Project 2: Part Two

We developed our idea of 'a boy who dreams' into a more complex story by first gathering where we were going to take the story, we found that if we did not have a susceptible ending then it would be difficult to show development and progression in our story and character. This was found to be more difficult then presumed as it was also our main link to the short story 'The Emperors New Suit' and we wanted to show it in an elusive way. Once we had our ending we could work back from there and see how other scenes were going to lead up to it. I found that to make our story as in depth as possible we would need to review each scene constantly and ask every question possible.

Researching one our scenes in pre production

We knew we wanted a recurring element to come across in different scenes to which we found could be done using camera shots and lighting effects. For this we set out to research our scenes and what camera shots we could use by going to the locations for our film and studying what would work well, we found that using multiple cameras would cut down time constraints as well as give us more variety to show our story. The other big concern for our story was the time of day, since our film takes place over two set days then we would have to plan our filming accordingly.

Something we knew would detract from our film was the dialogue, we wanted to show what our character was feeling without it coming across as unreal and found it was not necessary for him to speak for our film. With him not speaking, it also revealed more of his personality as well.  The minor characters came into our story to help show how our main character saw the outside world and to help connect the audience with our main character.

The biggest constraint against our film would be the special effects. Since our film was to have a lot of unreal elements we needed to decide how we were going to be make the special effects within a short amount of time while having the audience believe and understand what was happening. This is why we wanted to start production as soon as possible, and get the difficult part out of the way, stop motion. All our other special effects would be in post production but would still be time consuming to get the right effects.

For our props we decided to give it a budget look to show a more amusing and childish side to the characters imagination. Also giving the character a costume showed he preferred his a different life in his dreams rather than the one he had in reality. The materials used in making the costume was not a difficult task and did not take long to create, once we found some free cardboard boxes we taped tinfoil on to give it a more robotic look and added LEDs and plastic bottles for buttons and eyes.