Statement of Intent for Film

It’s about a poor family and the teen sons parents are struggling to get by, they have one son who wants to become a professional football player but can’t afford to pay for football training so he spends all his time playing street football and playing with his best friend, but his parents want him to get a job to help provide.

In this movie I will have the main character, the hero, being the teen who wants to become a football player. He will have a best friend at the start but then becomes the false hero, he then joins a rival team to his friend after the hero manages to get into a team through very hard work and training and being able to get free training due to his large skill and ability. The false hero will purposefully injure the hero out of spite that the hero is a greater player than him. So the hero has to go back home and start working for his family for a while. After being injured for a while we have a dispatcher (a coach) who convinces him to play again and carry on his training. To where he then gets scouted by a premier league team and this will be the anagnorisis where he earns enough money to provide for him self and his family.

The film will be funded and produced by Warner Brothers. It should have a least a mid level budget due to the simple nature of the story not needing many high level filming attributes or techniques. The poster will have the main hero at the front holding the football in his hands or at his feet, with his friend next to him but slightly behind to indicate his insignificance compared to the main hero and as also a slight foreshadow of his false hero intentions.

The genre of the film will be a feel-good type idea that focuses on a classic and conventional base story line following ideas of the Tripartite narrative structure. The genre would loosely be based on the films techniques and genre of “Blinded By the Light” where he young teenager faces antagonists and hardships to make his dream come true of becoming a professional football player, making his parents proud and taking them out of poverty.

Statement of intent for the website

For the website I wanted to keep it simple and effective in a way. It features the main title and a banner at the top giving easy access to other pages of the website: “Front Page”, “About” and “Updates”. It has promotion for the film creators and where it will be featured easily seen throughout the website. The updates page features an email chain where users can receive updates on the movie as a marketing strategy. I made the website on “Square Space” and I will have to take screenshots of the website due to the fact I have to pay for a membership to make the website active.

Synopsis and statement of intent:

A British agent who thinks his father was lost at war investigates his fathers files and he never finds ever solid evidence, at long last he finds the last mission his father went on, “investigating and going undercover within a Nazi agency”, his son decides to go to the Nazi agency and try figure more about his father before his death. However when he’s in the agency people catch on that he seems to have incorrect German and is sneaking away without reason. But at very last, he finds out that his father…

Within my film I’m going to have a hero (being the main character who is looking for his father), a villain (being a Nazi operator catching onto the hero’s lies) and a victim, being a love interest of the main character being hurt by the villain. With the major plot discovery being a heartbreak for the hero I want the audience to feel attached and emotional for the main character, otherwise known as pathos. I intend the film to be for ages 15 and upwards due to the emotional and violent film, it would be a major film developed on a large budget by Warner Brothers and the poster would be a half and half, blue light vs red light (good vs evil) back to back displaying multiple characters along with a large title of the film, this way the viewers are intrigued to find out who the characters in the poster are. I will be taking photographs of myself with an army based uniform on, a pretend gun and standing tall to show the main character to be bold and brave, whereas the villain will be arms crossed and an angry friend.

My film is similar to the James Bond 007 films, marvels captain America and red notice. However the film takes place within WW2 which is like Captain America but it focuses on a real life undercover not a fictional sub-division working on technology that uses a all powerful stone. Its like 007 but the star isn’t a standalone character going after a baddy because its his job and picks up woman along the way, its a young soldier looking for his family by fighting the war.

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Statement of intent for website:

I’m looking for my website to be a dark, minimalistic and simple website with a small amount of text and focus on the physical elements like photos and trailers seeming’s this (personally) is what peaks my interest. When researching a film I’d rather see the footage or trailer and see on screen photos rather than read about it. I will have a home page, a trailer page, a photo viewing page and a short information section.

– Home page: The home page will be a general overview of the film and display the main info which viewers will be greeted with upon opening the website.
– Trailer page: The trailer page will be a small page which is designed to redirect viewers who want to see the film’s trailers straight to them.
– The gallery: The gallery will be to display key posters and photos from the film to give viewers a further understanding of the idea, story and setting of the film whilst not giving too much away to keep interest.
– Information section: The information page will be a page about the producers, actors and general information of the page so that if viewers want to read further into the background and production of the film, they can.

