Post Production - silent film

Our story begins with clear shots that one character is better than the other. Ends with A/V actually winning with a clear message that the audience should believe in themselves and have a passion. The protagonist is jealous because they want to be good at dancing. Set at college.  Theme - jealousy.  A dance / music character who is successful at what they do.  A partner of theirs in the same class - the main character who is jealous of the successful character.
There's a dance competition coming up and the successful character sadly sprains / injure themselves. The only one to fill in their place is the main character . Through this, the character finds their drive \with the end message -
Message - believe in yourself and realise your passion.

Characters:  
Successful character:
Male: Edwin
Female: Anastasia

Main, jealous character:
Male: Aaron
Female:  Veronica

Location: Dance studio
Music room
Theatre
TV studio
( if the dance idea and characters are not available, the music idea and location will be used instead )
Shot list:
Fade in - establishing shots of locations we are going to use - dance studio and theatre 
Wide shots of the dancers in the theatre / dance studio practising - Begins with the class dancing in different places - successful character always in the front and jealous character positioned in the back.
Try position the characters and camera in the same place, but change location. Make this look natural when editing.
Cut to -
Long / wide shot of hallway
 - successful character walks out with and the main character looks at her from behind in jealousy. Use shallow depth of field over shoulders, etc. have a close up of jealous character.  clearly show the emotion. Have a close up next to walls and the character's face. Aaron's / Veronica's  action - shaking head, sad emotion etc.
Fade out to -
Wide shot - Use rule of thirds - position jealous character in the background grid and have the successful character with a few people around them practising near to the other side of the grid.
Cut from this to a close up of Aaron / Veronica tying their shoe lace, then slowly fade this again in the same position but with Aaron / Veronica wearing a different outfit. This is to symbolise the next day.
/ or have the rule of thirds wide shot, close up of the jealous character then blackout and edit text ' the next day... 'After this, film shots of Edwin / Anastasia on crutches ( crutches provided by group member, if this is not possible we can film the character acting hurt )
Cut to hallway, Edwin or Anastasia give a poster to A/V to symbolise the competition. Close up of the poster, in particular the date.
Use symmetry rule.  Both nod at each other from two sides.
Fast pace cutting between the jealous character dancing and getting better.
( Attempt to keep the character in the same composition in the shot and change the location around them. )
Cut to the date therefore showing the day of the competition.
Use after effects and add images of aesthetic dance rooms or film some footage of an aesthetic room / create a nice atmosphere.
Cut to 3 people in first second, third, show Aaron / Veronica coming first. Use shallow depth of field or have a normal two shot of Edwin / Anastasia and A/V smiling at each other / hugging. Have text at the end saying ' believe in yourself ' or any slogan relating to finding your passion etc. / shoot a long take of a certificate of winning the competition - edit the colour effect of this on premiere pro and add the text over this. Fade out to black.

New idea - 
After given feedback and further reflection after this within our group, we had decided to change the idea from the close up shot of the jealous character and to cut out the dance competition. Our given feedback was to include a different idea as the shooting time for the dance competition and locations would not make the scene look realistic and therefore would not make our film professional. Instead of the dance competition, the successful character will confront the other character and ask to do a dance off. Around this will be an audience which will hype up the dance off and will include people in the college. This therefore includes more of our audience and will attract the desired 16-20 target audience. Through this reflection, I have  therefore learnt and made sure to consider the target audience more during post production.

New shot list -
Fade in - establishing shots of locations we are going to use - dance studio and theatre 
Wide shots of the dancers in the theatre / dance studio practising - Begins with the class dancing in different places - successful character always in the front and jealous character positioned in the back.
Try position the characters and camera in the same place, but change location. Make this look natural when editing.
Cut to -
Long / wide shot of hallway
 - successful character walks out with and the main character looks at her from behind in jealousy. Use shallow depth of field over shoulders, etc. have a close up of jealous character.  clearly show the emotion. Have a close up next to walls and the character's face. Aaron's / Veronica's  action - shaking head, sad emotion etc.
- Cut to close up of jealous character tying their shoe lace. have their facial expression annoyed and get them to sigh. Get character to go up to successful character and make some gesture to show that one character has challenged the other to a dance off. Have a constant panning shot from this and try edit using the fast movement technique.  
Get music playing loudly in the background - desired location will be the dance studio, have people from around the block or from other places in the college hyping up the competition and making the whole thing funnier and appealing to the target audience
- Attempt this as a constant shot / have cutaways in between times of cut of the people are around in the circle.
- End with claps etc
- Medium two shot using rule of symmetry in the studio, zoom into the two shot and have a handshake and actions between the two characters / have them hug, etc. Get people around to hype this up again and show that they are now good partners within the class
- Have text at the end - something to do with believing in yourself and believing your passion. Have this text over blooper shots. Have the blooper shots slightly blurred, have laughs in the background etc - all done within the edit

Extra notes -
- Focus will be in making the dance scene big and fun-
- Keep recording - get bloopers for the end titles
- Use modern music, one which will attract the target audience
- Attempt the pan shot and cut
- ( notes from character profile ) Have a possible end shot of the person that the jealous character likes speak to them after seeing how good and competitive they are.

Sound including music and Foley sound:
-  Background music for establishing shots - find any suitable or starting music to any other song which suits the jealousy hallway shots
- Sound for when character breaks their leg - ( research )
- Dietetic sound of music in theatre or dance room


Props / costume design:
- Costumes for dancing actors include all black clothing.
- Own clothing


Character profile:
Successful characters: Edwin or Anastasia
- Have a hands on, middle class family - reason why they chose to study something creative
- Originally from Colombia
- 18
- Has loads of friends and a boyfriend, popular and liked character in her class and within the performing art students.


Jealous character: Aaron or Veronica 
- Lower class family, deeper meaning behind why they picked a dance course - come from a lower class family, feel the need to express themselves in some form of art
- from
- 18
- Has a few friends, not many. un-supportive family ( changes at the end when character wins competition )
- Not in a relationship, but likes someone in her performing arts class. ( person likes her back, but she does not have the confidence to speak to him )
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