PRODUCTION BRIEF
Opening Sequence Title – A Twisted Obsession
Length – 2/3 minutes
Group Members
The group is made up of 3 of us; Me, Anisha and Georgina. Anisha and I will be acting as the protagonists in this sequence and Georgina will be filming. We all collectively are planning and editing the finished film.
Content Overview
Leanne and Toni have been best friends for years and Leanne finally felt like she had settled in a place of her own after having moved around a lot when she was younger. As they grew up Leanne’s feelings of friendship slowly evolved into something more as she had never experienced such a closeness before. She begins to show signs of obsession by stealing some of Toni’s possessions and takes photo’s of her and puts in her scrapbook which is full of pictures of Toni. Toni becomes a little suspicious of Leanne’s changing behavior towards her, and finally decides to confront her where Leanne then leaks all her built up feelings and to her surprise Toni does not feel the same. Toni feels outraged and Betrayed as Leanne try’s to express the depth of her emotions hoping she would understand and ultimately return the love. A confused Toni refuses and Leanne’s feelings turn aggressive and lead her to attacking Toni in evil ways.
Target Audience
We have targeted our sequence to Teenagers, male and female but most probably more to females as the protagonists are also females. We believe that considering their lifestyle and their adolescent position this movie would appeal to them as they may feel they could relate to the characters lifestyle. A lifestyle consisting of fast paced and continually exciting obstacles as teenagers stereotypically are known to be hyper and stimulating searching for exciting things to do and see. Teenagers would also be more likely to notice film advertising as they are mostly media aware and would feel more prone to watch it but this also depends on our marketing methods.
Research
We researched into a couple of programmes that target at teenagers, dramas such as ‘Skins’ and ‘Hollyoaks’ which connote a strong influence of youth which we have considered in our movie opening sequence. These collectively have given us a wide variety of information to consider to put into our sequence which would benefit us appealing to our target. We have also analysed and watched many title sequences to know the elements we need to include in order to make it obvious what genre it is but to still keep the audience intrigued and what made them successful.
I analysed the opening of the film ‘Batman’, the film included various traditional conventions of a action-thriller managing to uphold a strong level of suspense throughout the entire opening. We want to do something similar and include certain conventions of a thriller but also with a twist of certain stereotypes in society to keep our audience engaged.
Representations and Stereotypes
The Stereotype that we will be focusing on and illustrating is one of a troubled teenager. We will twist the current stereotype of all teens being represented through ‘hoodys’, ‘guns and knives’ and ‘gangs’ in the media. We plan to exaggerate on the fact that teenagers have a deep, emotional side to them, in this case it leads to her eventual devastation.
Twisting the traditional assumptions of teenagers being wild and rude to instead demonstrating our characters as disturbed and obsessed.
Also the representations of friendships will is traditionally portrayed to be perfect, however we plan to prove how they can develop into something ugly. We will show the innocent side of a friendship contrasting to a sly and difficult bond uncovering motivated situations. This will challenge the stereotypical representations of the perfect friendship and gang associated youths which would hopefully result in our audience feeling engaged.
How will we check the movies success
We will undergo a private screening of our opening sequence to our class and some external people. We would expect to get both positive and negative criticism to help us improve whatever we need to. Once we receive feedback we will then improve the sequence to suit the specific aspects we were negatively commented on. This will then hopefully ensure our film meets our audiences standard and achieve the engaging effect wanted.
Conventions
Conventions of a thriller are very specific and we need to ensure we include them so they run professionally and so the audience could establish the genre quickly. Stereotypical conventions of a Thriller we plan to apply;
the upholding sense of suspense
no sound being used at first creating mystery
the concept of a villain and helpless character
lots of different camera angles altering in a fast pace
images not being clear or focused at first
an eerie, disturbing atmosphere
the mysterious experience created by lack of knowledge at first.
Constraints
time is a massive constraint as we would not always be together and do not always have time to focus on just media. Also we are all based at different sites which isn’t easy, meaning that a lot of planning has to be done in rough or over msn or facebook and then when we meet each other we discuss everything together which gets overwhelming. The use of school equipment is hard and confusing as we need training sessions for most programmes and in how to use cameras etc. Some days the weather may not be perfect meaning we would have to either adapt of postpone filming which would put back our production process.
TREATMENT OF OPENING
Opening Sequence Title – A Twisted Obsession
Length – 2/3 minutes
Group Members
The group is made up of 3 of us; Me, Anisha and Georgina. Anisha and I will be acting as the protagonists in this sequence and Georgina will be filming. We all collectively are planning and editing the finished film.
