locations

For our locations we have chosen to use a coffee shop , a shopping centre, centre of Newcastle (Monument) and the beach as our main locations!

Audience

As I am creating a short film I am targeting a niche audience in which I expect them to find my film rather than having several viral marketing techniques to create an audience.Although Katie and I will be advertising our film through one of our Ancillary tasks (poster), on our blogs and through twitter, this will be used as a response for feedback to ensure our viewers enjoy watching our film and stating anything they don't like or would change from our film. We feel we have followed typical short film conventions and in that case we feel our target audience will like our film and through word of mouth the film would become more popular :)!

CHARACTER PROFILE

WEATHER

We have decided to put off filming for the week due to the weather. The snow and ice isn't practical to film in and the equipment could get destroyed.

Further research into Charlie Chaplin

Creating a silent black and white short film Katie and I decided to look closer into the work of Charlie Chaplin, a man playing a significant role in the change of film making. After watching the silent film City lights and researching further clips on Youtube Katie and I are certain our film could be really effective following the typical conventions. 

In this time most short films were based around the male chasing the female, however, we have chosen to modernise our short film and make it the girl being head over heels for the boy, but it doesn't always stay that way.

 Significant points in Charlie Chaplins films:

• Follows the conventions as seen in many of Charlie Chaplin's silent films (slapstick humour, black and white and dressed in a similar style to Chaplin)

• Music is fast paced to link with the energetic movement in the moving image

Chorus

The main reason for Katie and I deciding to include a chorus in our work was the seen fairly abstract, a typical conventions of a stinger. With the chorus symbolising the relationship between the two main characters, it allows us to be experimental and make it as abstract as we wish. A chorus normally consists of many people often wearing masks, hiding thier faces, they show no emotion and are all in one colour.
Although we have taken the idea of the chorus we have decided to use one character and allow the character to be their emotions expressing when they are happy and sad rather than revealing no emotions.

Prop ideas