Risk assesment

Costumes

Niall (English guy)

·         Shot 1 – (funeral ) black suit

·         Shot 2 – (under the Eiffel tower) jeans, t-shirt, shoes, rucksack, sunglasses.

·         Shot 3 – (2^nd day in Paris) shorts, t-shirt, flip flops, sunglasses.

·         Shot 4 ( meeting the girl) chinos, shirt, posh shoes.

Julia (French girl)

·         Shot 1 (walking past Eiffel tower)  skirt, top, flip flops, bags and glasses

·         Shot 2 (bumps into guy) dress, flip flops, bag and glasses

·         Shot 3 ( meeting with guy) maxi dress, wedges and bag

Prop list

French translation book.

Beret, red, girls.

Green screen.

Pictures, 8 (baby, toddler, kid, teen, young adult, adult, elderly, black photo.)

Phone x 2

rucksack

Shooting script

(This is a silent movie)

Opens with a hand dropping pictures … pictures of a person growing old (6 seconds) (close up of photographs.)

goes to a black picture and fades into film (1 second) ( extreme close up)

runs down a church and shows people at a funeral.(2 seconds) (mid shot)

Sees the present (translation book) given to the grandson ( 3 seconds) (mid shot)

Sees a plane fly over (3 seconds ) (extreme long shot)

Eiffel tower with grandson below reading his book (2 seconds) (long shot)

French girl passes by ( 3 seconds) (2 shot)

Drops something  ( 2 seconds) ( mid to close up shot)

Boy chases girl ( 4 seconds) (mid shot)

Loses her (2 seconds) (long shot)

Fades to black (1 seconds) ( extreme close up shot )

Fades to paris ( 1 seconds) ( long shot)

Bumps into her next day ( 4 seconds) (mid/2 shot)

Exchange numbers ( 2 seconds) ( mid shot)

Boy loses book (2 seconds) ( 2 shot - close up on book shot)

Boy stares at phone wondering whether or not to call her (2 seconds) (close up shot)

Boy calls her (5 seconds) (split screen, close up shot)

Nods( 1 second) (close up shot)

Puts down phone ( 1 second) (mid shot)

Grabs coat ( 1 second) (mid shot)

Walk out door (2 second) ( mid shot- long shot)

Sees girl ( 3 second) ( long 2 shot)

Hugs girl ( 3 second) ( mid shot)

Kisses girl ( 3 seconds) ( close up shot)

The end ( 1 second )(close up shot - extreme long shot of paris)

one minute drama timetable

3 relevant dramas

Falling in love – 1984 romantic comedy

It is relevant to my storyline as it has both a creative way of the characters falling in love and and running into each other randomly and finding a way back into each other’s arms and finding the true meaning of love.

Friends with benefits – 2010 romantic comedy

It is relevant to my story as at first the characters don’t fall for each other but eventually realise that there love must be and that they belong together nothing should get in there way.

The art of getting by – 2010 romantic comedy

It is relevant to my storyline as it has the same target audience and features a similar romance in the form of unknown love. This film contains a romance that is almost unknown of or slightly forbidden.

3 story treatment

1.      

Item … French phrase book

·         Who ? English student…louis…studying in france… wants to impress French girl… got book … lost book.

·         What? Book given by family when he left to study in France

·         Where? Based in France… university/college

·         When? September term time

·         How? Left on side when charming a girl… distraction… lost book

Sex and gender… Male

Class…middle class/ only child

Ethnic origin... English

Education… private school/studying French degree in France

Age…18

Employment…promoter

Sexual orientation …straight

Financial circumstance…average

Religion…Christian

Friends… new in France

Family…only child mother and father … grandparents died

Desire … learn French/ get the girl

Fear… rejection/ failure

Need…degree/ girl

Will … pass his degree/make friends/fall in love/move to France/ make granddad proud.

Blurb 

18 year old boy grew up in oxford with his grandparents, his grandfather was French and he aspired to be like him, grandfather passed away and he decided to go to france for a year and pass his French degree, while in france he falls in love with a French girl and tries to impress her using his French he does this by using the French translator book, while trying to ask this girl for his number he loses the book and doesn’t feel confident enough to go on a date with her , he finally finds his book but realises that she doesn’t like him for his French but for his personalitie.

Silent film, black and white, music used to show emotions

2.

Item … French phrase book

·         Who? Gcse student

·         What?  Studying french

·         Where? Rompton high school

·         When? February

·         How?  Came across it in the school playground

Sex and gender… female

Class… lower class

Ethnic origin… English

Education… local school

Age…16

Employment… unemployed

Sexual orientation …gay

Financial circumstance…below average

Religion…Christian

Friends…a small group unliked by many

Family… single mother

Desire … to have a better life and pass gcse’s

Fear… failing and bullied

Need… good exam results

Will … get into college

 Blurb

Jamie 16 year old boy goes to his local school but has a bad reputation due to lack of money and friends and is known as a thief, Jamie takes French as a GCSE and is studying hard, he comes across the translation book which seems to be abandoned so he uses it to help him little does he know that it belongs to the school bully, as Jamie is gay and because of his reputation as a thief he gets into trouble with the other pupils at his school, he tries to explain the reason he has the book but they do not accept his excuse, when Jamie confronts the school and passes his exam his true colours start to shine and the other pupils realise they were wrong about him.

normal.. colour... modernised

3.

Item … French phrase book

·         Who ? English girl needs book for when French exchange comes

·         What?  Finds French a difficulty has French exchanging coming to house needs book to help

·         Where? Oxfordshire England

·         When? February half term

·         How?  Finds it in parents book case … finds out how parents became a couple.

Sex and gender…  female

Class… high class

Ethnic origin.. English/ French

Education… private school

Age…16

Employment… model

Sexual orientation … straight

Financial circumstance… rich

Religion… christian

Friends… popular

Family… mother, father , only child.

Desire … to  be top model/ make parents proud

Fear… not being pretty enough

Need… to become healthier

Will …do her best at everything

 Blurb

Louise is a 16 year old model who studies at private school, she has recently been diagnosed with anorexia, her father and mother have recently split up and she is very vulnerable, she lives with her mother who is English and with her father who is French at different times in the week, her father signed her up for a French exchange so that she can improve her French, she goes looking in her mother bookcase for a French dictionary and comes across the translation book, as she starts to read and learn the book she realises that the book was the same book that her mother used to translate with her father when they  first met, she uses the book to show her parents how much they miss each other, in result to this her French improves she gets healthier her parents reunite and she gets a top modelling job in Paris.

modern, flash backs, contrasts