Treatment for fightback

This is the treatment for Simon and I's short production. I have segregated the treatment into specific parts Beginning Middle and End

• The Opening Scene

The opening scene of our production will be set in Apollos office. Both characters will be listening to the radio broadcast of the fight, the camera will then zoom out to reveal Stocky and Apollo. After a short conversation about the fight  Apollo will agree to train Stocky. After Apollo phones Stocky excited about a DVD he has found the next scene will see the two main characters watching the actual rocky training sequence on television this is symbolic as at this moment both characters will nod their heads and agree to try and emulate the famous montage.

• The Middle

The middle of the storyline is where the bulk of the story takes place. There will be a first training montage where Stocky the main character will attempt every method of training woefully including a sparring session against one of Apollo's up and coming fighters BORIS. After a few negative incidents which will range from derogatory things being said about Stocky and Apollo from his worst enemy the intimidator, to people laughing at him on the street and at a press conference outside Stocky's house. He will begin training with more determination and it will be successful, if there is time Apollo will deliver a motivational speech before the big fight

• End

The Big fight scene Stocky is victorious. He knocks out Intimadator in the 4th round. The scenes will be sped up to 4 seconds a round lasting a total of 12 seconds.

Final scene Stocky and Apollo relaxing performing the Catta lakeside. Using dissolves as cuts.

Character Personalities & Traits

In this post I will be exploring the traits of our lead characters Stocky and Apollo. It is important to establish personalities of characters before we start filming as the relationship between the 2 is essential to the story and the humour of the film.


Character Profile - Apollo Miyagi
 
Intresting facts about Apollo Include


Apollo Miyagi is a former boxer, supposed actor and is now a trainer. He owns his own boxing gym and has trained many professional and amateur boxers. He is very experienced in the field of boxing and has competed in many tournaments. He is of Ghanaian Descent and is always seen to be wearing a cap or some sort of headgear. He is very defensive when his methods are questioned and believes that his tactics are the best way. He often lies about his past experiences to impress those who are around him. he is seen to be a womaniser. He was previously in the army and once fought the ledgendary Mike Johnston (Stocky's former trainer)  to a no contest verdict (something he is very proud of). He is much older than Stocky. Aplollo agrees to train Stocky after his disappoinitng loss to the intimidator

One Shot Film

Recently in class we have been studying the art of making a film in one take with no editing.

In our session on friday we watched three films which have employed these techniques in their productions 

The films were called....

• Timecode

• Russian Ark

• Surprise.

One director whose work we looked at in particular  was the work of Michael Figgis (who directed the film Timecode). He designed a device called a figrig the figrig is very useful because it helps the person handling the camera to get a steady shot when filming.


We were then set a minature task by our tutor Mike for the following week. The task was to to create our own one take films for the following week, we used a Panasonic Camcorder and a Figrig to hwlp us film our short film.

In a group of Five Mandy, Simon, Ross  and Rob went to th lake on wednesday afternoon and filmed our one take film.

• The Storyline 

The film was directed by Mandy. the storyline was basically a transaction which had been unsuccessfull
After completing the film heres my reflection on how the filming went on that day and what I have learned

• My reflection

I felt that it was a good exersize as the five of us worked well together in a team. I also had an insight into the amount of work timing effort and precision it takes to make a one shot film, for instance if there were any mistakes we had to start the whole scene again as we could'nt edit out any useless peices of footage or intercut scenes. Another reason why there were numerous retakes was because people from the university would walk along the set when we were filming. Due to the whether conditions sometimes there was too much  light exposure on the camera lens.



scene 1 from mandybriggs on Vimeo.