"Something like this" Final

The Brief

The brief:

        The titles and opening of a film in the genre of the candidates own choice, to last between two to three minutes. The film opening should include a shot narrative which introduces characters and a prologue to the film. 

Genre - Mindmap

This mindmap represents all different types of genres, the stars ( which have been staring in our film), locations ( where we have been filming ). This plan helped us a lot in choosing the equipment, writing the script and thinking about which actors will be filmed and where.

Treatment - P1(a)

Something like this

Now I would want to talk about the following points:

• Format
• Running time 
• Genre
• The title 
• Target audience 
• Plot 

Format. 

The format of this video is 1080p HDV. This tell us that the video has high quality. 

Running time 

The time of this video is 3:19. 

Genre. 

Me and my group have been carefully thinking about the genre of the film which we are going to do in the future and we decided, that the best option for us is crime. This decision was hard, because it is difficult to film crime scenes in school because of the school's atmosphere, but in overall, it came out really nicely.

The title. 

The actual name for the film came out spontaneously. There were 3 or 4 names originally like: " The Big Job" and "High risk". But after we have filmed the 2nd scene, we came out with the actual name of our film, which is "Something like this". We thing that this name gives a feel of what we have tried to show in the film. 

Target audience. 

As out film is about the crime and it represents some bad habits like drinking, smoking and stealing someones property. Therefore, we have thought that the optimal age group for this film would be the people in the age group of 12 +.

Plot

          Our film is about the juvenile delinquent which have been sent from USSR because of their criminal past. Now they need to continue their education in international school. Ironically they all met in their school... 

        This idea came to our mind not straight away. We thought about the difficult times in Russia after The Second World War. So we tried to combine our lives with those hard times and we came out with this project. We have wrote our plot in Google Drive document which allows my group to access the plot at all the time, have the same file and be able to add/delete something in our work if there is a need for it. There is a link for this document: 

( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CUi_7jq315UL6O65OVsoQ8j3JF3VT_FPuuPf7PhEolU) 

There are the screen shots of our plot : 

Script - P1(b)

The script have been written in Google Drive document which allows my group to access the plot at all the time, have the same file and be able to add/delete something in our work if there is a need for it. There is a link for this document:
(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ee5SXKhx4MkqLZOtAB6qESw5mJTmc0Da-3PqTdR-Ig4/edit)

There are some pictures of it:

Story board - P1(c)

The 1st shot, where there are 3 peaces of papers which lie on the table, have been decided to be replaced with the introduction to the film. This decision have been made when we have started to edit the first shoots and the realised that the film will take more than 3:30 min ( 3:30 is a maximum time allowed ). The scenes  2 - 6  stayed and it will be accompanied by subtitles, because in some scenes actors speak russian, therefore we have edit subtitles so the viewer will understand what are they talking about.

The 12th scene have been taken away, because our film was too long and this shot is not as important as others, therefore we have taken it away. This decision gave us to make longer shots and add more detail to our story. During 11th scene, the film is speeded up, because this shot is really important but it came out too long ( 45 sec ) and after speeding it became ( 20 sec ). 

Set designs - P1(d)

This pictures represent the shots which we have done:

Morning, the phone is on the table and after 3 seconds of waiting the phone starts to ring. The call is from the guardian which wants to tell him that there is a new girl in his school which has a criminal past as well.

The action is happening in Ilya's room. There is a bed where the actor is going to sleep, talk to guardian and phone Dmitry. There is also a table where the phone will be placed. Scene 3.

This picture represents Dmitry's room where he is going to talk with Ilya. We haven't decided on where the actor is going to be ( bed or table ). Scene 4.

This picture represents the Kent College's dinning hall where Dmitry and Ilya is going to be eating, talking about the girl and looking how she is going to steal the phone. Scenes 5-6.

This is Kent College's main entrance where boys are going to follow the girl and would want to talk to her. Scene 7-9. 

This is a Guilford's common room where those 3 criminals will be drinking, playing cards, smoking and talking about the future deals. Scenes 10 and 12.

The 6th form common room there the criminals will steal laptops, phones, money and other belongings. Scene 11.

There were some scenes where we had problems with lightings. Therefore,  we made sure that the lightings set up so the quality of the material will be high. There are some pictures representing those shots:

In our project we had some scenes where the camera angle is really important and will have a huge impact on audience. Therefore, camera position was really important for our film.