Costumes

Having done an an initial costume breakdown I have found that there are 18 costume changes for the main character GABRIEL and 5 costume changes for CHLOE. This is both challenging for the reason of acquiring the costumes as well as considering what the changes will be. I have given each costume a title and I can begin to see that their might be an opportunity to have a theme running through each costume choice. For example at the beginning he could be wearing light and colourful clothing however as the film progresses we use the costume as pathetic fallacy to mirror the emotions that he is going through

"The pathetic fallacy is the treatment of inanimate objects as if they had human feelings, thought, or sensations.^[1] The word 'pathetic' in this use is related to 'pathos' or 'empathy' (capability of feeling), and is not pejorative. In the discussion of literature, the pathetic fallacy is similar to personification."

Below is a list of the costume changes:

Casting

I am at the stage where I have to assemble a cast. For I find it socially challenging to ask people in my College I used an online source called, PCR which is a website designed to help both professional  and amateur film makers to locate pro actors.

This is my letter that I sent to PCR which includes a brief synopsis of the film as well as a character breakdown for the cast. For the character of Gabriel I am looking for someone who is shy, awkward, tall, long hair, wears plain cloths. As for the girl, Chloe since she is gothic Id have her wearing black.  I am hoping through this process I am going to get a reliable cast that will engage with the project fully.

Boost Poster ideas

I have started the prossess of desighning drafts for my poster.  The intetions for this version is to express the point that the film revolves around girls and the energy drink Boost. As well as the emtions of sadness and happiness as you can see one girl smiling where as the girl on the other side is looking angery thus expresing the main themes of the peice.

I have chosen this circular  design with lines for I am brining out the repediverty  of the film the character starts off entering a romantic relationship  and ends with a romantic relationship I feel this design hints at a circular theme. I also wanted to highlight his descructive and his addictive personality as you can see their is a cigarette sticking in the circle maybe it also has a subversive edge to it, and the next a hert again revealing one of the main themes love. The wording 'I was joking.' Is a strong line in the film and I added to the poster as I feel it could bring curiosity to the readers mind. an inspiration to this poster was the scene from Alfred Hitch Cock's classic film 'Vertigo' the scene where we see the protagonist's head coming at the audience. 

Inspiration for Boost film poster

                                                    I have chosen this poster as an inspiration for my film Boost as I like the idea of having the couple on a bed as it symbolises sex and other things that a teenage market is fascinated and engrossed in. As a director I would have the boy behaving like the female lying into him and the girl looking serious and cold which changes the stereotype of the 'Hard to get' male.

Like the 'All Good Things' poster this one has the characters lying down, which again symbolises a romantic relationship and similarly the boy looks serious and discontent, which is what my character becomes, I feel if I created a poster simular to this one it would inform the reader immediately the content of the film and he will subconsciously know the narrative structure as he would have probably seen simular media products like this one.

This movie poster again suggests sexual content in a more explicit way there is no undercurrent it is being obviousluy suggested, I feel this style would attract a young audience whom are a main demographic who go to cinema complexes. I am aslo thinking about using a red and bold font since red symbolises love, passion and hate which is what my character experiences throughout the film. 

This poster inspired me to create my poster around this design since it has the sun in the background which symbolises warmth and happiness and could pick out the happier themes of my film for instances finding love as well as making it. As a director I would I like the idea of the gil looking down at the boy as though she is his gaurdian angel and his saviour, I like the idea of the stripes again connecting the glow of the sun light. 

This film poster got me interested in the idea of just showing the protagonist making him purely highlighting his dark side of him by using the same tint but possibly include the love theme by having a small yet noticeable heart or a glimpse of sunlight in the foreground. I would like the protagonist to have the same intense look as this gentleman. I have this idea of combing this picture with Blue movie (The one before Talk about Kevin) 

Test scene

We the audience are halfway through the film and the main protagoinist is constantly cheking skype to seee if his beloved is online however when he asks the question 'Have you got a boyfriend' we realise that they have broken up and he is devestated. This is reinforced through the use of non-diegetic sound of what sounds like a brass band. We also added the edditing effect of voice over, reason being we felt it would be a dynamic way to nirate to the audince what the protagoinist is going through. I created the music through the music edditing software 'soundtrack pro' this fraction of the film helped me see what happens next. Since I have written a huge treatment/script I now see that I have no choice but to conndence it, and jump to the final scene.

Short Film Audiences

Who watches short films?

How do they watch them? Cinema, festivals, online, TV, DVD, etc Which is the most common source?

Most people consume short films through film festivals, television and the internet. It is very rare for a cinema to show a short film for it would not bring enough revenue. For they appeal to a very niche market.  Most people tend to watch short films on the well known video website Youtube, Future Shorts, BBC Film Network and Short of the Week.

What are the most popular short films?

http://www.imdb.com/search/title?title_type=short
http://listverse.com/15-great-short-films/


In terms of audience, are they male/female? Educated? Film makers/fans? Social class/status?

The audience usually is, in social terms, middle class (A - C1). They are usually fanatics about films and they are interested in making or producing short films. In some cases, they are already in the business of making them. If they are viewing the shorts online it means they are educated in the networks and are knowledgeable of how to access them, they are media literate.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/filmmaking/guide/introduction/why-make-a-short - info here

http://www.slideshare.net/gracew41/target-audience-3310758

From your research about short film audiences, who would be the audience for your short film?

I searched 'popular short films' on 'Google' and came across a short film Finite which focusses on some on my chosen themes - loss, love and memories of a relationship, which is reason for me to believe that my short film 'BOOST' is giving the mass audience what they want to see.  I am targeting 15 to early and late twenties that have probably experienced this situation and are stereotypically craving love and they may also think that no one in the world as ever felt this immense pain before so for them to see a character that has hit rockbottom may emotionally educate them as well. As the 'Finite' made me realise just now that break ups  happen to everyone and hurts everyone just as much and I hope to give this message to the people who will watch this film learn as well. 

Test shooting Beach Scene

I have got a scene which takes place on holiday the scene itself is on the beach. Given that my film is postmodern the use of a poster as background should work well to signify the beach and a hot day. The lighting is not good in the pictures and I will have to get the actor to sit a little way away from the poster so that it can be backlit.

Obviously the actor will be in a T shirt or topless and I will also use glycerin to create an authentic  sweaty look and atmosphere. I think the main problem here is that my face has not been lit however the background suggests bright light. So to make the cheat more believable ill need to use some careful lighting.