Our short film "Monday Morning Madness" is a black and white slapstick comedy following two contrasting characters on their journey to school. We conducted focus groups with our target 14-19 year old audience who enjoyed and related to the comedy. We would approach production companies like Fox, DreamWorks and Universal to publish the film, showing it before their full-length movies to get audiences in the right mood. With a limited budget, the comedy comes from facial expressions and accidents rather than elaborate sets. We aim to make the film easily accessible to our target demographic through showings before other films. The film will have a recognizable tagline to brand it on posters, magazines and at the start of the short film.
The cast list for an upcoming production includes Hermione Hotson playing the role of Charlotte, Michael Foxwell as Joe, Ryan Heaphy as the Car Driver, and Alun Bliss as the Teacher.
The document summarizes scenes filmed at Joe's house for a short film. It describes Joe waking up in his messy bedroom, rushing to get ready in the bathroom where he frantically searches for his toothbrush, and then going to the kitchen to pick a cereal box but having trouble deciding and not eating anything. It conveys Joe is portrayed as unintelligent and disorganized through these scenes filmed at his house.
The document provides a cast list for a production with 4 roles: Charlotte played by Hermione Hotson, Joe played by Michael Foxwell, the Car Driver played by Ryan Heaphy, and Teacher played by Alun Bliss.
This document discusses the creation of title slides for a silent movie project. It explains that title slides were commonly used in silent films to convey information to audiences without sound. The document details researching a template design and choosing a vintage-style font called "Colonna MT" to incorporate in the slides. It also notes the slides were designed to fit PAL Screen guidelines so they would not be cut off on different sized screens. Examples of slides planned for the silent movie are listed.
Together, the group decided to use the idea from the Pineapple Express movie poster of only showing half of the characters' faces. This was to clearly distinguish the two characters while allowing the audience to identify them. They also decided to use the Pineapple Express tagline style and font near the top center of the poster, as research showed this draws attention. Additionally, they included the actors' names at the top sides like in the Titanic poster to attract audiences familiar with those actors. The contrasting facial expressions of the characters were intended to hint that one is a happy "geek" while the other seems lazy.
Our short film "Monday Morning Madness" is a black and white slapstick comedy following two contrasting characters on their journey to school. We conducted focus groups with our target 14-19 year old audience who enjoyed and related to the comedy. We would approach production companies like Fox, DreamWorks and Universal to publish the film, showing it before their full-length movies to get audiences in the right mood. With a limited budget, the comedy comes from facial expressions and accidents rather than elaborate sets. We aim to make the film easily accessible to our target demographic through showings before other films. The film will have a recognizable tagline to brand it on posters, magazines and at the start of the short film.
The cast list for an upcoming production includes Hermione Hotson playing the role of Charlotte, Michael Foxwell as Joe, Ryan Heaphy as the Car Driver, and Alun Bliss as the Teacher.
The document summarizes scenes filmed at Joe's house for a short film. It describes Joe waking up in his messy bedroom, rushing to get ready in the bathroom where he frantically searches for his toothbrush, and then going to the kitchen to pick a cereal box but having trouble deciding and not eating anything. It conveys Joe is portrayed as unintelligent and disorganized through these scenes filmed at his house.
The document provides a cast list for a production with 4 roles: Charlotte played by Hermione Hotson, Joe played by Michael Foxwell, the Car Driver played by Ryan Heaphy, and Teacher played by Alun Bliss.
This document discusses the creation of title slides for a silent movie project. It explains that title slides were commonly used in silent films to convey information to audiences without sound. The document details researching a template design and choosing a vintage-style font called "Colonna MT" to incorporate in the slides. It also notes the slides were designed to fit PAL Screen guidelines so they would not be cut off on different sized screens. Examples of slides planned for the silent movie are listed.
Together, the group decided to use the idea from the Pineapple Express movie poster of only showing half of the characters' faces. This was to clearly distinguish the two characters while allowing the audience to identify them. They also decided to use the Pineapple Express tagline style and font near the top center of the poster, as research showed this draws attention. Additionally, they included the actors' names at the top sides like in the Titanic poster to attract audiences familiar with those actors. The contrasting facial expressions of the characters were intended to hint that one is a happy "geek" while the other seems lazy.
