ASSIGNMENT 12

DRAMA

By Monae

Yellow

level

INSPIRATIONAL FILMS

4,3,2,1

The spit screen was

creative and I wanted

to implement this

similarly to this scene.

Split screen

require different

characters but

at the same

time .

INSPIRATIONAL FILMS

Really mean

girl

Ruins

peoples lives

Doesn’t care

who she hurts

She plays a fake

character

Mean

Girls

INSPIRATIONAL FILMS

This film had

voiceovers to

make a bigger

impact.

Most scenes

was in the day

There didn’t

need to be a

dark room to

have a big

impact.

IDEA EXPLORATION

CHOSEN IDEA TIMELINE

0.00-0.04

Kells entering Shelly's room, ‘oh sh…’ (next

cut).

0.04-0.06

The title ‘THE SHOCK’, size 65

and bold

0.06-0.015

Shakira, Kells and Shelly together

walking but Shelly leaving to go home.

0.15-0.25

Split screen of Shelly walking and Shakira and Kells.

0.25-0.35

Shakira and Kells talking at

her house.

0.35-0.45

Shelly opening her door and going to

her room.

0.45-0.57

Kells leaving to go

0.57-1.10

Kells walking looking through

bag realising she has Shelly's

keys.

1.10-1.28

Shakira calling Shelly and

bullying. Shelly throws phone.

1.28-1.42

Kells calls Shelly but does pick up. She walks to shells and

opens the door.

1.40-1.

She's going upstairs to Shelly’s

room.

1.40-1.

Kells entering Shelly's room,

‘oh sh…’.

STYLE OF OPENING SEQUENCE

The opening sequence would be a teaser

and establishing characters

Teaser opening sequences make the

audience want more information and want to

watch the whole film.

Watching 4,3,2,1 (drama) made me want to

watch the whole film, which I wanted the

same effect.

NARRATIVE STRUCTURE & THEORY

This is a non-linear structure starting with the end.

The cons of conventional film narrative model:

- Too predictable

- Leaving audience not satisfied

I chose this style to leave the audience with enigmas

It encourages communication with others and their thoughts.

Would link to Allan Cameron- involving anachronic and spit screen scenes.

CHARACTERS

Name: Amy

Role: The character being bullied

Actor: Shelly

Representation:

Body language/facial expression: Timid, shy

Tone/language: Normal English

Costume/props: Casual clothing, school bag

Name: Jodie

Role: The bully

Actor: Shakira

Representation: Evil, dark character

Body language/facial expression: Rude, screw face expression

Tone/language: Slang

Costume/props: baggy jumper, tight red top, jeans

CHARACTERS & SETTING

Name: Monae

Role: The friend

Actor: Kells

Representation:

Body language/facial expression: Friendly, gets along with both of them.

Tone/language: Normal English

Costume/props: black, cute dress and black coat

Setting

-Interior scenes:

Bedrooms

-Exterior scenes:

In front of flats

Outside a home of the character

Show

loneliness

Realism

Were

problems

happen

Bad things happen

close to home

CONVENTIONS Conventions in

drama

Examples from films Reinforce,

develop or

challenge

Realistic struggles or

pain

Freedom Writers- Develop-

audience will

have an insight

of her problem.

Keep the audience

emotionally attached

Precious- Develop-

audience will

want to know

more.

Friendship 4,3,2,1- Reinforce-

anticipation is

going for the

audience.

Teens with

their

situations

Strong

storylin

e

Audience

want to

find out the

new

equilibrium

.

Friendship

was falling

apart.Realised

how bad

it got too.

CONVENTIONS

Conventions in

drama

Examples from films Reinforce, develop

or challenge

Voice over My Sisters Keeper- Challenge – instead

there will be a direct

address cut.

Emotional music Titanic- Reinforce- music will

relate to the scene.

Dark scenes Scissor hands- a lot of dark

scenes to emphasis the drama.

Challenge- will need

to all be in the day.

Voice over

by the

younger

sister.

Played

sympathetic

music.

AUDIENCE

Audience elements Audience Explanation

Age 15+ •Year 6 on to secondary,

start to fully realise your

problems.

•Relate with the character.

Gender Male, female,

transsexuals

•Female mainly have the

problems.

•Males get bullied or other

struggles too.

Ethnicity All ethnicities, black white

etc.

•Different ethnicity all

suffer from different

problems.

AUDIENCE

Audience elements Audience Explanation

Social class Lower/middle class •Lower and middle class

are prone to have more

problems.

Sexuality Straight, gay, lesbian,

bisexual

•Being a different

individual can provoke

others to be negative.

•This could relate to them.

Profession/ role Working adults, students •Audience relate because

the character is a student.