Planning N2

Planning N2 

Final Film Opening #tbh To Be Honest

Storyline:

• ·      Cast:  6 Characters:  2 boys: Logan and Jacob & 4 girls: Heather, Veronica, Cary and Jess
• ·      Opening will start with the central protagonist waking up.
• ·      She arrives to school and get bullied by the antagonist Veronica who is the queen of the school.
• ·      She gets stuffed into the locker while the new boy Jacob arrives to school.

Production Schedule:

• ·      1^st week of planning – Storyboard and production schedule
• ·      2^nd week make a callsheet and script
• ·      3^rd week start filming – first location is my house
• ·      4^th week filming continues in school
• ·      5^th week start editing
• ·      6^th week continue editing and re-film any bits which weren’t filmed well
• ·      7^th week start on soundtrack
• ·      8^th week finishing soundtrack and edit it in into final cut.

Mise-en-scene:

Costumes:

• ·      Geeky Girl: Glasses, skirt, blouse, books, backpack, cardigan
• ·      Mean Girl: Skirt, pick shirt, trendy bag and “Burn Book”
• ·      Mean Girls minions: “Jess and Cary” pink clothing and trendy bags
• ·      Jacob: hoodie, jeans and sneakers
• ·      Logan: Shirt, jeans and trainers.

Lightning:

• ·      Bright lighting for the waking up scenes
• ·      Dark lighting for the mean girl picking on geeky girl

Theorists:

• ·      Todorov’s narrative theory – Equilibrium – when the geeky girl wakes up – following up with disruption when mean girl bullies geeky girl when her boyfriend helps geeky girl in the class.

Locations:

• ·      My house for the geeky girl waking up as well as Jacob the new boy waking up.
• ·      Corridor with lockers in school
• ·      Classroom in school
• ·      Streets

Planning

Planning 

Storyline 

• Cast - Main 5 Characters - 3 Girls & 2 Boys 
• Opening will start with all 3 girls getting ready for school.
• Then the girls arrive at school and they all go off to their own groups. 
• First lesson of class which is science. 
• Mean girl gets annoyed at Geeky girl and tomboy for staring at her boyfriend. 
• The bells goes off and then the mean girl goes off with her boyfriend. 
• After school, everyone is hanging out at park, the mean girl is with her boyfriend and the geeky girl,Tomboy and the best friend are hanging out in a different area. 
• The geeky girl tells the tomboy and best friend that she likes the popular guy and then the best friend tries to tell the popular guy what the geeky girl said. Ends. 

Production Schedule 

• 1st Week of planning - Storyboard & Production Schedule 
• 2nd Week start filming - first location is mine and adel's houses/park.
• 3rd Week filming continues - Filming in school 
• 4th Week making sound track
• 5th Week start to edit and wrap up any filming

Mise-En-Scene

Costumes 

• Geeky Girl - Glasses, jeans & nerdy t-shirt, books, no makeup
• Mean Girl - Fashionable, skirt & nice top, heels, handbag, phone, makeup
• Tomboy Girl - Jeans & t-shirt, hoodie, sneakers, skateboard, music player/ instrument
• Popular Guy - Jeans & sweatshirt, sneakers, athletic build
• Best Friend Guy - Jeans & t-shirt, hoodie, sneakers, glasses, cool vibe

Lightening 

• Bright lightening for the scenes with the mean girl and the popular guy. 
• Low lightening for the scenes of the geeky girl alone.  
• The contrast of lightening will help the audience to establish who is the outsider and who is the bully. (Mean girl VS Geeky girl). 

Theorists

• Todorov's narrative theory - Equilibrium - starts off with the tomboy & geeky girl friends and then the disruption - mean girl starts to bully the geeky girl. 
• Binary Opposites - Mean & Kind, Popular & Outsider, Bully & Victim 

Locations 

• My house for the scenes where i'm in my room.(Tomboy)
• Adel's house for her scenes in her room.(Mean Girl)
• Kate's house for her scenes. (Geeky Girl)
• Park by adel and my place. 
• School - St Georges 
• (Maybe the town).