1. Assignment 15
Amy cleary - Green
Monae Minors-Gibbs - Orange
Jodie Foster-Pilia - Blue
Pamela Younes - Red

2. Who am I?
• Name: Amy Cleary
• Candidate number:
• Colour code: green

3. Who am I?
• Name: Monae
• Candidate number:
7413
• Colour code: Orange

4. Colour code: Blue
Candidate number:7362

5. Who am I?
Name: Pamela Younes
Candidate number :
 7488
My Colour is
• Red

6. Inspiration from opening sequences.
Se7en
• This particular opening sequence is
inspirational because it has a mysterious
opening and leaves enigma.
Leaves enigma as you don’t know
who the hand is and why they have
drawings of it.

7. Inspiration from opening sequences.
• Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate events
This is inspirational as the
opening has the storyline
of the three children and
their facial expressions.

8. Inspiration from film opening sequences
Mission Impossible-
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/mission-
impossible/
Establishing Good sized Establishing setting
characters credits on the (on a airplane)
side in clear font

9. Inspiration from film opening sequences
U Turn -
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/u-turn/
Natural
Credits
lightning
are big
and in a
weird
font
Establishes
character
Why is he in a red Enigmas? i.e. why
car? (represents Establishes setting
he didn’t U Turn
danger) or go the other
way

10. Inspiration from film opening sequences
• My Sisters Keeper - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX0dxizzjME
Opening
Small but
sequence of the
viewable
memories
credits

11. Inspirational opening sequences
Film: Almost famous (2000)
I very much like the idea of the font
being hand written as it almost
makes the font seem personalised.
This is the kind of font that I feel
would look best in our opening
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/almost-famous/ sequence
Film: Boardwalk Empire (2010)
There are a variety of close up
and extreme close up camera
shots which immediately capture
the emotions and feelings of the
character
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/boardwalk-empire/
Film: Donnie Brasco 1997
The use of the overlapping
transition is quite effective, I like
the idea of being able to see two
images at the same time. I would
like to use this in our opening
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/donnie-brasco/ sequence.

12. Inspiration from real films opening sequences
• Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
 The style of this opening sequence
is that they would have the titles on
the actual image
 The style of the opening sequence
is images and its black and white
there is no footage
 The enigma would be who is the
dead person on the screen and who
would be the murderer

13. Inspiration from real films opening sequences
• Oceans 11 – (1960)
• The style of this title opening sequence is based on
graphical images
• The font is when most important informTION
WOULD STAND OUT SUCH AS THE NUKBERS
• The fonts are colourful

14. Inspiration from films
This particular scene
inspired me because it
showed a sense of
freedom and that she’s
released from the pain.
This could relate to ours because at the end if she
does commit suicide it will be her way of ending
the pain.

15. Inspiration from films
This lighting of this scene inspired
me as it links in well with the scene
as it is romantic.
Also, his character
representation is that he loves
her very much and is a good
guy.

16. Inspiration from films
Unstoppable
This is a daylight tragedy A lot of panning
with a train shots was used

17. Inspiration from films
Boys Don’t Cry
Plot is about a
transgendered teen
born as a female Comfortable as
a boy and looks
like one

18. Inspiration from films
She has flashback of Artificial
Precious
a better/different lighting
life
Her clothes
look
expensive
Red clothing
and her hair
representing
is done
love and passion

19. Inspiration from real films
Film: Creep
Isolated train station, this would be
good for out suicide scene
I like the use of the wide shot to
establish where exactly the scene is
The use of artificial lighting, sets a mysterious
Film: Slumdog millionaire mood
The use of the yellow tint,
to make the scene feel
uncomfortable
I like his Fearful and afraid facial expression, I want
the character in my opening sequence to have a
Film: premonition
feel of fear
Change of colour for flashback, very bright,
this would be good to use for the flashbacks
in my opening sequence

20. Inspiration from real films
• In Time
 in this movie it has suicide
included and it can show us
why people would commit
suicide and the
consequence of it. And how
people have a limit to how
long they would live, the
rich live forever and the
poor die young

21. In Time
This shot would be an establishing Its in the morning or He is wearing a suit, The convention is, people always intend to
shot of showing that the guy just becoming the afternoon which immediately commit suicide from a bridge. And that’s
fell of the bridge and it makes it as it isn't that bright. presents that he is a rich what this guy is doing by sitting on the edge
clear that it is a bridge by showing You can tell it’s a guy that can afford of the bridge. I can tell as it zooms into the
us the whole setting, and shows peaceful place as there expensive clothing time he has left in life, as he gave all his time
the audience enough information isn't anyone on the away, which shows that he wasn’t happy
for the audience to get it. bridge and no cars going and wants to die.
up and down the road.

