‘Behind Closed Doors’
Prepared by
Anika Rahman, Bethenay Longley, Licia Johnson, (and initially Daniel Andrews).
For
Harris Crystal Palace
For
Address
Maberley Road, London , SE19 2JH
It is proposed that the film opening will be of two minutes duration.
Finance:
Possible limitations and constraints:
The only finances we need to consider is cab travel expenses from Beth's house to Harris, which is £5 that will be shared between the three of us each time. Cab travel is needed to carry the camera back to Harris, but to lower costs we may just walk to Beth's and back. However, it takes half an hour to get there via walking and five minutes via cab, so taking a cab would allow us more filming time. All of these will be taken into consideration.
- Not being able to keep the cameras overnight means we will have to figure out ideal dates and times which will suit all of us. If one of us cannot make it, then filming would most likely be cancelled which would hold us back.
- The majority of the opening will be in Beth's room, so three people maneouvering around may be difficult.
- We are most likely not going to be using a tri-pod as there is not much space and we have not contemplated on tracking shots, so we will have to hold the camera steadily ourselves.
Initially, our idea of the film was:
Daniel is Beth's ex-boyfriend who is now with Anika. Beth is distraught and her deep emotions are shown in the opening to the point where she would seem insane.
(3) A door shuts, Beth is seen in her bedroom, crying and angry, surrounded by ripped/scratched photos. She rings her best friend Licia for comfort and support.
(4) Licia is angered by Daniel's betrayal, but can she sit back and ignore it?
Initially, our summary of the plot was:
Beth split up with Daniel, and he is now with Anika. Beth has become obsessed with Daniel and the opening shows the extent of her mentality and jealousy. Beth phones Licia for consolation (there is a split screen of the phonecall), and Licia tries to calm her down. Licia, Beth and Anika used to be best friends, so Licia is furious at Anika's actions. In her temper, Licia murders Anika in her home, but everyone believes that it was Beth due to her insanity and the fact that Beth's bracelet which Licia burrowed was left at the scene. Beth is imprisoned, but only she knows that Licia did it as she remembered the loaned bracelet.
Initial first ideas:
Credits include pics of each couple.
After credits, there is a split screen of a phonecall between Beth and Licia.
Beth burns a picture of her and Daniel which fades into a flashback of a happy moment before the break-up.
Rapid cut back to ECU of Beth's face with mascara running.
Flashback of Beth and Daniel arguing.
Cut back to Beth.
Flashback of Beth watching Anika and Daniel.
Cut back to Beth. She's getting ready to go out and something tells the audience she's going to do something bad. At the front door she turns around and throws something at the camera and the screen shatters.
Initial Shot List
Initially, our idea of the film was:
Daniel is Beth's ex-boyfriend who is now with Anika. Beth is distraught and her deep emotions are shown in the opening to the point where she would seem insane.
(3) A door shuts, Beth is seen in her bedroom, crying and angry, surrounded by ripped/scratched photos. She rings her best friend Licia for comfort and support.
(4) Licia is angered by Daniel's betrayal, but can she sit back and ignore it?
Initially, our summary of the plot was:
Beth split up with Daniel, and he is now with Anika. Beth has become obsessed with Daniel and the opening shows the extent of her mentality and jealousy. Beth phones Licia for consolation (there is a split screen of the phonecall), and Licia tries to calm her down. Licia, Beth and Anika used to be best friends, so Licia is furious at Anika's actions. In her temper, Licia murders Anika in her home, but everyone believes that it was Beth due to her insanity and the fact that Beth's bracelet which Licia burrowed was left at the scene. Beth is imprisoned, but only she knows that Licia did it as she remembered the loaned bracelet.
Initial first ideas:
Credits include pics of each couple.
After credits, there is a split screen of a phonecall between Beth and Licia.
Beth burns a picture of her and Daniel which fades into a flashback of a happy moment before the break-up.
Rapid cut back to ECU of Beth's face with mascara running.
Flashback of Beth and Daniel arguing.
Cut back to Beth.
Flashback of Beth watching Anika and Daniel.
Cut back to Beth. She's getting ready to go out and something tells the audience she's going to do something bad. At the front door she turns around and throws something at the camera and the screen shatters.
Initial Shot List
- Tracking shot into the room
- Close up of Beth’s eyes
- Close up of mouth (heavy breathing)
- Close up of pictures on wall
- Black and white shots of past
- Coloured shots of the present
- Birdseye view of beth falling on bed
- She releases her inner anger out by dashing objects off the surface of a side drawer
- Point of view of object being thrown towards camera or wide shot of room and a slammed door is left to end the scene (and end our film)
(1) Credits roll with pictures in black and white of Daniel and Beth in happier times, then fade into pictures of Anika and Daniel in colour, where black and white represents the past and colour the present.
(2) Beth bumps into Anika on the road and they seem to be friendly. Anika has recently started dating Beth's ex-boyfriend and is asking her how she feels about it. Beth seems to be fine and understanding.
