Script

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Mood Board

The aim of our mood board is to put across the emotions, ideas and genre of our fantasy drama. We found images from the internet and magazines to convey both the emotion of happiness and the emotion of loneliness.

As the genre of our film is a fantasy drama about a man who has to make a choice which will change his life we have chosen pictures which show the result of his choice. On the left side of the mood board we have picture of families and relationships this helps convey the emotions love and happiness; this life will be the result of the man helping a lady that falls over and the right side of the mood board has pictures that convey wealth and loneliness. In the middle of the mood board are the pictures that represent his choice such as the train.

Overall, i think that our mood board creates the right audience and emotions for our 5 minute short film

Analysis Of Sliding Doors

Sliding doors is a 1998 film; it is a romantic comedy. The film is based around the main character Helen, played by Gwyneth Paltrow; the narrative film follows her on two different paths of her life. The plot splits into two parallel universes and shows the two possible path Helen could take depending on whether she catches a London Underground train or not.

Sliding Doors is the most relevant film to our concept as it explores a double narrative and the protagonist in both Sliding Doors and our film are faced with some very important decision making. Also we would like to set the location of the point where our protagonist has to make the decision at a train station (similar location to Sliding Doors) where he will be faced with the decision of either helping the lady up or getting on his train.

To distinguish the two different lives in Sliding Doors there is a sound effect used at the point where the mains characters life changes. Even though the two lives aren’t completely different we see certain parts of it that are; such as when  Helen catches the train she later on catches her boyfriend having an affair but when she doesn’t catch the train she continues to live her life with her unfaithful boyfriend. This parallel narrative is similar to the concept of our short film because depending on whether he chooses to help the lady or get on the train results in whether he has a happy life or not.

Below is the poster for Sliding Doors this is another feature we have looked at is the poster of Sliding doors, as we are creating a poster is one of our ancillary tasks. This poster of very effective, as it shows the 2 different paths of life that the main character Helen could lead, one at the top of the poster where she her hair is dyed and she is wearing makeup making her look very glamorous and the other upside down at the bottom of the poster where she looks more natural. When it comes to producing our poster we may decide to do something similar with the two lives however we wouldn’t be able to use someone face to sell the film like Sliding Doors. As our actors won’t be recognised by a wide audience unlike Gwyneth Paltrow.

Our Ancillary Tasks

We were given a choice of three ancillary tasks; a poster, a film magazine review and a radio trailer. For our ancillary tasks we have decided to do a poster and a radio trailer this is because we feel that if we were to do both the poster and magazine review we are using similar skills as they are similar tasks and there for by doing a poster and a radio trailer we are exploring with different mediums.

Our Concept

The genre of our film is drama with a few fantasy elements. Our short film is based around one main character called Lucas who is in his mid 20′s. He finds himself in a position where he is able to choose his path in life, however this choice will affect his life in many ways. He chooses his path by getting on a choice of trains, one train will lead him to a life of success and wealthiness but yet he is alone and miserable and the other train leading to a life where he has a family and a happy life.

We will flash forward to show the two paths. Path one; a woman falls over Lucas chooses not to help her and just gets on his train, making it to his interview on time and getting his dream job this result to him buying a big house and a new car. One day he gets a letter through the post and opens it to find its bonus or promotion from work and he has no one to celebrate with. Path two; a woman falls over and this time Lucas helps her however he misses the job interview he bumps into the same women on the way back from the interview they get talking. This woman is called Grace later on in their life Lucas and Grace get married; we see them living together in an average family home looking at baby scan pictures with big smiles on their faces.

We then flash back to Lucas at the train station where he is left with a big decision to make; which path will he choose?

A2

For our A2 media course, we were given a list of things we could do for the course; originally  Honour, Sophie and I decided we were going to make a trailer for a mystery film where a young girl is kidnapped; however when we were planning our idea we realised we were going to need a wide range of characters in the trailer to help create a good verisimilitude, therefore we have changed our idea to producing a short film this way we will be able to fous more on fewer characters and location and produce a short film that is realistic. In our AS we produced a two-minute opening for a children’s film so we have decided to choose a different genre for A2.