Case studies on film posters and magazine reviews

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A2 Media G323 / Advanced Portfolio Researching and Planning the Moving Image Work

Our pitch of treatment

From this pitch we gather our audience feedback and what we need to improve.

Creative Ideas

 At first we had many ideas of from a normal guy with a hidden power to a thrilling murder in a group of friends. We wanted to put across the idea of mystery with thriller and suspense in our short film. The idea was to keep the audience guessing who? or what? including all this we wanted to add a moral of the story which we can teach throughout the clip.

We found many examples from short clips such as 'the black hole' '2:20' 

Both of these short film were very inspirational and helped us get ideas flowing.  

Our first initial idea was based on a normal male 17 year old, discovers that one day he wakes up and everyone is procrastinating. The whole world has come to a standstill. He finds that he is the only that can see a tag type sticker on each person which the tag was the cause of procrastination which he soon found out after removing it from his mother. The whole short film was about this boy removing tags from people but finding out that he becomes immobilised when he removed a lot of tags.

This idea was a good start but as it gradually started to build up we found many floors in it. We looked at how realistic it would be to film and it was less likely for us to achieve because we would have to freeze everything and everyone on the street. The idea was later scrapped and we were back to the beginning.

To get more inspiration we searched for more short films. We came with the idea of having something that comes to life which is abnormal but could be realistic. Our final thoughts was based on the film jumanji. We thought of recreated something very similar where a game came to reality. This is where the idea of monopoly came into place. 

Treatment

Our treatment presentation

Creative ideas

Today in our groups we went through a brief overview of how our storyline should be. We tried to link all our ideas into one create a storyline. our story consist of a teenage boy who has a special ability to help people in a world of procrastination. He relives the of their oppression by taking an invisible sticker which only he can see. Throughout the film he does that but doesn't realise it is affecting him. we haven't quite come up with a climax and ending but hope to sort it out soon.

Research and planning

So far in our research and planning I have found there is much more organising and preparation to do than in AS. I have now did more research and background information into video's to give me ideas on the key aspects which a product is needed. Although right now I have not chosen what production I want to produce (short film or music video) my research from my case studies have give a broad range of ideas for both sides. My research skills have improved because I now have sources which I can relay to such as YouTube which is different from the task in AS where the sources had to be searched for in the shop. YouTube is an easier source to work from which has millions of ideas which I could study and research from. This has made preparing for this project so far much easier.

Media short film and music video analysis

Case studies first draft

Start of Treatment

Today we stared to write our treatment. We established that there maybe faults in our plan which we may have to change. We realised that the short film has to be more realistic and reachable for us as a group to create.