Story Ideas.

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IDEA 1

US forces join search for British woman kidnapped in Afghanistan

US steps up effort to find British aid worker snatched on Sunday along with her Afghan co-workers.

My story will be based around the news story of the british aid worker who was kidnapped in afghanistan, it will take a closer look into her family and back ground life and build up on the events that led to her kidnapping.

Opening sequence: - The opening scene would be of our main character,there would be very little light just a black screen and all the audience can hear our screams and cries of a woman. We hear a door open and the sound of two men having as conversation in another language, the woman is then seen to make a slight move however her face is hidden and because its quite dark the audience find it hard to see what she is doing, the two men then come into the room that she is staying in and grab her by the arm , she continues to scream and is taken out of the room, the scene then ends in a blackout.

The film then goes into a flashback and begins to develop the character and her background, as the story unfolds we begin to see her in work and understand how she was resulted in being kidnapped and what happened to her her in the end.

Characters - Main character " Lisa"

                 - Afghanistan soldiers

                 - Members of Lisa's Family

                 - Peers at work

                 - Us Forces Soldiers.

IDEA 2

Chile's trapped miners are told rescue could take months

The countries health ministers have announced that the 33 minors trapped underground may not be rescues for several months. Therefore, a special programme has been set up to keep the men fit and healthy and the workers are being supplied with glucouse and rehydration tablets.

Opening Sequence - Based on the minors trapped underground, The audience can hear the panting of the miners and screams however the screen is blank.

The shot then moves to a news document on the trapping of 33 minors underground , the film then builds around the miners family lives and coping with the worry of their family members trapped underground, and also lead to wether the miners are saved or ends in tragedy.

Question 3

What kind of media institution will distribute your film?

A film distributor is company or individual responsible for releasing films to the public either theatrically or for home viewing (DVD, Video-On-Demand, Download, Television etc). A distributor may do this directly (if the distributor owns the theaters or distribution networks) or through theatrical exhibitors and other sub-distributors.

Distribution is about releasing and sustaining films in the market place. It includes an advertising and release campaign to promote the film to its target audience, they would distribute,adverts,posters and other techniques such as trailers in cinemas that would be releasing and showing the film.

Because our film is very low budgeted it’s highly unlikely that it would be viewed in mainstream cinemas such as the Odeon, Cineworld, Vue Etc, as our film doesn’t have the same material and actors such as top Hollywood blockbusters so therefore it would be distributed on a much small scale compared to other films.

Mainstream distributors such as paramount pictures, Columbia pictures, and Warner brothers have distributed films such as inception, seven pounds and salt. However as our film wouldn’t be distributed by these companies we would go to independent films distributors that would be more interested in promoting our films.

You tube a much known popular website for short films, and home videos is a very cheap and easily accessible website to promote our film on, it is used globally with high viewing rates making our film viewed on a wider scale. Our film would be drawn into competition with other short films that have been posted so we would have to worry about whether our film attracts the audience that uses you tube, making it difficult for us to get a high number of views, we would have to post link on websites such as face book so people could easily access our web link online directly taking them to our film. Facebook could also be used to post our film, used by an estimated of 42 million people mainly teenagers and young adults globally; similar to you tube it is a cheap and easily accessible way of viewing our film ‘forsaken’ This will also encourage our film to spread thought-out our intended audience through interest and topic of conversation.

Film festivals are one of the forms that be used to screen our film to a wide audience ;a good example of film festivals being used to distribute films is UK drama ‘ Bullet Boy’ a low budget, independent feature helmed by first-time feature director Saul Dibb. Following festival screenings at the end of 2004, the film quickly gathered a reputation as the first film to tackle the difficult subject of contemporary gang and gun crime in Britain’s inner cities. In Hackney, where the film is set, local people saw the film contributing, in one way or another, to the ongoing debate. By the time the film was released, it had accumulated both word-of-mouth and press coverage in the news pages. Like bullet boy our film is a low budget independent product using film festivals would benefit our film as it would offer recognition in the public and film industry.

