Developing Final Idea

Developing Our Final Idea

Our final idea has developed quite a lot from our initial thoughts including major parts such as genre, colour palette, shots, etc. We have decided on a genre of a comedy drama with themes of teenagers and drugs. The main inspiration for our piece is from Danny Boyle's 'Trainspotting' as we admired the wackiness and fast pace movement of actors and camera shots to demonstrate how crazy the atmosphere for this film is.
Below is our final colour palette, which will feature in many props, costumes, scenery, credits, titles and post production colouring:

We chose these colours specifically as we felt that they connected to themes of immaturity and danger. As they are quite happy, warm colours, we also thought it would be good at displaying a message to the audience as it is juxtaposed against themes of drug abuse. In addition, after researching the codes and conventions of a typical comedy opening, the colour scheme is fairly bright and stereotypically 'colourful'.
Below are nine frames that we thought were key to our film opening. They are currently very rough outlines of what we wanted for our piece as from taking these shots we realised how we wanted to change them.
The first shot would be a black screen with a sound bridge of

begin with an establishing shot (usually a long shot of a scene) to quickly demonstrate the relationship between the set/location and the characters
hand-held shots are used more often for horror or to give the film a sense of realism, like the audience themselves are actually in the action

The fact that the girl is shown alone from the very first frame of the film suggests a sort of foreshadowment for the end of the film where she would supposedly end up alone and has no happy ending (typically British film) and suggests a cyclical narrative. Personally I think we could improve this shot by making it less of a long shot and adjust the framing so that it is just the bench in the frame and some sky and ground, yet we still getting a feel for distance.
The boy running across the screen is an important moment as not only does it send across to the audience that this is a comedy from the first scene but it also clearly demonstrates the urban and youthful atmosphere in his movement, accent and language so the audience are aware of the setting early on.
For our second frame, I have chosen to put a picture of the extreme close up of the characters eye as it is important in showing
The third frame is a complete change of scenery

For our sound we wanted to reflect jazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ab8BOu4LE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5lppTUUj-I

To also improve from this, I feel that even though it could be hard acting wise, I think that in order to fulfil the demands of a typically drug comedy the main character should break the fourth wall and talk to the audience.