Script and Plot

SCRIPT FOR ‘CHANGES’

Natalie leans against a wall smoking and looking into the distance. Showing no emotions.

{FLASHBACK}

Natalie and Katie, sitting in the loft surrounded with music and pillows around them. Lots of laughter and constant banter between them. 

Katie : Are you really ready for this?

Natalie : I am, course i am why wouldnt i be. If you can do it so can i ( bites her nails, tries to hide back her nerves)

Katie: (lights the joint ) i really need this ive had a fucking hard day and everyone is getting on my last nerves. ill tell you something theres nothing better when everyone has pissed you have to have a smoke of this stuff.. (hands it over to Natalie who looks very unsure)

Natalie ; (showing hesitation takes the joint and has a puff) ...(coughing) ahh thats horrible! 

(takes another puff, lots of laughter between them and flowing conversation about her first smoke) 

Katie and Natalie pass the joint around between eachother , Natalie start to enjoy it while Katie feeds it to her.  Katie suggests to spice things up a bit and pulls out a bag of more drugs, girls look at eachother with a smile.

PLOT OF OUR MOVIE 

Our movie is about a main girl who is struggling with the abuse of alcohol and drugs, how she has lost a lot of friends and respect for the over use of illegal concepts. its a serious teenage drama, engaging with the 16-24 audience. hoping to influence teenagers not to experiment with drugs. through the movie we would have shown the journey of a teenage girl and her problems and how she deals with them and if she turns her life around by the end of the movie.

(The picture is of our main character Natalie)

in the opening two minutes of our feature film we hope to give the audience the impression of a serious teenage drama. In the first shot which is a tilt down moving slowly upwards showing the audience of a cold girl, who looks sad and alone. the close ups are meant to show the trapped emotions and sadness of this girl resting against a wall as if she has no care in the world. The next shots are of a recollection which this girls having of the past and the first time trying drugs. a strong friendship between her and her friend who seem approachable and kind in the flash backs. It is important for our movie not to be about glamourising drugs, mostly based on the effects they have on teenagers. We used an editing technique on our movie which was dissolve effect this was for our montage sequence.

The opening of our two minute feature film 'Changes'

Powerpoint presentation

View more presentations from guest1e6c40.

This is a powerpoint presentation full of questions and short answers describing and analysing our feature film. We made this on key note and then had to export it onto powerpoint. We used youtube to convert music onto and and uploaded pictures. 

Story Board of 'Changes'

 from our storyboard to our final results - we changed the movements of the girls 

Preperation

-Location

-Cast

-Costume

-Equipment List

-Schedule

LOCATION

*Location 1 - Bentley way Stanmore

*Location 2 - 129 Stanmore Hill

CAST

*Girl 1- Natalie Kosky Mill Hill school drama student

*Girl 2- Katie Newton Mill Hill school drama student

CHARACTERS

The characters in our movie are both teenage girls who are best friends.

We based our characters on the characters from the movie thirteen.

‘NATALIE’

Working class, public education, lives with parents.

Brown Hair, Hazel eyes

Sweet innocent young girl - aged 16 ( simplistic costume for this part- jeans vest)

(In the flash back )

Before the flash back (Natalie) - Cold, aggressive, moody troubled sole who has fallen out with a lot of people and now struggling with drugs and alcohol abuse. ( dark deep colors, heavy makeup - very aggressive clothes )

AIM-  Natalie had changed a lot from what she used to be like, throughout the movie Natalie would have changed into a very angry child.

‘KATIE’

Working class, public education, lives with parents

Blonde Hair, Blue eyes

Fun care free happy sponanious young girl- aged 17Natalie looks up to Katie and follows her on whatever she does, its Katies influence which gets Natalie in the wrong situations. Natalie looks up to Katie and follows her on whatever she does, its Katies influence which gets Natalie in the wrong situations.

Equipment List

-Props

-Costume

-Hair and Makeup

PROPS LIST

*Vodka Bottle

*ciggerttes

*handbag

*bag of sugar

*ashtray

*plastic bag

MAKE UP AND HAIR

*Girl1-smudged mascara, pachy makeup, messy hair hair ,smokey eye makeup

*Girl 1- mascara, natural makeup, natural hair

*Girl 2- harsher makeup then girl 2, heavier eyes

COSTUME

*Girl 1-Black wriped leggings,hoodie,denim jacket,  purple converses, handbag.

*Girl 1 second outfit- jeans, white vest

*Girl 2- black leggings, white vest, sweat shirt, leather jacket

Schedule For ‘Changes’

HALF TERM

Febuary 16th-20th

Tuesday 16th Febuary

13:00 - 16:00 actors arrive

Preperation for ‘Changes’

No Cast required - Location, Costumes, Props and scripts printed.

Wednesday 17th Febuary

12:00-15:00 actors arrive

Cast - Natalie Kosky ( in costume 1)

Filming for beginning of flash back.

Location - Bentley way in Stanmore

Thursday 18th Febuary

(day used to re shoot if needed)

12:00 -15:00 (if contacted on the day) actors arrive

Cast -Natalie Kosky (in costume 1)

Friday 19th Febuary

16:00-20:00 actors arrive

Cast - Natalie Kosky + Katie Newton (both in costume 2 )

Filming in Location - 129 Stanmore Hill

Saturday 20th Febuary

(day used to re shoot if needed) actors arrive

16:00-20:00 (if contacted on the day)Cast- Natalie Kosky + Katie Newton (both in costume 2)

Filming in Location - 129 Stanmore Hill

To the actors Francesca and myself will both be at the locations 1 hour before you so for any questions please come in that hour.

EVALUATION

We had to re shoot and change our film as we felt it wasnt working. At first we wrote a small script, which we decided made our film sound very childish, therefore we decided to scrap the script and use music to build up the tension.

We decided that Francesca would operate the camera and that i would direct the film. Having set these roles looking back we had both shared both roles as we had the same ideas in mind.  For the overall story and script we combined both our ideas together.

We had to re shoot twice this was because we had problems with continuity, the continuity with the joint and as well the lighting. With the lighting for the second part of the film we decided to do it inside with no light coming through as this wouldnt effect us or give us any problems.

For the editing, at first it was terrible. Francesca mastered it straight away were as i found it very difficult. We felt it was to much work giving all the editing to one person so Fancesca showed me how to use it and with final cut pro it changed our movie even more. We decided dissolve effects would create a montage sequence which worked with the idea of a past memory.

Throughout our project we lacked a lot of organisation so coming to the end was very stressful but we now know for next year to be more prepared and more organised.

FINAL PRELIMINARY TASK

Me and charley decided to film another preliminary task using the schools camera and facilities. Our teacher Craig acted in our 20-30 seconds film with me. Just like our pre preliminary task we had to film someone walking towards a door, through the door and having a conversation with someone else. As a pair Charley and I decided who felt more comfortable in which jobs therefore we decided that I would be the actress and she would be on camera. We edited our work together and worked together on the script, shot plans and the story board. As it was only two of us we found it really easy to work together. We have finished the final edits and our task should be up very soon.

Watch Film