Research Dossier
I wish to enters my media text into Think-future, Think-future is a national youth film festival competition. it's given youth the opportunity to be a part of something big and getting a very own awarded.
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Screen Play Format
I took this screen play from the BBC writer room and writing in the box to show the format and lay out for the screen play. this screen play are for "Remember Me" with the genre of drama horror.
Good used of script writing!
A good development of character included inner presence, outer presence and context. These roles are to show the character's expression and in-depth about character.Outer present are showing the outer looks of the charter ; age, gender, clothing, grooming,style of speech and language. For example "In the next valley, a panting man in his 40's stares along the
towpath of the canal." This showing the age of the character.
(If you realise all the dialogue in this part of the the film; Hannah is singing Scarborough
Inner presence are showing the "dominant attitude" of the character created by their interior. This also include their intelligent,knowledge,personality temperament believe ,fear, goal ans self-image. Fore example "In the next valley, a panting man in his 40's stares along the towpath of the canal. Acting Detective Sergeant ROB FAIRHOLME is deep in painful thought, hardly noticing the beautiful
hills that surround him." ;this show that Rob Fairholme have a secret or something that's going on in his mind that usually wont be tell in the scene just yet. Sometime this can be hard to show by an act as the setting of camera and maybe music back ground included have to be perfect.
Context is a word of the character created by their environment, relationship with friend,colleagues, their culture, their ethnicity, their class/education, where there bough up, their personal history or even their life. For example if the dialogue of Hanah was the speech instead of the sing i 'd believe that she been bought up back in the older day , white , middle age,middle education and working class background.
This is the very first scene direction from "Remember Me", the scene direction are written in the present tense. The words used to describe this scene are short but keeping a great values of imaginative. "ROB FAIRHHOLME", The name that is mentions in the scene direction is also using capital, therefore the reader don't get confuse; this scene direction are greatly following the structure of script writing. Also slug line are clearly describing the time when the scene 's set which show a great structure of the begin of horror films.
This dialogue belong just after the scene direction that's I've analysed above. It's greatly following the structure of scrip writing; as the name of the character who's talking are right above it and also set in the centre of dialogue. This dialogue can tell a little bit about the character's class, personality and age; within 9 words! however this is a sentence in a song, with the lyric and music it's I would describe this as creepy.
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There are also a few roles that cant be broken which is 12 points courier for every word and every line.The slug line are there to give more information to the reader, this include where,when and whether you are inside or outside. In many case you can used "DAY" or "NIGHT" if it wont show the different in the scene, how ever if you want the specific time you you can put i n on there like "EARLY MORNING" or "EVENING", even more specific , you can show time.
Action line are written after slug line, therefore showing the action of each character e.g. JESS punch JAME in the face with anger. Action line sometimes introduce new character to the scene, the new character will have their name capitalise. Action is the part where all the story is being tell, sometime action can be show emotion of the character visually, example of this is
"JAME broke up with ANNA in sad action, turn his back on her, then walk a way with a smile on his face." and "JAME broke up with ANNA in sad action, turn his back on her, then walk away with tear dropping from his eyes." With little change of the action is can show a large different.
Character are firstly introduce in the action line, all character name is entirely capitalise, it's possible to stop capitalise after the first introduction as through the script if the character with the same names come in, therefore not confuse the reader. In dialogue, it's acceptable to not capitalise character's name. In the script there are also a character before dialogue, it's set as entirely capital, therefore showing who is speaking.
Dialogue is what character speak, often as first the writer write to much dialogue for the charter which could make it boring for the the audience, note that the interest of many part of the scene is what the character speak; sharp and short to keep it interesting.
Voice Over is often an element of screen play, this also include when the character speak and not on the screen, e.g. phone conversation scene. Voice Over usually us as the opening of the scene or hearing the charter's thought. A A Voice Over is immediately written (OV) after the character's name.
E.g.
