From the above picture we can see when the opening credits appear in a drama film, this can give us a hint of when and even where to put ours at the beginning of our own film.
Monday, 23 April 2012
MAIN Post 5: Title Timeline
The timeline below is of the opening sequence of the thrilling drama film Drive. It shows all the opening credits of the film, this helps our group in researching opening sequences of a drama film and will eventually help us when we plan ours.
MAIN Post 4b: Narrative/Character Research
In order for our group to get a better understanding of how to portray our characters and improve our narrative, we all undertook some research. The research is shown below:
http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Child-Sexual-Abuse-6-Stages-of-Grooming/1
The link above leads to information about sexual grooming children and how there are 6 main stages. These stages outline how an offender targets a victim and then sexualises the relationship between them.
The stages an offender follows when tageting a victim are:
1. Targeting the victim
2. Gaining the victims trust
3. Filling a need
4. Isolating the child
5. Sexualizing the relationship
6. Maintaining control
By reading through the 6 stages from this website, it's helped our group in developing the rest of our film. We decided to use these stages and interpret them into the film and into the development of Sophie's relationship with Paige's father.
http://www.nspcc.org.uk/Inform/cpsu/resources/briefings/understanding_grooming_entrapment_process_wdf77040.pdf
The link above leads to some more information about sexual grooming, giving a deeper understanding about sexual grooming. From this site it even gives a quote from an abuser which is as follows:
"I look for a child who seems to be lonely or sad looking for attention. Then I take my time gaining her trust and becoming her freind. In time she will do anything I ask."
This site also gives information from David Finkelhor who proposed a model of child abuse. However this model, unlike the one above from the Oprah link, only has 4 stages in sexual abuse to a child. The stages though, are very similiar to the above ones, they are as follows:
1. Sexual motivation
2. Overcoming internal inhibitions against acting on that motivation
3. Overcoming external impediments to committing sexual abuse
4. Undermining or overcoming the child's resistance to the sexual abuse
This website has helped in the development of our film as from the quote, it's given us a small insight of how we could phrase our voice overs as if an abuser was talking. This will help us with making Alan the sexual abuser and what kind of things he may say at the beginning in the voice overs.
http://www.parenting.org/article/victim-grooming-protect-your-child-sexual-predators
This link leads to information mainly targetted at parents and them protecting their children from any sexual groomers. Some information gathered from this is who sexual abusers target. The list below shows types of children they may make their victims:
Unpopular
Feels unloved
Seeking attention and friendship
Low self-esteem and lack of confidence
Isolated from peers
Spends time alone
Often unsupervised
Experiencing family problems
The main word from the site is 'vulnerable', this is because abusers may find it easier to victimise vulnerable children.
From this we can develop Sophie's character to be vulnerable, possibly with some family problems. Therefore making her more isolated and vulnerable for Alan to target.
http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Child-Sexual-Abuse-6-Stages-of-Grooming/1
The link above leads to information about sexual grooming children and how there are 6 main stages. These stages outline how an offender targets a victim and then sexualises the relationship between them.
The stages an offender follows when tageting a victim are:
1. Targeting the victim
2. Gaining the victims trust
3. Filling a need
4. Isolating the child
5. Sexualizing the relationship
6. Maintaining control
By reading through the 6 stages from this website, it's helped our group in developing the rest of our film. We decided to use these stages and interpret them into the film and into the development of Sophie's relationship with Paige's father.
http://www.nspcc.org.uk/Inform/cpsu/resources/briefings/understanding_grooming_entrapment_process_wdf77040.pdf
The link above leads to some more information about sexual grooming, giving a deeper understanding about sexual grooming. From this site it even gives a quote from an abuser which is as follows:
"I look for a child who seems to be lonely or sad looking for attention. Then I take my time gaining her trust and becoming her freind. In time she will do anything I ask."
This site also gives information from David Finkelhor who proposed a model of child abuse. However this model, unlike the one above from the Oprah link, only has 4 stages in sexual abuse to a child. The stages though, are very similiar to the above ones, they are as follows:
1. Sexual motivation
2. Overcoming internal inhibitions against acting on that motivation
3. Overcoming external impediments to committing sexual abuse
4. Undermining or overcoming the child's resistance to the sexual abuse
This website has helped in the development of our film as from the quote, it's given us a small insight of how we could phrase our voice overs as if an abuser was talking. This will help us with making Alan the sexual abuser and what kind of things he may say at the beginning in the voice overs.
http://www.parenting.org/article/victim-grooming-protect-your-child-sexual-predators
This link leads to information mainly targetted at parents and them protecting their children from any sexual groomers. Some information gathered from this is who sexual abusers target. The list below shows types of children they may make their victims:
The main word from the site is 'vulnerable', this is because abusers may find it easier to victimise vulnerable children.
