Lo2 pre production

  Treatment  

Trudge in the mud

Synopsis

The genre of my film is adventure, I will be filming a mockumentary. I will explore this genres conventions by having my character complete a quest to traverse the woods, with a bindle leant on there shoulder they will journey across a multitude of landscapes including wheat fields and rocky regions and come into contact with various creatures such as mice and problems such as getting stuck in the mud along the way. Finally to complete their quest they will find a snug spot with a view of the sunset, undo their bindle and set out a cozy picnic, pitch a tent and make a fire. In this spot they will make tea with water they boiled on the fire and quickly tuck away the treats they hauled in their bundle after a long day of traveling.

Target audience

I will target this project at young women and girls within the ages of 8 - 19 in both the ABC1 and C2D audience. As this is a short film it will complement the lifestyles of young women that have little time to relax and watch a long movie  they may have little time because they are university or collage students or have part time jobs along with there studies, or girls that have a short attention span. As my character is a mythical pixie my viewers won't identify with my charters culture or race but they may relate to their personality, likes and dislikes. 

Cast

In this film I may include background characters for some scenes, for these background characters I will cast Sally B and Mollie B. Although I will mainly use a clay character, this clay character will be voiced by myself however I will use software to change the pitch of my characters voice.

Crew Required

I will be the only person to: record with a camera, construct setting, set out lighting, create and record sound and direct my cast. However my cast will help me to position and move my clay figures in some scenes.

locations

I am planning to film in outdoor spaces such as meadows, rivers, woodlands and hills in Mosborough and the peak district. This fits my genre because my character will be exploring unfamiliar environments and solving the obstacles the landscapes lay out.

Props & costume

My props will include: a clay character in a shabby worn out costume including boots trousers and a shawl, my background characters will be dressed in winter coats, wellies, jogging bottoms and jumpers they are dressed this way so that they can walk in muddy cold locations. For my clay character to compete their journey they will use sticks, miniature tea cups, miniature bread, miniature camping equipment, a bindle, berries and nuts, leaves, a miniature soy saws fish bottle, mushrooms, miniature plates and cutlery, marbles, plastic rubbish and finally flowers as props.

Equipment

I will be using: A Cannon 2000D camera, microphones, A dead cat microphone, ring lights and torches, A tripod and headphones. This equipment is needed to: record sound accurately, film in good quality, create good lighting for my setting, steady my camera to film still shot's and listen to sound to make sure I have recorded the sounds I want. 

INCORPORATING VISUAL EFFECTS INTO THE PRODUCTION PLAN

For the visual effect in my production I created two small clay figure puppets as the protagonist in my production, I initially planned to have a scene including stop animation when the main character Tansy is having a picnic, as I did not have enough time for this, I instead filmed a close up so that the hand moving my wire character could not be seen, this created the effect of the character being more animated and like a real mythological creature.

I also used the visual effects of non copywrite animated text for the title screen, credits and end screen. This made my product look more fairytale like as it follows story conventions of having a Title and an end screen of 'The end'

I used a colour wheel to add a yellow colour filter in my product to give it warm and friendly connotations.

RISKS OF PROPOSED EFFECTS

As I mentioned the plan to do stop animation posed the risk of running out of time as it is an incredibly slow prosses. Using this effect also creates the risk of having lighting fluctuations as I would be filming in daylight this could create a flicker once the images are animated together. It could also create white balance shifts, focus issues and camera shake.

The model I created was small, this posed the risk of getting damaged and effecting the consistency of my characters appearance. To prevent this I stored my prop character in a sealed container as well as a separate container for the different hand attachments and prop cups etc., so that they didn't get lost.

Due to recording clips on an SD card and uploading them to my computer I ran the risk of them getting lost or corrupted, I prevented this by making copies of my footage and putting them in a USB drive. This also helped to store my footage when I didn't have enough storage space on my laptop. 

Budget and feasibility 

For this product I have a small budget to work from, however this project is feasible as I can use cheep scrap materials to create my character due to the small size of the model, and I can hire cameras for free instead of buying them. And I wont have to hire and pay for crew as I will be doing everything myself and getting help from volunteers.  

Mood board 

risk assessment

                               location recce

                                                            

location recce for UTC 

                                Story board

Production schedule 

Footage log