Guide Dog Research

I have been researching the process of getting a Guide Dog and found this (link below) as well as lots of other interesting information on the Guide Dogs UK website.

Knowing all of this information is vital to our filming process as it provides us with a larger insight to how to go about the subject and how to make it look realistic.

https://www.guidedogs.org.uk/media/1486406/1583_New_Client_Promo_Leaf_v1.pdf

Ancillary Tasks

As well as filming a short film, we also have to choose two of the following options to do as well:

• A poster for the film
• A radio trailer for the film
  
• A magazine review page featuring the film

Lauren and I have chosen to do the poster and the radio trailer. This is because we can be more creative in these with both of these options enabling us to create an outstanding project that meets a standard that is as high as we can aim for.
For the poster, as it will on be an awareness poster for the film, we will hopefully be given permission to use the Guide Dog's logo and website. We want to make the poster emotional, yet striking by making it quite artistic. And so we shall run through layout and presentation ideas in order to achieve this criteria.

For the radio trailer we will record someone's voice who can make the short film sound exciting with an informative manner to enable the short film to attract the potential target audience into watching it.

Planning - Light at the End of the Tunnel

Lauren and I have decided that we are going to name our film 'Light at the End of the Tunnel'. 

We have endured endless amounts of research and planning and to do this, have had to consider and develop ideas on the following:

• Plot/Synopsis
• Cast and Characters
• Costume/makeup
• Props
• Location
• Script
• Visuals (Storyboard/Shot list/Shooting Schedule)
• Sound (Dialogue/music)
• Shot list/Shooting Schedule
• Target Audience
  

Planning

As a process of our planning we have researched information on blindness from a range of websites, this was to help us gain a wider range of knowledge and understanding about what it is like to be blind.
Another reason of this research was to build the character profile of our main character named 'Jessie.'
This research enables us to give background information into the reasons why she has visual impairment and to help give awareness of younger people with visual impairment.
The main reason we chose to base our story on a young girl who is blind is because stereotypically when you talk about visual impairment you would think of an older person so we have gone against this stereotype in order to help make awareness of the fact that younger people also suffer from these kind of disabilities.

Planning for Short Film

Today Lauren and I have started planning the characters of our short film. We have asked for volunteers who are willing to appear as the main character in our short film.


Two girls have said they are willing to star in the film and we shall be holding auditions for them both in order to cast one of them in the leading role, the other shall appear in the short film with a smaller role.


During the audition we shall print off a dramatic monologue for them both to read and make our decision in preparation to complete the character profiles.

Target Audience

Considering a potential target audience of a short film can take time and plenty of thought/consideration. 

Short films contain many sub-genres opening up to very broad audiences however there is a specific audience that short films tend to be aimed at due to the concept short films typically possess.
Short Films are usually made by young adolescents around the age I am (17+) looking to stand out and get their name out in the film industry, therefore the main target audience of this Short film will be young people who are in the same situation I am currently in.

However as the short film Lauren and I are designing will be an awareness video it is argued that the general public with little knowledge about blindness as a disability is a major target audience for this video.