Storyline of A2 Film

Storyline

A young girl called Millie moves to a new school and falls in love with the most

popular boy in the school who is also the captain of the school football team.

However Millie is not the only girl in the school the likes Jack (the popular male) as

all of the other girls in the school do as well. Millie spends weeks trying to get Jacks

attention and trying to get him to notice her, whilst doing this she causes lots of

commotion along the way. The main bit of trouble that Mille causes is when she

meets the future school prom queen Charlotte who is the popular girl within the

school. But after weeks of Millie trying to get Jack to notice her and talk to her, they

get put together for a science assignment. During the time that they are completing

their science assignment they begin to talk and become close. This results in them

spending lots of time with each other, going round each other’s houses. After a

while Millie decides to tell Jack how she feels towards him. This comes as a surprise

to Jack and he does not know how to react as he thought that him and Millie were

just very good friends, this also puts Jack into a bit of confusion as he is aware that

all of the other girls around school claim that they ‘Love’ him. Millie is really upset

as she does not know how Jack feels about her and whether she will ever get her

chance with him. She begins to ignore and hide from Jack for a few weeks

afterwards, this make Jack feel upset as he thought that they were good friends and

he begins to miss her. Shortly after Jack realises that he did and does like Millie

back, however he thinks he has missed his chance with her as she has gone to a

house party with another boy called Ben. Jack decides to make his way to the party

to try and speak to Millie, however when he gets to the party she has already gone

upstairs with Ben. Jack bursts through the door and tries to get Millie to leave with

him so that they can talk. Millie turns Jack away and says that she is staying with

Ben. As Jack keeps asking Millie to come with him Ben begins to get frustrated

because he will not leave her alone, this results in Ben pushing and Jack telling him

to leave. This ends up turning into a big fight between Jack and Ben with it

eventually coming to an end and Millie saying that she will leave with Jack. They

leave the house together and go to a park just across the road, they begin to start

talking and being flirty like they was beforehand. Jack then tells Millie how he feels

towards her and they kiss. 


 Our storyline is very similar to that of the film 'John Tucker Must Die'. It follows the idea of having a main male character that all the girls fight for. In our film, the character plays the role of the 'jock' that flirts with all the girls, this is the same as the character John Tucker. The characters are very similar in the terms of both being sporty, good looking, confident and arrogant.

Teenage Angst Film Trailer Conventions

Teenage Angst: Teenage angst is when teenagers become depressed due to a mixture of reasons such as there hormones and stress from school/college. This can be separated in to being real angst or fake angst. Real angst is when a teenage will be going through a tough phase which could be because of many different things. False angst is when somebody acts like they have it hard in an attempt to get other peoples attention. 

The teenage angst films that I have looked at are, Easy A, Means Girls and American Pie. I have looked at the stereotypical conventions that are used in each of the trailers for the three films that I have researched.

Voiceover: In the teenage angst films that I have looked in to each of them have used a voiceover to explain the storyline of the film.In both of the trailers for Easy A and Mean girls the voiceover is the main character of the film explaining the events that take place and what happens throughout the film. For my own film I have used a female voice over, this voiceover is spoken by Faye, who plays the character Millie in my film. Much like the Easy A trailer, the voice over in my film speaks the audience through the trailer and talks about the events that are taking place on the screen, giving them a clearer understanding of the events.

Cuts and Transitions: The idea of a trailer is to show the audience very briefly what the film is about. The ideal trailer will be fast paced, with lots of quick cuts. This is to show just small quick shots/scenes from the film so that the audience can get a basic understanding of the plot of it. In my own trailer I have used two transitions, Fade to blacks and Flashes. I have used fade to black between most of the scenes and images to help increase the speed of the trailer making it short and snappy which is what trailers stereotypically are. I also used a flash when the fight scene appears during the trailer, this is to connote that this scene is going to be explosive. It also creates excitement and tension for the audience as they are unsure of what the outcome is going to be.

