SassProductions - Grow Old With Me Evaluation

Evaluation

Grow Old With Me - Final Edit

Character Profiles

Flynn Forest - Husband to Amelia and father to Charlie, Flynn is a 26 year old Paediatrician from Pattingham.

Amelia Forester - Wife to Flynn and mother to Charlie, Amelia is a 26 year old primary school teacher, working at Parkfield Elementary.

Charlie Forester - Child of Flynn and Amelia, Charlie is a 4 year old bright and confident primary school pupil at Parkfield Elementary.

Sarah Greene - School teacher to Charlie, and best friend of Amelia, Sarah is a close family friend and a honorary member of the Forester family.

Film Titles

We decided to make sure our titles are all consistent throughout of film opening. We decided to only add 'SassProductions' and the cast names into the opening so that it looks consistent and realistic. We found this idea from previously watching professional film openings and seeing how others have best shown their opening titles.

Cast Photos

As a part of our casting choices we have started to collect images of those portraying our characters to give a real sense to the characters and their personal attributes. I will update this post when we have more photos.

Before shooting our film opening we created a storyboard to remind us of the sequence each picture of video clip will go in.

Scripts

As our film opening was a picture montage with only three video's included in it. There wasn't much dialogue. Here are the three scenes for our film opening

First Video Scene

Flynn: Say hello to Charlie
Amelia: Hi Charlie!

Second Video Scene

Steven Stevenson: Hello and welcome to Sass News at 6 with me Steven Stevenson...
Emma Holmes: And me Emma Holmes.
Steven Stevenson: 26 year old Amelia Forester and her unborn child have sadly been killed in a tragic house fire.
Emma Holmes: In the early hours of this morning, brave Amelia lost her life. Her husband and son have lost their beloved wife and mother. Here is Jenna with more on this sad story, and an interview with fire marshal Sam Fitzgerald.

Third Video Scene

Charlie: And that's why I want to be a fireman
Sarah Greene: That was lovely Charlie, thank you.

Soundtrack/Voice Over

We haven't yet decided whether we're going to be using a voice over, music, or both within our opening sequence. To avoid copyright issues, we've decided to make out own soundtrack. We have looked into and listened to to a few soundtracks from other film openings and put our own spin on them.
For our voice over we have decided to create a short monologue for our films protagonist, Charlie. For this we are trying to write a monologue suitable for his character to present to his class, which is revealed at the end of our opening scene.

Opening Scene Plot Summary

The film opens with a montage of both pictures and home videos of Flynn and Amelia's life as a couple. The opening is presented in the style of a scrapbook; within this we see the important and memorable events that take place throughout their life; for example, their first date, their wedding day, their honeymoon, Christmas morning, the birth of their first child, Charlie and a second unexpected pregnancy. However, this tranquility was disturbed by a tragic accidental house fire, tearing their family apart forever. The sequence then skips 5 years, where we find out that this montage has all been leading up to Charlie, Flynn and Amelia's son (aged 9), explaining his career aspirations to be a fireman and save lives.

Setting/Location

As our film opening is based predominantly on pictures of the protagonists past we will be using a green screen to enable us to recreate these moments. Other than this we will be using a home setting to create mini 'home video' clips within our opening; a school classroom setting and a new report setting. As our film opening is based around pictures and short videos it is paramount that we get the perfect settings which truly represent our film genre and the ideas we have.

Cast Costumes

Miss Whitehouse as Amelia Forester - Mother and Wife - 7 Different Costumes
1st costume - School clothes/uniform
2nd costume - Wedding dress/white dress
3rd costume - Beach wear (shorts, skirt, dress, flipflops)
4th costume - Holiday clothes (skirt, dress)
5th costume - T-shirt and jeans
6th costume - Pyjamas
7th costume - Home wear/dress?

Mr Sidaway as Flynn Forester - Husband and Father - 7 Different Costumes
1st costume - School clothes/uniform
2nd costume - Wedding suit
3rd costume - Beach wear (shorts, tank top)
4th costume - Holiday clothes (shirt and trousers/jeans and top)
5th costume - T-shirt and jeans
6th costume - Pyjamas
7th costume - Home wear (joggers)

Ms Cattell as Miss Sarah Greene - Teacher - 1 Costum
Grey Dress for school

Miss Brown as Reporter Jenna Gilmore - News Reporter - 1 Costume
Dress, Glasses, Hair up (professional)

Mr McDowall as Fireman Sam Fitzgerald - Fireman - 1 Costume
Black trousers, White top and Braces

Cody Powis&Noah Brady as Charlie Forester - Son and future fireman - 3 Costumes
1st costume - Baby grow/sleep suit
2nd costume - Nappy
3rd costume - School uniform

Miss Lynch  as Emma Holmes - News Reporter - 1 Costume
Smart, girly wear.

Mr Bull - Steven Stevenson - News Reporter - 1 Costume
Smart, Shirt and tie.

Grow Old With Me - Synopsis (full film)

The film will open with pictures of Flynn and Amelia's life in a scrap book. It will illustrate important parts of their lives, including milestones of Charlie Forrester's life.

After the opening the film will begin with the news report to say Amelia and her unborn child had died. Charlie grows up as 5 years pass with only a father to raise him. Charlie is in class explaining why he wants to be a fireman.

An unexpected romance occurs between Flynn and Sarah (the teacher). A double news situation... Charlie's partner is pregnant and his father is getting married. Charlie begins his fireman training but its put on hold because his wifes babies are due. Twins called Ella-Swan and Joshua-James. Begins fireman training again.

Charlie gets qualified as a fireman and proposes but a call comes in to say a pregnant woman and child are stuck in a house fire. Accomplishes his life long dream and saves the mother and child but has a major flashback and sees himself as a small child, tells his fireman friend to get the child and says "I will get HER!" The pregnant lady reminds him of his mom. Gets her out and sees the ghost of his mom stood in the doorway smiling. (same house he had his past fire in).

Crew and Cast

CREW!

Director - Elizabeth Salisbury
Editor - Sophie Mincher
Script Commissioner - Cheyenne Weaver
Camera Woman - Courtney Musgrove

CAST!

Flynn Forester - Mr Sidaway
Amelia Forester - Miss Whitehouse
Charlie Forester - Cody Powis/Noah Brady
Fireman Sam Fitzgerald - Mr McDowall
Reporter Jenna Gilmore - Miss Brown
Miss Sarah Greene - Ms Cattell
Emma Holmes - Miss Lynch
Steven Stevenson - Mr Bull