Film Poster

This is our poster that we would use to advertise our film. This poster would fit and look suitable on London Underground stations, the side of buses, bus stops and in a general poster form. We used a still frame from the film so the audience are intrigued as to why they are walking along a pier and therefore enticed to go and see our film.

Synopsis

When filming we will need the following things and to visit these places:

A place for memories to be filmed: Southend, beach, amusement arcades, rides.
A train station.
A train.
A scrapbook.
A bag.

The characters in our films opening: We have three main characters which are Daisy played by Libby, Elyza played by Katie. Daisy is the girl that is suffering from amnesia and Elyza is her friend.  During the film opening we go through Daisy's memories with her friend Elyza.

Location: Our film opening will be located in Southend using the attractions available, we are using the beach, amusement arcades and the theme park. We are also going to be located at chelmsford train station and on a train.

Costumes: The two characters will be wearing normal everyday clothing as we are showing memories of special day to day things so we feel we don't need anything special or unique to be worn.

Audience: We have decided that our audience will be from the ages of 12-18 however it can be viewed by anyone if they wish to watch it.  The certificate is a 12A.

Storyboard

This shows our storyboard, it includes locations, angles and the titles that will appear in each shot.

Marketing Campaign

This prezi shows how and where we will market our film using inspiration from a film similar to ours.

Using Premier

I have previously used premier but only the basic features. Within our film we wanted to include some interesting effects and images, for this we had to apply our own knowledge and find out how to use these effects and if they would work.

One effect we wanted was sections where there was just a black screen, and then flash back to the footage, like a shutter effect. To find out how to do this we used youtube.


 


We also decided that the memories should be in black and white. I found out how to do this on my own by playing around with some different effects.
We also wanted some of the effects to be slower as it seemed quite rushed, again I found out how to do this on my own. I knew how to change the speed of videos so I used the same strategy with the effects.





Some of our shots were too wide so we had parts that needed to be cropped. We used this video to find our how to do this.





From our feedback we were told that it would help with the understanding of the film if we had parts that were frozen and reflect the pictures in the scrapbook. This video helped us with how to do this.

Titles font

This is the final font we choose for out titles during editing. We think it is quite simple but not so simple that it is boring, we didn't want the titles to be too distracting. 

Filming

Today we went to Southend to film our footage for our film opening, overall it went well and we got everything we needed and wanted to.

We began at Chelmsford train station where we filmed some footage including Libby walking through the barriers, getting on the train and the train pulling into the the station. Luckily we didn't have to wait for a train to long as we looked into train times before we left to ensure we didn't waste any time.
We got on a train to Shenfeild, we had to go here to change to the train that went straight to Southend. Between Chelmsford and Southend we filmed Libby walking down the train to find a seat. We also filmed her looking at the scrapbook and looking out the window.
When we got to Shenfeild we filmed Libby walking down a corridor and up the stairs which took her to the platform. We had some time before our train came so we decided it would be a good idea to re-film Libby walking onto the train to ensure we got a good, still shot. Luckily a train was already pulled into the station and wasn't leaving for a few minutes so we were able to film it a number of times and get the best possible shot.
We got a train from Shenfeild to Southend which didn't take to long. On the way we continued to film some footage on Libby on the train looking through her scrapbook and out the window. We moved down the train to find a carriage with less people in so we didn't disturb anyone with our filming and we didn't have anyone else in our shots as we want Libby to look as alone as possible.

When we got to Southend we walked down to the sea front as the majority of our footage would be shot there. We first shot the lift footage as it took us down the sea front, when we got down to the sea front we noticed that no one was in Adventure Island Theme Park, we immediately went to asks someone if it was open or not and unfortunately they told us it wasn't. We were hoping to film some of our footage within the theme park so we had to quickly think of other places to film. We had checked the website for Adventure Island before we came and nothing stated it wouldn't be open.
We didn't want to waste any time so we continued with our filming while we thought of some more ideas to replace the footage we would of filmed.
We first went to an arcade to shot some shots of Libby and Katie playing on various machines. There was a miniature bowling alley in the arcade so we thought it would a good idea to film some footage of Libby bowling.
Once we had shot all the footage we wanted in the arcade, we went out to the beach were I filmed Libby and Katie walking along the small pier, i also filmed a panning shot of the sea. We did this just at the right time as the sun was setting and it a nice effect to the shot. We liked the sunset so much we shot it with Libby standing just to the left of the sunset.
Finally we went back to the lift we first used and re-filmed it and also shot some footage of us standing infant of the sunset.

