The Importance Of Education Post 4


                                  Composition of Music, Narration and Style


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The style in which my film will be delivered will be in a prologue voice narration while the visual elements have been shown. I have researched into media that is similar and in fact very close to the style I will be using. The video game Mafia features a close resemblance to the style of delivery I have in mind. The voice contrast with the music are clearly in synchronisation with each other and contribute to one another. I plan to create a similar music film score to the one you will hear in this ending scene from Mafia 1.

Also pay close attention to how the narrator makes the story personally relevant to the listener as he uses keywords like 'You' and 'the world'. This is a very clever choice of words because in every human being there are two things that will always be important to him or her and that is themselves and the world around them. If he simply just said 'the world is run by all types of people', this wouldn't be as interesting as saying 'You know, the world is not always run by what is written on books', it makes the listener become more engaged with the story and draws them in.


The reason I chose Mafia as a great source of media research into the style of the narration composition is not only due to its success as a game that is known for drawing audiences in to the story very effectively but the story in Mafia 1 is also about a man who got mislead in life and who went down a path of destruction and his desperate attempt to escape the Mafia was successful for most of his youth as he was put under witness protection and put his mobster boss 'Mr Salieri behind bars but many years later as an old man he is watering his plants in his front garden when he is paid a visit by two men who openly shot gun him on behalf of Mr Salieri.


 The moral of this story is that you made get away with doing bad for a while but it will eventually catch up to you which is similar to my previous research into the Pinocchio story where I spoke about how he mislead away from his responsibilities by the Wolf and the Weasel who were only out to use him.


I will write my script narration based on both Tommy Angelo (Main protagonist from Mafia 1) and Pinocchio's perspective of the story as if they were both dead and telling this story as a somewhat ghost to warn others of the mistakes they made.

The Importance Of Education - Short Motivational Film - Graduate Project POST 3
                                              ACTORS and DIRECTORS

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I have now began casting for the film and contacted Becki Hyland who works with children's Television and felt she would be an interesting contributor for the graduate project I am working on. I have also began taking a bigger look at my project and have decided to try to make this film as realistic as possible by not over using montages of scenes to show a sense of the passing of time and in other words I would focus more in actually creating the scenes and will be interested in showing some drama style dialogue.


I felt that the student should fail his education officially before the bad things in his life really take a big swing at him for negative impact to exaggerate his sorrow and regret when he sees that his education is gone and so are the people who were supposed to be his friends.

I have placed advertisements on the University Facebook pages and begin have more in depth conversations with people from my class and other classes and fish out some keen performers and actors from the arts department not only in the University but keen actors from wherever I can find them.  I will be doing a lot of asking around to find interesting characters who I feel will reflect upon the protagonists character.

Personally I see this project as a great chance to develop my auteur skills as a film director and also look back over previous films I have been in or created and see if I can spot any common links that are always common in any stories I write.

I researched the affect of auteur theory and began to see what types of trade marks and signatures different directors use. One of the videos I found interesting was this one which is regarding the origins of auteur theory which shows how people judge a film from both perspectives of what it is and from a auteur experience scanning to see if the director is showing the type of signature style that audiences have come to expect from them.

I have learned that there is a strong feeling in my heart for people who have been mislead in life by distractions just like in the Pinocchio story where he gets distracted from his school and responsibilities when he believes that the wolf and weasel are going to take his gold coin and plant it in a 'magic tree' to grow many gold coins.  

                     
                       The Importance of Education by Ryan Bicheranloo  - COLOUR PLAY

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For the colour representation of the themes of this film I had chosen black and white to represent the bleak stage of the students life but would make use of both audio and visual working together. When the narrator says  ''After turning my life around, colour finally came back into my life'', I would transition from black and white to colour visually which was an idea which was influenced by the great Quinton Tarantino's film 'Kill Bill Volume 1' where the dark and negative parts of the woman's life from the past is shown in black and white but when it shows her in the present time where she is now coming to a point where she knows what she is going to do about her bad situation, it is shown in colour. 

During my research into why colour is so important in film and how it can affect our moods I came across this video which I felt gave me a great insight into the values of different colours and how they can be used to nicely manipulate how the audience feels in different situations according to what particular feeling or emotion I want to bring out in my audience through the use of colour. 

I also now have a fellow student Catherine Alice Porter who has stepped in to assist me and help me in whichever area I ask of her and I will also be helping out on her projects. This will help to gain credit for team work experience within this project. I do believe that I will receive further result with teaming up with two more groups in order to meet the requirement to be able fulfill team work areas of this assignment.


I have had several discussions with Catherine Alice Porter about my project and she said that she would be up for doing some acting in my film to help contribute to the casting side of the production as well as the practical aspects of the production such as camera works with me and booking out any rooms or equipment that we may need to use.  


However, in terms of target audience for my film, I have decided that based on a conversation with my tutor for this unit that it would be a wiser decision to have this film to be targeted towards film festivals and upon my research I personally feel like a specific film festival that this film would be well suited for would be the 'London Short Film Festival' rather than bigger organisations as it is exactly what film festivals would appreciate (e.g: a short film with a meaningful story). 

                     The Importance of Education by Ryan Bicheranloo
                             
                                          The Beginning
                                       
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This project will be a film that examines the importance of education and the positive impact that education can have on a person's life compared to those who have no education or worse, have the opportunity to get higher education but turn their noses away from it. In the story we follow the life of a male student who represents all of us and the traps that we could easily fall into as the student fails to see the importance of education and neglects his studies to seek out instant cheap thrills in life believing that rebellion and a false sense of popularity among people who are pretending to be his friends will lead him on to a better quality of life and that he doesn't need education but in reality this all nothing but a sweet illusion.


This story is influence by a personal friend of mine who fell victim to this exact scenario but a more research based influence of this story can be found in the classic and world famous Carlo Collodi 'Adventures of Pinocchio' story where a boy neglects his studies and ends up trusting the wrong people who he believes are his friends but would later reveal themselves as the people who have now made a fool of him. Not only does neglecting your education lead you astray but it also makes you behave irresponsible and often people who neglect their education are only being untrue to themselves and others around them when they come to justify why they didn't follow their education and responsibilities like everyone else.


This clip from Walt Disney's Pinocchio shows how people can become engaged by their own self neglect of their future to the point where they are literally begging for a second chance at life because they didn't follow through with their responsibilities the first time round because they were too busy chasing after cheap thrills. No lie will ever be convincing or believable enough to justify their situation and will always catch up with them.

The style would consist of showing the events that student goes through such as feeling depressed in class, hanging out with friends drinking and leaving his studies neglected, arguing with his parents about his negative change in behaviour, meets a new girlfriend and starts thinking that he is considered a cool person because he now has friends and a girlfriend but all falls apart as his life style starts to impact his health and his girlfriend leaves him for one of his friends to which he begins to realise that these people don't really care about him but were just using him because he let them and finally the biggest event of the student's life which is the triumphant rise of recovering and building his life, health and career back to what it was originally meant to be.


This would consist of the narrator telling his story in the first person perspective while the visual representation of what he is talking about is being shown on the screen. The music would be mostly emotional and provoke feelings of sadness due to the negative events that are occurring in the student's life towards the beginning of the film but as his life progresses, the music will also progress into more cheerful and triumphant music.