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Script
EXT.Day - Tilly's cafe
The son walks along the path and up to the cafe door.
INT.Day - Tilly's cafe
Son walks over and sits at the sofa. Meanwhile a waitress walks over to take his order.
SHANNON
Hi James, the usual?
James
Yeah thanks Shannon, put it on my tab.
Shannon walks off to get James’s order.
An senior man enters and limps over to the sofa.
Albert
Excuse me lad, may I take this seat?
James
Um, yeah sure, no problem
Albert comes to sit down.
Shannon returns with James’s coffee. She takes Albert's order.
Shannon
What will it be then sir?
Albert
Just a tea please young lady.
SHANNON
Coming right up.
Shannon walks away and quickly returns with a tea.
SHANNON
Two pounds please.
Albert looks in his pocket for cash.
ALBERT
Sorry love, I don't seem to have the cash.
James reaches across, five pounds in hand.
JAMES
Don't worry I've got this
ALBERT
Oh thank you, very much!
Jame's phone begins to ring.
JAMES
Hello...What do you mean you can't find him! I'm not paying you all that money to sit on your arse...I gave you all the information you need. My father’s name is ALBERT MATHEWS! Please, find him.
Father looks up.
James
Yes, I already told you. He left me...
ALBERT
18 Years ago.
FADE TO BLACK.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Production Schedule
Cast and crew
George Gardener- James Mathews (Son)
Craig Darlington- Albert Mathews (Father)
Shannon Bott- Shannon (Waitress)
Alex Collins & Raja Hanna- Directors, filmers, editors, producers
Useful Number
Alex Collins- 07947947417
Raja Hanna- 07593389762
Sawtry Community College (main switchboard) ................ 01487 830781
Location
Tilly’s Cafe- Sawtry
Technical Equipment
Toshiba Camellia S10
Fire SAWTRY/ST NEOTS ......................................................... 01480 474601
............................................................................................ 01480 445800 (OOH)
............................................................................................ Huntingdon Street
............................................................................................ St Neots
............................................................................................ Cambridgeshire
............................................................................................ PE19 1DU
Police SAWTRY/ST NEOTS .......................................................... 01480 456111
............................................................................................ 0345 456 4564
............................................................................................ Dovehouse Close
............................................................................................ St Neots, PE19 1DS
A&E HUNTINGDON .................................................................... 01480 416416
............................................................................................ Hinchingbrooke Hospital
............................................................................................ Hinchingbrooke Park
............................................................................................ Huntingdon Cambridgeshire
............................................................................................ PE29 6NT
A&E CAMBRIDGE ...................................................................... 01223 245151
............................................................................................ Addenbrookes Hospital
............................................................................................ Hills Road, Cambridge
............................................................................................ CB2 0QQ
Production
Like Father like Son
Filming Date
23 October 2011
Filming Location
Tilly’s Cafe
Base
Raja Hanna’s house for costume (Meet sixth form common room)
Costume
Father – Coat, hat
Son – Business suit and glasses
Waitress – Black trousers, shirt
No relevant transport
No directions required
Our revised script
EXT.Day - Tilly's cafe
wide SHOT
The son walks along the path and up to the cafe door.
INT.Day - Tilly's cafe
Son walks over and sits at the sofa. Meanwhile a waitress walks over to take his order.
WAITRESS
Hi James, the usual?
James
Yeah thanks Shannon, put it on my tab.
Shannon walks off to get Jame's order.
An senior man enters and limps over to the sofa.
Albert
Excuse me lad, may I take this seat?
James
Um, yeah sure, no problem
Albert comes to sit down.
Shannon returns with Jame's coffee. She takes Albert's order.
Shannon
What will it be then sir?
Alert
Just a tea please young lady.
SHANNON
Coming right up.
Shannon walks away and quickly returns with a tea.
SHANNON
Two pounds please.
Alert looks in his pocket for cash.
ALBERT
Sorry love, I don't seem to have the cash.
James reaches across, five pounds in hand.
JAMES
Don't worry I've got this
ALBERT
Oh thanks very much!
Jame's phone begins to ring.
JAMES
Hello...What do you mean you can't find him! I'm not paying you all that money to sit on your arse...I gave you all the information you need. His name is ALBERT MATHEWS!
Father looks up.
James
Yes, I already told you. He left me...
ALBERT
18 Years ago.
FADE TO BLACK.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Preliminary Task - Script
EXT.Trainstation.day
SON's shoes - Low angle shot
Then a long angle Pan shot of him walking down the platform with a Starbucks coffee.
Medium close up of son (chest to head)
Long shot looking down on to the train.
Mid shot of him walking onto the train.
Mid shot off him walking down the corridor.
Mid shot off him sitting down
Old man approches
FATHER
Ehhh ehhh, do do you mind if I sit there please son?
SON
Errm, no not at all, off course you can.