2 short that I like
Beirut, I Love You (I Love You Not) is a ten minutes short, this film is one strange film that spread out big range of meaning which could related to love e.g. "lighting candles and blowing it right after", " smiling at stranger and see how they respond", "looking at the dead end that no one never notice"; what starts will ends, living every life forward the future, seeing someone in a different ways as everyone else. It's also an old styles,the scene are sets to looked like it's back in the olden days. Because of the music used in the scene at the beginning; if I close my eyes and just listen to the dialogue I would say this film is some how related to Weston genre. Even thought I could not understand the sound of dialogue, but still, the none diegetic sound are able me to know what the film is basically talking about. The strange part which seem like there is nothing related to the scene is making the main part of the story stand out even more. This strange part in the middle of the scene is began when both of the main character meet which show the audience that every feeling that they could related to are running trough their mind when they meet the right person. My main reason why I like this scene is because it's showing a great used of non digestive sound and raise the action using mainly music back ground. It's also complicated to understands, theses technique that's show in this scene is very unusual.
Watch video - Vicky and Sam
Vicky and Sam is a ten minutes short, it's a short about making a short which is a simple ideas of film. However the used of camera techniques are perfect! Also the action in this film is very professional. What I like the most in this scene is the used of montage technique and the timing between 2 stories in the scene. Also the fact that one stories is hardly any dialogue and another is mainly using dialogue for the act.
Motivation of similar successful films
In chaos theory the definition of Butterfly Effects is the sensitive independence on the initial condition. Meaning that if there is a change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large difference in later state, in which I believe this is where the name of the film came from as I've watched this film and this is what it's about.
The Butterfly Effect is a science fantasy psychological thriller, the film received poor reception but was nevertheless commercial success. producing gross $96 million from a budget of $13 million.
The film also won the Pegasus Audience Award and was nominated for best Science Fiction at the Saturn Awards and choice movies:thriller in Teen Choice Awards. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butterfly_Effect
The main character in this scene is Evan Treborn (play by John Patrick Amedori), The character who loss certain part of the memory in his child hood. As his child hood he's in love with Amy Smarts; the girl who play the main part of his motivation to time travel later in later state. Evan discovered that the loss his in his childhood is because in his adult hood he goes back to used his childhood body to change certain part in his future.
The Butterfly Effect (2004) Trailer
About- Heroes
Heroes is a TV series, it's about people who have the super human power, each have different power, e.g healing, flying, control of heat and fast as super sonic. But there is a guy who is able to space-time manipulation, Hiro Nakamura who were told by a leader of one supper human group, that if he want to change one thing then change one thing.
As this is a series so there is so many main character however there is the only 1 character that im interested in which is Hiro Nakamura. Hiro Nakamura are play by Masi Oka who's an american and Japanese actor. Hiro Nakamura is a fictional character he presses the ability to space - time manipulation. the name Hiro is short for Hiroshima in the series.
Hiro is an office worker specially level 3 programmer at Yamagato in Tokyo who were one day discovered the bend the space and time. He's also a fan of manga sience fiction and supper heroes, However at the start Hiro is only able to speak Japanese and relying on his best friend Ando Mashahashi as an translator but as the series go on his English is developed.
About- About Time
About time is a romantic fantasy comedy-drama, it's about a guy called Time which discover the family secret of time travelling. he's going to used this power to make his world better but it's not easy as you think; because sometime you can not change something with out consequences and sometime there's something that you couldn't change.
Tim (play by Domhnall Glesson) is a romantic and not so confident character because he's scare and worry that something may goes wrong all the time. Then one day he discovered the power to time travel which make him a lot more confident then his actual self because he know if he messes up he's able to change it as many as you want.
About Time trailer (2013)
What have I found after the research
1. All the main character is playing the roles of a nerdy romantic personality.
2. The motivation of those character is to make a brighter future with the love one.
3. Sometime there is a thing you could but it will be consequence but there is also something that you cant.
4. If you change the past the future will also change; whether it's a good or bad.
5. Sometime it's better to enjoy present because the will future could be worse.
6.Theses kind of story could be happening any where.
Audience Research
Quantitative
I used the interview to find out the interest of target audiences by asking 15 people their age, gender and and tell them about my story using the log line and what will happen. Most of them say if the story is well planned and if there is not any gap of mistake to be question they will like the film. However there is not many fan of a time travelling genre type but they are interested in the romantic and drama side of the film. From the interview data the rate out of then form the film is based around 7, surprisingly it's very close to both films I've research above. Some of them say they like the fact that it's straight forwards but also leave some of the complication stereotype of science fiction genre.
