Copyright and Log Lines

Copyright:
In todays class we talked about copyright and some claims that have happened.
We started by looking at a couple of short films and featured film and seeing what kind of copyright claim they had against them, some were that they had a false brand on or they used music that was not suppose to be there.

Log lines:
We then learnt about log line's and what they were. Then we had to pick a mainstream film and write our own log lines on that.

What are Log lines's
Log lines are a very short but very clear description of the film/TV, for example, the short description that you get when you click the film on sky.

My Log line on "I am Legend":
An Action packed Thriller of a man and a dog surviving they way through a city full of mutated people and coming through an unexpected turn of events.

We then learnt about a famous screen writer who always used the same template with his films and they always seemed to work.

Log line Template:
On the verge of (insert a bad thing here), a (Flawed Hero) has (Big thing happens) and (story set-up). But when (Story middle Happens) he/she must learn (the awful thing that will happen if they fail).

Treatment

What is a Treatment?

A treatment comes after the proposal stage (if they ask you to develop it) these are the things you have to talk about:

* Make sure you have an indication of the content and size of your product

*An Initial Script/Storyline 

*The amount it is going to cost for production

*The idea of the personnel Involved in the project 

*Any research that has happened 

When writing it make sure you put these things in:

Introduction:

This is a short opening paragraph explain what you have wrote about in your original proposal and what you will do to develop it. this will be the thing to sell your idea.

Outline Script:

This should be the section where you will explain your story scene by scene and in as much detail as you can so that they can understand what is going on.

Outline Budget:

This is where you will tell them what the budget requirements that you need. when putting this make sure you put a realistic budget for the product also make sure you use a real example of equipment hire.

Talent:

Who is doing what, mention the actors that will be in this.

Production Staff:

This is where you will explain who is working in this project breakdown.

Contingency:

Things can go wrong, so in this you will explain if you have any back up (say if an actor is ill and you need to replace them with a similar person).

Research:

Include any conducted research that you have made.

Treatment:

Introduction

In the Proposal we talked about what the story was and that its about a guy who goes to a restaurant with his girlfriend and as they are eating the ex comes in and it creates this very intense and funny situation. to develop the idea i will start advancing the script and create some funny situation, that will include getting some funny actors that can act very well it that situation.

Outline Script

The scene starts with the man and woman walking into the restaurant all happy and in love, when they sit down and order they start to laugh a lot with how weird the guy is, after a couple of talking scene the guy looks over and sees that his ex girlfriend has just entered the restaurant with her new boyfriend.

When she sits down and order the guy starts to panic and then runs into the toilets, when arrived he then starts to call his friend to ask him how he should get out, the first suggestion his friend makes is climbing out the windows so as he climb's out a dog starts going to attack him so he squeezes himself back in as fast as he can, when he ends the call and comes back onto the table he is then to think of another idea, he then starts telling his girlfriend that he's ill but the girlfriend doesn't believe him and makes him stay. After a while of him panicking he then starts begging his girlfriend to leave and he then tells her why, she then slaps him and starts shouting at him, he then becomes extremely panicked and runs out the restaurant but as he reaches the door the staff grab him and start singing happy birthday whilst bringing him back to his seat to give him the cake, but then his girlfriend grabs him and throws his head on the cake and walks out, when he gets up he goes over to the ex but it turns out it isn't the ex but just some random woman that looks like her he then starts to get a bit happier and walks out, as he leaves the restaurant he then bumps into someone and as he goes to say sorry he finds out its his ex.

Outline Budget

For the budget, We are going to try and hire a room for free so that we can use it for the restaurant scene, but if not the price range to normally hire a room for this situation would cost up to £40 - £100 depending on the building you use. When it comes to filming equipment the college will supply the camera's, boom, lighting etc. When it comes to Actors we will get the actors from getting either friends, family or people in the college so there will be no worry for paying them, we will bring food and beverages.

Talent

In this Short film we will only really need 3 Main Characters and thats, the man, the girlfriend and the ex girlfriend. There will be a few extra's, including the Ex's boyfriend. To get the main characters we will either ask the Performing arts group if anyone wants to do it or we will just get some confident friends to play the parts and when it comes to extra's we will just get as many people as we can to do it.

Production Staff:
On this project we have a range of different people, there is our group of four, we have some actors that will come in and we are getting help from the college.

Contingency:
There are only a few things that could actually go wrong in this project, Firstly, We go over our hired time and have to leave and to sort that we will make sure we get it done by getting people to work harder. Secondly, The batteries in the camera could run out, but to sort that we will make sure we have a few extra battery packs lying around so that we can just swap when finished. Lastly, some of the actors may get injured and to stop that we would have to make sure we a backup actor.

Research:

I have been researching on good places to film and they are in good distance of the college location and would be easy to get it there and film. 

Proposal

The Ex

Story

Its about a Man who goes out for his 2^nd date with his new girlfriend at an expensive restaurant, after talking for a while the guys ex girlfriend walks in the exact restaurant with her new boyfriend, the bad side to this is that when he dumped he didn’t tell her why and he didn’t do it nicely (he did it by Facebook) so the guy is trying to get out without getting caught, but after almost causing thousands of pounds worth of damage and getting dumped he finds out that it is not his girlfriend, but as he walks out it ends with his ex bumping into him.

