Friday, 23 April 2010
Powerpoint Notes for Burnt (Hannah&Charlotte)
Narrative outline
Our narrative is about an ordinary working class girl who was saving up her money to buy an expensive designer dress in order to fulful her ambition of looking like a clebrity. The story would be told backwards. There will be shown many ways in which she could have got the money to buy the dress but the audience will never find out if she got the money in a good or bad way. At the beginning of this short film you will see her coming home from daily jog working in a café . We see that she dosent really have a good relationship with her mum. We understand that shes fasinated by celebrity culture and longs to look like her idol. We see the amount of depression she is under and as a result the only esy of feeling in control is through self harming. There will not be much diologue within this short film however most of this characters thoughts will be told through her diary.
Target Audience
The target audience for this piece is aimed at teens and people that are in their early 20’s of whom are males and females. We will target this audience through the narrative as the age group we are targeting are often trying to attract the opposite sex, therefor they will be able to relate to the main character and her story. The target audience will also be able to relate to the charcters featured in this short film as the actor and actress used are young. We would also like to attract working class people, as the narrative brings up the issue of trying to make ends meat and the difficulties people face. This short film also deals with sterotypes, as an audience we start to believe that she has managed to pay for the dress by doing something that is illegal and almost in a way assuming that people that have lower statuses in society will commit to crime in order to get what they want or need.
Funding
We will seek funding from UK FILM|COUNCIL and Film 4 as they have funded other girtty realist short films. Cinema Extreme was launched in 2002 and is well established, it merges both the UK Film Council and Film4 together as they are joint funders of the programme. There are many established filmamkers who have used this scheme and managed to get far and even gone on to win awards such as Andrea Anorld. We have looked at several of her films and they have the same style of filmaking we wish to use. Her films tend to deal with issues that happen to working class people. It usually shows you the struggles the characters go through. What we’ve noticed about her work is it usually focuses on the female character who never really fits in with the rest of society. Wasp and Fish Tank really explore this idea. The New Cinema fund of the UK Film Council will continue to fund short film makers like ourselves through shcemes such as Digital Shorts, Digital Nation, Completion Fund and helping and supporting virgin shorts competition.The UK Film Council and Film4 will continue to work together to support new talent and short film makers, and Film4 remains committed to developing and funding short film making talent through its development budget.
Visual style
Our visual style is going to be really girtty and realist really creating the image of a working class female trying to provide for herself and trying to fit in with the norm. We will put a grain effect over our final piece, brightness and contrast will be played with to make the film come accross as very dark. The lighting will have a yellow tone to it creating a very dingy darkl style to this British short film. Locations that will be used in order to help build up this image is a greasy cafe, a flat, a pub etc which really help create this image of how the working class live and the extent of how far they travel in life. There life is just being sourounded and being in locations like this. They dont ever explore outside of these locations connoting in a way that their trapped, it’s like a cintinues cycle.
Exhibition
We will be using Sun Dance to exhibite are work as they help aspiring filmmakers to showcase their films. It allows major studios to view peoples work that they wouldn't usually looked twice at. The result of this usually means major studios will spend millions on these films through word of mouth from Sun Dance. When talking about this festival its like talking about x factor but the difference is it's a festival for people trying to produce good film. Many major studios will send scouts to look for the next big thing there, so it's worth submitting your work. If there work isn't brought by these being company's or producers the festival will then help these film makers by allowing them to use their sources which will help develop their work and make it better.
Our narrative is about an ordinary working class girl who was saving up her money to buy an expensive designer dress in order to fulful her ambition of looking like a clebrity. The story would be told backwards. There will be shown many ways in which she could have got the money to buy the dress but the audience will never find out if she got the money in a good or bad way. At the beginning of this short film you will see her coming home from daily jog working in a café . We see that she dosent really have a good relationship with her mum. We understand that shes fasinated by celebrity culture and longs to look like her idol. We see the amount of depression she is under and as a result the only esy of feeling in control is through self harming. There will not be much diologue within this short film however most of this characters thoughts will be told through her diary.
