Pre-Production - Specialism 2

Description/Overview

Main description

I plan to produce a multi camera kitchen sink drama short film about an old woman who is massively in debt, she hides herself in various places around the house to hide from the bailiff who will be one of the main characters who is constantly trying to knock on her door and she isn’t it but is in hiding, she gets constant letters through her home saying how they are going to get the police involved etc. She rings her well-off business man son to try and bail her out, he comes down to look at how much she is in debt and he can’t bail her out, when he figures out that he can’t bail her out he decides to kill the bailiff and tries getting rid of the body in various ways.

Location details

For a kitchen sink drama I am going to have it show in one location with an extra location as well, the first location will be a house or some sort of home, I was thinking of using a park home on in Warm well, Crossways. I also need a van to film in for the son’s role in the film.

Post production requirements

I am going to edit mainly on Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, I am going to edit the main film on Premiere Pro and make some sort of title sequence using After Effects, I may use Photoshop for the short beginning title sequence as well.

Treatment

The piece opens with a phone call scene of the son talking to his mum about what’s been going on with the bailiff situation, this scene features heavy shouting and heavy swearing and the dialogue will be very angry in this scene, it will then follow up with a few more scenes and reaction shots of the son in anger, there will then be a shot of the son putting the phone down. There will then be a shot of the outside of the house, all of the blinds are shut and curtains are pulled. There is then a shot from the inside of the house, it is very dark except from one light on which is a small lamp, you see the old woman sat down with a cup of tea shaking and rocking back and forth, there will then be a shot of the letters piling up at her door step. You then hear a loud knock and the woman goes into a shock, she rolls onto the floor and hurts herself, she struggles to get up but eventually does, the bailiff is at the door shouting to her very angrily and gets another letter through the door from him, he informs her that the property will be broken into if she doesn’t pay up and her belongings will be sold, she spends the night in her room staring at the ceiling crying emotionally, in the morning she steps into her kitchen to make herself some breakfast, she opens the fridge and has a tiny bit of butter left, some jam and some ham left, she opens her cupboard to find a piece of bread and makes it for some jam on toast. She gets a knock at the door and thinks it’s the bailiffs, she gets scared and ducks down, and she then gets a shout from her son so she opens the door and invites him in. The son sits down with her and opens her latest letter that the mum is urging him not to open them, he discovers that she is nearly £80,000 in debt and the money he has from being very successful in his life cannot save her from how much she is in debt, she tells him that the bailiff will be here soon and to hide with her when he arrives, in the time between they sit down and the time in between the bailiffs come and they sit down, they are talking about how the mum got into debt in the first place, the son finds out that his sister and her daughter convinced her to get a payday loan and a separate debt collector company is getting the bailiffs to come and raid her house. We hear a knock from the bailiff and a shout from him saying will you please let me in, tomorrow we are going to break in, with anger in his eyes the son opens the door and lets the bailiff in for a sit down meeting, the mum makes the bailiff a cup of tea and the son explains to the bailiff that the mum has been scared of opening the door, they sit down at the table and the bailiff explains the situation that she is now in £80,000 in debt exactly, the son has a bit of an anger strike in his eyes and when the bailiff gets up to leave, the son gets angry and batters him over the head with a baseball bat and kills him, the mum gets upset and sees if the bailiff is still alive, he is not, the mum then shouts at the son saying that she’s still going to be in debt even if the bailiff is now dead, the son then gets panicked and says to the mum that he didn’t know what to do and something just came over him, there’s blood stain on the floor. They then try to think of some ways to get rid of the body, the son persists to put the body into two bin bags because it’s the only thing he can think of to do for the moment to store it. They go to sleep for the night and sleep on it and wake up in the morning to figure out what they are going to do with the body. He decides to try and cook the body just to shrink it so they try it with a part of the body, it fails but looks more like a piece of meat then a piece of body which is good for them. They then decide they are going to get rid of the body by cooking all of it and putting it into the food waste bin. They go ahead with it but there is doubt in the mum and sons mind that it won’t go well. The mum gets a call from the bailiff agency, they are sceptical of where the bailiff has gone so they ring up the mum to see if she has seen him, she gets scared and gives the phone to the son who then angrily crushes the phone up on the floor. The mum then gets angry at the son and they both think that the crushing of the phone is going to trigger the police to come. They get really scared and rush cooking the rest of the body they use microwaves, frying pans and everything but realise when the police come it will probably be more evidence for them to take if they find out the murder was committed by the son. The son is then on a phone call to the sister telling her what had happened and that he isn’t happy with her and that he’s coming for her next, you see him get in the car with the mum being angry that he’s leaving her with all of this, you see him drive away very fast. You then see a sad reaction shot from the mother who is scared to death, she rings the sister to see what she’s going to do, there is then a knock and you hear a policeman say this is the police, open up, the film then swiftly ends.

