adventure proforma

1. Adventure

2. Group of lads living in 90s Manchester form
a band with intentions of becoming the
next Stone Roses. The 5 teens cant stay out
of trouble at school, as the one thing on
their mind is Spike Island, the greatest gig
of the 90s.
The lads record a demo tape of their music
to try and give to the band when they get
in, but fail to get tickets to the gig when the
seller doesn't show up. After failing to get
tickets they are all still determined to get in.
The day of the gig and the lads set off
to Widnes in hopes to see their
favourite band play despite not having
tickets.
They arrive and head to the main gates, but with no tickets they are
denied entry. Their first attempt of getting in is fighting their way
through security. As expected this didn’t work. The lads come into
some luck and gain 1 ticket. 1 of the lads go in leaving the rest outside
with the demo tape. The rest of the lads sneak their way around but is
still left on the wrong side of the fence along with everyone else that
doesn’t have a ticket. Still with the demo tape in hand they enjoy the
gig from the outside.
After the gig they all return back to Manchester
having lost the tape and one of the members
joining a new band. The lads then all decide its
time for them to go their separate ways.

3. Character type How they appear in your story
The Hero Tits – The lead singer of the band and the one that makes most of the decisions for him
and his friends
The Villian Ste- Tits’ older brother who steals their tickets and isn't a very great role model to Tits.
The Helper Dodge, Little Gaz, Penfold, Zippy – All Tits’ mates and fellow band members who join him
on the way to Spike Island.
The Donor Sally Harris – A girl who they bump into outside of the gig who later becomes Tits’
girlfriend.
The Dispatcher
The Princess or prize Spike island entry/ Sally Harris – Both are wanted by Tits.
The Princess’s Father
The False Hero Dodge – Who Tits thinks is his friend but later falls out with due to him joining different
band.

4. WWWWWH
Who Group of school lads – Tits, Dodge, Little Gaz, Penfold and Zippy all in a band together.
What They all want to go see The Stone Roses Perform live at Spike Island. But struggle to get in due to not having
tickets for the gig.
Why So they can try and give the band their demo tape and get a record deal.
When 1990
Where Manchester and Widnes (location of Spike Island)
How

5. Initial Ideas

6. Idea 1
Who 4 teenage friends
What 4 friends embark on a camping trip by themselves in a forest. End up splitting up, looking for firewood,
some people get lost.
Why They had just finished their year of college and decide to go on a group camping trip for the weekend.
When Set in the 90s.
Where A small woods in a forest located in the middle of nowhere.
How The group decide to make a fire and split off into groups of two. Each group end up lost and not able to find
each other.

7. Idea 2
Who 2 brothers, one aged 8 at the other 16.
What Both of them have had to evacuate to the countryside due to the war. Neither of them are been treat very
well so they aim to escape and go back to London without realising the consequences.
Why They both hate where they have been sent to and think living in the city is a lot safer for them
When 1915
Where Both of the brothers were sent to Suffolk in the countryside
How When allowed out to play in the garden they each pack a small bag and run away looking for the nearest
city.

8. Idea 3
Who A young girl – aged 13
What She can control peoples minds just from looking into them and they follow any of her instructions.
Why She does this to get back at people due to been bullied all throughout school.
When Mid 2000s
Where England, down south
How

9. Mind Map:
Camping trip
Location
At first very safe
environment at
first
Forest later becomes very
gloomy and unsafe
Characters
Group of teenagers just
finished their school year
and decide to go camping
The problem
They split up to find
firewood and the forest
suddenly becomes
gloomy.
They all keep
hearing wolf
like noises
The game idea
Some form of maze from a
birds eye view. 3 lives. Collect
all the sticks and make it to
other side without being
caught by wolves

10. Mood board:
A gloomy forest to make
the scene more intense
and scary.
To start with a nice warm and
inviting scene to create contrast
when it drastically changes to a cold
and gloomy forest
Characters chased by wolfs?
Likeable characters so viewer
feels more empathetic

11. Research
Research

12. The masthead on this cover is in a large bold font to draw
attention to the magazine when its in a shop.
The photo on the cover was taken in a studio and in post
production some effects have been added such as scratches
and smudges to appear as if the character is behind a bus
shelter. This creates a grimy aesthetic to reflect the film.
The film title is also in a large bold font in a bright colour to
entice the reader to the film advertisement.
The “smarter movie magazine” text below the masthead tells
the reader that the magazine is superior to other film
magazines and shows that is is of a higher quality.
As well as this the “exclusive” text tells the reader that this
magazine contains something that no other magazines contain,
giving the reader more of a reason to buy the magazine.

