Planning

 

Written By

Conor Blake

Working Title

Clint

 

Synopsis	Write a short outline of your story – briefly mentioning the main characters and what happens to them.
A mockumentary that follows, Clint. A puppet living in the human world who believes he is treated differently because he is different. However he is actually just the worst!
Setting	Say where and when the story happens – you need to describe the environment in which the action takes place
I am going to film at the creative studios and around the college campus. The mockumentary will follow Clint around his day to day life and that will include being at college so I want to film in classrooms and use the studio for recording talking head interviews. I will be filming in my home
Genre	Say what type of programme it will be – will it be naturalistic, melodramatic or comic?
The Genre of my FMP is going to be comedy in the sub-genre of Mockumentary
Narrative Structure	Say how the programme is broken down - is the story told in chronological order and are there sub plots?
The plot will follow a simple narrative structure. It will start with an introduction to Clint and his life at college. Then we will have some cutaways to home life and will we meet his brother. Then we cut back to college and more of Clint being annoying
Vision	Explain how the film will look – this will include the style of camerawork, the use of colour and the use of lighting
The cinematography will be handheld, mimicking a real life documentary. This allows for the camera to follow Clint around and to feel as natural and as realistic as possible. The lighting will also all be natural lighting: in the classrooms, in hallways and in my house. This is also to make it feel very natural. However for talking heads, I may use the professional three point lighting
Sound	Explain how you will use sound to help tell the story – how you will combine the four layers of film sound to add to the total effect
All sound used in my FMP will be diegetic. Any music used will also be diegetic and played through a characters phone or computer screen
Editing	Explain the cutting of shots and the use of transitions – what kind of pace will you have, and how you move from one scene to the next
It’ll be faced paced editing because I want to try and get my piece into a 3-5 minute sketch

 

 Lighting:

Black Balance- when the camera is used for the first time. If the camera has been in a period of disuse, Switch between progressive and interlaced

PAL: 

I- Upper Field, odd. Interlaced will look like a TV show 

P- Even, Lower Field. Both fields scanning the frame at the same time 

50 fields per second on video at 25 frames . 2 fields = 1 frame

Hue: Colour Temperature. Kelvin-  Absolute zero is -273 Degrees 

A low Hue is orange (EG a candle). Low light conditions, 1000K 

High colour temperature is Blue. (Eg, clear sky), 10,00K

Gain- If no control of light, gain amplifies existing light. 

However Gain, introduces noise/grain 

Lighting: 

3 point lighting: Key lighting, Fill light and Back light 

Key light, next to the camera, Back lights the back of a subject and Fill light lights up the shadows 

PAG on the camera

 Lastolite which is a reflector. Can be white, silver or gold,. Silver reflects the greatest amount of light. Gold gives it lowest amount of Kelvin  

• Diffuser or SCRIM- exposure triangle, light the background with 3 point lighting.  here you can introduce colour gels, either blue, red or orange 
• Actor- 3 point lighting, this will enable the actor to be 3D 
  

Sources of light: 

Tv Screen, Sun, Phone