VOICE OVERS

Our voiceover for the beginning:
“We make many decisions everyday without a second thought; whether to have tea or coffee, what clothes to wear and what to have for dinner, but I never knew that the small decision I would make later this morning, would have such life changing consequences.”

Voiceover for the successful life:
"I had the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect lifestyle. It’s everyones dream to live a successful life like this, but as perfect as it was, I wasn’t happy, I was lonely. Getting on the train that day and getting this job has turned my life around. But money certainly isn’t everything, as what’s a great life when you have no one to share it with?"

Voiceover for the family life:
"I may not have had the perfect job or the perfect house, but I had the perfect woman. I was living the family life everyone dreams of and I couldn’t be happier. It was the little things that I loved the most; from walks on the beach to nights at home in front of the telly. Who would have thought that this woman at the train station would end up being my wife? "

SCRIPT FOR ADDED DIALOUGE

OUTSIDE THE TRAIN STATION – LUCAS RUNS INTO HIS OLD FRIEND.

FRIEND: You alright mate, ain’t seen you in a while, how’s things since the redundancy?  

LUCAS: Yeah not too bad thanks, I’m actually on the way to a job interview now, how’s things been with you?

F: well I’m still looking, haven’t found the right job yet but you know it’s been nice having some time off with the missus and kids.

L: Yeah I’m sure something will come up and I bet your kids have loved having you around, I guess I’m lucky I’ve only got to look after me.

F: Oh I bet it won’t be long till you have your own family, once you’ve met the right girl that is.

L: Yeah I hope so. 

F: Anyway, take care mate, don’t want you to miss your interview.

L: Yeah thanks, mate, cya soon, hope it all works out.

Film Locations

Wealthy Life Location

Wealthy Life Location

Wealthy Life Location

Bournemouth Beach Location

Bournemouth Train Station Location

Grace and Lucas House Location

Wealthy Life Location

Lucas First House Location

Research of Reviews

Here are two contrasting reviews of different films one from Empire's Website and One from The Rotten Tomato's Website. We have decided to go with the style more like Empire as it uses traditional star rating and a clean layout with areas like the verdict and important information about the film text boxes. We are deciding this because we feel it would suit a magazine review rather than a website format better.

 Due to complications in filming, it meant we need to re-shoot a lot of scenes. This is our new shooting script for a day full of filming.

Time	Scene	Characters Needed
8am – 12pm	Train station scene	Lucas and Grace
12pm- 1pm	Beach Scene	Lucas and Grace
1pm – 2pm	Dog walk scene	Lucas and Grace
2pm – 3pm	Romantic meal scene	Lucas and Grace
3pm – 4pm	Sofa scene	Lucas and Grace
4pm – 5pm	Argument scene	Lucas and Grace
5pm – 6pm	Opening the letter	Lucas and Grace
6pm – 7pm	Pub scene	Lucas and Grace

Film Poster Analysis

For our auxiliary task we need to produce a poster promoting our film. Here are a few examples of recent film posters of where we could learn from when producing our poster. Marketing in the film industry is incredibly important, although these are feature length films and ours is only a short film the principle and technique when creating it should be the same. It all comes down to the proximity's of the text and images shown on the poster, the chosen writing, the chosen pictures, the line to sum up the films narrative and finally the names included on the poster. These are all important when considering our poster because if our film was to really go on sale we would need to produce sufficient marketing tools and one of the most important is the poster.

This poster here uses two extremely iconic faces of Hollywood; Johnny Depp and Angelia Jolie. The creator has pointed this out explicitly and boldly as it is a unique selling point. It shows the genre, of which is incredibly important as the audience need to know if it will appeal to them. It shows this through the line saying ' the perfect trip, the perfect trap' connotating its a action thriller. The picture of the boat also hints to the idea that its a fast pace film with a lot of action.

This film poster, although not the same film genre as ours, straight away gets the genre across, with its choice of dark lighting and colours it shows its possibly a dark thriller or a horror; connoted by the red writing at the bottom which links to meanings such as danger or blood. This poster uses a photoshop edit to potentially communicate that they are running away from a memory as this image is inside his head, although I cannot be completely sure. The name 'Russel Crowe' Is also an extremely recognised name.

