Animatic

Storyboard for "Dreams Can Come True"

First Draft of Script

Script for ‘Dreams can come true’

Film opens with an establishing shot of central protagonist, Abby’s house. All lights are off except for her bedroom, which is giving out a dim glow. It then cuts to a medium shot of Abby in bed, asleep however it is clear by her muttering of words such as “stop” and “please” that she is having a dream.  The shot then dissolves into her dream where a point of view shot follows the vision she is enduring. In the dream, she is in the school common room and people are bullying and throwing things at her and her friend. She then storms out the common room in attempt to get away from this nightmare however on the way out she trips and falls into her love interest, Chris. Abby then wakes up and a medium shot portrays her sudden awakening.

Abby: (in a confused tone) Woah

Music begins to play over a montage of Abby getting reading for school (brushing her teeth, changing, eating breakfast etc..).

Mum: Come on Abby, you’re gunna be late for school!

Abby: Okay mum!

Abby quickly puts a photo of her love interest in her pocket on the way out, this action is emphasised by the close up of the photo followed by a close up of her smiling face. There is then a montage of her walking to school with her earphones in her ears. At this point, music is still playing and the titles are on screen. As Abbey arrives at school, she takes her earphones out to greet her best friend, Ella.

Abby: Hey

Ella: Heya!

Abby: You alright?

Ella: Yeah good good thanks, bit tired though, stayed up until midnight finishing the English essay for mr brown, you done it?

Abby:  (in a glum tone) Oh damn. No I haven’t.

Ella: Oh well im sure it’ll be alright

Abby: (looking down at the floor) Mm..

Ella: You okay?

Abby: Yeah fine, just umm... annoyed I didn’t do the essay

Ella: (looking at her in a ridiculous way) Come on Abby, I know you, you don’t get upset about an essay! What’s wrong?

Abby: (reluctant to tell her) I don’t know... I just… I just had a bit of weird dream last night. It… it felt so real.

Ella: Umm

School bell rings

Ella: Come on you’ve got a free period now haven’t you? Let’s go to the common room!

They walk to the common room where her dreams start to become reality. In the common room, like in the dream, people start throwing things at her and shouting mean things such as “let’s get her out of here!”, “pikeys!”.

Ella: What’s going on?

Abby: I… I’ve seen this before

Ella: What?

Abby: Come on let’s get out of her!

Abby grabs Ella and leaves the common room. As she leaves the common room, similar to her dream she bumps into Chris however this time she makes sure only to bump into him and not to fall over. She is chuffed at the result as they engage in flirtatious eye contact however suddenly the photo of him falls out of her pocket.

Chris: What… Why have you got this?

Abby stands there speechless.

Opening Sequence Montage

Preliminary Excercise

For our preliminary excercise, in our group we had to create a film to show our understanding of 'shot-reverse shot', 'match on action' and 'the 180° rule'. This was to show that we understood continuity within editing.

Final Idea

Abby aged 17 goes to school in sixth form. She is quite shy and mostly keeps herself to herself. Abby has a best friend called Ella, also aged 17.

Abby has a dream that shows her and Ella being made fun of in her schools common room and then tripping into her crush, Chris, also aged 17.

After a sleepless night of this very descriptive dream, Abby gets ready for school and walks there thinking of lasts night’s events but not knowing what to expect from the realistic dream.

When Abby and Ella take a seat in the common room, the popular crowd start throwing things at the two girls (trying to make them leave).

Abby starts to have déjà vu and realises that what she dreamt last night, is in fact coming true.

Abby is determined to change what happened with Chris who she feels deeply for.

She decides to walk off calmly and is warm and chatty with Chris, this then backfires as the picture that she put in her pocket of Chris while getting ready for school falls out of her pocket.

Chris sees it and it very confused by this weird occurrence. Abby is speechless and doesn’t know what to do next.

Research of Genre

Young protagonist definition: The leading character in a film, usually the main figure or one of the most prominent figures in a real situation.

Stereotypical characters:

In films which include a young protagonist, there is a lot of use of the same type of characters. Some of these consist of characters such as:

·         The popular girl/boy

·         The nerd

·         The emo

·         The clown

·         The rebel

·         The average girl/boy

Typical locations:

·         School/college – Where the character can be faced with problems such as friendships, love affairs, schoolwork etc.

