'Regret' - Revised / Finalised Script

We have revised the script and added another component in the scene which we feel furthers the emotion 'regret' in the film. Added part is a stand off between Ryan and his dead brother Harry in the city scene. Also in Harry's bedroom scene, we've furthered the information the audience is allowed to know about the box under Harry's bed. Ryan opens the box to find a football ticket and a piece of A4 paper folded in half. These object will further Ryan's regret through the narrative development. They act as foreshadowing devices to make the audience link the object with events which happened in Ryan's past. The objects allow the audience to explore time.


'Regret' - Finalised Script.pdf

2-Minute Character Study and 5-10 Minute Film Inspiration

Six Shooter is an Oscar award winning short film which includes the theme 'regret' as well as many other emotions. The film deals greatly with loss and how it feels to lose someone close to you.

As described by the director, the film is... "A black and bloody Irish comedy about a sad train journey where an older man, whose wife has died that morning, encounters a strange and possibly psychotic young oddball..."

The first scene adopts and heavily uses the colour blue through the first scene in the hospital. This immediately makes aware the sadness and 'blues' of a death in the family or of someone close to you. The audience understand's that the main character 'Donnelly' is suffering this pain from the death of his Wife. The same pain will be shown in our film through the main character's emotion, from the death of his brother. The colour correction in our short drama will be heavily influenced by the first scene in Six Shooter. The flashbacks and dream sequences will be noticeable due to the fact of slight colour changes, however, the whole film will have a sense of a slight blue tone. This will show the main character (Ryan's) sadness and grief from his younger brother's death. To determine to which extent we use colour correction and tinted lights to shoot each specific scene, I will discuss this issue with the cinematographer and post-production visual editor.

In the final scene Donnelly is at home, he's getting ready to kill himself. He looks in the gun: 2 bullets. Just when he is about to shoot himself, he hears scratching sounds from David, his wife's pet rabbit. He takes David in his lap, gently cradling and stroking it, telling the rabbit "I'll be following you shortly", before putting a bullet in the rabbit's head. Ready for his final act, Donnelly nonetheless fumbles with the gun, drops it, and accidentally discharges it of its last bullet. Stunned, Donnelly looks at the useless smoking six shooter, then at the bloody rabbit in his arms. He heaves heavy sighs, looks skyward and moans, "Oh Jesus! What a fuckin' day."

From this last scene the director uses foreshadowing to develop the narrative. E.g- Donnelly's dead wife's rabbit interrupts his suicide attempt and through coincidence makes him discharge both bullets so he cannot kill himself. Our film will use foreshadowing when the main character "Ryan" goes into his brother's bedroom for the first time after his brother's death. He will find object which will develop the narrative. The object will help Ryan to reconnect with his dead brother. The foreshadowing event we shall use will be his dead brother's scarf, laptop and a safe keeping box of his dead brother's private and important items.

Our 2-minute character study and our 5-10 minute film will adopt Six Shooter's gritty British drama style. Six Shooter is great inspiration for the tone and mood of the film has been captured. The heavy use of the colour blue within the shot of the film suggests sadness, regret and guilt. This would benefit our films style.

In cinematographic terms, the hand held style which the film is mostly filmed in, with specific locked frame shots strengthens the gritty British style of the film. Making the film more personal and realistic, rather than overly cinematic.

Location Scout and Blocking Test for Scene 4 (Underpass Scene)

The following YouTube clip is the location scout and blocking test for Scene 4 of our film. The scene is where Ryan (main character) follows Harry (dead brother) through an underpass/tunnel. We attempted to film different angled shots to help create our storyboards and to see on screen which shots work and which shots aren't appealing. This shot is going to be hard to film due to different aperture changes and whether we decide to film the shot with a large or shallow depth of field. If we shoot the scene with a large depth of field Ryan and Harry will be captured in focus. However, if we give the shot a shallow depth of field only Ryan will be in focus, and Harry in the distance will remain out of focus and anonymous, which would assert a level of ambiguity.




This is the location we have decided on filming scene 4 (Underpass Scene) because the underpass offers the darkness which is required for Ryan to be within, but also the light at the end and in the middle is perfect for Harry's ascent into the light...

