Pitch Sheet ..

Title: 'Paths'

Genre: Urban Drama

Time Period: Contemporary

Location(s): South – London (Brixton ; Purley Way & Tooting)

Budget: Low

Target Market/Demographic Focus: Male 15+

LOGLINE: this film falls into the genre of urban thriller as it is set in London’s council estates. Two boys who are roughly the same age yet different in many ways meet in conflict. Only one will survive

TREATMENT: There are two characters that are at conflict with each other of the death of one’s brother, the boys are two different people in terms of their look on life one is trying to leave the hardship of living on estates and focus on his school work. Whilst the other is a gang leader involved in criminal activity, the two’s path cross when the younger brother of the gang leader was involved in an accident which resulted in his death, this was caused by the second character accidently when driving his car. After much bullying received from the gang the two finally meet on a road to settle their differences

Draft Moodboard ...

Some of our initial ideas of how we wanted our film to go , all in all ideas that linked to our film in some way and felt it necessary to include these in our Moodboard

Draft Storyboard ..

This is our storyboard although it is only a draft and in the early stages of development it demonstrates how we would ideally like our trailer to be portrayed and the ways in which we want it to be seen through the eyes of the audience.

Understanding Genres ..

During our last media lesson , we went through the typical conventions surrounding particular genres within film ; it was interesting to see how different things are immediately associated as belonging to a specific type of film .

For example it's easy to link 'cliche' one liners and Hollywood explosions to the "action" genre as these are things which are typical with that particular type of film.

During the lesson we were made to 'dress up' and construct a short production demonstrating a genre of film , my group was given the task of creating a 'disaster' movie ; at first we felt it would be a impossible task but through using technology it became quite easy as we were able to speed and slow down footage for dramatic effect as we as using effects.

Overall I believe that it the task was beneficial to us a group .

The Transition ..

The change from AS to A2 hasn't been as smooth as I anticapted it to be , as the work load is much more intense and requires a greater deal of detail ; such as we are expected to blog alot more often than we did at AS ; our posts are to have a broader depth of thinking behind them and this year we are meant to put our own spin on it and change the traditional media conventions of film making.

To improve my grade this year I will need to put in a greater amount of work and definitely post more ; I feel as if my blog was the part of my AS which let me down the most out of all as if im honest I could have added greater detail and blogged on a more regular basis.

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Why Are Teaser Trailers Made ... ?

Teaser trailers in essence are made in order to create 'hype' surronding a film usually to keep people interested if a film is late to be realesed or something along those lines ; conventially teaser trailers are created for big budget blockbusters , popular titles or sequels. Teaser trailers can vary in the amount of time in which the are shown before the actual release of the film itself for example an extreme case would be  'Where the Wild Things Are' had a teaser with 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' in 2000 but was not released until 2009 it was the longest such gap in history ; but ususally Teaser trailers are released about a year before the actual film is screened.

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Initial Ideas ...

At the moment our ideas are still in the early stages and would require much development but so far we believe it will be based around ; the subject of a young male lead character who is trapped between two conflicting lifestyles. The film will depict the changes which take place within this characters life and the way in which he deals with the changes and the choices he makes and how they impact upon him. We felt as if we wanted our project to go against the usual conventions of a urban 'teenage' drama ; meaning our character will go from being 'good' to 'bad' all of which will be triggered from some sort of family disturbance. Of which it will be we are not sure yet it will be decided at a later date.

Locations : Housing Estates , Universities

Characters : TBD

This is all we have at the moment but we are continuously working on developing and improving our ideas.

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