Monday, 30 January 2012

Comic book cover

BEFORE FILMING SOMETHINGS WE NEED TO DO:


At the end of our film opening, one of our props that highlights the title of our film is a comic book cover reading 'aLice'. We gathered this idea from how superhero films originally come from comic books, so we wanted to use this element in our movie.

comic book inspiration:




How we made our comic book...
First idea:

  • Gathering images and extracts that expressed and explained aspects of Alice and Lacie's life.

the Effle tower to show the treat of moving to France
Fashion Drawings to show her love for designing
pink and girly thing then in contrast books and intellectual
photos of her and tickets from places she has been
hearts and stars to express her girly side
All of this will gather together to create a collage of alice/lacies life in a comic book fashion.


Ideas of layout for background of comic book:

overlapping collage ideas :






However, after our photo-shoot we decided to make a comic book cover using the photos of out protagonist instead, this has proven to work well, this is our outcome:






Monday, 23 January 2012

Idea Development

What codes and conventions have I identified:

I have tried to convey in both the codes and conventions within the story line, costume and personality of our main protagonist. The characters appearence follows the conventions of the power of portraying her femininity, through her slim figure, girly and revealing outfit. However, we also wanted to add our own twist of using her Geeky aspects and turning them into a superhero costume. The codes and conventions have been shown through the story line as you are given clues but not to much information and the start. Similarly to spiderman, you will see her making her costume, through this you are given her personality and persona. at the end of the 2 minutes you have an indication of what our film is about and a bit about our hero but the plot is not yet given away.



How my research has influenced my idea:
my research has had a great impact on my own story line, many the analysis of kick ass has helped as it also features a geeky none hero, to start with. Hancock made us explore the ideas that you can challenge stereotypical images, as Hancock is firstly seen as a criminal before a hero. Finally, films like Cat woman helped us a lot to understand how super-heroins are generally seen.


How i am going to engage our target audience:
Our target audience, widely is males and females age 16 - 35 as this is the majority of people that visit and watch these type of movies. However, we would like to channel teens, both girl and boy. As our genre is action/ fantasy and chick-flick, I believe the girls will enjoy our film due to the chick flick element but also through the way the character is a girl, making it easier to relate but also as she will display femininity. The boys will equally be encouraged to watch it due to the gender of the superhero but also from the action element.






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Presentation (checklist)



After our presentation we did pier assessment : 



Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Setting, Costume & Prop ideas

PROPS:


What we will need:





  1. a sewing machine                                  
  2. scissors
  3. sequences
  4. mask
  5. glasses
  6. string
  7. jeans
  8. boots
  9. calender
  10. felt tip pens
  11. paper
  12. comic book
  13. magazines
  14. fairy lights
  15. pictures on the wall






lOCATIONS:


  1.  idea for setting and location: (evening) starts with a behind long shot of our main protagonist walking down a street, as she passes by different objects in the street, eg: lamppost, she changes from geek to superhero. through the use of changing costume but also through the way she walks and acts.
  2.  idea for setting and location: Starts by a girl sitting on her sofa at home. A medium shot, as though the camera is the TV. She is watching the news, when she notices a crime is happening not that far away from her, the camera shows a variety of shots, one showing her picking up her costume, then putting her mask on, and then a shot of the window with the curtains blowing, indicating that is where she has gone to help.
  3.  and chosen idea for setting and location: Starts with our ident that emerges into a real image of a lamppost at night. The camera then zooms out until it looks as though the someone is looking out a window. The light from the streetlamp then turns into the light from fairy lights in out protagonists room. The rest of the opening trails on to show a variety of different shots establishing how she is making her costume, for example a shot of her pinning her blazer and cutting out her logo. it ends with the camera overlooking some drawing of the protagonists costume, which then turns into a cover of a comic book displaying the title ‘Lacie or Alice’








Costume:

1. idea for costume :

Geek ‘ alice’: Typical outfit for a geek, with a brown coloured polo neck top, with a yellow blazer, tight blue skinny jeans and clumpy shoes, and geek glass, long straight boring hair.

Super-heroin ‘Lacie’: Typical outfit for a superhero, tight lycra type closing, all pink and low cut, long black boots and long curly hair. a pink glittery mask and a logo across her chest.

2. and chosen idea for costume:

Geek ‘Alice’: Again -Typical outfit for a geek, with a brown coloured polo neck top, with a yellow blazer, tight blue skinny jeans and clumpy shoes, and geek glass, long straight boring hair.

Super-Heroin ‘Lacie’: However, will have still a face mask and a logo but will custermise the geek outfit, so the long skinny jeans will become little jean hot-pants, the polo neck will become a V-neck and the blazer will be half the size, sleaves rolled up and turned pink. long socks underneath the pink boots and a big head band holding back her big curly hair.


inspiration to show the transformation: (princess diaries)

Geek?


popular?





Part Of Research And Planning :

What is a Linear Narrative:

A clue is in the word linear as it means a straight, implying that the  narrative is going to be straight forward and follows a pattern. One that unfolds as the story happens.
Example of a linear narrative :


Part Of Research And Planning :

What is Hyper-Link Cinema:
·        Jumps from story to story, almost randomly.
·        Examples:



This is because there are numerous story lines within this one film, jumping between them to eventually building up too one complete film 
This diagram explains how the characters all link together. 


Monday, 16 January 2012

Part Of Research And Planning :

What is a Linear Narrative:
It is a narrative that jumps in time or situations, does not follow a straight pattern.







       

Part Of Research And Planning

Narrative Structure:
How a story is constructed.

Act 1: The set up. This is when you introduce the main characters and their situation. For example where they came from and why they are? The part for Initial characterisation.

End of Act 1: introduce a problem, or problems

Act 2: The conflict. Main part of the film. as the situation and character develops, and how they change through the duration of the film.

Act 3: The resolution. When the character realises what they have to do to solve the problem.

example :