Aims and Context of my Film Project.

Film Studies

Aims:

Throughout the planning and production of this coursework, I have a set of aims I wish to achieve in order for this piece of work to reach its highest potential. My project, as a whole, is aimed mainly at the teenage audience, similar to that of the American Pie/Road Trip/Eurotrip series, though, with less sexual references.

I will be including my close friends Jordan and Sofie in this project, reason being, that they are easy to work with, I have close contact with them, I see them on a regular basis and I know they’re 100% reliable.

The main stylistics I will be including in this film project is the use of Mise-en-scene and cinematography. The Mise-en-scene in this film will include such things as Jordan’s ragged look; which represents his lack of care for anything and the cinematography will include such things as the way the two characters are positioned on the screen; I aim to begin by making it look like they’re unconsciously barred from each other without realising i.e. by making them walk either side of a small fence or gate when walking together. Another stylistic I am going to use is the use of sound, more to that of the soundtrack; at the start of the film, I’m going to introduce Jordan’s life in with the song ‘Heaven is a Halfpipe’ by OPM. I think this will be a really good idea as the song basically states that all that’s god in life is skating and even when you die, it’s still all he wants to do, which I think represents Jordan’s life in an effective way.

Context:

For this creative project, I am to produce a short film based on an idea I thought of which is to fit in my chosen genre category of a ‘Gross-out’ coming of age comedy. The initial idea is based on the life of an effortless youth that has no main goal in life and has only two loves to rely on; skateboarding and his ‘close’ friend Kate. When Jordan bumps into local sponsored skater, he is offered the chance of his life, to appear in his own skate demo alongside his new-found friend. However, he doesn’t realise what this will be doing to his and Kate’s relationship and it is only up to him to realise what happens next in his life.