Friday, 12 May 2017
Creating Intertitles
One of my roles in my group was to
create intertitles for our film trailer. As our film trailer is based on social
media I felt that the intertitles should represent a popular form of social
media. I decided not to use plain black backgrounds for the intertitles as even
though they allow the intertitles to stand out I wanted them to appear relevant
to the genre of our trailer. I felt that having the Facebook search page would
allow individuals watching the trailer to clearly recognise the social media
platform we are focusing on. The intertitles 'friends or frenemies' is used to leave the viewers asking questions such as Is the friendship group breaking down? or Who is the enemy?. The words 'ends' and enemies' is underlined and in the blue Facebook colour as we felt that 'ends' could suggest the ending of a friendship and 'enemies' suggests that secrets can have a significant impact on friendships. I put the words 'ends' and 'enemies' is the Facebook blue colour as it links in well with the background of the intertitles and shows more of a connection between the text and the background.
Creating the Film Title 'Disconnected'
5/5 key images from our group animatic
By having the characters Katie, Noah and Jake all stood next to each other in the final shot shows that one of Sarah's 'best friends' has betrayed her in the worst way as they have intentionally acted as the anonymous user to reveal the negative truth and betrayal of her boyfriend and best friend. One of Sarah's friends makes out to be the victim when the real victim was Sarah. This shows that some people in society crave attention and feel the need to create false identities to expose their secrets and grab the attention of others. This shot also leaves the audience wanting to know more and who the anonymous user is.
4/5 key images from our group animatic
The picture of the group chat shows that this is a common way of communication for teenagers as it is seen as a more interactive way of talking to each other rather than sending text messages.
The image used in the group chat shows Noah looking awkward, Jake looking angry, Katie looking shocked and Sarah looking hurt. This shot also shows the embarrassment, awkwardness and unseen side of social media and 'friendship' groups. Using oovoo challenges the way that people can hide behind their computers and phones when they are either acting as a bully or verbally abusing others. This is because each person is seen in the oovoo call as they have access to webcams. This allows the characters to see each others emotions and reactions to the accusations and shocking truth.
3/5 key images from our group animatic
I feel that this is one of the most important images in out film trailer. This message shows that the character Sarah is faced with the horrible reality that her boyfriend, Jake has cheated on her with her best friend. Sarah's two best friends have betrayed her and gone behind her back. This shot shows where the friendship group starts to disconnect as they start accusing each other of being the Anonymous user. These are common issues that teenagers go through so I feel that this is a realistic interpretation of how friendships can be broken.
2/5 key images from our group animatic
I feel that this image represents the daily lives of teenagers and their friendship groups. This shot reflects the groups friendship and a form of social media they use to communicate on a daily basis.
1/5 Key images from our group animatic
I feel that this image is important to our animatic as it shows happy memories of Sarah and Katie's friendship. I feel that it is important to show this as they appear to represent best friends and the side of friendship that is always noticed by their friends and family. We decided to start with this image as it allows the audience to meet the two female characters and understand their roles in the trailer as being best friends. We decided to use two female characters that do not stereotypically look like they would be best friends. I have watched many film trailers that have the 'popular' girl and the girl who is more of a tomboy, usually these characters are enemies as the 'popular' girl feels she has a higher authority than the tomboy. We decided to challenge this as we decided that we would make our 'popular' girl and the tomboy play best friends.
Film trailer- shoot one
Date: 17/01/17
Location: Bedroom
Actors: Sarah- Played by Mya Jones
During shoot 1 the following shots were taken:
Location: Bedroom
Actors: Sarah- Played by Mya Jones
During shoot 1 the following shots were taken:
- Shot 2
- Shot 3
- Shot 7
- Shot 26
Questionnaire
Questionnaire
What gender are you?
Female Male
What age are you?
14-19 20-25 26-30 30+
What is your preferred genre?
Horror sci-fi
Comedy Romance Social
media Adventure
What certificate do you watch?
U PG 12 15 18
Do you enjoy the following films?
Avatar Maze Runner The Internship Unfriended The Matrix
Which location would you find the most intriguing?
A characters house Unknown location School
Does this opening paragraph appeal to you?
