Shot List:

1. Door slams-Lewis walks down path, long shot.
2. walks down street, mid shot.
3. Long shot of Lewis walking towards camera.
4. Jasper walks through door, mid shot.
5. Long shot walking down path.
6. Mid shot walking past camera.
7. Mid shot Lewis in classroom, sitting down at desk.
8. Camera rotates around Lewis.
9. Continuing rotation, Lewis rests his head on hand, staring blankly at book.
10. long shot Jasper,walks past camera.
11. camera pans round Jasper, Mid shot to shot 12.
12. Over shoulder shot, showing scenery.
13. Lewis sitting on bench, eat lunch.
14. Over shoulder shot, bullies walking towards, Lewis.
15. Long shot, Lewis gets beaten up by bullies.
16. close up of hands, Lewis gives money to bullies.
17. Mid shot, Jasper climbs tree.
18. Jasper, sits in branch and looks down away from camera.
19. Close up of Jaspers head, show figure walking towards him.
20. Lewis walks down street, towards camera.
21. side view mid shot, of Lewis. cyclist cycles past.
22. continuing shot, Jasper appears other side of street, Lewis walks of camera.
23. Continuing shot, Jasper crosses road, and walks past camera.
24. Shot from behind of Lewis and Jasper walking down street. (Jasper, keeps looking around fascinated by what he sees).

This is a ruff shot list of what are film opening is going to be like, we may make a few changes later on.

Animatic storyboard:

This Animatic, shows how are opening sequence is going to be laid out, with the fades, representing, the switch between worlds. Near the end, of the clip, there is a fade not between the worlds but between movements, this is because, it follows on better, so that it is easier to under stand what is going on between the two images. The last fade was put in to match the music and also, so that we may place the title there, to start the full story off.

Storyboard Information + Animatic plan

The story board shows certain, events from both worlds that coincide with each other, centralizing on the two boys, all these events are happening in one day of their life. The last few shots show in the fantasy world, show the boy climbing a tree, and resting there, the camera moves closer in showing the ground around him, this shows you a man walking towards the tree which the boy is sitting on.

The last shots with the boy from the real world shows him walking home from school, (head is looking down. A cyclist, goes past, and when that happens, the boy from the fantasy world appears, looks around, and slowly walks in the same direction that the real boy walks, he keeps looking around fascinated.

The anamatic will show you a ruff cinematic view of how the actually film will look, showing the time of each shot, and the motion of the camera.

The Storyboard

The storyboard is a picture animated version of what we will be filming and how we're going to film it. Our storyboard shows the two different life styles in the real world and the fantasy world. Basically, the real world is shown as really bad and a lot of things go wrong where as the fantasy world is perfect.

Final synopsis:

We are using the third option which is a children adventure film. Our Idea is to have a story centralizing around two young boys, who live in completely different worlds, one lives in our world called Lewis, while the other one lives in a world of fantasy called Jasper. The film centralizes around the idea that Jasper manages to travel to the real world, where he meets Lewis, who is having social troubles, Jasper fascinated by the real world, brightening up Lewis life, and the way they see that world. However, Jasper, unused to how the real world works, ends up getting into trouble, and Lewis has to get him out of it. In the end Lewis, learns to live life to the full, whilst Jasper comes to terms on how the real world works. The films end with both the boys going to the fantasy world.
This synopsis tells you what the whole film is about and not just what is in the opening sequence. It helps us give an idea on how the film will work and what we will need to do to make the opening sequence.

This is our Mood Board:

This shows you the atmosphere of what are opening sequence will be like, while also keeping, the imagery similar to what we hope to achieve. For example The Black and White Photographs represent a dismal representation of the real world, while the color images show a bright, cheerful environment, for the fantasy world. The music for this mood board also gives the impressions of a dark mood, and a cheerful mood switching between each other. I put a calm muted drum beat to keep the interest of the audience as it is a fairly ling piece of music. Also to do this I put a syncopated bass rhythm into it. And finally just for the feel and effect I put a syncopated tambourine quietly in the background, this give the piece a more rounded feel. I made it slightly shorter by changing the tempo of the piece. I feel personally this also makes the piece sound better and more appealing to the audience. Plus, I changed the key of the piece of the music as I felt that playing the piece in C major was boring and uninteresting. Therefore, I changed the key to Bb minor as this is out of my personal experience a really nice key for the piano to play in. The music was done by Steve. This is essential for what we want to achieve for the opening because, we are planning to introduce the two main characters, by showing certain events in an average day of the completely different lives.

