Wednesday, 14 December 2011
More plans....
In my opening scene, the main character is Stella. She is described as being 15, tall, ginger, pretty and thin. Charles is described as being tall, dark, extremly good-looking and confident. I have yet to decide what actors and actresses i will use for this film. The opening scene is based on a book, Fallen star, and so the opening scene is difficult, but the book does include a proluge, which is the character reflecting and, so i have decided to combine this with the ending. To do a collection of memories from the book as the character talks over the top of her future plans which are mentioned at the end of the book. The scene should go as such; Stella is in her bedroom and all is quiet. There are boxes packed everywhere, but her furniture is still there, bare. She looks around, sadly and then goes in the top drawer of her cabinet and pulls out the bracelet that Charles gives her, and the camera flashes back to when he gave it to her and then back to the bedroom again. Her dad then calls her to get in the car. A little toddler runs in and Stella picks her up and takes her to the car, says goodbye to her mother and brother and the car pulls away with Stella in the front seat and her father in the driver seat and holly in the back. As they're driving, Stella's voice is over the top talking about where she is going and why. There will also be music in the background. A few important memories are shown in the scene and then she pulls up to the new house, pauses and then gets out. There maybe more to the scene after, i am not sure yet. Next up is planning the script and storyboard over christmas!
Thursday, 8 December 2011
Film Synopsis
Beatrice Norman
Project name; Fallen Star
Genre; Period Drama
Audience; Teen audience
Logline:1950s, 15yr old Stella falls pregnant and is shipped off to a convent in Dublin to have her baby in secret, but the baby is taken away from her, she must struggle to get her back. Main character; Stella - Teen pregnancy in early 1950 Ireland.
Act 1; Stella meets Charles at the cafe in which she works and gets invited to his birthday party. Stella begins dating him, and soon becomes sexually active with him. Not long after Charles tosses her to once side for another girl, she becomes suspicious that she is pregnant, confirmed by the doctor she now has to tell her mother and Charles. Charles takes it badly and flees to England with not a trace and her mum takes it even worse arranging for her to leave to go to a convent in Dublin.
Major characters;
STELLA WOOD
CIARAN WOOD
MOTHER
FATHER
MAEVE
CHARLES
Act 2; Stella gets a nasty shock when she arrives at the convent and the harsh reality of her new life. Stella makes enemies and friends within the convent and becomes increasingly close with a girl names Marie who takes her to the pharmarcy to get something for the sores devloping on her head. Her old freind Leo comes to visit her and tells her that Charles has come back home, but is too scared and confused to contact her. The girls decide to set up a christmas play to hype up everyone's spirits not long after, she gives birth to a little girl and calls her Holly after Buddy Holly. Her aunite Nora comes to visit her and the baby, but a few days later the baby is taken away from her, and ready to be sent to another family. Marie and Stella, however, plotting and scheming make a plan to take holly back in the early morning and stella will run away with her, to her auntie Nora. The plan succeeds and stella begins her life of waitressing locally and being a new mum.
Act 3;
The police tracks Stella down, so while staying in Leo's flat for a while she decides she has to flee to London. Her father is there to meet her at the station and takes cares of her. They both come back home to Ireland and her father tells the police Stella is keeping the baby and they'll adopt her themselves if they have to. The policeman lets the case go, but Stella still does not feel at home. She moves back to live with her auntie Nora with Holly and starts the local school.
This film is an adaption of the novel Fallen Star by Joan O'Neill.
Project name; Fallen Star
Genre; Period Drama
Audience; Teen audience
Logline:1950s, 15yr old Stella falls pregnant and is shipped off to a convent in Dublin to have her baby in secret, but the baby is taken away from her, she must struggle to get her back. Main character; Stella - Teen pregnancy in early 1950 Ireland.
Act 1; Stella meets Charles at the cafe in which she works and gets invited to his birthday party. Stella begins dating him, and soon becomes sexually active with him. Not long after Charles tosses her to once side for another girl, she becomes suspicious that she is pregnant, confirmed by the doctor she now has to tell her mother and Charles. Charles takes it badly and flees to England with not a trace and her mum takes it even worse arranging for her to leave to go to a convent in Dublin.
Major characters;
STELLA WOOD
CIARAN WOOD
MOTHER
FATHER
MAEVE
CHARLES
Act 2; Stella gets a nasty shock when she arrives at the convent and the harsh reality of her new life. Stella makes enemies and friends within the convent and becomes increasingly close with a girl names Marie who takes her to the pharmarcy to get something for the sores devloping on her head. Her old freind Leo comes to visit her and tells her that Charles has come back home, but is too scared and confused to contact her. The girls decide to set up a christmas play to hype up everyone's spirits not long after, she gives birth to a little girl and calls her Holly after Buddy Holly. Her aunite Nora comes to visit her and the baby, but a few days later the baby is taken away from her, and ready to be sent to another family. Marie and Stella, however, plotting and scheming make a plan to take holly back in the early morning and stella will run away with her, to her auntie Nora. The plan succeeds and stella begins her life of waitressing locally and being a new mum.
Act 3;
The police tracks Stella down, so while staying in Leo's flat for a while she decides she has to flee to London. Her father is there to meet her at the station and takes cares of her. They both come back home to Ireland and her father tells the police Stella is keeping the baby and they'll adopt her themselves if they have to. The policeman lets the case go, but Stella still does not feel at home. She moves back to live with her auntie Nora with Holly and starts the local school.
This film is an adaption of the novel Fallen Star by Joan O'Neill.
Film Ideas.
For our coursework we have to make an opening to a film from any genre lasting 2 mins.
Today we spent most of the lesson, the other day, talking and brainstorming about the film openings we are going to make. I, however hadn't given it much thought up until now. I had a very pecific idea of how i wanted my film opening to 'look' and how i wanted to make the audience 'feel' but so far i was struggling to get that into a film plot with story and characters. I needed some real imagination brain wave! I started to think of what audience i wanted to aim this at and i kept thinking teens, i think i can work best with that auidence as i am one! and i know what i like to go and watch in the cinema. As i continued to think of the genre etc i thought of a book i loved and when Miss said we could base our opening scene on a book or play i was thrilled! It didn't quite fit the 'picture' i had in mind, but it's a great story and i think i can do a great job with it! So my film was chosen. I was going to base it on the book 'Fallen Star' by Joan O'Neill and now i can't wait to get started!!
Today we spent most of the lesson, the other day, talking and brainstorming about the film openings we are going to make. I, however hadn't given it much thought up until now. I had a very pecific idea of how i wanted my film opening to 'look' and how i wanted to make the audience 'feel' but so far i was struggling to get that into a film plot with story and characters. I needed some real imagination brain wave! I started to think of what audience i wanted to aim this at and i kept thinking teens, i think i can work best with that auidence as i am one! and i know what i like to go and watch in the cinema. As i continued to think of the genre etc i thought of a book i loved and when Miss said we could base our opening scene on a book or play i was thrilled! It didn't quite fit the 'picture' i had in mind, but it's a great story and i think i can do a great job with it! So my film was chosen. I was going to base it on the book 'Fallen Star' by Joan O'Neill and now i can't wait to get started!!
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