The document provides an evaluation of the effectiveness of combining a film's main product with ancillary texts like posters and magazine covers. It analyzes the first Harry Potter poster and an Entertainment Weekly magazine cover that advertised the film. It also discusses posters and magazine covers for other films like Iron Man 2 and New Moon. The evaluation concludes that corresponding the themes, colors and imagery between a film's various marketing materials is an effective promotional strategy.
1) The document analyzes techniques used in modern film posters, including portraying main characters and their relationship, displaying actor names, and using slogans to convey genre.
2) It discusses using techniques like showing characters side by side to portray their personalities and relationship, splitting the poster into sections for different elements, and overlaying characters by importance.
3) The document considers ideas for their own short film poster, such as portraying an angry teacher at the top to show conflict, using red colors to symbolize danger or anger, and splitting two main character portraits horizontally to show their differing personalities.
The document summarizes the results of a questionnaire given to a student focus group regarding a short film project. Most students agreed that the storyline, characters, and comedy were appropriate for ages 15-19. However, some felt the comedy could be more mature. Students also suggested including the characters' parents or adding a rainy setting. Most enjoyed the YouTube inspiration clips but some thought the storylines were immature. Overall, the feedback was constructive and will help the filmmakers modify their comedy and avoid immature elements, having successfully aimed their project at the right target age group.
The film depicts a teenage boy who wakes up late for school. He rushes around getting ready in a disorganized fashion, exemplified by eating toast in the shower. He arrives at school only to discover that it is a Saturday and there are no classes. The comedic short film uses stereotypes of teenage boys to portray the character's immaturity and lack of responsibility through his rushed and disorganized morning routine.
Our media product uses, develops, and challenges conventions of silent films and comedy genres. We incorporated silent film techniques like black and white with added color for symbolism, background music, and intertitles displaying text. However, we modernized the costumes, used varied camera angles beyond point-of-view shots, and switched between two characters rather than focusing on just one. These adaptations update the silent film format for a contemporary audience while still paying homage to inspirational early films.
The document summarizes the results of a questionnaire given to a student focus group regarding a short film project. Most students agreed that the storyline, characters, and comedy were appropriate for ages 15-19. However, some felt the comedy could be more mature. Students also responded positively to sample YouTube videos shown but thought some storylines were immature. The feedback was overall positive and provided constructive criticism that the group found helpful for improving their project.
This document is a media questionnaire asking about film preferences and possible comedic scenarios for two students on their way to school on a Monday morning. It asks the respondent's age, preferred film genre and why, examples of films they like in that genre and why, if they prefer programs aimed at their age and why, what they like to see in comedies, and possible things that could go wrong for the students on their way to school such as burning toast.
The story follows a group of students who have a vivid dream of an angry teacher shouting at them for being late. When they wake up, they rush to get ready for school but everything goes wrong - from dropping their toothbrush to getting hair wax in their hair. They meet at the school gates only to discover that school is closed for a bank holiday. The short film aims to portray teenagers as unorganized and unaware through comedy, using animation, split screens, music and camera angles to tell the story. The target audience is 16-19 year olds who can relate to oversleeping and experiencing mishaps on the way to school.
The short film follows a character who appears to be attempting suicide in his car by attaching a hose from the exhaust into the vehicle. However, the film takes a comedic turn as his plans are continually thwarted by small mishaps. His pen runs out of ink when he tries to write a suicide note, his car won't start, and finally the engine cuts out again just as he is ready to lose consciousness from the fumes. The character grows increasingly frustrated as nothing goes according to plan. In the end, he angrily leaves his car in the rain to find petrol after discovering his canister is empty.
The short film "Post-It Love" depicts two shy office workers expressing their romantic interest in each other through clever images made of post-it notes scattered around their office, with each person trying to outdo the other's creation until they finally see each other's largest creation and share a smile, showing their feelings for each other through this creative, comedic, and romantic method of non-verbal communication due to their shyness.
The document discusses the history and evolution of comedy in film from 1895 to the 1990s. It covers early silent films that relied on slapstick and burlesque humor, influential directors like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton who helped establish slapstick, the transition to dialogue in the 1930s-50s which featured verbal/pun humor, and more surreal comedy in the 1960s exemplified by Monty Python. The document concludes that the snippets of comedic scenes from Home Alone (1990) provided the main inspiration for the student's short film which combines elements of early slapstick and 1990s style comedy.
