Preliminary Mind Map

Preliminary Task

Preliminary Task

We filmed our preliminary task in school (Sidney stringer academy) and just outside school.

Where our locations were set:

• School stairs
• School reception
• Media class
• Bus stop

preliminary script

			Name
			ALI:	I can explain, I was at the bus st…….
			AHMED:	NO! come on Ali we planned to do this work 2 hours ago
			ALI:	I know man, if you just let me explain. I’m sure we can try and do it now
			AHMED:	Let me get this straight, you actually think that we can do 2 hours of work in exactly………..(Ahmed looks at his watch) what do you know 10 minutes left
			ALI:	Relax, 10 minutes is 9 minutes too many. This work s minor
				(Ahmed slaps Ali)
			ALI:	Good one, I probably deserved that
			AHMED:	What are we going to tell SIR
			ALI:	Well………………
			AHMED:	One more stupid thing out of your mouth, the slap will be the least of your worries.
				(NEXT SCENE)
			AHMED:	SIR.. About the work.. see the problem was ……. We got the basics………..
			TEACHER:	ALI, can you help him out?
			ALI:	Yes sir……………………
			TEACHER:	Well?
			ALI:	Hmmm.
			TEACHER:	Can you translate what AHMED is trying to say?
			ALI	OK  (ALI looks at AHMED)
			Both ALI and AHMED	WE haven’t done the work?
			TEACHER:	Well boys, if you came to the lesson on time then you would know about the extension
			ALI:	Extension
			AHMED:	What extension
			TEACHER:	On the board, you have been here for almost 15 minutes and still have not noticed it.
			AHMED:	OH

Preliminary Storyboard

Short Film

This short film was recommended to me to watch as it contains a lot of action within a few minutes and as our opening sequence also contains a lot of action, I found this particularly intriguing.

What it is about is a man who is waiting for someone to meet him and who was eating his food, is interrupted by a woman across the road who stops and makes eye contact with him. She then puts some glasses on, stares at him and then comes over to him. She leaves the glasses on the table and then walks off. Due to this, the man is very confused and so reluctantly tries the glasses on. He then sees a variety of numbers appear which is matched to each person containing a lot of details. This includes a month, day, hour, minute and second and then a year right at the end and also explains that this is the time remaining.

As he is so mysterious about what is going on, he crosses the road and looks into the reflection of a car window and sees 'WARNING' with just a few seconds remaining. He finally realises what is going on and so turns around to find the woman. She is across the road and again, is staring at him as she knows what is about to happen. The camera then zooms into her eye in which you can see the man in the reflection with a bus coming towards him. The film then ends.

I liked this as it contained a lot even though it is only three minutes long.

Slum Dog Millionaire Review

Just a general review. The genres have nothing to do with my film but I reviewed this movie because I wanted to get a feel of other movies that were different to mine in order to get mine to appear unique.

Information about slumdog millionaire

Directed by	Danny Boyle
Produced by	Christian Colson
Written by	Simon Beaufoy

Starring:

Dev Patel

Freida Pinto

Madhur Mittal
Anil Kapoor
Ayush Mahesh Khedekar
Tanay Chheda
Irrfan Khan
Rubina Ali
Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar
Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail
Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala

THE MONEY
Budget: $15 million
Box office: $377,910,544

Release date(s) 12 November 2008 (United States)9 January 2009 (United Kingdom)

Running time 120 minutes

Awards
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for 10 Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It also won seven BAFTA Awards (including Best Film), five critics choice awards, and four golden globes.

(The above information has been taken from Wikipedia as I wanted to include some factual information)

Slum Dog Millionaire is about a young boy (Jamal) from the slums of India, looking for a girl (Lakita) who he lost at a young age who he had fallen in love with. He goes on this search with his older brother (Saleem) who is shown to be evil and unkind and when Jamal gets older he loses his older brother leaving him on his own to search the slums of India for Lakita. Because of this, Jamal applied for a show called 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' and got picked; he applied to get Lakita to see him on TV and come get him, he did not apply for the money. Jamal experienced a lot of things in his life of the slums therefore he got all the questions right on the hit TV show as the questions related to his life experiences. Jamal went on to win 20 million rupees which is equivalent to 236950.00 English pounds. After the show Lakita found Jamal by watching the show and they then reunited back together.


Good points
This movie was moving and sympathetic due to the logical story line.
I found that the soundtracks were put in at the right times in each scene, music is really important because this brings out the emotion and I think this was executed extremely well.
When I was watching this movie, I seen that the camera moved a lot. It moved when the characters moved, this was very precise and very well which fitted perfectly in each scene.