INITIAL DISCUSSION

Week 1

13th November 2017

In our first day of brainstorming, we started to look up lots of video on internet for getting inspiration – what kinds of film we will make. At first, my friend suggested to do the romance film instead of mystery or horror film which the other groups did. To me, I think that it was hard to make it be more interested to the audiences and hard to setting up the plot. Therefore, after 10 minutes we have changed the idea and chose the mystery film as the plot because it will be easy to think and using more filming techniques that we could use.

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PRE - PRODUCTION [20/01/18]

Initial

ideas

SPIDER

DIAGRAM

Title of Film:

Empty Room

Target Audience:

Teenage

What is meaning you want to communicate?

Don't believe what you have seen

Media Platform, duration and where will it be seen?

Online

Genre?

Melodrama

Other film Inspiration?

Room (2015)
Split (2016)

Ideas, Film techniques you want to use:

Establishing Shot
Long Shot
Medium Long Shot
Mid shot
Close Up
Extreme Close Up
Worms Eye View
Overhead Shot

High/Low Angle
Pan
Zoom
Tilt
Over The Shoulder
Two Shot
Face to Face
Headroom

Brief:

I have been assigned to film the film opening that need to have 2 minutes long and online blog which use to explain in detail of the process of our production work.

Duration: 2 minutes

Genre: Melodrama

Role and Responsibility: Editor; sound, visual effect, screen and script writer

From these responsibilities, I hope it could help me to improve my editing a video's ability such as adding special effects and editing techniques this responsibilities could help me to improve my ability of editing the video

Media techniques, codes and conventions, skills that you intend on using:

Sony Vague
Premiere Pro
After Effects
Photoshop

Production Company Called: Luard

Institutional Factors: BGM(Background Music), Sound Effect and lighting

Meanings and messages that you hope to represent:

"Don't believe what you have seen" - the reason that we chose to use this sentence for representing our film because at the beginning of our film it was lie to the audiences by showing that the boy and his friends are playing together but in fact there is only boy in his room. So the message that they will get from this film is "don't judge a person by how him looks like if you don't know what kind of person he is".

Statement

of

intentions

Audience profile

Lifestyle: Mystery lover

Interests: like to read the book that is mystery or psychology

Vocation: students

Class: Middle Class

Social class: ABC1

Education: High School and University

Age: 25 - 55+

Gender: Female

Ethnicity: Any

Spending Power: Lees than £125

Mainstream Niche

Gratifications: Understand the patient’s point of view

Convergence: Online

To research this audiences profile as realistic as possible, I used 'YouGov Profiles LITE' to help me determine these information.

Room (2015)

In 1920, filmgoers were treated to no fewer than two different film versions of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In this one, John Barrymore plays the humanitarian Dr. Henry Jekyll, who becomes obsessed with the notion of separating the good and evil impulses within every man. To this end, he develops a potion which unleashes his own darker side: the demonic Mr. Hyde. This was the adaptation which established the cliché of having both a "good" and "bad" leading lady, to parallel the doppelganger aspects of the Jekyll/Hyde personality. Martha Mansfield is the good girl, while Nita Naldi, wearing costumes that were daring indeed in 1920, is the bad one. The adaptors also borrowed the character of Lord Henry from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray in order to provide Jekyll with an evil mentor/blackmailer. Sadly, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde proved to be one of the last starring films for leading lady Martha Mansfield: she died horribly during filming of The Warrens of Virginia (1924) when her costume touched a discarded match and burst into flame.

Summary from: https://goo.gl/Ykk8dq

ROOM tells the extraordinary story of Jack, a spirited 5-year-old who is looked after by his loving and devoted mother. Like any good mother, Ma dedicates herself to keeping Jack happy and safe, nurturing him with warmth and love and doing typical things like playing games and telling stories. Their life, however, is anything but typical--they are trapped--confined to a 10-by-10-foot space that Ma has euphemistically named Room. Ma has created a whole universe for Jack within Room, and she will stop at nothing to ensure that, even in this treacherous environment, Jack is able to live a complete and fulfilling life. But as Jack's curiosity about their situation grows, and Ma's resilience reaches its breaking point, they enact a risky plan to escape, ultimately bringing them face-to-face with what may turn out to be the scariest thing yet: the real world.

Summary from: https://goo.gl/4W15pm

Dr. Robert Jekyll and Hyde

DEVELOPMENT ZONE [23/01/18]

Research

Planning

What surprises or incidents will arise in your film?

A boy was alone in the room.

What is driving the action of your story?

After the accident the boy’s behaviour changed, nobody would like to be his friend so he confine himself in his bedroom for a month. Which made him started to feel alone and talk or play with himself

Who or what opposes the protagonist?

Unfortunate event

Car crash accident

protagonist?

The protagonist of ‘Empty Room’ is a boy who was crashed by car’s accident when he was very young. It made him was Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) or Multiple Personality Disorder – a person has two or more personalities. He always played with himself in his bedroom for a year instead of going outside.

fresh and unique ideas that you want to develop?

Location

topic that you want to focus on?

"Don't believe what you have seen"

Genre?

Melodrama

A melodrama intensifies sentiment and exaggerates emotion, action and plot over characterization. There are numerous Sub-genres such as Western, thriller, action, murder mystery, science fiction and fantasy.