Unfortunately...
Daniel left due to personal reasons so he was replaced by Beth's real boyfriend George Tasker and we had to drastically adapt our idea to ...
(1) We see Beth crying in her room. There are photos of her and her ex in her room.
(3) There are flashbacks of her and George in a happy relationship.
(4) She rips down the photos angrily, makes a 'potion' and runs out with it. What is she planning?
New shot List
Daniel left due to personal reasons so he was replaced by Beth's real boyfriend George Tasker and we had to drastically adapt our idea to ...
(1) We see Beth crying in her room. There are photos of her and her ex in her room.
(3) There are flashbacks of her and George in a happy relationship.
(4) She rips down the photos angrily, makes a 'potion' and runs out with it. What is she planning?
New shot List
- Tracking shot into the room
- Close up of Beth crying
- Alternating black and white scenes of the past with coloured scenes of present. First scene of past is them as a happy couple, the second is them arguing, the third is George declaring the split-up
- Close up of a phone ringing. A phonecall/ one-way conversation can be heard.
- Zoom out of pictures on wall
- Rapid cuts and blurred scenes of Beth ripping them down
- Close ups of a potion which Beth is making
- Beth snatches the potion and opening ends with a wide shot of Beth slamming her door.
Naming the Film:
The first thing you can do before even starting to film or make a continutity sequence, is an idea. Any imagination or inspiration thoughts that came to us, we listed down as follows:
Names:
PsychopathRetribution
Fatal obsession
Obsessed
Memoirs
P.S ... It's Not Over
P.S ... I hate you
Decided Name:
Decided Name:
Behind Closed Doors
Music
For the track we will use Nitruzz - Strangers (R&B Instrumental), which is copyright free.
Treatment
Originally we thought of doing something drastic and brainstormed ideas about going to places such as Central London and Crystal Palace park to film. However due to limitations and contraints, this prevented us from taking the cameras out after school hours and keeping them overnight. Also this would have been more time consuming due to extra travel, which could have possibly led onto more expenses. Finally, we decided the best place would be at Beths house, specifically her bedroom as it conforms to our changed storyline and she lives closer which would save us a lot of time.
Permission
Treatment
The main character, Beth, has been dumped by her boyfriend. Her emotions spiral out of control, to the point of obsession. Now, she is out for revenge. George is her target.. but she does not care who she has to harm along the way!
Location
Originally we thought of doing something drastic and brainstormed ideas about going to places such as Central London and Crystal Palace park to film. However due to limitations and contraints, this prevented us from taking the cameras out after school hours and keeping them overnight. Also this would have been more time consuming due to extra travel, which could have possibly led onto more expenses. Finally, we decided the best place would be at Beths house, specifically her bedroom as it conforms to our changed storyline and she lives closer which would save us a lot of time.
PermissionSince the opening will be fully shot in Beth’s room we only needed permission from her mother, who approved.
Personnel organisation
George will need to agree with us on a day to shoot his scene. The rest of us three need to agree on days on which to meet and film, we have decided on Mondays if it is outside of media lessons.
Personnel organisation
George will need to agree with us on a day to shoot his scene. The rest of us three need to agree on days on which to meet and film, we have decided on Mondays if it is outside of media lessons.
Equipment / Props
Main equipment we will need are;
> a camera to film,
> a phone for the shots where Licia calls Beth,
> a hammer-like object for when Beth is bashing the pills to make a ‘potion’.
Costumes
The clothing will be up to the personal decision of the actor and actress as we want a portrayal of realism in the film opening., we do not want it to look too set up and fake.
Audience feedback so far on our pre-production ideas
Some quotes are;
“It sounds like it will be really good, can’t wait to see it”
“If I saw a trailer or heard about an insane girl wanting to kill her ex I would definitely want to watch it”
“The name ‘Behind Closed Doors’ is simple but still ambiguous and kind of threatening. It’s nice, I like it”
“You won’t be able to do much in just one room, maybe consider more than one location. But if you have really good ideas then go for it, it might turn out to be effective.”
These comments make our opening sound very promising, so we are sticking to our idea. We considered using more locations, as the last comment suggests, but the way we have planned and imagined our opening to be we think that we can make it work using a single location. It would also provide less hassle for us.
http://prezi.com/3sflhbenblx5/moodboard/
Moodboard
I used these images to gather inspiration for our film, Behind Closed Doors. I created this moodboard on prezi.com because I have used it before so am rather familiar with it and it is a change from the usual format of a slideshow or A3 sheet of paper with pictures that you may see as a moodboard.
The pictures pertain to what our film may be about, i.e.
- the door being ajar symbolises the name 'Behind Closed Doors';
- the images of arguing is when Beth and George argue;
- the broken hearts represents how Beth would feel afterwards, broken hearted;
- the crying represents Beth crying over her ex-boyfriend.
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