In Abergavenny, sixth form students Sarah, Jake, Katie and Noah are best friends, living typical lives of 17 year olds. They spend both their social and school lives together, attending house parties and even sticking together during detentions after school. The friends are in a group chat, planning a night out for Noah’s 18th birthday, making comments about how he’ll be getting served alcohol for the rest of them as they will still be underage. Typical of youngsters, they start discussing humorous drunken stories and send embarrassing photos of each other into the group chat which they all laugh about. The discussion continues and an ‘Anonymous’ user enters the group chat, however, the group are unaware of this. Photos are shared on a Facebook page of Sarah and Jake holding hands and cuddling in public. However, they’re unaware of this until Noah discovers them on an unusual account that had recently added him. Noah sends the photos to the group chat and Sarah is embarrassed and accuses Jake of uploading them. Jake denies it and the group become uncomfortable that someone has been taking photos of them and posting them online.Yes NoAre you interested in social media?
Yes No
Facebook Instagram Twitter Snapchat
The mystery The Plot
The actors The location
How long would you consider a good film trailer to last? In
minutes
1:00 or less 1:30 2:00 2:30 3:00 3:30+Thursday, 26 January 2017
Friday, 20 January 2017
New group plot synopsis
GENRE: Social media
TARGET AUDIENCE: 15-20 year olds (Mainly
female)
TODAYS FEARS: Social media is taking over and 17
year olds nowadays tend to put their life on Facebook, Twitter etc. Many
teenage girls share the fears of having their image destroyed by someone on
social media, knowing it’s undeletable.
In Abergavenny, sixth form students Sarah, Jake, Katie and
Noah are best friends, living typical lives of 17 year olds. They spend both
their social and school lives together, attending house parties and even
sticking together during detentions after school. The friends are in a group
chat, planning a night out for Noah’s 18th birthday, making comments
about how he’ll be getting served alcohol for the rest of them as they will
still be underage. Typical of youngsters, they start discussing humorous
drunken stories and send embarrassing photos of each other into the group chat
which they all laugh about. The discussion continues and an ‘Anonymous’ user
enters the group chat, however, the group are unaware of this. Photos are shared on a Facebook page of Sarah
and Jake holding hands and cuddling in public.
However, they’re unaware of this until Noah discovers them on an unusual
account that had recently added him.
Noah sends the photos to the group chat and Sarah is embarrassed and
accuses Jake of uploading them. Jake
denies it and the group become uncomfortable that someone has been taking
photos of them and posting them online.
Minutes later, Sarah, Jake, Katie and Noah get an alert that
someone has posted into the group chat.
Sarah opens the chat to find that the anonymous user that uploaded the
image of her onto its Facebook page has somehow entered the chat and sent the
group an image with a message saying ‘How’s the diet going, Katie?’. Sarah clicks the image to see it clearly and
discovers a print screen of an email to Katie from the local doctor’s surgery
asking her to attend her next session at Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to talk
about effective ways of treating her bulimia.
Katie had not yet discussed this issue with her friends as she was too
embarrassed and didn’t want to know as an attention seeker. The rest of the group open the chat and Katie
posts a message, embarrassed, asking who this anonymous user is.
Jake immediately calls the group on a video conference call, they
all answer to him asking what is going on.
Katie is upset by what seems to be her secret being released. She explains her situation knowing her
friends have her back and will help her through it. Sarah kindly offers to attend her next
therapy session with her and Katie agrees.
An alert for the group chat then alarms, a recent video is
received of Jake at a party with a girl who’s yet to be identified. The video shows Jake stood outside of a
bedroom and leading into, it also catches him talking to the female about how
they can’t let his girlfriend, Sarah find out.
As the pair enters the bedroom a clear shot of Katie’s face is present
and the video cuts off. A second alert
occurs with a message, ‘admit you cheated on Sarah with Katie, Jake. Or the full video gets posted’. The video call is silent and the user joins
the call awaiting the truth. Sarah is
upset and shouting, “How could you both, with each other? My best friend, Jake.
I was at that party with you all as well. Noah did you know”. Noah was unaware that this happened and both
Katie and Jake deny cheating, however, Katie knows that he is capable of
cheating as he did so on his ex-girlfriend with her. The anonymous user gives Jake a 5 second
countdown to admit but doesn’t do so.
The video is then posted on social media for their classmates to see,
this time an extended copy with full proof.
Sarah stays in the chat but disappears from the screen and is no longer
speaking to Jake and Katie while Katie is in tears in the video call due to
guilt.
