This is the storyboard for our main task, of creating an opening 2 minutes for a movie. We have made the storyboard quite brief as we are aware many changes could occur when we come to making the clip. However, here is the storyboard which we currently intend to stick to:
Just to summarize the storyboard, I shall now briefly explain our vision for this opening scene. We want to start with a long shot of a boy walking down an alleyway, trekking towards his girlfriend’s house to surprise her on Valentines Day. He will have a rose in his hand the whole time as his gift to her. After we have shown him walking for a bit we will show him going into his pocket and getting out his iPod, which reveals the date 14th Feb. Then he shall pick a song to play, which will play throughout the scene as this is his and his girlfriend’s song. When he arrives at the house, he shall enter without knocking, in order to surprise his girlfriend. As he walks up the stairs we will show the audience via a birds eye shot, that the female is having relation with another man. Finally, he will walk in and discover he is being cheated on, drop his rose, and walk out and cry as the titles come on. We are also thinking of making that last bit in slow motion to add to drama. We think this can lead onto a film about the girl trying to win the man back.
We decided to make an opening scene for a film of romantic genre, because we feel that we can convey this genre the best using certain methods. For this main task we are going to use other actors because it will be easier to control the outcome to be what we want to happen. For the location of our opening two minutes, we will use either mine or Zach’s house, as we won’t need to gain permission to access s these locations. Also we need to use an alleyway in a village for when he is walking down it looking at his iPod. We won't need many resources except for a camera and a stand; I also don't think we will need an external microphone because whenever someone speaks it will be inside so the background sounds won't have much effect. Although, if we find that the sound is quite loud we will use an external microphone. For our shots we won't need the wheels because we don't need to do a tracking shot anywhere. We think we are going to use three actors in our movie, this will be two boys and one girl, but one of the boys only has a small part as the two main characters are lovers. We need to obtain permission for a song by Boyce Avenue and we have sent off an email for it, it is an acoustic version of Katy Perry’s song 'Teenage Dream' this is the email we sent to their record label. This is the email we will send off:
‘Dear Sir or Madam
For our ‘A’ Level Media Studies coursework we have to make the opening two minutes of a movie with a song over it. For our project we would like to use Teenage Dream by Boyce Avenue and are seeking your permission.
The resulting two minute film opening will not be used for commercial gain, will be hosted on a private coursework blog and also rendered on to DVD for the attention of our teacher and the coursework moderator. Should we not hear from you to the contrary within 14 days of the date of this email we will assume that you are happy for us to use this music under a fair use arrangement.
Should you require any further information please contact our teacher, Mr Scargill on scargill@guilsborough.northants.sch.uk
Yours faithfully
Alex Saker & Zach Goodchild’
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