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Short film plot explained for It's All In Your Head

Given the outbreak of COVID-19 and following government advice, schools and colleges were closed from the 20th of March 2020, and I was not able to shoot my short film due to this. I had been waiting for April to shoot my film as I would have been able to use natural sunlight as opposed to artificial light to keep things as realist as possible. Since I cannot shoot my film, here is an explanation of the plot I made earlier using my (badly) drawn stickmen and images from Google to give an idea as to what my short film could have looked like had college still have been open! 

Comparing Blade Runner to other Scott's films

Alien

• Both films are futuristic and have rather dark themes
• Both are filmed on a set and don't feature many scenes on a location
• Alien is a science fiction horror film; Blade Runner is futuristic
• Sexuality is expressed differently: A is subtle; BR is more obvious - the male and female are both shown

Gladiator

• In both films, there is the theme of the son killing the 'father'
• Dr Eldon Tyrell is killed by Nexus 6 Replicant Roy Battle, his creation; Commodus kills his father Julius Cesar 
• Incest: Both protagonists end up with their 'sister' - Maximus gets with Lucilla, daughter to his 'father'. Deckard ends up with Rachel, 'daughter' to Tyrell, who was probably also created by Deckard.

Prometheus

• Both films feature the characters' searching for who created them
• Like Roy Batty, Peter Weyland journeys to LV-223 in the hope of finding an extension on his rapidly dwindling life
• Frankenstein connection: should artificial life be regarded as the same as humans
• Some argue Prometheus is a sequel to Blade Runner 

Similarities and Differences between Orson Welles's 'The Lady From Shanghai' and Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner'

Similarities and Differences between Orson Welles's 'The Lady From Shanghai' and Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner'

Similarities: Both scenes are quite romantic and share a first kiss between the female and male lead; Elsa and Deckard are both the ones to initiate the kiss but their styles differ - Elsa comes across as seductive which fits the femme fatale role whilst Deckard appears more abusive; both films have this theme of an identity struggle with the female leads - are both pretending to be someone else: Rachael is pretending to be a human, Elsa is pretending to be someone else until it's discovered that she's the one who is the murderer

Differences: Blade Runner is shot on a set whilst Lady from Shanghai was set outside in the open; LFS uses film noir whilst BR uses neo-noir; LFS uses high contrast and lowkey lighting whilst BR uses lowkey lighting - neo-noir visual style; BR uses two shots in dialogue whilst LFS uses shot-reverse-shots used in dialogue; BR was shot during the Blockbuster Era whilst LFS was shot during the Hollywood Era; the kiss between Elsa and Michael is more built-up making it appear more intimate whilst the kiss between Deckard and Rachel isn't and the scene is more fast-paced and moves on quickly with the plot indicating that their kiss isn't as important. Deckard's forcefulness and what could be considered Rachael being submissive indicates the type of relationship they have. These differences could be due to their differences in backgrounds; OW worked in the theatre as a director and RS in advertising where he learnt his cinematographic, lighting and editing techniques.

Questions on the Independent Cinema Video

https://youtu.be/opQC45irmN8

http://nowonfilm.blogspot.com/p/independent-cinema.html


According to the video, Hollywood is often driven by trends. Like clockwork, the success of a film/genre encourages others to follow suit and this is how we end up with "only reboots and dystopian fantasies."

Between the 1930s and 1950s, the major American film studios had created a style of filmmaking, Classical Hollywood Cinema. Their stories were chaste, formulaic, and mainly upbeat. The stories followed a narrative were the good guys always won. Many were shot on constructed sets.

Flat generic form of lighting. Ensures the entire image is clearly visible. Used by Hollywood Studios during Studio Era.

Hollywood was producing a lot of films, and by the mid-1940s, audiences were tired and ready for something new. The first post-war movement was Italian Neo-Realism. Filmmakers of this movement were directors prior to the war and began to shoot again once the war had ended. After experiencing such a violent war, they desired a more raw and authentic style than classical Hollywood cinema. Equipment was thin but these filmmakers found a way to turn these advantages into a style that reflected the harsh reality they saw.

First to produce an Italian Neo-Realist film called 'Rome: Open City' (1945, Rome)

Neo-Realism.

A group of opinionated young film lovers started writing a movie magazine called Cahiers du Cinema, which were disgusted by the mimicks of Classical Hollywood Movies made by French Filmmakers

Spoon-feeding audiences rather than respecting their intelligence. 

One of the critics who wrote for the Cahiers du Cinema and wrote attacks on the major 21 French directors.

Yes: John Ford, Howard Hawks, Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock. 

These critics had analysed a lot of contemporary cinema and were ready to start making their own films. In 1959 4 of them produced feature-length debuts. They became recognised international film stars and thus French New Wave on the map. This style involved making films swiftly with minimal crews and lightweight equipment. Jean-Luc Godard - Breathless, Jacques Rivette - Paris Belongs to Us, Claude Chabrol- Les Cousins, Francois Truffaut - The 400 Blows.

Lawsuit: United States vs Paramount Pictures, inc caused the major studios to give up their theatre chains. This resulted in the marketplace being available to all types of films, not just what these major studios wanted to be shown.

Baby Boom generation was 'coming of age', there was a war in Japan, since the Civil War, American politics was at its most violent and Studio films seemed increasingly out of touch. Due to this, ticket sales were falling and Studios executives began to panic.

Money.

David Newman and Robert Benton attempted to create a film in the style of the French New Wave movement, but it ended up being directed by Arthur Penn. It was about a pair of charismatic depression-era bank robbers on a crime spree. It included unapologetic sexuality, casual humour and brutal violence.

 Easy Rider, The Graduate (1987) and Midnight Cowboy (1969)

As the older generation of studios began to retire, new ones were developing. They were shaped by the same societal forces as the younger filmmakers (like the rise of the counter-culture and Watergate-era politics) and small filmmakers were able to be financed by the major Hollywood studios. 
Directors Martin Scorses, Francis Ford Coppola and Brian de Palma were able to make films that satisfied the hungry public.
Lasted from 1967-1980.

Directors like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas created the first summer blockbusters were Jaws, Star Wars and Raider of the Lost Ark. Instead of overtly wrestling with the socio-political upheaval of the '60s and the '70s, these films offered a chance to escape, a more pure form of entertainment that appealed to a mass audience.

The studios were being purchased by multinational, large corporations which changed the way the studios worked. There were now stockholders to satisfy marketing departments to consult and risk assessment to consider. It was all very corporate.
The arrival of a new set of independent filmmakers and mini studios Directors like Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Paul Thomas Anderson and Quentin Tarantino made films for independent companies like Miramax and New Line Cinema. Although they didn't have the resources of the major film studios, the success of films like Do the Right thing and Pulp Fiction showed there  was a hunger for risky, original American films that continue today

Design brief

I have chosen a narrative which portrays a conflict between two central characters as my short film.

Selma Jail Scene

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16qGh5veqduX9B8jR-5AtTKuQ7XEWkTY2/view?usp=sharing