Character analysis

Edna Waters – Edna waters will play the frail mum in the story, she is being hunted down by the bailiffs and hides at any chance she gets, she is very old in her 70’s and originally from Harlesdon in London, she now lives on her own in a Park home on a caravan site in Dorset after being a widow for about 6 years.

Jim Waters- Jim Waters is the son of Edna Waters who comes to bail her out of debt, Jim is a successful business man who owns and works in his own building contracting company, he also owns a café on the same street as the office, he resides in North London but has had a past of being a bit of a crook in his past, and he is in his 50’s.

Kieran- Kieran is the bailiff in the film, he is originally from Dorset and has only just officially become one so he hasn’t been on the job long, he has a tendency to walk into situations that he shouldn’t walk into quite a lot of the time.

Script

Money Hunger Script.docx

Step Outline / Technical Considerations

The piece will open with a short title sequence with the words Money Hunger on the screen, there will be no music and the audio from the next clip will play over the top of this sequence, this will then cut to a medium shot of Jim in his van talking to Edna on the phone, this will be a from the point of view from the steering wheel, it will keep cutting back to Edna sitting in her living room, these will be medium handheld shots that will pan around her. The next medium shot will be a long wide shot of the house that will be slowly tracking the house and moving towards it, there is then a close up on the pile of letters, there will then be handheld tracking shots of Edna moving around her house getting a glass of water and clearing up a bit. When Jim calls her there will be a medium shot of him in the van and long shots and medium shots of Edna on the phone that will continuously be cutting back and forth, the bailiff then comes to the door in a medium shot and Edna rolls under the table, these will be close ups and cutting edits between the two, the shot will then fade to black. The shot will then cut to black as Edna is waking up and there will be one continuous shot of her making some breakfast, this will be a medium shot. When Jim turns up there will be tracking handheld long shots of him coming towards the door as well as cuts to close ups when he is banging on the windows. When Edna lets him in these will be medium shots and cuts until the bailiff comes, when Kieran the bailiff turns up Edna hides under the table in a tracking medium shot, when Jim lets the bailiff in it will be a handheld medium close up shot that tracks them until they go into the living room. When they all sit down at the table, it will be continuous cuts between close up shots of the three characters to build up tension. When the bailiff gets up to start valuing the items in her house it will be a low angle to middle angle shot and when Jim batters him round the head this will be a low angle shot where the bailiff will fall into the camera. This will follow two close up reaction shots from the two remaining characters. The shots of Jim putting the body into the bags will be low angle shots and the things will fall into the camera. When he cuts the body up and puts it into oven there will be a point of view medium shot from the oven that will turn into a double over the shoulder shot from Jim and Edna, when Jim leaves to go and kill the sister, this will be one continuous tracking shot of Jim heading to his van, this will then cut back to Edna trying to catch up with him in a medium shot, Jim then drives away very fast whilst Edna is trying to bang on the windows for him to stop, these will be medium and close up shots. When Edna is scared and alone in the house it will cut between close up shots and medium shots from the two cameras and when the police come there will be the same continuous shot from earlier where she rolls under the table, there will be big blue and red lights shining through the window, it will keep cutting from Edna to the window, there will then be a point of view shot that is from the police kicking down the door, this will continue until it reaches a close up of Edna’s scared face, the film then cuts to black, light music starts playing and the words money hunger appear on the screen and it all fades out.

Post Production Requirements

• Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 video editing program – I will be using this program to edit all of my video files up into order, I will also use this with combination to Adobe After Effects by having different compositions within my timeline in Premiere Pro., I will be using different effects within this program such as colour correction, blending modes within building up other layers.

• Adobe Photoshop CS6 photo editing program – I will be using this program to create some motion graphics, I will then import them into after effects, I will be using adjustment layers as well as blending modes within Photoshop.

• Adobe Audition CS6 – I will be using this program to edit the sound of the interviews I record with my explorers, the audio files after rendering and exporting will then be put into After Effects and Premiere Pro for further editing.

