The logline we have decided upon is:
"A young boy struggles to come to terms with the death of his father".
We chose this logline as it is appropriate and we have access to all of the locations and and characters within the film. Most of the short film is set in a school location which will mean we can film easily within lessons. The character within the film are all teenagers which means that we can use friends and other pupils form within out school to be actors. The main character in the film, Josh, is also a character that the audience will easily be able to empaphise with and relate to some of the situations that he is going through as a teenager. This means that the film will be more enjoyable for our target audience. This storyline will also enable us to create good beats within our short film with the struggles that the character of Josh goes through, this will make an interesting plot.
The beats for the film are as follows:
Beat 1 -Introduce the setting
beat 2- introduction of josh sitting by his dad's grave
Beat 3- Josh at school misbehaving
Beat 4- Josh meets Amy
Beat 5- Josh gets into the wrong crowd of friends
Beat 6 - Josh almost has a fight with the boys
Beat 7 - Amy tries to help josh but he rejects her
Beat 8 - Josh realises what he is doing and accepts help
After a group disscussion about ideas for our film, I made this mindmap to sum up our main ideas.
Your log line doesn't pose any questions in the audiences' minds. Remember in class we said that a major factor of loglines is that the audience want to watch a film because they want to know how these questions will be resolved?
ReplyDeleteSo.... Since the death of his father Darren has started to rebel. Amy his girlfriend wonders if she has the ability to help re-steer Darren back on course....or something along these lines....can you see you have set up a series of questions which wiull help gain audience interest...please re-write your log-line.
Where is the rest of your work - see me, we've spoken about the deadline.
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