Alone Title Timeline

Final piece

The finished poster for Alone

This is the poster we have chosen to go around the country to help promote our film. We listened to all of the feedback we got from our classmates and teachers and tried to apply all of the changes to make it look even better. The general opinion on Maddie being in colour was not good. Most people thought that she looked better in black and white as it matches the background. We think it looks better like this. Our teacher also said that there was a window behind Maddie’s head that stuck out to her and took her eyes off of the main image we want to portray with the poster. We moved Maddie over to cover the window so all of the viewers’ attention will be on Maddie and not on the background.

Alone Poster Progression

Here we have the three film posters that we have made to promote our film. It shows Maddie standing outside a house on her own. The text is big and bold to stand out. We asked a few of our classmates about our poster to see what we could improve.

Richard: I think that the image of the girl is too big. You could shrink her down a bit to fit the scale of the background.

We chose to do this as we thought it looked better and more realistic.

Miss Brookes: There is a window behind Maddies head which takes the eye off of Maddie, maybe move the picture or colour out the window.

We moved the picture of Maddie over to block off the window.

Below is the three film posters we have made.

Location shots



The front of the house that we are filming at




Here is an image of the sofa that Maddie will sit on




Another shot of the sofa and living room

The TV that will show no signal when Maddie turns it on




The side angle of the stairs



Front angle of the stairs

This is the shot we would use for when Maddies feet come out of bed



Here is Maddies brothers room

This is the alarm clock we will use to wake Maddie up



This is Maddies parents bedrooom

An image of the hall way and front door




This is the dining table where her family will fade out from

The last picture is of the open front door for the final shot

Script for Alone

The film opening is set in an ordinary house with a middle class, healthy family. She wakes up one morning to find all of her family to have disappeared and she starts to have hallucinations of the previous day. After Maddie walks downstairs and realises the TV is not working and she calls for her dad

Maddie: (Shouts) DAAD! DAD!

She then walks up the stairs and peers into her parents’ bedroom. She then looks over her shoulder and calls.

Maddie: (Calls over her shoulder) Ben

Her facial expressions show that she is starting to panic and hyperventilate.

Alone Storyboard with voice over

Here is our storyboard for our film opening 'Alone'. It has been narrated by Ben Flatt, Edited by Ben Smith and drawn by Megan.

1. In the first shot we will pan around the room to Maddie’s face. This will be an establishing shot and will tell you about the character it belongs to. We will instantly see the main character and learn about her by looking at her room. We will be told a bit about her background and also about her interests.

2. In this shot we are going to have the clock change from 8:59 to 9:00. The alarm will then go off and Maddie will turn it off.

3. The next shot will be taken from under the bed and we will see Maddie’s feet come out of the bed. This will be a close up.

4. We will then have an over the shoulder shot of Maddie putting her hair down and shaking it.

5. Maddie will then walk down the stairs which we will film from the bottom of the stairs.

6. We will then cut to a different angle of her walking down the stairs which will be a medium shot.

7. Maddie will then walk into the living room which we will see from a medium long shot. This will ensure that the audience knows that this is the living room.

8. There will then be an over the shoulder shot of Maddie trying to turn the television on.

9. There will then be an extreme close up of Maddie’s hand trying to turn the television on.

10. We will then have a close up of the television which will have no signal.

11. In the next shot Maddie will call her dad. This will be a medium shot.

12. After she doesn’t hear a reply she rushes upstairs and we will see this from the side of the stairs.

13. There will then be an extreme close up of Maddie’s hand reaching for the door handle.

14. The camera will then switch to the inside and Maddie will peep around the corner.

15. The next shot will be a perspective shot. We will see Maddie walk into her parent’s room to find an empty bed.

16. Maddie will then call her brother by shouting for him. This will be an over the shoulder close up shot.

17. Maddie will then run across the landing and we will see this with a shot of her legs running past the camera.

18. The next shot will be a medium shot of Maddie opening her brother’s door. On the storyboard it says jack on the door we are going to change this to Ben.