I want the font to be similar to that of the Mission impossible: Fallout poster (see below) so that the film website has an action theme to it. The website will be targeted towards making people interested in the film, whilst also giving more information to those who already are interested. The website will used interactive buttons for ease of use, large readable text for quick, precise reading for the viewer so they can get right to the information. The website, like the film is targeted towards teenagers and adults aged 15 and upwards, with the website having a dark theme to create a setting before the film is even released.

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Website

https://nonagon-parsnip-ktby.squarespace.com/

password: media2023

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Clips

Media clip 1:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B8fTsSRlEwyjcJvPlwIgdN4ffMuLs_kp/view?usp=sharing

Media clip 2:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wy0-0NqOWcfVnr6I-JnIoo_WfqO_ozgX/view?usp=sharing

‘The Little Book of Loneliness’

Synopsis

Fred, a 17 year old boy, feels lonelier and even more lost than ever. To jot down his memories, thoughts and feelings, he begins to write an open diary as a way of coping with life. Every day he walks to his favourite spot on the beach and writes whilst sitting on the sea wall. One day, on his way back home, he leaves the book behind on the pathway. This story shows his journey through finding his prized possession.

Statement of Intent

I intend to produce two posters to advertise my film through including signifiers that link to the narrative I will create and introduce the central concepts, ideas and characters without explicitly revealing the details of the plot. My first poster will include the dominant signifier of a notebook, as the notebook is the central plot device in my narrative. I intend to put this image in the centre of the poster, the main focal point as a foreground on a black background. On top of the notebook, I will put the anchorage “He was lost, waiting to be found” , with the words ‘lost’ and ‘found’ in bold.

In my second poster, I will include a picture of a bench in front of a bush. On the bench, the male protagonist will be sat, writing in the diary with a rucksack next to him. On the wooden slats of the bench, I will edit in the title of the film “The Little Book of Loneliness” in a large font size. As well as this, I will put the text: ‘Featuring the music of Harry Styles’ as a way of advertising the link the film has to the artist through the use of his music. I will take inspiration from film posters for ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ (2014) and ‘Titanic’ (1997) as their narratives have similarities to mine. I will use their designs as a style model to ensure I have a structure I can loosely replicate and know which images I need to take.

I intend to create two different film sequences that would be featured in my short film. They would provide insight for my audience and give a teaser into how the whole film would look visually, how it would be edited and also how it would sound. My first sequence would introduce the setting, the main character and include the ‘exposition’ of the linear, chronological narrative structure. I intend to create a ‘morning routine’ montage which will be fast paced through incorporating sharp cuts between shots. This part will include different shots such as an alarm going off, a pan of a sunrise, a toaster and a kettle as a way of leading the audience into the storyline and introducing the character. I will also introduce the key signifier of the film; the main character’s notebook, to set up the object’s importance in the plot line. For audio, I will use a continuous background sound of a ‘nature soundscape’ which will include bird song and wind noises to link to the way in which my story has a link to nature through the character going outside each day. I will also include a recording of the main characters voice, reading the contents of his notebook, as an overlay, whilst a shot of him writing in the book is on screen.

I intend for the second sequence to document the main character’s daily walk to the beach where he writes in his notebook and jots down his thoughts and feelings. I aim to start by including a establishing, long shot of the beach landscape which slowly focuses into the character by using a series of medium shots of him walking, closeups of his shoes and an extreme close up of him writing in his notebook. To link back to the brief of including a link to a famous music star, I intend to include the song “Fine Line” by Harry Styles for audio as it creates an atmospheric tone. The climax of my film would occur in this sequence; when the character unknowingly leaves his notebook behind on the path.

I intend to create a website that provides information on the content of the film, about the brand identity and further information about the cast, crew and production elements. I aim to create 4 website pages; a ’home’, an ‘about’ page, a ‘production’ page and also a page called ‘take a look’ which will allow the audience to see my film sequences.

I imagine that my cross media production would be produced by a small, independent company which is owned by a large conglomerate such as ‘Warner Bros’. The two posters would be created for distribution on a streaming platform eg. ‘Netflix’. The production would project to ‘The Explorer’ audience who can connect to the main characters journey to discovery and also ‘The Mainstreamer’ who can connect to the cathartic aspects of the narrative.