Thursday, 22 March 2012

Script for Characters

Steve pushes open doors, crowd moves apart.
Steve is walking through the corridor towards camera, stops  in front of camera.

Crowd Member: gasp
CUT TO:
Steve opens door and looks across the room at girl
Girl with ketchup on face looks confused at Steve
Steve displays look of affection, then brushes back hair smoothly
Girl shrugs, eats burger
Steve leaves, looking sad
CUT TO:
Steve Brushes hair back, sat on tree, almost falls
CUT TO:
Steve hanging upside down from tree

Steve:  it’s so high!
CUT TO:
Steve is sat in office chair, holding cat stroking it

Steve: (in camp voice) Hello Mr Kitty! Hello!

Steve realises he is talking camply, coughs loudly

Steve: (in deep voice) hello…
CUT TO:
Steve appears at a window of a house, and climbs in, getting stuck on the curtain on the way in.
Steve climbs onto the bed of the “Female” and crawls along towards them.
He pulls back their hair from their neck, before they turn to him, revealed it is a man.

Steve: (shocked) you’re a man?!

Man: I can be anything you want me to be…
CUT TO:
Steve eats a slice of garlic bread
Realises it is garlic, begins to choke and collapses
CUT TO:
Steve stood in front of houses on a pathway, pouts and looks into camera, before looking away into the distance
Titles overlaid.
END

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Script for Voice-over

Voice-over: This Summer... A film like no other...will hit your screen...He may not be R-Pattz
Scene where he's walking through the school
Voice-over:...but he does have his own vampire diary,
Burger scene
Voice-over: ... with the courage of Lion.

Hanging upside down from tree scene, scene with cat
Music changes
Voice-over: He'll do anything to get the girls... or so he thinks. Sink your teeth into this! Glampire, coming soon

Make-Up

As our production is a vampire parody film, we needed to have our lead Vampire character to have the all the looks and features of the stereotypical vampire. With this in mind, due to my position as playing the lead vampire, I had to undergo a fairly lengthy procedure of applying make up to my face.

To get the look of the vampire, we used white face paint as a base all over the face, with black eyeshadow used to create distinctive cheekbones, creating a gaunt and somewhat animated look. We again used black eyeshadow over and under the lids of the eyes, the by lining the eyes with a black liquid eyeliner this gave out more definition in the eyes giving them a more intense look.

We then used the liquid eyeliner to line both the eyebrows and the hairline using angled edges to create a Dracula esque symmetrical facial shape. Furthermore, we added some red lipstick to the lips, and then coated with a gloss to give a dripping effect simular to blood. Finally, by adding wet look gel to the hair we were able to create the combed back, quiffed style made synonymous with the Count Dracula image.

Monday, 19 March 2012

Character List

Steve the Vampire: Mitchell Terry
  • A very un-cool vampire who thinks he's really popular and a total ladies man. He's clumsy and dum and most fo the time a complete scaredy cat. He always wears a cape and has a hair comb on him at all times.
Nora the Geek: Gabrielle Tomlinson
  • Nora is a typical geek, she wears geeky glasses and plain clothing. She likes Steve but he doesn't relalise until the end of the film. Nora and Steve are good friends for the duration of the film.

Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Film Company Logo


This is the altered version of our logo. We wanted to keep the same logo that we used in our AS film project for the purpose of audience members more likely recognising it from previous films I.e. When you see the Warner Bros logo you are more likely to go see a film rather than if Warner Bros used a different logo for every film.
I therefore added a bow tie and some googly eyes as these are typical features of a clown and make the logo more comical. By simply adding these two things, I haven't made our logo to obscure, just enhanced it slightly to fit our genre.

Original Logo

This is our final logo for MGT Film Productions. I used the swan picture and cut round both the swan and its reflection and put into a seperate picture I hen combined it with the font the I'd already decided on. When i cropped round the swan itl ooked a bit ragged rather than graceful so once I'd finished moving all the images a used 'paint' to draw round the images with white to smooth the images. I decided to keep it on a white background as it's more pure and innocent than black. It also connects more to the image of a swan.

Potential Logo Backgrounds


Swan's Reflection





Ballerina

I thought about what I wanted for the background of our film logo, and when I decided on our final font, it was pretty clear. The swirl underneath the font meant that the background image had to be somethign graceful, the first think I thought of was a swan as it's known for being graceful, I then thought of swan lake and ballerinas. I had to potential ideas for the backgrounds which are shown above. I then asked friends and family of all ages and both genders and asked them what they thought was more appropriate and more people thought that the swan was better so we decided to go with that.

Potential Fonts

This font is quite bold and stands out. However it's quite squished together and a little difficult to read. We liked the idea of having a loveheart over the 'I' to make it more feminine. We could perhaps change the colour
This font is a lot like the fint for the Disney company, it therefore has a childish feel to it. The writing looks handwritten but still clear enough to read it. There is also a love heart above the 'I' which makes it girly and cute.
I like this film title, the curled, rickety edges remind me of a late ‘Nosferatu’, the original vampire film. Although this font style is apparent it’s some kind of theatrical thriller film, it’s not however getting across the essence of our genre. The small heart inside the letter ‘A’ subtly emphasises the twist within our film however doesn’t give too much away.

This font reminds me of the film 'Bewitched as it has the sparkles over it. However I think the sparkles would be more appropriate for a film with magic in it rather than a supernatural film. The letters are clear although strangely formed and curled a little.
I really liked this one, the letters are bold and clear and easy to read and there are numerous heart shapes over the top. This is girly however because it's written in bold capitals and not hadwriting its not quite as feminine. This is the one we've decided to pick for our font.
This one is quite spooky looking so would go with our genre of the supernatural. There is no hearts or stars over the letters though which is what we were looking for. However we still wanetd to include this font as we could quite easily put a heart over the dot of the 'I'.

This font is always quite nice but the 'G' doesn't stand out as much. Although I think it's quite effective that the 'G' is inside the heart with a smaller heart next to it. The letters are also bold and in capitals so they do stand out quite well.
Although this one is quite nice and girly, its not particularly easy to read and doesn't stand out straight away because the hearts are inside the letters. The only bit I really like about this font is that the letters are bold and black.

Friday, 2 March 2012

Shot List


Done
#
Shot
Action
Notes
Done
1
Medium-close up
Steve sat in tree pouting
Fade after shot
Done
2
Long shot
Steve walking down school corridor through crowd, stops in front of camera

Done
3
Close up
Steve opens door

Done
4
Close up
Nora turns to face Steve

Done
5
Close up
Steve pulls out brush and brushes hair, moves closer to Nora

Done
6
Close up
Nora gives Steve an unenthusiastic look

Done
7
Medium shot
Steve sat in a tree brushing hair back pouting

Done
8
Medium-close up
Steve hanging upside down from tree
Dialogue
Done
9
Medium
Steve and cat
Dialogue
Done
10
Medium
Steve climbing through window

Done
11
Mid-close up
Steve climbing across bed towards “girl”

Done
12
Close up
Steve pulling hair away from “girls neck”

Done
13
Close up
“Girl” turns to Steve, reveals it is a man

Done
14
Close up
Steve shocked at man
Dialogue
Done
15
Mid-close up
Steve eating garlic bread, collapses

Done
16
Long shot
Steve stood posing, pouting
Zoom in, fade
Done
17

Logo, credits