Mood board ideas-

The Ideas that we have for what images we will use to represent our Opening sequence:
The type of images that we will use for the real boy are black and white images of cities, city life, school.
The fantasy boy the images that will represented him are fantasy worlds in color, and menial work in color.

Developing on the Idea 6 for our film synopsis:

Idea six: A person from a fantasy world finds their way into our world:

Possible beginning:
11 year old boy called Jasper, who lives in this fantasy magical world, somehow manages to do to the real world where he meets a boy from the real world called Lewis, who is quite sad, the fantasy boy, makes friends with real boy.

Introduction will show the daily routines of each of the boys
Fantasy boy has manual work - real boy has school and education.

Sysnopsis ideas:

1-Alien theme- boy gets a lift home from school from Aliens-

2- supper Villain- a film from the view of the villain-

3- story about a giant called Stinkrot-

4- speaking animals - who struggle, escape from a renegade alien**

5- Child wins holiday but it all goes wrong.*

6- Fantasy person travels to the real world***


Key: * are groups favorite ideas.

Production Logo

Our YAY production logo:

Production Logo anaylsis:

This Production Logo is simple, making hard to forget, also just by looking at the logo you can tell what the company deals in as it doesn't have anything that doesn't relate to it. However you could say that because it relates to the company it looks a bit dull because it has limited colours so would probably not stick in your mind.


The 20th Century FOX logo is a more attractive logo firstly it has vibrant colours and it is 3D making it graphically more interesting and the light beams give a sense of a premier look, for example the premier of film which is what it is advertising, so as wells looking good and interesting it is also showing you what the production company is about.

We feel that a film producer that would most probably present our show would be "Dreamworks" as this is often a company that is used for children's films like "Shrek" etc.

The Goonies analysis -childerens adventure sequence-

The Goonies opening sequence at the start gives you an impression of a dark film as at the begging following some of the titles, you only hear some foot steps on a hard floor, accompanied with a black background, with white title lettering, with images of skulls. This in total gives you the impression of a dark film, that you would not think of being a film for children. After the title at the beginning you find that the footsteps belong to a policeman, who discovers a man who supposedly hanged himself but faked it so that he could escape. You then get the whole escapade where the man escapes in a jeep with whom you suspect are his family members, they block the path of the police by creating a wall of fire round the main entrance. They escape with a few police cars chasing them, the police being held up by a car block their path, but in the end, they loose them selves in a car beach race, ending the titles.
The music changes when the man escapes into a Jolly sort escapee music which lightens the tone of the film making you think that it is more comical than you first make it out to be because of the very begging.

The Goonies

Theme:

• Magic (harry potter)
  
• Sci-Fi (space)
  
• Old Action (Medieval)
  
• Surreal (Made up but believable)
  
• World Switching (going into a different world - Alice in wonderland)
  

Character types:

• Quiet black horse
• Cocky bastard
• Nerd
• Action no brains eg Arnold Schwarzenegger
  
• Bad guy
• Mental
• Child Hero

Visual Images:

• Woodland
• Urban
• Church
• Rural
• Sports hall
• College

Narrative Scenarios:

• good vs evil
• Jealousy
• revenge
• political
• romance
• honor
• protection
• sport

Sound:

• music
• sound effects
• natural sound
• singing
• speech

Production styles:

• special effects
• animation
• different camera angles
• variety of shot speeds
• varied lighting
  

Analysis of Lion, Witch and the Wardobe opening sequence.

This Opening sequence gives the viewer an insight into the background story of the film, showing you that it is set during the blitz. It is shown in two views from the perspective of the German pilots and a London family. The sequence is showing the family evacuating into the bomb shelter, this gives the viewer a preview of the main characters personalities. Giving you a run down of the main characters starting with the most important.
The cinematography of this sequence, gives the atmosphere of London during the blitz and the impact it had on the citizens. The editing in this sequence includes many jump shots to represent the pace and intensity that the characters are experiencing.
The music in this opening sequence starts off quite fast pace when it is showing the Germans; which shows that they are the bad guys. When it switches to the view of the family it has an even faster tempo of music to show the trouble and danger that they're in. Once they're all in the bomb shelter the music was more sympathetic because the audience realizes that all Edmund was trying to do was get the picture of his Dad who had gone away to fight.
Overall, the sequence is straight into an action theme; because of this it entices the audience to watch more because if it had a boring and long opening sequence the audience will lose interest and may not watch to the end of the film.

Video of the sequence