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8/18/2019 Dossier Butterfly Effect

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The production dossier

Director: Georgia Newell

Concept Director & Art Director: Imogen Mulford

Editor & Stylist : Chloe Johnson


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Contents

Description page number (s)

Call sheet day 1 1

Call sheet day 2 2

Treatment storyline 3

Production budget 4

Shooting schedule 5

Storyboard 6-7

Maps 8-9

Character breakdown/ concept/Mood / tone 10

Set / props 11

Model & styling / hair and makeup 12

Approaching filming / Post production / music 13


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POSTITION NAME PHONE/EMAIL

Director Georgia Newell -

Concept director & Art

director

Imogen Mulford -

Editor & stylist Chloe Johnson -

Technical support Paul Astley -

Course Leader Sarah Lloyd -

Key makeup & hair Francesca Piercy -

First aid Georgia Newell -

Dancer Charlotte Gemmel -

Production office 10/11/15 Day 1 0f 2

UCA Rochester,

Fort Pitt

Rochester

Kent ME1 1D

United Kingdom

Nearest Hospital01634 830000

Medway Maritime

Hospital

Windmill Road,

Gillingham, Kent

ME7 5NY

BUTTERFLY EFFECT

BREAK 10.00am-10.15am

LUNCH:12:30-1.15pm

WEATHER

Cloudy with chances of rain

CALL 8.30AM

CALL TIME- 8.30am (Please be there by the designated time)WHERE- UCA Rochester, Fort Pitt, Rochester, Kent ME1 1DZ

WRAP TIME- 5.30pm (Please allow flexibility for wrap time)


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POSTITION NAME PHONE/EMAIL

Director Georgia Newell -

Concept director & Art

director

Imogen Mulford -

Editor & stylist Chloe Johnson -

Technical support Paul Astley -

Course Leader Sarah Lloyd -

Key makeup & hair Francesca Piercy -

First aid Georgia Newell -

Dancer Charlotte Gemmel -

Production office 19/11/15 Day 2 OF 2

UCA Rochester,

Fort Pitt

Rochester

Kent ME1 1D

United Kingdom

Nearest Hospital

01634 830000

Medway Maritime

Hospital

Windmill Road,

Gillingham, Kent

ME7 5NY

BUTTERFLY EFFECT

CALL 1.30PM

LUNCH - Before shoot

BREAK 3.30-4.00pm

WEATHER

Cloudy with chances of rain

CALL TIME- 1.30pm (Please be there by the designated time)

WHERE- UCA Rochester, Fort Pitt, Rochester, Kent ME1 1DZ

WRAP TIME- 5.30pm (Please allow flexibility for wrap time)


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Treatment storyline

1. A dark scene, and minimal light hits the buddleia flowers revealing behind them the cocoon moving slightly

and fluidly as the focus on it’s silhouette and vivid movements continues expressing the stress of

confinement.

2. As the camera moves in the cocoon moves rigidly with a clock ticking in the background eventually breaking

down in to a transition as a butterfly emerges gracefully from the cocoon.

3. The clocks ticks add emphasis as the Butterfly moves lightly, entering the new space she is yet to discover.

4. As she moves she begin to feel the pressure of restriction and desperation for more room, she panics and

dances to her distressed emotions.

5. She begins to feel more restricted and urges for more, in stress moving frantically to the panic she

experiences.

6. Gradually and inevitably she exhausts herself, giving in to the limitations of movement, dying out as the

clock ticks once again.

7. Within time to end the film she falls back into the cocoon and time reverses on her like she never

experienced the transition and for a last time the clock ticks and it takes you back out through the buddleia

flowers .

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Production Budget

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EXPENSES

DEVELOPMENT

Storyboard £0

Writing script £0

PRODUCTION

Studio hire £0

Dancer £10

MUA £45

Production equipment hire £0

Production materials and supplies £114.49

Catering £15

POST PRODUCTION

Editing footage £0

Sound £0

Post production materials and supplies £0

OTHER

Development Sub-Total £0

Production Sub-Total £184.49

Post production Sub-Total £0

Total expenses £184.99


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D

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INT/EXT SCENE SHORT DISCRIPTION/

SUMMARY

LOCATION CHARACHTERS ART DEPARTMENT

/ EQUIPMENT /

SPECIAL

REQUIREMENTS

10/11/

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INT Opening Scene Camera slowly/zooming going

through the branches and flowers

revealing a black empty space.

UCA ROCHESTER

photography

studio

No characters 1xcamera

2xlights on stands

2x light stands

separate

clips

Props:

Buddleia/leaves10/11/

15 INT

Ending of film Camera

Slowly/zooming out from the dark

black space to reveal the flowers.

UCA ROCHESTER

photography

studio


2xlights on stands

2x light stands

separate

clips

Props:

Buddleia/leaves

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15 INT

Feet focus of shot Camera to move up and down

from knee focusing on the

dancers feet movement.

UCA ROCHESTER

photography

studio

Dancer (Butterfly) 1xcamera

2xlights on stands

White set with

flowers round

bottom

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15 INT

Wings focus of shot Camera to focus from shoulder to

hands showing the movement of

the wings. Occasionally zoomingin and out.

