RESEARCH: TREATMENT

As part of my research, I looked at a future learn video on youtube by Frank Ash to develop my understanding on the top line and big question of the treatment. This is good because the sotry needs to be appealing to the audience if they are going to see the film. Therefore, if the film has a good treatment more people are likely going to be interested. 

For example: "So, if you’re aiming for your film to reach a large audience online, making sure it has universal appeal will be key." This would be achieved by having a grabbing top line and big question.

A top line is a general sum up of the films narative to one condensed sentence which has to be effective to show what the film will be about which can attract the audience in. The big question is the story changer which hooks the audience to the story to see how the film will end out at the end. 

 

RESEARCH: TRAILER ANALYSIS FINEST HOURS

RESEARCH: OCR WEEBLY AND STORY BOARDS

I went onto the OCR Weebly website workshop which was very helpful when learning about making our story board and how to structure it properly. Steve Thorne has presented how he created story boards for video production with his A-Level students.

I will be using the same approach to create my story boards. Using sticky-notes for the boards is flexible and means that scenes can be moved around easily.


 

We also tried using StoryboardThat, A website which allows you to make digital story boards using the storyboard template and preset, customizable characters, scenes, and speech boxes. However, we found it quite restricting because there were only a certian amount of backgrounds, chacters etc which could prove challenging if we want a really specific scene.
Therefore, we decided that we should stick to the sticky notes because they are much more adaptable and flexible along with being able to adapt it our film more easily.

PLANNING: OUR TREATMENT

WORKING TITLE: (working on name)


The topline: four students A, B, C and D in need of some quick cash respond to an advert for being guineau pigs in medical research. They report to a lab and chat nervously. Soon they are prostrate on beds, in patient gowns, being injected / swallowing tablets under thewatchful eye of two doctors. A cutaway shot suggests some hallucinatory experiences. The trailer cuts to student A in his /her ktichen the next morning suddenly receiving a text. The phone screen looks like a game with a challenge / task. The screen goes black. Student A feels compelled to follow the instructions. She is told to break a few laws on the way (such as steal money from her mother's handbag, snatch a scooter left on the pavement, throw a stone at a window). She is surprised at her own behaviour.

Her task is to surprise a stranger by breaking into their house. She finds that the stranger's house belongs to person B. They exchange greetings. A text arrives simultaneously on both their phones, instructing them with the next task. This one is harder. It involves persuading someone to take a high-level selfie. The screen goes black. They carry out the task. The person falls to their death and they realize that they are in the power of a mind control drug.

The big question: will the students resist the mind control drug before further challenges cause further traumas?

RESEARCH: TRELLO

I have made a trello to keep up to date and organised with the work that I need to do and have done which I can track through trello.

RESEARCH: LEGEND TRAILER ANALYSIS

RESEARCH: TRAILER ANALYSIS SHAUN OF THE DEAD