Henry Javerson
Backstory: This 22 year old boy comes from a famous pride driven prestigious family with all of them holding degrees in certain talents. His mum is a judge and is driven to work beside her to earn her love and respect. When his mother was in a court room taking on a criminal Henry would often look into her court cases and see who she was up against. From the look of the criminals Henry wondered how on earth they would end up they way they are. So he took it upon himself to study Psychology to reform the criminal mind to help out his mother and become more of a helping set to his family.
Dr Harrison
A schooler at heart and high within the phycological arts and majored in rehabilitation, this man strives in teach the future generation on his profession. He works at the university and comes across the Destination while on a special trip to research and interview the people inside. Unfortunately due to an unfortunate encounter he is to scared and dramatised to go back there.
Mrs Dagmar
This woman funded and created The Destination as a sanctuary for people who are misunderstood and deemed crazy government targeted. She always believed that everyone act the way they do for a reason, they always deserve a second chance, even though if those people done some sinful things in their life. She is also a transvestite, so really she is a man but chose to become a woman for family reasons and of her own free will.
Backstory: In a backstory she had a wife who unfortunately passed away due to cancer leaving him with their one and only daughter Samantha. She became a woman help Sam get over the grief of loosing her mother and soon became comfortable and chose to remain a woman.
Sam Dagmar
Mrs Dagmar's daughter and care taker of The Destination, she is 20 years old. Studied and getting a diploma in human care she looks after the residents and people within The Destination. Cooking, cleaning (when she can), and even doing laundry, she makes sure that the house doesn't become a battleground when most of the time it does. She is quite sane in terms of her attitude, she remains calm and tends to be quite sarcastic, but then again who would when you have to deal with a bunch of crazy people on a daily basis.
Agnus McBurns
A gothic quiet girl who find comfort within the warmth of fire, matches and fire places seem to bring piece and tranquility from the angry and noisy world around her. She is age 15 and can't be reasoned with unless your place is on fire.
Backstory: Even since she was a little girl her parents constantly argued and her only escape was when one day she wanted to find something to occupy herself. After seeing every toy she had already played with she found something that caught her eye. Her mum's birthday wasn't too long ago and so she find on the floor a box of matches. After she lit her first match and seeing the flame she became more calm and found comfort when looking at the flame. That however led to setting her own house on fire. Barley escaping in time her parents saw her as a monster and sent her to The Destination until she was deemed sane once more, she has been there ever since.
Gregory Smith aka Splotion
Backstory:
When first memorised the alphabet at age 2 he he became an absolute fanatic with the realms of science and technology. At 5 he was already in secondary school as his knowledge was extremely separated from the other children. By age 10 he was already working on government projects to change human society forever. Until one day he had a nervous breakdown and stated working so much that he because science mad, creating weapons of mass destruction, inner demential portals to other planets and more. As a result, the government deemed him to be too dangerous and by order of the court he was sent to The Destination where he was to calm down and be disciplined and not to do any more science experiments. The only thing he was aloud to keep was his pet octopus named Sebastian, his only friend in the world. He is now 16 years of age and has remained at The Destination ever since.
Dave
Backstory: As an orphan Dave has learned to survive on his own and has gotten into trouble so many times because of complicated things he didn't do. Many people saw him as a threat and has been accused time and time again, before then he started being more aggressive even his foster carers started to loose control of him. Eventually he got into fight after fight after fight until he was sentenced to The Destination and found by Mrs Dagmar where he remains at age 19 and somehow learns to control his temper before returning to society once more.
Cindy:
At a young age Cindy grew up in a hunted house with her family, she started hearing ghosts and before long she started seeing them too. Her family started to get worried to the point where they saw her get bullied at school for (apparently) talking to herself. Her tutors say she is totally in another world, her peers say she is almost constantly changing personalities. Before long they found The Destination and left her with Mrs Dagmar to help her come to terms of reality. Here she stays with her weird thoughts and her ghost friends at age 18, weighting for the day she is either cured or has control over her mind.
