Creation of a Short Film : Developing My Inital Idea...

Below is the video that I have created explaning my development of my inital idea for my short film

 The Script

 

Alice :  As I have blogged in an earlier post during this half term I have been doing some practice filming, in order to gain an understanding of whether my film concept will actually work in practice as well as theory. I have been worrying a bit over the fact that due to the lack of structure, I have been finding it hard to picture how my film will go together and also how I will storyboard and script it. After doing my filming I decided that in order to ensure that my idea did not become over complicated, and that I focused enough on the technical skill involved in media, I needed to develop a more simplistic structured idea. After carrying out my research into other professional films that focus on the concept of shoes, I was confident that I could create an idea that still had the main focus of shoes but was a more structured film, that rather than focusing on a number of characters had one main protagonist character. My idea therefore has taken the path of focusing on the main character Jenny. The basic plot is that Jenny is a 26 year old woman who works and lives in the heart of London, in a city whereby you have to think big to be big, Jenny melts into the busy background rush hour life of London. She is an average girl living an average life, her black shoes reflect her ambitions to follow the crowd, to watch life as it ticks by nothing bad but nothing exciting happening. However when she is woke at 7am to her alarm radio blasting out, and her mind racing to think about the cocktail do the night before, she thinks today will just be another day in the average life of Jenny, she thinks that after tackling the trains of rush hour, living through one very dull meeting and drinking a countless number of skinny lattes she will unlock the door tonight, have a quiet night in, go to bed and the routine will all start again the next day, however today will be different. The day starts just as any other, dressed in a grey business dress, stripped shirt and opaque black tights Jenny stands at the window gazing out the chilly December morning facing her whilst she eats her breakfast always the same two weetabix a dash of semi-skimmed milk topped with a banana. The routine feeling so similar she at times feels like a robot living through the motions of life. However as she opens her wardrobe to go and put on her pair of black heels, not to high for practicality but the height given her the little bit of inside confidence her eyes are drawn towards the pair of bright red shoes, stood looking sassy in the middle of her shoe rack. How they got there she has no idea, why they are there she has no idea, who's shoes they are she has no idea, all she knows is she has the feeling that today she should live the life in someone else's shoes. As she leaves the house she feels as if the sun is shinning on her, in a city where people are so absorbed in their own lives she feels as if she is on her own bubble of happiness - today she knows is going to be a good day. On her usual train, where usually she sits there thinking about how quickly she can get to Starbucks to crave her caffeine withdrawal before facing the office, she looks around and notices others, the rush to apply make-up, the sipping of coffee, the rustling of the morning newspaper and across from her the man coffee cup in hand, staring at her as there eye meets blood rushes to Jenny's cheeks, she focuses down to her book - a romance novel how appropriate she thinks. When she looks up again the train in pulling in the station the man stands and she thinks well one can dream, he pushes a coffee paper coaster towards her with a number scribbled on, well she thinks shes liking the life in this pair of shoes. As she walks towards work, the feeling of stress that is usually present on her shoulders feels as it it has been lifted, she orders her latte skinny with a touch of gingerbread, why not feel the excitement of Christmas on such a day as today! As she crosses Trafalgar square she sees a penny shinning on the floor; to make a wish on such a day it must come true she thinks "I wish I could live the life of these shoes forever". A day at work, which usually would fill her with the feeling of boredom, is a life changing day as she receives a promotion in five years of being at the company she finally feels she is not just the ghost in the corner. Unlocking the house, she thinks I wish life could always be live in another's shoes, with her favourite film on TV and a bar of chocolate, she snuggles down for a cosy winter evening. When the 7am goes, she wakes up with a start her feet rushing to the wardrobe, her eyes scanning over the shoes, and there just lays her plain black shoes - well she thinks its back to live the life of Jenny again, as she drift back to start the day to day life. For my film, I am going to ensure I use a range of shots and angles, to ensure that the audiences attention is always captured. I am going to on the 10th November go to London with my camera to take photos of a variety of possible locations, as another factor behind my idea is the use of a completely different location compared to my AS piece. I personally feel that with a bit more structure, my film will hopefully turn out more successfully as I feel that there is less of a possibility of the audience getting confused. I am still favouring only using sound rather than dialogue this will be in the form of both diegetic and non-diegetic sound.