Tutorial (video) - 16/03/16

1. Re-shot the library scene : improve sound quality, close ups
2. Mise-en-scene : Focus on small details , less busy . change angles of shots - contrast
3. facial expressions shown more often
4. different location potentially
5. conciser using a portrait lens 
6. filming on weekend & over Easter 

Print Work So Far

Target Audience

Create a spider diagram or bullet point list of all the things your target audience might be interested in. How can you use this information to create a main feature about your film that will appeal to your target audience?

Main aspects of Target Audience- 

• 15+ (or more specifically 15-32) 
•  16-24 year old's being prone to mental health illnesses 
• secondary target audience of parents to help 
• broad aspect of mental health, and the equal balance of male and female characters 
• idea of romance, therefore suggesting a 52% female 48% male target audience.
• Aspires as it is a young audience
• mainstreamers as the idea of psychology is becoming fairly mainstream especially within young audiences
•  reforms as the seek knowledge on all issues
• explores as they would willing like to explore the human mind and emotions.

What the Target Audience may therefore be interested in -

• psychology
• romance
• society
• complex issues
• mental health illnesses
• support/help/aid
• knowledge
• tumblr (huge psychology fans)
• films like black swan
• photography/art/writing 

Main Features that could appeal well to the audience interested in the above-

• Artistic(through both photographs/art and writing) layout
• Detailed article on schizophrenia 
• inspiration for the movie
• any emotional attachment present to the movie
• main message of the movie

Notes from BFI trip

Concept exchange:

Money usually leads to a cinema experience for the consumers.

3 platforms:

Arthouse - like the BFI - Low budget and speciality
Multiplex- large audience - Block busters
Prestige - are a cross over of both - serious topics - usually big actors at low budgets

Sub-genres:
Franchise - eg. Harry Potter
Heritage- eg. Kings speech
Social realism
Horror
Urban fairytale - eg. Love actually

The bond franchise-
Simple pleasures
Familiar characters and structure
Stereotypes of britishness
Expectations of international audiences

Kinsman was inspired by bond and was based on a graphic novel.

Heritage (royal nights) is usually nostalgic through the rose tinted perspective.
The past isn't criticised
Reinforces pantheism
Tourist making strategy
Museum aesthetics
Expensive mise-en-scene

Social realism (selfish giant)
Critical - doesn't reinforce British Stereotypes
Comfort zones of audiences are challenged
Usually about class/darker aspects of human nature.
Exploring harsh realities

Horror (women in black)
Traditional gothic
Uses hammer films idea plus heritage aesthetic
Star power.

Urban fairytale (one day)
Typical love story conventions
Beautiful setting
Marketing for tourism
Middleclass representation
Contrasting to ill mannors

Photoshop Tutorials

500 word Article

Reasons for the Shadows

Here, in the director’s words, the inspiration for this emotive masterpiece of a film.

Everyone’s faced some sort of trauma in their past, that changed them from a person they could never go back to being. But imagine if that trauma haunted you day and night, with your eyes open or closed, or so much that you had to learn to escape reality through your thoughts. But what happens if you think to such an extent that you can no longer differentiate your thoughts from reality. Getting caught in a limbo of life and death, where you know you’ll barley survive in the condition you’re in.

Pain is relative, depending on the person and their own individual emotions, therefore the impact of trauma effects each individual in a different manner and sometimes things occur in life that cause you to lose yourself – mental health illnesses like anxiety, depression , schizophrenia (to name a few) are often results to such trauma. Where you’re so scared that you no longer know how to reach out for help and the people around you don’t seem to pick up on the signals.

How often do you here people, “it’s not really an illness”, “it doesn’t really hurt”, “they’re just being dramatic”, when they talk about mental health illnesses. Mental health illnesses aren’t to be taken lightly and that’s what I wanted to convey to an audience, no they aren’t as ‘scary’ and ‘dangerous’ as most movies portray, they are in fact way more harmful for the individual suffering that the people they encounter.

Imagine your worst nightmares coming to life right in front of your eyes but nobody can see them but you. Imagine the trauma of the past following, no matter how fast you run, it keeps on following you – most mental health illnesses feel like that. Too many people suffer in silence and don’t reach out for help for the sole reason of thinking that no one is going to understand how they feel.

Most people don’t understand the scars on many others just because they didn’t understand what the other person was feeling, what it is like to be them. That’s what this movie was meant to help to do, help other understand how dark it can get in people’s minds and what we need to do to help, it helps those suffering from mental health illnesses, I wanted them to know they aren’t alone.

Remember that time you had that one fight, and no one was around to help you out? Would you wish that upon another poor soul? What if it’s even worse for them? I’m not sure about many other people, but the last time I had to suffer in silence the pain became so unbearable that I slipped so far out that it seemed your illness was your only friend. All I needed was someone to help me, by simply acknowledging what I felt as valid, gave me strength with their hope and I’m still standing tall today, after a darkness I thought wouldn’t end. Not everyone is so lucky to make it out of things that hard, so we should help as many people we can.

Here’s the message, plain and simple; there are so many people in this world who are suffering in silence be careful with what you say, because everyone is fighting their own silent battles and you don’t know how a single cruel remark can push them over the edge. 

MEST2 Progress Report – 20 January

Work Completed since 6th January

• made the script (final)
• created the first draft of script, mise-en-scene, shot list.
• Bridge shot we needed
• Re-viewed finalised shot list 

incomplete;

• Finalised storyboard drawings

Next steps;

• Complete rest of shooting (park, home and school) - start with the park 

• fiming will be complete by 29th January