Target Audience
The target audience for this piece is aimed at teens and people that are in their early 20’s of whom are males and females. We will target this audience through the narrative as the age group we are targeting are often trying to attract the opposite sex, therefor they will be able to relate to the main character and her story. The target audience will also be able to relate to the charcters featured in this short film as the actor and actress used are young. We would also like to attract working class people, as the narrative brings up the issue of trying to make ends meat and the difficulties people face. This short film also deals with sterotypes, as an audience we start to believe that she has managed to pay for the dress by doing something that is illegal and almost in a way assuming that people that have lower statuses in society will commit to crime in order to get what they want or need.
Funding
We will seek funding from UK FILM|COUNCIL and Film 4 as they have funded other girtty realist short films. Cinema Extreme was launched in 2002 and is well established, it merges both the UK Film Council and Film4 together as they are joint funders of the programme. There are many established filmamkers who have used this scheme and managed to get far and even gone on to win awards such as Andrea Anorld. We have looked at several of her films and they have the same style of filmaking we wish to use. Her films tend to deal with issues that happen to working class people. It usually shows you the struggles the characters go through. What we’ve noticed about her work is it usually focuses on the female character who never really fits in with the rest of society. Wasp and Fish Tank really explore this idea. The New Cinema fund of the UK Film Council will continue to fund short film makers like ourselves through shcemes such as Digital Shorts, Digital Nation, Completion Fund and helping and supporting virgin shorts competition.The UK Film Council and Film4 will continue to work together to support new talent and short film makers, and Film4 remains committed to developing and funding short film making talent through its development budget.
Visual style
Our visual style is going to be really girtty and realist really creating the image of a working class female trying to provide for herself and trying to fit in with the norm. We will put a grain effect over our final piece, brightness and contrast will be played with to make the film come accross as very dark. The lighting will have a yellow tone to it creating a very dingy darkl style to this British short film. Locations that will be used in order to help build up this image is a greasy cafe, a flat, a pub etc which really help create this image of how the working class live and the extent of how far they travel in life. There life is just being sourounded and being in locations like this. They dont ever explore outside of these locations connoting in a way that their trapped, it’s like a cintinues cycle.
Exhibition
We will be using Sun Dance to exhibite are work as they help aspiring filmmakers to showcase their films. It allows major studios to view peoples work that they wouldn't usually looked twice at. The result of this usually means major studios will spend millions on these films through word of mouth from Sun Dance. When talking about this festival its like talking about x factor but the difference is it's a festival for people trying to produce good film. Many major studios will send scouts to look for the next big thing there, so it's worth submitting your work. If there work isn't brought by these being company's or producers the festival will then help these film makers by allowing them to use their sources which will help develop their work and make it better.
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
Final Piece and Questionnaire (Hannah and Charlotte)
Barbie Jail-Vimeo Settings HD from BDC on Vimeo.
1. Are you male or female?
Male Female
2. In our piece we wanted to show the physical and emotional effects some females go to, to perfect their body image. Do you think we showed this effectively?
Yes No
3. What messages out of the following do you feel this short film conveys?
That no matter how much one alters the way in which they look confidants comes from within.
To be accepted in life you must conform to what the media portrays as the ideal image of what one should look like in order to feel and look beautiful.
That females spend too much time worrying about their looks.
4. Do you think this short film portrays what the ideal body image is?
Yes No
5. If the poem hadn’t been used, do you think you would have understood the meaning behind this short film?
Yes No
6. Which of the following do you feel the imagery (collages and still images) does?
Complements Confuses Makes you understand what the short film is about
7. Do you think dialogue should have been used to make this short film more engaging?
Yes No
8. Do you think the pace of the shots work well?
Yes No
9. If you could change one thing about this short film what would it be?
____________________________________________________________________
10. How does the mise en scene and camera angles make our piece visually engaging? If you think it doesn’t, what do you think we could have done to improve this?
____________________________________________________________________
Location (charlotte)
We will be filming our short film on one location which will be a house in West Norwood. We will use two rooms in the house - The bathroom, bedroom and kitchen.
