Location Mood Board

For the setting we knew that it was going to be based inside, in a girls bedroom. We wanted to make the bedroom as stereotypical as possible so that it would be obvious that she was hiding as a very girly girl, and that would then juxtapose the transformation into a boy. Girls bedrooms are generically very pink. So we looked up lots of pictures and took inspiration from it;

Some problems we faced when finding a setting; was that it would be very hard to light because there would only be one window in the setting that we chose. However we overcame this by getting someone to be the lighting, and to hold different lights around in order to cast the correct shadows and achieve the aestetics that we wanted. 

Writing Scripts.

A screenplay at its essence shows a story through images. Think of your favorite movie and visualize your favorite scenes rolling across the screen. A writer first visualized the concept for those scenes and wrote them in a way to be visual, but without telling the director, actors, cameraman, or designers how to do their job. Good screenplays take advantage of strong imagery and visual metaphors rather than long descriptions for storytelling. Compelling dialogue fills in where more information is needed to develop relationships or story. Screenplays also use specific formatting conventions, and like novels, some genre conventions. These are key elements that must be in place for a reader to become engaged with the story. After all, every screenplay is read before it ever makes it to the screen. If the reader can’t see it playing in his or her mind’s eye, or doesn’t recognize the format, it will never get to the big screen. To format our script, we are using a software called Celtx. This formats the scrip in 12. Font, Courier Font, and it is formatted so that we know that one page is one minute of script.

Storyboard.

This is the first draft of out storyboard based off our script.

Emilymissy storyboard from mediastudiesfinearts

First Draft of Script.

This is our first draft of the script for the opening of our feature film, the title is not yet decided.

 

Script working title from mediastudiesf1n34rts

Tripod Tricks.

We got a new set of tripods in our class that will help with the filming process and assure that our films have smooth motion and it allows us to have complete control on the trope of shots we want to take.

Organisation and Planning.

To help with filming we have to be organised and plan what we want to do when it comes to shots, costumes etc. We are currently working on our script and storyboard and are then going to move on to a shot list. This is a list of the stuff we need to do;
Script
Storyboard
Shotlist
Mood board and options for: Cast, props, costumes, locations, hair and makeup