Rochelle Hofma

In Love That Was Never SeenI will use different camera work, lighting, sound, editing, setting, props and costume to show and explain to the audience as best as I can the plot without having to put voice overs to tell the story. The genre of my film is romantic that has a message to many teenagers. The mood is sad and dim at the start but towards the end when the twist takes place the mood changes to a lot happier. I will use a over the shoulder shot of Amelia looking at herself in the mirror and then Noah will be faded in the background looking at her with a sly smile on his face. This will show that Noah was in love with her and thought she was beautiful from the start.  There will be a focus shot of Amelia looking through a beauty magazine to show that she is self-conscious and is looking for anything to make herself look more attractive. To help portray the mood there will be heaps of close ups of Noah’s emotions and Amelia’s. This will show the sad mood at the start and will slowly move into happy smiling emotions after the twist. The lighting will be dim before the twist as the mood will be sad but as soon as the twist happens the mood changes to happy and the lighting becomes brighter. The costume for Amelia will be baggy dark clothing to help the audience understand the kind of character she is, her makeup will be heavy and thick as she thinks it makes her look better than without it. And her Hair will be down all the time as she can hide behind it whenever she wants. All these things will help the character of Amelia become clear that she is a very self-obsessed and self-conscious person. I will use heaps of different props to show that Amelia is self-conscious and self-obsessed. The props will be a hand held mirror and beauty magazines. These props will help to show that Amelia is self-conscious. All these different treatments will attract my target audience as it is related to a year 12 student at school. All this age group can either relate to falling for someone or being self-conscious about something in there life.

Camera work: The camera shots will be close-ups, long shots, mid shots and over the shoulder shots.                                              

Camera Angle: The camera angles will be at eye level most the times.                                                           

Camera Movement: The camera will zoom, pan and rack focus.                                                                              

Lighting: Dim and then light towards end.

Mises En Scene: The costuming will be dark baggy clothes at start then after twist they turn into fashionable and attractive clothes to look at. Clothes that make her look more comfordant.

Tone: To create the tone inLove That Was Never Seen I will use the emotions which will be shown through close up shots. The emotions will show the happy and sad tones throughout film.

Basic Plot Outline: The treatment of my plot will have heaps of different scenes showing the different things to build up the characters (Amelia being self-conscious and self-obsessed). This will be showed through props, lighting, costume, camera shots.

Characters:  To develop my characters I will use many close up shots to show their emotions. Also shots of her friends to show what kind of person she is. I will be using her body language to show that she is a shy self-conscious character. But her body language will change when she notices that Noah thinks she’s beautiful and her whole character changes to the complete opposite.

Setting: My setting will be mainly at the high school.

Twist: To show my twist I will have  an over the shoulder, rack focus shot on Amelia looking at herself in the mirror and then in the background it won’t be so focused on Noah looking straight into her eyes through the mirror. He will be smiling at her and she will look and notice him for the first time. She will return the smile and then her character completely swaps to the opposite. She becomes a lot more comfordant and wears more in fashion clothes. Her makeup won’t be as dark and heavy, it will be a natural look. The mood changes and her whole appearance does too. I will use different camera shots and lighting to show the twist has taken place.

Tone: I will use different lighting and camera shots to show the tone changing throughout the short film. When she is happy the lighting will be bright, when she’s sad the lighting will be dim. There will be focus shots on Amelia’s face to show the emotion change too.

Code and Conventions:

Main idea:The main idea of my short film is that is shows everyday life of a teenager is like. They all go through different things they are self-conscious with and that everyone will find their true love no matter what your negatives will be. I will show this through my twist which will show the audience my main idea attracting the target audience as well.

Character:I will develop my main character (Amelia) by using close-ups to show her emotions to different responses. This will make the audience pick up that she is a very self-conscious, self-obsessed girl that doesn’t think she is attractive and that no boys would go for her. Her body language will show what she is like as a character too. My main character will appeal to my target audience as a young audience (year 12 students) will be able to relate with her, which I found through my survey monkey.

Setting:    The setting of my short film is at high school, this will be shown through a establishing shot of the school at the start of the film. The target audience know all the different events that happen at high school so they can relate to her and the setting. I found that this will appeal to my target audience through my survey Monkey.

Twist:      I will show my twist in the film by changing the lighting and music. The lighting will be brighter showing that the mood is changing from sad to happy. The music will be depressing music and then as soon as the shot in the mirror with Noah and Amelia ( The Twist) then the music will change to happy upbeat music. The twist will occur after the scene with the over the shoulder shot of Amelia looking at herself and then notices Noah in the background staring at her and flicks a smile. The twist changes the main character in a positive way. This will appeal to my target audience because year 12 students like to feel as though someone is happy to see them. I found through my Survey Monkey.

Love That Was Never Seen has a target audience for both teenage girls and boys in year 12. The film name Love That Was Never Seen would target the girls more than the boys as the genre is romantic which boys think automatically is a chick flick. But my film will target the boys to as they will be able to relate to it. The plot line of my basic short film is unseen love. Its shows a girl (Amelia) being self-conscious and self-obsessed thinking she is ugly and Noah the teenage boy that is in love with Amelia the whole time without Amelia noticing till the end. The plot targets both teenage boys and girls as all teenagers are self-conscious of something in their life even if they don’t show it on the outside. It’s an everyday situation so it targets teenagers and they can relate to it. Teenagers can relate falling for someone and also being self-conscious. With them being able to relate it will attract them and they will find the movie more entertaining to watch. Amelia’s costume will be baggy dark clothes that do not allow anyone to see her body figure. All teenagers that aren’t comfortable with their body can relate to this because it makes them feel unnoticed. This targets the target audience the year 12 students.  Amelia will have heaps of thick makeup to cover her face in which she thinks it makes herself look better. Teenage girls can relate to this as makeup can make anyone feel and look decent no matter what you look like. It makes you feel a lot better about yourself. Love That Was Never Seen will be set at a high school. This will help the target audience relate as they spend most of their time at school. The twist where Noah finally gets noticed by Amelia, she finally realises that not everyone ignores her. This relates to a lot of teenagers, they go through liking different people and that it may take time to get someone to notice. My short film will attract the target audience, year 12 students as they can relate in many different ways.