13. Compared to the magazine cover the
billboard advert doesn't’t give away too
much information about the film. They have
kept the advert simple but still effective
enough to tell the viewer what the film is. A
large bold font of the film title to show what
the film is called and when it is released.
The colour scheme on the billboard is much
darker than its surroundings so it stands out
therefore drawing attention to it when a car
is driving past. The dark background
emphasizes the film title as it’s a much
lighter colour; drawing more attention to
the key information on the billboard.

14. Pac - Man
This game features a maze, where the character has
to work his way round collecting points without
getting caught by the ghosts. The character is given 5
lives until you lose and have to restart the game. The
Pac-Man sound effects are mainly a robotic eating
noise when collecting the yellow pieces. This is a
similar concept to my game as it will also feature a
maze in the style of a forest. And the aim will be to
get to the others side while collecting firewood on
the way whist avoiding wolves.

15. The banner of the magazine tells the reader what films
the magazine contains. Its been written in the rule of
three to keep it short and informative while still keeping
the readers attention. The main image on the cover is
large and cover the masthead making it stand out. As well
as this the characters eyes are looking directly into the
camera catching the viewers attention right from the start.
The cover reflects the genre of the film with the bottom
line “feel the force”. The barcode is in the bottom right-
hand corner as its necessary on the cover but isn't taking
the viewers attention away from the actual magazine. At
the very bottom of the magazine there is a rhetorical
question which leaves the reader wanting to buy the
magazine and read on. On this cover the date price and
website name is in a much smaller font as its less
important than most of the other features.

16. Frogger
Frogger is a game where the aim is to get all 5
frogs to the top of the screen while trying to avoid
vehicles or falling in the water. If the frog is hit by
a vehicle or falls in the water then you have to re
start the game. There’s a sound effect when the
frog jumps and a different sound effect when the
frog dies.

17. Research Summary
• What have you learned from your research?
• From my research I have learnt that any magazine cover or advert follows a
certain colour scheme, so it is eye catching for the viewer. Aswell as this
magazine covers always include a masthead and the title of the film/game in
large bold letters so it is clearly visible on the front of the cover.
• What aspects of the research will you include within your on work?
• Aspects I will include in my work will be a consistent, relevant colour scheme.
I will also include large, bold font for the title. These are the main features my
work will include.

18. Bibliography
Pre-production and Planning

19. Style Sheet

20. Magazine and
advert layouts

21. Video Game layouts
This is a drawing of the background of my game that will be
animated to appear as if the character is moving. This will
allow me to only animate the character with an up and down
motion.

22. Script
*scene starts in a gloomy forest and the fire has started burning out*
Character 1: We should probably go collect some more wood for that fire before it goes out
Character 2: Yeah, good thinking, lets split up and collect it before it gets even darker.
Character 1: Do you really think splitting up is a good idea it's pretty dark already.
Character 2: We will be fine just be back here in 10 mins don’t worry about It.
*They split off to go collect fire wood*
*Temperature suddenly drops, Character 1 becomes panicked hearing unfamiliar noises.
Character 1: Hello?
Character 1: Who is it?
*Fierce looking wolf appears from the within the fog and heads towards character 1*
*Game begins*

23. Sound Effects
Sound Effect Needed How I Will Create the Sound
Rustling leaves Find dry leaves create sounds from them
Crackling fire Scrunching crisp packet, bubble wrap,
rustling tin foil.
Wolf howl Knock on my front door, record sound my
dog makes.
Stabbing/squishing sound
Jumping sound Record sound of someone jumping.
Collecting points sound Use beepbox

24. Music
Band Name Track Name Link
UNKLE, Ian Brown Be There https://youtu.be/kUubW5szdwA
Tricky Hell Is Round The Corner https://youtu.be/LTsQQW8ttzg
Bonobo Terrapin https://youtu.be/5xDVg9dTb4A

25. Contingency
What can go wrong? What can you do if it does?
Issues with photoshop - the software crashing Try to recover as much as possible
Weather issues when shooting photos for the
magazine cover.
Shoot the photos indoors if possible, if not go out on a
non-rainy day.