Content Overview
Leanne and Toni have been best friends for years and Leanne finally felt like she had settled in a place of her own after having moved around a lot when she was younger. As they grew up Leanne’s feelings of friendship slowly evolved into something more as she had never experienced such a closeness before. She begins to show signs of obsession by stealing some of Toni’s possessions and takes photo’s of her and puts in her scrapbook which is full of pictures of Toni. Toni becomes a little suspicious of Leanne’s changing behavior towards her, and finally decides to confront her where Leanne then leaks all her built up feelings and to her surprise Toni does not feel the same. Toni feels outraged and Betrayed as Leanne try’s to express the depth of her emotions hoping she would understand and ultimately return the love. A confused Toni refuses and Leanne’s feelings turn aggressive and lead her to attacking Toni in evil ways.
Target Audience
We have targeted our sequence to Teenagers, male and female but most probably more to females as the protagonists are also females. We believe that considering their lifestyle and their adolescent position this movie would appeal to them as they may feel they could relate to the characters lifestyle. A lifestyle consisting of fast paced and continually exciting obstacles as teenagers stereotypically are known to be hyper and stimulating searching for exciting things to do and see. Teenagers would also be more likely to notice film advertising as they are mostly media aware and would feel more prone to watch it but this also depends on our marketing methods.
Research
We researched into a couple of programmes that target at teenagers, dramas such as ‘Skins’ and ‘Hollyoaks’ which connote a strong influence of youth which we have considered in our movie opening sequence. These collectively have given us a wide variety of information to consider to put into our sequence which would benefit us appealing to our target. We have also analysed and watched many title sequences to know the elements we need to include in order to make it obvious what genre it is but to still keep the audience intrigued and what made them successful.
I analysed the opening of the film ‘Batman’, the film included various traditional conventions of a action-thriller managing to uphold a strong level of suspense throughout the entire opening. We want to do something similar and include certain conventions of a thriller but also with a twist of certain stereotypes in society to keep our audience engaged.
Representations and Stereotypes
The Stereotype that we will be focusing on and illustrating is one of a troubled teenager. We will twist the current stereotype of all teens being represented through ‘hoodys’, ‘guns and knives’ and ‘gangs’ in the media. We plan to exaggerate on the fact that teenagers have a deep, emotional side to them, in this case it leads to her eventual devastation.
Twisting the traditional assumptions of teenagers being wild and rude to instead demonstrating our characters as disturbed and obsessed.
Also the representations of friendships will is traditionally portrayed to be perfect, however we plan to prove how they can develop into something ugly. We will show the innocent side of a friendship contrasting to a sly and difficult bond uncovering motivated situations. This will challenge the stereotypical representations of the perfect friendship and gang associated youths which would hopefully result in our audience feeling engaged.
How will we check the movies success
We will undergo a private screening of our opening sequence to our class and some external people. We would expect to get both positive and negative criticism to help us improve whatever we need to. Once we receive feedback we will then improve the sequence to suit the specific aspects we were negatively commented on. This will then hopefully ensure our film meets our audiences standard and achieve the engaging effect wanted.
Conventions
Conventions of a thriller are very specific and we need to ensure we include them so they run professionally and so the audience could establish the genre quickly. Stereotypical conventions of a Thriller we plan to apply;
the upholding sense of suspense
no sound being used at first creating mystery
the concept of a villain and helpless character
lots of different camera angles altering in a fast pace
images not being clear or focused at first
an eerie, disturbing atmosphere
the mysterious experience created by lack of knowledge at first.
Constraints
time is a massive constraint as we would not always be together and do not always have time to focus on just media. Also we are all based at different sites which isn’t easy, meaning that a lot of planning has to be done in rough or over msn or facebook and then when we meet each other we discuss everything together which gets overwhelming. The use of school equipment is hard and confusing as we need training sessions for most programmes and in how to use cameras etc. Some days the weather may not be perfect meaning we would have to either adapt of postpone filming which would put back our production process.
TREATMENT OF OPENING
As a group we thought of several different titles that would engage an audience and for them to know it would be interesting to watch. As our main themes are friendships, love and obsession we tried to combine them to make an title. Our title ideas:
-Possessed
-Unwanted Possession
-Twisted Love Story
-A Twisted Obsession
-Love's Demise
We all agreed on 'A Twisted Obsession' as it was mysterious yet represented a base of the storyline within two words.
Our plot is based on the developed obsession Leanne is feeling towards Toni after being best friends for over 5years. Leanne begins to steal some of Toni's possesions, take continuous pictures of her and she later creates a scrapbook dedicated to the love of her life, Toni.
