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Brief

for this assignment I had to produce a 6 minute fictional film centered around at least two main characters and also a 40 second promotional pilot

Research

from my research I decided to produce a dark comedy horror, based on the story and relationship between a hostage and his capturer. The best example of this type of film was a Spanish film produced by Pedro Almodovas entitled “Atame” or in English “tie me up, tie me down”.
The film follows a young man, who had recently been released from a mental institution, the man becomes obsessed with a female actress, who he had previously had a one night stand with.

Character Histories

Terry
Terry is a musician at art, its the only thing he knows how to do well, his had a bad life, he when to a run down school,but worked hard and made it into college, but after his father died, he left college to start working, where he met John.

John
john was brought up in a wealthy family, he went to a private school and got a good education, after school john when to a normal college, where he achieved high and when to university. when he left university, his father handed over the family business to him, this is where john met terry, john interviewed terry and terry was automatically fixated on John for showing him compassion.

Stacie
Stacie is a intelligent women and just after finishing university, she started to work in john department, but within a year she left the company to start up her own company, terry saw Stacie in work and became obsessed with her.
A few months after Stacie leaving, Terry met Stacie in a bar and there relationship started their.

Location
I looked at a few different locations around Nottingham to do with the cellar concept. Some of these places being Nottingham cave, and a few pubs around Nottingham that have been built into the landscape, for example “the Loggerhead”.
With the Nottingham caves I was unable to gain private hire to film in the caves, due to the fact that it is a tourist attraction.
That left me with 5 Noel Street.

Actors

you will already recognize these names as fellow students on the audio/visual pathway, but what you most probably don't know is that these three students had previous acting experience.
Both Jack and Janet are great people to work with in front off and behind the camera.
The reason I choose coworkers to act in my film is because I have previously seen there talents in acting, but I also through it would be a good idea to have them on set for support and help with the technical side of the film as well.

First Script
my first script was a film based on vampires and how they try to coexist with human. The storyline had a lot of twists and underline stories of betrayal and lies, however this story was a lot longer then 6 minutes, and if I cut it down the storyline would have lost its contents, so I scraped this idea until a later date.

Second Script
my second script had more of a basic plot or storyline, and had less twists in the story.
The story is about a man called jack who is having a guest over for dinner, Stacie. The who of them are having a romantic meal for two, however Stacie is unaware of a third guest in the house, this person being John, John has been held captive in Terry's house since Terry fired John for stalking the other workers.

Storyboards
for the storyboards I used frame forge, a 3d software to plan out my scripts path, to be able to visualize how the scenes are going to be laid out and whats going to happen in each scene.
At first I found frame forge difficult to grasp, but after some help and a bit of patients, the software started to come naturally

40 Second Pilot
I wanted my 40 second pilot to be an inverse of what the actually film was going to be like, but after some researching, I realized what I wanted to achieve was more like a trailer then a pilot, so I decided to take my favorite 40 seconds from my film

Title Sequence
for my title sequence I wanted my titles and credits to stay in tune with the genre and design aspect of my film, I decided to make my titles video footage as well to stay in the same design aspect.