19. This is another perspective shot of an empty bedroom.

20. There will then be a close up of Maddies face as she starts to panic.

21. Maddie will then rush down the stairs again which we will see from a medium shot of the stairs.

22. Maddie will then run to the doorway to find her family. This will be an long shot of the family sitting at the table.

23. This will be the same shot but the family will fade away but Maddie will stay there.

24. In an act of panic Maddie gets her phone out and tries to phone someone but there are no contacts. This will be a close up of the phone.

25. Maddie goes to run outside but her boyfriend is in the hallway. She goes to hug him. This will be a medium shot.

26. This will be a medium shot of him fading away.

27. She will then look around for him which will be a medium shot.

28. This is the first possible ending. Maddie will open the door and the screen will fade out to black. This will be a medium long shot.

29. The second ending will be Maddie walking out the house and looking around but no one being there. This will be a perspective shot.

30. The third possible ending will be Maddie running towards the camera with a scared expression on her face.

Storyboard Comparison

First Draft: Here is the storyboard that Ben Smith drew to give us a basic idea of the shots we were going to use and the different angles.




Shots 1-8



Shots 9-28



Shots 29-34

Final Draft: We then gave the basic drawings to Megan to draw up all of the shots as she took A level art. Here is her work.




Shots 1-6



Shots 7-12





Shots 19-24



Shots 25-27 and 3 possible endings

Distribution of tasks and working as a team



Here is a picture on Ben Flatt working on our meeting diary to upload to our blog.



Here is a picture of Ben Smith looking at the mise en scene of the film opeing of I Am Legend.



This is a picture of Megan drawing out the final version of our storyboard.

Inspirations - I am Legend

'I am Legend' is a film about a man living in an abandoned city because of a zombie apocalypse.

When watching this film we noticed how similar in some ways it is to our opening film sequence. At the very start of 'I am Legend' we notice the camera angles are very wide to show the grand scale of the city and how empty the streets of New York are because of the zombie Apocalypse. They've also done various birds eye views of the empty city. Noticeably they've put the titles on top of buildings and on streets to make it look like its included in the surroundings.

Inspiration - 28 Days Later

28 days later is a film about a man that was in a coma and he wakes up to find it is the end of the world and everyone has turned into zombies.

When watching the trailer we saw that the man was all alone in London and it was what used to be a crowded street. This is the look and feeling we want to put across in our film. I really liked how that the phones were swinging from their cord as it shows that there is no one around to help in person or over the phone. This is the similarity between the two films. I really like the costumes that they have used as they fit the genre well. As he wakes up in hospital he leaves with only his hospital gown. We would like to recreate the scale that they have done in this film but we realise that it will be extremely hard. We did not want our film to be in the dark as it would be to cliché. We really like how fear is created even though the lighting does not fit in with the feelings. This is another reason why this film inspired us to film one like it. There are very little props in the trailer and we think that we would change that. We will show televisions and mobile phones to show the time that the film is set in. We have decided to do this so the film will seem more realistic to a young teenage girl of the present day.
 

Alone Pitch and Feedback

After pitching our film to the class, we were given some feedback on how we could improve our film further. The main point that we had to work on was to not put too much into the short opening. We were given ideas of how we could condense all of the important scenes into one. We will use fades and small flashbacks to show previous activities of the night before. We will also use two layers and have two different shots other each other so it looks like she is remembering her family.

Synopsis Planning

The film will open with Maddie waking up and going downstairs and trying to turn the TV on. The TV will have no signal and Maddie will go upstairs to try and find her family but cannot find them upstairs she then checks her phone which has no contacts. She will then begin to panic and run downstairs into the dining room. She will see her family which will then fade away. This will cause Maddie to worry and panic even more. Maddie will then run to the front door and see her boyfriend who will also fade away. At the end Maddie will open the front door and this is where the scene will end with the screen fading to black.

There will be different themes conveyed such as isolation and panic. We will see this through Maddies actions. It will also be conveyed through tense music as Maddie realises that she is alone. People disappearing will make people realise that something is going on.