'Regret' - 2 Minute Character Study - Filming Schedule Day 1

Saturday 25^th October:

Production Crew meet Ollie inside Sheffield Train station before 09:00am. The team is scheduled to catch the 09:06am train towards Leeds, to arrive at Elsecar Rail Station. Click Here For Train Departure Time And Information (17mins journey)

When arrived at Elsecar Rail Station precede to the 'Home' location, which is… 34 Shire Oak Drive, Elsecar, Barnsley, S74 8HU. (5mins walk)

09:30am-12:00pm - Scenes 5& 7 (Harry's Bedroom - Ollie)

12:00pm-13:00pm - Scenes 1 & 2 (Kitchen/Breakfast Scene - Ollie & Harry)

Production Crew + Ollie & Harry leave the home location to catch the 13:33pm train from Elsecar Rail Station to Sheffield Train Station. Scheduled to arrive in Sheffield Train Station at 13:56pm. Click Here For Train Departure Time And Information (23mins Journey)

14:00pm-Untill Finished - Scenes 3 & 4 (City Centre and Underpass - Ollie & Harry)
   

Pre-Production Meeting Schedule and Summary: Film Crew and Actors

Film Crew Meeting: Wednesday 15/10/14 - (14:00pm - 17:00pm) - EMB Building
Objectives: - Assign Pre-Production responsibilities to each team mate depending on their role.
                   - Finalise 2 Minute Character Study idea.
                   - Create 2 Minute Character Study proposal.

Film Crew Meeting: Friday 17/10/14 - (12:00pm - 13:30pm) - Adsetts Meeting Room
Objectives: - Finalise 2 Minute Character Study proposal.
                   - Establish Actors and arrange pre-production meetings with them.
                   - Establish locations and schedule filming availability for each location.

The Film Crew and I are discussing the 2 Minute Character Study Proposal for the film. We are finalising ideas before the script is created.

Film Crew Meeting: Tuesday 21/10/14 (9:00am - 12:00pm) - Adsetts Meeting Room 5.04
Objectives: - Create a Filming Schedule.
                   - Discuss 5-10 minute film idea pitch for Wednesday 22/10/14.
                   - Finalise the 2 minute Character Study Script Edit.
                   - Book production equipment from stores using Connect 2 accordance with the filming schedule.

Film Crew & Actors Meeting: Wednesday 22/10/14 (9:00am - 12:00pm) - Adsetts Meeting Room
Objectives: - Production team meet the actor Ollie (he's playing the Main Character 'Ryan').
                   - Discuss the script with the actors.
                   - Organise/discuss costume and props.
                   - Organise the film's budget. (Transporting actors via public transport/lunch)
                   -  Create a Story Board for Day 1 of shooting (Saturday 25/10/14)
                   - Finalise 5-10 minute film idea Pitch for 14:00pm Wednesday 22/10/14.
                   

Our first meeting with Ollie, our actor who will be playing our main character 'Ryan'. Ollie is on the far right wearing the hat. We have discussed costume, props, schedule issues and final script developments to best suite Ollie as an actor. We are finally ready for our first day of shooting the film on Saturday the 25/10/14.

'REGRET' - Final Script (Idea created by Josh Walker)

'REGRET' - Final Script.pdf

Ryan (Main Character)

Name - Ryan
Age - 24 years of age
Occupation - Business Manager
Main Emotion - Regret
What Ryan Wants? - Reconnect his relation with his dead brother and prove to himself that they had a loving relationship.
What's Stopping Ryan From Getting This? - Ryan's 'regret' that he wasn't always around for his brother. He has major work commitments and deadlines which meant that he couldn't always see Harry. Ryan guilt is making it hard to accept his brother's dead, as he presumed that Harry would always be around.

Research Short Film: Six Shooter (2004) - Martin McDonagh

Six Shooter is an Oscar award winning short film which includes the theme 'regret' as well as many other emotions. The film deals greatly with loss and how it feels to lose someone close to you.

As described by the director, the film is... "A black and bloody Irish comedy about a sad train journey where an older man, whose wife has died that morning, encounters a strange and possibly psychotic young oddball..."

The first scene adopts and heavily uses the colour blue through the first scene in the hospital. This immediately makes aware the sadness and 'blues' of a death in the family or of someone close to you. The audience understand's that the main character 'Donnelly' is suffering this pain from the death of his Wife. The same pain will be shown in our film through the main character's emotion, from the death of his brother. The colour correction in our short drama will be heavily influenced by the first scene in Six Shooter. The flashbacks and dream sequences will be noticeable due to the fact of slight colour changes, however, the whole film will have a sense of a slight blue tone. This will show the main character (Ryan's) sadness and grief from his younger brother's death. To determine to which extent we use colour correction and tinted lights to shoot each specific scene, I will discuss this issue with the cinematographer and post-production visual editor.

In the final scene Donnelly is at home, he's getting ready to kill himself. He looks in the gun: 2 bullets. Just when he is about to shoot himself, he hears scratching sounds from David, his wife's pet rabbit. He takes David in his lap, gently cradling and stroking it, telling the rabbit "I'll be following you shortly", before putting a bullet in the rabbit's head. Ready for his final act, Donnelly nonetheless fumbles with the gun, drops it, and accidentally discharges it of its last bullet. Stunned, Donnelly looks at the useless smoking six shooter, then at the bloody rabbit in his arms. He heaves heavy sighs, looks skyward and moans, "Oh Jesus! What a fuckin' day."

