Preproduction for Trill

Preproduction for Trill

Shot List

Initial script

Scene 1 - [Previously] - Villain threatening hero to meet him.

[Jamal holding James against the wall and looking down on him]

Jamal: You better meet me down my ends or your guna get it!

Scene 2 - [set of short scenes from previous episode]

Scene 3 - [Jamal waiting anxiously for James at the meeting place, walking in circles]

Scene 4- [Maria in a sad almost crying tone telling James not to go.]

Maria: Please James you can't go!

James: I have to get out of this myself or they'll never leave me alone

Maria: You can't go you know how this is going to end they're not going to let you go, please!

James sighs.

Scene 5 - [Jamal looks at watch and walks away angrily]

TITLE SEQUENCE

Scene 6 - [James walking alone down road or ally]

Scene 7 - [James sees Tyrone - Tyrone seems agitated and anxious]

James: Hey man what you doing around here, long time no see

Tyrone: Err [looks around] I dunno I was just walking by

James: How've you been man?

Tyrone: Good

James: What's up with you, you couldn't stop talking shit back in the day

Tyrone: [Looking away] Nothing.

 [POV shot of Tyrone - Over shoulder shot of James - see people coming from behind]

[James turns around]

James: The hell is this!

Tyrone: I'm sorry man I had to, they were gunna...

Jamal: Look who it is.

[Low angle shot of Jamal smiling]

Jamal: You didn't show up.

James: I told you I don't want to be a part of this anymore

Jamal: And this is how you disrespect the people who gave you everything James, everything.

James: I don't want to spend the rest of my life being an idiot on these streets

Jamal: SHUT UP! We could've done this the easy way, but no, you meet your little girlfriend and you think you're a big man.

James: Leave her out of it

Jamal: You could've just met me where I asked and this would've all been finished but NO! [Close up of Jamal pushing James over. Jamal talking down to James]

You think you can disrespect me? You had potential James, I thought we could have run this gang together, but now your nothing.

[Match on action- Shot behind Jamal pulling out gun- returns to POV of James looking at Jamal holding the gun at him]

Jamal: I'll make sure you never mess with me again

Drake: [Pushes gun down in Jamal's hands] Allow it man, don't take it too far

[James gets up and runs past Jamal and Drake]

Jamal: Go after him

[Close up shot of Jamal on the phone]

Jamal: Listen...Do as I say, or you'll never see him again. This is what you're guna do"

Scene 8 [Chase scene - James running away from Drake and others]

Scene 9 [James gets away from Jamal's boys and gets to Maria's house. He knocks on her door while breathing heavily. The door opens]

Maria: Oh my God are you ok?

James: I think so. I need to sit down

[Shot of James walking inside. Loud bang and noise of falling to floor. Blackout]

James - Hero

Jamal - Villain

Drake - Villains - Jamal's boy

Maria - James' girlfriend

Tyrone - James' old friend

Story Board

Story Board

Mise En Scene for 'Trill'

Location:
This production will be set in west london, as this is like the behind the scenes of the London that is perceived to foreigners by the government from advertising, we will film in isolated areas so it would provide an eerie and intense feeling to the audience.We wanted to represent the youth of London by using locations like this to provide a gritty, raw and urban feel.

Our production would consist of several locations however as we're film from in between the series we decided to focus on two the first location which in fact is the main location for this sequence is the White heart Roundabout this location is ideal for our production as this will allows us to achieve the composition/layout we set out to achieve as the centre of the roundabout has a 5 way split it would be perfect for the opening of out production we will also be using other area in this general area for a very short amount of time for a chase scene











The Second scene will be set in a house (mine) and this location will be introduced near the end of the sequence.



Costume:
Excluding the protagonist and the femme fatale everyone else (antagonist and gang) will be wearing black to connote danger and evil the type of clothing these charter would wear are typical urban outfits like trainers, hoodies and jeans/track suit bottoms.
The rest of the characters will be wearing casual clothing to portray their innocence.
No ones costume will change throughout.

Props:
-Phone
-False Gun (Water Pistol)
-Baseball Bat
-Bag

Timing:
The timing of this Production will be set around 05:00- 09:00 pm as this is when it is at it darkest, the reason we have chosen these timing is because it at these times that drug dealers robber etcetera will be prone to come out and proceed with their business.

Lighting:
The production will not use any studio lighting as natural background lighting is provided from street lamps and interior lighting.

Cast:
Armond - Big Chris
Kyle - Sunny
Antoine - Tyrone
Hasan - Nasir / Nas
Emily - Maria.

Exam Learner response

WWW: You actually make plenty of good point but each answer stops just as it gets going!

EBI: You need to write more for each question - this is nowhere near enough for 60 mins writing. It's good you're getting theories in but divide them into separate points and explain how they link to the text.

1. I'll revise all the theory for media so that when it come to note taking i am able to quickly think of way the clip could link to the question and jot them down quickly
2. I'll practise to take more notes from the video so that can structure my paragraph better and this will allow my paragraph to flow in to each other better
3. Improve my written English so my punctuation and spelling can be improved and get extra marks

For the next mock I'm aiming to get at least a C so that I am able to show that I can achieve higher then previous exams with revision and practise

At the end of the year I am hoping of aim for a B in the exam and to do so I will practise my exam technique a lot.

