You have made considerable effort to update and improve research and planning.
The script is level 4 showing an awareness of conventions and creativity with ideas.
The storyboard is level 3 functional in that it will help the director although artistic skill is limited. It does show instructions about shooting.
The risk assessment is basic
You are beginning to personalise research into the short film and keep producing planning such as the props and costumes list so that you can aim for level 4 for research and planning.
Target
Maintain momentum and keep posting
Document your creative journey reflecting upon progress.
complete an edit and gain audience feedback
Thursday 26 November 2015
Tuesday 3 November 2015
Task 11 - Print Artefacts: "Snap, Snap, Bang" Movie Review Draft 2
This is the final, or very close to, draft of the movie review double-page spread. Consisting of around 700 words, covering areas surrounding the process of creating the characters, behind the scenes, intended interpretation and the directors thoughts.
ARTICLE HEADER
Not your average Thriller flick to arrive in late November – “Snap, Snap, Bang”, directed by and starring Harvey Perry, shows Halloween worn viewers a short 5 minutes inside a covert sadistic club exclusive to members who are ready, willing and paying to take part in a lethal game of Snap, in which sadistic and cruel punishments ensue.
STORY BEHIND PRODUCTION
Just like how there’s an app for everything, there also seems to be a way of turning a fond childhood memory into one that can be used in a sadistic game of cat and mouse. (Except in this short, it feels as though everyone is that cat being chased by the much bigger and formidable presence of the Club Owner. The idea of using a child’s game like Snap is a very bizarre creative decision, so bizarre in fact that we at Empire tracked down the director for a quick impromptu interview on the story integral decision –‘I felt as though the best way to make a Thriller, or Horror, or any genre movie for that matter, would be to take just one aspect of real life and mash it with something else, something so contrapuntal and see if they both work together. It just turns out that Snap and an ever changing Russian Roulette concept work well together!’
Like all conventional mystery’s,
the character are naturally defensive and held back in their dialogue. The
director, Perry, revealed to Showcase ‘story-telling through absence, or
limitations, was always my goal. I had a very vivid image of how I wanted the
product to end and how I envisioned people would feel and think in those brief
seconds when it cuts to black. The audiences’ imagination will be far more
invention and creative than anything I can come up with’.
ARTICLE HEADER
Not your average Thriller flick to arrive in late November – “Snap, Snap, Bang”, directed by and starring Harvey Perry, shows Halloween worn viewers a short 5 minutes inside a covert sadistic club exclusive to members who are ready, willing and paying to take part in a lethal game of Snap, in which sadistic and cruel punishments ensue.
PLOT
SUMMARY, CHARACTERS, DIRECTOR
Created and Directed by a young A2 Sixth Form Student, the short focuses primarily on one of the two younger cast members, starting his night by being abruptly rejected from a seemingly good night out with friends. He is loosely persuades by a friend, and his own curiosity, to attend a late night session of The Game. We join back up with the character of Contestant 2, seemingly hours into the already tense game who he plays opposite against a character, Contestant 1, who is not much older than himself, but has found himself in a huge amount of debt, which it is later revealed that the Club can aid with certain off-the-books financial issues. The viewer takes a backseat, omniscient presence leading into the middle and conclusion of the narrative as these two characters go back and forth verbally attacking each other, pressuring, aiding and giving the harsh reality of choices and consequence in the real world.
Created and Directed by a young A2 Sixth Form Student, the short focuses primarily on one of the two younger cast members, starting his night by being abruptly rejected from a seemingly good night out with friends. He is loosely persuades by a friend, and his own curiosity, to attend a late night session of The Game. We join back up with the character of Contestant 2, seemingly hours into the already tense game who he plays opposite against a character, Contestant 1, who is not much older than himself, but has found himself in a huge amount of debt, which it is later revealed that the Club can aid with certain off-the-books financial issues. The viewer takes a backseat, omniscient presence leading into the middle and conclusion of the narrative as these two characters go back and forth verbally attacking each other, pressuring, aiding and giving the harsh reality of choices and consequence in the real world.
STORY BEHIND PRODUCTION
Just like how there’s an app for everything, there also seems to be a way of turning a fond childhood memory into one that can be used in a sadistic game of cat and mouse. (Except in this short, it feels as though everyone is that cat being chased by the much bigger and formidable presence of the Club Owner. The idea of using a child’s game like Snap is a very bizarre creative decision, so bizarre in fact that we at Empire tracked down the director for a quick impromptu interview on the story integral decision –‘I felt as though the best way to make a Thriller, or Horror, or any genre movie for that matter, would be to take just one aspect of real life and mash it with something else, something so contrapuntal and see if they both work together. It just turns out that Snap and an ever changing Russian Roulette concept work well together!’
