Children's Film - Final Copy

This is our final copy for our children's film opening sequence.

Storyboard & Shot List

Childrens Film Script

Barry Trotter and the Lost Scrolls

Script

The camera zooms in from a long, establishing shot to a mid shot of Barry who is levitating a stone with amazement.

HEIDI

(Walks towards Barry with books in her arms)

The stone flies towards Heidi and hits her in the side of the head

HEIDI

(Falls over crying)

BARRY

Oh Heidi! I’m so sorry I didn’t mean to hit you I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry!

HEIDI

It’s okay Barry don’t worry, I’m fine, nothing the elixir of Calpol won’t fix!

BARRY

(Bends over to pick her up of the floor)

I feel so bad though, here have a sweet on me please, I insist there your favourites

(Takes some sweets from his pocket)

HEIDI

(Reaches out to take a sweet and eats one)

Eurgh, earwax and snot flavoured, I’m going to be sick!

(Runs over to the nearby bush and is sick by the side of it)

DOM

(Walks by whistling the Harry Potter theme tune, slips in the sick and falls by the side of the bush dramatically)

Woah! That’s disgusting!

BARRY & HEIDI

(Laughing)

DOM

It’s not funny at all; I’m lying in sick!

(Begins to pick himself up from the floor, sees something and falls back down again in amazement)

Oh great jumping magical toads!

BARRY

What!

DOM

(Reaches in and picks out the scroll from the bush and holds it above his head)

HEIDI

(Quietly)

It can’t be! Surely not

DOM

(Gets up and runs to Barry and Heidi)

BARRY

What is that, it looks like some kind of scroll

DOM

(Hands the scroll to Barry and they unravel it and hold it up so only the characters can see it)

BARRY

What is it?

HEIDI

(opens up one of her books at a random page and shows the characters)

It’s the lost scrolls of Haddenham!

This is a test shot where we found out how to crop one moving image into another. In our real opening sequence we will be levatating a stone with a wand however as we cannot actually do this we had to film two different shots from the same position. One shot is a character moving the wand and the second shot is of the stone levatating, in order to do this we tied fishing wire round a stone and held it from a high position. When we combined the images together we found that the camera had moved slightly and when cropping the person holding the stone out of the image the right side of the film looked slightly distorted. When we actually film we will ensure that the camera doesn't move so that the images match.

Props/Location

Props
Stone = normal stone (outside)
Wand = Stick (outside)
Multi-flavoured sweets = Skittles (Heidi)
Scrolls = Sahib's scroll (Sahib)
Levitating Stone = fishing wire (college)

Location
Art garden with a bench in some shots.

'Back to the Future' Storyboard

Task:
The task we did was to watch the opening sequence of 'Back to the Future' and we were first told to make notes on Mise-En-Scene, Sound, Shot types and Framing. We then made a storyboard of the first 6 important shots. We chose to use the pan of the clocks, then we chose the television news broadcast, then the close-up of the dogs bowl, then we chose the skateboard hitting the missing plutonium under the bed, then we chose the boy turning the dial on the giant amplifier, finally we chose the boy flying through the air after playing his guitar.

Chicken Run

1) The main target audience for the film 'Chicken Run' is children, but this film could also be targeted at adults. The film is animated and has a simple story line, making it enjoyable for children and easy for them to follow. The theme of the film could be targeted at adults, as it is similar to films such as 'The Great Escape' who's general audience is adults.  Other than that, some of the humour used in the film that children find funny, has a deeper meaning which adults can also enjoy, and may relate to their own lives.

2) I would class this as a children's film, firstly because it is an animated film in which, lots of bright colours and funny shapes are used. The characters look quite childish, silly grins and big round eyes. Other than that, the plot of the story is simple and easy to follow. The classification of the film is 'U' making it suitable for children, hence there are no references to drugs etc. and very short scenes of mild violence and horror e.g. when one of the chickens is killed. There is no particularly bad language used either, there are some stunts done by the chickens, but nothing really imitable e.g. the giant catapult.

3) Chicken Run is a comedy escape drama set on a sinister Yorks chicken farm in 1950's England.
It was directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park. It was inspired by escape movies, especially 'The Great Escape' to which there are many references throughout the film. The cost to create the film is an estimated $42,000,000, the film has to date made a revenue of $224,834,56. The film has won numerous awards including, 2 BAFTA's for 'Best British Film' and 'Best Visual Effects' and A Golden Globe Award for 'Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy'.