box twice, i will also show this through body language.

There is a green screwdriver that falls out of the tool box - this symbolises luck and stands out to the audience.

When john hugs martin he smiles and the body language symbolises a friendship.

Visual Storytelling.

Visual storytelling

Body language

Few lines = few seconds

Direction ( on screen ) - hero will enter the screen from the left(read left to right) traditionally bad guy will be introduced from the right because were not used to it.(not the way our eyes are supposed to go when were taking in information) - (watching in a mirror - doesn't feel right)

Leading the eye - light, camera movement (simple spot of light) use light to make your viewer look here and there and everywhere. (paranormal activity good on a massive screen when you have no control over the sound and lighting, makes you more nervous because you doing know what bit you are supposed to be looking at) - sound - another way of leading the viewers/audience.

Balance and imbalance - humans are always looking for symmetry - something is missing/wrong - playing with symmetry something is wrong if not balanced, viewers are always looking for a shot.

Size - not limited to things being the size they actually are, framing can make things bigger and smaller catch attention of viewers and force them to look at these things. - important object - framing shots to make something big even if its not but its big to the story. (e.g engagement ring).

Lines - boundaries, (jaws, brody is afraid of water line from sand and sea) (colours) (fake scares) ( the boy who cried wolf) ( separation )

Scene to scene - when writing longer pieces a smart visual trick is to lead something to one scene from another to lead audience with you. something similar or something different.

Pre Credits - The Garage exercise.

int. the garage - morning

John Freeman; 27, short light brown hair, skinny, mechanic, boring, but doesn't want to be.

(john is working in the garage on a customers car, when the customer walks in)

JOHN;

You alright mate, shouldn't be too long.

CUSTOMER;

Okay thank you.

Martin Wright; 26, longish blond hair, chubby, johns best friend, funny, happy, unemployed,

(the customer walks out and martin walks in)

JOHN;

Why are you here martin?

Martin;

Alright.. just wanted to come cheer you up because i know how much you hate this place.

JOHN;

Oh.. right, sorry for being so snappy, i just dont wanna be a mechanic for the rest of my life.

MARTIN;

(cheeky tone)

well i dont know what you can do, build a time machine.. hahah, you are a mechanic!

(john looks shocked, and goes to hug martin for what he thinks is a great idea, then the credits start)

The garage - Pats lesson ( genre, movie exercise) turbo charged log line

Garage

Sci fi

Martin Freeman

The Garage.

The poster (martin freeman working on a machine in a garage, bright colours to catch attention, big title at the top, big clock in the garage to imply time)

Martin freeman stars as the main character in ‘The Garage’, he works as a mechanic but hates his job, he has decided he wants to go the future to see what his looks like, to do this he must build a time machine with the resources that he has in the garage.

Character Sheet THE RIGHT ONE!!!!!!!!!

Name;

Age;
Gender;
Nationality;
Health;
Ethnicity;
Languages spoken;
Appearance;


Unique Qualities;
Occupation;
Education;
Intellect;
Transport;


Background;
Living conditions;
Friends, Family and Pets:
Relationship Status;
Sexuality;


Goals;
Personality;
Likes/Dislikes;
Habits;
Hobbies;
Fears and Phobias;
Strengths and Weaknesses;


Other Notes;

Call sheet for the lonely time traveller.

Shot list for the lonely time traveller.

Shot list.


Scene 1 Shot 1; Establishing shot of Leos flat and the surroundings.

              Shot 2; Slowly zooming in to the window of leos flat.

              Shot 3; Close up of leos face as he wakes up from his cat licking his face.

              Shot 4; Medium shot of Leo looking through the guide.
       
              Shot 5; Close up of the emotion changing on leos face.

              Shot 6; Medium shot of Leo with talking space.

              Shot 7; Extreme close up of Leo burying his head in his hands.

              Shot 8; Zooms out into a full shot as Leo thinks of a bright idea.

              Shot 9; Medium shot of Leo smiling and talking to his cat.

              Shot 10; Tracking shot of Leo walking out of the room.

              Shot 11; Zooming out and fading into black as Leo goes to sleep.

              Shot 12; Medium shot as Leo wakes up in a happy mood.

              Shot 13; Wide shot as Leo is walking into the coffee shop.