Katie, Jake and Noah are still in the video call. Katie is still upset and is shouting at Jake,
“You said she wouldn’t find out!” Noah
interrupts, “Guys, calm down. She’ll get
over it”. Jake states that Sarah is to
stubborn to get over this. A doorbell rings;
Jakes head turns to hear a female voice talking to his mother. Sarah angrily charges through his bedroom
door, she stands over him shouting.
Realising that Katie and Noah are still on the video call she slams the
laptop shut and slaps him. Sarah leaves
the room and Jake follows. She walks out
the house and down the path until Jake stops her and Noah and Katie
arrive. Noah and Jake try and calm Sarah
down while she and Katie are arguing.
Noah slips up claims that everything that had happened was all meant to
be a joke. Sarah, only partially
listening to what he said as she was still shouting at Katie, she shockingly
questions Noah again. He then admits he
knew about the cheating but didn’t know how to tell her, he also intends that
he knew about the video, not making it obvious that he was the one that took
the video. She then takes in Noah’s
hints to find that he was the one who took the video of Jake and Katie. It’s then silent and Sarah feels alone and
betrayed by who she thought was her friends.
Silence breaks between the group and Katie begins to talk and
says something familiar to what the anonymous user in the chat, “If no one
talks in the next 10 seconds I’m going, this is pathetic.” Sarah then focuses on what Katie said as the
anonymous user said the same by giving Jake a countdown to admit he’s
cheating. Sarah’s suspicion gradually
grows of Katie to then cause her to run back into Jakes house and into his room
to his laptop. Sarah scrolls through the
chat to find the message from the anonymous user and finds a similarity to what
she had recently said outside. Katie, Jake and Noah both run upstairs to find
Sarah on Jakes laptop. Sarah turn to
them stood in the doorway and says “It’s you isn’t it?” aimed at Katie. Katie tries to deny it’s her and questions
why she would post stuff about herself.
Sarah slowly walks to her with her arms crossed and accuses her of being
the anonymous user which makes her feel uncomfortable and she looks down at the
floor. Katie is still denying while
Sarah keeps asking how why she did it.
Sarah attempts to get the truth out of her by accusing her of making up
that she is bulimic to cover up that it’s actually her. Sarah then guilt trips
the truth out of Katie by stating that Katie made her feel sorry for her just
because she has a ‘dirty little secret’.
Katie then gives in to the lie and states that she does it because she’s
jealous of Sarah because she’s the popular one and feels as if she’s in her
shadow. She’s jealous that she has a
boyfriend and that it’s Jake because she wants to be with him.
From here on Sarah, Jake, Katie and Noah are no longer a
group. Noah and Jake are still good
friends and Katie and Noah have minimal contact no and again. Jake still tries to resolve the issues
between Sarah and him in hope that they can get back together and forget about
Katie who he tries to avoid. As for
Sarah and Katie, they have not spoken since that day and Sarah has deleted
Katie off all types of social media.
Group plot synopsis
College leaver Sarah lives a typical life of an 18 year
old. She wakes up every morning at 6:30,
gets ready and goes to work. Ready to
set off to university Sarah is excited to meet potential boyfriend, Jake along
with future house mates Katie and Noah. Meeting through their university social group
online Sarah and Jake become fond of each other and they all plan their
fresher’s week in a group chat. . After planning a fun filled week of partying
and alcohol a strange unknown user joins their group chat claiming to be a
student studying ‘Digital Games Production’ at the university they will
attend. The unknown user asks the four
friends to try out a new game he has created for an important module on his
course and claims that if and when it becomes profitable each player that test
the game will receive 10% of the profit.
Sarah, Katie and Noah are interested in what the game is and want to try
the game out however Jake doesn’t see it as a great idea and is yet to agree
with the decision. Jake discusses with
Sarah away from the group his thoughts on testing the game out and how he
doesn’t know whether he can trust the creator as they don’t know what the game
is and if what he is saying is safe. As
Sarah convinces Jake that the idea is a bit of fun his affectionate feelings
towards her forces him to gives in and he agrees to test the game along with
the others. After they all accept the
challenge the game maker tells them they will receive an email to confirm they’re
players. Minutes pass and they’re yet to
receive an e-mail, they begin to think it is all a joke but wonders how he
joined their group chat without being added.
