Dialogue

Only some of our scenes require dialogue in them. This includes Alex having a conversation with his friend, the phone messages at the beginning and the car scene. The rest of the scenes, especially the scenes where Alex is alone have no dialogue in them. This emphasises the fact that Alex does not connect with the real world in any way and makes the audience wonder what Alex is thinking to himself. Lack of words in any film also builds suspense which is what we want in our short film.

Representation of our film

Different representations in film include class, age, gender, etc. Our film will oppose these typical representations in the media. For example, in our short film the main victim is a man. This goes against common stereotypes as it is usually the women who are victims in the film industry. However, at the end you soon discover that the woman is primarily the victim as she has been murdered by him. Thus the roles have reversed back to normal. We are also planning to show the main male character as middle class through various locations and costume. This also challenges familiar representations because people with psychotic and obsessive disorders are associated more with working class.

Target audience of our film

The target audience is a particular group of people, identified as the intended recipient of an advertisement, message or of a certain media. After much discussion my group and I have decided to target our film towards middle age men. This is because although our main character is psychotic, we believe that middle age men would be able to relate to certain aspects and traits of him. Such as relationship and obsessive nature to some extent. Our chosen genre of psychotic thriller also relates to quite a large demographic of our target audience. Lastly, middle age men would more likely understand the message of the short film, more so than if a woman would watch it.

Shot Script

Idea of narrative structure

Narrative structure is generally described as the structural framework that underlies the order and manner in which a narrative is presented to a reader, viewer or listener.

After discussing the narrative structure of our short film, we have decided on the following factors. Firstly, our film will be in chronological order; however it will be set throughout a series of different days with various time lapses that are obvious to the audience. Editing our film will effectively create these time lapses, a very important aspect of our film. In context of our short film, all the scenes will be set during the day or at dusk. This is because a change of day will be clear to the audience if each scene looks slightly darker and then lighter. We will also use various settings for each scene, to emphasise the characters desperation and the measures he will go to find and stalk his ex- girlfriend and to make the short film ultimately more interesting to watch. Finally, the whole film will be in perspective of our main character and his perception of the film’s plot.        

Idea for my scenes

Out of the nine scenes we are going to film, I chose the three which I thought I could definitely show my creativeness and media skills. I believe the variety of scenes I chose to direct were good choices because each scene is very different to one another and I also think that I would be able to effectively show the physiological breakdown of the man in many ways throughout the production of the scenes. Although the scenes I chose may be quite challenging, I definitely feel I work better in a challenging, under pressure atmosphere. More over, I feel that my fellow group members, Oliver and Adam, were happy with their choices of scenes so they can use their knowledge of media production to successfully produce their scenes.

Pre- Production meeting

My group and I decided to hold a pre- production meeting. Primarily as we wanted to sort out who were getting what scenes to script, film and ultimately edit. Out of the nine scenes we are planning to film, we had to choose three each. We also decided to hold the meeting so we could decide on different locations for certain scenes, appropriate actors to be used and to create a filming timetable which stated when and where we would meet up with each other and film. I believe that the pre- production meeting was a success as it made us all clear of important aspects during the filming and it enabled us to answer any queries any of us may have had about the production of our short film.