Research on the Internet Movie Data base (IMDB)

What is IMDB?

IMDB stands for Internet Movie Data base. It was first known as a hobby project by an international group of movie fans. IMDB is a huge collection of movie information. They try to catalogue every relevant detail about a movie, from who was in it, to who made it, to trivia about it, to filming locations and even where you can find reviews and fan sites on the web. They then do our best to present this information in a manner that is convenient and easy to access for their viewers.

What does it do?

IMDB offers its viewers information about the latest movie releases, trailers to movies and other useful information about movies. It also lets viewers watch TV clips and episodes. They also include news about celebrities, featured news and movie news etc. They have message boards where viewers can discuss about films, awards and TV episodes. As you can see from the following, IMDB offers their viewers a great variety of entertainment features that will be very appealing to them.

This is the plan for our script

Numero Uno - ‘One Man War’

Locations:

• Bedroom
• Bathroom
• Gym
• Streets – travelling scene
• Classroom

Costume:

• Pyjamas
• Gym clothes – e.g. tracksuits, top etc.
• Suit – smart, work attire
• School uniform – students in classroom

Props:

• Teddy bear
• Alarm clock
• Boxing set
• Rucksack
• Paper planes and paper balls

Actors/actresses:

- Main character – Mr Williams

- Class of students

Script: Scene one: A man is sleeping in his bedroom, the alarm clock goes off. He switches it off; he rests his head in his hands. [ sound- breathing heavily ] [ Screen goes black, sound of brushing teeth and washing face ] – Numero Uno (logo) presents ‘One Man War’

Screen re-appears of the man looking at the mirror, resting both his hands on the basin. (Expression – apprehensive, slightly scared)

Scene two:

[Music starts – ‘Eye of the Tiger’] He starts working out in gym or bedroom/ skips scene to getting dressed in bedroom. Crane shot to show him dressed. [ Music stops when door closes as he leaves house. ]

Scene three:

[Travelling, siren as police car goes past] Camera shots: establishing shot of London, high angle shot, shot of his shoes walking, establishing shot of school.

Scene four:

[Point of view shot, sound of heart beating] – Man holds door handle, a window on the door shows screaming children throwing paper planes and paper balls.

Man: It’s time.

[Opens door] It is now silent. Panning shot reveals the children [Camera –eye line view] Camera shows faces of children looking innocent.

Man: [nervous] okay, class, i don’t want any trouble today. Let’s get started. [Man starts writing on board; a paper ball hits him in the back of the head]

Students: [Laugh loudly]

Screen goes black, Eye of the tiger music. Finishing credits.

THE END.

Research on genre: Drama

I have done some research on the genre we will be working on for our film. This research on drama had helped me understand on what conventions drama use etc..

Presentation on Drama

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Preview of our opening title

This has been produced using Photoshop. This is a preview of how our opening title will look like-as you can see our production name will first appear on the screen with the word 'presents' below. On the right is the name of our film that is going to be appearing right after our production name.

BBFC Presentation

I have done research on the British board of film classification to find out what we will need to exclude from our film to make it suitable for a young audience.

Source: http://www.bbfc.co.uk/

BBFC Presentation

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Description of the opening of our film:

The opening starts as a gold screen with a white number one. A key enters the number one (symbolising the key latch) and it appears as if a door is opening outwards with a creaking sound. Behind the door, there is a black screen with the ‘Numero Uno’ logo. The ‘Numero Uno’ logo is in Edwardian script. It also has a yellowish-gold border.

‘Presents A one man War’ is in Bodoni SVTY and appears on the screen through apparent typing with a white line flashing after the typing. All the writing is in white. There is also a white silhouette of a soldier on the right of ‘One man war,’ slightly bigger than the font. The white soldier moves his gun barrel towards the screen and shoots, the screen cracks and crumbles.

Planning for the script

Today I focused on writing an interesting script. I thought it would best to keep our script simple because we had to produce a five-minute film. Therefore, keeping the script simple will be reasonable as the film only needs to last for five-minute maximum. As a group we discussed that we should keep our dialogue short and make actions speak and this will help make the film look interesting. The opening of the script is really important because we have to make sure we reel our audience in. Opening a script with a hook is very crucial as it will help keep our audience interested, engaged and it will raise curiosity. The setting should be familiar so that we can relate to it. We had to also think about how we were going to end our script, whether there we were going to have a happy ending or a sad ending, or an ending with a twist.

Beginning- planning and research

Today we have been given a brief; to produce a five minute film to entertain a teen audience. To gather information about the interests of teenagers, I will need to do planning and research on what kind of films they will be interested in. In our group of four, we had a short discussion about what be believed would be the best genre for our teen audience. From our own experience as teenagers we decided that comedic drama will interest our audience. We came up with our production name called ‘Numero Uno’ which means number one.

In our group we had to come up with a story relating to our genre. We thought of many stories but finally decided on one story which is going to be about a teacher who will be preparing to go a class like a solider preparing to go into war. The message that we want to put across is that the students are mischievous and not as innocent as they appear.

We have allocated roles to individuals in our group by carefully understanding which role will best suit whom. The creative director will be allocated to Thamina; we have decided that we should all contribute to writing the script, this way we will get to finish our script on time. Sufia has been allocated to as being the props manager; she will need to take care of what the actors will be wearing and what other props will be needed in order to make our film visually eye-catching and realistic. I have been chosen to produce and create the story board; I can choose based on my creativity and artist skills to carry out this process. The locator manger has been allocated to everyone; we can look for particular locations and then repeat back to take group. Khadiha was been allocated as being the actor/scout manager, she will need to look for appropriate actors and make sure that the actors come on time and attend every secession.