Props, Mise-en-scene, costume

School corridor scene 1

The filming for his scene will take place in the school corridor at Plantsbrook school our first Location. The characters in the scene are:

Charlie

Actor- Maddy 

To be wearing little or no makeup

School appropriate clothes

Carrying school books

Her hair in two ponytails.

Sam

Actor- James

No makeup 

Clothes that go against typical school rules, that look threatening.

Wrist watch

Side

Jessie

Actor- Dawn

Yellow top blue bottoms.

Messy hair

No makeup 

The wrong crowd

Members 1,2,3,4

Actors: Nathan, Kristaps, 

Side                                Front

 

No makeup 

Clothes that go against typical school rules 

Scene: Reception.

Filming will take place in the reception of school 5^th period of the school day during the media lesson on the 29^th of November. We will need a tripod and a camera.

Our actors should have:

Scene- School Reception 

This scene will take place in the school reception at Plantsbrook school still at our first location. The characters involved are:

Charlie
Front                                                                          side

Actor- Maddy

older

Business like clothes, a smart shirt and trousers

Professional but simple makeup

Straightened/ “flat” hair, 

No props on person

Sam

Actor- James 

James- Side 

Older

Business smart clothes.

He should look like he is ready to start a new job. Presentable.

Wrist watch

Co-workers

Business smart

Clip boards, mugs.

Jesse (?)

Yellow, blue

More organised hair

Folder.

James- Front

Watch clearly visible 
Black trousers 
Black shoes
Tie 
White shirt

Scene- Charlies Bedroom (older)

The shooting for this scene will happen on the 29^th of November at Georgina’s house. The rooms the scene will include will be Georgina’s bedroom, which we chose to be the older Charlies room as the larger bed and makeup desk give the connotations of an older woman. As well as the hallway and stairs.

Actors 

Charlie (older)

older

Business like clothes, a smart shirt and trousers

Professional but simple makeup

Straightened/ “flat” hair, 

Props: makeup, double bed and mirror.

Scene- Charlie's office (School reception) 

The shooting for this scene will happen in the school building preferably in one of the offices owned by staff. If not, we could film in a small classroom filming a limited percentage of the room.

Actors

Charlie

older

Business like clothes, a smart shirt and trousers

Professional but simple makeup

Straightened/ “flat” hair, 

No props on person

(facial expression worried and sad)

Sam

Older

Business smart clothes.

He should look like he is ready to start a new job. Presentable.

Wrist watch

Jesse

Front                                                                                     Side

Yellow, blue

More organised hair

Folder.

Scene- Charlie's room (Younger)

The filming will be in Dawns house, the rooms included will be the hallway (including the stairs) and Dawns bedroom which we chose as the younger Charlies’ room because of the cuddly toys which suggest youth.

Charlie:

To be wearing little or no makeup

School appropriate clothes

Carrying school books

Her hair in two ponytails.

Prop: mirror, cuddly toys, single bed

Photoshoot planning

Photoshoot planning

Here is our plan for the photoshoots for our Movie poster and Movie magazine.

Time & date	shot type	Description of shot	Location setting and lighting	Props, costume, hair and make-up	Character you used/ will use and why
	long mid shot	Showing young Charlies outfit which will be smart casual (school appropriate) and facial expression to some detail	School corridor, school lockers natural lighting from windows, else overhead artificial light.	School lockers in the background. school bag and work folder.  No make-up, long hair tied up in two piggy tails, red smart shirt and jeans to show some dress sense as well as youth.	I will use Charlie as she is the main character and it reflects the age difference since when she was younger.
	long mid shot	Showing older Charlies outfit  which will be Formal business wear as well as the facial expression to some detail	School office, office desk and seat, neutral lighting from overhead lights in office.	Clipboard held (to signify work) professional makeup - lipstick, eyeliner, eye shadow to suggest maturity Formal Red shirt, black trousers to show similarities from youth to future and formality of a company owner.	I will use Charlie again as she is the main character and it reflects the age difference in the side by side images as in this shot she will be older.
	mid close up	focusing on facial expression of worry on Charlie	School corridor, school lockers natural lighting from windows, else overhead artificial light.	School lockers in the background. school bag and work folder.  No make up, long hair tied up in two piggy tails, red smart shirt	I will use Charlie as she is the main character and it reflects the age difference since when she was younger.
	mid close up	focusing on facial expression of worry on Charlie	School office, office desk and seat, neutral lighting from overhead lights in office.	professional makeup - lipstick, eyeliner, eye shadow to suggest maturity Formal Red shirt,	I will use Charlie again as she is the main character and it reflects the age difference in the side by side images as in this shot she will be older.
	long mid shot Shallow focus on Sam.	Shows the outfit as he has grown up with little focus on the facial expression.	School office.	Formal business wears e.g white shirt, blazer, smart black shoes and trousers with simple tie.	I will use Sam as he contrasts to the main character but is still very important to the story line.
	Close up	Shows that the watch has some importance to the story line as it is the only item in the frame.	White background. Focus on the watch.	Sam’s watch which is a family heirloom and is the only item in the shot.	In the shot it is only Sam’s watch and nothing else as it creates mystery.

