The Official film of 'RUMOURS' is now available to watch... Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmToPNvsryg
A level students Andrew Games & Duncan Morrison brings you this feature film... RUMOURS!
*Warning: This film contains adult humour/themes and strong language*
One man comes into school with a stack of serious rumours on his back! His job is to find out where the rumours are coming from and to protect his reputation!
Cast
Lead Boy- Andrew Games
Lead Girl- Amber Briers
Transvestite- Luke Chandlor
Chav- Peter Oldrid
Boy#1- Duncan Morrison
Boy#2- Calum Madden
Filmed by- Duncan Morrison
Edited by- Andrew Games
Make-Up- Rachel Triggs
Many Thanks to:
Get Back Colquitt
Alan Thompson
Pensby High School (Both boys & girls school)
Posted by Andrew Games
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
RUMOURS- Film Poster
One of the things myself and Duncan tried to avoid was to fall into the trap of making our film poster
stupid and slapstick, like most film posters such as 'Nacho Libre' & 'Don't mind the Zohan'. Many of these posters have characters of the film pulling pathetic, unnatural facial expressions to deliberately look stupid. These posters are so bad, it shows how desperately hard their trying to make the film look like a comedy. Because these posters get so cringy and off putting, the public is drawn away from watching the film, which is just the cause of bad advertising.
I left Duncan to come up with ideas for the images, as he was already streaming out ideas for a comedy film poster which would naturally look funny. Duncan took several different shots around the school, shots of myself with various other characters of the film, even just shots of myself.
In the end, Duncan chose Luke (who played the transvestite in the film), to stand being me whilst I'm reading the Leon Trotsky book. Luke would be pulling a facial expression that would show that he is taking the mick out of me. Duncan chose this image due to the fact that it showed a message to the audience and that it would already hint the character description. The fact that Luke was mimicking me whilst I was reading a Leon Trotsky book showed that I am the butt of everyone's jokes, as well as the fact that I am trying to be intelligent and to hide my clumsiness and idiotic, bizarre behaviour. What really sparks the joke off is that Leon Trotsky was a Russian general/communist in the second world war, and a character of my description is trying to study the backgrounds and persona of a Russian communist.
The colours I chose were colours that were already on the picture itself. An example of this is black, white and red, as they were the colours located on the Trotsky book, and I would use these colours to create other things, such as the titles.
The certificate 18 is labelled on the picture to warn the audience that the content in the film maybe offensive or uncomfortable for others. The film does contain adult humour, bad language and some sex references.
As you may of noticed, there is a spelling mistake as 'Nominees' is spelt 'Nomaniees'. This has only been noticed recently. However, I am unable to re-edit this error as the software I used is now defunct since the 19th of April 2012. The software I used was 'Picnik'. 'Picnik' was bought out by google and has now been transformed into a whole different website, with different purposes and themes.
Photo taken by Duncan Morrison, whilst picture was edited by Andrew Games
Posted by Andrew Games
stupid and slapstick, like most film posters such as 'Nacho Libre' & 'Don't mind the Zohan'. Many of these posters have characters of the film pulling pathetic, unnatural facial expressions to deliberately look stupid. These posters are so bad, it shows how desperately hard their trying to make the film look like a comedy. Because these posters get so cringy and off putting, the public is drawn away from watching the film, which is just the cause of bad advertising.
I left Duncan to come up with ideas for the images, as he was already streaming out ideas for a comedy film poster which would naturally look funny. Duncan took several different shots around the school, shots of myself with various other characters of the film, even just shots of myself.
In the end, Duncan chose Luke (who played the transvestite in the film), to stand being me whilst I'm reading the Leon Trotsky book. Luke would be pulling a facial expression that would show that he is taking the mick out of me. Duncan chose this image due to the fact that it showed a message to the audience and that it would already hint the character description. The fact that Luke was mimicking me whilst I was reading a Leon Trotsky book showed that I am the butt of everyone's jokes, as well as the fact that I am trying to be intelligent and to hide my clumsiness and idiotic, bizarre behaviour. What really sparks the joke off is that Leon Trotsky was a Russian general/communist in the second world war, and a character of my description is trying to study the backgrounds and persona of a Russian communist.
The colours I chose were colours that were already on the picture itself. An example of this is black, white and red, as they were the colours located on the Trotsky book, and I would use these colours to create other things, such as the titles.
The certificate 18 is labelled on the picture to warn the audience that the content in the film maybe offensive or uncomfortable for others. The film does contain adult humour, bad language and some sex references.
