My script has a theme of child abuse. I chose this topic as it was one I had personal experience, therefore came from the heart which I thought would have a real impact on the audience.
When I begun planning my script, I focused on six main things giving my story an outline helping myself in future planning. They included: a world; a problem; a character; a beginning; a need; and a want. This helps get more of an understanding to the main plot of the film and more of an insight to the main character.
Next we were given an eight way thinking table by our teacher in order to improve the planning of our film.
The rest of the planning went pretty easily as the planning I had already done provided stability for my ideas, as well as the fact that my idea was extremely personal therefore came from the heart, the only obstacle being my memory. I simply wrote down all the main events in my life crossing out parts less important than others, then included those left onto my script.
To help us receive a wider thought of creativity for the production of our film, our teacher recommended our class to watch the film Signs. It has an extremely simple message however leaves a big effect on the audience due to its different use of techniques. Signs did particularly well as a short film when entered in the Schweppes short film festival, drawing in a larger more mature audience.
Whilst watching Signs, our teacher regularly paused it in order for us to guess what we thought was going to happen next, this helped us to think from an audience’s point of view of how the plot for the films we are set to create could turn out to be, meaning we could decide to either make it predictable for the audience to have an outer gist of what was going to happen, or to make it totally unpredictable in order for them to stay intrigued to what happens next, but this will mean that the story has to be up to their standards throughout in order for them to stay and pay good attention.
This film encouraged me to leave audiences with a feel of sadness bringing more emotion therefore attraction to its deep meaning. Therefore I chose a well known topic which seems to hit the public when revealed about, as it occurs quite regularly and many want more consideration into.
As the film completed, my class had a mixture of suggestions to how it would finish, however the majority agreeing to one aspect, a negative one. This brought more concentration to the video as it created confusion as to what was going to happen therefore more attraction, learning this I thought it would be good to add something similar to my film in order to increase its success.
