Narrative outline

I have chosen to do a brief narrative outline because I believe that when I come to filming my short film it will come in handy to have a brief description on what I am aiming for, doing this small task has helped my to elaborate on what I want my short film to be.

1. open with old footage of normal everyday life. 'filming him and his girlfriend opening a birthday    present to show what life used to be, which is a contrast to life now.' flickers to the present time which allows you to contrast the two times, the character starts to reflect on what is happening... how he hasnt seen anyone, who and how.
2. getting ready in his clothes, he looks rough... scared tired. starts packing a bag to go and travel to find people. He packs plenty of things which you would not expect..biscuits... tinned food, spoon, one sock, no clothes, some tablets.
3. film showing him cycling past his car?why? on a woman bike basket.
4. sky as he talks to the camera. then flicks between locations, field, forest, cities... showing and suggesting an emotional degrade and physiological problems...

1. i chose to drop the old footage because i believed that it would be to confusing for the viewer with no background story as they would consistently be trying to figure out what the beginning was about.

we chose to do narrative over the top due to it being more 'in the head' of the character this is to show his metal illness as well as the days merging, i believe that this is a great way to create a need/want to know and see more of the character.

colour grading.

I have been editing sections of my film until I found the effect which i chose to use, I chose to use a blue/grey grading on the footage and I also increased the contrast and brought down the brightness, iI chose to do this because it creates a more bleak atmosphere for the film. The story line of the short film fits the style this creates. I took the inspiration for this style from the beginning sequence of the film 'The Book Of Eli' directed by the Hughes brothers in 2010. This films description: A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind. This is a close parallel of my short film, although at the beginning i did not use this film for inspiration i feel now that i have used this story line and effect subconsciously to create my short film.

Due to changing my idea in a completely different context i have decided to drop this idea as it would not fit in with my idea as i am not looking for that eary look, the reason i chose to do this is because i believe that my new idea for my short film is a better and more serious message. Creating more of an impact on the consumer by tackling a real issue.

draft ideas...

prezi on a brief scene breakdown...

Creating A Plot Discourse > Plan... on Prezi

Creating a plot discourse, a more advanced idea of my short film.

Plot line 1
Our character wakes up with no recollection of the past few days, laying on a beach close to the water, he wakes up and is confused. 'How did I get here?'. He cannot find nobody who he knows, everyone seems to have just disappeared. He finds his bag and starts to walk to places he knows looking for people. He sees a house with the door fully wide open as he enters his house he finds all the supplies that he can, lighter, food, bottled water, PILLS. Tries to call someone - line dead. leaves house.
Montage of walking - journey.
After a couple of days of looking and no signal on his RADIO as he is walking through a forest he sits down to camp for the night, trying to start a fire when he breaks down into tears, looses the will to live on alone and ends his life by overdosing on pills so he can be joined back with his friends and family after death. Just after he passes away you hear the crackle of the radio and a faint voice...
Feedback

• plot one was to bleak
• I didnt want my character to be so miserable 
• I felt as if this idea would be more interesting to viewers due to being able to relate to the character.
• i felt as if this was a better way to show my directing and producing skills with more to edit and with a larger scale of camera angles to choose from. 

Plot story animatic

(as shown a few posts up)

My Target Audience Profile;

Demographics;
Age: 15-35 year old men
Class: mainly working class and lower middle class target market.
catagorys: C1, C2, D Mainly students and people who do manual labour jobs instead of mental, business end of a Business.

Reading Style;
Exibition: I feel that my short film would be shown in a art house cinema, this is because it is not a feature lenght film, also it is not a usual film it would be a cheap film to watch as it is only 5 mins long. Although this short film could be able to be shown as an extra to a feature film, for an extra cost.
Distribution: I believe that is would be viewed by streeming and film fan sites, also at art house cinema as a piggy back film. I do not know much about this way of distribution yet because the film would need to be a high enough quality to be watched and streemed. I would need to learn about this process.

Social/cultural:
According to Buckinghams artical I believe the audience who would watch my short film would be either
Film Fanatics (male, preplan their trip, 25.44, go in 2s review lead). (PAGE 2) I believe that my short film would only ever be watched by film buffs and short film fanatics.

Audience pete buckingham what people go to see from Elaine Humpleby

I believe that i fit in with my TA for my short film this is why I am confident that my short film will and should fit with there expectations of a short film.

FILM: How Should My Audience Respond?

when watching my film i would like my audience to feel:-Anticipation of the storyline and emotions / sad for the character / interested in what happened to him /questioning: who is the other person?

My research into audience types and interests suggests that my film is best suited to:
the young adult audience 18-25 regular film goers but yet to smaller independent film distribution site. Due to it being a short film it is unlikely to be scheduled into a main stream cinema complex: In Norwich we are lucky enough to have an art house cinema which would be suitable for screening my movie.

www.picturehouses.co.uk


Summary of my plot narrative. (1)
Reece is a normal, every day working man, stubble, 6ft tall, thin, well groomed. He is in his house preparing to leave to find sivilisation, with deserted streets the world is dead with no feeling the dominant force has been wiped out. As time goes on he becomes more desperate to find people like him always questioning 'Am I the last?'. Time goes by he looses the will to live, finding a quiet, painless way to end his life. As he takes his last breathe the radio crackles with a vague voice.

Summary of my plot narrative. (2/january 2013)

Reece is a conventional young man, red hair, 6ft tall, thin, casual dressed. we see him going about his day to day life, He is in his house carrying out mundane tasks then leaving , with deserted streets the world is dead with no feeling the dominant force has been wiped out.  time goes on and nothing changes or does it?
I think this will engage my audience more and become a more successful short film because, because the enegmatic ending is more conventional to short films and will make the audience leave the cinema talking about what they have just seen. 

