Unit 6
Short Film production
For this Topic, I am going to make a short horror film that's roughly 3-5 minutes long. To start off this topic, give been given the task to carry out a story structure analysis, here's how it went.
A narrative structure can be broken into three parts very simply;
Set up, conflict, Resolution.
The overall story structure would look something like this.
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In other movie examples this is what it'd look like.
The Suicide Squad
Set Up:
The movie starts off with the first ten minutes having a team assembled of prisoners and Harley Quinn who survived from the previous movie. They are deployed to this island in southern America where they find out one of their teammates had sabotaged them and they are ambushed as they arrive, leading to all of them (apart from Harley who is then captured), being killed and leaving Harley with a javelin.
Then the real suicide squad is assembled and deployed, the prior team being used as a distraction.
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Catalyst
It goes into a few flashbacks which introduces the new characters including Bloodsport and peacemaker. They are then given a mission debrief on a man named Luna who is their target was well as an investigation mission into project starfish. This then makes the story flash back to the present of the team arriving at the island.
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Debate
Peace maker and bloodsport despite over how the team dynamic should go and end up running into another teammate who survived. They then make their way into the city on the island to go undercover to find a scientist.
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Fun & Games
Meanwhile, Harley Quinn is taken by Luna and various montages of them is shown of them getting along and shows a love story. Until the point where Luna talks about project starfish and Harley Quinn shoots him with a gun.
It then goes back to the rest of the team finally getting along drinking at the bar.
When the Scientist arrives at the bar, the next point in the story is introduced.
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Mid Point
When soldiers start raiding the bar looking for the "Americans", the team splits up and Bloodsport along with the Colonel and Peacemaker, distract the soldiers and are arrested and dragged into a van. Where they managed to barely escape and reunite with the rest of the team, As they now have the scientist, they start planning their break-in to the Lab where project starfish is being conducted, but not before they plan their rescue for Harley who Is being held captive.
Harley Quinn escapes by herself with another few montages when she then reunites with the team.
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All is Lost
When half of the team split, one side finds the project stairs, but after finding out the misdeeds and involvement of project starfish by the US government, The colonel is about to take the drives containing this information when Peacemaker stops him, revealing his solo mission of making sure the secrets aren't revealed to the public. Peacemaker kills the colonel when Bloodsport arrives again and shoots peacemaker in a gun fight after the building is demolished. Half of them die,
The giant starfish escapes and starts terrorising the city, Leaving the remaining survivors of the group unsure of what to do.
Finale
They have their final battle with the starfish and Hilary stabs the eye with the javelin she had been carrying around since the start of the movie, (tying the end and beginning together). They do this against the Boss's orders and finally kill the starfish.
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Closing image
They go back to the US. (the weasel is alive)
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Character development
Character: Batman/ Bruce Wayne is a superhero in DC comics created by Bob Kane tracing all the way back to 1939
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Batmans main overarching motivation is to keep peace in Gotham city.
His backstory story starts him going into an alleyway with his parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne, who are then shot by a mugger.
The remainder of Bruce Wayne/ Batmans childhood, was spent being raised by Alfred Pennyworth, who was the butler of their estate. He used these events to swear vengeance against the criminals in Gotham and trains himself in both intellect and physical strength and develops a bat-inspired suit. Using his image and playing the part of a billionaire playboy living off his family's earnings, he uses this wealth to support his development of gadgets and technology used too aid him in his fighting with criminals.
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The death of Batmans parents sparked his ambition to prevent crime and keep justice.
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However, Bruce Wayne has deep internal issues rooting all the way to his trauma of his parents death and struggles and an orphan lead him to being heartless and inhumane.
We have been given the task to pitch our own ideas for a horror movie, Heres how my pitch went.
My Pitch
Our First draft