Sunday, 16 October 2016
Thursday, 13 October 2016
Pre Production Development - My Pitch and Treatment Package
With my pitch, I kept it very visual as to make sure that not only my tutor but also my peers would understand what I was trying to achieve and make with my major project. Unfortunately because of that some of them didn't understand what my film was, or some of the details that they just didn't get. This was a fault on my part as I was nervous and rushed a little bit on my presentation and left out some crucial details such as, character backgrounds, the plot, and most importantly, the information about my pre production package.
What was going to be included within the package, how was it going to show of the best aspects of my work, how was it going to be done or submitted? All these things could have been told and executed in my pitch a hell of a lot better in my opinion and so I have learned to make sure to read the brief more thoroughly next time.
That was it for my presentation, but now as for my overall Pre Production Package I plan to put all of my work into a book with these chapter headings.
Treatment
Characters
Locations
Concept Art
Script
Episode synopsis
Cast
Crew
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Pre Production Unit Development Locations and special Props
Firstly with the character of Greg Splotion, I imagined him having a crazy pet best friend that other people would be freaked out about whenever they saw it. Since this character is a scientist I thought it would be cool if he had a really cool un natural pet, something aquatic, so I thought, what about an octopus.
This is when I had to slow down and think... How would I even consider the possibilities of get a life size octopus let alone finding one. Then it hit me, what if I didn't need the octopus at all, what if I just got a prop of a simple octopus tentacle and thats it.
With research I have gathered There is a company that has built a life-size octopus tentacle and would be perfect as a quick moment of dark comedy.
Fig.1 Tentacle - FrightProps.com [Online] at: http://www.frightprops.com/tentacle-0745.html (Accessed on 11/10/16).
Location examples:
For a short film like mine I would conceder either a big fancy house or a cottage, but somewhere with space where lot of characters can be in.
Fig.2 Middle of nowhere cottages Take a holiday break that's far from the madding crowd [Online] At: http://www.menaiholidays.co.uk/assets/images/Scenics/thumbs/1766x669/xBBP_8871.jpg.pagespeed.ic.JKesJgVckH.jpg (Accessed on 11/10/16).
Fig.3 Magnificent Architecture [Online] At: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d7/4d/0d/d74d0d23e8ea1cdf07a6337097f52b4f.jpg (Accessed on 11/10/16).
This is when I had to slow down and think... How would I even consider the possibilities of get a life size octopus let alone finding one. Then it hit me, what if I didn't need the octopus at all, what if I just got a prop of a simple octopus tentacle and thats it.
With research I have gathered There is a company that has built a life-size octopus tentacle and would be perfect as a quick moment of dark comedy.
Fig.1 Tentacle - FrightProps.com [Online] at: http://www.frightprops.com/tentacle-0745.html (Accessed on 11/10/16).
Location examples:
For a short film like mine I would conceder either a big fancy house or a cottage, but somewhere with space where lot of characters can be in.
Fig.2 Middle of nowhere cottages Take a holiday break that's far from the madding crowd [Online] At: http://www.menaiholidays.co.uk/assets/images/Scenics/thumbs/1766x669/xBBP_8871.jpg.pagespeed.ic.JKesJgVckH.jpg (Accessed on 11/10/16).
Fig.3 Magnificent Architecture [Online] At: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d7/4d/0d/d74d0d23e8ea1cdf07a6337097f52b4f.jpg (Accessed on 11/10/16).
Sunday, 9 October 2016
My Cast expectations and Locations
There were already couple of people in mind for my cast for some of the parts in mind. They are mostly some people I have work with before and I amigo get them involved one last time for this creative project I am doing.
Some here are already some of the cast that I had in mind:
Henry - Ben Fleury
Mrs Dagmar - Dave Turner
As you can clearly see this guy can do it all, he is known for playing the woman role in any pantomime
Head Tutor Dr Harrison - John Reding
Classy, smart, funny, these qualities define John as well as this character. The reason I have chosen John is because not only was he really easy and fun to work with but he has a powerful way of speaking not only during his stand up but also when he is acting.
