Monday 30 January 2012

Institution of our film

Momentum Pictures-White&Blue 2007 cropped.jpgWe have now decided on the distribution company that we would use to distribute the film, and we have decided to use Momentum Pictures. The reasoning for this is because it is a british distributor that has distibuted many good british films such as The Kings Speech. It won 8 BAFTAs in February 2011, seven for the kings speech and one for The girl with the Dragon Tattoo. In the past they have won OSCARs, BAFTAs and BIFAs. This will be perfect for our film as it is meant to be a British mainstream film so this company will be good for this.



Friday 27 January 2012

Casting of el3ments

We have three main characters in our film opening who are Flo, autumn and scarlett

Flo is going to be played by Zoe Chapple, Scarlett will be played by Jessica Young and Autumn will be played by Effie Robinson.
Pete Wall will be directing,
 Joseph 'Hovis' Marshall will be cameramen 






Ash Hough will be photographer and sound

Monday 23 January 2012

Storyboard for film opening





















This is most of the script that we have created so far. not exactly the best drawing ever...

Monday 16 January 2012

about the script

We decided to make a script even though it is only a two minute opening. We did this to know exactly what the opening would run like so we were prepared before the filming. It took us two weeks to complete as there was various changes that we wanted to make with ideas to make the opening even better.

New improved script


E L E M 3 N T S





Written by

Joseph Marshall, Pete Wall and Ashley Hough




                                                                      Story by

Joseph Marshall, Pete Wall and Ashley Hough



1. EXT: BOURNEMOUTH TOWN, MAIN TOWN, DAYLIGHT.

-BEACH-

Few people walk along the beach walking dogs and enjoying the sun.

CUT TO:


-MAIN CITY-

We are above the city (wide shot) showing the tall building and cars down below that pass.

CUT TO:

-BEACH-

We focus onto a Scarlett who is sat on a wall eating and drinking. Then her phone goes off and she pulls her phone out of her coat pocket then opens the message.

We need to meet. Usual place, need to sort this mess out”

CUT TO:

-PARK-

We see a variety of shots of Scarlett walking through the park, towards the meeting place.

The final shot of Scarlett we see is her using her power to heat up her coffee, the shot turn into a comic / drawing as the title appears.


EXT: MAIN TOWN SHOPPING CENTRE, DAYLIGHT.

Outside the entrance of the shopping centre a young woman approaches with loads of designer shopping bags. Then she stops and pulls her phone out.

We need to sort this mess out, meet at usual place.”

Autumn looks confused and starts to look around, not sure what to do.

AUTUMN

Bloody hell

CUT TO:


EXT: GARDENS/PARK, DAYLIGHT.

She walks through the same gardens that Scarlett walked through. She walks past some flowers and they quickly die showing how powerful her powers her mixed with her emotions and feelings.



CUT TO:


EXT: CAFÉ, MAIN TOWN, DAYLIGHT.

Outside a café we are CU on a glass of water. It is picked up and a few seconds later the glass is put down and is empty. Then the hand floats over the glass and it fills with water again. (CARTOON SHOT STILL) The hand picks up the glass and we follow it and come to a woman called Flo.

As she takes a gulp of it we CUT TO A POV and the glass in out and face and then come away, in front are Scarlett and Autumn standing there looking annoyed.(THEN WE CUT TO A COMIC BOOK STYLED FRAMES WITH THE THREE GIRLS EYES IN EACH FRAME)

We then pan from Flo and come to the main sign of the café that reads “ELEMENTS” across the window. FADE INTO title card of Elements with the third E switching round into a 3.



CUT TO:


A few minutes later the girls are all sat outside just sitting there not talking at all to each other but then Flo breaks the silence.



FLO

Oh for god’s sake girls! I didn’t text you to come here, drink coffee and not even bother talking.



AUTUMN

What is there to talk about? The past is the past, it stays like that.



SCARLETT

I agree with Autumn, let’s just keep with our own ways now.


                                                                             FLO

Oh come on girls at one point we were notorious and now, I’m working in a shop Scarlett is unemployed and you Autumn, well you’re doing well but still that’s not the point. We need to fix what happened in the past, I don’t mean go back to our old ways but at least be friends again.