26. Risk Assessment
What could be a risk to you, others or the
equipment?
How can you make sure that doesn’t
happen? What will you do if it does?
Getting burnt when making a fire Don’t mess around near or when building the
fire.
If ground is slippery and muddy falling over
is a risk
Be cautious if ground is slippery or shoot
somewhere else.

27. Production

28. Using your plans, produce:
• A synopsis for your film
• A video game that would support your film, to include a menu screen,
demo level and cut scene
• Sound track for the video game
• A magazine front cover, promoting the film
• Additional advertising to promote the film
Include synopsis, magazine cover and advertising in this pro forma.
Animation to be embedded in your blog.

29. Evaluation

30. Research
• Strengths of my research I would say was the analysis of the magazine covers. Researching into
covers helped me massively when producing my own. For example, I knew what features to
include and where to put them. This research also taught me why each feature is included for
example a much larger font is used for the title to draw the veiwers attention as well as promote
the company.
• I would say a weakness in my research was when I looked into different games. I feel this didn’t
help me when it came into producing my game as I didn’t know how to make one. To resolve/
improve this I could have researched into how games were made for example research Sofware,
how their ideas are planned, how long they take to produce. Because of this I struggled with
producing my game on the animating side of things .

31. Planning
• There were not many strengths to my planning other than helping me think of a new idea along
similar lines due to not been able to shoot my original idea due to covid restrictions.
• Weaknesses of this planning was not thinking ahead of time. For example, I didn’t take into
account that the UK could potentially end up in another lockdown meaning I will not be able to
shoot with a cast outdoors. As well as this it meant I didn’t have access to the software I was used
to using. This meant when it came to using alternative software I struggled. Next time I would
plan a backup idea, so I didn’t have to think of a whole new idea just incase I find out my
original idea cannot go ahead.

32. Time Management
• My time management was pretty good to say I was working from home. I successfully stuck to
my college timetable in order to complete my work. In the first week of working my time
management wasn’t great. This is due to my laptop breaking meaning I couldn’t access my work
for the week until it was fixed. This left me behind on parts of my production work, meaning I had
to put in an extra couple hours each day in order to catch up. Once I had caught up I then had
issues with the software I was using losing a days work. This meant I had to spend more time
catching up.
• Due to the issues I faced it didn’t leave me any time to go back and edit and improve my work. If I
had been given additional time I would've gone back and changed parts of my game. I feel like I
could've pin-pointed certain parts and gone back and improved them. For example, focus on
getting a smoother animation by adding more frames.

33. Aesthetic Qualities

34. Aural Qualities
The sound featured in my game was good, I would say it fit the theme and tone of it as it wasn’t too
fast or too slow. All of my sound was created on beepbox, this includes sound effects as well as songs
used on my game. I'd say the most successful parts of my audio would be the sound effects used for
my characters as I feel they represent my game characters well.
If I were to improve parts of my audio I would definitely take a look at the short song I created for the
main part of my game. I feel like I could've maybe refined the sounds I used to make it fit the theme
of my game more .

35. Audience Appeal
My target audience was ages 10+ and I feel as if I've met this. My game consisted of 2 characters,
and animated alien and a square character to appeal to the younger ages. I decided to make the age
10+ due to the game featuring some minor animated violence for example an explosion at the very
end of the game which I don’t feel is suitable for any ages younger than 10.
The colour scheme of my game included a very monochrome coloured background and then
characters with much brighter, prominent colours to stand out. If I were to have used a much more
realistic colour pallete the game would appeal less to the younger audience. This is due to younger
people being more drawn to much brighter colours.

36. Overall strengths and weaknesses of the final
package.
One of my main stregnths I would say was managing to produce a magzine cover without the
use of photoshop. Working from home presented me with some issues and I feel I worked very
well despite the fact I faced many technical issues when using unfamiliar software. Another
strength of my final product I would say was the menu screen featured in my game, I feel as if it
featured all the key parts that an actual game screen consists of. As well as this I was happy with
the way I had animated the menu screen as it was the first bit of animation I did using a
different software to photoshop.
I'd say my weaknesses were spending too much time learning how to use the software. Another
weakness of mine was not having the smoothest of animations for example, when a character
moved it would be slightly jumpy. If I had more time I would have fixed this by adding more
frames inbetween. Another thing I would change if I had more time is the creativity of my
advertisments. For example, I was very happy with the outcome of the tshirt design as well as
the poster design but I feel I could have taken a more creative approach at the bus stop
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