Expectations for the rest of the cast:
Agnus McBurns -
Gregory Plotion -
Dave Smith - Possibility (Shan Rickwood)?
Tall, tough, and a heavy metal fan, this guy may be funny when you meet him but on camera I would expect him to be great as a street fighting, class bullying, rough and tough bloke who gets into all sorts of trouble but beneath all of that anger exterior lies someone who was framed and misunderstood.
Kevin Terrible -
Sam Dagmar -
Some here are already some of the cast that I had in mind:
Henry - Ben Fleury
Mrs Dagmar - Dave Turner
As you can clearly see this guy can do it all, he is known for playing the woman role in any pantomime
Head Tutor Dr Harrison - John Reding
Classy, smart, funny, these qualities define John as well as this character. The reason I have chosen John is because not only was he really easy and fun to work with but he has a powerful way of speaking not only during his stand up but also when he is acting.
Expectations for the rest of the cast:
Agnus McBurns -
Gregory Plotion -
Dave Smith - Possibility (Shan Rickwood)?
Tall, tough, and a heavy metal fan, this guy may be funny when you meet him but on camera I would expect him to be great as a street fighting, class bullying, rough and tough bloke who gets into all sorts of trouble but beneath all of that anger exterior lies someone who was framed and misunderstood.
Kevin Terrible -
Sam Dagmar -
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Destination for Despicable Delinquents (Treatment)
The show I am creating revolves around a young 21+ year old boy who is hired to a big house filled with the most out of control kids and teens in England. For this to work not only would I need a great big house to work in and to get permission to film in but I would also need the right cast to get the right feel to it.
The Feel:
I wanted the feel to be somewhat Tim Burnish but not too dark but more funny and often quick with the timings for the comedy, to be fast paste comedy for me usually executes the best.
With dark comedy turning bad things and situations into funny and liable jokes can be often hard to nail down as most majority of people today tend to get over sensitive of whats on television especially the internet when the audience half the time have complete control over what they think and what they want to say online.
With that however comes fun as the aim of comedy, more importantly from a script, is to make sure there is joke after joke after joke. I originally I was going to aim the comedy based around the style of the E4 Show Scrubs, where the comedy is based around high drama within a hospital.
My show however needed to be more funnier so with this it seemed that the comedy percentage need to be higher than the drama. The show's feel has to be gothic but enough so a high amount of people who band away from gothic horror can still be intrigued to give it a watch. My target audience is around 12 to 30 year olds, so like 6th formers to college students to young adults.
The style I imagine is gloomy yet artistically creative and classy, but when it comes to the delinquents I wanted a rough tough and gothic look to them.
Inspiration:
I took inspiration from dark yet funny shows such as this one, What it's Like Being Alone, a show based around an orphanage where these deformed, mister, and old around weird orphans live and get into adventure and trouble within this one location all within the plot and task of eventually being adopted by parents.
The comedy style is what I want to aim around and the location somewhat similar, I think the biggest challenge to this major project is in fact the location, as I wanted a kind of broken house but not too broken.
Grimborster. (2007). What It's Like Being Alone - Episode 5 part 1 of 4. [Online Video]. 23 February 2007. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFSuVBGKjUc. [Accessed: 4 October 2016].
The Feel:
I wanted the feel to be somewhat Tim Burnish but not too dark but more funny and often quick with the timings for the comedy, to be fast paste comedy for me usually executes the best.
With dark comedy turning bad things and situations into funny and liable jokes can be often hard to nail down as most majority of people today tend to get over sensitive of whats on television especially the internet when the audience half the time have complete control over what they think and what they want to say online.
With that however comes fun as the aim of comedy, more importantly from a script, is to make sure there is joke after joke after joke. I originally I was going to aim the comedy based around the style of the E4 Show Scrubs, where the comedy is based around high drama within a hospital.