UCA ROCHESTER

photography

studio


2xlights on stands

White set

10/11/

15 INT

Focus on top half the

body including head.

Camera to focus on top half and

zooming in and focus on certain

parts of the dancer and focusing

and zooming on certain bits of the

garment.

UCA ROCHESTER

photography

studio


2xlights on stands

White set

10/11/

15 INT

Focus on bottom half of

dancer including feet.

Camera gradually moving

downwards showing of the

dancers movement and feet

movement.

UCA ROCHESTER

photography

studio


2xlights on stands

White set

10/11/

15

INT Model in silver coocon

half body shot

Dancer moving inside silver grey

cocoon and seeing imprints of her

hands etc

UCA ROCHESTER

photography

studio

Dancer (Coocon) 1xcamera

2xlights on stands

White set

10/11/15 INT Model in silver cocoon Dancer to move and see imprintsof her hands again and then

suddenly to shrug the cocoon

material off

UCA ROCHESTERphotography

studio

Dancer (Coocon) 1xcamera2xlights on stands

White set

10/11

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INT Model on floor Model to start crouched down on

floor with leg out and gradually

start to move slowly and start to

stand while dancing.

UCA ROCHESTER

photography

studio


2xlights on stands

White set

10/11/

15

INT Model hands the focus Model moving round the set

scared and worried as seems to

be trapped so hands pushing

towards the camera making

UCA ROCHESTER

photography

studio


2xlights on stands

White set

10/11/

15

INT Hands only Hands pushing against plastic

creating it took like she is trapped

in jar of some sort

UCA ROCHESTER

photography

studio

Dancer (can only

see hands)

1xcamera

2xlights on stands

Plastic sheet

10/11/15 INT Table lab scene Camera to move from left to rightand right to left. Occasionally

zooming into certain items and

zooming out again.

(bottles/jewellery/books)

UCA ROCHESTERphotography

studio

No characters 1xcamera2xlights on stands

White set

Lab set up

10/11/

15

INT Magnifying scene Camera going across the table

with magnify glass to create a

distorted image

UCA ROCHESTER

photography

studio


2xlights on stands

White set

Lab set up

10/11/

15

INT Zoomed in table lab

scene 1

Zooming into jewellery in jar and

focusing on details.

UCA ROCHESTER

photography

studio


2xlights on stands

White set

Lab set up

10/11/

15

INT Zoomed in table lab

scene 2, may do more

scenes

Focusing onto injections. UCA ROCHESTER

photography

studio


2xlights on stands

White set

Lab set up

10/11/

15

INT Clock Clock getting videoed at different

angles showing changes in video

UCA ROCHESTER

photography

studio


2xlights on stands

White set

Lab set up

Shooting Schedule

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Storyboard page 1 of 2

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Storyboard page 1 of 2

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Maps/Directions/Parking

Parking

Unfortunately there is no parking available at Rochester and visitors are encouraged to use public transport where

possible. Exceptions are made for blue badge holders, and anyone with special requirements should contact UCA

Rochester directly on 01634 888702 to arrange this. There is some street parking is available near to the campus

but this can get very busy. (For more info on directions and parking please visit www.myuca.com/rochestercampus)

By road

Take the M2 from either London or East Kent direction, then exit the M2 at junction 3 (A229). Follow the signs to

Chatham/Rochester. After the Toys 'R' Us roundabout, stay in the left hand lane and continue onto City Way. After about

2 miles, at the bottom of the hill, turn right at the mini roundabout into New Road Avenue, then after 1/4 mile turn right

nto Fort Pitt Hill. The entrance to the University is at the top at the hill.

Train Station

UCA is about a 11 minute walk from Chatham train station.

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Chatham train station

Railway Street

Chatham

Kent ME4 6PN

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Getting to Medway hospital

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Character breakdown:

The character is a young female, who metaphorically is a Butterfly transitioned from a Cocoon and tested on in a smallaboratory space, inevitably Butterflies cannot survive without the freedom to fly and flutter with the elements of oxygen too,

so emotionally she is distressed, limited and frantic.

Concept

The concept originates from experimentation, a lead on from word play inspiration based on transition and metamorphous.

The Butterfly originally in this film transitions after being retained in the cocoon and eventually is able to move free morevividly, further on during the film becomes unsettled and distressed due to the realisation that she is not free; she is stil l

rapped in minimal space. The minimal space and confinement for the Butterfly is a realisation that she is in a laboratory and

ested on, she knows this and wants to emerge so she can break free. In desperation she eventually dies out from lack of joy,

exhausting her and returning to the cocoon.

Mood and tone

The film will be lit effectively to enhance the features of the cocoon in the est scenes, highlighting the silhouette inside the

cocoon in which is the model. During the film the lighting will remain dark and only highlight the model’s silhouette to create

an emotive feeling. The lighting is an effective tool to create the mood and tone of our fashion film focusing on the darkness,

which surrounds the character.

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Set

The set was very simple, white backdrop and white floor. The set up will initially display a laboratory feel and be very

minimalist at the entrance scenes of the film, however throughout you see flashes of the props to show the laboratory

concept.