22. Chat Room
• Chat Room
This is about
mainly killing
them selves and it
all started online

23. Chat Room
The convention of This story is This would be a
This is set in a bedroom and She is wearing shorts and committing suicide can be about how close up to see
jumping from her window, and a jumper, and her gesture jumping of a building or people the previous
she is video calling someone, we as if she is ready as her self harm, self harming committing scars and self
can tell this is a video call as arms are side by side on isn't killing but can prove suicide harming again.
there’s a computer screen and her hips, and cannot see that, that the person
earphones her facial expression. doesn’t like them selves
which can lead to suicide

24. 4321
• 4321
 Shows what the 4 girls
would do on the same
part of the days and how
they would meet up and
how the diamond brings
them together at the end
of the scene wen one off
the girls wanted to kill
her self by jumping of the
bridge

25. 4321
This would be a long shot
She has a Louis Vuitton bag
as it establishes there
which is obvious that she
whole body and can see This is set in London Westfield The convention of this
has more money than the
the background a bit, shopping centre, and the second picture is that there's
rest of the friendship
however its on focus pulls picture is at night just next to the always one person in the
group, and she is dressing
as it blurs out the people bridge where they just stopped one of friendship groups that
very smartly as she has a
and objects behind them the girls by committing suicide needs their support more
sport looking blazer, full
and the main 4 characters because of family problems than others
makeup and curled hair
are clearer

26. Mind map on SimpleMind

27. Conventions
Convention Explanation Example from film
Climax point The high climax within the Crash
film where something
dramatic happens.
Social status Cant be friends/lovers The boy in the striped
because of their different pyjamas
social classes and status’.
Characters Journey The story follows the Freedom writers
characters journey/s to
see how they have
progressed.
Emotional themes When a character either My sisters keeper
has cancer or leukaemia
and they are on recovery
or going to die.

28. Genre & conventions
Conventions Explanation Example from real film
Realistic struggles or pain •Abused Seven Pounds
•Bullied Cyber bully
•Poverty
•Racism
•Suicide attempts
Seven pounds Cyber bully
The scene of suicide-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPweErG45XI
&safe=active
She gets bullied No one ends
up liking her
This was a
suicide
attempt

29. Genre & conventions
Conventions Explanation Example from real film
Friendship •Barely any friends Mean Girls
Dreams of a peaceful place •Being alone, happy & free Precious
•Out of misery My Sisters Keeper
Emotionally attached •Keeps the audience Pursuit of Happiness
engaged
Fake girls that no
one likes
Audience keeps The outsider
attached Dreams of calm coming to a
places new school

30. Genre and conventions of drama
Convention Explanation Example from real film
Many drama films have some sort Film: why did I get married 2
1)Conflict and argument of argument/fight that stems In this scene a couple
from a particular problem for are having a heated
example cheating, divorce argument based on
divorce
Addiction is quite popular with Film: Half nelson
drama films where by drug,
2) Addiction alcohol, sex addictions are In this film the
expressed. Many people have teacher suffers from a
some kind of addiction and can serious drug addition
therefore relate to addiction and his found by his
dramas. student
Film: This boys life
Some sort of domestic dilemma In this film a boy
revolving abuse is constantly
3)Abuse abused by his
aggressive step
father
Film: million dollar baby
Some sort of problem which we
as individuals face during out day Her boxing
to day lives, such as cheating, profession has been
bullying, illnesses. ruined by a death
4) Problem/dilema threatening injury

31. Genre & Conventions
Psychological Drama
Conventions Explanation Example from films
Crime There's death in drama In time, when the man
films which when the committed suicide and
drama happens to find chases the wrong person
what happened and why
Hero There's always a less For example in spider
unfortunate character man, peter would be the
and there's always a hero hero
to help that character

32. Genre & Convention
Conventions Explanation Example from films
The problem would It would make the Such as parent trap and
always be fixed at the audience feel happy both twin would be back
end when they watched it as together and so are the
its all fixed parents
Addiction It would show how Orphan, when the mum
people would be was an alcaholic
addicted to specific
things such as smoking,
drugs and alcohol

33. Research themes/topics.
• My research is on transgender. Transgender
people are individuals that feel like they are the
wrong sex. E.g. a male that feels he should be
female.
• These individuals usually get surgery to change
them to the gender they desire to be.
• A transgender individual may have characteristics
that are normally associated with a particular
gender, identify elsewhere on the traditional
gender range, or exist outside of it as other,
genderqueer, third gender or agender

34. Research on transgender
 Transgender is the state of one’s gender identity
(self-identification as woman, man, neither or
both0 not matching one’s assigned sex
(identification by others as male, female or
intersex based on physical/genetic sex.
 Transgender does not imply any specific form of
sexual orientation. The precise definition for
transgender includes:
 “people who were assigned a sex, usually at birth
and based on their genitals, but who feel that this
is a false or incomplete description of
themselves.”

