Post 10: Film Development

Character Development

Josh Miller 

To gain ideas on what we wanted our male character Josh to be like, we looked at a handful of drama films and did further research into their protagonists. I specifically looked at and researched into Star Trek - In to Darkness characters, focusing on James Kirk. As he has a strong, influential role within in the film, he becomes vulnerable and then falls in love which are all concepts that are going to be used in our shorts story line. I particularly picked this film as inspiration to develop our character josh further as the main character. I developed the idea of Josh rebelling from this film. Also the fact that the character is trying to live up to the expectations of his father, which could be an effective idea in our final product, developing on the Idea that josh is rebelling against his fathers death and his fathers Job/ role in society. 

James Tiberius Kirk

The character James Kirk from star trek and Josh Miller from Dead End, have very similar personalities. I have tried to portray Josh to react in similar ways and manners as James, whose character has help to develop my character Josh further, gaining a wider understanding of ways in which a main character would react in different situations. I feel that by developing my character further I have created a more realistic image and mad Josh as a character more believable and genuine. 





Narrative Theory

As a group we have used and based our film around and using Totorov's theory of narrative. We have tried to include as many of eight distinctive characters from the theory.

Characters

Josh - could be seen as a Hero.

The Gang - portrayed as the Villains

The Teacher - could be seen as the Donor, making josh suffer for his actions and giving him a way out from being manipulated by the Gang.

Police Officer - The Dispatcher, who helps the Hero on his way.

Amy - The helper, helping Josh to overcome his problems.

The only two I would not be able to fit into my short film would be the Princess and the the Princess' Farther. Other than those I feel that Todorov's Theory has highly influenced my short film in an effective manner. 

Location Development


Originally as a group we decided on these two locations as our main settings for the majority of the film, but as we developed our film idea we came to the conclusion that these two locations would be too noisy, as would be filming during school hours, so had to decide on two alternatives. which resulted in a different corridor and in outside of the school gates. 

Other obvious locations which are going to be used in our film, is a bedroom, for the opening and end of the piece, stairs and a front room/living area. We also looked around different areas of the school to see what would be most suited to our piece and decided to try keep a majority of our piece under shelter so that we do not have to delay filming if is bad weather. Overall due to our pieces locations being so versatile, if the location is unavailable we would be able to make do in another, such as for example we intend to have a scene shot in an office, which may be difficult to find a school office free, during school hours for the amount of time we would need to film, meaning will have to book and make sure the office is free and available before filming, otherwise could form an obstacle and hold us back on our filming.