First draft

Below is a first draft of my media coursework.  I have not edited on a voiceover of the poem as yet but will do for the final piece.  There is also some clips missing that I originally planned to include in the film, these again will be added for my final product.

Shots.

• For the scene by the graveside I realise that I need to have a long shot of the whole group of friends, followed by a cut to a close up of the best friend being comforted by another friend.
• The first shot in the graveside scene will show the whole group of friends around the grave but will include a close up tracking shot of the faces.
• The scene with the two younger girls making friends during school will be a mid to long-shot.  I will work so as to incorporate both of girls into the shot throughout the whole scene.  This will mean that the whole scene will show the two friends together... as they were throughout their entire friendship... not split up.
• With the scene of the two friends walking towards school down the steps I will use a zoom towards the top of the steps.  This will allow for the two girls to be recognised as those in the previous scene but will also show them to be happy together but also nervous... it is going to be their first day of secondary school together.  The camera will zoom out as they walk down the steps and follow the two girls into the school.
• I plan to include a scene showing the two friends to be older, once they have left school and are catching up with one another, and this will be a mid to long-shot.  However I may plan to include a point of view shot that will show each friend from the others point of view... this I feel may work better than the mid-shot as it also helps the film to have a variety of shots but will also show the friends from each others point of view.
• The scene of the two younger girls playing, having fun etc, will use a long shot of the two girls skipping.  They will skip towards the camera so I will not need to zoom.  I may include a shot of the two girls sitting and playing together "hairdressers" this will further promote the fact that they have been friends for a long time and show that they have always been close.  This will be a long shot.  This scene also includes the two girls sitting playing clapping games.  This I feel will look best as a long shot which zooms into a mid shot and finally a close up of their clapping hands.
• For the extended scene of the friends together then one of them dying I will use a lot of close ups and tracking shots.  My first close up will be of the friends getting ready to go out.  This will be shot as similar to the draft piece with the girls using the camera as a sort of mirror for putting on their make up.  I may also include a mid shot of the two girls comparing dresses, outfits.  I have reconsidered the idea of the shot of the girls walking down the road together, this shot will now be a tracking shot from the side then to the front, this will extend the shot but will also allow me to experiment further with the handling of the camera for different shots.  I feel that for the shot of the friend falling down and dying I will use two different shots for this.  I will have a camera at the bottom of the stairs which she falls down, this will help to capture a shot of the friend falling as I feel this also would be more dramatic.  I will use a second camera to capture the fall from above, this will then show the fall more clearly. I also anticipate to have a close up of the friends face after she has fallen, this I feel will add more drama and effect to the final shot of the scene.
  
• Close ups of the mourning friend will have to be varied.  I have decided this as I have the same shot repeated in places throughout my draft.  I will hope to include a close up of the friend being comforted.  I will also include a mid-shot of the friend laying flowers on her friends grave.  Furthermore I will use a close-up shot of the friend alone crying.

Other stuff

• Costume
• Young girls
• skirt/jeans
• tshirt
• hair in bunches/ponytail
• Teenage girls
• leggings and top
• hair down, styled
• flat shoes
• older girls
• smarter wear
• trousers
• smart top
• black shoes
• sleepover girls
• pyjamas
• dressing gown
• slippers
• hair up
• mourning friend
• black dress
• hair down
• going out as friends
• skirts
• heels
• fashion tops
• school
• school uniform
• prom??
• prom dresses??
• party dresses??

• Transitions
• I will use a variety of transitions during my short film.  I plan on using the idea of fade to white and fade to black transitions respectively of whether it will cut to a happy memory of the friendship or a cut to the friend mourning or a graveside scene.
• I will use a cross zoom transition when the memories change to the night of the friends death, the transitions from here will then be cross blurs, this will emphasise the confusion and lost feeling that the friend would now be feeling now that her friend has died.