Note
People the age of 18 and above are mostly interested in my film but rest not into Romantic,science fiction type.
The rate out of 10 for the film is 7
More then half of my target audience is female, "I like the romantic and drama side"
Feed back from the Pitch
Most of people like the ideas but it's hard to imagines as it's seem complicated and the transition on the travelling back in time have to be something more creative; in which I change it to the stop watch.
Filming night time going to be hard and the actor/actress have to be great to created to emotion and pass it to the audiences. Having full story of time travelling in ten minutes seem impossible.
Why did i chose to write science fiction genre?
I have always been interested in the thought of being able the change the past, being able to go back in time to change certain mistake if life and here is this film call "The Butterfly Effects". This film show me that you shouldn't, if there is one distraction on the past it will determine a large change in different state. The changing and the large change in later state when they is a distraction always going the get worse. However there is one TV series that i just finished watched recently call Heroes and on one of the episode they is a part where one character is talking to other character who's a time traveller, he says to the time traveller "if you want to change one thing, then change one thing" withing an act that he throw a ball to the stacking up cup and only one that fall off. and this give me an ideas that I could make a scene that fit in 10 minutes but montage technique will be used quite a lot.
However both of the film used a lot of effects on the travelling point; where the character is going back in time.Which mean if am going to make it, it will take mounts. but then there is a film call "about time " which is the only film that I find easy to set up while filming and don't used any effect while travelling in time. and it would work to be a low budget film.
Still, the thought of making a full science fiction movies would no way being a great story in 10 minutes so I used the romantic and drama side to add in the scene, in fact the motivation for these this movies I mentioned are also using romantic and drama as it's motivation.
Other existence text about time travel, love and death
Book:
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Time Traveller's Wife published in 2003. It is a love story about a man with a genetic disorder that causes him to time travel unpredictably, and about his wife, an artist, who has to cope with his frequent absences and dangerous experiences.
Source : (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Traveler's_Wife)
Book:
Outlander
Source: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlander_(novel)
Book
The Time Traveler
Imagine changing centuries—and making things worse, not better, on both sides of time.
When 15-year-old Annie Lockwood travels back 100 years and lands in 1895, she at last finds romance. But she is a trespasser in time. Will she choose to stay in the past? And if she does, will she be allowed to stay?
When 15-year-old Annie Lockwood travels back 100 years and lands in 1895, she at last finds romance. But she is a trespasser in time. Will she choose to stay in the past? And if she does, will she be allowed to stay?
Source: (http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Time_Travelers.html?id=POILIuqYiIcC&safe=vss&redir_esc=y)
News:
(Dies for love one)
This is a news story about love, death the beautiful sacrifice, 3 boyfriend die protecting their love one.
The video above will show that truth love does exist.
Harvard Referencing
Think-Future http://thinkfutures.net/2013/09/27/national-youth-film-festival-competition/
accessed on 16-December 2014
Pearce, A. Remember Me (BBC, 2014) (script available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/Remember-Me accessed on 17-December 2014 )
Munia A./ Cyril A. LAbanoon Beirut, I Love You (I Love You Not) (2009)
Avalible at http://shortsbay.com/film/beirut-i-love-you-i-love-you-not
Access 13 January 2015
Nuno R./Potugal Vicky and Sam (10 mins Short) 2010
Avalible at http://shortsbay.com/film/vicky-and-sam
Access 13 January 2015
E. Bress/J. Mackye Gruber Butterfly Effects 2004
Available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butterfly_Effect
access on 14 January 2015
NBCUniversal Television Studio Heroes (series)2006-2010
Available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_%28TV_series%29
Access on 14 January 2015
R. Curtis About Time (2013)
Available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About_Time_%282013_film%29
Access on 15 January 2015
A.Niffenegger The Time Trveler's Wife (2003)
Available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Traveler's_Wife
Access on 16 January 2015
D. Gabaldon Outlander (1991)
Available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlander_(novel)
Access on 16 Januarry 2015
Daily News Three heroes died Aurora taking bullets for their girlfriend.
Available at http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/aurora-shooting-died-bullets-sweeties-article-1.1119395
Access on 16 January 2015
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