Inter titles: Inter titles are used in trailers to help explain a set of images or a video extract to the audience, it allows the audience to be able to recognise what is about to happening in the coming part of the trailer. They help to make the trailer clearer to understand. In my own trailer I have used inter titles, part of my feedback that I received was to add in a few more to help to make it clearer for the audience to understand. My inter titles were in a bold, clear white font to ensure that they were easy for the audience to read.

Music: In trailers it is mainly, non diegetic sound that is used. It is common in teenage angst trailers that the music is lively and up beat at the beginning for example when the characters are being introduced. The music is usually not the main sound that the audience will hear through the trailer as this will be a voiceover explaining the plot of the film. The music that I have added in for my own trailer is upbeat and happy until the fight scene appears on the screen, when this scene appears the music turns to rock, this could suggest that the scene is going to be violent.

Non-Chronological order: With all trailers there should be some form of order in which scenes are shown, for example they should always show the story in order. In trailers they should show scenes from the story from the beginning to the end. By doing this it makes it easier and clearer for the audience to understand. If the order of the trailer was to be all messed up the audience wouldn't find it very easy to follow along with. With my own trailer I have shown the images and scenes in order again simply to make it easy for the audience to follow along with.

Billing Block: Billing block are usually the last thing to be shown in a trailer, they display the main actors names, producers, cameramen etc. This is done to credit the people that helped to make the film itself. 

Dialogue: During trailers, it is common for some form of dialogue to be used, this can be through an extract from the film of a key conversation of phrase for example that will be used in the film to trigger the start of a key moment.

Main Title Screen: The main title screen of any film during a trailer usually appears just before the billing block, the title of the film is commonly displayed on its own with a set colour as a background. However some films may also use a picture of a character or object from their film when displaying their main title screen.

A2 Film Shotlist

Shot List

Millie Moving House:

Ÿ        Millie’s old house, 1 shot with Millie in the foreground 1 without. (2 Long Shots)

Ÿ        Millie’s new house, 1 shot with Millie in the foreground 1 without. Body language and facial expressions showing that she is disappointed and annoyed about the move.

(2 Long Shots) - This will show Millie both happy and sad, happy being at her old house, then upset about having to move to her new house.

Millie’s First Arrival at School:

Ÿ        Millie Walking Through the front doors of the school. (Mid Shot) - This will be a mid shot so that the audience can see Millie's body language as she walks in to her new school, she is upset that she has had to move house and also move schools so she is not looking forward to starting there.

Ÿ        Jack walking down the corridor with everyone in the corridor saying hello to him.

(Long, Tracking Shot) - We are going to use a tracking shot here to follow Jack down the corridor, in the shot we see everyone waving and saying hello to Jack.

Ÿ        The first time Millie see’s Jack. (POV Shot) - We are going to use a POV shot here to show that Millie has noticed Jack and that she cannot stop looking at him.

Ÿ        Jack walking down the corridor. (Close up) - This shot shows Jack smiling and looking happy when everyone is speaking to him and waving at him as he walks down the corridor.

Ÿ        Millie staring at Jack. (Close up) - Like the POV shot, this shot is going to show Millie looking at Jack as he walks down the corridor towards her.

Ÿ        Charlotte noticing Millie staring at Jack (Mid Shot) - Again we have decided to use a mid shot here to show the body language of Charlotte, who is the popular girl in school. She gets angry as she notices Millie looking at jack because she really likes Jack.

Ÿ        Charlotte tripping Millie over (Long Shot) - This is going to be a long shot to ensure that the audience will be able to see exactly what is going on during the scene and also Jack will be in the background of the shot so it shows that Charlotte wants to embarrass Millie in front of Jack so that he will laugh at her.

Ÿ        Charlotte sticking out her leg to trip Millie (Extreme Close Up) - We have decided to use an extreme close up here to show exactly what Charlotte is doing to try and embarrass Millie.

Ÿ        Millie tripping over charlottes leg whilst staring at Jack. (Long Shot) - Again Jack will be in the background of this shot as Millie starts to fall over, we felt that a long shot would be effective here as it would show Jack watching Millie fall over resulting in her becoming embarrassed.

