Script

Scene 1

[ Jack is sleeping on the grass in a old sleeping bag and remains still]

Scene 2

[Ben wakes up slowly and picks up phone]
[zoom in while Ben is holding phone]

Scene 3

[ Jack snaps his phone shut]
[ Jack then gets up off the bench, picks up his bag and walks behind the tree]

Scene 4

[ Ben walks out the bedroom and into the bathroom]
[ Looks into the mirror for 2 seconds and then goes down to was his face]

Scene 5

[ Jack looks up while looking into outside mirror]
[Jack turns around and walks behind camera]
[ Jack goes down curb right foot first]

Scene 6

[ Ben goes down steps left foot 1st]
[Ben walks into the kitchen, sits down and then takes a spoonful of the breakfast]

Scene 7

[ Jack is biting into a cheese burger nods his head in approval and looks to the right side]
[ Jack drops the McDonald wrapper on the floor]

Scene 8

[ Ben picks up bag and walks out of kitchen]
[Ben sits on stairs and puts on his shoes and then zips up his bag pushing the boxing gloves in the bag and walks out front door]
[Ben walks out of drive and turns left]

Scene 9

[Jack walks up road and turns left]

Scene 10

[Ben walks down pavement]

Scene 11

[ Jack walks up pavement when thug 1&2 chase after Jack and follow him across the road in a high speed chase]

Scene 12

[Ben meets up with friend 1&2 and greets them both with a special handshake and points right and they walk in that direction together]

Scene 13

[Jack sprints up street and turns left and hides behind building while looking through glass]
[thug 1 moans at thug 2 for loosing Jack and than jog off in the other direction]

Scene 14
[Ben is holding the boxing gloves out of bag and meets Jack as they both turn into path]
[Both briefly look at each other then continue at same speed into the boxing club]
[when entering boxing club they turn left when they enter the building]

My Film Pitch

This is my pitch for our group opening scene.

Budget for Fighting to Survive

We think the budget for the film would be around £150,000 so we could hire the gym and pay for the crew to record it and for special effects so when the fight happens in the film it looks as realistic as possible. This would also cover the cost of the cast.

Storyboard

This is me explaining what is happening in each scene of the storyboard and the type of shots we will be using.

The Props List

 - Boxing Gloves
- Tracksuit
- Sleeping Bag
- Phones
- Burger
- Cereal
- Sports Bag

Location

Chelmsford City Centre: this is where we will film the chase scene and the rich boy meeting up with his mate. The busy atmosphere will give the affect of how no one gives any sympathy for the poor boy and allows him to get chased.

Central Parke Chelmsford: This is where the poor homless boy will wake up and the scenes to follow that will be filmed. This area is nice to look at and will give the affect of how different the boy is and that he doesn't really belong.

This is where most of the rich boy scenes will be filmed of him waking up and his daily routine, the house we chose is a normal looking house which will give the impression of how normal this boys life is.







Great Baddow High School: This is where our final scene will be shot of the two boys walking into the boxing club entrance.

Fighting to Survive posters

 

 

 

Risk Assessment

Shooting Schedule

Thurday 28th November

Jack, Ben, Elise
Location: Ben's House

14:15- Leave school and walk to Ben's house
14:30- Arrive at Ben's house
14:35- Film first shot of Ben waking up (Ben's House)
14:40- Filming walking out of bedroom shot (Ben's House)
14:45- Film bathroom shot of looking into the mirror (Ben's House)
14:50- Filming walking down the stairs into the kitchen and eating breakfast scene.(Ben's House)
15:00- Filming leaving the house scene and walking around the corner.(Outside Ben's House)
15:10- Finish filming


Sunday 1st December

Jack, Ben, Elise
Location: Chelmsford City Centre

12:15- Meet outside Mcdonalds in the town centre
12:25-Film first scene of Jack waking up on a bench in central park
12:35- Elise filming Jack looking into a mirror (Chelmsford)
12:40- Filming jack eating a burger (Chelmsford)
12:50- Meet Dom and Max outside the library (Chelmsford)
13:00- Film chase scene (Chelmsford)
13:10- Film escaping from two men (Chelmsford)
13:20- Film Ben meeting up with mates and walking off. (Chelmsford)
13:35- Finish filming

Opening Credits order

·         (NAME OF THE STUDIO -  Lions Gate

·           PRODUCED BY -  Lunar Productions

·          Jack Jordan

·          Ben Caleno

·           Max Johnson& Dominic Freedman

·         DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY- James Crabe

·         MUSIC -  Jonny cash (cover) - Hurt

·         EDITED BY- Jack Jordan

·         STORY BY - Ben Caleno

·         DIRECTED BY - Elise Franklin

·         FILM'S TITLE - Fighting to Survive

Fighting to Survive Rough Cut

Production Meeting 3

This lesson we have decided that Elise is going to start on the film timeline, Ben is doing the Risk asssessment for our location and I am doing the Text in the opening scene and what order it will go in. Our team is working efficiently and getting tasks done on time but I believe that our communication could be improved.