From this we can develop Sophie's character to be vulnerable, possibly with some family problems. Therefore making her more isolated and vulnerable for Alan to target.
MAIN Post 4a: Plot Development
This section of plot development has been carried out by my group and I in order for us to depict the plot, narrative and even characters in our film in more detail. This will help in giving us a better understanding of where the film is going and what the different stages are within our film.
We used information gathered from this website http://www.lightsfilmschool.com/ it gave us information on timelines of films, this is how we managed to create the two timelines below.
Below is a copy of the timeline of Cinderella that my group and I created:
Below is a copy of our timeline in our film, Behind Blue Eyes, highlighting the important events that happen within the film:
Synopsis
The title of our film is "Behind Blue Eyes" and it's a teen drama genre. The target audience of our film are people aged 15 to late 20's.
We created a logline for our film which is a sentence, under 25 words, that summarises our film. Our logline is as follows:
"Her skirt was short, her tie was loose. They always look older than they actually are... dont they?"
The full synopsis is as follows:
A young girl aged 16 – Sophie, is best friends with Paige aged 17. Sophie mum is a carefree single parent and her father has never been in the picture. Paige’s father is also a single parent when Paige’s mother died during child birth; the two girls have grown close through the loss of parents. The girls often hangout at one another’s houses and do homework and have sleepovers and therefore they trust each other’s parents.
It begins with a male voice over who has not yet been revealed, there is a shot of Sophie and Paige in Paige’s bedroom doing homework and gossiping. Sophie quickly goes to the bathroom and whilst washing her hands rolls up her long sleeved top and shows bruising and red hand marks. Sophie goes back into the bedroom and they continue on with homework until Sophie realises that its 18:00 and she has to go home.
Paige tries to talk Sophie into grabbing a lift with her dad trying to get away from him for a couple of minutes (making the audience question why she wants her father out of the way). Paige finally guilt trips Sophie into grabbing a lift with her father.
Sophie gets into the car with him and he starts driving and talking to her whilst touching her, she starts doubting the whole relationship and says it’s not right making the father angry. He turns things around on her making her feel guilty telling her it’s all her thought she wanted the relationship to happen (though it is obviously lies and actually the father that has been encouraging the relationship). She gets out of the car.
Sophie and Paige meet up in town and Sophie can’t take the guilt any longer and confesses her relationship with Paige’s father to her then Paige confesses to Sophie how he also has been physically abusing her. The girls are both upset and worried so tell Sophie’s mum who doesn’t believe that the father could do such a thing leaving the children vulnerable about what the father might do next. Sophie and her mother have a dramatic argument. So go to the police station and explain everything that’s happened even against the mother’s wishes, the father is arrested and taken in.
Father is taken to prison where he receives counselling where it is revealed that it is his story by showing him talking to the counsellor.
We used information gathered from this website http://www.lightsfilmschool.com/ it gave us information on timelines of films, this is how we managed to create the two timelines below.
Below is a copy of the timeline of Cinderella that my group and I created:
Below is a copy of our timeline in our film, Behind Blue Eyes, highlighting the important events that happen within the film:
Synopsis
The title of our film is "Behind Blue Eyes" and it's a teen drama genre. The target audience of our film are people aged 15 to late 20's.
We created a logline for our film which is a sentence, under 25 words, that summarises our film. Our logline is as follows:
"Her skirt was short, her tie was loose. They always look older than they actually are... dont they?"
The full synopsis is as follows:
A young girl aged 16 – Sophie, is best friends with Paige aged 17. Sophie mum is a carefree single parent and her father has never been in the picture. Paige’s father is also a single parent when Paige’s mother died during child birth; the two girls have grown close through the loss of parents. The girls often hangout at one another’s houses and do homework and have sleepovers and therefore they trust each other’s parents.
It begins with a male voice over who has not yet been revealed, there is a shot of Sophie and Paige in Paige’s bedroom doing homework and gossiping. Sophie quickly goes to the bathroom and whilst washing her hands rolls up her long sleeved top and shows bruising and red hand marks. Sophie goes back into the bedroom and they continue on with homework until Sophie realises that its 18:00 and she has to go home.