Ÿ        Charlotte and her friends laughing at Millie. (Long Shot) - This will be a long shot of the popular group of girls all taking the mick out of Millie as she falls over in front of Jack when she first sees him.

Ÿ        Millie on the floor. (Close up) - This shot will show Millie's facial expression as she feels very embarrassed that she has just falling over whilst staring at Jack.

Ÿ        Millie embarrassed, standing up and walking off (Long Shot) - This shot is going to show Millie walking away from everybody because she feels so embarrassed about what has just happened.

First Science Lesson:

Ÿ        Teacher announcing that Jack and Millie are together for the assignment (Close Up) - This close up will show Jack and Millie's names together on a list, meaning that they have been put together to complete a assignment for their coursework.

Ÿ        Millie jumping up celebrating then sitting down embarrassed (POV of Teacher) - This shot is going to be a POV shot from the teacher, it will show Millie jumping up and getting excited because she gets to work with Jack, the boy who she embarrassed herself in front of.

Science with Jack:

Ÿ        Millie talking to jack about experiment (Mid Shot) - This is the first time that Millie has ever spoken to Jack so she is quite nervous, however the shot will show her smiling because she is happy that she finally gets to speak to Jack and introduce herself.

Ÿ        Millie picking up the wrong pot (Extreme Close Up) - This shot will show Millie picking up a dangerous chemical instead of her picking up the correct one for her experiment. She is not concentrating because she cannot take her eyes off of Jack.

Ÿ        Millie pouring wrong mixture into liquid (Close Up) - This is going to be a close up of Millies hand pouring the chemical into the mixture. After picking up the wrong chemical, Millie then pours it into the mixture and it begins to overflow and go all over the table.

Ÿ        Millie and Jack realise that the mixture is overflowing (Mid Shot) - This shot is going to show Jack laughing at what Millie has just done, and Millie is going to be looking shocked and feeling embarrassed because she has made herself look silly in front of Jack again.

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Library:

Ÿ        Millie spying on Jack through the books (Extreme Close Up) - This shot will show Millie's eye as she is looking at jack whilst he does his work.

Ÿ        Jack laughing at her cause she thinks he can’t see her (Close Up) - This shot is going to be of Jack turning round and laughing because he has noticed that Millie is looking at him through the books in the library.

Ÿ        Millie goes to look through the books and Jack has stood on the other side of the bookcase and makes her jump (Close Up) - Again this will be a close up of Millie's face as she is trying to look at Jack, however when she opens the books to go to look at him again he is standing the other side and pokes his head through and says hello.

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      Jack Comes Over:

Ÿ        Jack and Millie talking at a table with school work on (Long Shot) - This will show Millie and Jack talking and getting along quite well as they continue with their assignment.

Ÿ        Millie telling Jack that’s she likes him (Close Up) - This will show Millie looking shy as she tells Jack how she feels towards him.

Ÿ        Jacks shocked face (Extreme Close Up) - We decided to use an extreme close up of Jack's face after Millie tells him how she feels, this is to show how shocked he is about the news as he thought that they were just good friends.

Ÿ        Jack leaving the house and telling Millie to leave him alone (Pan Shot) - This shot will show Jack getting up and leaving Millie's house as he just does not know what to say to her about what she has just told him.

Ÿ        Millie running and jumping on her bed crying (Long Shot) - This shot will show Millie on her bed crying because she really likes Jack but feels that she has just messed everything with him up.

Millie Feeling Down:

Ÿ        Millie staring over the river thinking about Jack (Close Up & Over The Shoulder) - We decided to use an over the shoulder shot here to show the view in which Millie is looking at, at this point Millie is upset and does not know what to do about the Jack situation.

Ÿ        Millie sitting in class oblivious to everything happening around her (Mid Shot) - This shot will show Millie sitting on her own in a classroom day dreaming, ignoring everything and everyone around her because she is still unsure of what to do.

