Aisleigh, Anna, Chloe & Maria;s Shot Sequences/ Screenplay

Shot Sequence
1. Long Shot- Lucy by herself; lonely and deserted
2. Long Shot- People begin walking past (speeded up)
3. Over The Shoulder Shot (OTS)- boy approaches “What’s the matter?”
4. Establishing Shot (ES)- Lucy pushes flowers onto the boy and begins to run away
5. Pan Show/ Travelling Shot- Lucy begins to run (full body shot).
6. Blackout…….
7. Full Body Shot- Lucy opens her door and slams it behind her.
8. Zooming In Shot/ Birdseye View- camera films Lucy running up her stairs.
9. Travelling Shot- Lucy runs down corridor into her bathroom; slamming the door
10. Mid Shot- Lucy leans against the bathroom door; breathing heaving and distressed

11. ES- View of whole bathroom to establish her surroundings.
12. Mid shot- Lucy travels to her mirror; crying and panicking.
13. OTS- Lucy reflections becomes apparent
14. OTS- Lucy turns on her taps
15. OTS- Lucy opens the mirror cupboard and begins searching through the pills
16. Mid Shot- Lucy holds pills; distraught and confused.
17. Mid Side Shot- Lucy is still holding the pills; quivering and indecisive
18. Zoom Out- Camera zooms out and she closes the cupboard which are now misty
19. OTS- Lucy clears the mist of the mirror to show her distorted reflection
20. Close Up- Lucy Begins to open pills and pour onto her quivering hands
21. Zooms In- Zooms in to her mouth and stops as her hands containing the pills enter her mouth

22. Blackout entitles ‘6 Months later’

Aisleigh, Chloe, Anna & Maria's target Audience

Our film is based on drama and potentially real life situations. We thought it would be very useful to find out different people’s opinions on drama films and what kind of age range preferred them the most. For our target audience research, we conducted a questionnaire containing a series of questions that would enable us to see different people’s views on drama films. We started off the questionnaire with, how would you rate drama films on a scale of 1-10? We found that out of 15 people interviewed, 10 rated drama films as 6 or above (1 being the least, 10 being the most) and the majority of these people were sixth form students aged between 16 and 17. When asked about aspects and features in a drama film, basically everyone put things like violence, action and family and friend related problems, which is something we need to consider including in our film. Our next question presented a list of films such as Kidulthood/Adulthood, Casablanca, 8 Mile, Brief Encounter, Flight 93, Alpha Dog and The Godfather. These all relate to our project and we asked people to tick which ones they preferred the most. We found that Kidulthood/Adulthood was by far the most popular among teenagers and people from this age group. We thought this because its deals with realistic events and many teenagers can relate to it as things that happen in Kidulthood probably occur in every day life. This also helped in deciding what to use as our influences and inspiration. What would you expect to see in the opening to a drama? This question showed us that majority of people expected things such as the setting, some of the key characters and maybe a small bit of action to hint of what is to come later on in the film. Our next question asked was if they preferred films set in the past or present and most people said they preferred present day films. Our final question asked if they thought it was important to be introduced to the main character straight away and the majority of people thought that it wasn’t. All these answers are vital for how we should approach our films and what aspects should be included in it.

Aisleigh, Chloe, Maria & Anna- Pitch Ideas

For our project we can up with a serious of different ideas that we could pitch to enable our film to be the best it could be. All of our ideas are based on real life issues teenagers and young adults face in today’s society.


Pitch idea 1- Party scene
One of our ideas for our project was to show teenage life outside of school with friends and socially going out. Out main character throughout our ideas is Lucy Barker. The idea begins with Lucy getting ready for a party with her friends at her house. They are in her room with music playing in the background, putting on their make-up and having a good time laughing and enjoying themselves. There is then a fade from that scene cutting to them walking into the party greeting other friends. Lucy is a bit tipsy and gets close to a guy who flirts with her all night. Lucy is unaware that when this guy gets her a drink he spikes it and therefore accepts all the drinks he brings her as she thinks she can trust him. After that her vision is blurred and she passes out. The camera will ‘fall’ to the ground as Lucy does. Time passes and she wakes up in the house not feeling right. The following scenes (that we will not be filming) are about Lucy after this event trying to figure out what really happened and if justice is made.

Pitch idea 2- Bullying
Our second idea for our media coursework was to base it on the issue of bullying as this is a key problem many children have to deal with. We are going to have Lucy Barker at school, being approached by a group of intimidating teenage girls who make snide comments about the way she looks and just generally being abusive and nasty to her. This continues on more than one occasion and we see how the character changes from before and during the bullying. Lucy eventually reaches breaking point and results to drastic measures.

Pitch idea 3- Drugs
Our third idea was the concept of drugs and how many teenagers face problems with the issue of drug abuse. We wanted to show how the drugs affected the lives of those who use them and affect other people around them. The involvement of drugs in Lucy Barkers life is taking them through depression of being bullied and her disruptive family life. She feels that taking them is the only way of forgetting everything around her. When Lucy gets into the new crowd her friendship life is changing at the same time her family life is getting worse. The use of the drugs results to Lucy committing suicide. In this idea we linked the concept of bullying and changes to life.









Final pitch
Through our working ideas we came to a fourth pitch which is going to be our final pitch. It contains elements of realism which we extracted from the previous 3 ideas and implemented them into our final pitch; including stress, suicide, loss and bullying. We concluded out final pitch by looking at similar movies whose ideas we have taken a particular interest in.

Pitch 4- suicide
Lucy is a distressed young girl coping with the recent death of her mum. Lucy is locked in her bedroom accompanied by a bottle of pills and a pen and piece of paper on which her once hidden emotions and heartfelt feelings will be spilt. The scene as a whole will be quite distorted with flashbacks of herself and her troubles along the time frame leading up to her suicide. The final built up of Lucy’s death will be of her writing the last goodbyes on the letter and taking the pills which will lead to her eventual death.