BEHIND
THE SCENES
Initially, the director had planned to have 3 contestants full up the entirety of the run time. Although this evidently didn’t plan out due to scheduling conflicts, the 5 minute run time would be all three contestants interacting through dialogue and mild physical violence – evoking that action/thriller side! Perry (director) stated how he wanted to make his own make in the mystery/Thriller genre in stating how ‘I just feel that the merging of these two genres offers so many diverse paths that it really is something to relish in and play around with’.
Initially, the director had planned to have 3 contestants full up the entirety of the run time. Although this evidently didn’t plan out due to scheduling conflicts, the 5 minute run time would be all three contestants interacting through dialogue and mild physical violence – evoking that action/thriller side! Perry (director) stated how he wanted to make his own make in the mystery/Thriller genre in stating how ‘I just feel that the merging of these two genres offers so many diverse paths that it really is something to relish in and play around with’.
NEXT
WEEKS ISSUE
LOOK OUT! Showcase exclusive – 125 word teased plot summary of Snap, Snap, Bang. 2!
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QUOTES
FROM CRITICS
‘Tour de force!” – Harvey Rutherford
“Not one to miss” – Terry Trie
“Aspirational, Youthful, Thrilling” – Catherine Sirloin
‘Tour de force!” – Harvey Rutherford
“Not one to miss” – Terry Trie
“Aspirational, Youthful, Thrilling” – Catherine Sirloin
WHAT
IT BRINGS TO THE HORROR GENRE
There are hundreds and hundreds of stories following a game gone wrong, or a lost character having to battle their way to hope. Snap, Snap, Bang absolutely users those elements but is done to support diversity on screen and diversity in the body of the story. The head of the story following a teenage boy at the end of a what would be, good night. His natural persona as a teenager is usually hyperbolised in a big budget production, however the actor does his naturalistic best to keep it simple, real, and raw.
There are hundreds and hundreds of stories following a game gone wrong, or a lost character having to battle their way to hope. Snap, Snap, Bang absolutely users those elements but is done to support diversity on screen and diversity in the body of the story. The head of the story following a teenage boy at the end of a what would be, good night. His natural persona as a teenager is usually hyperbolised in a big budget production, however the actor does his naturalistic best to keep it simple, real, and raw.
Task 11 - Print Artefacts: "Snap, Snap, Bang" Movie Review Draft 1
Any movie review has to have a minimum of 4 areas to cover within the 1000-1500 brief review of the movie. Primarily, these 4 things would consist of:
In drafting this simple idea of what the end product will look like, I looked at various Empire magazine review panels to get influence from, as it is one of the more popular subscribed to movie magazines currently.
- Screenshot from the movie
- Summary of the plot, characters, actors, any homages
- Director, release date, profit, budget, story behind production
- Final Verdict
In drafting this simple idea of what the end product will look like, I looked at various Empire magazine review panels to get influence from, as it is one of the more popular subscribed to movie magazines currently.
Small section of the review
Not your average Thriller flick
to arrive in late November – Snap, Snap, Bang shows Halloween worn viewers a
short 5 minutes inside a room designed to fulfill the sadistic fantasies of
closely evading death by paper cuts, or vicious tongue removal.
Following the nameless character,
who is revealed to be Contestant 2 in the credits, as he aimlessly walks his
way to the “Club” after good night out turned bad, where we join back up with
this character hours into his “Game” with another character, called Contestant
1, who isn’t exactly the easiest person in the world. The Short studies these 2 as
they go back and forth toying with each other and learning more about each
other, both willingly aware of the fact that one of them will be drawing the
short straw on the table. One of the most compelling factors of this short
might just be the ever going card game of Snap, which dictates the fate of what
will happen to any number of Contestant’s playing, until of course they can no
longer continue, for whatever reason…
The idea of using a child’s game
like Snap is just one of the bizarre factoids about this short as the
character’s willingly, and sometimes even pay to play this near-certain death
game, to which they will intentionally find a pair of cards that have one
The clear lack of an extensive
budget is apparent but the young filmmaker (Perry) works hard to work around
the financial constraints and real world limitations from his extensive
imagination.
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