Party:

Ÿ        Ben talking to a drunk Millie (Mid Shot) - The character Ben is one of Jack's good friends. After a few weeks of not talking to Jack, Millie decides to go to a party with Ben, however Millie ends up getting really drunk at this party which leads on to the next shot.

Ÿ        Ben and Millie walking upstairs and into the bedroom (Tracking Shot) - This shot follows Ben and Millie walking up the stairs and in to a bedroom, closing the door behind them.

Ÿ        Jack running upstairs to the bedroom and finding Millie and Ben (Tracking Shot) - Jack finds out that Millie has gone to a party with Ben and decides that he needs to speak to her and tell her how he really feels.

Ÿ        Jack pulling Ben off the bed who punches Jack which starts a fight between the two (Long Shot) - The long shot used here will show the fight scene between Ben and Jack, they begin to fight over Millie saying that the other one doesn't deserve her etc.

Ÿ        Millie breaking up the fight and leaving with Jack (Long Shot) - Again another long shot to show each of the characters that are involved in the current scene. In this shot Millie gets between Jack and Ben and tells them to stop fighting as she doesn't like it.

Ÿ        Millie and Jack walking down the stairs and out the house (Tracking Shot) - After a long argument and fight Millie finally leaves with Jack, this tracking shot follows them as the walk down the stairs holding hands and it also follows them as they leave the house together.

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Characters For A2 Film

Faye Prout - Millie -
New girl to the school, a very shy character who likes to keep herself to herself. Causes trouble in the film with the popular group of females in school when she tries to get Jack's attention.













Jack Payne - Ben -
Friend of Jack's, not as confident as Jack is, Ben causes trouble with Jack over Millie when he goes to a party with her after she has argued with Jack.














Harry Shipp - Jack -
Stereotypical Jock, good looking, confident, cocky, sporty. The most popular boy in school who all the girls are after. Jack argues with Millie when she tells him how she feels about him however Jack doesn't realise how much Millie means to him until she goes off with Ben, which makes him very jealous and angry.

Mica Webster - Charlotte -
The popular girl around school, Charlotte is going to be the future prom queen and has her eyes set on Jack Palmer being her prom date..no matter what she has to do!

Storyboards For A2 Film

The images on the left are the storyboards for our A2 media film, Jack Palmer.

Music Research for A2 Film

Music Research

http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/free-music-11.html

- Fun, Upbeat,

Edgy

http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/free-music-12.html

Cruising - Build

up @ Start

http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/free-music-16.html

Fresh Sparks -

Good beat

http://www.unsignedbandweb.com/Pop_RockMusic.html

(How

Does It Feel)

http://www.freeplaymusic.com/

Love Song in my Mind – Backing

track option

http://www.freeplaymusic.com/

Summer Kisses – Happy, Backing

track option

http://www.freeplaymusic.com/

Bouncing – Charlotte introduction

http://www.freeplaymusic.com/

China Goat – Charlotte

introduction

The links above are for our music that we used when making our film trailer. Before we made any decisions we researched into other teenage angst films such as Easy A and American Pie. From this we discovered that the music that is used is normally quite up beat and happy. By following this convention we found the music above and decided that these were the songs that we were going to use. In the end we decided to use the songs china goat and bouncing. We chose these songs because we felt that they were best suited to the genre of our film which is teenage angst, they are up beat and happy, however bouncing also turns into a rock song, this changes as the fight scene occurs which connotes that it is a violent and aggressive scene.

Locations Of A2 Media Trailer

 The images on the left hand side are shots of the locations that we will be using when filming.The images include a science lab, a library and school corridors. Before deciding on locations for our film we researched other teenage angst films, and looked at the locations in which they were filmed. We found that the most common places used where around schools, eg; corridors, classrooms and libraries. So we felt that to make our film fit in with the teenage angst genre we should use similar locations. We decided to stick to this stereotypical convention of teenage angst films because we felt that it worked very well and that it suited the storyline of our film nicely too.