Reflection of pre production process

So far in our production we have completed the planning of our project including the screen play, storyboard, schedule, pitches, synopsis and research (target audience and influences). At the start we began with the pitches and synopsis which went well. We all worked together on this part and included all of our ideas and thoughts on what would and wouldn’t work. From our collection of ideas we concluded with one pitch that we would use for our production. This was the actual suicide of Lucy Barker. From this we produced a synopsis for our film. This was successful and was a brief description of what was going to happen in our film with some background information.

Following these we produced a questionnaire in which we were going to use to research our target audience. We asked 15 people with questions including what aspects of a drama film they were interested in. the types of dramas they prefer? What their favourite drama is and what they would rate it on a scale of 1-10. From the research we were able to see what our typical audience would be in order to decide how we would film e.t.c to relate to our chosen audience.
With our influences we decided to use a PowerPoint to show how the films we had chosen were linked to our production and what aspects we were going to include or dismiss. The main film that influenced our pitch idea was Kidulthood. The similarities we found were the idea of suicide in which our character, struggling with difficulties in her life, leads herself to commit suicide. We were going to show what happened in her life that led her to the suicide. These included bullying at school and the stress of her home life. Our opening was going to end on her death.

Using the influences we began our first draft of the screen play. Once completed, we discussed our idea with our teacher and concluded that our opening was too much like a film with a beginning, middle and end. Therefore we had to adjust some minor things. Resulting in this we changed our synopsis and pitch idea to match what we came up with. We decided to leave the suicide to the rest of the film and show the characters feelings and actions in a slower process. This was long process and the alterations held us back a while as we had to go back and change factors before continuing. There is not much speech in our opening but we deliberately decided to do this in order to create tension and suspense of what was going to happen.

Once we changed our previous work to suit our final brief we continued onto the storyboard. As we were not at expressing our idea onto images we received help from an outside source. We had a series of shots that show the different camera angles we were going to use with the characters and positioning involved.

The timing used to complete all of the above tasks was not used as good as it could have been. Due to minor changes we had to make along the way we were slightly held back. However, once we were on task our group made progress and we now feel we are on the right tracks in producing a really good opening production, if all works how we planned.

Screen play

Screen Play-Anna, Maria, Chloe, Aisleigh
EXT: Lucy standing in the middle of the street holding a bunch of flowers.

Takes place during the day time

Crowd Laughing
BOY 1

“you alright Luc?”

“Lucy whats up?”

Lucy gets frustrated and hits him with the bunch of flowers (flowers begin to fall apart)

Lucy pushes past the crowd, while still holding the dismantled flowers and starts to run down the street

FADE OUT

FADE IN (slamming the house door as it fades back in)

INT: Lucy runs upstairs, while breathing heavily Lucy runs into the bathroom, slams the door and then locks it She looks in the mirror, still breathing heavily but begins to calm down
At this point she has tears running down her face and smudged make up everywhere Stares
At Herself Lucy wipes the tears away from her face, slowly opens the cupboard and runs the tap She then begins to rummage through the cupboard looking for pills and then finds them and fixates her eyes on them Lucy then picks up the pot, puts one in her hand and then places it up to her mouth

Black out-'6 months earlier'

END