1. Proposal
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Centre Name and Number:
York College 48357
Student Name and Number:
Luke Ross
Project proposal title and date:
The Inspector
23rd of January 2019
Main area of activity:
The main focus of my project here is going to be a short film. I’m aiming at a Horror/ Thriller genre.
Rationale: 150 words
In the past two years I have made different projects that will all come into helping me with this
project. In making the different projects such as ‘on the hour’ which was a short film that I made
last year and projects this year such as my factual and client pieces, I had picked up skills in
editing, filming and animating title sequences. In the on the hour I picked up skills on colour
grading and contrasting filters with colour grading. On my factual piece I picked up skills on
animating transition slides. The skills that I have picked up in planning, management
(organisational) and research will help benefit this product as I will be more affective when working
in these areas. I will use my title skills, editing skills and filming skills in this film project when I
create my short film. My short film from last year will impact my product as it showed me how to
use shots to convey emotion which is something I will be focusing on in this project.
Project Concept: 200 words
The concept for this project is to create three different products, the first product is going to be the
introduction to a feature length film, this would be an opening scene, preferably something fast
paced and a title intro, of artistic design. The second product will be print based, a poster for the
feature length film. The third product will be trailer for the feature length film, this will use similar
shots from the intro but unlike the intro will use dialogue to tell the story. I want each of these
products to be directly linked through colour, style and font. In research I will conduct surveys and
interviews as part of my primary research to find out what others think about how I could go about
creating this in order to get ideas. In my secondary research I will use the answers I received in
primary to search similar existing products to see how other products have gone about doing what
I intend.
How will the project be evaluated and reviewed? 150 words
I will evaluate my work by making weekly reflection logs about what work I have completed in each
week, I will take about the problems throughout the week, how I resolved those problems and how
I feel about the week as a whole. After doing this for each week of the project as I move to creating
the project I will switch from weekly reflections to daily reflections, this is so that I can keep a more
detailed log of each day of production. Once I have finished my project, I start an evaluation. In the
evaluation I will separate it into a part for each aspect of the project and then summarise as a
whole if the end result is what I intended and what I would go back and improve if I had the chance
to do so.
2. Proposal
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Bibliography:
Interviews
1. Luke Ross. (2019) Target Audience Research Survey (conducted on February
15th
, 2019)
2. Tom Eastwood. (2019) Target Audience Interviews (conducted on February 15th
,
2019)
3. Jake Greenwood. (2019) Target Audience Interviews (conducted on February 15th
,
2019)
4. Jack Hickman. (2019) Target Audience Interviews (conducted on February 15th
,
2019)
5. Kiernan Elsworth. (2019) Target Audience Interviews (conducted on February 15th
,
2019)
6. Tahmid Ahmed. (2019) Target Audience Interviews (conducted on February 15th
,
2019)
7. Jack Morton. (2019) Target Audience Interviews (conducted on February 15th
,
2019)
8. Connor Wiffem. (2019) Target Audience Interviews (conducted on February 15th
,
2019)
Books
9. Sidney Lumet (14 March 1995). Making Movies. LA: Sidney Lumet. p10-134.
10. Steven D. Katz (1991). Film directing, shot by shot : visualizing from concept to
screen. LA: Steven D. Katz. p20-45.
11. David Mamet (1991). On Directing Film. United States of America: Penguin Books.
p60-96.
12. Ed Pincus (1984). The filmmaker's handbook. United States of America: Ed
Pincus. p30-63.
13. Michael Rabiger (1989). Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics. United States
of America: Michael Rabiger. p22-57.
Websites
14. 1. ilovefancydress. (2019). ilovefancydress. Available:
https://ilovefancydress.com/costumes-beginning-with/costumes-beginning-with-
s/adult-screamer-halloween-costume?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqtvSmK-i4AIVy7ftCh3-
lAXMEAQYASABEgIAc_D_BwE . Last accessed 4th February 2019.
15. 2. red carpetfx. (2019). Fake Blood. Available:
https://www.redcarpetfx.com/products/smiffys-fake-blood-
bottle?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=googlepla&variant=20640716037&gclid=E
AIaIQobChMIr5boxa-i4AIVq7_tCh2w0AazEAQYASABEgK6GvD_BwE . Last
accessed 4th February 2019
16. 3. Amazon. (2019). Fog Machine. Available:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07B4D6VL9/ref=asc_df_B07B4D6VL958142109/?t
ag=googshopuk-
21&creative=22146&creativeASIN=B07B4D6VL9&linkCode=df0&hvadid=3107755
28043&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=40614547938107. Last accessed 4th
February 2019.
17. 4. ilovefancydress. (2019). Blood Stained Kitchen Knife. Available:
https://ilovefancydress.com/halloween/blood-stained-kitchen-
knife?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrbOA97Ci4AIV6LDtCh3bnQFAEAQYAiABEgJDZ_D_B
wE . Last accessed 4th February 2019.
18. 5. Fancy Dress Ball. (2019). Clown Mask. Available:
https://www.fancydressball.co.uk/masks/adult-masks/clown-threequarter-mask-
with-red-hair-
26385.htm?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIutPin7Gi4AIV7rvtCh2WMg_qEAQYAiABEgJohvD
4. Proposal
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Week Tasks to be Completed: Specific Tasks
1 Pre-production Proposal and background research –
Day one: working title, genre and Rationale
Day two: Project concept and how I will evaluate
Day three: Bibliography
Day four: Contextual research (Directors
research)
Day five: Making sure the previous tasks of the
week are complete and adding to what iv done.