Group story Board

Dear Rochelle

A very well put together blog. Your presentation is excellent!

A few points to make it even better!

Treatment

Well done for identifying the romance genre!

But you must list five codes and conventions of this genre and how you will use this in your film.

Be specific proving detailed examples and link them to your TA.

Do the same thing for your codes and conventions of the short film genre.

Target audience

It is great how you have described setting, twist etc. in detail, but it is very important that you also explain how these will appeal to your target audience.

Role

Be very specific and provide detailed examples to back up what your role description is.  If you are in charge of costume explain what they are, where you will get them and even include photographs of them. If you are not sure have a look at few of my comments that I have made regarding role on other peoples’ blogs.

Photos

To reach higher grades I suggest including photographs of setting, costume, character etc.

To sum up… a great start… continue working on…

·         Treatment- those pesky codes and conventions

·         Target audience

·         Role

·         Photos

Setting 

Production Schedule done and complete!

(Source: chevelletuffley)

 Luke Holiday- Punch scene

 Kate Buchan- Dog scene

 Rhiana McAnally- Brick falling scene

 Leon Stainislawski- Brick falling scene

Jordan Downey- Punch scene

CREW and ROLES:

 Chevelle Tuffley- Editor

Rochelle Hofma- Camera person

 Sara Jolly- Director

PROPS REQURIED:

 Dog

 Brick

COSTUMES REQUIRED:

 Casual comfy clothes

PERMISSIONS REQUIRED:

To get the actors our of school in certain periods of the day. We need permission from the dogs owner to able to use it. We also need permission from the school to borrow the camera to film.

LIST OF MUSIC:

First three scenes- Scary, intense, dramatic dark music

Last three scenes- Happy music

MILESTONE DATES: (these are important dates, when project is due, your day out for filming, self-imposed deadlines, etc)

DATE

What needs to be done by then

11 April

Filming day

SWOT:

STRENGTHS:

Can film in our desired locations (park and school).

We are willing to learn different techniques to help our film to be more successful.

We have a camera we can use (school one) and also a back up one if we need it. 

WEAKNESSES:

Only one person in the group knows how to use the editing program on the computers.

We are not confident using the tripod and camera’s.

We have limitied time.

OPPORTUNITIES:

We are able to get a dog for the day.

Costumes are easily accessible (actors can supply them themselves).

THREATS:

The weather may not turn out right on the day of filming.

We may not be able to do the film exactly like stated on the concept.

Someone may be absent on filming day.

An actor/s may forget their costume.

We may disagree on decisions on how to produce our film.

We may not be able to find a roof that we can throw a brick off.

The dog might not to what it is told and make it difficult for filming.

We may not be able to get our actors out of school for filming.

Swot strategies

The strategies I will try to overcome the Weaknesses and Threats from the SWOT analysis that may be obstacles to my production process are that we will have to film scenes inside if the weather is bad (rainy), if we have to change something for filming because it is too difficult or something goes wrong, we will have to update our concept so that it matches. We will have to make sure everyone turns up on time when we are filming, if they are sick or have a reasonably good excuse, we can do nothing about that and will have to work around it i.e if an actor is missing we will film another scene, if the director is missing, the rest of the group will have to step up and become the director for the day. At the end of the day, if we can’t decide on something, it comes down to the director, they are in charge of the whole film, however, if it has something to do with editing, then the editor has the final say and the same goes with the camera person. If we cannot get our actors out of school for a certain amount of time, then we will have to look for knew actors or another time to film. We will have to plan our time wisely to ensure we get everything done on time, we have to be organised and make sure we are on target each lesson. It is very simple to use the editing program, Chevelle can use it and can teach the others as well, if we get stuck we can ask other people in the class or the teacher for help. We will be shown how to use the camera and tripod properly.

Practicalities

The film is doable if we plan our time wisely and are organised. Some of it may be quite hard to film e.g. if the dog does not do what it is ment to. But we are able to accomplish this as we can use treats and the owner will be with us to guide the dog. We will keep trying till we get it right and we can even keep filming the dog untill we get our desired footage.

The actors will provide their own costumes, as they are just wearing everyday clothes. The only props we need is a dog and a brick. We will be provided with a friends dog that we can use and we can access a brick from home, or we can ask the groundsman at school, if we have to we can always buy one form Bunnings. 

All our shots are quite basic. E.g. tracking shot, close up, high shot, low shots, so we ar eable to complete these. 

My role as the camera person is to make sure that we will have a tripod and camera that will be signed out for the day. I will get these from my media teacher. If we break it we will have to pay for a new one so we will be very careful and cautious. If the weather is bad i will have to make sure i have a umbrella so the camera doesn’t get wet. Also with the camera shots i will have to make sure that they go with the story board and i apply the ones we have selected. To film using different shots such as close up, mid shot, long shot, establishing shot etc. For example I will use a close up shot of the facials of Luke Holiday as he goes for the punch, this will show the emotion we want the audience to pick up on. The shots show and make the audience understand the film better so it’s a very important role. 

The heavy kind of makeup Amelia will wear before twist. When she is feeling self-conscious.

Prop: Beauty magazine to show she is self-conscious.