Character Profile (Charlotte)
Kitty Lucy Harris
18 Years Old
5'9 Long dark brown hair
18 Years Old
5'9 Long dark brown hair
Kitty is a not an ordinary girl her age, she doesn't go out and spends most of her days getting ready. She never used to be like this, there was a point in her life where she has friends but now she is just too scared to go out, shes afraid of what people think of her. She spends all day trying to perfect her looks but little does she know shes only making them worse and the people that she used to love worry about her. She refuses to see them. Kitty lives at home with her single mum, she never knew her dad and always wishes that she had a brother or sister. When she was younger she was scouted as a model but her obsession with her looks took over and now she can't even face going to college.
Synopsis (Charlotte)
Kitty's obsessed, her whole life has become and obsession. The way she looks, the way she eats, everything. She's trapped in her own little world which to everyone else is know as Barbie Jail. How can a 18 year old girl have a life like this? She never used to be like this. There was a point in her life where she had family and friends, she used to go out. The outside world really is another world to her. She prefers her world, the world in where she spends five hours a day putting layers and layers of make-up on, perfecting her hair. To her she thinks its perfection, but to everyone else its an obsession, a jail.
Sunday, 11 April 2010
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Barbie Jail Cast (Hannah)
Why we chose Kitty
We chose Kitty to play the main character as she's young and can go from looking very sweet an innocent to quite the opposite. Although she has no acting experience becuase there is no dioluge and she looks right for the part we feel she can still be successful in playing the main character. We wanted someone who was versatile in looks wise as the character she will play has to be someone that the audience can relate to and by choosing someone who could be perceived as very plain looking who we then dress up to the type of girl you would see on a programme such as snog marry and avoid, makes her character seem realistic. Kitty will allows ordinary teenage girls to have some understanding as to the way in which Kitty's character is feeling as she could be any one of them.
We chose Kitty to play the main character as she's young and can go from looking very sweet an innocent to quite the opposite. Although she has no acting experience becuase there is no dioluge and she looks right for the part we feel she can still be successful in playing the main character. We wanted someone who was versatile in looks wise as the character she will play has to be someone that the audience can relate to and by choosing someone who could be perceived as very plain looking who we then dress up to the type of girl you would see on a programme such as snog marry and avoid, makes her character seem realistic. Kitty will allows ordinary teenage girls to have some understanding as to the way in which Kitty's character is feeling as she could be any one of them.
Barbie Jail Props (Hannah)
- Magazines
- Make-up (bronzer + brush, blusher+brush, foundation, eyeliner, lipstick, fake eye lashes, mascara and glitter
- Hair Straighteners
- Hair brush
- Fake tan + gloves
Barbie Jail Costume (Hannah)
The main characters costume really differs though out this short film as there are flashbacks. When these occur she will be wearing jeans, a top and converse which are casual items of clothing really connoting to the audience she's young and also suggests she may not have much confidants, as none of these items complement her figure. When she goes back to reality we see her in very seductive clothing really revealing her body. The difference in items of clothing really represent the difference in character. As the casual clothing represents your very plain Jain girl that isn't fussed about the way she looks then you have the other items of clothing really representing this confident character that loves her body and likes getting attention. Among costume is also make-up as this is an important factor within our short film we want it to be extream and to look very much over the top.
Barbie Jail Poem (Hannah)
She finds comfort in the lace of her black pink bra
Her heart beats silently
To be freed from the cage she has locked herself in
Layers of slapped on makeup to go with her bright pink pout
These layers unfold the ugliness behind
Of what once was natural but has now been left behind
She entered this cage
To cure her from the terrible illness
Of natural beauty and plain Jain looks
She finds protection in altered images
Always tending to shock
Her idol Barbie
Her enemy herself
These looks have her hooked
In the plastic jail of the female sex
Surely this cant be any good
Her prison guards Elle
Confine her to her pink and white cell
Scales have to be checked
To put her to the test
0% chocolate
100% control
These conditions are serious but what can she do?
