Task 2

Story Ideas

-1st Idea  

A boy who thinks he's a ninja, falls in love with a girl on his first day of high school. He ends up stalking her because he thinks no one will notice but, she already has a boyfriend and he sees him staling her so he ends up fighting him. The ninja boy sees the girls boyfriend as his rival and enemy, he ends up losing and he gets humiliated by the girls boy friend, but he humiliates him when the girl is there and she hasn't noticed him before because he always hides form her. So she ends up trying to stop her boyfriend but he ends up pushing her away, she then breaks up with him because she didn't like that side of him. She ends up apologizing on her boyfriends behalf to the ninja boy, but she ends up falling for him, but he ends up giving up being a ninja and runs away but when the girl finds out she ends up acting like a ninja and tries to find the ninja boy to tell him she likes him. When she finds him they end up going on there first date dressed up as ninjas but she finds out that he really is a ninja. And all this happens on the first day of school.

• I was thinking that I could make this funny by making the ninja boy make lots of mistakes.
• I could also make the ninja boy could act really weird and he whispers when he talks and maybe have a weird accent.

- 2nd Idea

One day a girl was given a book by her mother when she was only a baby, as her mother read her the book every night, the girl became attached to the book and it ended up becoming her favourite book. When the girl becomes a teenager she wishes she could go on a date with the character in the book. Because she always has bad luck when she tries to date anyone. Her wish becomes true and the character comes to life, the character confused and afraid ends up freaking out because he was pull out of his world and ends up in a world so strange and different to his. The girl was freaked out and was so happy at the same time and tries to make the character blend in. After she makes him change his clothes she makes him go on a date with her which turns out to be

I was think about making the book but, in stead I might have a real book that has a plain cover with no title. Because it would be easier and I would have more time to work on the filming and editing.  

• Show 3 previous dates that went wrong all her dates end up dead or badly injured 
• First gets robbed and killed 
• Second chokes on food in the canteen
• Third gets attacked by dog or gets run over 
• After her third date dies she wishes she could date the character from the book
• He freaks out at the computer
• Tries to protect her from teddy bear 
• Everyone she dates is called Bartholomeo because that's what the character in the book is called so she ends up dating people who have the same name as the character in the book

When I shared my ideas to my class mates they thought, I should add more humour to my trailer so I thought the main character could talk about the deaths as it happens on screen in a funny way. For example she could blame them for their deaths. Also when the main two characters have a moment and they stare into each others eye she could be talking in her head and maybe say "OMG is this really happening I love you Bartholomew ". Also I was thinking of maybe adding a time limit to how long he can be out of the book and at midnight he goes back into the book. An there is an epic scene where Bartholomew is getting sucked back into the book and they are trying to get a hold of each others hands and wind is blowing in there hair and there crying, and the trailer ends but if I had to make the film, She would have found a way to get into the book and live happily ever after with him.

Script

It took me a while to figure out what the characters were going to say. In the end I thought I could have the main character talk about whats going on. I had a vague idea of what my character was going to say, so before I recorded the sound I sat down with my actor to see what she thought. She thought it was ok but we did make a few changes to the script. The reason why I did this because I wanted my actor to feel comfortable playing the role, and I wanted my script and acting to go with my actors personality, so the acting would turn out better.

- Beginning

This is a story about me. When I was a little girl, my mother gave me a Magical Book, which she read to me every night. It had monsters and demons, but my favourite character was the hero of the story, who kills the monsters. Like most girls I dreamed of true love, but for some reason my dating life is terrible. I have really bad luck.

- 1st Date

My first date was called Bartholomew. It really didn't end well for him.

- 2nd Date

By the 5th date I new I has bad choice in men, but I still had hope. Or maybe not.

- 3rd Date

On the 10th date it was going really well. But he had "problems" just like every one else. Well it wasn't working out between us anyway.

- The Wish

I wish I could date you Bartholomew

- End of Trailer

OMG is this really happening! I LOVE YOU BARTHOLOMEW!


Actors

Main character - Amy Midgley 
Bartholomew from book - Robert Bartle
Bartholomew on first date - Carl Doherty
Bartholomew on second date - Daniel Elliff
Bartholomew on third date - Luke Duckworth
Crazy psycho girl - Taliah Lamont
Students in class room - Chloe Mccann
                                   - Taliah Lamont
                                    - Hajrah Hussain

Animation  

I was thinking of adding a short animation in the beginning of my trailer, but I decided not to because I wanted to focus more on my filming and the story, because I am not good at comedy or romance so I wanted to focus more on my story and how to add humour to my trailer. But if I did add animation it would have been about how my main character got the book from her mother when she was younger. So instead of adding animation I decided to put sponsors in the trailer where the animation was so pose to go. Which I mad myself on my phone app called Sketch Book Pro. It took me a day or so to make these, because I didn't have a clue of what they should be called and what they should look like. But I did have a look at movie trailers and, I had a looked at the sponsors that would pop up so I had an idea of what they should look like. All the sponsors I made are are all drawn on my phone and then I transferred the computer and added them to my trailer.

 
Props

I was going to have an outfit for one of my characters because he is from another world that is in a book. I couldn't think of a other worldly outfit so I thought he could just wear plain cloths that look dirt and kinda old, because his world is full of monsters and demons and its kind of med evil, and not very civilized so his outfit wont be very complex, he will just have a plain t-shirt, and the pants are held up by rope and his foot wear would be old and muddy. I did a ruff sketch of what I think it would look like. In the end I didn't use this idea because I would of had to buy material to get the out fit made, and it would be expensive so, instead my actor just had regular cloths on.