Overall i think we planned the day almost perfectly. we checked the weather to make sure it was suitable for outside filming, we took all the equipment we required with us, we had enough time to film all the footage and some extra incase we needed it.

Amnesia Representation

Representation is the way in which people, events and ideas are presented to the audience.

Characters-

Daisy- 

Daisy is the main character presented in the opening sequence. She represents a teenage girl with amnesia, deliberately not a generic character representation. She is not presented to the audience as a typical girly girl character but she is portrayed as a troubled young girl dealing with the problems she has. To most people she will be an object of sympathy, they want to help her but can't physically do anything and neither can she. 

Eliza Thomas & Naomi Waters- 

These two characters are Daisy best friends. They have been friends for years and stay together through thick and thin and share many memories together. They represent Daisy's escape in life, they distract Daisy and the audience from other events in the film. They are both normal, healthy young girls to represent that Daisy is not in fact normal and healthy.

Places- 

The main location in our opening sequence is a moving train. We are using the train to represent that everything around Daisy is still moving, her life is still going forward although she isn't remembering anything. Everything on the train is carrying on as normal to represent that everything around her is still normal. 

The memories are in various locations, they all represent her past that is slowly fading from her memory as she tries to keep it alive 

Shot List

Here is a list of our shot in the order they appear:

-The first shot is a level shot of Libby standing looking out the window of the lift.
-The next shot is a low shot of Libby walking up the stairs in the train station, we shot it from the top of the stairs.
-The next shot is a level shot of Libby walking through the barriers at the train station.
-Next is a static level shot of the train pulling in to the station.
-The next shot is a close up shot of the train moving past the camera.
-The next shot is a static shot of Libby walking onto the train from the platform.
-Next is a tracking shot of Libby walking through the train to find a seat.
-Another tracking shot but this time the camera is close up to Libby as she sits down.
-The camera pans around Libby as she looks at her scrapbook.
-The next shot is from over Libby's shoulder as she looks through her scrapbook, at the end of the shot it zooms into the scrapbook before zooming out into the next shot.
-The next 2 shots are both of the scrapbook, they fade into one another as the pages turn.
-Next it zooms into the middle picture on the right side of the scrapbook.
-It then dissolves into the first memories which starts as a still shot of Libby and Katie before paying round them.
-The next shot is from Libby's point of view as she walks through the arcade so it is close up.
-For the next shot we used the tripod to film a high shot of Libby bowling.
-The next shot is a long shot of Libby sitting looking out the window of the train
-The following shot is an extreme long shot of Libby and Katie walking down the pier.
-The next shot is an establishing shot that pans across the sea front.
-The next shot is of Libby and me playing air hockey.
-It then changes to a close up of the air hockey as if it were from Libby's point of view.
-Another establishing shot but this time of Adventure Island.
-The final shot is a static shot of Libby standing infront of the sunset.

Risk Assesment

This is a risk assessment for when we go to various locations filming. There is a very low chance that we will have a problem with any of this risks but we completed this form just in case.

Timeline Of Titles

                 

Opening Titles

When we decided to change our genre to a teen drama we had to research into some film openings within this genre. Through research i found '50 First Dates'- a film about a girl with short term memory who lives the same day every day of her life not knowing so.





Order of titles:

7-20 seconds- The Columbia (Sony pictures) production logo

20-24 seconds- blank screen

24- music begins to play

24-27- 'Columbia pictures presents'

28 seconds- picture in background appears.