My show however needed to be more funnier so with this it seemed that the comedy percentage need to be higher than the drama. The show's feel has to be gothic but enough so a high amount of people who band away from gothic horror can still be intrigued to give it a watch. My target audience is around 12 to 30 year olds, so like 6th formers to college students to young adults.
The style I imagine is gloomy yet artistically creative and classy, but when it comes to the delinquents I wanted a rough tough and gothic look to them.
Inspiration:
I took inspiration from dark yet funny shows such as this one, What it's Like Being Alone, a show based around an orphanage where these deformed, mister, and old around weird orphans live and get into adventure and trouble within this one location all within the plot and task of eventually being adopted by parents.
The comedy style is what I want to aim around and the location somewhat similar, I think the biggest challenge to this major project is in fact the location, as I wanted a kind of broken house but not too broken.
Grimborster. (2007). What It's Like Being Alone - Episode 5 part 1 of 4. [Online Video]. 23 February 2007. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFSuVBGKjUc. [Accessed: 4 October 2016].
Friday, 30 September 2016
Rosenberg Research (Dissertation)
As part of my Dissertation I wanted to research the psychological aspects of market research by using the popular medium of Superheroes on TV and popular culture. The reason I went this route was because it is a growing phenomenon a studios like Marvel seem to making movie after movie and gaining more and more profit, I thought it would be interested to see what other people see in superheroes in their eyes.
I came across a popular Dr of Psychology by the name of Robin Rosenberg who specialised on adapting the stories and characteristics of Superheroes and finding psychological phenomena attached to them.
There is even a lecture she did on the teachings in life that Superheroes teach us. She talk to an audience shows a lot of examples and what was interesting was that most of her inspiration came from her 3 sons who would come home after school talking about the X-Men which is what I am using my prime example in my dissertation.
Bibiography:
Talks at Google. (2013). Robin Rosenberg: "What is a Superhero" | Talks At Google. [Online Video]. 22 August 2013. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaLnexXbtZA. [Accessed: 30 September 2016].
I came across a popular Dr of Psychology by the name of Robin Rosenberg who specialised on adapting the stories and characteristics of Superheroes and finding psychological phenomena attached to them.
There is even a lecture she did on the teachings in life that Superheroes teach us. She talk to an audience shows a lot of examples and what was interesting was that most of her inspiration came from her 3 sons who would come home after school talking about the X-Men which is what I am using my prime example in my dissertation.
Bibiography:
Talks at Google. (2013). Robin Rosenberg: "What is a Superhero" | Talks At Google. [Online Video]. 22 August 2013. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaLnexXbtZA. [Accessed: 30 September 2016].
Thursday, 29 September 2016
Destination for Despicable Delinquents Development 28.09/2016
My Characters:
Henry Javerson
Age - 20
Henry comes from a very pride driven household with every single one of his family members having a degree within a theoretical skill. His mother (Hillary) has a degree in theoretical physics and is a university tutor. His father (Alister) got a first class Degree in medicine and is a Doctor.
Course Tutor - Kevin Harrison
Age - 35
The tutor who gives Henry his second chance and sends him on his way to The Destination for his final exam.
Mrs Dagmar
Age - 42
The Destination's funder and the main lady in charge of the hole facility. She funded the project of rehabilitating bad students as she was raised in the belief that the human body thinks and act in different way even bad ways when something is wrong, she believed that everyone deserves a second chance.
Agnus Mcburns
Age - 12
This young lady came to the Destination of her own free will as she wanted the desire to burn things at her free will. Her parents were relentlessly arguing even since she was young and when she lit her first candle to stop them her calling was heard and she had spent the rest of her days at he Destination ever since.
Gregory Plosion
Age - 13
Ever since her was born, this boy had an over curious mind to point where his curiosity almost coursed a world destructive experiment to go terribly wrong. If anything scientific comes across his hands, wether it be just a frog or a simple flask, he would put any type of stuff into them just to see if an explosion were to occur. He was deemed by the government to be too dangerous but Mrs Dagmar found a potential in Greg and he was accepted into the Destination where you can often hear the sounds of an electric drill indicating he is still working on his next global dominating project.