The British Urban Film Festival (BUFF) was formed in July 2005 to showcase urban independent cinema in the absence of any such state-sponsored activity in the UK. This film festival would not only help us gain knowledge and advice but also a better insight into how film festival work and we could use that to further our distrubuting in the future, BUFF may be intrested in distrubuting out film because of audience that we were considering to target being of a urban heritage which Is what they specialise in.


Another potential distrubutor we could use is ‘Dogwoof’ http://www.dogwoof.com/ a organisation that supports independent film making and “is renowned for supporting independent film in non-traditional ways.”

AS Prelim Task.

AS FINAL OPENING SEQUENCE

SCRIPT

SCRIPT

Slug –Internal – Dingy Wharehouse – Late afternoon

Setting of scene: in a dark abandoned warehouse with broken bottle everywhere the place is in a total state, there is know one in the room, but someone has been living here because there’s photos, needles, cigarettes etc on a table. 

Sound: We hear sinister music in the background, simmering gently raising in volume.

Camera Movement: There is a high angled pan from the top of the stairs; we see the back of a girl.

Camera Movement: The pan ends here. We get to a mid shot of her in front of a black door.

Sound: The music is slowly rising.

Camera Movement: There is then an over the shoulder shot of the back of girl and the door.

Camera Movement: There is a close up of the door handle and the girls hand is on it.

Camera movement: A mid shot of her opening, we then have an extra close up tilt and pan from previous shot. The shot will only reveal a small segment of her face.

Camera Movement:  There is then a long shot the girl walking towards the table. Then the shot moves in to a mid shot.

Camera Movement: There is now a long shot of the table, moving into a mid shot, then we see the next shot of a close up from the girls point of view. (The tile will appear here.)

Camera movement: The actor takes something from the table and we see an over the shoulder shoot of her looking at her next destination the chair. We see a long shot of her and the shot. There is a mid shot her sitting on the chair.

Camera Movement: There is then a close up shot of a bracelet and syringe in her hand. The there is a close up with her bracelet on. Then we see an extreme close up a photo.

Sound: We hear voice over of a mother and daughter when we the picture.

Camera Movement: We see along shot of someone’s are and syringe, then a mid shot of another photo.

Sound: We hear voice over of a mother and daughter when we the picture.

Camera Movement: We see a close up an arm and syringe being inserted. We see another picture burning a close up shot.

Sound: We hear voice over of a mother and daughter when we the picture.

Camera Movement: We see a pan of all the objects on the table, and then we see a pan of the arm and the bracelet, pan ends. Then fade out.

LOCATION RECCE

Location Recce

Location Details	Possible problems	Risks assessments
Our first location is in an underground basement, the space was limited. To get to the secret layer you had to go down a stairwell with minimal space. The place meets are hopes of a dirty grimy room. It was full of chemicals, paint, and other cleaning equipment. The place was damp and had a funny smell. Also it was not a practical place to have a lot of equipment for a long period of time. Our second location is also in a underground basement the place is slightly bigger than the first, and the good thing is that there are no chemicals within the premises. The place is very dirty. There is still no banister on the stair case. In the room there are lot of pipes on the ceiling and walls. The downfalls are that there are a lot of things on the tables on the floor and cabinets things such as chairs, monitors, and poles.	The possible problems were their were a lot of chemicals which were open and not in practical areas such as the floor. Also in our film we need to light up a match and most of the chemicals were flammable which means there could be an explosion if we use the place. The stairs was red taped which means there is no banister to walk down to offer support. Also the room has to be accessible to members of the caretaker team. The possible problems are that there is not going to be enough space to film our film, also there is no banister on the satires which is health and safety, also there is a dance studio above the room so we could get distracted with music and the movement of the dancers.	Since there is no banister we will just have to be more careful when going down the stairs. As for the chemicals we will have to ask some of them to move the chemicals out the way for the day. Also we will have to ask the caretakers if they can pardon us for the day. This afternoon we were told we can not film in there due to health and safety. To combat the sound of the dancers we are not going to use barely in sound only a few sound effects. We will just have to be careful going down the stairs and hope knows one has an accident. For space we will move things out the way and stack them properly to create valuable space. This afternoon we gathered news that we will be able to use the basement but we

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