30-33 seconds- 'a happy madison'

34-38 seconds- 'anonymous content'

39-42 seconds- 'and flower films production'

43 seconds- camera pans right to reveal film name

45-52 seconds- '50 first dates'

Practice Titles

We filmed our titles today, however we found that they looked boring as the majority of the space in the scrapbook was blank, so it didnt look like a genuine scrapbook someone had spent time creating.

We decided that we would find a different way to show the titles. When i was shopping i came across some 3d letters we could stick on the pages, when trying this out it looked more original and quirky.  So we have decided we will decorate the background of the scrapbook and then place the letters over the top.

 

Feedback

We have recieved the following feedback-
Mr Amato- 'The genre is confusing especially the titles which don't seem to match the genre, aside from this it is a creative, original idea.'
He advised that we add drawings, doodles and pictures do the background of our scrapbook.

In response to his feedback we have tweaked our genre slightly, it is now more a teen drama than a mystery film. The titles were too quirky to be associated with the mystery genre.

Izzy Payne- 'When filming the memories Libby will have to wear different clothes to show they are in the past, other than that it is a good orginal idea'

In response to this we realised she was right that LIbby will have to wear differnt clothes when filming the memories or it won't be obvious that it is in the past.

Genre Conventions

The genre of our film is drama, to fit in with this genre we used the following things.

-it exhibits real life situations and the reality of them, so the audience can easily relate to the characters and the events- which is the purpose of a drama film; to move to audience and take them on a journey throughout the film.

-The theme is dramatic and real.

-We have both tense music to build tension which leads on to the rest of the film.

-We have used little dialogue so there are many questions for the audience to ask about the film and want to watch the rest of it.

- During the memories we have used low key lighting.

-Many of the shots as long, establishing shots to set the scene.

Shooting Schdule

Moodboard

This includes all the places we got inspiration for our shots and titles from. It helped us decide how we wanted to lay it out and what order. These shots are from the following places-
-LOL- train scene
-Sunrise music video
-Wolverine- train scene
-Avicii- wake me up music video
-Bride Wars- title sequence
-Lizzie Migure- title sequence
-Diary Of A Wimpy Kid- title sequence.

Music Ideas

We looked at various types of music that would fit with our film opening. We wanted something that reflected the tone of the film and fitted with the genre conventions. We narrowed it down to the following songs:

Our first choice is a cover of Amnesia by 5 seconds of Summer. We choose this as the title and lyrics of the song are the same as our film title and reflect the reality of amnesia so people can relate to it. We wanted a song that wasn't fast pace but also wasn't slow paced so this song was perfect for that, the tone is just right for our genre. 

The next song is a cover of Say something by Jasmine Thompson, originally sung by Christina Aguilera. The pace of this song is slightly slower to the first option however it still reflects the events and goes with the conventions of our genre. 

Our final option is a cover of Adele's song Dont you remember, covered by Rachel Mount. This is slower than the other options however the title and lyrics reflect the events and the struggle our main character Daisy is going through. 

Institution Research

New Line Cinema-

New line Cinema was founded in 1967 and since then has produced Oscar winning films like The Lord Of The Rings trilogy and some of the most popular film franchises in the world such a Sex And The City, Elf, Austin Powers, and Hairspray. In march 2008 New Line Cinema became a unit of Warner Bros. Entertainment although they still maintain separate development, production, marketing and distribution but coordinates with Warner Bros. to maximize film performance .

We chose New Line Cinema as it appeals to a more sophisticated audience and that is what we are aiming for. Our film deals with a sophisticated, serious issue that wont appeal to teenagers and young children so we are aiming for a much more mature audience. It can help by advertising in the right way to appeal to this audience meaning our film becomes as successful as it can be.

Amnesia Script

 This is our film script for Amnesia, we have included little dialogue as we want the audience to just concentrate on what Daisy is doing and how she is acting. We want them to be unaware of what is happening to her.
During filming this may change and we may add more dialogue if we come across a problem but for now we are happy with this script and directions.