Shooting Script - Basic

Forest Area

1) Shot of tree from the ground in characters POV - Title on sky
2) Camera flickers to ceiling of bedroom then back to sky
3) Leaves begin falling into camera, slowly turning to show credits
4) Camera begins to tilt backwards
5) Camera flips completely backwards to show character lying on ground
6) Camera flickers between shot of character on ground and character on bed
7) Camera stops on shot of character


Bedroom

8) Camera cuts to ceiling
9) Camera films from corner of room, character gets out of bed
10) Shot of opening door handle
11) Character walks into bathroom
12) Over the shoulder (angled) shot of mirror
13) POV shot of character looking at drugs and sink
14) Shot of character - bleeding eyes
15) Shot of character taking drugs from inside mirror (try to not see mirror walls)
16) Camera  fades (blinking)


Forest

17) Eyes open
18) Cuts to POV - sin city effect
19) Camera spins around park - fast
20) Camera pulls back to long shot of character
21) Camera blacks
22) Title

MIse en scene -Ryan

Costume:

Clothes - Red/White Baseball shirt. the shirt in the bedroom scene is a bit grimy and dirty, also in the limbo scene we thought the idea of the red standing out would be good similar to the effect used in sin city, we feels it adds a vibrance and is really effective at portraying and empathising that this is indeed limbo.


            - Black trousers


             - Trainers (Converse)- again the shoes are scruffy and dirty because after all they do belong to an addict this again empathises the effect and strength of the drug. 

Location: - Park

               - The Bathroom is very typical  clothes are piled on the floor and there is a mirror above the sink the room unlike the bedroom, is  well lit therefore allowing the viewer to truly see the effect of the drug this is important for setting the rest of the story.


   The Bedroom is cluttered and disorganised, dvd's and other relative things litter the floor .the walls are covered in poster and the room is dimly light create a sense of foreboding  and eeriness.



Props - Drugs- We think as a group that we will uses liquid tablets because we think that they look much more interesting than normal tablets.
     

          - Leaves
       

Actor
          - Jonathan

Monologue - Amy

Monologue


Elysium, the drug used to enhance abilities, help intake information and amplify talents to a whole new level. Unfortunately they didn't tell us about the side effects.
With a small dose, it does what it says on the tin. Longer memory, larger information intake, it was the drug to cure all illnesses. Cancer, Dementia, Alzheimer's, all gone. Until people starting becoming greedy. It started with a few cases on the news, of people overdosing, but no one thought it would be them. No one thought it would turn into this...this...pandemic.
With a medium dose, you are transported to a tranquil peaceful land in your mind.
With a large dose, well, I like to call it Limbo. You're trapped in a land to face inner demons, nightmares and fears.

Plot - Amy

This film tells the story of Dante who is an 18 year old boy. It is 2019.

Dante has been brought into the world of Elysium and has now become used to taking medium doses.
His addiction has gradually grown into more of an addiction and he will soon start to take serious doses, if he doesn't stop soon. He started taking it during his late school years to help with exams and increase his ability to learn and intake information. He started to take more so that he could perform much better and this eventually spiralled out of control and became an addiction.

Elysium is a drug which was first introduced to help students perform to the best of their ability, so that they could progress through university to eventually become amazing doctors, lawyers etc. but some students took more than the prescribed dose, so more people starting taking more doses and eventually becoming addicted to then die.

The drug spread across the world and eventually became a pandemic. Everyone started taking it so that they could increase their ability. Sports people began to use it under the radar to perform better and actors used it to help remember lines and scripts quicker. Eventually the people using it started to become greedy and use too much. This lead to the amount of overdoses in society and a large increase in suicides.

Music

Music

Air on a G String - 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2j-frfK-yg

Moonlight Sonata -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVeaIHWWck

Andare - 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9olcTJmDphA

Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta (Fricsay) III -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd-2Yfhy-LE

Sad Dark Classical Music [Piano & Cello] - 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGFGX_plZKc

Pachelbel Canon in D - 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3uh75-OXQo

Beethoven - Moonlight sonata - Classical Nylon Guitar (dark & moody version) - 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuoOjI-x808

Clair de Lune - 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LXl4y6D-QI

Nocturno - Chopin - 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPvS0g2papI

