PLANN: ELLI

Character profiling: ELLI

When character profiling Elli, it was important to show her as Daisy's companion, and her main qualities needed to be shown through action and visual.

As Daisy's face is not seen throughout the short film, its important that we feel emotions through Elli. One key scene featuring 

PLANNING: AUDIENCE RESEARCH

Audience Research

My partner and I have researched our target audience using pinterest. We believe our audience will be teenage girls, and using pinterest we have been able to use different qualities to build up our audience profile.

CONSTRUCTION: SOUNDTRACK

Soundtrack

All our music is original and written specifically as soundtrack for our short film. Two songs with fitting lyrics anchors the films meaning moving from joy to pathos. 

Jess sings into the recorder and we laid the track in iMovie.
Jessica is in the sixth form of our school and we commissioned her to do our singing. She has also posted this on her instagram below posted.

Lyrics:
She didn't want it all, 
Because she never had it,
Though her dreams stood tall,
She'd never have it,
And she knew too well,
That it was just a dream. 

Chords:

C, G, A, F

CONSTRUCTION: FILMING

Filming- FINAL SCENE

Today we filmed the final scene in the short film. It was important to make the footage as realistic as possible, and as it is a sensitive subject approach it respectively.  


There were a few problems we approached when filming, such as making our surrounding look hospital like, as we were unable to obviously film in a real one. We used our schools gym, which had a plain wooden floor. We also had a problem with the cameras focus for close ups which were vital pieces of filming.

After uploading the footage we discovered we were unhappy with the footage, and are now  hoping too refilm. We have now decided we are going to have to insert footage of the outside of a hospital to help with the narration, but also use a different camera which specialises in close ups. We have treated todays filming as a learning curve, and are defiantly going to learn from mistakes in the future.

PLANNING: CALL LIST

Call List

A very important part of planning is creating call lists. This helps to organise with your partner places you are filming to make sure you are both defiantly on the same page and there in no miscommunication. 

PLANNING: MY TREATMENT

Guide on how to write a treatment

After visiting the Future Learn website, I watched a video featuring Frank Ash in it, he is a creative consultant who has taught storytelling and creativity techniques to teams across the BBC. 

In the video Frank explains his main points (advise):

• Think about your favourite book or film or any ‘good story’ you recently watched online, could you sum up its narrative into ‘one elegant sentence’ to provide its ‘topline’?
• What was its big story question, and how important was it to your appreciation of the text?" 

From this is have learnt and aim to define in our personal treatment what the top line is and what the big questionis. 

We will aim to define in our treatment and I have tried to base this practical advice: 

Topline: A girl who wants to complete her scrap book full of things she wants to accomplish before she dies, which is revealed to the audience at the end.

Big Question: Does she have enough time to complete it? 

PLANNING: TRELLO

October Trello List