Thursday, September 20, 2018
Mood board
Lifestyle magazine - This is an umbrella term for popular magazines that are concerned with ones lifestyle. These can be targeted towards a particular gender or demographic, and can be based upon topics such as fitness, leisure, fashion, decorating or culture.
Preparation for filming
Cast and crew:
Cast - William and Emily
Crew - Lesley and myself
Prop making: (25/09/2018)
Pictures of William and Emily with her bear must be taken ( location - park/house )
These pictures must be printed and framed
Costumes:
Emily - her own clothes
William (homeless) - Large dark ripper coat, black trousers, boots
William (business man) - Suit and black shoes
Cast - William and Emily
Crew - Lesley and myself
Prop making: (25/09/2018)
Pictures of William and Emily with her bear must be taken ( location - park/house )
These pictures must be printed and framed
Costumes:
Emily - her own clothes
William (homeless) - Large dark ripper coat, black trousers, boots
William (business man) - Suit and black shoes
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Aims and intentions ( draft )
I will use media language to establish location and status in the
programme. Lighting and colour will allow the audiences to follow which 'world'
the character is immersed in. The lighting and colour of the production will be
very bright and pure when the character is in his dreamscape, however, when the
character begins to flip back to reality, lighting will become darker and
grainier, and colours on set will be monotone, e.g browns, blacks... The
costume of the main character will be the main focus of status change, as when
the character is immersed in his dreamscape, he will see himself as a successful
business man, dressed in a suit with his hair combed back. However, when in
reality he will be dressed in tatty clothes, with mud on his face and hands,
and his hair very messy. This is to represent the drastic difference in the two
lives. Close up shots will be used to elude audiences, as they reveal the face
of the character rather than the whole location. However, close ups on the main
character will occur when he is flipping between his dreamscape and reality.
Therefore, the characters eyes will be closed and it will appear to audiences
that he does not know what is happening. This will situate audiences in an
omniscient narrative, meaning they feel privileged as they know more
information than the character.
I will not follow the stereotypical codes and conventions of a
male character. The main character will be portrayed as maternal and caring.
There will be multiple shots of the man in distress, showing vulnerability,
which is not typical of the representations of a male character. As well as
this I will construct representations of different social groups, by showing
audiences the juxtaposition of the two lives. My focus of this episode will be
on the economic differences between social classes, and how money is an
underlying factor in 'happiness'. The two actors featured in this episode will
be white, therefore not representing multiple ethnic groups. However, the
character off the bear will be seen by audiences as a faceless, genderless,
ageless character that anyone going through the struggle can personally relate
to. Finally, the purpose of my programme will be to bring attention to these
topics, as well as to connect with those who understand the issues
featured.
I
will target my intended audience through the content and themes of my episodes.
These themes and issues, such as drug abuse and homelessness, will be relevant
for the age range I have targeted. Furthermore, the socioeconomic groups of C1,
C2 and D will be the audience that personally connect the most with the content
shown. Additionally, this programme has a similar target audience to that of
ITV, as well as the themes of the programmes covering similar ‘hot topic’
issues. However, this production will differ slightly from the content on ITV
channels due to its genre, as it is more alternative and gothic than the
programmes aired currently.
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Pitch document
Title: Dreamscape
Logline: Trapped inside the heads of troubled individuals, we are shown and alternative and creative insight into their blurred concept of reality. Welcome to their dreamscape.
Genre: Alternative gothic drama anthology / phycological drama
Audience: Targeted towards the age group of 16-35 year olds, in the socioeconomic grouping of C1/C2
Unique selling point: Narratives such as a man who is watching his reality crumble around him, whilst still attempting to raise his daughter and her teddy bear. Provide an alternative and gripping view on metal health and how those going through hard times can construct their own reality. This series will be based on enigma codes, with twists in the narrative revealed at the end, when the audience positing is changed from the protagonists percpective of the world to the worlds perception of the protagonist.
Convergence: As this is a cross media production, this audio-visual piece will be published along side a front cover, and double page spread article from a lifestyle magazine. This lifestyle magazine will have a similar target audience to that of my audio-visual piece, targeting millennials in the age range of 18-35. The intended audience will also be in the same socioeconomic grouping of C1, C2 and D. The front cover will include features to other aspects of the magazine, including life tips and hacks, and advertisement to other forms of media will the same target audience, such as new music. The double page spread will include features such as behind the scenes and meet the actors interviews to create hype and buzz around the production before its release.
Logline: Trapped inside the heads of troubled individuals, we are shown and alternative and creative insight into their blurred concept of reality. Welcome to their dreamscape.
Genre: Alternative gothic drama anthology / phycological drama
Audience: Targeted towards the age group of 16-35 year olds, in the socioeconomic grouping of C1/C2
Unique selling point: Narratives such as a man who is watching his reality crumble around him, whilst still attempting to raise his daughter and her teddy bear. Provide an alternative and gripping view on metal health and how those going through hard times can construct their own reality. This series will be based on enigma codes, with twists in the narrative revealed at the end, when the audience positing is changed from the protagonists percpective of the world to the worlds perception of the protagonist.
