Friday 28 January 2011


This is an aerial shot of our location a field in Normanby which contains a lone try the center point of our film. We wanted somewhere where we could film with out being disturbed too often, also somewhere in close proximity to all of us in the group. the tree also had to be very solitary not just because it looks more effective but also to partly represent our main characters isolation and loneliness in the film.
The tree we choose was pretty small but its shape was very stereotypical of drawings of family tree maps.

Family Tree; synopsis

Young widow, Mr Sycamore is dwelling on his tragic life, his memories triggered by the tree near his house. The film opens with an establishing shot of the tree, then pans to the man at his desk looking out the window at the tree, sorrow drowning his face. The man then walks to the tree holding some flowers and it flashbacks to when he was a young boy, meeting a young girl at the tree. Flashback to present day and the man is still walking towards the tree, slowly and depressingly. Then we see the children running around the tree in a flashback. The present day man walks up to the tree and rests his head on it, we see a carving of a love heart and initials in it and he touches the wood. He then pulls a photo out of his pocket, it shows his wedding, under the tree where he is standing. Another flashback shows him and his new wife running from their wedding to the tree, the symbol of their love. The flashbacks move on to a picnic under the tree, with his wife and son. A pan around the tree and there is sat just the lonely old man on his own. The flashbacks become more fragmented, the family are in the car in the dark, rain pounding on the windows. Mr Sycamore is on his phone, for buisness and doesn't see the car swerving right into the side of him, the side where his wife and boy are sat. A blackout, screams and sirens are heard until we come back to the present day man, crying, crumpled at the bottom of the tree. In the dull distance a figure appears, a laughing, smiling girl running towards him in her wedding dress; his wife. For a brief second he stands up and walks towards her, tears wiped away, until she vanishes. Destroyed, the man grabs some rope and climbs the tree. The final thing we see is the mans legs, dangling from the tree, the tree that was once a symbol of love and family, is now drowned in death.

story board

Wednesday 26 January 2011



This is our original pitch for our film 'Strange case' but after some extermly negative feedback from our traget audience we had an emergency crisis meeting. After this we came up with a new idea of 'family tree' which the whole group felt much more posativly about and got to work straight away developing this idea.

Tuesday 25 January 2011

CHANGE OF IDEA!

we recieved some negative feedback from our audience they felt our plot was too complex so we decided to develope a new idea still drawing on research and planning from our original idea to help use create an even better film.



Tuesday 18 January 2011

posters

These are the three poster possibilities we came up with on photoshop.



audience research question results





check list

ALL IMAGES MUST BE YOUR OWN

POSTER

Does it have a title in a distinctive, appropriate font – think about size and clarity.
Does it have a tag line suggesting an enigma about the film.
Does the image work to entice the audience and give narrative information?
Have you made it clear it is a short film?
Have you included some blurb to sell the film?
Have you included release information?