Better in the beautiful hell inside
Than the ugly heaven outside
Her heart beats silently
To be freed from the cage she has locked herself in
Layers of slapped on makeup to go with her bright pink pout
These layers unfold the ugliness behind
Of what once was natural but has now been left behind
She entered this cage
To cure her from the terrible illness
Of natural beauty and plain Jain looks
She finds protection in altered images
Always tending to shock
Her idol Barbie
Her enemy herself
These looks have her hooked
In the plastic jail of the female sex
Surely this cant be any good
Her prison guards Elle
Confine her to her pink and white cell
Scales have to be checked
To put her to the test
0% chocolate
100% control
These conditions are serious but what can she do?
Better in the beautiful hell inside
Than the ugly heaven outside
Friday, 12 March 2010
Burnt Costume (Hannah)
The character Aisleigh's costume is very common. Although she like to think she knows allot about fashion she actaully knows very little. The first costume will be very simple and one which you could imagen a female employee wearing in a cafe. You have the stripy top, the black body con skirt, the plain black dolly shoes and the hopped earings representing the chavy culture. When she's out an about she will wear a brown furry coat really making the outfit seem very much miss matched. The dress that she will be seen wearing at the end will be very lady like, delicate and feminine showing her transformation from the beginning of this short film to the end. The mothers costume which will be simple dressing gown and slippers. This is the only costume you see the mother wearing which really connotes to the audience that she doesn't have a job and probably spends most of her time relaxing.
Burnt Props (Hannah)
- Cigarette buds plus ash tray
- Left over crisp packets
- Glasses with left over drink in them
- Scissors
- Magazines
- Make-up
Burnt Cast (Hannah)
Aisleigh Comerford was born 7th January 1992. She attended D&B theatre school from the age of 6 up until the age of 16. She appeared on a TV commercial for pop party CD and has performed in various different theatre performances including High School musical in Broadway Theatre where she stared as Gabriella Montez. After leaving theatre school she wanted to focus on dancing and competed in various different street dance competitions. At the age of 17 she went for an audition at Pineapple studios and was successful and become one fifth of girl band Bubble G. She experienced fame for a short period of time before deciding to leave the band. Since then Aisleigh has taken some time out and is now ready to get back into the industry.
Why choose Aisleigh Comerford?
Our film is aimed at teenagers or people in their early 20's which is exactly why we chose Aisleigh as shes got that young fresh face which is appropriate for this sort of audience. She's got that girl next door look to her and is naturally very pretty making her a star waiting to happen. She has a wide variety of experience all of which show that she can take direction. The character Aisleigh is seen as this outspken character who the audience feel sorry for and to some extent sympathise with which we feel Aisleigh would be an ideal character for Aisleigh Comerford to play.
Why choose Aisleigh Comerford?
Our film is aimed at teenagers or people in their early 20's which is exactly why we chose Aisleigh as shes got that young fresh face which is appropriate for this sort of audience. She's got that girl next door look to her and is naturally very pretty making her a star waiting to happen. She has a wide variety of experience all of which show that she can take direction. The character Aisleigh is seen as this outspken character who the audience feel sorry for and to some extent sympathise with which we feel Aisleigh would be an ideal character for Aisleigh Comerford to play.
Burnt Synopsis (Charlotte)
Aisleigh is a eighteen year old girl living at home with her single mum. She's never had and probably never will have any kind of relationship with her mum. Aisleigh left school when she was fiteen and has spent the last three years working two part-time jobs. Due to her unusual upbringing and out of control personality she’s never been your average teenager. Aisleighs always had a real passion for fashion and spent most of her childhood flicking through magazines and cutting up images of all the stars in their fancy dresses. Aisleighs room is filled with cut up images from magazines. She aspires to look like a star, shes determined. Aisleigh becomes obsessed with this one dress, she’s even got an image of her head which she carefully place upon the dress to see what it would look like on her. Although she earns enough from her two jobs, her mum often blackmails her into giving her more than half her monthly wadges. Thats the reason why her mum only thinks she works one job. Aisleigh dosen’t have that kind of money to spend on a dress. So how does she get it? Or does everything fall apart before she can fullfill her dreams.
