Short film basics - Artemis

We have discussed as a group the type of film we want to make and came up with the following:

• Genre/Style - Period Drama/ Thriller
• Narrative - 1930's Drama about a boy and his parents. The boy develops schizophrenia and the dad sends him away to a mental institution but tells everybody he died because in them days to have a child with a problem would have shamed the family. Years later the mother finds out and goes to find her son. 
• Representation - Our characters are going to be of an upper class. The boy will be 8 and the parents from 30-40 years of age. We decided on upper class because they would have had the means to pull something like this in the past - much easier than citizens of a lower class. 
• Target Audience - Even though this is set in the past, we still want our audience to be able to relate to the characters and the emotions they portray. So our audience is going to be adults and in particular parents. 
• Mise en Scene - 

Lighting will be quite bright and the colour of the footage we will edit and de-saturate slightly to give it that period drama feel. 

The building we have chosen to shoot in is quite old and perfect for this period. It's quite grand so to represent them being higher class. 

To make it realistic we have sorted out costumes for our actors to wear. Things like a suit for the dad and shirt and trousers for the young boy. We have also got some props to add to the setting like an old radio and some toys they would have had in the 1930's.

• Key shots - This short film is going to be about the emotion as it's quite a strong narrative. To portray this fully to the audience there will be a lot of close-ups with a shallow depth of field so to concentrate fully on the expressions and emotions of the characters. 
• We have also included in a few point of the view shots - we feel this will help the audience empathize with the situation and not just the characters individually because in a way this will put the audience in that position.