Questionnaire

Confined Questionaire

1. Are you male or female?
A) Male
B) Female


2. Did you enjoy the film?
A) Yes
B) No


3. What did you not enjoy about the film and why?


4. Do you feel that the music helped set the mood of the film? Why do you feel this way?


5. At the beginning of our film do you feel that the character’s personality was portrayed well? If no, what did you think of the character?


6. To what degree did you understand the idea behind Confined?
A) Fully understood storyline.
B) Understood only that protagonist feared to leave his house.
C) Understood both that protagonist feared to leave house and also found comfort in fears of strangers.
D) Struggled to follow the storyline and idea behind Confined.


7. How do you feel the piece portrayed the difference between the ‘Fears’ scenes and reality?
A) I did not notice any difference.
B) The change of colouring between Scenes.
C) Transitions between scenes.
D) Both colouring and transitions.


8. As a member of the audience, were you able to relate to the main character, and understand what he was going through?
A) Yes
B) No


9. If you had the chance to watch the film again would you?
a) YES
b) NO


10. Please use the space below to note any possible improvements
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Confined

Story Boards

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Location Photos: Niall's Home

Mood Board

Script

*Answer Phone bleeps after phone has been ringing*

Policeman "Hi Sean it's PC Grimshaw calling about the incident the other day"

*Flashback plays*

Policeman "If you could ring me back at the station on 07943...."

*End of scene*

Actors

Taylor's dad Dean Kennard to play the Policeman.

Josh's sister Molly O'Leary to play screaming (for the fears)

Josh's mum Jackie O'Leary to play Sean's Mother

NOT CONFIRMED AS OF YET

Props

Polo

Jacket

Trousers

Clown Mask

Cone (To make spotlight - Can be made of paper)

Make-up for bruises and such

Hoodies for fight scene

Phone to be stolen during fight scene

Army men and models for the room

Comics for the room

Torch for the darkness scene

Locations

Taylor's House - 212 Mulgrave Road, Sutton SM2 6JT

TAYLOR TO ADD PHOTOS

Niall's House - 380 Lower Addiscombe Road, Addiscombe CR0 7AG

Production Schedule

Day 1 (Monday 1st March 2010) - Filming the fight scene and fears during the evening, stay at Taylor's house that night.

1600 - Meet at Taylor's.

1800 - Start filming the fight scene close to Taylor's house.

1900 - Finish filming fight scene and return to Taylor's. Start setting up each of the fears, for example the cone to create spotlighting.

1930 - Finish setting up and film first fear.

2000 - Film second fear.

2030 - Film third fear.

End of day

Day 2 (Tuesday 2nd March 2010) - Filming the rest of the footage.

1000 - Wake and breakfast.

1030 - Sort out camera materials and any props needed for the day

1100 - Drive to Niall's to film the scenes in his house.

1400 - Take on-location images.

End of day

Primary Research

Ask people for their fears.

Questionnaire

1. What would you say you are most afraid of?

2. Are there any reasons for this fear or is it random?

3. Do you feel others share your fear?

4. What would it take you to overcome your fear, if anything?

5. Do you think that people understand why you are afraid of the above?

Shot List

Starts off at home, checking himself in the mirror with a bruise and cuts on his face.
Checks his phone with messages from his mum and the police.
As he listens to the house phone message from the police he gets flash backs of the attack.
Confined to his house, he takes comfort in other peoples lives who pass his window.
Whilst at the window he imagines the fears of people who walk past.
When he sees one of his attackers, he begins to se regret from his attacker.

1. Medium Shot - Showing over the shoulder and mirror, bruises are seen and Sean is checking himself for infection in his cuts.
2. Medium/Close Shot - As if the camera is the mirror, same action as above
3. Medium Shot - Setting the bedroom scene and showing Sean peering through the window
4. Close Up - Shot of the answer phone speaking a recorded police message (this will indicate to the audience that Sean has been attacked).
5. Medium Shot - Showing the fight scene, possibly some interesting P.O.V. shots and close ups. Similar to the fight scene in ASBO. This is a flashback scene.
6. Close Up - Showing the rest of the message on the answer phone.
7. Medium Shot - Showing Sean from behind scared to leave his house, peering through the door.
8. Medium Shot - Same as above but from the side.
9. Medium Shot - Back to Sean looking outside.
10. Close Up - From behind, same scene.
11. Medium Shot - The first fear flashback, shots of a clown looking scary and dark are in this scene
12. Medium Shot - The second fear flashback, shots of a person standing in darkness, not able to step away from the small amount of light that he has.
13. Medium Shot - The third fear flashback, shots of a person in a lift, panicking, the movement of the camera suggests that the lift is moving too fast.
14. Medium Shot - Shot of Sean noticing his attacker on the street, Sean sees an unhappy guy, full of regret and angst.
15. Medium Shot - Flashback scene where the viewer is shown the attack again, but the attacker runs around the corner and breaks down. Regret is shown.
16. Close Up - Sean looks up on his bed at a camera looking down on him, and starts to smile. He grabs his coat and walks out of his room.
17. Medium/Long Shot - Shot of the empty room, proving that Sean has left. Signifying that Sean has overcome his biggest fear.