Dave Smith
Age - 15
School after school after school, each one will tell the consistent amount of trouble this guys pulls around. Bullying beyond measure, wedgies, swirlies, pranks, anti social behaviour, and of course, fight after fight after fight. Quite surprising he hasn't killed anyone.... Yet! Before being sent of to jail because of a near beat down of an insolent student (so he has calmed) Mrs Dagmar came into the court room and said that her Destination would be perfect for Dave and would be kept out of harms way when it came to his family and any other school who might be misfortunate to have him.
Kevin Terrible
Age - 10
The main trickster and pranker in the whole Destination and only friend to Dave, this guy uses every single known trick in the book. He gained the experience because of his dad's shifty background and mainly had to use ticks and cons in order to help him. Eventually the jig was up and his old man was sent to prison, and since he has no knowledge of his mum (who is alive) he was found by Mrs Dagmar who over heard his dilemma and took him into The Destination to watch over him.
Sam Dagmar
Age - 20
Mrs Dagmar's only Daughter who volunteered to work at the Destination, she cooks, cleans, and teaches (to the best of her ability) the other people of the Destination on how the real world works and how they can adapt to it. She takes a shine to Henry and try her best to make sure his first day isn't his last.
Henry Javerson
Age - 20
Henry comes from a very pride driven household with every single one of his family members having a degree within a theoretical skill. His mother (Hillary) has a degree in theoretical physics and is a university tutor. His father (Alister) got a first class Degree in medicine and is a Doctor.
Course Tutor - Kevin Harrison
Age - 35
The tutor who gives Henry his second chance and sends him on his way to The Destination for his final exam.
Mrs Dagmar
Age - 42
The Destination's funder and the main lady in charge of the hole facility. She funded the project of rehabilitating bad students as she was raised in the belief that the human body thinks and act in different way even bad ways when something is wrong, she believed that everyone deserves a second chance.
Agnus Mcburns
Age - 12
This young lady came to the Destination of her own free will as she wanted the desire to burn things at her free will. Her parents were relentlessly arguing even since she was young and when she lit her first candle to stop them her calling was heard and she had spent the rest of her days at he Destination ever since.
Gregory Plosion
Age - 13
Ever since her was born, this boy had an over curious mind to point where his curiosity almost coursed a world destructive experiment to go terribly wrong. If anything scientific comes across his hands, wether it be just a frog or a simple flask, he would put any type of stuff into them just to see if an explosion were to occur. He was deemed by the government to be too dangerous but Mrs Dagmar found a potential in Greg and he was accepted into the Destination where you can often hear the sounds of an electric drill indicating he is still working on his next global dominating project.
Dave Smith
Age - 15
School after school after school, each one will tell the consistent amount of trouble this guys pulls around. Bullying beyond measure, wedgies, swirlies, pranks, anti social behaviour, and of course, fight after fight after fight. Quite surprising he hasn't killed anyone.... Yet! Before being sent of to jail because of a near beat down of an insolent student (so he has calmed) Mrs Dagmar came into the court room and said that her Destination would be perfect for Dave and would be kept out of harms way when it came to his family and any other school who might be misfortunate to have him.
Kevin Terrible
Age - 10
The main trickster and pranker in the whole Destination and only friend to Dave, this guy uses every single known trick in the book. He gained the experience because of his dad's shifty background and mainly had to use ticks and cons in order to help him. Eventually the jig was up and his old man was sent to prison, and since he has no knowledge of his mum (who is alive) he was found by Mrs Dagmar who over heard his dilemma and took him into The Destination to watch over him.
Sam Dagmar
Age - 20
Mrs Dagmar's only Daughter who volunteered to work at the Destination, she cooks, cleans, and teaches (to the best of her ability) the other people of the Destination on how the real world works and how they can adapt to it. She takes a shine to Henry and try her best to make sure his first day isn't his last.
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