Audience for 12 Hours

Our active audience for '12 Hours' is mainly in the bracket of 16-24 yr olds. Our project should appeal to them in a similar way to that of Kidulthood & Skins this is due to it being clearly set around the lives of teens and their actions. Seeing as teens are represented a lot in our film this should be evedent even in the opening 2 minutes. Although it is aimed at 16-24 yr olds we feel the film would be better suited to an 18+ certificate, this is because we would like to achieve and almost gritty feel such as Kidulthood does. Seeing as the certificate would ideally 18+ we think that 16 & 17 yr olds would still watch it as the majority of them wouldn't care about this certificate, this fits in with the theme of rebellion that is evident in our film.

Mid Filming

We started our filming on 5/12/10. Filming has not gone very well, we have a few shots (over the shoulder, close up, medium shots and aerial shots) in and around the house however we havent filmed any of the night time stuff that is going to be done in the next few days. We have all the shots we need that include walter being in the house and in the bed with the girl (Emma) Also we have almost finished the scene where he makes himself some food using crane shots. However we need to so the shots where Joshua gets beaten up which is a night scene.

We filmed Walter (Joshua)  all around the house getting a few still shots of Joshua walking down the coridoor into the shower and then coming back the same way but this time is dressed. Next is the first moving shot of Joshua walking down the stairs . Firstly we see Joshua waking up and there is a clock next to him with the time 11.59, the shots is still for a few seconds and then the alarm goes off for 12:00 and Joshua wakes up walking past the camera into the bathroom. The camera is stationary in this and is at shoulder level. Next the semi diegectic sound of a shower is present and the camera is still in the same place. The mise en scene represents the character Joshua as being normal teenager going through a normal life, the camera is still to represent this.

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.

Relating films opening to our own idea

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.