Limbo - Elysium

It starts off with a character staring up at the sky, it is a first person sequence as the camera slowly pans up to reveal the tree canopy as leaves gracefully and peacefully fall off and descend to the ground. suddenly the sky leaves and trees begin to flicker similar to a monitor, the outdoors environment quickly shifts between the foliage and the ceiling of an indoor room. Now the scene has changed into a room environment. A voice over begins with soft and gentle piano music in the background (Andare), the voice over begins talking about an object such as a drug or the equivalent being able to give the subject enhanced abilities such as perception and awareness, as a result you become more conscious of the physical world and so a hallucination occurs in which the subject is transported into a an apparent serene environment in which the advantages could be used to ones advantage, such as possibly the slowing down of time, being able to hear peoples thoughts and so one, essentially in this part of the monologue the audience is introduced to this drug and only its benefits. then suddenly the music begins to fade and the lighting darken as the scene changes to the main character facing a mirror and slowly raising his head to be revealed by the camera, blood seems to be dripping from his eyes and nose as the monologue turns darker in turn. An eerie buzzing/booming sound can be heard as the camera zooms in towards the mirror. The character slowly closes his eyes and then the music stops as the scene fades to black, an eerie ambient noise of leaves rustling and the wind blowing can be heard as it one again switches to a Point of View shot as the camera rises and shows an outside environment, yet unlike the previous scene it is dark and more sinister. The camera cuts to a mid-close shot and begins to circle round the character followed by reverse zoom as the camera pulls away leaving the character in the distance and revealing more of the scenery, once zoomed back far enough what appears to be a person or monster can be seen hiding behind a tree... this scene fades to black and the movies title appears.

Psychoactive Drug:
                                 Name : Elysium
                                 Chemical formula : Ge2 N8 Es4 I10 S3 Fe2 Ar5
                                 Effects :

Small Dose : Enhanced perception (can see things clearer), attributes such as cognitive abilities are also increased. things appear in the surroundings that normally you wouldn't pay attention to (useful for solving police cases etc.).

Medium Dose : reality slows as they are transported into Light Limbo where the scenery is tranquil and peaceful. If taken at night one an delve into Light Limbo in their dreams and carry out actions until they wake.

Large Dose : Person is trapped in dark limbo facing inner demons, Dark Limbo is a sinister version of light limbo where it's always night.
                   

Evaluation Finished

PLANNING:

In the planning aspect of our preliminary coursework we feel we excelled with our storyboard, props, script and overall plot design.

Our acting was done fairly well but in the future we will attempt to become more suited to our roles via putting more input and practicing and polishing up on our script.

Our location was acceptable for the plot but we would have preferred to have a more suitable location for filming, one that both fitted in with the plot and was quite enough to avoid background noise.

One of the major problems we had to overcome was our plot, after having designed our scripts and storyboards for our initial script we began filming, we decided we didn't think this plot and overall theme was strong or engaging in any aspect so we began to write a new story and divided up the roles amongst us.

We also faced minor problems throughout like finding a suitable time to film and keep the continuity correct throughout, class change was also a minor hinderance as it prohibited when we could or couldn't film. We overcame this by putting in more effort as a team and working harder to think of better ideas and achieve what we wanted.

FILMING:

In our filming, we found that throughout filming nothing went significantly wrong, our best features were the use of lighting whether artificial or available and the use indoor and outdoor spaces and their environment.

We did use a variety of different shots and angles, each with a desired outcome such as the two shot and the over the shoulder shot being used to convey a conversational tone to the audience. or the various angles such as the low and high shot, as well as the aerial and panning shot are used to increase the tension and drama of the chase scene. Close ups were also used to divert focus to the subject and as a result makes the audience more likely to pay attention to the events that are occurring.

We think the choice of shot does matter in most instances, some times we had a choice of shots or techniques that we could have used, the may have been multiple shots that we could have used for each scene, so it was just a matter of picking our favourite.

We think we did fairly well in camera techniques, subject placement, and framing shots. We had no problems with this aspect of filming.

We followed the 180 degree rule throughout.

Our continuity in our final outcome was very successful, but we did run into a few problems throughout such as shirt sleeve lengths varying in each scene, shirts being untucked and tucked in certain scenes. We had to make sure hair length was continuous throughout and that sound was not disrupted during class change when the background noise of people could be heard.

We feel that mise en scene, lighting and sound where the best aspects of our film.

EDITING:

Editing really helped us spot any flaws in continuity in our filming, this allowed us to go back and film the respective scene.

We did run into a few problems with editing, such as certain scenes not appearing in final cut, heavy lagging and the timing of sound and transactions as a result.

We learned a lot from this, especially when regarding editing such as : how to include and edit intros and credits, colour match, cutting and slicing scenes, adding and splitting music and how to include transactions.

The only problems we encountered with editing was one scene kept on disappearing from final cut, so we had to repeat the import process and lag, with the timing being off as a result of image and sound transactions.

We feel that we had a lot of success with editing, from the use of colour match to give a more aged atmospheric feel, to sound and image cross cutting transactions for comedic effect.

CONCLUSION:

We have learned a lot from this experience that we indeed to use to our advantage next time, such as: we need to be more prepared from the start, to make sure we have a strong start with a good plot and engaging manner in which its portrayed.

We also need to make sure each person in our group has an allocated role and that they stick to it and work hard throughout. We need to also be prepared to put in good effort to get scenes filmed and re-filmed if need be, and may need to film at times outside of school.

We should get actors more suited to the respective role and make sure they know their lines and actions that the need for each scene, and also we need to make sure we have a more suitable place to film scenes.