·         Characters home – A place where the character can be themselves, a place where family can be introduced

·         Friends houses – Where friends can gossip about events and issues presented in their lives

·         Parties – Very popular setting for films with young people, where characters can show their wild side, get drunk and share moments that wouldn’t usually occur at school or home

Typical themes:

·         Relationship problems – love, friendships, family

·         Friendships – social group or cliques

·         Love – girl meeting boy, cheating, first love

·         Conflict – arguments with friends, family, girlfriend/boyfriend

·         Alcohol and drugs

·         Sex

·         Bulling – because of being an outcast or being different

·         Everyday problems – with jobs, school work, relationships etc.

Other typical traits:

·         Camera angles;

-          Extreme close up, used to show the emotion on the characters face in an emphasised way or to show the reaction of the character in some kind of event

-          Low angle, used to make a character look vulnerable or powerless

-          High angle, used for the opposite reason to make a character look powerful or intimidating

-          Two shot, used to show two characters talking helps show facial expressions and reactions of both characters and also creates empathy for the audience

·         Sound effects to emphasise action or make something more realistic

·         Dialogue to show characters personalities, give insights into relationships and show characters feelings

·         Music to create a certain mood

Juno - 9 Screenshots of Opening Sequence

Juno's opening sequence is known as one of the most memorable opening sequence's of 2007. The opening sequence is shown after the opening scene and shows Juno walking to the shop to buy a pregnancy test. The opening sequence was used to show the audience Juno's quirky, unique point of veiw. The sequence was hand creating by taking thousands of photos, turning them into an animatic and then drawing each one out to create the effect of Juno walking through her neighbourhood. The genre of the film is Comdey, but uses the same theme of a young protaginist as our film. For our film we want to use the same kind of opening sequence as this when our main character is walking to school. In this film Juno is portraying a young girl, youthful, free and fun.

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Group Details


Bethany Knights
Aged 17
Subjects: Media Studies, Health and Social Care, Food Technology


Lydia De Blangey
Aged 16
Media Studies, English Lit, English Lang, ICT


Georgia Daly
Aged 17
Media Studies, Photography, French, English Lang

Moodboard

Initial Ideas For Our Film

During our first brainstorms we decided that we were going to create a supernatural thriller, we thought we could do something with maybe aliens, ghosts and murders

Firstly we were thinking around the idea of aliens, a girl finding blue lights in her garden but we soon came away from this idea as we thought it was unoriginal and boring. We then came up with an idea of a girl having a ghost friend, but again we decided that this idea would be too hard to create with the resources we had and that it wasn’t very original either.

After some more brainstorming, we came up with the idea of weird, creepy dreams and decided to develop this idea. We then decided that doing a supernatural genre wouldn’t be as suitable and changed our genre to an independent movie about a young protagonist which suited our idea perfectly.

We elaborated on this idea a lot and came up with the idea we have now about a teenage girl who’s dreams turn into reality. There are still some ideas about her having a romance, friendship problems, and everyday teenage problems. We’ve decided that the main settings will be mixed between her home and school.

Schedule

Spiderman 2 - Opening Title Sequence

In the opening title sequence of Spiderman 2, the director/editor uses multiple shots of the characters in comic form to help introduce them. It also uses lots of images from the original source of Spiderman, the comic book. As well as this another effect it also uses is an overlaying effect on spider-man himself, showing a cartooned picture of him and then the overlaying of the spider-man costume.  All of these affects help give the audience an idea of what’s to come, adding suspense whilst not giving anything away.

The montage of shots throughout the title sequence show Spider-man battling with villains from the comic books, this helps to appeal to a wider audience as people that may not be interested in films as much as reading comic books but they can relate to the opening sequence. The montage includes long shots to build suspense but also quick moving shots which give a glimpse of what could be coming in the film. The fast paced shots suggest that it is an action film but also help to create an atmosphere for the film to come.

At the beginning of the sequence, there are a lot of very quick paced shots from the comic book by using shots of characters, scenes, phrases etc. These different shots all then turn to create the studio logo ‘Marvel’, this is interesting and rather than just showing the logo grasps the attention of the audience. The film title is introduced by lots of spider webs spinning and then ‘Spiderman 2’ being in the centre of it all, again this captures the attention of the audience and again suggest the genre of the film is action.

The genre is shown in the opening sequence by the use of shots, by using quick paced shots it shows that there is a lot of action to come and by using long slow paced shots it builds suspense and also prepares the audience for what’s to come. By using shots of Spiderman fighting villains it suggests that the genre of the film is action, but also by showing shots of Spiderman kissing a girl it shows that is has a hybrid of romance.

Opening Titles Research Task

Spiderman 2 Title Sequence

This is a research task that we carried out to gain more information about the structure and lay out of titles in a film opening.