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The Name

The Name

For the name, we took inspiration from the poem 'These Hands, If Not Gods' by Natalie Diaz. We chose this ad it has strong links to the LGBTQ community and explores sexual themes with biblical and holy references. The title which is also a line from the poem is the questioning how her hands are not like a Gods hands with all that they could do to her partner as they share love, furthermore providing emphasis on the strong connections between these two people. This links to our piece as it explores how a friendship between two late teenage boys develops into a relationship. Our piece explore how their emotional connection grows and how their relationship changes as they begin to explore their sexuality.

These hands, if not gods, then why
when you have come to me, and I have returned you
to that from which you came—bright mud, mineral-salt—
why then do you whisper O, my Hecatonchire. My Centimani.
My hundred-handed one?

(section from the poem)

Target Audience

Colour Palettes

Colour Palettes

Party Scene CP-

Before Meeting Luke CP-

After Meeting Luke CP-

We created three colour palettes as our trailer is split into three main sections that have different moods and atmospheres. The party scene colour palette has bright colours due the costumes and the party lights being used. The 'before meeting Luke' colour palette is darker we wanted to highlight how Oli is in a negative head space and is no longer happy. The 'after meeting Luke' colour palette is a lot brighter and more colourful to represent the happiness that is being felt by the characters in this period. Red is a constant colour throughout the colour palettes as this is one of the main colours in Oli's costumes. We also wanted some constant colours so the trailer as a whole would flow and fit nicely together instead of each clip looking really different.

Call Sheets

Call Sheets

Model Consent Form

We have created model consent forms for all of our actors that are aged 18 and over to sign. It is used to brief them on what they are involved in and to gain their permission to be used as a model for published media texts.

Parental Consent Form

Due to many of our actors being under the age of 18, we created some consent forms for parent/guardians to sign. It is used to brief the adult on what their child is involved in and to gain their permission on using their child as a model for published media texts.

Shooting Schedule

Shooting Schedule

Shooting days 

December 4^th PM– Scarlett’s house, kitchen, driveway and patio

ANY COSTUME ,stays the same throughout , STROBE LIGHTING NEEDED THROUGHOUT IN KTICHEN

               Oli walking up to front door – Oli walks up to front door round the front of the house

Match on action from other side of front door – Oli walking through the front door shot taken from the corridor the other side of door

               Lizzie sat on Oli’s lap – Lizzie and Oli sat together talking and laughing, outside,                                    Two extra’s drinking – two extra’s drinking fake alcohol

  Close-up of feet dancing – friends and extra’s dancing with camera just on the floor showing feet

               Friends dancing – Group of friends dancing together 

               Lizzie and Tom whispering to each other – Oli in the background and tom and Lizzie talking 

               Shot of Oli’s face as they leave – shot of Oli looking shocked as lizzie and Tom leave 

               Shot showing Lizzie and Tom leaving – Lizzie and Tom leaving the kitchen

               Bottle smashing – shot taken from on the floor of the bottle smashing 

               Feet walking away from the smashed bottle – Oli’s feet walking away from the broken glass

               

December 16^th – Riverhill and Oli’s house am 

ANY COSTUME

               Sunrise on top of car - Luke and Oli sat on top of roof of car facing sunset

               Door slam at Oli’s house - Oli slamming front door shut from the outside

December 29^th AM– Tonbridge skatepark and fly over bridge  

Location: Tonbridge skatepark

SAME COSTUME THROUGHOUT 

               Kicking away skateboard -  Oli kicks skateboard away from him down ramp 

               Long shot of skateboarding in – Oli skateboarding into the park

               Skateboarding into park -  Oli skateboarding into the park, people skating in background

               Oli falling off skateboard – Oli falls of skateboard with Luke watching in the background

               Medium shot of Luke – cut shot showing Luke laughing 

               Luke helping up Oli – Luke walks over and helps Oli up

               Review shot of the skatepark – long shot of skatepark with people skating in the background

               Toilet door slam – Oli slamming public toilet door 

Location: fly over 

Oli and Luke arguing circling shot – Luke and Oli stood facing each other arguing 

Luke and Oli skateboarding – skateboarding down the road together under bridge 

Drinking alone – shot of Oli by himself drinking 

piggy back – luke and Oli in the middle of the road under the bridge piggy back

CHANGE OF COSTUME

Oli and Luke sat close together – sat on top of ledge talking, close body language

Shot reverse shot of their conversation about the party – Oli and Luke talking about party

December 29^th PM – Scarlett’s house   pm

SAME COSTUME AS OPENING PARTY SCENE

               Opening skateboard shot – Oli skateboarding into drive way

               Walking down the corridor – Oli walking down the corridor into the kitchen 

Strobe on Oli’s face – Oli stood in kitchen and turns head as Lizzie and Tom leave

SAME COSTUME AS LAST BED SHOT

Oli getting in the car – shot showing Oli getting into car

Tyre spin – shot of the tyre spinning as car drives off

Oli driving off – shot of Oli driving off in car

NEW COSTUME

               Bedroom door slam – Oli slams bedroom door 

Two more bed shots with time lapse – Oli sat on bed siting still, change in lighting and build of mess, camera must be in same position  

January 2^nd AM– Chipstead lakes   

SAME COSTUME 

Review shot of the lake – still shot over looking the lake, movement of the water in the background

               Play fighting shot – Oli and Luke on the end of one the floats play fighting 

               Luke and Oli standing on the edge of the lake – Luke and Oli over looking the lake together

