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Project one: Hello my name is

project one: hello, my name is

Project two: Stairway to Helvetica

project two: stairway to helvetica

Project three: Brand me up buttercup

Project three: Brand me up buttercup

Project four: Meet me on the corner

Project five: Pay to Play

Project six: C4 Live Brief

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'Well, that was awkward'

The mass public of today fill our communities and suffocate our personal space on trains, buses, streets, ques, shops, toilets and anywhere else public. It’s amazing how many faces we come across every day, maybe even some that take the same trains as us at the same time that we become familiar with. Or the ever changing faces of tourists that stop under our feet in fast moving traffic on London’s littered streets as they stare at the landmarks, and practically set up photo shoots with their compact 8 mega pixel digi cameras, 6 accompanying family members and matching fanny packs in scene. We trip up curbs, rubbish, broken pavements, bike wheels and each other’s feet and there’s always one that falls down the stairs of the double decker bus.

These are examples of some of the more obvious and common embarrassments; I am interested in making a small film based around clips of different embarrassing scenes that give the audience the reaction of ‘that’s happened to me before!’ The type of scenes like sitting on the left side of a bus stop, slipping on the dodgy angled bench and your bus is going to be arriving from the right and someone sits on the right side of you, it then becomes embarrassing to look that way without feeling like you give the impression of staring at them. Another example would be running out of your house at 8:30 in the morning in a rush and joining the morning swarm of people oblivious to your skirt tucked in to your tights with flowery large knickers exposed. I have listed below some other examples to begin with,

· Being rained on so hard that your mascara runs into your eyes and burns, resulting in not being able to see

· Shopping bags braking

· Being shut in a bus door

· Slipping and styling it out but altogether jumping out of your skin during the shock

· Opening a fizzy drink and loosing half of it in the explosion

· Braking open a bag of crisps and dropping the majority

· Half way through your day and realising that you have worn the trousers with the large crouch whole in them

· Snot hanging out your nose

· Not knowing where to look on a train

· Toothpaste remaining on your face

· Herbs stuck in the teeth when smiling

· Your heel braking

· Sitting in chewing gum

· Stepping in dog muck

· Spilling drink down yourself resulting in looking like you’ve wet yourself

· Shouting out at someone you recognise and it not being them

· the misjudgement of sound when you take your headphones off and speak very loudly

· walking your dog until he finds the worse place to pooh, often the most public, or just generally in someone’s front garden



Comedy

Slightly similar to the show ‘you’ve been framed’, light, harmless embarrassing laughs at common idiotic scenes because of careless attention from the actor. The comedy will appear a bit slap stick yet believable.

Casting

We will need characters that are willing to be laughed at. They will be playing comical scenes acting out embarrassing situations and in some cases publically. They must be able to act as ‘natural’ as possible for the scenes to be most effective and relative to the audience as well as believable. I would be careful in selecting a range of race and age within people to avoid appearing discriminating of a certain type of person

Lighting

Every scene will be shot realistically. It will be done in daylight so that we are able to use the most of the natural light. These scenes are to appear as natural as possible so artificial lights could ruin this effect. For scenes shot indoors, in a house for example, a small table lamp that would be recognised as a household item can be used as the lighting. I want the audience to relate to the situations and not be distracted by unnecessary effects and fakeries.

Filming

Our actors will be at a distance from us in the outside scenes so there acts don’t look set up and so that we are able to catch the reaction of the public say on a scene such as, walking into a lamp post or getting a hand stuck in the letter box when trying to make sure your letter definitely went in. In these outside scenes I want the camera to act as a part of the public just capturing what happens so a tripod wouldn’t even be needed making us more oblivious to the public. Any indoor scenes I want to keep the same effect, no tripod I want real rough, unstill all angled filming but it will still be clear.