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Script

Below is our script showing narrative and the timing of speech...

Target Audience

Title Research

In order to understand our own title sequence, and the order in which to present our titles, we had to conduct some research into films that are similar to ours and the title sequences that they have. The films that we have chosen are: Napoleon Dynamite (due to the creative title sequence), Stand By Me (because of the similarities between our four characters, who are childhood friends, and the boys in the film) and Now and Then (due to the same reason as Stand By Me; the similarities of our characters).

This is the timeline for the opening title sequence in Napoleon Dynamite. It contains a list of each of the titles, what time they appear and whose name appears...

Film Pitch

This is our group's final film pitch for our AS Media Project. It has taken us a while to get to the stage where we are able to present a complete idea but we have finally devised an interesting and unique film opening premise.

Prop List

Club house

This is a list of the props that will be needed to fill our portacabin:

• Vinyl Records which will be moved by one of the characters and a title will be shown on the middle of the record.

• Old posters which will be taped to the wall in the club house.
• Boxes of retro sweets and cereals
• A lava lamp
• Scrabble which will spell out the name of the film
• Guess who introducing the characters
• Retro DVDs
• Fairy lights around the room to make it more
• Comic books
• Tea mug, which will have a title on
• Monopoly
• Connect 4
• A round wooden table in middle of the room
• Alphabet Spaghetti to introduce a title
• Rack of fancy dress clothes
• Dart board
• A guitar which will be given to the character of Kurt to show his musical side.
• Cup stacks
• Jenga
• A rug on the floor of the cabin

Using the props to create titles

1. The titles will start rolling after the 360 degree shot of the older children sitting in a circle around the table, then one of the characters picks up a coffee mug and takes a sip where the first title will be spelled out on the bottom of the mug. This will be introducing the film's production company.

2. The second title will be using Scrabble pieces which will spell out the name of the film, this will be a sped up version of one of the characters moving the pieces into a line to introduce the film name.

3. The first character Alex, who is played by Tilly, will be introduced by her character walking over to the wall where a posters corner is bent over and she folds it back where her name will be on the corner.  

4. The second character Katie, who is played by Sarah, will introduce her title by pulling out a Jenga piece where her name will be on.

5. The character Kurt, who is played by Connor and is musical, will have his title on his guitar which he will have on his back when sitting down.

6. The character Jacob, who is played Jack and is very sporty, will have his name on the front of a comic book which he will be looking at, at the time.

7. The title for who the film is produced by will be on the spine of a book which will be on the shelf. The camera will pan past the books and then one of the characters will take out of the book shelf.

8. The title of the editors of the film will be on a CD and will be spun around in its case; one of the characters will spin this around.

9. The title of who filmed the opening scene will be on a piece of fake money from the board game monopoly.

10. The title for costumes by will be on a sketch notepad which someone will flip over and the title will be on the other side.

11. The title for who directed the film will be on the top of a coat rack, where someone will go and hang up their coat and the title will appear above the hook.

 Other ideas for titles

1.Glue with glitter on top.

2. Candy stick sweets on table then children’s hands go and grab them.

3. Cup stacks construct to make name.

4. On a whiteboard, steps to clubhouse rules, (First rule of board game club, don't talk about board game club).

5. A slice of cake and pipe onto plate.

Photo Evidence

This our group's photo evidence of planning and filming for our film opening. It features images of us planning and researching as well as exterior/location shots of where we are going to film...