Act 1

Man walks in with girlfriend and starts to talk and charm, but then suddenly the ex girlfriend walks in and makes man panic.

Act 2

After ex walking in he spends the entire time trying to get out of the restaurant but every time he tries something keeps happening to bring him back, for example, as he tries to get out the public toilets a huge dogs comes out and starts trying to attack him so he climbs back in.

Act 3

After causing a lot of damage in the restaurant and getting dumped by his girlfriend he finds out that the woman is not his ex but just someone who looks like her, after the panic he starts to walk out the restaurant all happy until he opens the door and gets bumped by someone as he turns around he finds out its his actual ex.

What is a proposal?
Proposal's are where the person who wrote the idea of the story goes to someone like a producer and pitch's there idea to them using a proposal (in like a slideshow or letter)

Proposal

Liam Glyde

LGProductions

The Ex (Working Title)

Genre: Comedy

15+

Characters

Boy – A normal person who just two weeks ago dumped his previous girlfriend, but instead of being to much in love and waiting for a while to start loving gain he ends up getting his new girlfriend on the same day. He’s a nice, witty person.

Ex girlfriend – She’s was a every day in love girls with her boyfriend until he dumped her and not only did he tell her on Facebook without a reason but he then got a girlfriend on the same day which made her very angry with him and made it so that he is to scared to even see her.

Story

Its about a Man who goes out for his 2^nd date with his new girlfriend at an expensive restaurant, after talking for a while the guys ex girlfriend walks in the exact restaurant with her new boyfriend, the bad side to this is that when he dumped he didn’t tell her why and he didn’t do it nicely (he did it by Facebook) so the guy is trying to get out without getting caught, but after almost causing thousands of pounds worth of damage and getting dumped he finds out that it is not his girlfriend, but as he walks out it ends with his ex bumping into him.

When it comes to equipment and actor’s we will be working with the college to supply these things, but to make it a film look I would hopefully to rent out a restaurant and film there so that it looks a bit more professional.

The three conflicts (Act 1, 2, 3):

*Act 1: Is where you write who the actors are and where the setting is etc.

*Act 2: Is where you explain what the conflict is 

*Act 3: This is where you see if the conflict has ever resolved or it ends on a cliffhanger etc.

Gladiator - Analysis

Gladiator - Analysis 

At the start it enters a depth of field shot of a person’s hand stroking some wheat in what looks like a field, the camera looks like it is mounted to a steady cam so that you can really see this where as if they used handheld it would be quite shaky and you would hardly see some of the movement, this shot is not only to get you to know who this person is without seeing his face but also to see how this person is feeling.

After a while of the DOF shot it suddenly cuts straight into a medium close up shot of the main character that is looking down, to resemble that he is daydreaming of the previous shot, the editing in shot Is that they have use a kind off greyish blue type of colour overlay to show that is a very cold Christmas time of the year. During that time it cuts to a robin bird to show the sense of freedom that they will get if they complete this war alive, another clue for that is after if flies away it cuts to a medium close up shot of the main character smiling.

A little while after it cuts to a establishing shot of the location they are in, also some text fades in with the location name, this is to get the audience to know where this war is going to take place, also the location itself has been damaged very badly which shows that a war has already happened and it shows the viewers how bad this war has become.

During the clips it then does a tracking shot of the main character walking down the lines of soldiers and as that is happening it keeps cutting into the soldiers faces with them either smiling or nodding at him, at that makes you realise how important this character is if these people will give him that much respect, also they are trying to get you to look at them so that you can see the battle marks and blood so you can see how bad this war has become.

When the main barbarian comes into the shot on the other side of the battle you have a medium shot of him holding a mans head and throwing it which then cuts in the a close up of the mans head on the floor, which makes the audience start to realise that this is serious not just a film full of solider laughing and smiling.

When the main character is riding his horse across the lines of solider it is used with a paned track on him then after on other 5-second clip it is then cut back to him in the forest riding towards some other soldiers hiding in the woods, they did this so that you didn’t have a watch a full on scene of him getting there and so that it wouldn’t bore the audience. When he arrives with the other soldiers there are a couple of medium shots but then a lot of really heavenly type of wide shots, which really bring out the cinematic to it.

When the war starts to happen not only does the music start building more dramatically but then it starts turning into a sort of montage of them setting up the weapons which really make the audience start to get excited that the action is starting. When one of the soldiers shoots up a flare into the sky to alert the romans to fire and when they actually start firing there are a lot of establishing shots of the back of the romans to show that the barbarians are over powered by them, also they are on a higher ground which also shows that. 

Romantic Conflict Idea:

Our idea was about an guy at a young age becoming in love with a woman but he never does anything, but the at the age of 20 he never gets his dream job and ends up becoming homeless, then he met another woman who at the time he loved  and when getting married she promoted his art, but some time after there marriage he starts to like her less but then he meets the girl that met when he was young and he falls in love with her but the guy cannot go out with her because he is with the other girl and if he did divorce her he will lose all the money he made from art because she would have all the money and take away the promotion. But then he picks the girl he that he always loved and they start a mini business.

