Monday, 14 February 2011

Synopsis first draft.

Outline
Our opening two minutes is going to be around a young girl who begins to stalk a young woman due to her being obsessed with the woman’s partner after him saving her when she was about to commit suicide at a tram station. The theme is going to be around a girl who entails stalker behaviour, we also attempt for it to be of a thriller atmosphere, and to draw our target audience in. We are going to use a build up of scenes to add to the each point that we attempt to make in the opening two minutes, which will then interlink with the remainder of our movie.

Synopsis
Our film involves three main characters all having a significant movement through the play. Two females and one male all convey different types of personalities and one way in which we are going to attempt to portray this is through the actions of each characters their attitudes and also through our unique idea of hands. The use of hands will create a new way of representing a thriller showing each persons real identity, also possibly using their eyes to set a whole new genre all together. We are going to use many different items of mise en scene to strongly message our different themes across in the short two minutes.
- Beginning of film: the beginning of the film involves the three main characters being at a tram stop. The young girl attempts to commit suicide due to previous problems in her life, this man and his partner see this young girl and the man takes up the responsibility and attempts to save her, being successful takes the girl to safety. In the chaos of the man saving her he leaves behind a item of documentation which the young girl finds and this begins through the journey of her psychotic obsession. By making the beginning of our film quite short and on point we use this as a way of not letting all of the film out, keeping a sense of suspense going.
- Middle: the middle section of the film involves the girls mission and the creation of her obsession with this man. That one letter that she finds begins to link her into the depths of this mans life., him being new bait to her. She uses different techniques of technology to get closer to him. She then leads to trying to get rid of his partner who she sees as a threat, taking many different desperate methods in her determination to get rid of this woman completely.
- End: The end involves the young girl showing herself to this man to this point is in love with and believes the feelings are mutual. There is no clear identification of whether or not the mans partner has left due to the circumstances of this young girl’ mind has corrupted her into doing something un –thought of. The end of the film will end with how the beginning of the film started at the tram stop, with the young girl trying to find closure of this part of her life.
Thinking about what film company I believe we would use paramount pictures due to the factor that they have a great amount of history on the world of thriller and know about the strategies enabling us to use in our film.

Monday, 7 February 2011

Tips to a good script.

- Always focus on the opening scene and capture main tasks.
- In script always include scenario of location, scene description, sound effects, sound track and dialogue.
- Always have clear points throughout the process of script writing, make sure all directions are clear and each person is aware of what they are expected to do through your guide lines of script writing.
- Make sure actions of EXITS and ENTRANCES are clear throughout script to prevent overlaps of confusion.
- Basic Script Formatting (for thriller)
1. Master scene headings which include:
a) Camera location
b) Scene location
c) Time (Day or Night)

Narrative Description
1. Action
2. Character and setting (visual)
3. Sound

Dialogue
- The person speaking appears at the top, in CAPS
- The actors direction
- The speech

As a script writer you need to explain why the villians act in the way they do. The two main reasons characters become villians tends to be through their own victamization at an early age or a self-serving attidude leaving the villan with little to no empathy.