Audience Theory

Audience Theory

Hypodermic needle theory - this article suggest the continuously playing violent 'shot em' up' games will result in people seeing reality as a more hostile and violent.

Two-step flow model - this article shows that Jamal edward's success depended mostly on social factors (word of mouth) to get more view on his music/freestyle videos. It also show that Jamal is an opinion leader.

MEDIA TEXT	HOW IT FITS THE THEORY?
DIVERSION	This comedy film allows to people to forget their troubles and stress and share laughs for a few hours and be entertained. It allows the audience to escape in to another world where they feel nothing can harm them.
SURVEILLANCE	The news provides information to viewer’s about many thing including crime, new findings in studies and statistics to help improve health etcetera. This is considered surveillance because it provides the audience with information.
PERSONAL RELATION	This film can be considered personal relation due to the struggles the protagonist faces and may relate to people and could be what other people are facing therefore are looking for answers and turn to films like this as a solution
PERSONAL IDENTITY	This depends on the individual and how their personality is. For me I can see myself in certain character because they had done similar thing I had done while I was doing my GCSE and I can put myself in their place at the time.

1 - I primarily use the media for communication and entertainment
2 - We are dependent on the media as not much information would be available and technology wouldn't be as far as it is now
3 - our dependence has changed alot over the last 10 years as young people don't know how to live with out it in other words life would be very boring, people depend on the media to entertain them.

Institution Research

E4 is a digital channel based in the UK originally launched as a pay-TV companion to Channel 4 on 18 January 2001 as a pay - TV channel. It provides many american sit-coms such as 'How I met your Mother','The Big Bang Theory' these are examples of big successful U.S TV shows that the british audience watch, they also show some british programmes like 'Misfits' and 'Phoneshop' which are also tv programmes of a comedic genre. These shows are aimed at people between the ages of 15-35 year old. Programmes provided by the channel aren't always a comedy, some of the shows like 'Made in Chelsea' this is a reality tv programmes. E4 became available on freeview after May 2005 and became free to air on BSkyB because of a long term contract on 6th May 2008 along with a sister channel 'More4'.

BBC three is a channel which is apart of the BBC, broadcasting via Digital cable,terrestrial,IPTV and satellite, similarly to E4 have a target age range of 16-35 year old therefore the channel only airs their programmes between timings of 19:00 PM - 05:00 AM this is so it can remain as a terrestrial channel. They aim to provide a purpose of innovative content to a young audience therefore they provide unique reality shows such as 'snow,sex and suspicious parents'. Other shows they provide to us unlike E4 is live/pre-recorded comedy shows like 'Russell Howard's Good news'.unlike E4 this channel provide chat shows for example 'Backchat with Jack Whitehall and His Dad'.

Youngers:

The opening scene is a extreme close up of of the mic being placed in to the mic stand and it can be fore told that the protagonist is about to rap or sing the next shot is of the track producer kissing his cross pendent implying to the audience that these artist are new to the music industry and are trying to make a break and further shows that the these are teens struggling to gain opportunities hence the use on diegetic Rap/Grime music as it relates to them and is a popular genre in lower and middle class areas such as South London. the extreme close ups of the head phone show the roles of the character - the head phone convey to the audience that he is the rapper and the male sitting down is the producer.lighting in the sequence show display a rough estimate of time (night) and is confirmed by the mother walking in and tell the producer to send his friend home. the use on a foreign mother emphasises on the struggle in a way as it is a common stereotype the black people are often grouped in lower or middle.

Some Girls:

the opening scene of this sequence the title of the programme introducing it. this then cuts to a group of girls being coached in football clearly at a educational environment considering the obvious age gap between the coach and the students the clothing that is worn in the sequence connotes the the group of girls are in a football team the massive height difference shows the teacher is a dominant character and is emphasised by the dialogue in the scene "C'mon ladies let's get warmed up", this a instructive line and is followed by the student as they run. the dialogue in the sequence instantly conveys that the genre of this sit-com is comedy as they talk about how the last football match was extremely gory and people were bleeding but the teacher denies that the match was that bad even though she admits to the blood and broken bones.

Exam Response

WWW: Good analysis of mise en scene using knowledge well.
EBI: Better, more detailed answer for the other questions .Timing!
LR: Rewrite question 2 & 4, including more examples.
23/48- D

Learning Response:

Q2. the opening scene is the matches being lit and then shows the man as a medium close up showing him smoking this connotes to us that he is some sort of stress related situation and is emphasis due to aspects of make up. the situation and the smoke first connotes to us that he's the antagonist but subconsciously we doubt this as he isn't introduced as a domination character- the camera angle is straight on and doesn't imply in any way that he is violent and the shot clearly shows his facial expression displays resent and emphasises on the doubt the viewer has on his action and whether he is the villain. match on action shot leads our eyes to the second character in a silohuette