Friday 13 January 2012

Research and planning

Actors
We have three main actresses who are Jess Young, Zoe Chapple and Effie Robinson. We also have various Extra appearances such as Joseph Marshall. We will be filming in daytime in bournemouth so there will be many people around anyway.

Location
we are thinking that we will film mostly in bournemouth at various different locations such as the beach, the park, a shopping centre etc. we will also be filming the cafe scene in ringwood as there is a good place to film there.

Costumes
our costumes will be quite simple as we just want to have normal casual clothes to show they are in every day life.

The script for 'elem3nts'




E L E M 3 N T S





Written by

Joseph Marshall, Pete Wall and Ashley Hough





Story by

Joseph Marshall, Pete Wall and Ashley Hough 


1. EXT: BOURNEMOUTH TOWN, MAIN TOWN, DAYLIGHT.

-BEACH-

Few people walk along the beach walking dogs and enjoying the sun.

CUT TO:



-MAIN CITY-

We are above the city (wide shot) showing the tall building and cars down below that pass.

CUT TO:

-BEACH-

We focus onto a Scarlet who is sat on a wall eating and drinking. Then her phone goes off and she pulls her phone out of her coat pocket then opens the message.

We need to meet. Usual place, need to sort this mess out”

CUT TO:

-PARK-

We see a variety of shots of Scarlet walking through the park, towards the meeting place.

The final shot of Scarlet we see is her using her power to heat up her coffee, the shot turn into a comic / drawing as the title appears.

EXT: MAIN TOWN SHOPPING CENTRE, DAYLIGHT.
Outside the entrance of the shopping centre a young woman approaches with loads of designer shopping bags. Then she stops and pulls her phone out.
We need to sought this mess out, meet at usual place.”
Autumn looks confused and starts to look around, not sure what to do.
AUTUMN
Bloody hell
CUT TO:

EXT: GARDENS/PARK, DAYLIGHT.
She walks through the same gardens that Scarlett walked through. She brushes her hands a long some dead flowers and they suddenly are grown and beautiful. (CHEAT THIS SHOT)

CUT TO:

EXT: CAFÉ, MAIN TOWN, DAYLIGHT.
Outside a café is stood a young blonde woman wearing normal clothes (a bit fashionable). Then Scarlett and autumn both approach each other (ignoring) and looking at Flo who is at the door.
Then camera pans up and above the café the sign “Elements” shining purple. Then we morph into a comic book writing of “Elements”.
CUT TO:
 THIS IS SOME DIALOGUE TO FILM TO FILL IN EXTRA TIME JUST INCASE, WE WILL NEED A FEW SNIPPETS OF DIALOGUE IN THIS.

They are all sitting outside the café and having a drink. They are all silent and ignoring each other. Flo looks angry with her arms crossed. (Glass in front of her that she finishes)
                                ZOE
I didn’t just text asking you too to come here and make us more bloody awkward.

Flo opens her hand at the empty glass as it slowly refills.

JESS
This sucks.

ZOE
What do you mean “this sucks”? We are here to sought what happened a few months ago.

EFFIE
Well no offence Scarlett and especially you Flo, but it’s all in the past.

ZOE
In the past we used to be superhero’s now were normal citizens.

Monday 9 January 2012

Target audience ideas

Our target audience will be a mostly 15-25+ year old base with a rough change either way, In this group the film will be aimed at a mainstream audience with a possibility of moving to film buff etc.

Films such as Spiderman and Batman have been aimed at this sort of audience and they have proved to be huge successes.

Other films such as Kick-Ass which you could be seen as a competitor as they are both about young aspiring superheroes. Kick-Ass was a huge success in with the teenagers so this would be a perfect audience for our Film. 

New planning ideas

we are currently at the stage of our scripting and storyboarding and this is our planning so far in more detail: Scarlett is on the beach and gets a text from Flo and starts walking through the park and she heats up her coffee, joe makes cameo role walking past and trips over a bin or something similar. Autumn gets the same text when she comes out of a shop with loads of bags. Flo is waiting outside the cafe with her phone out when the other two arrive  and there is an awkward tension in the room as they sit together.