2 Pre-production Research- primary and secondary –
Day one: Audience profile, existing products one
and two
Day two existing products three and four
Day three: finishing the existing products and
summarising them.
Day Four: Props research (cost and web
address)
Day Five: Costume research (cost and web
address)
3 Pre-production Research- primary and secondary –
Day one: create survey and submit it to get
responses
Day two: analyse each individual response from
the survey
Day three: conduct an Interview on the first three
People and analyse the results
Day four: Conduct an interview on the last four
people.
Day five: analyse the last four interviews and
then evaluate and summarise the planning a
whole
4 Pre-production Experiments –
Day one: Mind maps of technical problems (one
basic and one in depth)
Day two: Mind maps of theoretical problems (one
basic and one in depth)
Day three: potential Camera problems and Props
and costumes problems (in depth analysis)
Day four: potential equipment and filming outside
problems (In depth analysis)
Day five: Unwanted visual noise problems and
Cost and time problems (in depth analysis)
5 Pre-production Experiments –
Day one: Health and safety review and
contingency planning
Day two: Contingency planning
Day three: experiment one (camera and shot
practice)
Day four: Experiment two (recorded sound
effects and sound design)
Day five: Experiment three (soundtrack creation
for specific genre) and summary of experiments
individually and as a whole.
6 Pre-production Pre-Production and planning –
Day one: In Depth Scene structural breakdown
Day two: Shot list and script
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Day three: Location planning and finance
planning
Day four: Meetings and equipment planning
Day five: Personal and material planning
7 Pre-production Pre-Production and planning –
Day one: Story Boarding
Day two: Camera and sound planning for my
short film
Day three: Colour scheme and font planning
Day four: Style sheet and image style sheet
Day five: Rush log and Audio levels, transitions,
Jump cuts and colour correction planning
8 Production Production –
Day one: Book out equipment for the chase
scene
Day two: film the chase scene at the location
Day three: Edit the clips for the chase scene on
premier pro
Day four: edit the sound affects for the chase
scene and create a soundtrack
Day five: finish editing the chase scene opening
and book out equipment for the next week.
9 Production Production –
Day one: Film crime scene one and crime scene
four
Day two: Edit the clips for crime scene one and
four
Day three: take the chase scene into after affects
to add in fog and other special effects
Day four: create soundtrack for these crime
scenes
Day five: write a reflection recapping specific
tasks that I did on each day and book out
equipment for the next week
10 Production Production –
Day one: Film crime scene two
Day two: edit crime scene two and add it into the
final production with the chase scene and crime
scene one
Day three: Film crime scene three
Day four: edit crime scene three and add it into
the final production with crime scene one to four
Day five: reflect on what I did on each day of the
week and any improvements that need to be
made
11 Production Draft peer feedback –
Day one: finalize the work I have done up to this
point and hand it in as a draft to receive feedback
Day two: hand in the draft and receive feedback
to analyse
Day three: after looking at the feedback create a
plan of what I need to improve upon
Day four: Book out equipment ready for my
reshoots the following week.
Day five: Reflect upon the feedback and the plan
to fix parts based on it.
12 Production Production –
Day one: film the reshoots based on feedback
Day two: finish filming the reshoots ready for
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editing
Day three: edit the reshoots and finalize them
and add them into the final project.
Day four: book out equipment to film crime scene
six and seven the following week
Day five: Reflect on the reshoots and look at how
they have affected my product for the better
13 Production Production –
Day one: Film crime scene 6
Day two: edit crime scene 6 and add it into the
final product
Day three: film crime scene 7 (final scene)
Day four: edit crime scene 7 (final scene) and
add it into the final project
Day five finalize the film ready to hand in a
finished product and reflect on the finished
product.
14 Production Production –
Day one: start creating a poster for my film as
advertisement
Day Two: Finish the poster for my film
Day three: go through all of my scenes and work
and look for things to improve upon
Day four: Spend time improving on what I feel
necessary
Day five hand in finalized piece when finished
15 Evaluation Evaluation –
Day one: evaluate the contextual research and
proposal
Day two: evaluate the research document
(primary and secondary research)
Day three: evaluate the planning documents and
PowerPoint
Day four: evaluate time management over the
project as a whole
Day five: week of weekly reflection
16 Evaluation Evaluation –
Day one: Analyse the aesthetic quality of my film
and poster
Day two: Analyse the technical quality of my film
and poster
Day three: analyse the film a whole and discuss
the processes
Day four: evaluate Audience appeal for the
project
Day five: weekly reflection
17 Evaluation Presentation –
Day one: evaluate the weekly reflections and
discuss whether they was helpful
Day two: Prepare for the presentation of my
finalized work
Day three: create a script for the presentation
ready for when I explain it.
Day four: Make sure that all of my work is
completed and to a vert high standard before
presentation
Day five: weekly reflection
18 Moderation Wait for my work to go through moderation so I
can see what grade I have received for my
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project as whole and then work to improve it for
the final marking
19 Show Preparation Prepare a script for the final presentation of my
work. Decide how I am going to present and how
I’m going to describe and explain it.
Book out a studio or cinema to show my final
product to outside sources and get outside views
and opinions.
20 Show Present my work in front of a large group of
people at the place of work to show off what I
have created.
Show off my work at the outside source and see
what they think of my final product so that I can
improve in the future.