Sarah, Jake, Katie and Noah all forget about the game and carry-on
planning their new beginnings in university.
As soon as the conversation dies down they all receive an email with an
attachment to what they think will be the game that they hope to play. The
email also states how to enter the game which will include clicking the link
but the game maker has manipulated the players into thinking they will be
playing the game online but they will be taken from their homes, almost like
kidnapping and be taken to a games centre where the players will be unconscious
and have a hat like device placed on their head which will then activate a
virtual reality character of themselves that will be controlled by the players
unconscious mind. However, as soon as
Sarah clicks the link her doorbell rings and she goes to answer it, not giving
herself a chance to read the email.
Sarah then answers the door to find an unknown figure who knows her. As of that moment she is unconscious. Audience see’s the message in the link.
All four players are taken to the games centre where virtual
reality head sets are placed on their heads.
They’re now in control of the game.
Their virtual reality characters are all placed inside of a gaming dome,
however, the virtual reality headsets tricks them into thinking they’re at
their own homes. Sarah wakes up, gets up
from her bed to open her curtains to find that nobody is around; however; there
is an unusual large red arrow on the road.
Sarah goes back to her bed to find a note on her laptop. The note reads that each player needs to
follow the arrows to a field where they all meet to find a table with a map
on. The map reads the directions to the
first challenges and games they have to play and succeed which will challenge
their intellectual ability when playing the virtual game. Each game will
determine whether a player will survive if they succeed at the challenge or if
they fail to complete it in time. The
first challenge which will include cog direction will test their ability with
hand and mind co-ordination, recognition, 3D movement and photographic memory.
One of the ‘players’, Noah, failed at first hurdle. Because of this, the game
maker rules him out and takes him out of the challenges and traps him in a cage
due to them only wanting the most intelligent players to be left over. The rest
of the players continue to play the game and follow the map after they have
completed the first mind challenge. The players continue to follow the map into
a wooded area, whereby they see the next challenge in front of them. They continue to complete the challenges until
they approach another that all the remaining players complete apart from Katie
which causes her to be killed off by the game also taking trapped player, Noah
with her.
Sarah and Jake continue the game and follow the map to a
wooded area to which they’re faced with what they thought was their last
challenge, an unscrambling task. This task was to test their mathematic skills,
for every number resembled a different letter. Set in an IT room, they both
each unscrambled the numbers, working out that the sentence read, "You are
the winner". Sarah and Jake were
timed 5 minutes to unscramble the encrypted numbers. They both finish with 0.1
second spare and they both think they're the winners of the game. They follow
the map down to the field to collect their 'prize', the gate to the end of the
game which proves to be a problem when they both discover that there can only
be one winner. Taken back to a field where Sarah and Jake first met was a map.
Following the ‘clues’ that were featured on this, they both find two guns with
a note reading ‘Who will survive? You decide’. This situation is the fault of
Sarah, who uses Jake’s intelligence and growing ‘lover’ for her throughout the
whole game to get to the end of it, collecting her prize, which is not the 10%
profits that the game maker agreed to give, but to meet the game maker for the
very first time. Sarah, throughout game, wanted to complete it to get to the game
maker who she claims to love and has been in contact with before she began
talking to the others. However Jake oblivious to this puts Sarah before everything
and ultimately wants Sarah to win because of his love for her.
However, there still needs to be a death of one of them in
order for the other to win. The two players find themselves separating further
apart from each other whilst holding a gun in their hands. As they find a good distance apart, their
faces become more distant to one another, making it less painful for Sarah to
ultimately pull the trigger. Both
players arms rise with the guns locked in their hands when Jake breaks down,
pointing the gun to his own head, revealing that he cannot live a life without
Sarah, who he doesn’t know used him throughout the entire game. Sarah with a
guilty conscience cries out “STOP!” before a gunshot fires.
All four players wake up from the game shocked and confused
as to what happened to them. As they
come around they find a laptop in front of them showing how each member was
killed in the game which they thought was reality. After watching the ending
with Sarah and Jake she finds herself guilty about what she had done and is
surprised by what Jake had done for her. She had then come to realise that
someone who is prepared to put her before everyone and everything, has helped
her to realise that in fact, she loves Jake. Sarah never meets the game maker;
she lives a life in university happily with Jake, however still scarred by
their experiences of the game.
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