Theme Of Blindness - Research

In our group we had to individually look at videos that were related to our theme of blindness. I found and watched the American feature film called ‘Blindness’Our Film is very similar to this film and we was able to use some ideas from it

Research

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Theme Of Blindness - Research

In our group we had to individually look at videos that were related to our theme of blindness. I found and watched the American feature film called ‘Miracle Worker’. Our Film is very similar to this film and we was able to use some ideas from it

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Second Pitch

Feedback From Other Groups


We gained a lot of information from the feedback, questions and answers which we are going to use, both the negative and positive comments to help develop and improve out film idea. First question was ‘What will be shown in the film?’ And we answered with- An accident will take place where the young boy gets his injury- What the boy has to deal with at home and at his 1st days back in a school environment - How the mother deals and overcomes the new situation Next Question ‘Who will play the blind person as it will be hard for someone with full vision to portray the part.’ We replied- We have already asked a student in the school who has recently lost complete sight in his left eye if he would be willing to help us in our film. Third Question ‘Will we be seeing from the boy’s point of view or the audience?’We replied - There will a lot of shots where it will be from the audience’s point of view however the main focus will be the boy’s point of view as it is his journey which we are seeing. Fourth Question ‘What way are going to show the boy becoming blind through an accident or an hereditary condition.’We replied - We are not sure at the moment but we are leaning towards the hereditary idea as showing an accident would be hard/difficult Some then commented that the actual accident did not have to be shown and that we can become creative with it. Comments - ‘I like the idea, of the boy walking through the school saying “Hi” to his friends and while he carries on walking he starts to see shadows and gradual darkness.’- ‘It is a great idea because you can get into the world of the character.’- ‘With this idea you able to be very creative and imaginative.’ - ‘There is a movie that could help us with our ideas with the short film and it was called “Ray” starring Jamie Foxx.’- ‘ The story needs more work and that we should speak to the boy in the school and ask more about his story. As it will help us develop skills on how to become sensitive when talking to people about personal stories.’- ‘It’s great your haven’t made it into a stereotypical story ‘- ‘The idea of the story is good and very emotive.’

First Pitch

As a group we all came up with two film ideas then as a team we decided that out of the 6 ideas we had in total we choose two.  Below are the two taglines and pitches that we come with:

Tagline – Chic to Geek

Pitch – Not your typical teenage love story when a girl changes everything she has for the most unexpected guy only to leave her standing in the lurch with nothing.

This story is a very different to the very ordinary teen love story, it has a twist which will keep the audience involved. This story can end with a complete happy ending or end in devastation. This story can be filmed onsite within school this makes it much easier on the day of the shooting.  There are a range of shoots that can be used with the camera, to show facial expressions, body language, actions and reactions. This is important when creating a film with minimum or no dialogue as the shoots will be needed to tell the story. If with the right camera shots sound if not important only for the background music to help set the scenes and locations. The props needed would be basic school items and will be easy to provide due the location. However there may be a problem with the location as it is a school so we will need to film where there will be no other school children maybe walking, this would affect our shooting and will need to discuss more in the location plan. 

2nd Film Idea

Treatment

Characters - Jane, David

Jane was a typical girl living in a town, her new boyfriend David was a year older than her. They started dating at the start of the summer as he was in time visiting family . In the heat of the moment, she said yes. When summer ended they agree to carry on the relationship, by train they only lived 1hour away from each other. They met every other weekend and texted everyday and called every night before going to sleep. He came down for Christmas to see his family again but then came spent Boxing Day with Jane when she announced to him that she was pregnant.  Jane was in love David and David claimed he loved her the same. Straight away they started making plans for new coming baby. After New Year’s David returned back home and for a while things went back to normal. However after a couple of weeks David kept cancelling on Jane telling her that she can’t come visit and she can’t visit her. Jane started to hear rumours that David had been seen with another woman at first Jane didn’t believe the rumours. Jane decided that for a David’s birthday surprise she went to visit him but a day earlier than planned. Only to find that when she turned up on David’s door she was greeted by a girl wearing one of David’s shirts which were brought by Jane. When the shouting began David appeared at the door he came clean and admitted that he was cheating and that he no longer wanted to be with Jane. She was heartbroken and left 4months pregnant and alone....

1st Film Idea

Treatment

Characters -Ella, Brian

The story starts with Ella in her bedroom it is early in the morning and she is woken up by her alarm, the sun is piercing through the curtains. She sits up and looks over at her calendar, which shows that today is the 18^th July and it is the day of Ella’s Prom.  And the day that her schools most popular boy in school who is also the captain of the football team takes her to prom. Ella has been dreaming of this day for years, and she has been dating the footballer Brian for 3 months now and when he asked her too the prom Ella couldn’t wait. Full of excitement Ella jumps of the bed and runs to her parents’ bedroom and jumps on their bed, squealing with joy. Looks up at the clock its 10:00am she decides it is time to get time to jump in the bath and start getting ready  as she only got till 7:00pm to get ready and there is lots to be done. She goes to the salon and gets the full treatment with manicure, pedicure, hair and makeup. Ella looks astonishingly beautiful she returns home and runs upstairs to put on her dress on.  Ella came downstairs in a beautiful blue stain cocktail dress and it was 6:50 she was set and ready to go. All she had to do was wait for Brian to turn up , she wait and waited and waited, soon it was 7:30, she rang him, texted him and Ella was devastated when he didn’t  reply or answer. Her mum comforted her and told Ella to forget and go to prom without him. At first Ella refused at first then decided that it was the best choice to have fun without him however she was still devastated.  When she got there he wasn’t to be seen, Ella danced all night with her girls. Then Brian walks in the door with a girl more beautiful than Ella has seen. He walked to Ella and told her it was over it front of the whole of the school. Ella ran home she was not only heartbroken but also devastated.

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