Step Outline

Scene One - Child comes home from school to an empty house. Reads a note from mother explaining she is working late tonight, food in fridge. Various shots of empty house, shows audience he is alone and the time.

Scene Two - Child walks into Lounge and sees the TV playing. He is intrigued, so sits down and just starts to watch it. He doesn't know it is 'Eight Legged Freaks' playing, and he is petrified when a huge spider comes on screen. Runs away. This shows his phobia of spiders.

Scene Three - Child is in bedroom reading Nursery Rhyme book. Is reading Humpty Dumpty aloud. Close-up of book, so audience can see the nursery rhymes he is reading.

Scene Four - Mother comes in and child confesses about the film scaring him. Mother says not to worry about spiders and shows him Incy Wincy Spider. They read it aloud and he falls asleep smiling.

Scene Five - Dream Sequence. He sees a hill and there is a well on top, like in Jack and Jill. (animated) He then blinks and a Shoe appears instead of the well, like There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe. He walks up the hill, and a huge spider appears, like in Incy Wincy Spider. He then runs back down the hill, and falls, breaking in half, like Humpty Dumpty.

Scene Six - The child wakes up and tells him mother about his dream. She tells him not to worry, and that the spider wasn't real. The child realises extra-large spiders are fictional and do not exist. His arachnophobia then subsides and he feels calm again.

18/10/2010

Me and Lainey have discussed possible filming locations. For the child's house we have been told by Alex Featch that we can film at his. This is useful as we now have a good location with a boy's bedroom already set up. It also means that interior light will be much easier to control.

We have also discussed the possible location for the Jack and Jill part of our film to be filmed at Bolton's Bench in the New Forest. This is useful because it is very close to both of us and has a large hill. It also has a tree at the top which we could use in our film, possibly for lighting and shadows.

This is Bolton's Bench, New Forest

17/10/2010

Today Lainey and I have decided it will be a good idea to use elements of live action filming whilst incorporating some animation. We feel the use of animation will be good for two reasons

1. It will appeal more to our target audience of children
2. it will be easier to incorporate the influence of nursery rhymes into our production

We will now have to look at all the different types of animation we can go on to try and use in our short film.

14/10/2010

Today in media Lainey and I have decided on our actors for our short film. We have also come to the conclusion that aiming it at children would be wise, this is due to the nursery rhyme elements included in the production.

Our actors are:

• Alfie White (Lainey's younger brother) - He is young and therefore a good choice for our main character
• Lainey White - She will play the mother of Alfie's character
• Alex Featch - Alex will possibly play the father of Alfie, his role however is not vital and therefore may not be included in the final production.

Step Outline Planner

Today in media I created a step outline planner, this will help us shape our production dramatically and allow us to see and edit anything we feel won't work.

Nursery Rhymes

'Jack And Jill'

Jack and Jill went up the hill,
to fetch a pail of water,
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.

'There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe'

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,
She had so many children she didn't know what to do,
So she gave them some broth without any bread,
And she whipped them all soundly and sent them to bed.

'Incy Wincy Spider'

Incy Wincy Spider climbed up the water spout,
Down came the rain, and washed the spider out,
Out came the sunshine and dried up all the rain,
And Incy Wincy Spider climbed up the spout again.

'Humpty Dumpty'

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
All the king's horses and all the king's men,
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

Story Boards

Today in media, Lainey and I started doing our story boards. We have so far drawn the pictures and will start recording how we will do the visuals and the sound. We also did a step outline, Richard Donne showed us how to do these and we have found it to be extremely helpful.