Planning Final Project-Props

The props we have decided to use is a skateboard to show the journey of the Nerd travelling to school. We also decided to show that Kane (the nerd) we will need glasses for him to wear as all stereotypical nerds have glasses and a big rucksack for him as most nerds carry their books and folders in.

For the popular we decided she would need to have a handbag to carry her make up and school books and we also decided she would carry her phone, mirror and lipstick as most stereotypical popular has a mirror on her at all times and there is even a shot of Lindsey (popular girl) applying lipstick on during the lesson.

Planning Final Project - Animatic

Planning- Storyboard

This is our storyboard for A Secret for a Secret. Under the drawings we have written the different shot and camera angles that will be used and which character is in the scene to help us and make it easier for when it comes to filming our opening.

Planning Process

Plot Line:

We decided on our plot line by first choosing that we would do a stereotypical high school teen movie.
We have a nerd coming to school on a skateboard, once he gets inside the school he trips over where the popular girl is and she helps him up he then remembers seeing her during the holidays kissing another girl. Once he gets to lesson the popular girl sits net to him in class and they are told they have to do an assignment, Lindsey (popular girl) is told she must pass and get a B or above. After lesson is finished she then goes to Kevin (the Nerd) for help however, he says ' haven't i helped you enough'.

We bounced off ideas from one another in a group conversation and we all contributed different ideas, some of us had different ideas to others but then we all co-operated with each other to come up with our final plot line. By taking all our suggestions into consideration and finally mixing bits of each others ideas we resulted in our final creative plot line. It has a mix of romance, mystery and comedy.

Some of our ideas were created using influences from other teen movies.
An example of this would be that we are using voice over; the idea of the voice over came form the introduction of the breakfast club.
Were also going to have music playing in the background during the voice over, this is another idea we used from the introduction of the breakfast club.

We also used teen movies with geeks in them such as the "Inbetweeners Movie" and "Geek Charming" to help us decide what kind of cloths we would want our geek character to wear because we want a stereotypical geek in our teen movie. After looking at teen movies and using our own ideas we decided that our geek character is going to wear glasses, a smart shirt with a tie and braces, a big rucksack, black jeans and vans. We decided that we want our character to look like he is a geek but also have a modern cloths on as well to show that the character is trying too hard to fit in.

In our teen movie we will have a stereotypical popular girl. To get ideas of what we wanted her to dress like we looked at teen chick flick movies such as "Mean Girls" and "Clueless". The popular girls in these movies conventionally wears skirts and tight tops. We decided that our popular girl is going to wear a skirt and a blouse.

Film Opening Soundtracks- ?

 The is the first soundtrack we are considering to use in our teen film is JellyLegs by The Long Now.  The reason why we chose this was because it has helps to create the stereotypical teenage atmosphere just like in the teenage movies. The soundtrack is very upbeat and easy going which we feel as a group will fit very well with the opening of our film as at the beginning it shows the character making his journey to school with his skateboard-  a very typical teenage way.





 This second soundtrack we have chosen is Honky Tonk Truth by David Certano. The reason why we decided on this was because the sound track is very up tempo, it gives off a very careless attitude which is very popular within teenage years and  a factor which our group is trying to include  in our teen film by making the central character which is a geek lack some morals by making him skate without a helmet which results him loosing balance at the end.





 This third soundtrack we have decided on is Tasteless by Fresh Body Shop. The reason we have taken a liking to this tune is because it has a mix of upbeat with a more subtle music- - almost reflecting the constant change of moods of teenagers, unlike the other two soundtrack which is just an upbeat theme throughout the whole track this specific track is more deep and creative.

Planning Final Project- Locations

The different types of locations we have chosen are: the outside of  City and Islington College, the corridor on the third floor as filming will take place there so, to make it easy for us we have also chosen the classroom scene to be on the third floor and the looker scene.

To show the nerds travelling to school scene we will be filming on streets close by the college.

What We Have Planned So Far

Our group got together and through in different ideas on what we wanted our teen Film to be about, we then chose what we thought will go well together and finally decided on a plot.

What we have planned so far:

•  We have agreed on the title of our Teen Film- A Secret for a Secret 
• We have chosen our location where we will be filming- City and Islington College,Kane's House, Park 
•  We have looked at other teen films to gain inspiration such as Geek Charming- as the central character in the movie is a nerd. we decided to have voice over, this was an idea we got from The Breakfast Club. 
• We also planned a production schedule, so we are up to date with the different days we are able to film and edit and have everything finished by the deadline date which is 12th March