Research and planning - SHORT FILM SCRIPT

Scene 1
NARRATOR- computer are a tricky business, as a tool they make life a whole lot easier. but its when they become your life that the problems really start.

Scene 2
NARRTOR- last summer i learnt this in the starngest way possible.
ABIGAIL- are you going to come to the beach tomorrow then?
HANNAH- *doubtfully looks at abigail*
ABIGAIL- but its so sunny
HANNAH-i cant ive got something ending soon on ebay
ABIGAIL- ohh whatever, but all our firends are going to be there
HANNAH- my friends are already here
*awkward pause*
-get me a drink!
ABIGAIL- *smuggly* OK

Scene 3- abigail gets hannah a drink. Scene 4- stop frame animation with music.

Scene 5 HANNAH- *voice over* when i arrived i thought i was crazy
- and when this happened i thought i was crazy
MOLLY -come and sit over here
HANNAH- Where am i? Where is my laptop? who are you?
- *voice over* when i spoke to them it didnt really change my mind much
MOLLY- laptop? im molly and youre at the beach bro
HANNAH- wait what year is it?
MOLLY- nineteen seventy why?
HANNAH- OH HELL NO! #
-*voice over*but as terrified as i was i decided to stick with those hippies
VICKY- please come over, im sure 'laptop' wont miss you. just chill for a while.

Scene 6
HANNAH- *voice over* and as day turned to night, i began to learn it was a lot of fun the beach.......... and that i didnt need my laptop after all.
- *voice over* when i realised this i also realised how horrible i'd been to my sister,and i wanted to go back
JACK- whats wrong?
HANNAH- i just miss my own family, can i go back home please?
JACK- of course you can, i'll find you a ride

Scene 7
HANNAH- *voice over* the ride he got me wasnt exactly high tech space travel, but it was definately good to be back.

RISK ASSESMENT

POTENTIAL RISKS & CONTROLS

1.Tripping over lighting wires
- Make sure wires are out the way of acting space.

2.Slipping on wet surfaces in the bathroom.
- Make sure the floor is dry before filming.

3.Water near the electronic devices
- Keep the equipment away from any water.

4.Slipping on mud in outdoors scenes
- Try filming on dry ground, make sure people go steady.

5.Getting burnt on the campfire
- Keep a safe distance from the fire.

revised plotline

the narrator introduces the story via videoblog
The central protagonist of this film is trapped in a cycle of technology
she ‘can’t live ‘ without her phone and laptop and spends all her time inside on facebook and twitter. Her only community is the detached one of the online world. Her twin sister is the complete opposite; she loves to be outside with her friends and wants her sister to understand that it is better. she thinks that the computer makes her antisocial and traps her . One day when the technology girl snaps at her, she gets really angry she decides that she needs to be and she is sent back in time to 1970 and the first ever Glastonbury where a crowd of hippies show her some of the true values of community. She learns that she doesn’t need to have technology and that she misses her family the hippies get her back home via a bicycle. FREEZEFRAME

And the ‘moral’ it told by the narrator. 

scene [[setting recce]]

for the film there are 4 basic settings that are involved:

- blogging , anywhere (probably bedroom)

-The girls’ bedroom

-A transitional stage
-The field/naturalistic setting that the hippies are in

-Returning home scene, street/home setting

Girls bedroom-
I want this scene to reflect the two girls characters and the binary opposites that they represent, using mise en scene might be a nice way of doing this panning across the bedroom half of which is decorated elaborately in the style of the ‘free’ sister character and bed is split down the middle to the girls side that is full of wires etc.

The setting I found for this is in my house there is a bed in the front window flanked by a wardrobe and a set of draws this will be perfect as in is relatively symmetrical and can be decorated easily .

Transitional stage we are going to use fade to black and a short animated section .

PROPS LIST

Briefly some of the props which we need for the film:

Scene 1 - computer with a web cam.
Scene 2 - binary opposites of props. really technical - i pods, phone, laptop very modern props. the other really traditional/relaxed - floral patterns bed canopy.
Scene 3 - glass and fizzing tablet.
Scene 5 - 70's costume. hippy style dresses bandannas etc.
Scene 7 - campfire and bike.
Scene 8 - computer with web cam.

Untitled from abigail bell on Vimeo.

cinematography initial plan

breakdown of scenes

This is our short film pitch which we used when we pitched out ideas to our peers. explaining content, distributions and original ideas of our film.

Film pitch

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