Production Log 6

For this week me and my partner have been working on the graphics and the soundtrack  for our opening sequence, we have been working on the post production issues. We went on livetype to familiarize ourselves with the different fonts and effects that we could use for the background and the texture that we could apply to represent the credits in our film. In addition to this me and my partner were not fully satisfied with the fonts on live type so we went on a different website called 'Dafont' which we found the graphics we could use for our film. 

We used the font from Dafont for our title. 

The second issue that me and partner covered this week was the soundtrack for our film, we had created three soundtracks and out of that we will choose only one. The style of music we went for was depressing but fast tempo and loud to match the smash mouth opening at the beginning, the most important aspect we considered while creating and developing our music was how it will show continuity and how it will reflect the moods of the characters and the situations in the film. We have involved different types of instruments in the soundtrack to make it exciting and different, we had listened to soundtracks from British Social Realism films such as 'Trainspotting as that film has a smash mouth opening we paid close attention to the music they used in that and the pace, pitch and tempo as this is key to continuity. 

Production Log 5

The key issues for my pre-production work this week has been completing it via the deadline. I have also learnt how to use a new type of technology called 'Prezi' that can help my overall grade for use of technology in my coursework. I used prezi to carry out the treatment on, so it looks interesting and different instead of just typing it on Blogger. This week we have also decided on our narrative of our film and produced shooting scripts, call sheets a production schedule and location recies. We used a template from McKees classical narrative to produce our own one. This consisted of the Expostion, Protagonists which is where you get to know the protagonist. After that would be the Agents of change, Antagonists, which where change appears in the protagonists life. Conflict complication which is where the issue develops then after that elaboration which is where all the other events come into the story and after that would be climax and resolution which is where the character overcomes the conflict. The we also did a coda which ends the story, clearly. In addition to this me and partner had created a vox pop on BSR which we asked a series of questions on BSR films and the themes portrayed and their views on the situations shown in the film.

The issues in our film, we decided on was because of how a large amount of British social realism films typically possess these themes in their films, we establish the theme of domestic violence as portrayed in 'Nil by Mouth'. The film kidulthood shows themes of drugs and childhood issues which we will demonstrate in our film. Our whole idea of what the opening sequence will contain changed as me and partner thought that our original idea was too typical and common to use as we wanted a unique storyline to appeal to our target audience. For our narrative we have decided to use an linear narrative as they are generally most frequently used in BSR films, it adds to the verisimilitude. In addition to that we are using an restricted narrative as it is easier to use and thats what BSR films consist of. 

Location Reccies

Forest Gate

Council Estate

         We decided on using the council estate because it is a common living area for someone to typically live in within a British Social Realist film whilst being of a working class character. For example: In Fish Tank and Adulthood, their living environments are in Council estate buildings. This tends to connote that they live in rough environment and this could reflect upon the character's representations as people in Britain.

When viewing characters living within a Council Estate building, we connote that they are unable to provide properly for themselves. It lives up to the stereotypes of the working class living within council estates. The general public associate the working class with unprivileged life. The colour of a typical estate tend to use dull colours which creates an unvarnished atmosphere if used within a scene of a British socal realism film. In addition to this the colour is signifiacnt  as it reflects upon the characters negative miserable lives whilst living in Britain. This associates with the BSR ideology of a mundane life. As Beccas representation as a protagonist character is represented as a violent disturbed being revealing her lving area to of an estate it helps to introduce her to the auidience of a person as the film begins. 

Small House

We will be using a small house in Forest Gate within the end of the opening sequence. Moving from the appearance given of Becca's home a coucil estate moving to the second location of Callum's house, It reveals a difference with the living styles which both of them live in due to Callum having a slightly better living environment. This causes the opening sequence to become very effective when representing working class representations of the characters due to the relation of poverty being a very common theme within British Social Realist films. This house will be very suitable for my video due to Callum's house offering an escape from Becca's estate from all the problems that she goes through in her life. We will only be revealing the outside of the house's appearance so that whilst watching the opening sequence, the audience are still unaware of the house's image inside. This creates a sense of mystery due to us not being able to know whether the characters have anything to hide; whether this is relating to drugs, cigarettets. or maybe just a distumpled home.

Production Schedule

Call sheets

Shooting Script

Treatment

McKee's 'classic Narrative Structure'

Exposition - Protagonists

The film begins with Becca's friend, (Jade) walking into the kitchen of the council estate as Jade's boyfriend, (Dan) is awaiting there for her arrival. It sort of signifies the upbringing of a event which is going to occur. As this is happening, Becca is not seen yet but is sitting in her room within the flat.

