This document outlines Samuel Bundock's final major project for directing a short film portraying an insane character who believes inanimate objects are his friends. It discusses researching insanity and genre conventions. The film will be shot in a wooded location with props like a football with a face and teddy bear representing the character's friends. Rules prohibit nudity, excessive swearing, drugs, or dangerous weapons. Research must be done to avoid offensively portraying mental illness. A production schedule is included with dates for proposals, research, auditions, filming, and evaluations through early May.
This document outlines Samuel Bundock's final major project for directing a short film portraying an insane character who believes inanimate objects are his friends. It discusses researching insanity and genre conventions. The film will be shot in a wooded location with props like a football with a face and teddy bear representing the character's friends. Rules prohibit nudity, excessive swearing, drugs, or dangerous weapons. Research must be done to avoid offensively portraying mental illness. A production schedule is included with dates for proposals, research, auditions, filming, and evaluations through early May.
This document outlines Samuel Bundock's final major project for directing a short film portraying an insane character who believes inanimate objects are his friends. It discusses researching insanity and genre conventions. The film will be shot in a wooded location with props like a football with a face and teddy bear representing the character's friends. Rules prohibit nudity, excessive swearing, drugs, or dangerous weapons. Research must be done to avoid offensively portraying mental illness. A production schedule is included with dates for proposals, research, auditions, filming, and evaluations through early May.
Brief The idea of this project is to portray the life of this mentally insane character who has no friends but has convinced himself that these no human objects are his friends. Some of the areas I need to research are insanity, codes and conventions of my genre and general research into my project. My overall aim in this idea is to create emotion and focus with this film. The location will be somewhere in the woods where we will create this scene and some of the objects (his friends) will consist of a mask football with a drawn face on, possibly a balloon and maybe some sort of teddy bear. I haven’t yet got an actor however it will be looked into as it is a key part of the production.
RULES AND REGUALTIONS
No nudity
No excessive swearing
No drugs
No dangerous weapons (unless used as props)
Legal and ethical issues
Make sure when portraying the insane character
that the research is done to make sure that it isn’t being done in an offensive way and isn’t offending people who are mentally ill.
7Production Schedule Please include location, time of film, what you are filming and team members including actors
Date Plan of action Evaluation / behind the
Week beginning scenes April 5th Proposal Weekly blog April 6th Production schedule Weekly blog April 7th Competion Weekly blog easter Research Weekly blog easter research Weekly blog easter research Weekly blog easter planning Research evaluation easter auditions Plan evaluation 28th april Film Weekly blog 29th april Film / Edit Weekly blog 30th arpil Film / Edit Weekly blog 1st may evaluation evaluation