As you may of noticed, there is a spelling mistake as 'Nominees' is spelt 'Nomaniees'. This has only been noticed recently. However, I am unable to re-edit this error as the software I used is now defunct since the 19th of April 2012. The software I used was 'Picnik'. 'Picnik' was bought out by google and has now been transformed into a whole different website, with different purposes and themes.
Photo taken by Duncan Morrison, whilst picture was edited by Andrew Games
Posted by Andrew Games
RUMOURS- Radio Advert
Myself and Duncan thought long and hard about what type of music to have in the background of our radio trailer. In the end, Duncan choose Sublime- Santeria. This in the end became a perfect choice for our radio trailer!
After downloading the instrumental, we had to plan what to have in our radio trailer, such as narration, possible dialogue from the film? We choose a few sections of audio of dialogue from the film, whilst I done narration for the trailer, saying lines such as "This summer, Warner Bros brings you... RUMOURS". This would be the hardest task for us, as we would experiment with narration and dialogue in different places of the trailer. After many experiments, we decided which order to have it in the end and what to say in narration.
The reason why I chose to do a 'Trailer guy' voice, was because it would fit in the gaps between the dialogue from the film and most trailers such as 'Meet the Spartans' would have the trailer voice over. Its quite common upon comedy films on the radio, whilst other films of other genres would usually have actions speak louder than words so to speak... Such as action films.
Music chosen by Duncan Morrison whilst edited and voiced over by Andrew Games
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPNMZgEINAc
After downloading the instrumental, we had to plan what to have in our radio trailer, such as narration, possible dialogue from the film? We choose a few sections of audio of dialogue from the film, whilst I done narration for the trailer, saying lines such as "This summer, Warner Bros brings you... RUMOURS". This would be the hardest task for us, as we would experiment with narration and dialogue in different places of the trailer. After many experiments, we decided which order to have it in the end and what to say in narration.
The reason why I chose to do a 'Trailer guy' voice, was because it would fit in the gaps between the dialogue from the film and most trailers such as 'Meet the Spartans' would have the trailer voice over. Its quite common upon comedy films on the radio, whilst other films of other genres would usually have actions speak louder than words so to speak... Such as action films.
Music chosen by Duncan Morrison whilst edited and voiced over by Andrew Games
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPNMZgEINAc
Monday, 23 April 2012
Influence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAlGUO4el_0
When planning our film, we eventually settled on producing a
five minute short film. After several ideas, we eventually setlled on an
Inbetweeners style comedy about how rumors are spread and distorted, becoming
incredulous.
We settled on this, becuase we wanted to produce a product
that was original, unusual and different from average.
Posted by Duncan Morrison
Influences
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnusc9Rlx6w&feature=related
When trying to settle on a subject for the film, we were
inspired by this sketch from That Mitchell and Webb look to make the film
revolve around a character's drunken misadventures, and how different people
see those events, and how this differs from the protagonist themselves.
We also decided to adopt a similar style of humour in the
film, focusing on departures from reality, and unfortunate misadventures.
The show also was a huge influence on the scene in which the
main character is inebriated, in which we use a very similar camera shot to
convey drunkeness, and follow a very similar style of humour.
Posted by Duncan Morrison
Writing plots and scripts
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080228170048AAGm1ZF
When writing the plot and script for the film, we have
browsed as many drunken and embarresing stories as is possible online, to try
and Frankenstein these stories into a workable plot.
When writing the script, we have taken into account the
disposition of the character that we are writing lines for, for example when
writing line for Pete's character, the chav, we consulted him on the lines, and
indeed headed many of his suggestion as to line ideas, so as to get a third
party perspective on the believability of the lines.
When deciding which drunken embarresments to include in our
plot, we selected the ones that we found the most homourous; we originally had
an alternative scene, but after thought and consultation, we decided it was too
risque for this particular project, and decided to change it. Obviously for
this genre of film, we needed to include blue humour; throughout this we will
endeavour to ensure it is not overly offensive to any parties.
Posted by Duncan Morrison
Classification research
http://www.bbfc.co.uk/BFF278474/
When researching what classification our project would
likely fall under, we looked at The Inbetweeners, a film with similar themes
and homour style to see what rating it would likely recieve. Although not going
for as strong references to sex and not as much strong language, we still feel
that a 15 would be appropriate for our film. Our desire to fall into this
category add to the argument against including a scene that was particullarly
offensive, and in the end we decided not to use this in the script.
Posted by Duncan Morrison
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