Burnt Script (Hannah &Charlotte)
Aisleigh moves around in the bed tossing and turning but very gradually. She makes sounds as a way of connoting to the audience she is tiered and still a sleep. The sound of the telly can be heard in the background.
Aisleigh is late for work so she rushes to put her top and skirt on. The voiceover can be heard in the background “That’s me getting ready”.
Aisleigh walks through the door and in the direction of the toilets. The voiceover can be heard in the background. “I work several jobs this is my first job of the day.”
Manager-You’re late
Aisleigh- I know I had a rough night (rushes in the direction of the toilet)
Aisleigh comes out with a notepad and pen and approaches customer.
Aisleigh- What can I get you? (The customer begins placing her order and looks at the menu. Aisleigh's narration then begins “I bet this customer doesn’t even know my name. I bet she doesn’t even care that I'm working more then one job and yet I’m still struggling. I bet she wouldn’t even care if I got run over by a car.”)
A car is driving down a road then Aisleigh steps out into the road and the car beeps before driving off.
Aisleigh is on her lunch break and sitting down and eating. Aisleigh’s narration begins “I can’t believe that programme last night changing faces, I hope I don’t look like that when I’m older. Although, Jessica Alba, wow, she doesn’t even need surgery, I bet she’ll still look the same when she’s 75. My mum on the other hand, I can’t even begin to imagine what SHE’LL look like at 75. Disgusting woman... “
Mum is in the kitchen cooking breakfast and the breakfast burns leading the fire alarm to go off. She waves a cloth near the fire alarm to try and prevent it from continuing. She then dishes the breakfast on to the two plates.Aisleigh walks down the stairs really fast as she is in a hurry.
Aisleigh- I’m going out (She bangs the door and her narration begins. “That’s the extent of me and my mum’s relationship.”)
Aisleigh- See you later (Aisleigh walks out of the café and begins looking in her bag for cigarettes. She lights up and cigarette and starts smoking it. She starts to walk down the street then looks at the message on the cigarettes packaging. Aisleigh’s narration begins “Yeah I know, dirty habbit this is, oh well not as if anyone would care if this actually happened to me. Well... apart from Dixie.)
Aisleigh plays with her dog on the bed.
Aisleigh- Dixie Dixie!
Aisleigh continues to play with her dog whilst her narration can be heard in the background. “I had another dog as well, his name was Bertie, and he got run over by a car. He was my first true love.”
Mum opens the door but not fully. She looks around the room in amazement.
Aisleigh- What do you want?
Mum- Don’t be so rude... anyways where did you get all this stuff from? (Looks at labels) How much?
Aisleigh continues to walk down the street where a man whistles at her. The narration begins “I hate men like that, can’t they show a bit of respect. Disgusting fat bastards!”
Aisleigh cuts up images from a magazine whilst the narration begins. “When I get older I want to have one kid, a husband, come to think of it, I want to be just like Jessica Alba. I mean what can I say she’s absolutely stunning, successful and not to mention she’s been in various different blockbuster movies. She’s always on those programmes on E where they talk about whose most stylish in Hollywood. There was this one dress that I saw her in. I can remember it vividly it was...... I saw one just like it in.... a hundred and fifty quid it was.
Aisleigh opens the front door and walks in and takes her shoes and coat of whilst her mother walks to where she is standing and begins talking to her.
Mum- Work run earlier they want to know why you aint been in.
Aisleigh- because the managers a perv!
Mum- Well what do you expect when you walk around like that?
Aisleigh- Well it’s not like you can talk when in the past you’ve looked much worse then me and you’re what... 30 years older then me.
Aisleigh begins to get ready for her night job working in a club. When on her journey in the cab she looks out of the window.
Aisleigh- Where the fuck are my keys? (Looks in bag, bag drops on floor, look’s really upset and frantic)
Aisleigh looks in bathroom cupboard, gets scissors out and stares in the mirror.