              Shot 14; Over the shoulder shot with the coffee shop man in it as he's ordering what he wants.

              Shot 15; Close up on the coffee shop man to show his emotions.

              Shot 16; Full shot of Leo giving his money over and then walking away.

              Shot 17; Wide shot of inside the coffee shop as the owner is saying thank you.

              Shot 18; Wide shot of Leo in his flat and then he disappears into thin air.

              Shot 19; Fade to black once Leos disappeared.

           

                     

Script for the lonely time traveller

THE LONELY TIME TRAVELLER

Characters;

Leo - Handsome, time traveller and very lonely.

President - bossy.

Amy - The girl he ends up meeting, pretty and lonely too.

EXT. LEOS FLAT - NIGHT

Leos flat, the front room window is flickering from the TV.

INT. LEOS FLAT - NIGHT

Close up of Leo as he wakes up from his cat licking his face.

LEO

(laughing)

Stop licking my face lucky! 

Leo looks through the TV guide and his mood suddenly changes from happy to sad.

He carries on talking to his cat.

LEO

(sighs)

When am i gonna find someone lucky, aye? I feel so lonely.

Leo buries his head in his hands. Then thinks of an idea and is surprised at himself.

LEO

(smiling)

I know what I'm going to do lucky! Im going to go forward in time and meet the girl of my dreams, its the only way! Better go to bed, night lucky! Got a big day ahead of us!

Leo walks out of the front room into his bedroom and goes to sleep.

The camera fades to black as leo quickly drops off to sleep.

INT.  LEOS BEDROOM - MORNING

Leo wakes up really happy and starts getting ready to go forward in time.

LEO

(singing)

Im gonna meet the girl of my dreams lucky! someone to take care of us, go forward in time with us and grow old with us!

EXT. THE COFFEE SHOP - 10AM

LEO

(V. happy)

White coffee please

COFFEE SHOP MAN

(strange look on his face)

That'll be 2.00 then please

Leo gives him a five pound note and smiles at the man.

LEO

There you go, keep the change mate.

COFFEE SHOP MAN

(surprised)

Thank you, thank you very much.

INT. LEOS FLAT - 10.10am

Leo drinks his coffee and disappears into thin air.

EXT. WASTE LAND - DAY TIME.

TITLE

2020

Leo looks around and is shocked he's not sure whether something has gone wrong with his time travelling. 

LEO

(confused)

What the hell? Where am I? Whats happened?

LEO

(shouting)

HELLO! HELLO! ANYBODY THERE?

Leo sits down on the floor and stares at the cracks in the ground and the pieces of houses and peoples belongings everywhere.

LEO

(Shocked)

I must be in an abandoned village, ill go somewhere else.

Leo then disappears into thin air again.

LEO

(shocked)

Oh my god! its like this everywhere! whats happened?

Leo looks around to see if anyone is alive but he cant see anyone or anything.

Leo then realises that his cat isn't with him and starts to shout his name.

Leo thinks a lot about it and only comes to one conclusion, it must of been another war.

LEO

(sighs)

I cant believe this has happened, what am i going to do?

                                             

                         

What makes a good title.

How to make a good title!

It has to be;

• the headline of the story
• what it is
• not too on the nose - too specific
• a hint of irony
• eye-catching
• catchy
• relevant

The movie i was given was Twilight and i had to change the title of it. I drew a spider diagram to summarise what twilight is really about.

The new name for Twilight that i thought of is 'Meet the Cullen's' i think this is a good idea because twilight is mostly about the cullens but also about bella who is meeting the cullens, the only thing wrong with this is that there is a genre mix up as a lot of comedy films start with 'meet the' like meet the fockers etc. 

Treatment

The treatment - the lonely time traveller
In my short ten-minute film a lonely time traveller wants to find his true love but something terrible gets in the way, I have written the beginning, middle and end up and included a little bit about the characters im going I’m to use in this short film.

Characters;

Leo - Handsome, time traveller and very lonely.

President - bossy.

Amy - The girl he ends up meeting, pretty and lonely too.

Act 1;

Leo is very lonely and wants to meet a nice woman and settle down and have a family. His goal is to go forward in time to see if he has a family, wife or any friends.