Convergence: As this is a cross media production, this audio-visual piece will be published along side a front cover, and double page spread article from a lifestyle magazine. This lifestyle magazine will have a similar target audience to that of my audio-visual piece, targeting millennials in the age range of 18-35. The intended audience will also be in the same socioeconomic grouping of C1, C2 and D. The front cover will include features to other aspects of the magazine, including life tips and hacks, and advertisement to other forms of media will the same target audience, such as new music. The double page spread will include features such as behind the scenes and meet the actors interviews to create hype and buzz around the production before its release.
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Treatment sheet - Audio-visual piece
title ideas:
purgatory? limbo? fantasia? dystopia? Dreamscape?
chosen title: Dreamscape
Target audience: This tv programme will include some questionable content, including images of homelessness and references to drug taking. Therefore, I have decided that viewers will be aged between 18-35, although some younger viewers may be attracted due to the various topics relivance in young peoples lives. This programme is catered toward the C1/C2 socioeconomic group. Audiences will be those who feel an emotional attachment to issues that arise in the programme, or those that wish to broaden their views and educate themselves on mental health issues.
Style: Gothic, gripping anthology.
Themes: Raising awareness for hot topic issues in the world, e.g. drugs, homelessness, mental health, through an entertainment series. Including representations of multiple social groups and multiple minority groups. The episode's narratives will be fictional, however will have aspects of truth and a variety of personal views on how mental health can affect a person.
Potential advertisers: This tv programme will be advertised in young peoples magazines, as well as local newspapers. There will also be commercials aired on ITV channels.
purgatory? limbo? fantasia? dystopia? Dreamscape?
chosen title: Dreamscape
Target audience: This tv programme will include some questionable content, including images of homelessness and references to drug taking. Therefore, I have decided that viewers will be aged between 18-35, although some younger viewers may be attracted due to the various topics relivance in young peoples lives. This programme is catered toward the C1/C2 socioeconomic group. Audiences will be those who feel an emotional attachment to issues that arise in the programme, or those that wish to broaden their views and educate themselves on mental health issues.
Style: Gothic, gripping anthology.
Themes: Raising awareness for hot topic issues in the world, e.g. drugs, homelessness, mental health, through an entertainment series. Including representations of multiple social groups and multiple minority groups. The episode's narratives will be fictional, however will have aspects of truth and a variety of personal views on how mental health can affect a person.
Potential advertisers: This tv programme will be advertised in young peoples magazines, as well as local newspapers. There will also be commercials aired on ITV channels.
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Filming plan
Filming Plan
03/09/2018
(a) Homeless scenes
Location: Dark ally way
Actors: William, teddy bear
Script: None
Lighting: Street lamp (possibly touches too)
Costume: Baggy, dark clothes, ripped and messy
Make up and hair: tatty beard and hair, and mud on face and hands
Scenes:
1) duration of 5 seconds, cut to a close up of the 'tramp's' eyes, He opens his eyes suddenly, seeming distressed and he closes them immediately, squeezing them very tight.
2) duration of 10 seconds, shot establishing location. Point of view Long shot of the ally way, from the homeless mans perspective, he the looks down at his muddy hands, turning them over and then making a tight fist
3) duration of 5 seconds, a point of view medium-close up shot of the bear lying on a sleeping bag in the ally way, from the mans perspective. The bear is tatty and dirty and is lying in the same position as it will be in the scene with the young girl.
4) This shot with be the only one with speech, duration of 10 seconds. An over the shoulder shot, from the bears perspective, of the man kissing the bear good night and saying "good night Katy", which will have been the name on all the daughters books and on her door.
5) duration of 5-10 seconds, beginning as a medium-close up on the bear and the homeless man lying together on the sleeping bag, the camera will pan out revealing the whole location.
(b) Business man scenes
Location: Big, empty house - girl's room, living room and hallway
Actors: William, Emily and teddy bear
Script: None
Lighting: high key, bright lighting, quite unnatural
Costumes: William - Business suit Emily - children's pyjamas
Make up and hair: William - neat, slick back hair, clean shaven Emily - two braids, no make up
Scenes:
1) Duration of 15 seconds, Long shot of William entering the house, takes his jacket off and puts a record on the player, (close up 5 second shot of the needle touching the record as the music begins) at this point diegetic music will begin to play.
2)Duration of 30 seconds, continuous shot with a lot of camera movements. Emily comes down the stairs to greet William, holding the bear, the bears face is blocking her own. William hugs Emily and picks her up, and over the shoulder shot shows Emily's shoulders and hair as she hugs William but the bears face still blocks her own. William then gestures for Emily to go back to bed and she does so.
3) Camera follows William as he walks around the house, he sits on the sofa and the camera leaves him, showing the house. There will be a long panning shot across the mantle place, showing the family photographs in frames. The panning shot will slow on each photograph. Each photograph will be of William and Emily doing a variety of things, however in all of the photographs, Emily's bear blocks her face.
4)Hand held camera shot following William as he walks up the stairs. He enters the bathroom and the door closes, straight cut to his them standing in front of the mirror, the camera looking toward William from the mirrors perspective. William splashes water on his face and closes his eyes. There will be 'glitchy' editing effect, where two shots (1a & 4b) will be layered on top of each other.