The Notebook, which has aspects of our genre, has taken an artistic picture to use as the main picture. The pale colours suggest its a love story as does the picture of the couple and therefore straight away connotes that the audience is of a female demograph. No particular names are in bold, although many famous actors and actresses appear in this film it is not the unique selling point. This would be similar to our poster as we have no famous actors within our film.

Deadlines and Calander

Weather for Friday, Dog Walking Scene.

Weather for first filming date.

We are now ready to film, so our first filming date is Wednesday the 10th of November, we are filming a fairly short scene on the beach of Grace and Lucas together.

The weather for Wednesday is perfect for filming conditions, and by checking this we are showing our ability to plan ahead.

Costumes and Characters

Lucas - Lucas life is split into two and this can be seen in his personality.

In the successful life you can see elements of stress, arrogance with his wealth, yet loneliness. He wears suits which often reflect his personality.

In the other life Lucas shows more of a light hearted, fun person. Lucas wears more casual clothes to reflect his casual personality.

Grace is a bubbly, fun character closely relating to Lucas character.

Lucas's first costume

Lucas casual clothing.

Animatic

Poster Mock Up

This is our first draft of our poster, telling the audience a small amount of the film and a source of marketing. In our poster we plan to show a picture of our main character standing facing away from the camera as if he was beginning his journey and setting off. The two tracks connote his two paths he could take in his life. We have decided to show them as train tracks to make the link between his choice and the train he potentially takes/ misses.

However with this poster there are many things to work on, for example the quality of the pictures and images will need improving and we plan to take our own pictures instead of using images from the Internet. Furthermore the background image needs working on and rethinking, whether we choose to take a different picture or come up with a different concept it needs changing because it is not effective enough.
For our font for our title we have chosen a sophisticated font and word which is directed to our audience as we are mainly targeting to a mature audience. Furthermore our tag line 'Sometimes its smallest decisions that can change your life forever' is one of which sums up the whole film and inevitably is the main message from the film.

Mood Board

                 This side shows a lonely yet successful side of Lucas's life. The rich and formal side.

This half of our mood board shows the one side of Lucas's life we hope to show the family life, we have shown happy families and aspects of a life with companionship.

The trains in the middle signifies the choice and the middle way and how he is torn between.

Script

Short film script1

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Our script is very short just because although we have our basis to our film, we are planning to film and add in dialouge later so it is more natural to our actors and the off bits of dialouge are more effective. The script shows a rough description of our shots however after experience we found we changed the script a lot during our filming dates.

Our Film Name

Our film title took a lot of time to decide on, we came up other ideas like decisions and choices, due to the main plot of our film, however we found this too boring and simple. We looked at the film Inception and noticed the narrative and genre were very similar and noticed the name as we believed it was very effective for a film title. So therefore after a lot of research on names we decided to sum up our film in one word and we came to the conclusion that our film was genuinely about two choices. So we looked up choices in a thesaurus and came with a number of different words we could possibly use as our titles. However the word intersection really stood out to us, and the initial meaning was crossing of two paths of which our character experiences within our short film. So our film name is Intersection. We looked at other film names amd discovered the film name "Inception" was really effective and complex so we then thought ours followed a similar pattern.

Sliding Doors Analysis

Sliding Doors is possibly the most similar film to our concept and narrative. It explores a double narrative and a choice and also relates closely to the train idea. The conventions used are very similar and inspiring. Furthermore a convention used is the sound effect at the point where the mains characters life changes. Although you do not see two completely separate lives you see how her life changes and differs from when she catches the train and catches her boyfriend having an affair and when she does not and continues to live her life with her dishonest boyfriend.

The parallel narrative also is very similar to our idea however we aim to make ours original by adding a ghost shot where you see the two flash forward moments at the same time. With using conventions like split screen and lighting to demonstrate the two different lives.

The poster of sliding doors could potentially corrospond closely to ours. It gives a small amount of information about the film, and the mirror image of the woman in her two different lives shows the plot has a split narrative of which we hope to show also.

Survey

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From handing this survey out we realised our audience would be mostly female 18-35 year olds. We noticed that well known actors and actresses attracted certain audiences, however we do not have access to famous actors so we decided to use actors and actresses within the age group of our demograph.