As she spends more and more time with Toni at school and out of school, her feelings just keep growing but Toni begins to get suspicious of Leanne's behaviour and she begins to get jelouse when boys talk to the popular Toni and if shes out with other friends other than her.
She eventually confronts Toni by letting out all her locked up emotions hoping Toni would understand and almost love her back. To Leanne's suprise Toni does not return the love and feels betrayed and runs away not wanting to ever see Leanne again.
However, Leanne's long term feelings dont just vanish and she becomes aggressive, she finds Leanne after college one day and her emotions turn physical leading to her raping and beating Toni which results in Toni commiting suicide.
After that, towards the end of the movie Leanne realises she is disturbed and as the police are looking for her she also commits suicide as she believes she deserves to die.
As we are only producing the opening sequence of this movie, we have to make sure it was engaging so the audience would want to watch till the end.
In our opening sequence, we plan to use a series of short shots linking together to ensure the audience have established the storyline but keeping the enigma code effect by not showing too much and leaving the audience wanting to watch to see what happens.
Our planned shots will consist of;
-Our sequence opens with our production logo, with the soundtrack already playing.
-A close-up shot of Leanne's face is zoomed into, she looks very happy as she is huging Toni and playing with her hair.
*Title
-Another close-up shot but of Toni's face is zoomed out of as she looks happy being with Leanne.
*Title
-Close-ups, Extra close-ups, Medium shots of Toni creating the effect that shes being watched.
*Title
-A medium shot and match on action shot of Toni walking home through a gate
-A long shot of Leanne slyly coming through the gate after Toni
-Over the shoulder shot of Leanne following Toni
*Title
-Close-ups of polaroids on the mirror and Leanne stroking them
-As the beat drops, Leanne goes mad as she thinks she'll never get to be with Toni and starts to rip the pictures of the mirror
-A medium shot of Leanne leaning over the sink and looking up at the mirror in deep pain
*Main Title and voice over
-A zoom in shot of a distraught Leanne staring at her self in the mirror
-Possessed
-Unwanted Possession
-Twisted Love Story
-A Twisted Obsession
-Love's Demise
We all agreed on 'A Twisted Obsession' as it was mysterious yet represented a base of the storyline within two words.
Our plot is based on the developed obsession Leanne is feeling towards Toni after being best friends for over 5years. Leanne begins to steal some of Toni's possesions, take continuous pictures of her and she later creates a scrapbook dedicated to the love of her life, Toni.
As she spends more and more time with Toni at school and out of school, her feelings just keep growing but Toni begins to get suspicious of Leanne's behaviour and she begins to get jelouse when boys talk to the popular Toni and if shes out with other friends other than her.
She eventually confronts Toni by letting out all her locked up emotions hoping Toni would understand and almost love her back. To Leanne's suprise Toni does not return the love and feels betrayed and runs away not wanting to ever see Leanne again.
However, Leanne's long term feelings dont just vanish and she becomes aggressive, she finds Leanne after college one day and her emotions turn physical leading to her raping and beating Toni which results in Toni commiting suicide.
After that, towards the end of the movie Leanne realises she is disturbed and as the police are looking for her she also commits suicide as she believes she deserves to die.
As we are only producing the opening sequence of this movie, we have to make sure it was engaging so the audience would want to watch till the end.
In our opening sequence, we plan to use a series of short shots linking together to ensure the audience have established the storyline but keeping the enigma code effect by not showing too much and leaving the audience wanting to watch to see what happens.
Our planned shots will consist of;
-Our sequence opens with our production logo, with the soundtrack already playing.
-A close-up shot of Leanne's face is zoomed into, she looks very happy as she is huging Toni and playing with her hair.
*Title
-Another close-up shot but of Toni's face is zoomed out of as she looks happy being with Leanne.
*Title
-Close-ups, Extra close-ups, Medium shots of Toni creating the effect that shes being watched.
*Title
-A medium shot and match on action shot of Toni walking home through a gate
-A long shot of Leanne slyly coming through the gate after Toni
-Over the shoulder shot of Leanne following Toni
*Title
-Close-ups of polaroids on the mirror and Leanne stroking them
-As the beat drops, Leanne goes mad as she thinks she'll never get to be with Toni and starts to rip the pictures of the mirror
-A medium shot of Leanne leaning over the sink and looking up at the mirror in deep pain
*Main Title and voice over
-A zoom in shot of a distraught Leanne staring at her self in the mirror
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