Year 12 Short Film: An Average Day

Each of Our Roles

Our roles in the film making process:

Kieran Tyler: actor, editor, music producer, writer, producer, location manager.
Connor McGowan: director, cinematographer, cameraman, editor.
David Hoyle: co-cinematographer, cameraman, editor.
Stuart Clifton: co-cinematographer, cameraman, storyboard artist.

Connor and David's Reflective Analysis for An Average Day

Editor: Kieran Tyler.
Speakers: Connor McGowan, David Hoyle.
Script Writer: Kieran Tyler.

Storyboard

This is our Storyboard for An Average Day.

Cameramen: David Hoyle, Connor McGowan, Stuart Clifton.
Actor: Kieran Tyler

Our Pitch for An Average Day

Pitch for An Average Day?

Location: Car Warehouse office area

Time: 4pm

Actor: Kieran Tyler as Eddie Taylor

Crew: Connor McGowan as Director

            Stuart Clifton as Editor

            David Hoyle as Cinematographer

Genre: Drama

Plot: The idea of our film is to create an enigmatic experience for the viewer. The idea is that Eddie goes to work and as he gets started. His emotions start building up, and he begins to get angry and throughout the film

There are clues to show why he might get angry and upset and the phone and bracelets are the only clues to help.

These are used to get the viewer to start thinking of possible reasons why he is angry and upset. Religion? , Relationships? Family member died? Who knows?.

And to finish off the film he smashes up the monitor in anger and walks off, to a fade in black background, with ‘An Average Day?’ appearing in white font.

Influences: There were many different trailers and films that influenced us in making this film. But one that stood out was the trailer for a video game entitled 'Dead Island', as the whole trailer backwards in slow motion, with a very calm piano recording in the background. This calm music is a very big contrast to what is actually happening in the trailer, as it is very violent.

Another big influence is from the film 'The Shawshank Redemption'. Tommy (a very aggressive character) is trying to do an exam, he runs out of time, and hasn't finished, his makes him very angry and so he screws up the test and throws it in a bin shouting and screaming at Andy (the main character, trying to help him pass). This scene, although not a vital part of the narrative, is quite hard hitting, and we wanted to try and shock our audiences with an aggressive character, such as Tommy.

An Average Day? Storyboard

Scene 1. Medium Shot. It's just an average day with Eddie walking into his office.

Scene 2. Medium Shot. Eddie then walks to his little office area.

Scene 3. Medium Shot.  Eddie is sitting down, all ready to begin work.

Scene 4. Extreme Close Up. Eddie is turning on the computer.

Scene 5. Over The Shoulder. Eddie is typing, so he has begun his work.

Scene 6. Over The Shoulder shot.  He begins to look at the bracelet

Scene 7. Medium Close up. Eddie shows a slight 'anger' emotion towards the bracelet.

Scene 8. Extreme Close up. Eddie then slams the bracelet down onto the desk and this shot is to show that.

Scene 9.Mid shot. He then turns away from the bracelet and puts his hands on his head.

Scene 10. Extreme Close Up. He then gets something out of his pocket.

Scene 11. Over The Shoulder. He has got his phone out of his pocket and outs his hands on his head and looks at the phone, with an image on it and still with the bracelet on the desk.

Scene 12. Close up. Eddie then picks up the bracelet and begins to get more angry.

Scene 13. Wide Shot. Eddie then throws the bracelet and walks over to it, to kick it with anger. 

Scene 14. Medium shot. Eddie then sits back down breathing heavily, with his hands on his head. He then puts his phone in his pocket and becomes furious.

Scene 15. Medium shot. He then grabs the computer monitor and begins to smash it as he is furious and takes it out on the screen.

Scene 16. Wide shot. The computer then hits the floor and Eddie is about to destroy it.

Scene 17. Medium shot. (CANTED) Eddie is feeling upset and angry due to something? and still needs to take his anger out.

Scene 18. Medium Shot. He then returns to the computer screen and carries on destorying it.

Scene 19. Close up. He then finds a hammer and uses it to destory the computer screen.

Scene 20. Extreme Close up. (CROSS CUTS TO NEXT SCENE)

Scene 21. Medium Close up. Eddie is really angry and is about to smash the computer screen.

Scene 22.Medium Close Up. Eddie is now using the hammer on the computer. And begins to finish as he has taken out all of his anger. 

Scene 23. Medium Close up. Eddie is now finished, but is still full of sadness and anger. So he begins to leave with the computer smashed to peices.

An Average Day?

We have now finished editing our film, and with the Youtube link posted by Kieran we hope to gather some audience feedback to help with our own reflective analysis. Kieran has posted his own draft for the analysis as a template for the rest of the group to work from. We will all now produce our own ones and post them up as soon as possible. I have also posted our pitch and story boards for our film even though they are late, due to technical problems on my computer.