From this last scene the director uses foreshadowing to develop the narrative. E.g- Donnelly's dead wife's rabbit interrupts his suicide attempt and through coincidence makes him discharge both bullets so he cannot kill himself. Our film will use foreshadowing when the main character "Ryan" goes into his brother's bedroom for the first time after his brother's death. He will find object which will develop the narrative. The object will help Ryan to reconnect with his dead brother. The foreshadowing event we shall use will be his dead brother's scarf, laptop and a safe keeping box of his dead brother's private and important items.

2 Minute Character Study 'Emotion' and Narrative techniques.

To clarify at this point of the process, the emotion we will explore is 'REGRET'. We will do this through the challenges faced through Ryan's regret after his younger brother (Harry) passed away. The film is a journey of Ryan attempting to reconnect his relationship with his dead brother.

Technically we will value the use of anachronies throughout the film, e.g. - flashbacks and foreshadowing. The flashbacks will be external analepses; invoking events occurring prior to the start of the main narrative.

However, in a more linear sense, the film will adopt prolepsis in the form of foreshadowing. For example, the opening scene is a dream sequence, Ryan ruffles Harry's hair, who is sat in the kitchen and then leaves the house for work. Ryan then awakens from the dream rushes down stairs to find that Harry's not sat in the kitchen in his usual spot. Ryan gazes towards Harry's chair as if he is visualising his brother with every passing moment. This scene interrupts the main narrative and anticipates events which lay in the future. For example, make the audience semi aware that Harry is dead. when Ryan enter's Harry's (Dead brother's) room for the first time. He will find objects which will lead him to locations. For example, Harry's football scarf. Ryan will squeeze this and put the scarf next to his heart. The shot will cut to Ryan sitting in an unoccupied football stand. This shows Ryan attempted to reconnect with his dead brother through living back the memories he had with his brother and carrying out the day to day things Harry ventured in his existence.

'Regret' - 2 Minute Character Study Idea (Proposal)

The main character is Ryan. He's a 24 year old business manager who still lives at home with his parents. Ryan is in great mourning; recently, his younger brother Harry (16 years of age) passed away in a sudden accident. Ryan and Harry's relationship wasn't very close. The 8 year age gap made is hard for them to socialise and get on especially from Ryan's perspective. However, what Ryan didn't know, is that Harry looked up to and idolised Ryan.

Ryan's emotional need is 'regret'. He regrets not spending more time with Harry, he regrets not taking him to football games as he always promised, he regrets not supporting Harry by watching him play guitar and sing in his band, and he regrets not cherishing the time when Harry was alive, rather than prioritising his career and rushing off to work in the morning and staying there late at night.

The film is about Ryan trying to reconnect his relationship with Harry through dream sequences, flashbacks, memories and hallucinations. He dreams that Harry is still alive eating breakfast in the kitchen; Ryan playfully ruffles Harry's hair before leaving for work. But then Ryan wakes up from his dream rushes downstairs to find Harry not at the table. The audience can see Ryan's sudden realisation of Harry's death by the sickly shock in his eyes and the goriness in his face.

That morning Ryan sets of to work, whilst he's walking through Sheffield Town, he spots Harry walking down the path. Ryan looks through the crowd and loses sight of him, but then sights Harry walking down a side road. He follows Harry to a dark underpass tunnel. Ryan chases after Harry but when Harry reaches the light at the end of the tunnel he disappears and Ryan is left in the darkness of the tunnel. This represents Ryan is in the unknown, he regrets Harry's death and he is in deep mourning. His mind is playing tricks and he's having a break down.

Ryan goes home, he needs answers. He needs to reconnect with Harry. He needs something that tells him Harry's watching him and forgives him for not being there. Ryan then searchers through Harry's room for a sign or a connection. The room has not been entered or disturbed from Harry's recent passing. Ryan treats the entry of the room with such precaution, as a stealthy robbery. As he enters all emotions come back and he can’t handle the pain. He falls to his knees in the centre of the room and puts his hands on his face. After screaming out for Harry, Ryan spots a box under the bed with a red scarf laid on top of it. He picks up the scarf and squeezes the scarf towards his chest. Suddenly Ryan is sat in an empty football stadium with the scarf around his neck. For this moment, It is the first time Ryan has looked content, through his eyes you can tell he's cherishing this moment. He his sat down in the stands with the seat next to him also span around as if he is sharing the long awaiting moment with his brother Harry.

Shots are shown of Harry playing guitar and singing in his band. The shot cuts to a and extreme close-up of Ryan's face. Ryan is sat in Harry's room by his desk. The shot reverses and shows Ryan watching Harry's laptop which his playing some recorded footage of Harry playing guitar and singing in his band, with a message on saying "For my brother - you can finally see me play"

The Main Character is Ryan (24), and the second Character is Harry (16).