The document provides an evaluation of the effectiveness of combining a film's main product with ancillary texts like posters and magazine covers. It analyzes the first Harry Potter poster and an Entertainment Weekly magazine cover that advertised the film. It also discusses posters and magazine covers for other films like Iron Man 2 and New Moon. The evaluation concludes that corresponding the themes, colors and imagery between a film's various marketing materials is an effective promotional strategy.
1) The document analyzes techniques used in modern film posters, including portraying main characters and their relationship, displaying actor names, and using slogans to convey genre.
2) It discusses using techniques like showing characters side by side to portray their personalities and relationship, splitting the poster into sections for different elements, and overlaying characters by importance.
3) The document considers ideas for their own short film poster, such as portraying an angry teacher at the top to show conflict, using red colors to symbolize danger or anger, and splitting two main character portraits horizontally to show their differing personalities.
The document summarizes the results of a questionnaire given to a student focus group regarding a short film project. Most students agreed that the storyline, characters, and comedy were appropriate for ages 15-19. However, some felt the comedy could be more mature. Students also suggested including the characters' parents or adding a rainy setting. Most enjoyed the YouTube inspiration clips but some thought the storylines were immature. Overall, the feedback was constructive and will help the filmmakers modify their comedy and avoid immature elements, having successfully aimed their project at the right target age group.
The film depicts a teenage boy who wakes up late for school. He rushes around getting ready in a disorganized fashion, exemplified by eating toast in the shower. He arrives at school only to discover that it is a Saturday and there are no classes. The comedic short film uses stereotypes of teenage boys to portray the character's immaturity and lack of responsibility through his rushed and disorganized morning routine.
Our media product uses, develops, and challenges conventions of silent films and comedy genres. We incorporated silent film techniques like black and white with added color for symbolism, background music, and intertitles displaying text. However, we modernized the costumes, used varied camera angles beyond point-of-view shots, and switched between two characters rather than focusing on just one. These adaptations update the silent film format for a contemporary audience while still paying homage to inspirational early films.
The document summarizes the results of a questionnaire given to a student focus group regarding a short film project. Most students agreed that the storyline, characters, and comedy were appropriate for ages 15-19. However, some felt the comedy could be more mature. Students also responded positively to sample YouTube videos shown but thought some storylines were immature. The feedback was overall positive and provided constructive criticism that the group found helpful for improving their project.
This document is a media questionnaire asking about film preferences and possible comedic scenarios for two students on their way to school on a Monday morning. It asks the respondent's age, preferred film genre and why, examples of films they like in that genre and why, if they prefer programs aimed at their age and why, what they like to see in comedies, and possible things that could go wrong for the students on their way to school such as burning toast.
The story follows a group of students who have a vivid dream of an angry teacher shouting at them for being late. When they wake up, they rush to get ready for school but everything goes wrong - from dropping their toothbrush to getting hair wax in their hair. They meet at the school gates only to discover that school is closed for a bank holiday. The short film aims to portray teenagers as unorganized and unaware through comedy, using animation, split screens, music and camera angles to tell the story. The target audience is 16-19 year olds who can relate to oversleeping and experiencing mishaps on the way to school.
The short film follows a character who appears to be attempting suicide in his car by attaching a hose from the exhaust into the vehicle. However, the film takes a comedic turn as his plans are continually thwarted by small mishaps. His pen runs out of ink when he tries to write a suicide note, his car won't start, and finally the engine cuts out again just as he is ready to lose consciousness from the fumes. The character grows increasingly frustrated as nothing goes according to plan. In the end, he angrily leaves his car in the rain to find petrol after discovering his canister is empty.
The short film "Post-It Love" depicts two shy office workers expressing their romantic interest in each other through clever images made of post-it notes scattered around their office, with each person trying to outdo the other's creation until they finally see each other's largest creation and share a smile, showing their feelings for each other through this creative, comedic, and romantic method of non-verbal communication due to their shyness.
The document discusses the history and evolution of comedy in film from 1895 to the 1990s. It covers early silent films that relied on slapstick and burlesque humor, influential directors like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton who helped establish slapstick, the transition to dialogue in the 1930s-50s which featured verbal/pun humor, and more surreal comedy in the 1960s exemplified by Monty Python. The document concludes that the snippets of comedic scenes from Home Alone (1990) provided the main inspiration for the student's short film which combines elements of early slapstick and 1990s style comedy.