Act 2;

Leo goes forward in time but the world has gone, he's just floating around the universe so he has to go back in time slowly to find out when the world ends and why it happens, this stops him from seeing if he has a family. He has to do what he can to save the world. He goes back in time and finds out that the world ended because the president set a bomb off in Russia but it expanded and took out the countries near Russia as well as Russia and it started another world war until no one was left on the earth and nothing was left.

Act 3;

At first the president doesn't believe him but he shows the president that he can go forward in time so he finally convinces the president not to set the bomb off and he doesn't, the world is fine and the time traveller finally meets his soon to be wife and they settle down and have a little boy.

The intended audience would be 12+ as I think 12 and above is good because people younger than 12 would not understand the concept of the story and why Leo has to save the world. 

The setting in the beginning will be at 'leos flat' but to reduce costs i will use my flat or a friends, i will try to reduce every cost by using family and friends for the cast and have them use their own clothes as costumes.

I will also borrow filming equipment from the college and film some of it at the college.

I have set days and times for characters to be at the right time and place for shooting.

For editing i have a friend that can edit the film for me so that also reduces the cost of making this film.

There will be all kinds of shots in all settings including wide shots and extreme close ups.

Proposal

Dear Sir or Madam

The lonely time traveller.

I am writing to propose a short ten-minute film about a lonely time traveller that wants to find his true love but something terrible gets in the way, I have written the beginning, middle and end up and included a little bit about the characters im going I’m to use in this short film.

Characters;

Leo - Handsome, time traveller and very lonely.

President - bossy.

Amy - The girl he ends up meeting, pretty and lonely too.

Act 1;

Leo is very lonely and wants to meet a nice woman and settle down and have a family. His goal is to go forward in time to see if he has a family, wife or any friends.

Act 2;

Leo goes forward in time but the world has gone, he's just floating around the universe so he has to go back in time slowly to find out when the world ends and why it happens, this stops him from seeing if he has a family. He has to do what he can to save the world. He goes back in time and finds out that the world ended because the president set a bomb off in Russia but it expanded and took out the countries near Russia as well as Russia and it started another world war until no one was left on the earth and nothing was left.

Act 3;

At first the president doesn't believe him but he shows the president that he can go forward in time so he finally convinces the president not to set the bomb off and he doesn't, the world is fine and the time traveller finally meets his soon to be wife and they settle down and have a little boy.

The intended audience would be 12+ as I think 12 and above is good because people younger than 12 would not understand the concept of the story and why Leo has to save the world. 

The lonely time traveller

The lonely time traveller

Characters;
Leo - Handsome, time traveller and very lonely.
President - bossy.
Amy - The girl he ends up meeting, pretty and lonely too.

Act 1;
The handsome man is very lonely and wants to meet a nice woman and settle down and have a family. His goal is to go forward in time to see if he has a family, wife or any friends.

Act 2;
He goes forward in time but the world has gone, he's just floating around the universe so he has to go back in time slowly to find out when the world ends and why it happens, this stops him from seeing if he has a family. He has to do what he can to save the world. He goes back in time and finds out that the world ended because the president set a bomb off in russia but it expanded and took out the countries near russia as well as russia and it started another world war until no one was left on the earth and nothing was left.

Act 3;
At first the president doesn't believe him but he shows the president that he can go forward in time so he finally convinces the president not to set the bomb off and he doesn't, the world is fine and the time traveller finally meets his soon to be wife and they settle down and have a little boy.

HARD LOVE POSTER

Fish out of the water

Stuck up Sammy

I worked with Deanna Rickets on this.

We came up with the idea of a stuck up girl that has to work in a homeless shelter for a month to change her ways.

Sammy is stuck up, spoilt, has everything her own way and her parents cant handle it so they're sending her away to work in a homeless shelter for a month at least.

When Sammy gets to the homeless shelter she starts to realise that she gets everything she wants in life and these people get nothing.

She starts to look at her lifestyle and a homeless persons lifestyle and feels really bad, she's now looking at life in a different perspective, and changes her ways.

Now everything she gets she donates half to the homeless shelter.

The Fourth wall

The fourth wall;

An example of this is 'Friends'; in friends you never see the fourth wall because thats the audience and the cameras but you never see the characters looking at the fourth wall because that would break the rule.

If you break it and look at the fourth wall this could ruin the shots and the audience wouldn't feel as involved and neither would the people at home watching it on TV.