first draft of film

First draft of film

screen shots

I have also used shots like these in which Michael wakes up and sits up straight, looking around wondering where he his.

screen shots

I have used these side and high angle shots in my film, i think they are very useful and conventional within in a hospital scene.

clock scene

With the clock scene I made it harder for myself, by filming a clock for around an hour, instead of just using a setting on the clock to make the hands move around faster, but then i used a time stretch tool to make the time seem like its gone by really quick. So i have stretched 1 hour of footage into 10 seconds.

influences

For the coma scene i was heavily influenced by the coma scene in Kill Bill, as i think its one of the best scenes in the film, i tried to make this scene as realistic as possible by using the hospital equipment and the nurses.
Unfortunately i couldnt find a clip of the scene from Kill Bill, but it did give me the idea for the scene i am using.

shooting schedule

Shots of Michael at Boothferry park filmed 7th November
Shots at the record shops filmed 11th November
Scene between Michael and man with the mobile phone filmed 13th November
The shot of the clock filmed on the 18th November
Phone call scenes filmed on Sunday 20th November
Hospital scenes filmed on Friday 2nd December

context

Context: I was involved in everything in the film from directing, planning, and being cameraman. My chosen film will appeal to an older audience of 20 to 35, because the genres used within my film are stereotypically unappealing for people my age, which is why I wanted to challenge myself and the mainstream audience, although it has that element of being in different time zones which I hope would entertain the audience. This also means that because the film is targeting an older audience, they will spend more money on it by e.g. going to the cinema and buying it on DVD, instead of illegally downloading.

Aims

Aims: My aim is to create a sequence of a film called ‘Golden Years’ which its main genre is Sci-fi with comedy and mystery as its sub genres, as it has elements of films already used for these genres such as the TV drama ‘Life On Mars, although I think, nothing like this has really been done before. I hope to give the audience the feeling of surrealism and make them think they’re living the main characters life. I will be using ‘Golden Years’ by David Bowie as my background song, also using the idea from the programme Life On Mars, other influences were Kill Bill with the coma scene, I have used similar aspects of cinematography from volume 1 with the scene I am using for my film. I will be using many over the shoulder shots to make the audience feel as if they are on the journey with Michael, along with close up/medium close ups to show the characters reactions and emotions, which is important as we want to see Michaels feelings when finding out he’s missed most of his life.