Rough version of the story

Rough version of the story:

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Scene opens in a room. A man is sitting on a sofa watching film (Labyrinth), being completely immersed into it. Everything is quiet. Except....Tick..Tock. A clock on the wall is ticking. He either catches the ticking, or the clack starts ringing (alarm). He looks at the time and registers that he is late to work. He quickly gets up, leaving in a hurry. The sound of the clock ticking seazes, we can hear the door shutting. Otherwise everything is quiet. We see him get his headphones out and onto his head. The muffled sound of David Bowie’s music starts playing (Only mashed bits). Alternative is, that the man starts humming and quietly singing the songs. The narration starts here.

He walks down the streets, not interrested in anything. In this sequence the city is shown, the tall buildings, people and traffic never seazing it’s beat.

He gets to work and starts his day. Timelapse.

He is leaving work, again with the headphones on. He goes through the city, when he realizes it has stopped raining. He takes off his hood/hat and looks up. There he sees a big screen showing the news ‚David Bowie is dead‘. What follows is a burst of sound, people talking, laughing, dogs barking, cars honking, clock beating, ambulance horn. The same with vision, we can see snippets of the news, headlines, interviews. After it gets the loudest, everything suddenly stops. Narration ended.

Alternative: He takes the headphones off, and all the normal sound comes in, laughing, talking, etc. And then he notices the news. Everythingslows down, the sound of his surroundings quietens, but the news get highlighted in his mind.

It starts raining again and the man starts slowly walking home. The only sound here is the rain. The man is crying. He gets home, sits down and plays the movie again. The camera will then slowly back away and tilt to the dark sky.

Alternative: The film the man was watching in the morning was on tape and when he returned, the tape was broken.

Alternative 2: The end scene could end with the rain sound and the sound of the wall clock ticking.

End Credits.

All through the film, New York merchandise will be seen, to underline the poems roots in New York and at the same time show the place of death of David Bowie. 

First Running Order

Shot List

-Scarlett

RISK ASSESSMENT NEWPORT

Our risk assessment for our newport location

RISK ASSESMENT CARDIFF

Our risk assessment for our Cardiff location 

Our Final Idea

Our final Idea.

We decided to try and do something different with our poem so we went with Welcome your confusion as a guest. We thought we could make this different and do some interesting work with it. We thought it would work well to go with someone loosing a person they adore, it worked timely with the death of David Bowie so we decided to use this as our base for the poem. We would focus upon the persons connection to the celebrity and their distraught as they learn of his death.

Analysis - welcome your confusion as a guest

Idea Development

Welcome Your Confusion As A guest.

To me the poem seems like someone who happens upon a tragedy/heartbreaking moment in their life. It seems as if the person is confused, they don’t know how to act when put into this situation taking them into a further “depression”. They have gone out to clear their head but nothing around them has any effect upon them. The rain no longer feels wet, the noise is no longer too loud and the cold although there is barely effective. I feel the line “you hold your jacket tight around you” does not refer to it because of the cold I see it more as a sign of comfort. I think the end of the poem the person realizes that’s its okay to be sad and lets his/her emotions back in and it is too much for them to bare.

Storyboard

Storyboard

Carrying on from the shooting schedule, this clear and detailed storyboard shows the final scenes of the film. There will be more shots than 19, but I chose these 6 shots to represent the full ending idea of our short film.

As well as images and shot details, this storyboard also includes details on audio that the viewer will hear. In this assignment, sound is very important, because we are not allowed to use one music track and we must keep dialogue at a minimum. We still intend to use a lot of sound in our piece. We will do this by creating a melody and a beat similar to David Bowies songs to resemble his music by using various sound effects, such as, tapping the floor or beating a desk. We also intend on using other lifelike sound effects to convey a natural environment e.g. Car horns, birds tweeting and clocks ticking.

Analysis - new york at night

Idea Development – New York at night

A near horizon whose sharp jags

Cut brutally into a sky

Of leaden heaviness, and crags

Of houses lift their masonry

Ugly and foul, and chimneys lie

And snort, outlined against the gray

Of lowhung cloud. I hear the sigh

The goaded city gives, not day

Nor night can ease her heart, her anguished labours

stay.

Below, straight streets, monotonous,

From north and south, from east and west,

Stretch glittering; and luminous

Above, one tower tops the rest

And holds aloft man's constant quest:

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed

Of millions, robber of the best

Which earth can give, the vulgar creed

Has seared upon the night its flaming ruthless screed.

O Night! Whose soothing presence brings

The quiet shining of the stars.

O Night! Whose cloak of darkness clings

So intimately close that scars

Are hid from our own eyes. Beggars

By day, our wealth is having night

To burn our souls before altars

Dim and tree-shadowed, where the light

Is shed from a young moon, mysteriously bright.

Where art thou hiding, where thy peace?

This is the hour, but thou art not.

Will waking tumult never cease?

Hast thou thy votary forgot?

Nature forsakes this man-begot

And festering wilderness, and now

The long still hours are here, no jot

Of dear communing do I know;

Instead the glaring, man-filled city groans below!

Analysis –

I think the poem is set for more of a negative look upon new york. It talks about the skyline being jiggered and harsh. It exclaims that the houses are ugly and harsh and foul. It says how all the streets are the same and boring. It also states that although the skyscrapers are tall and impressive they are also a sign of humanities greed and destruction of the world. Lowell’s point of view for the poem seems to be of a personal experience where she doesn’t enjoy living in such a big city, as it is just vulgar and greedy.

Shooting Schedule

Shooting Schedule

This shooting schedule shows when we will be filming and what equipment we will need each day. It states the location to film in and what the idea for the shot is. This piece of pre-production assist us greatly whilst filming, because we know what we want to achieve so hopefully there is no messing around.

My Job Role As A Producer

Producer

For this project I am the producer, I feel my role as a producer is to make sure everything in the production runs smoothly and to schedule. I think as the producer I should make sure all paperwork is completed and to a good standard, I think I am the one to keep all the paperwork together and to make sure that everything is followed to the plan.

Floor plan

Our Floor plan:

This is our floor plan. Our actor will be sitting on the sofa watching tv, unaware he is late for work. Shot n.1 will pan across the room showing us close up of the actor, the TV and the clock. Shot n.2 will be positioned at the back overlooking the whole room. The 3rd shot will be a close up of the actor finally catching the time and seeing he is late. Number 4 will then show the actor leaving in a hurry.

Ideas for Welcome Your Confusion As a Guest

Ideas for the poem Welcome Your Confusion As a Guest by Ellen Reiss

First of all I followed the same pattern as my first analysis, which was to think about different shots we could possibly use. Then, I had three very strong and powerful ideas or themes, one might say, which could convey an emotional story. This was our groups initial intention, because this poem made us all feel very emotional.

Ideas from New York at Night

Ideas from the poem New York at Noght by Amy Lowell

These are just some rough ideas made initially when thinking about various shots we could possibly use.

Locations Inspiration

Rainy, gloomy, quiet

Mixture of dark and bright colours

Dusk/early evening, quiet

Busy but quiet at the same time

Cosy, homely, small/cramped

-By Scarlett Clarke

My Job Role - Director

Director

As the director of this production I feel my roles are in the management category. 

After compiling research from the Internet  the overall definition I have found is: a person who is in charge of an activity, department, ororganisation.

From this research I have decided that my role is to make the final decision on different aspects of the production, such as, shots, locations, plot, etc.

Also, I provide assistance to all the cast and crew members in my production.