5)William will open his eyes again, he is still in the bathroom. He seems very distressed, the camera will still be positioned in the mirrors perspective. He will open a cupboard in the mirror, which will move the camera along with the mirror. William will then take a bottle of pills out of the cupboard and close it, returning the camera to its original position. He will take 2 pills franticly, swallow them and then again look into the camera. (ambient sounds will be included over diegetic music).
6) Another hand held shot of William walking through the corridor to his bed room, he will stop and look down the corridoor, this shot will then cut to and over lap shot, before cutting back to Williams hands in the house.
7)A hand held tracking shot will then follow William as he turns around and goes to Emily's room.
8)There will be a 10 second duration shot showing Emily in bed hugging her bear, again her face will not be shown.
9) close up shot of William will show him smile with tears in his eyes.
10) Camera positioned at the bottom of the bed, William slowly lies down in bed with Emily.
11)over the shoulder shot from Williams perspective will show Emily rolling over to face William, bear still blocking her face. William will lean forward and kiss the bear on the cheek.
12) shot duration of 5 seconds, medium close up shot of the bear being held by Emily. This shot will overlap with and cut to shot 3a. Next will be shots 4a&5a.
03/09/2018
(a) Homeless scenes
Location: Dark ally way
Actors: William, teddy bear
Script: None
Lighting: Street lamp (possibly touches too)
Costume: Baggy, dark clothes, ripped and messy
Make up and hair: tatty beard and hair, and mud on face and hands
Scenes:
1) duration of 5 seconds, cut to a close up of the 'tramp's' eyes, He opens his eyes suddenly, seeming distressed and he closes them immediately, squeezing them very tight.
2) duration of 10 seconds, shot establishing location. Point of view Long shot of the ally way, from the homeless mans perspective, he the looks down at his muddy hands, turning them over and then making a tight fist
3) duration of 5 seconds, a point of view medium-close up shot of the bear lying on a sleeping bag in the ally way, from the mans perspective. The bear is tatty and dirty and is lying in the same position as it will be in the scene with the young girl.
4) This shot with be the only one with speech, duration of 10 seconds. An over the shoulder shot, from the bears perspective, of the man kissing the bear good night and saying "good night Katy", which will have been the name on all the daughters books and on her door.
5) duration of 5-10 seconds, beginning as a medium-close up on the bear and the homeless man lying together on the sleeping bag, the camera will pan out revealing the whole location.
(b) Business man scenes
Location: Big, empty house - girl's room, living room and hallway
Actors: William, Emily and teddy bear
Script: None
Lighting: high key, bright lighting, quite unnatural
Costumes: William - Business suit Emily - children's pyjamas
Make up and hair: William - neat, slick back hair, clean shaven Emily - two braids, no make up
Scenes:
1) Duration of 15 seconds, Long shot of William entering the house, takes his jacket off and puts a record on the player, (close up 5 second shot of the needle touching the record as the music begins) at this point diegetic music will begin to play.
2)Duration of 30 seconds, continuous shot with a lot of camera movements. Emily comes down the stairs to greet William, holding the bear, the bears face is blocking her own. William hugs Emily and picks her up, and over the shoulder shot shows Emily's shoulders and hair as she hugs William but the bears face still blocks her own. William then gestures for Emily to go back to bed and she does so.
3) Camera follows William as he walks around the house, he sits on the sofa and the camera leaves him, showing the house. There will be a long panning shot across the mantle place, showing the family photographs in frames. The panning shot will slow on each photograph. Each photograph will be of William and Emily doing a variety of things, however in all of the photographs, Emily's bear blocks her face.
4)Hand held camera shot following William as he walks up the stairs. He enters the bathroom and the door closes, straight cut to his them standing in front of the mirror, the camera looking toward William from the mirrors perspective. William splashes water on his face and closes his eyes. There will be 'glitchy' editing effect, where two shots (1a & 4b) will be layered on top of each other.
5)William will open his eyes again, he is still in the bathroom. He seems very distressed, the camera will still be positioned in the mirrors perspective. He will open a cupboard in the mirror, which will move the camera along with the mirror. William will then take a bottle of pills out of the cupboard and close it, returning the camera to its original position. He will take 2 pills franticly, swallow them and then again look into the camera. (ambient sounds will be included over diegetic music).
6) Another hand held shot of William walking through the corridor to his bed room, he will stop and look down the corridoor, this shot will then cut to and over lap shot, before cutting back to Williams hands in the house.
7)A hand held tracking shot will then follow William as he turns around and goes to Emily's room.
8)There will be a 10 second duration shot showing Emily in bed hugging her bear, again her face will not be shown.
9) close up shot of William will show him smile with tears in his eyes.
10) Camera positioned at the bottom of the bed, William slowly lies down in bed with Emily.
11)over the shoulder shot from Williams perspective will show Emily rolling over to face William, bear still blocking her face. William will lean forward and kiss the bear on the cheek.
12) shot duration of 5 seconds, medium close up shot of the bear being held by Emily. This shot will overlap with and cut to shot 3a. Next will be shots 4a&5a.
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