Costume

Valerie's costume will be the main focus. Her clothes will be dirty and provocative but cheap. Her make-up will match this with smudged mascara and lipstick. Her costume will change in the scenes where she is in love, she will look less provocative, clean and look naturally pretty with natural make-up. This will help to show the contrasting stages in her life, the sad past and happy future in love. Below are some pictures of characters from other media texts which have similarities to the idea of Valerie's costume.

The Uncle will be in simple, plain and dark clothing to signal that he is a dark character who has little money. The boys in a group will wear tracksuit tops and trousers, like a hoddie, to conform to the social stereotypes of 'chavs'. 'Chavs' are often looked down upon and are believed to exist in poorer areas so this stereotype will really help get across the environment Valerie lives in and the people she is surrounded by in her day to day life.

Stereotypical Chavs

Tyler, the boyfriend, will wear clothes that are fashionable for boys so that it is believable that he looks attractive to Valerie but also so that he looks appealing to the audience. By wearing fashionable clothes such as skinny jeans and a smart t-shirt, it will look as though he cares about how presents himself, making him seem more clean than Valerie and a good influence to her.

Fashionable Male

The costumes will be provided by our actors wardrobes as well as extra props and costumes provided be me and Beth.

Production Schedule

In order to make sure Beth and I complete tasks and keep on track, we have organised a production schedule. As you can see there is filming time in green and editing time in blue. Spear filming time is in yellow and this could be used to reshoot any shots we are not happy with in order to get the best outcome. The schedule has been composed in an excel spreadsheet so it can be updated whenever we wish to but we hope to stick to it throughout so we meet the deadlines (shown in red).

Shot List

1. A fade from black. Camera focuses on the action of Valerie, taking drugs.

2. Extreme close up of Valerie's face.

3. Valerie walks past the house setting, dressed in rough clothing.

4. Jump shot. Scene changing to inside the house, allowing for Uncle's dialogue in a medium shot.

5. Over the shoulder of Valerie, allowing the camera to focus on her face as she take off her make up.

6. Medium long shot of the boys as they tourment Valerie.

7. Pans to follow the boy who spits on Valerie.

8. Back in the house, medium long shot of Uncle pushing Valerie.

9. The camera sees Valerie on outside bench.

10. Tyler comes into the camera view and bends down to touch Valerie to see if she is okay.

11. Valerie jumps and is seen moving along the bench.

12. Coffee shop setting, couple chatting.

13. Tyler's house. Some dialogue from him as hope gives towels to Valerie.

14. Shot of Valerie and Tyler laughing/play fighting on sofa.

15. Shot of the couple bike riding, they leave the distance of the shot.

16. Holding hands.

17. Point of view shot of phone.

18. Extreme close up of Valerie's worried face.

19. Seeing Tyler pacing across shot of camera, ringing Valerie's phone.

20. Close up of Tyler spottig Valerie, shouting.

21. Medium close up of Valerie's reply (shot reverse shot)

22. Valerie running.

23. Over the shoulder shot to Valerie, "let me tell you about my past".

24. Tyler shouting Valerie.

25. Uncle shouting Valerie.

26. The boys who spat on her shouting Valeire.

27. Valerie's dialogue in bath.

28. Close up of Valerie. Fade to black.

Analysis of Social Realist Trailers

Fish Tank

Starring: Katie Jarvis, Kierston Wareing, Michael  Fassbender

Director: Andrea Arnold

Producer(s): Nick Laws, Kees Kasander

Production Company: BBC Films

Date of Release: 14 May 2009

The characters and setting in this film particularly had a big influence to Beth and I’s production. The female character appears to be living in difficult circumstances, just like the female role in our idea. Although her costume will be no way similar to the costume worn by the female character in our production, the idea of using a stereotypical costume to portray ideas about the character to the audience works really well and we feel it will be important to do the same in our production. Fish Tank uses the setting of a town with flat blocks often linked to the idea of council housing shows the difficult lifestyle (as seen above). The main female character in our production will live in difficult circumstances too so the setting would be similar in our production. The town setting also contrasts with the love scenes that are set in lakes or surrounded by lots of green. We would like to use this idea in our production as the character begins to fall in love as it is an interesting juxtaposition to show how love can change the life of the character.

The trailer uses titles that match in colour and font and lists award nominations which is a common device of trailers which I may use in our production.

 

Morvern Cellar

 

Starring: Samantha Morton, Katleen McDermott, Doll Wells

Director: Lynne Ramsay

Producer(s): Robyn Slovo, Charles Pattinson, George Faber

Production Company: BBC Films

Date of Release: 1 November 2002

The titles of many British social-realist films I have researched, including Fish Tank and Morvern Cellar, use simple font and text for their trailer’s titles. However, This Is England’s trailer differed in that it had a more creative font style. I have not yet decided whether to conform to the more popular style of simple font or whether to try being more creative with an interesting font style.

Approximately halfway through the trailer of the film, faster-pace shot changes begin to create excitement and suspense. I like this idea and will try to do something similar during the editing process. The trailer includes repition of the main character's name. I like this idea because it makes the name become memerable by the audience which is what a trailer is meant to do. Perhaps this could be done in our film trailer.

 

Skins - Effy

 This character is very similar to the female character in Beth and I's production idea. As seen in the pictures above, you can see the dark Effy and the more prevogative Effy. These two sides to a character will exist in my production. This can be shown through mise-en-scene, with the smudged make up when being darker, and also through the actresses acting ability.