Tyrannosaur Swede: Reshoot

In our Wednesday (25th November) lesson we carried out the reshoot of our "Tyrannosaur Swede".
This time round we had divided up the roles of director, cinematographer, screen-play writer, storyboard artist, and producer (who was in charge of the call-sheet,) prior to carrying out the shoot; this allowed us to be significantly more organised and efficient.

I was tasked with being the cinematographer for scene 1, and with writing the screen play for scene 3 (as shown below.) In total there were 3 scenes.
We changed certain shoot locations for our reshoot, as the original locations lacked the lighting we needed. We exaggerated the killing of the dog, (for which we used a more realistic prop this time, which helped the verisimilitude,) as this added extra comedic value. We also followed the advice to take multiple shots of each scene, as this would help with our editing process (and it certainly did.)

Screenplay (Sourced from Milo Davis)

Tyrannosaur

By IGS AS Media Students

POST PRODUCTION SCRIPT - 22nd November 2015

OPENING:

1. EXT: Bookies - Night

Posh upper class looking man leaves bookies in a drunken manner (stumbling about) The man stands with his hand out like he is to receive something. The butler quickly follows whilst arguing with people inside.

BUTLER

Mr Cross apologises profusely for his behaviour

PROTAGONIST

William! Champagne now!

BUTLER

Right away Mr Cross

PROTAGONIST
Oh good heavens William where the fudge is fido

TITLE CARD: Dog Death

2. EXT:

The Butler promptly gives the protagonist the champagne flute whilst the butler is looking round for his beloved dog. The butler quickly spots the dog coming around the corner. And crouches down to greet it

BUTLER

Come on! Here boy!

PROTAGONIST

Where does he think he's been

DOG
*Barks*

3. EXT:

As the dog is running towards the butler the protagonist intervenes in his drunken state and kicks the dog before he can reach the butler and consequently kills it.

PROTAGONIST

Stupid, deluded dog (slurring words)

BUTLER
*Stuttering words* s s s s s i r

The butler turns his head to look around to see if anyone noticed the brutal murder and promptly picks the dog up and they both exit the alley with the butlers arm around the protagonist helping him walk.

BUTLER

Come on sir lets us depart this wretched place

The End.

(Sourced from Tom Atkinson)

Tyrannosaur 

By media students 

POST PRODUCTION SCRIPT – 23/11/2015

Scene 2:       The Funeral 

1.      EXT: front lawn – DAY

Dark/dim environment (setting the scene). A slightly depressed atmosphere arises during this scene. Various cries and tears bake out. 

VICAR

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your won attention so you can change your life.

TITLE CARD:          TRANNOSAUR

The End.

Tyrannosaur: Swede (Screenplay) from ngalvin99

My Film - The Pitch

For my film opening I have decided to work within the Psychological/Horror genre (with sic-fi elements.)

My opening begins as follows:

• Montage of teenage girl ("scream queen" type) getting ready for a run & texting her friend 
• Girl sets off for run, friend has not yet replied
• Girl runs through cemetery 
• (Lighting begins to dim) Girl gets more and more uneasy, keeps checking her phone (hopeful moment when it gets a text, but its just spam (with a 'seemingly random' message))
• (Heart rate raisers: girl realizes cemetery is abandoned and it's darkening, feels uncomfortable, something in the peripheral (turns, nothing is there,) an out of place noise, non-diegetic music changes pace, camera switching from close-ups of the girl looking panicked to p.o.v shots of something watching her.) 
• Tension reaches climax with the girl breaking into a blind-panic sprint, becoming confused, breathing heavily and on the verge of tears, before getting tangled and tripped up
• Suddenly out of nowhere, the friend she was texting appears. 
• Her friend calms her down, they talk briefly ("Sorry i didn't reply, my phone was out of credit",) and she laughs it off, but still feels slightly uneasy. She tries to ignore the feeling of something still not being right.
• Both set off to finish the run 
• As the camera watches them disappear around a corner, a text alert goes off
• The camera pans down to the ground to reveal the girls phone (which she dropped amongst the leaves in her panic) 
• The text on the phones screen is from her friend, ("Hey! Super sorry, just got ur txt - cn't run 2day 'cuz i'm baby-sitting. Wanna run 2morrow? xxx") 
• The scene ends with a (non-diegetic) slasher noise as an audio bridge and a cut to a black title screen with the main title ("The Impersonation Game") 

Tyrannosaur Shoot (p.2)

What needs to be shot

• Dog race
• (reshoot) Killing of the dog
• Protagonist entering Apple Shop 
• The protagonist coming out of hiding ("Sir, you'll have to come out or I'm going to call the police.)

We need to reshoot the killing of the dog as we did not have the appropriate toy dog. We also need to film more of each scene from multiple different angles, as it allows us to have more footage to edit in post-production. We've learnt that it is vital to have a schedule pre-prepared for what to shoot, as this saves time during the shoot.