Paige tries to talk Sophie into grabbing a lift with her dad trying to get away from him for a couple of minutes (making the audience question why she wants her father out of the way). Paige finally guilt trips Sophie into grabbing a lift with her father.
Sophie gets into the car with him and he starts driving and talking to her whilst touching her, she starts doubting the whole relationship and says it’s not right making the father angry. He turns things around on her making her feel guilty telling her it’s all her thought she wanted the relationship to happen (though it is obviously lies and actually the father that has been encouraging the relationship). She gets out of the car.
Sophie and Paige meet up in town and Sophie can’t take the guilt any longer and confesses her relationship with Paige’s father to her then Paige confesses to Sophie how he also has been physically abusing her. The girls are both upset and worried so tell Sophie’s mum who doesn’t believe that the father could do such a thing leaving the children vulnerable about what the father might do next. Sophie and her mother have a dramatic argument. So go to the police station and explain everything that’s happened even against the mother’s wishes, the father is arrested and taken in.
Father is taken to prison where he receives counselling where it is revealed that it is his story by showing him talking to the counsellor.
MAIN Post 4: Group Meeting
Our group held a meeting in order to discuss what genre we would want to do in our short film. Below is a write up of what was said when we had our discussion:
'Behind Blue Eyes' discussed by Bobbi Rhodes, Charley Daugherty, Katie-Mai Taylor and Alex Mullins
Charley:
Hey guys, so has anyone got any ideas about the opening sequence?
Alex:
I don't know, what genre should we do?
Bobbi:
Well what would people want to see more of?
Katie:
Looking at our questionnaire results drama seems to be wanted a lot more.
Bobbi:
Thats a good idea! I think drama usually involves problems, we have to make sure it relates to real life situations.
Alex:
Well what sort of situations could we do?
Charley:
What about a relationship between two teenagers?
Alex:
Yes, we could do them splitting up.
Katie:
We could but it might be a little bit boring, what about an abusive relationship?
Bobbi:
That would be quite hard to act out and we would have to be careful with the conventions we use.
Charley:
Well if we look at a few dramas and also short films that we have been watching in class I'm sure there are certain conventions that we could achieve.
Katie:
We could also involve editing to make it seem a lot more dramatic.
Alex:
If we can do it I think its a good idea.
Katie:
Ok so where are we going to film it?
Alex:
Either at someone's house or maybe at school?
Charley:
I think the school because then we can do some work during our frees.
Bobbi:
Thats a good idea, I also like the idea of maybe a flash back rather than her actually being there now.
Katie:
Or we could just use the sound rather than acting because from our preliminary task I think the acting let us down.
Alex:
Then it will show our editing skills.
Charley:
Everyone happy with this idea then?
Katie:
Yes
Bobbi:
Yes
Alex:
Yes
'Behind Blue Eyes' discussed by Bobbi Rhodes, Charley Daugherty, Katie-Mai Taylor and Alex Mullins
Charley:
Hey guys, so has anyone got any ideas about the opening sequence?
Alex:
I don't know, what genre should we do?
Bobbi:
Well what would people want to see more of?
Katie:
Looking at our questionnaire results drama seems to be wanted a lot more.
Bobbi:
Thats a good idea! I think drama usually involves problems, we have to make sure it relates to real life situations.
Alex:
Well what sort of situations could we do?
Charley:
What about a relationship between two teenagers?
Alex:
Yes, we could do them splitting up.
Katie:
We could but it might be a little bit boring, what about an abusive relationship?
Bobbi:
That would be quite hard to act out and we would have to be careful with the conventions we use.
Charley:
Well if we look at a few dramas and also short films that we have been watching in class I'm sure there are certain conventions that we could achieve.
Katie:
We could also involve editing to make it seem a lot more dramatic.
Alex:
If we can do it I think its a good idea.
Katie:
Ok so where are we going to film it?
Alex:
Either at someone's house or maybe at school?
Charley:
I think the school because then we can do some work during our frees.
Bobbi:
Thats a good idea, I also like the idea of maybe a flash back rather than her actually being there now.
Katie:
Or we could just use the sound rather than acting because from our preliminary task I think the acting let us down.
Alex:
Then it will show our editing skills.
Charley:
Everyone happy with this idea then?
Katie:
Yes
Bobbi:
Yes
Alex:
Yes
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