PLANNING: SHOT LIST

PLANNING: CALL SHEET

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PLANNING: PINTEREST

PLANNING: RISK ASSESSMENT

PLANNING: HOT SEAT INTERVIEW

For a few lessons now, my group and I have been spending time planning a hot seat interview for our main character, Blake Taylor. We worked together to think of questions to ask her and also to think of a more interesting way to present these questions. We came up with the idea to present them as if she was on a late night show and a host was talking to her.

By using various shot types, like shot reverse shot and zoomed out establishing shots where both myself (the show host) and Leila (Blake Taylor) were seen to portray the talk show feel. 

Once we filmed our hot seat interview, using iMovie we edited all together and made it run smoothly, just like a talk show would. Then, we used the 'reduce background noise' setting to block out talking going on in the background, it make it as professional as possible.

PLANNING: STORYBOARD

CONSTRUCTION: GREEN SCREEN EDITING

For our film opening, we wanted to involve the skills we learnt about using a green screen to make our news report clip more believable and enjoyable for the audience to watch. From this, we decided the news report would be about our main character, Blake Taylor, and the scandal she was recently involved in.

We used the green screen in our school's media studio, followed by the software Final Cut Pro and using the keying tool on there, we added in our news report background.

PLANNING: CASTING

This powerpoint shows who we casted for the opening of our film as well as why we've casted them and what inspired us.
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PLANNING: LOCATIONS

Our location for our film include parts of the inside of a home. Rooms such as a Childs bedroom and a sitting room.

 We will also need the inside of a car as our character drives away. Our location of the home is perfect as it is homely 

and modern, perfect for our character who is living in the spotlight and undoubtedly has lots of money.

PLANNING: PROP LIST

The props I am using will include:

-Handbags

-Sunglasses

-Basic clothes

-Sophisticated clothes

-Cameras

-Studio lights

-Bodyguard earpiece

-Kids clothes/  pyjamas 

-Teddy bear
-Car

-Magazine cover

-TV remote

-Book

-TV

Props for child:


Probs for celebrity: 

PLANNING: TREATMENT

INFAMOUS

A story based on a prominent figure in the public eye who has found herself caught in a scandal. One that she can't get away from. What will she do to get away from it? How will she protect her family? 

What our production is about - 

As a group we have decided to create an opening of a film based on the life of a celebrity. This film opening will help show the real world and reality of how celebrities are really affected by the spotlight. It is going against all the films that glamorize the career of being in the spotlight. Our film will open with the character of Blake Taylor spending some bonding time with her daughter In the safe and secure place of her home, in this scene we don’t see a famous idol we see an everyday working mother who loves and cares about her daughter, this shows a softer side of her and instantly makes the audience connect with her and see her as a caring individual who has a home to provide for. The scene will be set in a child’s bedroom to make it feel as authentic as possible. As the scene moves on we see her discover that a long time secret that she had put behind her has been placed in the spotlight and her secret is out, it is everywhere she goes, causing her to struggle to cope as the panic starts to kick in. 

One scene that is very important for our opening is the paparazzi scene. This scene will be extremely difficult to film as we will need lots of different technology and lots of people to help achieve the perfect scene. This scene is to set the scene and show how drastic being famous is, it is a stereotypical expectation of what celebrities see as soon as they leave the house or when they are working on the red carpet. In this scene we will include lots of different camera angles and editing techniques to heighten the anxiety she is feeling and to increase the speed as her thoughts going through her head are going just as fast. 

The opening will end with the final question – where is she going? As we see the young mother in panic mode after facing her first day outside the house since the news hit. This scene will include clips of her throwing clothes around and rapidly packing bags and grabbing passports leaving the audience unaware of what she is panicking for. The audience will see her change her identity, changing what she usually wears, changing her car, trying to hide and protect herself. It will end with her getting into a car that she would never usually drive and taking her daughter with her with no explanation.

CHARACTERS

MAIN CHARACTER - our main character will be played by Leila Saville, this is the famous person, the whole of the film is focused around her and her life, showing the audience aspects of her work life and her personal life.

BODY GUARD - Her bodyguard is not a major role but is someone who will be seen throughout as he shows the importance of her, that she has to be protected especially at a time like this. 

HER DAUGHTER - her daughter is a prominent figure throughout as she brings out the kind personal side of her mother which shows the reality of having this career. She will be in it throughout and will create emotion for the audience. 

PLANNING: INITIAL DEVELOPMENT

Mind map of ideas:

FILM INDUSTRY: A Star Wars Story

Who produced the film?

Kathleen Kennedy

Allison Shearmur

• Who directed the film? 

Gareth Edwards 

• What other films have they directed? 

Star Wars: the last Jedi

End day 

Factory Farmed

Monsters 

Godzilla  

• What was the budget? 

$265 million (gross). $219.5 million (net)

• Who stars in it? 

Felicity Jones

Diego Luna 

Riz Ahmed 

Ben Mandelsohn 

• What other films have they been in?

Felicity jones: The theory of everything, on the basis of sex. Inferno 

Diego Luna: Narcos: Mexico 

Riz Ahmen: Venom, The night of, The sister’s brother 

Ben Mandelsohn: Robin Hood, Captain Marvel

• How was the film marketed? Which different marketing tools were used?

- Released teaser trailer for Vogue on April 7th 2016- movie was released December 13th 2016, starting to bring the excitement and hype early on

- Trailer viewed almost 300 million times in just 29 hours in June of 2016 showing how successful and loved it was

- Promoted at an event in London where new posters were revealed and more teaser trailers were shown too, only being displayed to an exclusive audience and could not be streamed online. This made it extremely popular and people wanted to find out what was on it, raising the hype once again

- Another trailer was publicly shown in 2016 summer and received many. successful reviews

 • What examples of synergy with other products/merchandise can you find? 

- Collaborated with Disney

- Made. merchandise (shirts, toys, poster and other this associates with the merchandise produced through Disney, they made toys, t-shirts posters and many other pieces of merchandise sold worldwide

• What examples of cross media convergence can you find? 

Disney selling merchandise in there stores. 

• Where and when was this film released (nationwide, worldwide) and in what cinemas?

Premiered in LA (December 10th, 2016)

Released in USA on December 10th too and. UK on December 13th

• What formats was it available in (digital / 3D etc…)? 

- DVD format

- Online platforms (Apple TV, Disney Plus)

- Blu-ray and 3D. 

• Who is the target audience?

- Very broad

- Mainly males aged 30-50 as they grew up watching these films so identified most with them when they got released