Character Profile

Name: Sean Michael Walsh

DOB: 15/04/1993

Occupation: Student at St. Josephs Sixth Form College.

Studying: Computing, Math, Physics and Politics.

Interests: Sean has always had a strong interest in football, but is more of a watcher than a player. He supports Fulham and has had a season ticket for a number of years. He also has a strong interest in films and comics, his favourite film is “Forest Gump” and is a big fan of the Batman comics.

Hobbies: He enjoys fixing electronics and spends a lot of time working with computers and small devices. He also enjoys watching a number of films but has a specific interest in superhero movies. At the weekend he attends a local photography club and goes to the Fulham match.

Dislikes: Crowds of young people, most social interactions apart from at his local photography club.

Fears: Agoraphobia – He has a fear of open spaces and tends to have panic attacks quite regularly.

Fashion Sense: Buttoned up, Sean is a smart guy, his lack of social skills and interaction are almost shown in his dress sense. He wears polos and shirts, properly ironed, with a nice pair of trousers and shoes.

Synopsis

Sean is a 16-year-old boy who lives on a busy suburban road. He usually lives a busy life but all is brought to a halt after a violent attack by a group of youths near his home. Since the attack the previous night, Sean has grown a sudden fear of the violent outside world giving himself every reason not to leave the household. Confined to his room with only his imagination keeping him company how will Sean build up the courage to face his fears?

Initial Idea Development

In todays lesson we sat in our group and began generating ideas, we used some of Niall's and Taylor's ideas as a starting block. These included short films regarding fear, fears that follow and control people or how someone can see someone else's fears. Taylor mentioned using his car to drive and film in a country lane which would add to the visual style of a film. We also talked about a back up or possibly using an idea that was generated from Taylor throughout the post secrets lesson, this idea was about someone tapping his pencil on a desk and deciding on a victim. We debated as a group to try and develop these ideas and strengthen narratives. As a group independently we decided to bring two ideas in each for next lesson which was Tuesday 15th February.

We decided to create a Google Document to organise all of our work and this is proving to work very well. The document can be accessed from anywhere and ensures that all of our work is up to date.

Inspiration Week

Josh O'Leary
"In this lesson I had to present one of our ideas that was created throughout "Inspiration Week", I had to present on my own as the rest of my group were not in due to university interviews. I felt uncomfortable to present without the group as it felt as if i was was only putting across my idea. I talked about the poem called "Have A Nice Day" by Spike Milligan, I talked about creating a short film that was based on the poem however altering it so that it seem that a normal man was drowning in his work instead of drowning by water. I talked about camera shots specifically the use of shot-reverse-shot that would be commonly used in this short film showing the dialogue in which this case are the lyrics of the poem."

The Poem Itself:
Have A Nice Day


'Help, help, ' said a man. 'I'm drowning.'
'Hang on, ' said a man from the shore.
'Help, help, ' said the man. 'I'm not clowning.'
'Yes, I know, I heard you before.
Be patient dear man who is drowning,
You, see I've got a disease.
I'm waiting for a Doctor J. Browning.
So do be patient please.'
'How long, ' said the man who was drowning. 'Will it take for the Doc to arrive? '
'Not very long, ' said the man with the disease. 'Till then try staying alive.'
'Very well, ' said the man who was drowning. 'I'll try and stay afloat.
By reciting the poems of Browning
And other things he wrote.'
'Help, help, ' said the man with the disease, 'I suddenly feel quite ill.'
'Keep calm.' said the man who was drowning, ' Breathe deeply and lie quite still.'
'Oh dear, ' said the man with the awful disease. 'I think I'm going to die.'
'Farewell, ' said the man who was drowning.
Said the man with the disease, 'goodbye.'
So the man who was drowning, drownded
And the man with the disease past away.
But apart from that,
And a fire in my flat,
It's been a very nice day.

By Spike Milligan

Referencing:

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/have-a-nice-day/