York Film Festival Notes (November 2015)

Talk: Calling the Shots - Where (and who) are the women?
By: Dr Shelley Cobb, and Professor Lindo Ruth Williams

• 11% of directors are female
• 16% of screenwriters are female
• Examples of women helming the way on films like: Mamma Mia, Bridget Jones' Diary, 50 Shades of Grey, Nativity, and Suffragette
• Main focus questions for this research task: "What challenges do women face when entering and maintaining careers in film?", "Once established, do they still have distinct stories?", "Do women have a better track record at employing other women?"
• The answers for this research project were obtained through statistical analysis, and interviews with 50 women within the industry
• Statistical Analysis: Box office numbers between 2000-2015 were examined - gender balance was explored (and women of colour was noted as well)
• 2 Year Microcosm (2009-2010) Totals: All films = 18% female leads on crew, Top 20 films = 14.5% female leads on crew
• Joanna Hogg: 'Male crew tend to be unhappy with a female director'
• Clio Barnard: Her children affect her choices (she can't just leave them for a shoot,) writing coincides more easily with child care, she 'put her blinkers on' and pushed past sexism she faced (people attempted to push her into producing.) 
• Carol Morley: The 'wanted' stories feature men (male narrative, male protagonist, able-bodied, white - lack of diversity,) Scripts are more often offered to male producers (so women directors have to be writers for themselves,) Morley once got a supermarket deal where her film would be sold within supermarkets but her name could not be made obvious on the front of the box
• Jane Campion: At films schools the gender balance is about 50/50, women do well in short film competitions, men trust men for business so then the women get ignored
• Lynne Ramsey: Class-bias exists - people who went to the 'right' schools and know the 'right' people

Talk 2:
By:

• Film is not dead & digital is making people lazy
• Rehearsal is a necessity
• "You're only as good as the people you're working with" 
• "Don't fix it in post"
• Directors must be clear/work with their actors and crew throughout
• Using a full camera crew is always advisable
• Do not take on more than one job at a time or else you will find that you have to make compromises that could spoil all your efforts
• "Film making is a collaboration"
• Spielberg - Film, Lucas - Digital
• Forget the tech and focus on the story
• Shoot as much as you can while you are in school, because when you leave, the work you've done becomes your calling card
• Big screen & good sound system = cinema is a magical experience
• Female on film - proper lighting, black stocking over the lens
• "If you do PC, stay off the film set"

My Film - Location Scout

The location I want to use in my film opening is one that is commonly associated with the horror movie genre...

A Cemetery!

Having walked my dog through the local cemetery many times, I now know it well, and I'm writing the screenplay specifically with it in mind. The Cemetery is perfect because there's no better way to create the verisimilitude of a graveyard, than by actually filming in a graveyard!
Also, its quietness, easy accessibility, and beautifully eerie scenery will provide a perfect and convenient location for my project.

The first thing I did to prepare for my film project was a location scout of Ilkley Cemetery.

These are only a few of the dozens of photos I took, but they gave me the confirmation I needed that the cemetery was the perfect location for my project.

For the scenes set inside the girl's house, I decided that I would simply use my own bedroom and bathroom. Being a teenage girl myself, my room is already conveniently set up and displays the appropriate anchors for the protagonist being a teenage girl, building verisimilitude.

My Film - Audience Research

To create a successful film, it's crucial to make sure that there's an audience for it.
I decided to look at the BFI's Audience Research and Statistics to find out more.
(I took screenshots of the information that was most relevant to my film, and the general state of the market.)

I intend for my film to be in the hybrid genre of horror, thriller and sci-fi, meaning that the target audience for it would typically be teenagers and young adults (ranging from approximately 15-24 year olds.)
Usually the audience for these film genres is predominantly male, but I want to target female viewers as well to expand my audience base (hence having a female protagonist and antagonist.)

Therefore my primary audience is going to be 15-24 year olds of both genders, while my secondary audience is 25-34 year olds.

The research I did helped to confirm my ideas.

As I didn't want my film to appeal to a specific gender, I wanted to make audience age my primary focus for target audience. These statistics show how the 15-24 year olds made up the largest percentage of audience; as people of this age also tend to prefer movies from my chosen hybrid genre, this meant I was setting myself up with a substantial potential audience.

General Notes 

• "The overall audience for the top 20 and top UK films in 2014 had a slight bias towards males who made up 53% of total cinema-goers for these films."
• "25-34 year olds make up the second largest percentage of film consumers at 18%."
• "Films with a strong action element were particularly popular among male audiences."
• "Female audiences were drawn to a broader range of films."
• "Black and minority ethnic groups were over-represented among cinema-goers."
• "UK films were popular among all social groups in 2014."  
  

As males make up a slightly larger percentage of the cinema-goers than females, it's important to look at what types of film's they're attracted to.

The AB social group (e.g. people in high power jobs - they make up about 20% of the HRP UK population) make up 30% of the survey population and found most appeal in the independent UK films, suggesting my film has a fair chance of appealing to them.

I also looked at the rating system by the BBFC.
 
Due to the theme of horror, and the violence that usually accompanies it, I predict that my film would be given a 15 rating, (even though I don't intend to include anything explicit in my opening.)

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