Research and planning

1) Confirm your production brief. You write this yourself but it's absolutely crucial this is clear, appropriate and achievable. You should have done this already - the original blogpost was here - but it may have changed as a result of your preliminary exercise.

I will be showing a range of things in my video. It will be about a boy and a girl who are going out and then show how they had a fight and she is mental and then does some psychological things to him like beats him up, ties him up for days etc. I want to be able to show how the woman is being controlling, manipulative etc instead of the stereotype it being a man doing it.This will show how difference in the opening scene as people assume its always the guy acting like that.

2) Research: notes on at least THREE similar texts to the one you are creating. What are the key conventions? What can you learn/borrow from the examples you have looked at?

The fall is one of the texts I will be researching seeing. I will also be researching the way that X files uses some things will be good. X files is more sci-fi but as i am showing a psychological thing it should be good to use some elements from it.

3) Project schedule: when will you film and edit this production?

I want to be able to film it next week and start doing some things like getting my props and costume and actors together. I will be able to get the work done and then once i have finished filming i can then edit. I should be done filming within 3 weeks.  I want top be able to film during the holidays too.

4) Script - see the BBC Writers' Room for advice/script formatting. If you're making a music video, you'll want to write a treatment instead. This is an example treatment that I provided for GCSE Media students studying this topic.

Done-

5) Storyboard - sheets available in DF07 or you can use this AQA storyboard sheet.

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6) Shot list - use Microsoft Word or a template like this to help you.

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7) Mise-en-scene: casting details, location scouting with photographs, props, costume and make-up, lighting.

Actors-There is going to my friend Tara-she will bring two other boys with her-The main boy *jack* wioll be the most important as he has a big role and then we can find someone to pretend to be eating and choking in the end.

Location-The location will be in a toilet for the beginning scene- Then when he’s tied up that will be either in a garage or an abounded warehouse. There will need to be some space. Or instead she can be keeping him in the room at the back of her house.

Props-there will be a weapon involved-For example, a large knife, a gardening weapon like an axe or a spade. Fake blood and some bruising

Costume-*Amy* will be in all black weather its jeans and a black top or a black dress and she will have to wear black heels. *Jack* will be in a white shirt or black shirt and jeans. He will be casual as we are showing how powerful a female can be. This means she will have to look fierce and black is a colour that relates to death.

Make-up- *Amy* will have to wear some makeup as she will be shown as a hard character again and she will have to look pretty etc. Jack won’t need any makeup maybe some fake bruises and fake blood but that’s all.

Lighting- As this is going to be shot in daylight-we are going to need the natural light of the sun. We want it to look a bit gloomy so if it decides to rain then that’s good-it needs to be dull. There will be some artificial lighting where when they are showing the scene where they are angry and shouting-we will need to see what is going on.