Storyboards

Characters

Joshua:

Age-17

Ethnicity- White British

Relationship- Sleeping with Ciara.

Costume- Black Harrington on a grey zip up with blue jeans and white Reebok Hightops.

Actor- Walter Righton

Ciara:

Age-16

Ethnicity- White Irish

Relationship- Sleeping with Joshua. Seamus’ younger sister.

Costume-

Actor-

Seamus:

Age-18

Ethnicity- White Irish

Relationship- Best friends with Scott & Adrain. Ciara’s older brother.

Costume-  Red shirt on a Black pullover hoodie and trackies with Reebok Sir Jams

Actor- Jordan Goff

Scott:

Age-18

Ethnicity- White British

Relationship- Best friends with Seamus & Joey

Costume- Black crewneck and blue cotton trackies with a brown beanie and Vans

Actor- Aaron Morey

Adrian:

Age-18

Ethnicity-White British

Relationship- Best friends with Seamus & Scott.

Costume- Grey crew neck and black trackies with a black beanie

Actor- Joey Helsby

12 Hours Storyline

12 Hours Storyline

Introduction – Joshua leaves his house. However, he is being followed by Snake and Smithy he enters an alleyway where he is confronted by Seamus Keane. He try to run but is stopped by snake and smithy, he then proceeds to be knocked out. Cut to Black.
Time now goes back to 12 hours earlier (12pm) were we find Joshua and Sybil Keane in bed. Joshua goes to have a shower walks down stairs makes breakfast. Sees a note from his Mum saying she has gone away.
Joshua goes to the football match with a few of his mates and invites people to his house for later. We are also introduced to Joshua’s love interest called, Sandra.
Joshua’s friends come over and as does Sandra and a few of her mates including Sybil .
Sandra walks in on Sybil and Joshua getting off. Sandra runs off and Sybil follows since they are best friends. Sybil goes home and speaks to her brother, Seamus.
Everyone is getting on well and they get very drunk however they run out of beers and Joshua goes to get some from the local shop and keeps trying to get in touch with Sybil, its roughly 11:55 at this point.
Once he leaves the house Joshua is found by a fuming Seamus who wishes to beat up Joshua. Its 12.... and 12 hours since noon. Were back at the beginning.

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Setting: The setting of this opening is at a school, where we see lots going on. This represents to the viewer that the film is going to be about school children and very lively. The setting is in a wide open space which denotes thats the characters are quite open about themselves. I think that the director has chosen to do this to show the viewer the nature and the personality of the character involved. However using this setting we dont get a sense of what kind of character they are. Since the setting is at a school, the viewer quickly sees that they are school kids.

Camera shots: Lots of mid shots used to get a perspective of what friendship groups are apparent, the director has chosen to do this to show the viewer which characters you expect to be friends because that is very important in youth films. We see the first close up of a boy using a drill on a gun (trevor) this is the first close up because he is the main character in the film. In our film opening, we do something similiar however we don't introduce any character before the main character. He is given the first close up though.

Camera movement: The camera moves lots in between mid shots in the opening sequence of kidulthood, the director might of chosen to do this so that it represent the busy lives of youths and how fast they live their lives. The camera is pan between groups extremely quickly and is never stationary. Firstly it moves to look at the two girls in the scene and quickly onto another couple of girls, this contrast between the two. The camera continues to pan between a series groups then cuts to someone doing some work on a gun in a classroom. All of the movement and the cuts denote to the viewer that the people involved are typical teenagers and gets the point of the film over to viewer easily. The camera is always panning between groups and then zooming into the group. This gives a the viewer the a better idea of who the main characters are because since it is set in a school there a lots of people involved therefore its a good way to get across who the main character are. By zooming into them it establishes who is who. In our task the camera doesn't move atall.

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Between 1.56 and 2.50

Setting: The narrative is explained by the setting because its in a tunnel where a man is getting beaten up. He has blood all over his face. This setting explains that the story is going to be about fighting and hooligans. Since the man is on the floor this puts none of the focus on the setting, all we can see is that is it dark and all the light is on the person on the floor. We get the feeling this is set in some kind of tunnel because we see some light but not much. I think that the director has chosen to use this type of setting to represent th nature of the man and the nature of what he is involved in. It could also be used to represent that this man has no chance of getting out of what he is gotten into by the light and the tunnel.

Lighting: The light is very dark and dull because it represents how doomed this person is who is getting beaten up . The lighting is all on his face and the blood stands out this establishing that the narrative is going to be very violent. In the next scene we seen the man standing out by the use of lighting, he isnt wearing the most colourful clothes but the blurriness of background presents the foreground very well and denotes that the story is going to be about this man. The lighting is used to make the audience aware of what is going on and takes them into a world of football violence and its denoted by the darkness.

Choice of shot: Extreme close up, this use of shot focuses purely on this man and gets the image of him into the mind of viewer. Next, the camera zooms into the mans face, this establishes that the story line is going to be about this man and puts the viewer into his head. The camera dissolves to the next shot in a complete comparative view to the last he is walking down the street looking very happy and everything else is blurred out so that represents to the viewer that the story is going to be about him. This is a very easy technique to use to get the viewer to know who the main character is. In our production we have just used close ups to mark down who the main character is.

The choice of clothing that the man on the floor wears again represents the type of genre of the film. he is wearing a big coat in both scenes the denotes the character of football hooligans and shows the viewer what kind of a person he is. After the black-out  the contrast between the three people in the scene captures three completely different characters. This suggests to the viewer that hooligans are completely different from everyone else.


This type of film opening is relevant to our because of many reasons, one the storyline is very similar ours starts of as a man getting beaten up and then is explained later. Also in this film its very similar if not the same, the man gets beaten up and then the narrator (himself) sets the scene for why he gets beaten up. This can relate to our film very easily. Another reason why it relates to our opening is because its shares very similar genre's: Violence, action and crime.

Within this sequence we don't see any narrative arch's appearing because we have only met one character. However we know that this man is going to to involved heavily in football violence. The voice over explain this clearly and explains that it is what he wants to do. This leaves the narrative arch's open to be developed within the rest of the film. Compared to our opening, we don't see clearly that there are arch's present however we get the sense of one from when the man is confronted by three other people. The character arch is clearly represented.

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Protagonist

"one who plays the first part, chief actor"
Protagonist is the main character, it who the plot revolves around. The terms protagonist, main character and hero are variously defined and, depending on the source, may denote different concepts. In fiction, the story of the protagonist may be told from the perspective of a different character. An example would be a narrator who relates the fate of several protagonists, perhaps as prominent figures recalled in a biographical perspective. Often, the protagonist in a narrative is also the same person as the focal character, though the two terms are distinct. Excitement and intrigue alone is what the audience feels toward a focal character, while a sense of empathy about the character's objectives and emotions is what the audience feels toward the protagonist. Although the protagonist is often referred to as the "good guy", it is entirely possible for a story's protagonist to be the clear villain, or antihero, of the piece. 
Their aim: After all, the eventual aim of the protagonist is to find a means to die, an aim that requires some fairly serious motivation. It is usually an active aim which is fulfilled with time.


Antagonist force: The antagonist is the character of a story who represents the opposition against which the heroes and/or protagonists must contend. In the classic style of story wherein the action consists of a hero fighting a villain, the two can be regarded as protagonist and antagonist, respectively. However, authors have often created more complex situations. In some instances, the story is told from the villain's point of view; in such a story, we must regard the hero as the chief antagonist of the story!