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
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