35. Research
• http://Kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/body_image/tr
ansgender.html# - good site
• Are transgender people gay?
• Being transgender is not the same thing as being gay.
Being transgender is about gender identity- the way
you see yourself and the gender you identify with.
• Being gay or lesbian is about sexual orientation -
gender you are attracted to. Sexual orientation is a
different thing from gender identity, a transgender
person can be straight, gay, or bisexual.

36. Research
There are two videos of transgender people
• http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RDJXR1wXof
A&feature=related
• http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BSUFtLD1Md
s

38. Research on transgender
What is transgender? •Transgender is the state of one's gender identity not
matching one's assigned sex
i.e. someone born as a man yet desires to be a woman,
and therefore may act and dress in a certain way.
Is being transgender a mental •No, but this remains a stereotype about transgender
people. Transgender identity is not a mental illness that
illness?
can be cured with treatment.
•Transgender people experience a persistent difference
between our assigned sex and our understanding of our
own gender. For some people, this leads to emotional
distress.
How is gender identity different •Gender identity refers to the way you understand
from sexual orientation? yourself and your gender. It is about the internal sense of
masculinity or femininity that a person feels.
•Sexual orientation is our attraction to someone else of
the same or different gender or both.
How do transsexual people change •Counselling with a mental health professional
genders? treatments
• Communication between the person’s therapist and
physician indicating
• Undergoing hormone therapy
• Having various surgeries to alter the face, chest and
genitals to be more

39. Research on sexuality
Sexuality is diverse, and deeply personal. Understanding our
sexuality is about the sexual feelings and attractions we feel
towards other people, not about who we have sex with. There
are different types of sexuality, and it can take time to figure out
what fits right with you
Lesbian is a term to describe sexual Lesbianism can be caused by both
and romantic attraction between mental and physical reasons. Many a
Lesbian females times a person develops lesbian traits
at the early childhood itself.
Homosexuality is romantic attraction, some people are gay because of their
sexual attraction, or sexual activity biology, including brain development
between members of the same sex or differences. Some gay males have
gender brain development more like straight
Homosexual females
Heterosexuality is romantic Much human behaviour such as
attraction, sexual attraction or heterosexuality is considered to be
Heterosexual behaviour between persons of ultimately explainable in terms of
opposite sex natural selection and variation.
These are people who do not fit Compared to heterosexuality and
neatly into the categories of homosexuality, very little scientific
heterosexual and homosexual, study has been conducted on
because they experience sexual and bisexuality. Based on the studies that
Bisexual emotional attractions and feelings for have been done, it appears that
people of different genders at some bisexuals are not people whose
point during their lives orientation is fundamentally
homosexual but who have some
heterosexual sex on the side

40. Research on Peer pressure & how it influences your identity
Teen peer pressure is the influence a teen's social group has on him or
her. Peer pressure is a part of life for everyone, but it can be an especially
strong influence during the teen years when peers are very important to
a teen's identity
The desire to fit in with peers can be a very strong influence on teens.
Peers influence most aspects of a teen's life, including how teens dress,
what music they listen to, and what kind of activities they are involved in.
Negative peer pressure is when teens feel pressured to do something
they know is wrong, such as smoking, drinking, doing drugs, or stealing, or
something they don't want to do such as cutting class or having sex.
Which then influences their identity
Learning to handle peer pressure helps a teen mature, grow and learn
positive ways to get along with others.

41. Research on Identity
• Bulling
• This can be because they have a disability, or
being different than everyone else such as
being more cleverer

42. Research on Identity
• Peer pressure
• There friends would peer pressure of doing
something such as forcing and telling them
what would be good about smoking for
example

43. Inspirational characters
• The mother from “The Impossible”
• This is because she tries her best to protect her children even though she
is badly injured herself.
• Her body language is that she is scared but trying to put on a brave face so
her son is okay.
She is still holding onto and
protecting her son like a typical
mother would.

44. Inspirational characters
• An inspirational character “Chris Gardner” from the Pursuit of Happiness
because he is a father struggle to keep custody of his son.
• He is a strong role model as he won’t give up because he loves his child
too much.
He puts on a brave face in front of
his son however cries when the
son is asleep.