January 2^nd  PM - Jasmine’s Field – gathering scene , chairs and fire

ANY COSTUME

Picture smashing split into 5 shots – Oli smashing picture of him and Lizzie against brick wall 

Luke with another girl – Luke seen getting together with another girl

Shot of Oli’s face – reaction of Oli’s face to seeing Luke with girl

Oli walking away with them in the background 

Oli crying in the car – shot taken from in front of moving car of Oli crying in passenger seat

CHANGE IN COSTUME

Oli arguing with friend – Oli arguing with friend, script needed

Final shot of two characters on the floor – Luke and Oli lying next to each other looking up

Review shot of woods in the background – long shot of the woods, movement of the trees

Luke meeting Oli’s friends around the fire, long shot- Luke and Oli walking over 

Luke meeting Oli’s friends around the fire, close up – Luke hugging and saying hello to mates

Foley Sounds

Foley Sounds

As we are mainly using sound and music in our trailer, we have focused on sounds that we can create ourselves. We have made a list of Foley sound effects that we will make:

• Skateboard
• Background party noise
• Bottle smash
• Bottle clinks
• Car door
• Gravel
• Picture frame smash
• Doors slamming
• Stepping on glass
• Skateboard
• Muffled talking
• Skateboard
• Birds
• Wipers
• Skateboard

Script

Script

Scene: Introduction at skate park.

(Oli falls off skateboard with Luke watching in background)

Oli: Ah!

(Luke walks over to Oli whilst laughing)

Luke: Do you want a hand?

(Luke helps Oli off the floor)

Oli: Er, thanks.

Luke: I’m Luke.

In our discussions we decided that we were going to have minimal dialogue in the trailer as there was a risk that lots of speech could make the trailer seem choppy and upset the flow of it. We were also not completely confident that our actors would be able to carry a convincing and natural conversation that could be used as voice over. Instead we are going to focus mainly on using music and sound effects that will create a strong impact.

Animatic Storyboard

Final Storyboard

Final Storyboard

Change In Narrative

Change In Narrative

When looking at the first draft of our storyboard, we decided that the plot was lacking a strong narrative. The lack of a powerful narrative was due to us changing some key elements of our plot without thinking of the bigger picture. This meant the idea did not flow as we had intended and it lost its impact. The trailer had become a big montage of over-dramatic shots which lost the edge of social realism that we were going for. To fix this problem, we began exploring other concepts of narrative to incorporate into our basic plot line. 

During our discussion we became intrigued with the idea of having our main character battle with an internal conflict. At first we considered a mental health issue such as schizophrenia, but this is a topic that has already been covered a lot and we wanted to focus on something different. We finally came to the idea of exploring sexuality and having the main character coming to terms with the fact that he is gay. 

To help us enhance the portrayal of sexuality in the narrative we looked into existing films on this topic. The trailer for 'Call Me By Your Name' heavily inspired us to finalise our narrative by having our main character fall in love with a man and question his own sexuality. We liked how their 'love' is very subtly portrayed throughout most of the trailer and it is only at the end that it is really shown. We wanted to keep our social realism edge so we decided to combine it with the genre of romance. This should in turn help to broaden the target audience and interest a wider range of people.

We have decided to set the time period as modern day due to time restrictions on creating an authentic previous decade. 

First Draft Of Storyboard

First Draft Of Storyboard 

Initial Ideas

Initial Ideas

When discussing ideas for our trailer, my group brainstormed some of the basic elements that we would like to include in our work. We immediately agreed that we wanted the genre to be social realism as we wanted to make the piece a realistic picture of modern times and current events. To further this realism we wanted to give the trailer a more grungy feel so we could move the story away from a pristine and perfect world that films normally create.

We talked in great depth about what the characters should be like and who should portray them in order to make them as impactful as possible. We decided that we wanted one main group of friends, divided up into two boys and three girls. We specifically wanted more girls than boys to subvert stereotypes and make the females seem more dominant in the group. My group decided on using older teenagers as they will be easier to find and cast and also they will be better to use than younger teenagers if we wanted to portray more adult themes.

As we wanted to use teenagers, we knew that our target audience would be around a young adult age of 16-24 years old. This is due to them being more able to relate to the characters and the things that they are going through. As we are making a social realism genre trailer, we expect our target audience to be more female than male due to different interests.

At the end of our discussion, we started thinking more into mise en scene and locations which sparked our interest in changing the time period of our trailer. We were intrigued with the idea of doing a 'noughties' piece and portraying this through the use of costumes and props e.g. flip phones.

Idea 1

• Follows a group of friends (3 girls, 2 boys?).
• Shows they have happy lives, shots of them laughing together at parties etc.
• One big party scene.
• An event happens that is not shown but it is implied e.g. shown with a tire screech.
• Shots show the groups live slowly becoming worse.
• Them losing control and going to drugs and drink.
• Happy 'before' shots shown with yellow colouring and bright lighting, sad 'after' shots shown with blue colouring and dark lighting.
• Set in the 2000s.

Idea 2

• Follows a group of friends (3 girls, 2 boys?).
• Starts with a big house party scene.
• Shows friends together, a boy and girl from the group are in a relationship.
• Girl cheats on boyfriend with a friend from the group.
• Group breaks apart, boy becomes more isolated, fighting breaks out.
• They turn more to drugs and drink.
• The fall apart of the group is shown with lots of shots in a montage style.
• Montage speeds up near the end to build tension.
• Set in the 1990s.

We decided to do the second idea as it had a decided conflict that we could show well. We also liked the idea of creating a montage style piece as it will need many different scenes and shots which should stretch us creatively.