Fish in the bowl idea:

Our idea was about a psychic who loses his job and the only other job he can take is becoming a lawyer, but he still believes that he is a psychic.

We had to pick two picture that had inspired us to make the poster and we came up with judge judy and campaign. they had inspired us because judge Judy is in a court and the campaign is about some who is from a very weird type person and ends up getting a very professional job.
When Making this we wanted to created it so that it had a very death like feel to it by making it looking bloody and adding an arm to the text, when making the OVERRULED part we wanted to make it look very classy and also we had cut out a hammer image to it. Also we found it a good idea to add the main characters to the image so that you new who they where, also Judge Judy has a building through the text where as we have a hammer through ours. I think that this would be good to market because it shows both actors that are very known to the world and also the text effects suit what the story is about.

Custom Made script

CHECK THE CHILDREN

WRITTEN BY

LIAM GLYDE

EXT. HOUSE – ESTABLISHING

MUM GOES OUT AND LEAVES BOY ALONE FOR THE NIGHT TO LOOK AFTER BROTHER AND SISTER, AFTER 2 HOURS HAD PAST THE BOY LUKE, 14 SITS IN FRONT OF TELEVISION.

THE PHONE RINGS.

LUKE

Hello.

VOICE ON PHONE JUST BREATHES DOWN THE PHONE WITHOUT SPEAKING.

LUKE

Who is this?

VOICE KEEPS BREATHING DOWN THE PHONE.

LUKE

Tom is this you? (PAUSE) This isn’t funny

VOICE KEEPS BREATHING.

LUKE

Okay I’m going to hang up now

LUKE HANGS UP THE PHONE AND PUT IT BACK.

Phone RINGS again.

LUKE PICKS IT UP AND GETS INTERUPTED BY THE VOICES BREATHING.

LUKE

Seriously this is getting old now I’m hanging up

VOICE

Check the children…

LUKE LOOK IN PANIC

LUKE

What did you say?

VOICE BRATHES DOWN PHONE

LUKE (SHOUTS)

WHAT DID YOU SAY?

(PAUSE)

VOICE

(Whispers) Check the children

LUKE HANGS UP AND SPRINTS TO HIS LITTLE BROTHER AND SISTER, FINDS OUT THERE FINE.

PHONE RINGS

INT. LIVING ROOM

LUKE PICKS UP THE PHONE

LUKE

Listen to me I’m calling the police if you keep this up

(HANGS UP)

PHONE RINGS AGAIN, LUKE PICKS PHONE UP AND SLAMS IT DOWN THEN PICKS IT UP AND DIALS THE POLICE.

LUKE

Hello is this the police

POLICEMEN

How may I help you?

LUKE

There’s this guy and he keeps calling my house and I’m getting really scared

POLICEMEN

It might just be a couple of people pranking but if you want we can trace the call

LUKE

Okay then thanks

POLICEMEN

Okay all we need you to do it be on the phone with him for at least a minute, Okay

LUKE

Okay

POLICEMEN HANGS UP PHONE

AFTER 15 MINUTES THE PHONE RINGS.

LUKE

Hello

MUM

Hey Luke just calling to see how you are?

LUKE

I’m good mum don’t worry

(INTERUPTS MUM)

Yes and they others are fine don’t worry… okay bye mum

(HANGS UP)

AFTER 20 MINUTES THE PHONE RINGS, LUKE PICKS UP STOPWATCH.

LUKE

Hello?

VOICE STARTS BREATHING DOWN, THEN GOES TO HANG UP.

LUKE

Wait… Wait… Let me at least ask you a couple of questions

VOICE KEEPS BREATHING

LUKE
Why are you calling me?

VOICE JUST BREATHES

LUKE

Why are you not answering my questions?

VOICE BREATHES, THEN AFTER A WHILE HANGS UP, HE THEN CHECKS TIME AND IT SAYS 2 MINUTES

PHONE RINGS.

LUKE

Hello

POLICEMEN

Okay we are tracing the call it might take a couple of minutes

ENDS PHONE CALL AND IMMEDIATELY PHONE RINGS AGAIN.

VOICE BREATHES DOWN THE PHONE.

LUKE

Why are you still calling me? What’s wrong with you?

VOICE

Check the children

LUKE WAL KS TO THE CHILDREN WITH PHONE IN HAND, AS HE WALKS IN KIDS ARE MISSING, LUKE RUNS AROUND THE HOUSE LOOKING FOR THEM THEN HANGS UP THE PHONE, HE THEN RUNS IN TO BATH AND FINDS KIDS.

LUKE

Oh My god there you two are

PHONE RINGS.

LUKE
JUST GO AWAY…

GETS INTERUPTED BY POLICEMEN

POLICEMEN (SHOUTS)

WE TRACED THE PHONE HE COMING FROM THE HOUSE GET OUT THE HOUSE