Film Magazine cover designs

Design 1

Design 2

Design 3

Film poster designs

Design 1

Design 2

 Design 3

Romantic film title

For this film title of "Love Actually" it is designed in a way to represent the genre. The style of the film title is very simple but effective. It uses it's colours to symbolise love. So the title uses red on "Love" to show this. Red is the colour of love so it uses Rick Altman's theory of using signs to create semantic elements. Another element is that it is made bold to make it clear to the audience. The rest of the title is made black to blend the colours together. The house style continues to the movie posters advertising this film. It really sets the theme and the mood for the film as it explores multiple relationships. As this film is represented as a classic the title is very memorable because of it's simplicity so that's why it is such a design. 

Notting Hill is another classic in the Rom Com genre that has a memorable film title. As "Love Actually" it is made quite simple but because of its design it's effective. The colours of this film title are blue for the text and red for the underline. The G in "Notting" cuts of the underline. The text is not made bold but it makes it quiet lively with the colours. It does set the mood for the movie.

This film title for "about Time" follows almost the same design as "Love Actually" with one of the words being bold and the other not. However on this it switched instead of the first word being bold its the second. What's different however is that it has 1 colour for the title which is white where "Love Actually" had 2 colours with 1 being symbolised. From what I have researched it is clear that most Romantic comedy film titles are created simple but used font styles and colours to create effect. These titles can help give us good ideas that we can adapt into our film title of "Endless".

Updated Endless Script V3

Scene 1 

Office Corridor 

Charlie is casually walking down the corridor checking files of profit sales or Employees. Employees are greeting her as they walk past making it just a normal day at the office. 

Charlie

“this place is doing great, I'm so proud of every one, this feels almost perfect!”

As she walks towards her office she bumps into an older Sam and she falls to the ground.

in the trailer the scene will transition abruptly to black

Charlie (voice over) :“I thought it was all over”

Production company intertitle

End of scene 1

Scene 2

School Corridor

Flashback to Charlie's school years.
Charlie is walking down a section of the school corridor alone, as she turns the bend a group of boys come into view. This group is known as the 'wrong crowd' and Sam is part of them. 

One of the member’s push Sam into Charlie and she falls to the floor. The Camera will become Charlie’s point of view and what she sees is a blurry image of a boy hovering over her. The boy is Sam. Through the blurriness she notices that he has a bracelet on his wrist. This will be the object of significance. At this point Charlie is beginning to tear up which causes the blurriness. Faint crying heard.

*back ground laughter from the "wrong crowd"*

Jesse enters and helps Charlie up and they walk away while Sam is distracted. 

Jesse

“come on lets go”

Charlie

“Thanks Jesse” 

sam looks down the corridor as the girls continue to walk.

End of scene 2

Scene 3

Charlie’s office

Charlie is walking back and forth questioning herself about what happened back in the reception. She is confused.

Charlie

“who was that? why did.. 

why did he look so much like...?"

She continues to walk back and forth but stops as she notices the picture on her desk

Charlie

“I remember… the day i made that promise”

She moves towards the picture and picks it up. She looks at it sadly at it. The camera at this point will be from the picture and it will cut to reveal the image. 

End of Scene 3

Scene 4

Charlie’s bedroom 

Charlie runs up the stairs and she goes to her room. She lies on her bed crying 

voiceover: "today was awful, why does this always happen?"

"you know what?"