Aisleigh lies on the bathroom floor. The narration begins “I pictured my life to be happy and for me to have a good relationship with my mum and to go college rather then working in poxie café and for me to one day to have achieve that Hollywood dream.
Aisleigh is late for work so she rushes to put her top and skirt on. The voiceover can be heard in the background “That’s me getting ready”.
Aisleigh walks through the door and in the direction of the toilets. The voiceover can be heard in the background. “I work several jobs this is my first job of the day.”
Manager-You’re late
Aisleigh- I know I had a rough night (rushes in the direction of the toilet)
Aisleigh comes out with a notepad and pen and approaches customer.
Aisleigh- What can I get you? (The customer begins placing her order and looks at the menu. Aisleigh's narration then begins “I bet this customer doesn’t even know my name. I bet she doesn’t even care that I'm working more then one job and yet I’m still struggling. I bet she wouldn’t even care if I got run over by a car.”)
A car is driving down a road then Aisleigh steps out into the road and the car beeps before driving off.
Aisleigh is on her lunch break and sitting down and eating. Aisleigh’s narration begins “I can’t believe that programme last night changing faces, I hope I don’t look like that when I’m older. Although, Jessica Alba, wow, she doesn’t even need surgery, I bet she’ll still look the same when she’s 75. My mum on the other hand, I can’t even begin to imagine what SHE’LL look like at 75. Disgusting woman... “
Mum is in the kitchen cooking breakfast and the breakfast burns leading the fire alarm to go off. She waves a cloth near the fire alarm to try and prevent it from continuing. She then dishes the breakfast on to the two plates.Aisleigh walks down the stairs really fast as she is in a hurry.
Aisleigh- I’m going out (She bangs the door and her narration begins. “That’s the extent of me and my mum’s relationship.”)
Aisleigh- See you later (Aisleigh walks out of the café and begins looking in her bag for cigarettes. She lights up and cigarette and starts smoking it. She starts to walk down the street then looks at the message on the cigarettes packaging. Aisleigh’s narration begins “Yeah I know, dirty habbit this is, oh well not as if anyone would care if this actually happened to me. Well... apart from Dixie.)
Aisleigh plays with her dog on the bed.
Aisleigh- Dixie Dixie!
Aisleigh continues to play with her dog whilst her narration can be heard in the background. “I had another dog as well, his name was Bertie, and he got run over by a car. He was my first true love.”
Mum opens the door but not fully. She looks around the room in amazement.
Aisleigh- What do you want?
Mum- Don’t be so rude... anyways where did you get all this stuff from? (Looks at labels) How much?
Aisleigh continues to walk down the street where a man whistles at her. The narration begins “I hate men like that, can’t they show a bit of respect. Disgusting fat bastards!”
Aisleigh cuts up images from a magazine whilst the narration begins. “When I get older I want to have one kid, a husband, come to think of it, I want to be just like Jessica Alba. I mean what can I say she’s absolutely stunning, successful and not to mention she’s been in various different blockbuster movies. She’s always on those programmes on E where they talk about whose most stylish in Hollywood. There was this one dress that I saw her in. I can remember it vividly it was...... I saw one just like it in.... a hundred and fifty quid it was.
Aisleigh opens the front door and walks in and takes her shoes and coat of whilst her mother walks to where she is standing and begins talking to her.
Mum- Work run earlier they want to know why you aint been in.
Aisleigh- because the managers a perv!
Mum- Well what do you expect when you walk around like that?
Aisleigh- Well it’s not like you can talk when in the past you’ve looked much worse then me and you’re what... 30 years older then me.
Aisleigh begins to get ready for her night job working in a club. When on her journey in the cab she looks out of the window.
Aisleigh- Where the fuck are my keys? (Looks in bag, bag drops on floor, look’s really upset and frantic)
Aisleigh looks in bathroom cupboard, gets scissors out and stares in the mirror.
Aisleigh lies on the bathroom floor. The narration begins “I pictured my life to be happy and for me to have a good relationship with my mum and to go college rather then working in poxie café and for me to one day to have achieve that Hollywood dream.
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