Two shot of father sitting next to the son.
TROLLEY LADY approaches with drinks- Mid shot
TROLLEY LADY
Anything from the trolley dears?
SON
(Lifts up his Starbucks)
Got one already darling.
FATHER
Yes please, may I have tea please?
TROLLEY LADY
Yeah off course you can
(She passes him the coffee)
Thats £2 please love?
Mid shot off all this
Father gets his change out, he does not have enough
FATHER-CLose up shot
All i got is 80p?
Close up of TROLLEY LADY
SON-Close up shot
Let me get this
(He pays with a £5 note)
FATHER
Thank you ever so much
SON
Nah don't worry about
Mid shot off all three
The trolley lady passes
Two shot (FATHER AND SON)
Long shot of women walking away
Two shot of father and son
SON'S phone rings (Boring ringtone)
Close up of SON on phone
SON-Close Up
Hello, any news?
(Close up shot of the FATHER)
SON- Close Up
What! What do you mean you can't find him! I'm not paying you all that money to sit on your arse. What do you mean you can't track him down? His name is ALBERT MATHEWS!
FATHER slowly tilts his head towards SON- Close Up
SON- Close up
Yes, I already told you. He left me...
FATHER AND SON TOGETHER- Two shot
18 Years Ago
Music starts
Mid shot of them looking at each other
Fades to black
Long shot of the train moving forward, representing there new relationship
THE END
SON's shoes - Low angle shot
Then a long angle Pan shot of him walking down the platform with a Starbucks coffee.
Medium close up of son (chest to head)
Long shot looking down on to the train.
Mid shot of him walking onto the train.
Mid shot off him walking down the corridor.
Mid shot off him sitting down
Old man approches
FATHER
Ehhh ehhh, do do you mind if I sit there please son?
SON
Errm, no not at all, off course you can.
Two shot of father sitting next to the son.
TROLLEY LADY approaches with drinks- Mid shot
TROLLEY LADY
Anything from the trolley dears?
SON
(Lifts up his Starbucks)
Got one already darling.
FATHER
Yes please, may I have tea please?
TROLLEY LADY
Yeah off course you can
(She passes him the coffee)
Thats £2 please love?
Mid shot off all this
Father gets his change out, he does not have enough
FATHER-CLose up shot
All i got is 80p?
Close up of TROLLEY LADY
SON-Close up shot
Let me get this
(He pays with a £5 note)
FATHER
Thank you ever so much
SON
Nah don't worry about
Mid shot off all three
The trolley lady passes
Two shot (FATHER AND SON)
Long shot of women walking away
Two shot of father and son
SON'S phone rings (Boring ringtone)
Close up of SON on phone
SON-Close Up
Hello, any news?
(Close up shot of the FATHER)
SON- Close Up
What! What do you mean you can't find him! I'm not paying you all that money to sit on your arse. What do you mean you can't track him down? His name is ALBERT MATHEWS!
FATHER slowly tilts his head towards SON- Close Up
SON- Close up
Yes, I already told you. He left me...
FATHER AND SON TOGETHER- Two shot
18 Years Ago
Music starts
Mid shot of them looking at each other
Fades to black
Long shot of the train moving forward, representing there new relationship
THE END
Preliminary Task - Shot List
Our shot list:
Low angle of son shoes
Long shot, panning, son walking down platform (coffee in hand)
Medium close up of son (chest to head)
Long shot looking down train
Mid shot son stepping onto train
Mid shot son sits down
Two shot father comes in sits down
Mid shot trolley
Close up trolley lady
Close up son
Close up father
Mid shot trolley lady passes tea
Close up father
Mid shot all 3
Close up son
Two shot father/ woman
Long shot, woman walks away
Two shot of son / father phone rings
Close up phone
Close up son answering phone
Close up father
Close up Son
Close up father (hers name)
Close up son
Two shot
FADE TO BLACK
High angle shot of train moving forward
Low angle of son shoes
Long shot, panning, son walking down platform (coffee in hand)
Medium close up of son (chest to head)
Long shot looking down train
Mid shot son stepping onto train
Mid shot son sits down
Two shot father comes in sits down
Mid shot trolley
Close up trolley lady
Close up son
Close up father
Mid shot trolley lady passes tea
Close up father
Mid shot all 3
Close up son
Two shot father/ woman
Long shot, woman walks away
Two shot of son / father phone rings
Close up phone
Close up son answering phone
Close up father
Close up Son
Close up father (hers name)
Close up son
Two shot
FADE TO BLACK
High angle shot of train moving forward
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Preliminary Task - Our Idea
Our idea for this task is a powerful scene set on a train where a long lost father and son are coincidently reunited.
The challenge with the film is to ensure that it does not come across as cheesy or cheap.
Our idea is to show the son as a stereotypical, successful, bussiness man. In doing this we show that he is better than a normal person. We will also present him as a kind and generous character so that the audience can still connect with and feel sorry for him.