Critics...
-Do I know the style of my film?

What does cinema do for me as a consumer.

As a consumer I look in a film for escapism in a film, something to get out of real life. I like to feel in the film, feeling so that im there with the actors making the film real with how griping the film is.
I feel that I get into the 'Fast And The Furious' films as they are all about subjects that really interest me.
-I like to have a short film/film which is a strong story line, I personally do not mind if I have to work to understand the story (Inception) or if I can just sit and watch and its very basic (die hard).
-I like to be captured by the film and feel as if I am there.
-Feel like the film is in relation to me in some way.

Audience: demographics, categorising audience..

Category audience groups: This is done by comparing wealth, employment and education. Meaning therefore that you can be on a very high wage(singer) with only school level education therefore would be in a lower grade due to their lack of higher education. 
-age,
-class,
-ethnicity,
-gender,
-religion,
-earnings,
-education.

A;   100K+
B;   50-60K+  (graduate, 35k+, employed, careers work their way up the social chain.)
C1;                 (graduate, 35k+, employed, careers work their way up the social chain.)
C2;                 (graduate, 35k+, employed, careers work their way up the social chain.)(Training->jobs
                                                                                                                               school level education)
D;   (Training->jobs, school level education.)
E;    (Not in Education, employment or Training(NEET) students/retired/unemployed)

This system is used for the industry not the the audience, this is so that the producers can find out where their product is heading. Therefore helping with...

-product placement

-marketing and promotion

-focus groups

-creating a target market.

This is so that the producers can target the correct market, therefore creating maximum revenue and interest in their product.

There are 3 types of Target for the producers.

-traditionalist; set in stone the film will fulfill the viewers needs (James Bond) These types of viewer will only change between the genres they like if there is a influential actor to them such as Daniel Craig, because they like him in James Bond. James Bond fanatics are likely to also likely to like films such as xXx, The Bourne films, Bruce willis(Die Hard) and also The mission Impossible series.

-hedonist; random, unusual films. These viewers will chop and change between what ever film they want to see, they are not a specific target market they will go and see anything which goes against conventions. Also seeing films which there are films that they have never seen before (Drive)

-post modernism; This viewer likes the new technology, they would have been the first type of viewer who went to see Imax, 3D, and films such as 'The Matrix' where the machines take over the world and use humans as batteries for themselves and keep the humans in a surreal dream for there whole lives.  

'Last Man On Earth'

This is the link to show the short film which I have taken inspiration from and would like to try and recreate, but originally and in my own personal way. Changing the story line to my own and making the story my own to create a strong and meaningful piece of film.
I believe that if i make this film to closely aligning to the corresponding film I would not be able to take credit for the story line, therefore I have chosen to make sure that my short film is not as close to the plot of 'The Last Man On Earth' as I originally intended therefore my film will be origional. I am choosing to do this so that there are no copyright issues. Although I believe that this is the man story line/conventions that I would like to follow because I as a producer believe that this is an exelent short film, displaying an hour of filming into 2 mins 27 seconds. 
I am willing to change my sroty line slightly to get away from the basic storyline of 'The Last Man On Earth' although I believe that I want to make the story close to the story. 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p00pf28k

draft script/walk through...

Scripting...
(C-camera angles, T-text)

C - A high camera angle over the top of a mans eyes as he wakes up.
C - mid angle as he sits up and turns of alarm.
C - close up angle of man brushing teeth. And washing face
T - day 49 of being alone,' its starting to become tedious unless i find someone today i feel its time you join         my family in heaven.'
C - mid angle of the man walking down the road alone, deserted.
C - close up of the eyes as he looks around for a place to go.
C - Eye line match with a pub or open house door ( depending if i can get permission to use a pub)
T - i have found a way to end my life painlessly and quick, after the illness nothing has been the same if there are any survivors on the other end of the radio please say now before i leave you alone.
C - close up on the pills( multiple pills to make it realistic)
C - mid shot ZOOM to close up of radio, a crackling and a voice comes through the other end.
C - black screen with the sound of pills dropping on the floor and crying sounds...

( this is only a first draft of scripting my animatic will show this draft to give me an idea of what it should look like.)
Having spoken to my teacher about this post I have noticed that I need to put time scales in to show how long I entend to keep the scene going in for.
We discused script writing and looked at examples and discused structure, I believe that this has benifited me because this has enabled me to have learnt how simple scripting can be if you know what you want within your film. its a good way to visualise how I want my short film to happen and in what time period.

understanding plot...

The plot in a short film is anything that the consumer sees on the screen they are watching. Such as the action, adventure the character experiences to reach his Goal. The plot of my short film is to keep the viewer interested, I plan to do this by using short shots and quick camera angles.
I believe that using some of the key conventions of short film I can make as a producer a successful short film.

The outline.

I have chosen to do the short film option i chose to do this option because I thought it would be a fun, and different style of filming i have not done before. I will be able to show my filming skills using the camera angles, and styles I learnt doing my film introduction last year. Along side this short film I shall be completing a poster to advertise my short film, also a newspaper article to accompany this to show that i have thought about how to plan and advertise this short film.

I am planning on doing my short film, based loosely on the short film 'The Lat Man On Earth' I found this short film very influential on what type of conventions I wanted my film to follow because it seemed to be a serious story line but it ended up with a comical yet serious outcome. I do not want my film to seem as if it has no meaning but I would like it to have a comical edge to the filming. The reason for this is so that the consumer does not become bored of the film or think it becomes tedious.