A2 MEDIA - Edward Bullock: November 2010

Tuesday, 23 November 2010

AMERICAN PIE

Here is a selection of awkward moments from American Pie.

THE INBETWEENERS

Here is a selection of scenes from the inbetweeners, we hope to recreate these types of situation in our film.

AMERICAN PIE WRITERS - TEEN SEX COMEDY CLICHES

http://www.atom.com/blog/2009/12/01/an-american-pie-writer-presents-teen-sex-comedy-cliches/

Above is a link to a post on the Atom blog, written by the writers of American Pie, they explain how the teen comedy genre generally use sex comedy cliches and it has become a convention of the genre. After further development with our script we have decided to attempt to create a teen frat type film, in the shape of american pie but continuing with the birthday theme and the same characters.

Thursday, 18 November 2010

FULL STORYBOARD

We have used a booth in the media room to lay out all of the development of our pre-production.

Tuesday, 16 November 2010

DICKS BEDROOM

CAMERA

This is the camera we will use to shoot Dick's Day.

AERIAL PLAN OF DICKS BEDROOM

LOCATION PHOTOS

Here is the location we will shoot in.

PRE-PRODUCTION

We have been given a booth in the media classroom to put all of our research and planning up to help with the organisation of our pre-production.

Monday, 1 November 2010

SOUND AND MUSIC

Here are some songs we may use for certain parts in our film. After looking at the music choices in The Inbetweeners, we noticed they use indy type music so we have followed suit by using these songs in these scenes.

Titles/opening scene: It's The Little Things We Do by The Zutons - Upbeat, Alternative song

Scene 10/gets soaked: Buttercups by Cajun Dance Party

Scene 12/caught with porn mag and tissues in hand: Amylase by Cajun Dance Party

PROPS

here is a wordle of our props.

Here is a selection of the props we will need.

DICK MOOD BOARD

CASTING FOR DICK

We looked through the website STARNOW for actors who suit the character description of Dick. Below is a selection of the people we chose. We then decided to use Petros to star as Dick as we felt he fit the character description.

Here is an in-depth description of Dick.

Here is a description of what Dick will wear.

Here is a Wordle defining the type of character Dick will be.

The images below show what we feel Dick should look like.

SALLY MOOD BOARD

Here is a Wordle showing the type of character we want Sally to be.

Below are some examples of what we want sally to look like.

SCENE BREAKDOWN

This is the scene breakdown of our script, when we embark on filming this will help to structure and organise our crew.

SCRIPT, FINAL DRAFT

Over the past few days we have been developing the original script with guidance from our teachers.

SCRIPT, FIRST DRAFT

To create this script we have used CELTX a software that will feature a lot in the pre-production of our film.

RESEARCH

We as a group decided to make a comedy film in the style of The Office, The Inbetweeners and curb your enthusiasm.

After viewing some scenes from each program, we noticed that the camera work seems handheld, perhaps to give the shows a more realistic, documentary style. To achieve this style our teacher informed us that we would need to use the camera on a tripod with very loose settings, Petros and i proceeded to practice this technique as we are responsible for the cinematography. We decided to use two cameras to help with continuity but we are aware that we will have to take the 180 degree rule and not get in the way of each other during filming. We also decided that one person would focus on capturing expressions, gestures and reactions, while the other focuses on more wide angle shots to show locations and or other characters in the scene.