We used three board, painted them white. The boards represent a open box, to represent box or a jar that the butterfly is

rapped inside. There is buddleia, leaves and greenery round the whole inside the edge of the open box.

Props

The dancer herself has no props in the film unless you count her wings attached to her dress as she interacts with them

hrough the whole piece.

The props on set are all presented on a wooden table draped with grey fabric looking slightly like cobwebs. The table is

covered in mason jars, filled with things such as; jewellery, makeup , green/yellow/red liquid and injections and other

miscellaneous to convey how the Butterfly is trapped and tested on in the lab.

PHOTOGRAPHS: BEHIND THE SCENES ON SHOOT DAY

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How did we go about choosing our model?

Firstly we discussed as a group what type of model that we were requiring to fit the criteria to our film. As group decided a

emale model would fit perfectly into the type of film we choose. We actually decided to get in contact with few dancing and

heatre schools as we felt that someone with these set of skills will bring out the emotion in our film. We contacted these

schools via emails and phone calls. We contacted Midkent college, Starquest and many other theatre schools. Some of the

schools got back to us very swiftly and agreed to come down for filming but unfortunately the desired dancer we had choose

backed out at the very last minute. Luckily one of the members of our group got in touch with a dancer that she knew and she

agreed to be our dancer in the film which made us happy to find someone at such last minute.

Styling

When we was looking at clothing for the shoot we wanted dress like Yi Quing Yin collections

but we knew we defiantly did not have the budget to buy one let alone higher one for the

shoot. Than we got talking to students about collaborating for the film but they had nothing

we really wanted. Than we walked round other courses to see if we could collaborate with any

other courses. We than stumbled against this pale blue dress with different pastel colours. It

was very similar to a Yi Quing Yin dress. We than found out it was ex students from Extended

diploma and 2 members of the group knew the girl. We than went away and contacted the

designer Amy Hartland who said she would be honoured for her dress to be featured in our

fashion film. We promised we would credit her and give her copy of the film after to use for

her portfolio if she wanted to.

Dress

The dress by Amy Hartland designed was inspired by butterflies and also nature. We did not know this before we chose it. We

later found this out by talking to the designer about her inspirations for making the garment. The

netting on the back of the dress was perfect for the styling of the shoot. As we wanted the

dancer to have wings as she was butterfly and wanted her to interact with the wings in the film.

Nothing on the feet so that the model is free to dance emotively and quickly according the to the

character’s distress throughout the film.

Make-up and Hair

The makeup on the model will be very minimal part from the eyes which will be very smoky and

gradually get darker through the film, also her lips will become darker. The skin will be very dewy

and fresh almost looking wet. Natural eyes and lips including the eyebrows too. Messy tousled

hair.

PHOTOGRAPH: OF THE DRESS

PHOTOGRAPH: DANCERS MAKEUP

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How we going to approach/ go about filming?

We have all got our own roles for filming day to make our day run smoothly. Also we want it to be as professional as it can be

as we have people coming in from outside the university. We have one member of our group be stylist all day so can watch if

he clothing needs to be tweaked or makeup/hair need to be touched up by MUA. The other two members of the group will

be working on the recording and taking down notes while going along.

Equipment for filming

1x camera

2x lenses

Lense 1 = for opening/end sequence (going through flowers)

Lense 2 = for rest of film

2 x light stands

2 x lights on stands

Post-production

We We knew as group that we wanted to create something dark in terms of post-

production; especially with speed and timing. We looked through our footage to

see the best bits that we had shot and using Adobe Premiere, we could piece the

footage in, making sure that it was the best pieces of footage that we had selected,

we put them together into order. We tried to follow our storyboard, making sure

that the film had a sort of story behind it which made sure that the film made

sense. We saw a clip from ‘Gone Girl’ which had flicking pieces of film and blank

black screens every few seconds, this built suspense in a scary way so we decided

to use that in the editing, which was difficult as the clips had to be cut andseparated every few seconds, but the end result is very chilling. The creating of the

titles was difficult as we could not figure out how to put them on, but after a bit of

help we figured it out and were able to put text in. In terms of sound, we had found the clock was key component to our film

so we had to include the ticking which worked really well, especially with the black screen flashing. The music was creepy

which met the right places in terms of movement, so it seemed more powerful. In creating the different movements with the

clips, it was quite fun to move bits around, making things get really slow and then speed up and to play around with repeating

hings gave the film an effect that we are proud of. If we had had longer on the post production we could have played around

more with the effects that are able to be used on Premiere, but we are happy as a group with the end result.

Music

The music and sounds we used for our film. We sourced it of YouTube as we decided if we do publish it online, we will take

he backing noise of the film so we can have our film on the web. When getting the sounds for backing the film we had two

main sounds we was after for the film. The first one was the sound of ticking clock to go with the clock equalling the

ransitions. We put into the search bar "grandfather clock". The second sound we was after was in the style of horror film with

creepy and scary sounds. We searched "dark suspense music". We than found the perfect music to go along side our film we

played it alongside the film and it was the right length as well. We tried out lots of different music and clock sounds before

selected the two to go together,

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