The father is going to be presented as a lower class than the son. He will wear clothes that present him as poor and will appear dirty.
The audience will recognize the father as poor because he will be unable to afford a cheap cup of tea. This is where the son will come in giving the father the money he needs. Therefore the audience will see the son as a good character who they will like.
Later on in the train journey the son receives a phone call from a Private Investigator telling him that he is still looking for his missing father. During this convocation the son speaks the name of his father. At this point the father looks up at the son. The son then goes on to say that his father left his '18 years ago'. The father says this line simultaneously to the son and the audience make the connection that he is the mans father.
The shot then fades to a high angle shot of the train moving of into the distance representing how the father and son's relationship has began to move in a new direction.
Preliminary Task - Alex Collins & Raja Hanna
For our preliminary task we have been told to make a 1 minute film consisting of someone walking through a door and having a convocation with another person.
We brainstormed for a lesson and came up with two possible ideas for our film.
Idea One
A woman is attached and beaten up down a dark ally she is lying on path drifting in and out of consciousness. The scene is lit up in blue as an ambulance then pulls up. A paramedic then steps out of the back door of the ambulance and rushes over to that woman. The paramedic talks to her and reassures her.
Idea Two
A long lost father and son meat by chance on a train journey. The son is stereotypically weathly whereas the father is much worse off. The main focus us on the son who has been searching for his father for sometime.
We brainstormed for a lesson and came up with two possible ideas for our film.
Idea One
A woman is attached and beaten up down a dark ally she is lying on path drifting in and out of consciousness. The scene is lit up in blue as an ambulance then pulls up. A paramedic then steps out of the back door of the ambulance and rushes over to that woman. The paramedic talks to her and reassures her.
Idea Two
A long lost father and son meat by chance on a train journey. The son is stereotypically weathly whereas the father is much worse off. The main focus us on the son who has been searching for his father for sometime.
The Chase Task
Our team, Extreme Close Up Productions, consisted of Me, Toby Hall, Harry Ellerd-Cheers and Glyn Smith. We soon decided on the following roles for each member of our team:
Me - Actor/Editor
Glyn - Actor/Editor
Harry - Director
Toby - Camera operator
I knew that i wanted to take the role of editor which meant I also had to be an actor in the film.
Our brief was to create a 1 minute long chase scene with 2 actors. However, we were only aloud 1 hour to plan and another to shoot the film itself. This of course made the task considerably harder as our plan had to be brief in order for us to finish the first stage within the allotted time.
We ran into a few problems whilst filming relating to the fact that the rest of our class was also filming around the same locations. This is something we mistakingly had not anticipated in the planning stage.
Having to share the filming space with other groups meant that we were pushed for time and unable to finish with the shots we wanted. To fix this we moved the shot around slightly in the editing stage and added in some sound effects meaning that the film ended on a cliff hanger.
Post processing itself was not without its own share of problems. The camera we used to film required an Intel Processor to use so was therefor incompatible with the Power Mac G5 we were intending to edit on. We found a way around this problem by importing the files onto a different computer and converting the to a format compatible with the Power Mac G5 and Final Cut.
After uploading to YouTube it became apparent that there were black flashes present between each cut. However, it was to late to attempt to fix the problem as we were presenting to the class that afternoon.
Me - Actor/Editor
Glyn - Actor/Editor
Harry - Director
Toby - Camera operator
I knew that i wanted to take the role of editor which meant I also had to be an actor in the film.
Our brief was to create a 1 minute long chase scene with 2 actors. However, we were only aloud 1 hour to plan and another to shoot the film itself. This of course made the task considerably harder as our plan had to be brief in order for us to finish the first stage within the allotted time.
We ran into a few problems whilst filming relating to the fact that the rest of our class was also filming around the same locations. This is something we mistakingly had not anticipated in the planning stage.
Having to share the filming space with other groups meant that we were pushed for time and unable to finish with the shots we wanted. To fix this we moved the shot around slightly in the editing stage and added in some sound effects meaning that the film ended on a cliff hanger.
Post processing itself was not without its own share of problems. The camera we used to film required an Intel Processor to use so was therefor incompatible with the Power Mac G5 we were intending to edit on. We found a way around this problem by importing the files onto a different computer and converting the to a format compatible with the Power Mac G5 and Final Cut.
After uploading to YouTube it became apparent that there were black flashes present between each cut. However, it was to late to attempt to fix the problem as we were presenting to the class that afternoon.
Our film
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Research - Editor
In the film industry the editor takes the role of sorting all the captured footage into the correct order and selecting the right pieces of film. It also their responsibility to ensure the film runs smoothly and looks professional. They take film clips, sound effect and music, piecing them together to create a high standard film. Editing is what turns raw film footage into a movie capable of entertaining the target audience an generating profits.
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