45. Inspirational character
Boys Don’t Cry
Body language
is showing he
Boyish costume is confident in
i.e. jeans etc, with himself
the haircut
matching a male
characters look
Transgender –
female to a
male

46. Inspirational character
Cyber Bully
A character
that gets
bullied
She over comes
Bullying starts to really
the bullying
interfere with her life

47. Inspirational characters from films
Film: Fish tank
The costume is quite inspirational, as it is not at
all feminine, in fact it is quite boyish. This
tracksuit would be a great choice of costume in
our opening sequence, as it is representative of a
girl who wants to be a boy.
Film: Precious
This characters facial expression and body
language is inspiring as she appears to be fed
up and tired of the life in which she lives,
which is exactly what our opening sequence
is about.
Film:Kidulthood
The way in which the girl in staring into
the mirror and is unhappy and
devastated with the refection looking
back at her. I like this idea, it may be
used in our opening sequence.

48. Inspirational characters
• Justin Timberlake
The most thing I like His facial expression
about him is the way he seems shocks / worried
acts and the way he this can be because he’s
would react towards running from someone
different things, such as trying to survive by
the police running and saving the
woman beside him
He's wearing a suit
His body language is
which represents that
very manly by the way
he’s a wealthy man
he’s trying to grab the
woman so he can
protect her and to run as
fast as possible

49. Actors
• The actors are Jodie, Amy, and Monae.
• They are good for the role because they can sometimes relate to the characters.
For example Amy and Monae are both students and they are playing students for
the role.
• Also, they are available often and when needed.
Actors Strengths Weaknesses
Jodie Hardworking and Find hard to meet
sensible. deadlines sometimes.
Amy Hard working and will Sometimes fall behind
put all effort in. on work and have to
catch up.
Monae Will work hard and Find difficult to meet
meet deadlines. deadlines.

50. Costume/props
A prop- to be
holding
something in
her hand
Shoes that
Plain dark t-shirt to represent
enforce the darkness danger
within the character

51. Costume/props
Men straight legged jeans to
emphasis the dress code of a Comfortable hoodie- red
male and for the character to giving a representation a
feel comfortable. danger to themselves.

52. Titles and Credits Person 3 & 4
Film: almost famous (2000)
The style of the font is hand
written, this makes the writing
seem personalised and
individual, we would possibly
want to use this style on our
opening sequence
Film: The Borgias (2011)
The size of the writing is
medium/small which allows the
audience to concentrate and
understand the story which is
also occurring behind, the
writing
Film: Mentiras Piadosas (2008) The placement of these
credits are in the middle of
the screen which highlight
its importance, and the
colour is black makes it
appear as bold and
noticeable

53. Peron 3&4
Music/Sounds
• http://freeplaymusic.com – this is where we
get our non-copy right sounds
This is the website where it would
give us a range of sound effects, then
we would download it so we would
be able to use it in our opening
sequence.

54. Mainstream or independent
Independent
 The issue of transsexuals isn’t hugely expressed in our
society it is almost a hidden truth
 Transsexuals are a minority group, which anent really
accepted by the public
 The mass audience wouldn’t necessarily enjoy a film to
do with transsexuals, they may find it slight
uncomfortable

55. Target audience
Audience Explanation
Age 15+
- You begin to find yourself, at early teenage stages, i.e.
discovering what sexuality you may be which tends to take place
in puberty.
Social class Any class
- Anyone can experience the dilemma of seeking their identity.
Gender Female and male
- All the people that are going through stages of finding who they
are or whom they may like.
Ethnicity Any
- It can relate to anyone
Sexuality Transgender
People that are Transsexual or thinking about changing their
gender are a minority group and are the only people who can
truly relate to the issues raised in our film.

56. BBFC
Here is the site
 BBFC stands for British Board of
Film Classification
 The British Board of Film
Classification is an independent,
non-governmental body which has
classified cinema films since it was
set up in 1912 and videos/ DVDs
since the Video Recordings Act was
passed in 1984.

57. Distribution companies
• A distribution company we could use is
“Hannover house” this is because they are a
popular independent distribution company.
• They have released films such as toys in the
attack, racing dreams and Chelsea on the
rocks.

58. Distribution company

59. Distribution company
• Fox Searchlight Pictures, established in 1994, is an
American film division of Fox Entertainment
Group alongside the larger Fox studio 20th Century Fox. It
specializes in independent and British films,
alongside dramedy and horror, and is variously involved
with the production and/or distribution of these films.
• Fox Searchlight's Slum dog Millionaire won the Academy
Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards as well
as a further 7 academy awards. Other Fox Searchlight films
receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty,
Sideway, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, Black Swan, 127
Hours, The Tree of Life, The Descendants and Beasts of the
Southern Wild.

60. Distribution companies
The Weinstein Company
This is an independent film distributor The film tells the story a
which I think will be suitable for our film, as transsexual woman
it makes films based on issues raised from who goes on a road trip
transgender. with her long-lost son
Toby
Sony Pictures Classics
This is another possible independent film This film tells the story
distributor which could be used for our film, of, a child who is seen
it also makes films to do with transgender by her family and
community as a boy,
but consistently insists
that she is a girl.