CONSTRUCTION: FILMING

 

filming day 1 by Tallulah Duffy

PLANNING: TREATMENT

Film treatment

For our film we considered a coming-of-age comedy featuring a teenage girl finding her way in life through hardships of friendship and love. Set in a secondary school in surrey, the film follows our protagonist Lara's journey of self discovery.  Lara– a shy, awkward teenage girl discovers the hard way that there’s more to life than popular boys and superficiality. After undergoing a makeover by popular girl Becca, Lara receives attention like she has never received before. The odd-looking outsider transforms from an ‘ugly duckling into a beautiful swan’ with the assistance of her ‘friend’ who later becomes jealous and resentful of the ‘new beautiful and cool Lara’ that she has created as her minion. Audiences ask here ‘is this the real her?’, relaying the idea that people do not need to change in order to fit into societal norms. Lara in turns learns that these people are not her real friends – only on the surface. After losing who she once was, Lara eventually learns the meaning of true friendship and true self-worth and self-identity through discovering her own image and voice. Our film portray the important theme of of growing up and moving from one part of your life to the next that every audience can relate to. 

Coming of age movie examples: 

My film name: TRU 2 U 

PLANNING: CREATING A TRAILER CONCEPT

USING A PLANNING TOOL TO CREATE AN ORIGINAL TRAILER CONCEPT 

RESEARCH: SURVEY FORMS

 

I completed this survey in order to ascertain what my target audience might learn about my film. As a teenager myself, I felt that I could resonate with my 13-25 audience type. For instance, younger audiences tend to not read film reviews in newspapers or online. Teens often watch films based on hype; whether this was by 'word of mouth' or through an enticing edit of a film on social media. Personally, as I do regularly take public transport I do find an interesting billboard does catch my eye. Seeing lots of advertising of a film in real life, whether that is on the bus or outside my local cinema makes me remember a film and perhaps gain an interest in watching it. However, social media does play a big part in what I choose to watch. For instance, Instagram presents things in an attractive and organised manner building up interest and relevance. It is easy and accessible to find information about films on social media, which is why as a production team we plan on creating our own TIK TOK, Twitter and Instagram feeds. 

RESEARCH: COMPARABLE AUDIENCES AND SIMILAR FILMS

 

PLANNING: INITIAL IDEAS COLLAGE

 

PLANNING: TRU 2 U SCRIPTING

1. The name of our film: TRU 2 U 
2. The name of our Production Company and our co-production companies: TFL Productions and star studios 
3. The name of the director that will appear in our trailers: Laura Souter 
4. The name of the 2-3 main actors that will appear in our trailers: Bianca, Ethan, Lara  
5. (Optional)  "From the director of..."CYNIC" 
6. The names of the film festivals where our film will be screened at Puglia festival of love, Venice film festival, London film festival 
7. Pull quotes from reviews etc; wording: The Times, 'witty, brilliant and down-right jolly'  'beautiful coming of age story'
8. Our location recce - take photos and collate in an attractive way + written explanation
9. Our target audience: teenage girls 
10. Social groups and issues in our film... students, young people, romantic high school relationships, coming of age, finding your true self
11.     11. Our social media - write down decisions about who is taking responsibility for which platforms: Instagram - Fia, Twitter- Lulah, Facebook- Laura
12. Our music - we researched (this type of music) as the background track... and narrowed down our choice to include The Real Me by Alexis
13. Our call sheets are being written by ... Laura
14. Make your storyboard
15. how you plan to frame shots - identify establishing shot, wide shots, two- shots, three-shots, CUs, ECUs,
16. words of any other inter titles
17. release date - decide on wording: 1/07/22