Charlie sits up

"I'm going to be successful to prove him wrong"

*musical interlude*

End of scene 4

Scene 5

Charlie’s office 

Charlie is standing behind her desk her face shows mixed emotions. There is a knock on the door 

Charlie quietly : “not now”

Sam

The door opens anyway and Sam walks in silently,Charlie does not notice.
 He walks over to the desk she is sitting behind. 
he rests his hands onto of the desk in the area that Charlie is looking down at

Charlie: "excuse me i said"
sees the watch
"...not now"

Sam: I'm sorry

Charlie eyes widen as she is shock realising who it is. She looks up at him. 

Charlie

takes a deep breathe in

End of scene 5

Scene 6 

A young Charlie looks into the mirror in her bedroom while adding make up messily, this is to show inexperience with makeup. When she finishes the camera will start to rotate to show the mirror then back to Charlie when she is grown up. This will hide the reveal when the camera comes back around from a 180 degree turn. Voiceover

End of scene 6

Scene 7

Jesse
opening the door to the office with out knocking

“Charlie, Boss. Come on you’re going to be late for the meeting."
starts to pull Charlie out of the room
"Oh, by the way who was he”

Charlie

“I'm, I don't know but I think, I know you won’t believe when I tell you”

The girls leave and Sam is again left on his own

Sam

standing silently left in the office

*sighs*

End of scene 7

Group Risk Assessment on Locations

Location risks
in the school building the risks could be formed in the abandonment of equipment for visually impaired students who could hurt themselves if our equipment was left untended , as well as the possible damage of equipment. to over come this risk the equipment should always be watched over.
another risk could be the inclusion of school students who have not consented to being in the scene, to reduce the occurrence of this risk we should film after school or during lessons to decrease the amount of children present.
when we are filming in bedrooms for scenes where charlie is younger then older we could risk the safety of the equipment and or actors because of tripping hazards from prop placement being in the way of the filming process. in the younger Charlies' bedroom we have planned for her to run into the room, this could mean our actor runs into objects hurting herself. to overcome this risk we decided to make sure that the floor of the room was clear, for ease of actor movement and also because we could have experienced issues when we attempted to move the tripod and camera around the small spaces. another precaution we could take especially when moving the camera would be to pick the tripod up to move it more easily as not to let the legs of the tripod catch on the floors. In the room we have chosen to use for Older Charlie's room there are a set of stairs going up to the room, a precaution we could take to reduce risk of damage involving the stairs is stay away from them, film from angles not close to the top of the stairs. This would be important as we should be cautious of damaging the equipment from dropping it down the stairs causing a greater amount of damage than dropping it on a floor.

Movie Magazine research

Movie magazine research

Empire Magazine (Star Wars The Force Awakens)

Total Film Magazine (The Hobbit The Battle of the Five Armies)

Film title research

This is famous film title from the movie "The Godfather" which is the one of the best mafia films of its generation. The design of it makes it so iconic cause it describes how the godfather takes control. The hand controlling puppet strings represents the control has over his mafia members. He orders the hits and control his territories around the city. The font style is rather bold and follows the typical Noire font style which is iconic to the 1940's period. The white font makes it stand out from the black background and the image above the name shows a contrast between the two colours making it so symbolic.

Star Trek is one of the most iconic Sci-Fi franchise and it has lasted 50 years. The franchise has lots of TV series and films. The style of the "Star Trek" name has changed occasionally throughout its 50 year life. However it still holds it iconic value in the Sci-Fi genre. The title has changed colour but its always fit with the theme. The font is bold and slanted on one side to give more of a Sci-Fi effect.  The background behind the title is Space or a dark background which is main stereotypical element of a Sci-Fi movie.

Below is examples of film titles in this franchise.

Audience feedback on film logo

To gather feedback we created a questionnaire to ask our audience about what are film logo should be. This would give us a clear idea to what our logo should look like. The main question we wanted to know was "what would you imagine a romantic comedy film title?". The response we received from our audience is that our film title should be "sleek, cute, fun, simple, use of feminine colours, pretty, eye catching, bright and easy to read" with this feedback we could develop our logo and above is what we created. Below is the results of the feedback.

As you can see 10 people answered the questionnaire and choice 5 got the most votes. 5 is the picture above.  Choice 5 had 50% while the rest was scattered between the rest of the choices. the second most votes was choice 4 with 30%.  Choice 1 and 3 both got 10% which makes up the remaining percentage.

Revision tool (Mr Love)