Evaluation Of Film Pitch

We Pitched our Boxing Film to the class. Overall the feedback was good about the film, people thought it was quite original compared to other boxing films and would be a suitable film opening as we would be able to record this opening to a good standard. One of my class mates thought that the opening scene was a bit boring and recommended adding a fight scene in the opening scene to solidify the sport/action genre. We could also pitched our film much better by shortening the amount we said as some people got bored by all the text and we could of pitched it more enthusiastically. People also thought this was a good choice of genre as it isn’t often used so our film will be more unique than other peoples. They also thought that the genre would be clear throughout the opening scene and leaves a lot of enigma codes for what’s going to happen between the two boys throughout the film.

Me spell checking before I uploaded my work to the Blog

Elise working on the story board

Ben Looking up Action Camera Shots

                                               

Production Meeting 2

Production Meeting 1

We pitched our film ideas to each other and decided on Ben’s idea of A Rich/Poor Sport Action film about two boxers who are “Fighting to Survive” which is also the film title. We are going to present this to the class next lesson and hopefully get some feedback. We agreed on this as we think the ideas is original, realistic to film and is the one we all felt most confident about doing.

Evaluation of My Peers Best & Worst Prelim Tasks

Fug Lyfe - George Brewers group:

How clear was the genre? Did it use conventions well? The genre was a comedy drama
how was the use of camera shots? Camera shots were generally steady but one or both faces were cut off during a 180 degree shot during the talk between the teacher and student.
Use of editing? Good
how was the continuity? The story was easy to follow and was enjoyable.
Was the brief met? The brief was met as a Comedy/Drama
Overall success of video: 49/60

Celestial - Ellie Robson's group(The Best)

How clear was the genre? Did it use conventions well? The genre was clearly a Horror meaning the conventions were used very well
How was the use of camera shots? Excellent camera shots used all the way through
Use of editing? Amazing editing but cheated for the first part (graveyard scene)
How was the continuity? Great plot which was scary and freaky throughout.
Was the brief met? Yes but the graveyard footage was not theirs
Overall success of video: 55/60


Cheater - Nick Roxby's group

How clear was the genre? Did it use conventions well? The scene looked like a comedy but was meant to be a Rom-Com so the conventions weren’t that good.
How was the use of camera shots? Some shots shaky and at bad angles but others were very good.
Use of editing? The slow motion editing was effective and funny but no real transitions or use of sounds.
How was the continuity? There was poor continuity as he was running for one part then stopped for the next scene
Was the brief met? No as it didn't look like a Rom-Com
Overall success of video: 12/60

Found - Sam Cook's group

How clear was the genre? Did it use conventions well? Was it a drama? The conventions were good and you could tell it was a family drama further through the opening scene.
How was the use of camera shots?  The tracking shot was really good and so was the high angled shots.
Use of editing? The editing of the text and the beginning was really effective, good editing in general.
How was the continuity? The continuity was very good for people who don't know the layout of the school.,
Was the brief met? The story line was a little confusing and rushed at the end
Overall success of video: 46/60

Time Out - Ben Flatt's group: (Third)

How clear was the genre? Did it use conventions well? It was clearly a musical so the conventions were good.
How was the use of camera shots?  Camera shots were good throughout..
Use of editing? The lip syncing was good to the music but minimal transitions used.
How was the continuity? The story line was easy to follow and catchy.
Was the brief met? Yes, there was singing and dancing and all the elements of a cheesy musical.
Overall success of video: 53/60

Candyman - Dom Freedman's group: (Second)

How clear was the genre? Did it use conventions well? Was a Comedy Drama and conventions were very good..
How was the use of camera shots? Good steady camera shots at good angles suited to the shot.
Use of editing? Good, however at one point you could hear someone say 'go,' but could easily be edited out.
How was the continuity? The story line was easy to follow and funny but the chocolate part was a bit to stupid.
Was the brief met? Brief met on everything was very good
Overall success of video: 54/60

Trial Of Film Pitch

Our Average Feedback Score was 51/70

The General our average feedback was that there wasn't enough interest described in the pitch about the opening scene which would get people’s attention to want to watch it. This was our fault was with obviously didn't deliver it clearly in the pitch we gave. Our marketing, Film title and Convention all scored very highly which shows that our ideas to get it on the market are good and that the title was catchy and will get people to want to watch it.

The parts we believe we need to improve on from the feedback we received are improving the depth of information given on the opening scene of our pitch and possibly changing some of the actors for some more high end film stars to help the film sell.

To Break audience expectations the main character will switch sides and turn on his od friends causing a twist in the film that no one would see coming.