Pitch

We had to film a pitch for the planning idea of our films in order to establish what is needed in order to achieve our final finishing project.

Film Opening Script - "CityRunners"

Girl in all dark clothing - emerges from the trees

EXT - Dreary, old, abandoned forest. Mid evening. Dogs are barking in the distance.

Girl in all dark clothing, crouched down behind a tree - her phone vibrates in her pocket.

Takes her phone out and 'AGENT A' appears to flash up on the screen.
She answers.

(Everything goes silent as she barks the instructions down the phone.)

Girl:

Get the car ready. I'm at the old site...They're closing in on me.

The dogs' barking and howling intensifies as gun fire begins in the enclosing vicinity.

The girl jumps up and begins to run, pushing her phone carelessly into her back pocket.

As she runs her phone falls out of her back pocket and hits the ground. Not noticing, she continues to run off through the trees, careful to avoid the fallen branches.

EXT - Abandoned building site. No one is around. Mid evening, same day, moments later.

A car comes speeding into the shot, does a 180 degree skid turn on the gravel, and stops parked in place.

Meanwhile, the girl comes running from the trees into shot, and towards the car.

She reaches out and grabs the car door handle, jumps into the car.

The car spins the wheels and racing away out of sight.

Character Vs Characterisation

In character building, there are two aspects that are vital to creating deeper layers to characters in your film.

Firstly, there is Characterisation. Characterisation is the way a character behaves externally to the audience.
e.g
- Speech
- Clothes
- Small traits     

Secondly, there is Character. Character is the distinctive nature of something/someone.
It is synonymous to things such as:
- Personality
- Disposition

An individuals character is made up of the distinctive mental and moral qualities that they possess. It is an internal behaviour. In Robert Mckee's novel 'Story' it says that "If we're introduced to a 'loving husband,' and by the end of the tale he's still what he first appeared to be, a loving husband with no secret, no unfulfilled dreams, no hidden passions, we'll be very disappointed."

Throughout a story, the audience want to see/read that the character is being tested; pushed to the very limit, the very edge of a theoretical cliff, just to see if they would jump. As humans, we, in a way, need to know what makes one another tick, we see someone seemingly perfect, perfect family, perfect job, perfect life. We feel as though it is our job to know what it takes for that 'mask' to come off, even a flicker momentarily..this is why an audience simply will not be satisfied in watching a character that does not progress, and simply does not reflect at all during the journey of the film.

Company Ident

We were given the task to create our own company ident for our film sequence production. I made my ident using Adobe After Effect