Buzz off
Fade in:
Flat – MORNING
Derek 36 lives on his own with his cat in a flat. The flat is in pristine condition, everything has a place and he is a bit OCD about it. He has a Cat ‘Jinx’. Derek leaves house to go to work as he does every day in a routine.
DEREK #1
“See you later Jinx”
He shuts the door.
LOCATION #2 – EVENING
People leaving work and Derek stays working late. He is a workaholic and must finish everything he has to do.
WORK COLLEGUE #1
“Staying late again Derek?”
DEREK
“Yes, I have to finish this work – might be a while”
WORK COLLEGUE #1
“You should really go home, you’re always staying late!”
DEREK
“I’ll be fine, I’ll see you tomorrow”
WORK COLLEGUE#1
“Alright, bye”
Colleague exits leaving Derek alone in the office.
Derek sitting at his desk, all is quiet apart from his typing. A buzzing is heard. At first he ignores it. After a few seconds the fly starts to buzz around his head. He waves it away and carries on with his work. The fly carries on buzzing around.
DEREK
-tuts-
He tries to swat it when it lands on his desk with a rolled up piece of paper.
CLOSE UP OF DESK SLOW MOTION
Stop motion fly dodges the paper by evading.
ROOM
The fly flies off around the room again. Derek gets on with his work again.
The fly comes back and he attempts to hit the fly again
CLOSE UP FLY
Fly slow motion barrel roles over rolled up paper
DEREK
“Nuts”
He picks the lamp up again and sets it on the desk. As soon as he sits down the fly comes back and he throws his waste paper basket at it, which hits another desk and paper goes everywhere.
DEREK
“ARGHHH”
He runs around the room trying to hit the fly. As he wildly swats at the fly he is pushing things off the tables and kicking over bins and making a massive mess. The fly lands on a plant and he takes a massive swing at it and the fly takes off and he knocks over the plant.
Brenda getting more and more annoyed making grunts of frustration. The fly then lands on a wall. it sits and he throws a pair of scissors at it, which sticks in the wall. –Close up stop motion dodging-. He grabs a chocolate bar out of his desk and greedily starts eating it with wild eyes.
He calms down slightly and sits down. He looks around the room at the mess he has made.
DEREK
“Oh my god”
The fly then lands on the computer in front of his. He stares at it as the fly stares back. He then slowly gets a book and raises it. Just as he brings the book down the fly flies off and he smashes it into the computer.
The fly lands on a different desk and he throws a box of staples at it. All the staples come out and the fly slow motion matrix style dodges them all.
The fly lands on his head and he runs into a wall in an attempt to get it off in which he knocks himself out on.
ALTERNATE ENDING
The fly dodges the staples matrix style, but gets stuck under one. It can’t move and Derek lifts the rolled up paper to splat it and he gets whacked by a giant fly holding a fly swat.
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Magazine reviews
Magazines such as Empire, review films for the average joe, age 18-24. It commonly includes large pictures, which can set up the entire review. A film like 'The Expendables' featuring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren and Eric Roberts had a large picture of the cast of these 'legendary' action heros from many films. This picture alone could attract an audience to read the review, because they see a face they recognise and proceed to read the review.
This image in one glance sums up the film, with guns, explosions and non stop action from these iconic action figures will undoubtedly draw an audience.
Film posters tend to focus on one primary character who can tell the audience what is going to happen in the film. this often . However, there are other things that gointo a film postersuch as the primary setting of the film, or on one specific plot point that may make the viewer question what is linking them and thus draw them in to watch the film. Also, most posters will tend to emphasise the primary actor, if they are well known, as someone like Daniel Craig would be.
In this film poster, it is very simple, with Daniel Craig and the Bond girl' walking with a burning building in the background. Anybody who has even heardof James bond knows he always has a 'bond girl' and wherever james bond goes, undoubtedly something is going to blow up or be destroyed, so this film poster simply advertises classic James Bond which draws people in to watch. The film title is also clearly shown so the viewer can remember it and research if nessasary.
This image in one glance sums up the film, with guns, explosions and non stop action from these iconic action figures will undoubtedly draw an audience.
Film posters tend to focus on one primary character who can tell the audience what is going to happen in the film. this often . However, there are other things that gointo a film postersuch as the primary setting of the film, or on one specific plot point that may make the viewer question what is linking them and thus draw them in to watch the film. Also, most posters will tend to emphasise the primary actor, if they are well known, as someone like Daniel Craig would be.
In this film poster, it is very simple, with Daniel Craig and the Bond girl' walking with a burning building in the background. Anybody who has even heardof James bond knows he always has a 'bond girl' and wherever james bond goes, undoubtedly something is going to blow up or be destroyed, so this film poster simply advertises classic James Bond which draws people in to watch. The film title is also clearly shown so the viewer can remember it and research if nessasary.
Thursday, 17 November 2011
What is a short film?
A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all credits"
History
Longer films were rare before the 1920s, so length-based categories had little meaning. By the 20s, a ticket purchased a varied program including a feature and several supporting works from categories such as second feature, short comedy, 5-10 minute cartoon, and newsreel.
Short comedies were especially popular, and typically came in a serial or series such as the Our Gang films, or the many outings of Charlie Chaplin's 'Little Tramp' character. Although there was often no set release schedule, these series could be considered somewhat like a modern TV sitcom - lower in status than feature films but nevertheless very popular (comedians such as Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton all 'graduated' from shorts to features).
Animated cartoons came principally as short subjects, as did newsreels. Virtually all major film production companies had units assigned to develop and produce shorts, and many companies, especially in the silent and very early sound era, produced mostly or only short subjects.
Today
A few animated shorts continue within mainstream commercial distribution. For instance, Pixar has screened a short along each of its feature films during its initial theatrical run since 1995 (producing shorts permanently since 2001).[2] Since Disney acquired Pixar in 2005, Disney has also produced animated shorts since 2007 with the Goofy short How to Hook Up Your Home Theater.
Wallace and Gromit can also be classed as a short film, because they are about 15-25 mins long. They have become one of the most watched short films in history.
History
Longer films were rare before the 1920s, so length-based categories had little meaning. By the 20s, a ticket purchased a varied program including a feature and several supporting works from categories such as second feature, short comedy, 5-10 minute cartoon, and newsreel.
Short comedies were especially popular, and typically came in a serial or series such as the Our Gang films, or the many outings of Charlie Chaplin's 'Little Tramp' character. Although there was often no set release schedule, these series could be considered somewhat like a modern TV sitcom - lower in status than feature films but nevertheless very popular (comedians such as Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton all 'graduated' from shorts to features).
Animated cartoons came principally as short subjects, as did newsreels. Virtually all major film production companies had units assigned to develop and produce shorts, and many companies, especially in the silent and very early sound era, produced mostly or only short subjects.
Today
A few animated shorts continue within mainstream commercial distribution. For instance, Pixar has screened a short along each of its feature films during its initial theatrical run since 1995 (producing shorts permanently since 2001).[2] Since Disney acquired Pixar in 2005, Disney has also produced animated shorts since 2007 with the Goofy short How to Hook Up Your Home Theater.
Wallace and Gromit can also be classed as a short film, because they are about 15-25 mins long. They have become one of the most watched short films in history.
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
audience research
Following my audience research, I am going to change my main character to a man called derek. Same profile, workaholic, slightly OCD, likes everything neat and tidy.
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