Analysis of a short film.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p004tb3f

This genre of short films closely relates to our short film as it is a drama with elements of fantasy and a non-naturalistic style to it. The narrative follows one character Darren in a dream like state of who is trying to remember past events, this is shown by a clone of himself.

The style of this short film is quite dark and can be reflected in the lighting throughout shots of his memory. However when shots of his current dream like or death state are shown you get this effect by the light airy lighting suggesting it is unreal. The setting and location of the short film is interesting as it really highlights the unrealistic atmosphere and can be found when looking at the mise en scene, the scenes change from a deserted beach with a slightly eery feel to it, to a dark night in an urban area of which also has creepy elements within. The costume of the main character Darren with a dark blue suit shows formality maybe to do with his job as a tv host or another connotation that the suit is the clothing of where he life took a turning point and he murdered the boy and he cannot turn away from it, or hide from it. The blood stain is significant because you believe the man to be dying himself when actually it is the blood of the teenager he killed. The verisimilitude is incredibly successful in many ways although it is unlikely and unrealistic you believe that each shot is a snippet of this mans mind and the madness and distress he is feeling. The way they have used shots of a dilating pupil and eye shows the death of the boy but also the awakening of the man to his crime.

The camera shots significantly reflect the nature of the film. Fast moving shots and pans to show the panic while Darren is running from the group of teenagers. Slow moving shots to show his reflection on the past. The shots range from mid shots to show his life before the murder and slightly closer shots to reflect the intensity of moments. There are also extreme close-ups to show the intense relationship between Darren and his girlfriend and the moment she reveals they are having a baby.

The sound in this film is hugely effective it ranges from soft piano non- digectic sound to show the remembrance and reflection time. Fast pace electronic non digetic sound to show the pace of movement in shot when Darren is fleeing from the gang. And an ear-piercing screech to show the pain inside Darrens head and him struggling to see straight and think straight.

The editing in this short film is also very succesful as it follows the technique of cutting back and forth from scenes and jumping time. This is effective for the story is all about his memories and memories flicker just like the way the shots are edited.

The whole narrative of the story is well though out from the doubled characters to the title of the short film "Tomorrows Forecast" which not only corresponds with Darrens career predicting the weather on a game show, but also a forecast and prediction to what will happen in his life tomorrow. For example the sign; "Game Show Host Killer" which shapes Darrens choice on what to do.

The genre and narrative are incredibly similar to our short film idea and can be useful for inspiration for shot ideas, although this is a much darker approach and we look to making a more light-hearted friendly short film.

Our Ancillary Tasks

1. Poster- Our poster will give us a chance to visually show and promote our film. Artistically we can demonstrate our skills to produce a poster after researching other film posters and things to include on this.

2. Radio trailer The radio trailer another type of medium gives us another area of media to focus on to promote our short film. Sound will be our key tool and we can use a conventions like a voice over to advertise our film.

Our Concept

After deciding a trailer would not be suitable we decided to make a short film.

Our concept comes from a drama genre with elements of fantasy. We have chosen one main character of who will face a choice. Our character Lucas (late 20's) begins his journey at a train station on the way to a job interview. There he gets two flash forwards of two different paths he can take. The whole narrative revolves around these two flash forwards and follows Lucas's life in two extremely different narratives.

At that moment his first flash forward begins where a woman falls in front of him tripping and dropping all of her stuff. The train is about to leave and Lucas dashes forward past the woman and jumps on the train. His second path he stops and helps the woman up but missing his train. We then see his two lives, one life where he gets an amazing  job and has a lot of money, a nice car, we see elements of his life as a rich man but his loneliness. His next life the woman who he helps turns out to be the love of his life we see the second option of being happily married in an average home, yet facing struggling to pay for bills.

 Both flash forwards end with a letter being opened, the first life being a letter for a huge bonus cheque however he has no-one to celebrate it. The other life we see him open a letter with photos of their baby scans of which he celebrates with his wife. The ending shot consists of the lasting choice and the beginning shot is repeated where the woman falls and he has to make his choice however the initial choice is not revealed and left down to the audience.