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- 1. ASSIGNMENT 12: INDIVIDUAL PLANNING Genre: Drama By Nicole Lewis
- 2. CYBERBULLY Ashley going to her Katherine asking Ashley rushing out car. Ashley for help. the door. This scene would be like the one in my opening sequence when Katherine calls Ashley for help. Ashley outside Ashley getting out of Ashley reassuring Katherine’s house. her car. Katherine.
- 3. CYBERBULLY CONTINUED…. Ashley inside of Ashley looking for Katherine’s house. Katherine. This scene is a continuation of what my opening sequence would be when Katherine calls Ashley for help. Ashley finding Katherine’s The ambulance arriving. unconscious body.
- 4. TRUST A similar scene like this in my opening sequence. School friendships. Natural lighting
- 5. THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE On the floor barely breathing. People around the victim trying to help them. Blood and wounds from getting attacked.
- 6. HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET This scene would be the part where Katherine’s dad knocks Ashley over the head. The lighting would be similar to my opening sequence.
- 8. IDEA TIMELINE Katherine tells Ashley Ashley rushes that she tripped while over to running. Katherine’s Katherine walks into house. school limping. At the end of the school day, Ashley asks Katherine if she could come over. Around 5 o’clock, Ashley gets a call from a scared Ashley calls for an Her friend Ashley Katherine asking her for ambulance but gets goes up to her and help. knocked in the head by asks her what Katherine’s dad. happened. Ashley finds Ashley doesn’t Katherine believe her but unconscious backs off. on the floor.
- 9. WHOLE FILM Katherine is walking into school limping. Her friend, Ashley runs up to her asking what’s wrong. Katherine says she just tripped while running, it’s ok. Ashley doesn’t believe her but backs off. At the end of the school day, Ashley wants to go to Katherine’s house, but Katherine makes up an excuse why Ashley can’t come. Around 5 o’clock Ashley gets a call from Katherine asking for help. Ashley gets inside of the house and finds Katherine unconscious on the floor. Calls an ambulance and gets knocked on the head by Katherine’s dad.
- 10. WHOLE FILM CONTINUED. Police and ambulance arrive. Arrest the dad and take both Katherine and Ashley to the hospital. When Katherine finally wakes up she is too scared to sleep again because of her nightmares. The court date for Katherine’s dads comes up and Katherine and Ashley are both put into counselling sessions. Katherine reveals that her dad has been abusing her ever since her mum left 3 months ago. Katherine’s dad gets sent to jail and Katherine moves in with Ashley.
- 11. STYLE OF OPENING SEQUENCE Opening Why Examples Sequence • Start of the Film • The film • Cheaper By The continues Dozen. straight after the • Mean Girls. opening sequence.
- 12. NARRATIVE STRUCTURE & THEORY The opening sequence is linear as it presented in chronological order. It is not a contemporary modular narrative and non of Cameron’s theory applies to my opening sequence.
- 13. NARRATIVE STRUCTURE & THEORY You can apply Propps theory to my opening sequence because: The hero would be Ashley because she is the one that helps Katherine. The villain would be Katherine’s dad as is the one that abuses Katherine. The dispatcher would be Katherine as she is the one that calls Ashley to come. There is no donor. The helper would be Ashley as she is the one to help Katherine. The heroine would be Katherine as she needs rescuing by the hero (Ashley). The false hero would be the dad as Katherine had probably trusted him before all of this.
- 14. CHARACTERS Examples from films Name Katherine and Ashley Role Teenage Girl Mean Girls Student Actor Kristen Stewart Speak Megan Fox Jennifer’s Body Representation Awkward, Nerdy Needy from Jennifer’s Body
- 15. CHARACTERS Examples from films Body Language/Facial Tense Kristen Stewart in Expression because New Moon. she is somewhat scared and nervous of what’s around her. Tone/Language Sarcastic The killer and Witty in Scream. The Joker From The Dark Knight. Costume/Props Jumpers. Jeans Boots. Phone. Notebook / Journal
- 16. SETTING Exterior Scenes Interior Scenes What it looks like: What it looks like: How I want it to look like. How I want it to look like. The house A school where corridor. Katherine lives.
- 17. CONVENTIONS OF DRAMA Conventions in Drama Used, developed or Examples from films challenged? Themes to relate too: Developed. Freedom Writers. Abuse Instead of doing abuse by a husband and wife, I am doing abuse by a father and daughter. Setting Developed. Precious Interior/Exterior –. Inside My opening and outside of house. sequence will be set Domestic building. inside and outside of The building is quite new, a house plus inside must have just been rebuilt. of a school. The location would be in a The location would busy city. be in London around The time would be in the 9am and 5pm. 21st century.
- 18. CONVENTIONS OF DRAMA Conventions in Drama Used, developed or Examples from challenged? films Lighting Developed. Natural lighting in the It is set in the morning so morning, then artificial lighting natural light can be used. and low key lighting for when Then low key lighting when the serious storyline comes Ashley finds Katherine’s up. body. Twelve Colour Developed. Black for the dark, formal and As it is the typical colours professional feel of it. for a drama film, plus red. Characters Developed. Twelve The facial expression would The facial expressions and be serious and the body the body language would language would be tense and be the same but I put in a rarely relaxed until the witty sarcastic character as ending. Katherine’s best friend, Their hair and make-up would Ashley. either be professional or messy, depending on the situation.
- 19. TITLES/CREDITS Titles Explanation Examples The Font Lower Case as it feels more relaxed. Upper Case as it seems like it is shouting the important issue to the audience. The Size 40 as it would take up most of the cover and ABCDEF draw attention to the name of the film. The Colour Black and White as they are neutral colours.
- 20. AUDIENCE Audience Elements Explanation Age 15 and over. Gender Mainly females Ethnicity Every ethnicity Interests/Hobbies Like high school/teenage drama Like Family drama Fascinated by real life drama. Social Class Mainly middle class