Becca Wots- A female teenage 18 years old, who finds it hard to cope with all the problems that she goes through during her unvarnished British life. She occasionally skips school and sits alone somewhere away from her home to escape from everything in her life whilst smoking, taking drugs, and taking alcohol to help comfort her.

As Jade walks into the kitchen, Dan begins to create an argument due to the fact that Jade had left the house without letting anybody know. Jade reveals some attitude towards Dan which causes him to become very angry; resulting in domestic abuse being acted upon towards Jade which then causes the beginning scene to appear of a unvarnished atmosphere already as we begin to watch the film out of depression.

Agents Of Change - Antagonists

Callum Britway- Becca's Boyfriend. 

Unlike Becca, Callum is a genuine guy who cares a lot about Becca. Through all the aggressive violent actions expressed towards him from Becca, he still remains by her side due to his strong unconditional feelings of love towards her whilst having a very good understanding to how life has treated her. Callum has experienced the same issues that Becca is going through, which highlights his focused goal to help his girlfriend through her troubles. But unlike Becca, Callum's living styles are quite different to how she lives within a broken down flat/council estate whilst living in a nice big house. However it won't be easy as Callum faces many violent off putting obstacles that may challenge his love for Becca whilst being in the process of helping her.

Conflict - Complication

From the abusive experience that Becca witnesses from the actions created by friends, her mind  begins to collect in that influence of bad behavior given from Dan. We see how she experiences the domestic abuse that Dan has inflicted upon; Mainly being Dan being violent against Jade and how Jade's injuries has caused Becca to start to become like Dan and inflicts pain and ferocity towards others specifically her boyfriend. Becca decides to twist the world of domestic abuse into her own fingertips. Instead of the stereotypical issue of men beating up women, Becca decides to boost up the power of women and decides to fight for her rights in her world. However, this doesn't turn out to be a pretty picture with the actions she inflicts upon with others during the story.

Elaboration

While constantly living in her broken down council flat in an run down estate block walking around in depression and anger, she finds cocaine in the house which she notices Dan using and begins to smoke on that as an escape and cure for her problems. She does this to clear her mental state; to forget everything that is currently happening in her life and enjoys the feeling of doing it with pleasure she gets from taking it. Callum continuously gives Becca comforting advice regarding her behavior created due to the loss of her friend Jade who was horrifically abused by Dan. Callum sets out to take her many places to help address her dependency on drugs cocaine and her alcohol problems. He takes her to rehabilitation clinics but unfortunately Becca never follows through with that. He also tries taking her mind off everything that has happened to try and help her overcome all this madness. She refuses to go anywhere as she is very stubborn.  During these actions that Callum puts forward, Becca's friend Jade dies due to all the harsh injuries that Dan acted upon towards her. Henceforth, Becca still continues to be a very violent depressed person and Callum still chooses to persevere motivates the fact of making her life and behavior better. He talks to her about how Jade wouldn't be happy to be seeing her the way she is acting and that Becca should calm down and live life better by not inflicting what Dan inflicted towards Jade.

Climax & Resolution

After all the struggles that Callum went through in trying to make Becca better, he gets in the way of Becca and her drug dealer and suffers the horrific circumstances whilst getting beaten up. This results in him being in a coma. Callum is on his death bed and for his dying wish he wishes Becca to stop and become a better person. Becca loses everything once her love dies she hits rock bottom. She finally sees how her habit has led to destruction and despair which has caused others around her to get hurt. This is what Becca uses to kick-start herself in a new direction and to get her life back on track due to this dramatic event making her change. She put's down the drugs and alcohol and the harsh domestic actions (what she claimed to be the only escape to her stress and depression) and begins to change into a better person from all that Callum has done. She still remains to be a little upset of how life has treated her, the lost of her best friend  and her boyfriend but she manages to contain within herself all the harsh violent actions that she used to act upon with other beings.

Coda

Towards the end, after being effected deeply with the devastating events of her best friends and boyfriends death, she turns her life towards the right direction. She manages to achieve a job working in a supermarket and earns enough money to purchase herself an apartment of her own where she is able to escape from everything and live by herself as a independent being. After putting her foot down to all these actions which Callum guided her towards, she manages to keep a smile on her face throughout that day and the rest of the days to come living in her clean apartment in Britain. With going through with all of these actions, she is satisfied to know that both Jade and Callum would be happy to know how she is living life positive, strong, and brave with any issue that comes across to her in her life and she will try her best to stay that way as long as possible because she knows that it is better that way for her own positive benefit.