• Adobe After Effects CS6 video editing program – I will use this program to create motion graphics for the visuals and use techniques such as animation, blending modes to build up layers, VFX, SFX and will be using all of this in co-ordination with Photoshop where the graphics created in Photoshop will be imported into After Effects.

• The final delivery format when exported from Adobe Premiere Pro will be in a H.264 format and the composition/timeline settings will be in HDV 1080p

• I will be using a college PC with an Intel Core i7 processor.

Recce / Location Scouting

I have decided to use my nan’s house on Oakland’s Park in Crossways, it is a park home which is a mix between a house and a holiday home/fixed caravan, this location would be good because its different to a house and the location it is in has beautiful scenery such as lovely plants that people have planted in their gardens etc. so for the shots that are outside the house will have a good sense of mise-en-scene about them.

Budget

2 x Canon DSLR 60D

£90 x 1.5 = £135 + £135 = £270

Tascam Audio Recording Kit

£15.00 x 3 = £45.00

Libec Tripod

£10.00 x 3 = £30.00

Redhead Lighting Kit

£30.00 x 3 = £90.00

Main Suite With Editor

7 days = £2000.00

52 Seat Lecture Theatre With Blu Ray And Wireless

£35.00 per hour

Total

£2470

Personnel / Materials

Personnel

An actor to play the role of the son, the son will be a bit of a normal guy, he is successful in his career but shows his true colours and true ways. The son will be in his 40’s/50’s and will have a bit of a London accent and will dress in a smart manor.

An actor to play the role of the mum, she is a frail old lady who is lonely but can also be very angry and feisty, the person playing this role will be in the age range of about 60/70/80.

An actor to play the male bailiff, this character will have the smallest role in the film and will be very young between the ages of 18-30, this character will be very focused on his job.

Props

I need a good set design which will fill up the scenes of the house, I will probably use the contents of the house and just mix them up to make it look a bit messier than a usual house to make a bit of a kitchen sink drama type scene. I will need some fake blood for when the killing of the bailiff happens. I will need a mobile phone for the phone calls they both make. Food waste bin. Some sort of meat that looks like human flesh or something that looks like human flesh that can be made easily. Bin bags. Van that the son drives. Small lamp that she lights the room with. Letters from the debt collecting agency, I will probably buy a pack of envelopes and pile them up by the door step, I will also design a letter on Photoshop or Illustrator or Microsoft Word from the made up debt collector company. Oven and microwave for cooking the body. Baseball bat for when the son kills the bailiff. These are the main things I need for the set plus the things I am going to use in the house. cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"

Risk Assessment

Slipping, tripping and falling

To prevent this I will make sure that there are no loose cables hanging around, I will make sure that there is no slippy surfaces all over the house

Heat from the oven and microwave in body cooking scenes

Will make sure oven isn’t on full temperature at any time and will make sure I wear suitable oven gloves or protective gear

Working with vehicles

I will make sure the vehicles are safe to drive in and make sure that the environment is quiet and safe to drive in.

Working with fake blood and other liquids

I will make sure the camera’s and other electrical equipment are away from any wet surfaces or wet liquids at all times to prevent damage to the cameras.

Contingency Plans

Handing the specialism project in as a script instead of a film, if things go majorly wrong and I physically cannot complete the project in time I will hand the project in as a script, as Ben Wheatly’s films rely heavily on screenplay and dialogue with his wife Amy Jump this will count heavily towards the production of the film in the future Handing in another project I have been working on, for example a music video I have been working on for DJ EMLINK for his track Circus Freak, this video carries a lot of edginess that Wheatly’s films provide If my actors drop out last minute I will find other actors last minute and if this falls through I will go to the plan of handing the project in as a script. If something happens where I am not able to use the location I will use my own house for it.Each of the ratings have different things you have to comply with, for example for a 12/12A you can’t show drugs being glamorised and there must be no sexual context in nudity and on a U film you can’t have anything offensive or discriminative.

Codes of Practice

The only codes of practice that is relevant to my project would be the BBFC’s (British Board Of Film Classification) film ratings on films which you have to apply for privately through your studio if being released as a physical movie or released at cinemas. Some classification professionals will watch the films you submit and they will be given a rating from U which means universal and anyone can watch it all the way up to 18 which means no one under 18 can watch it.

Each of the ratings have different things you have to comply with, for example for a 12/12A you can’t show drugs being glamorised and there must be no sexual context in nudity and on a U film you can’t have anything offensive or discriminative

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