Monday 12 December 2011

struck by rain film idea

Our film is about a woman called Sarah Bailey (played by Idina Menzel) in her thirties, she had a tough time trying to pursue her dream of being on the West end and be famous for doing something she loved and has always loved from a young age. Until she stumbles across a newspaper article, saying that the close theatre is holding auditions to play the leading roll of Elphaba in the West End play 'Wicked'. She immediately sees this as her once in a life time chance to make it to the West End and she jumps at the opportunity and leaves no time in making the phone call to schedule her audition time.As the day comes for her to make her audition, she goes there with all confidence in herself. She sings her heart out hoping that this is it, that this is her chance, just to be told by the director Martin Smith (played by Hugh Janaro) that she isn't what they are looking for. She gets upset and runs out of the theatre, breaking down when she gets outside thinking that she will never get a chance like this again. She believes that she will never be good enough to get on the West End after this major let down. So she decides to give up trying. To make things worse for her it starts to heavily rain and she is drowned in wetness. She wishes her life away, and wishes she could live her life like a musical, hoping that it would end happy. As she is hailing for a cab she gets drenched by a passing car, which drove through a rather large puddle. Shortly after getting drenched she wishes that her life could be better and that she could live her West end dream. There is a struck of lightning above her in which her whole life begins to change... She wakes up the next day not knowing that her life was any different so she carries on with her day as she would usually. Until she tries to leave her apartment door which she finds herself being attacked with questions...'how does it feel'...'do you think you'll be the next best thing in the West End'...'are you coping with all the shock'. She finally starts to question what is going on, she is very confused by this point and starts to realise that something in her life has changed on a large scale. She carries on with her day, trying to figure out what this change could possibly be. She gets some very strange and exited looks whilst she is doing her daily routines,she bumps into a handsome young man that she surprisingly recognises, he happens to be the director that was holding auditions for the part of Elphaba. She starts talking to him, starts getting to know him and eventually starts to fall for him. Still getting swarmed everyday with questions from people, and people asking for her signature. She starts to ask herself if this is the life she even wants to live. She gets bored of the fame, gets bored of the life that she is currently living and tries every way possibly to go back to how she use to be. Realising that she would lose everything, including Martin. She goes to work one day finally realising that this definitely is not the life that she wants. So she quits the theatre business and walks out. Only to find that when she gets outside it's a massive down pour of rain exactly like the day she got rejected from playing the part of Elphaba. She hails a cab, gets in and just breaks down. The cab driver recognises her, and asks for her autograph and she cries...' you cannot have my autograph i am just a normal girl with a normal life....i want my life back to the way it was. I WISH i was me again'. She goes home and just goes to bed, still wishing for her life to be normal. She wakes up the next day, no reporters. No posters of her around london. She goes to the theatre and finds Martin, she then asks him out on a date...

Struck by rain Tilte sequence idea

Starts with Sarah Bailey in bed.
The quilt moves down the bed uncovering her in her pajamas.
Whilst the quilt is moving her arms come up to rub her eyes (close up).
Then arms come down (long shot) and she turns over.
Once she has fully turned over. Her bed moves from underneath her and pillows come together to form stairs to and then she walks down the pillows to make it look like she is walking down stairs.
Her clothes then changed from pyjamas to everyday wear clothes.
Shops then start to appear within the background.
A newspaper article flys past her and you then see her chasing it.
She then grabs the newspaper article and takes off into the air.
Once shes looking at the newspaper article then a load of leaflets fly past with the names of other musicals on them.
She looks at the newspaper article looking amazed and then settles back down to the ground. She carries on walking in people. One person in particular that she walks into martin the director of the show she is auditioning for.
It then starts to rain and she then runs to the audition...

Typography ideas


These are our typography ideas for our film, we do not know which one to pick yet but our favourite so far is the second one.

Production Company Logo


This is our production Company logo that we came up with .