LO2 - All Hail the Chocolate Dragons storyboard

LO2 - Sheets for Chocolate Dragons Promo

LO2 - Treatment For the Chocolate Dragons

TREATMENT

All Hail the Chocolate Dragons by James Hartshorn, Joe Taylor, Kenneth Abrina and Andrew Quinn

THE BRIEF

Produce a music video or film trailer in the style of Warp.

TARGET AUDIENCE

All Hail the Chocolate Dragons will have the target audience from 15 years old to 35 years old because of the plot focused around YouTube video making and has a comedic style that suits that age demographic. Not for a specific ethnicity, a working class audience that can afford to go to the cinema, and this works for the Internet Subculture thanks to that being the main theme of the movie.

SEGMENT SYNOPSIS AND HOW IT RELATES TO THE BRIEF

All Hail the Chocolate Dragons would be a feature length movie about a group of 3 quirky YouTube pranksters misinterpreted by a Private detective as terrorists, who has to team up with an obnoxious YouTube vlogger to try and stop them for something they're not.  This relates to the brief as this movie will take inspiration from the Warp film Four Lions with how the characters interact, it will appeal to teenagers and a younger adult demographic like Donkey Punch does, will take place in Sheffield with locations that create verisimilitude like many of Warp's productions alongside similar accents (Aside from the vlogger who speaks in a fake posh accent). 

KEY MILESTONES

1. 27th October Pre-Production Planning - We need to have the narrative of the movie, the song permission, storyboards of the movie, location scouting and permission to film in them, and our risk assessment by the 15th November. 

2. 10th November - 12th December Filming - We need to have filmed the footage for All Hail the Chocolate Dragons meaning we have done the lighting, directed how actors will perform lines and worked all the camera angles to appear by 2nd December.

3. 19th December Onwards  Editing - We need to have cut out the parts we do not need, applied music and sound effects to our trailer, adding in any effects and transitions we may need, and added the titles we will need by the 15th December.

4. 30th March Final Submission
5. 13th April Launch Date -

EQUIPMENT

For the trailer for All Hail the Chocolate Dragons we will require a camcorder to record the movie, a tripod to keep the camera still and allow for smooth camera movements, and possibly lights for some indoor scenes to look more visible in case they're not.

PROPS AND MODELS

The character of Arnie will be played by Kieran Mckenna, the character of Brandy will be played by either Sean Harris or Andrew Quinn depending on whether Sean cannot work for our schedule, and the character of Erwin Daggers will be played by Mr Haythorne of Firth Park Academy. Who hasn't been cast yet are the characters of Chip and Chad Wagon, though ideas for the roles have been decided.

For props we will need a party popper and a party blower for the "wacky time" part of the trailer, 3 computers/laptops as Erwin Daggers, Chad Wagon and the Chocolate Dragons all have scenes of using them and possibly a handgun prop for Chad Wagon to hold later on in the trailer.

HEALTH AND SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS.

For each location that we film in as part of this production we will complete a Recce form and a risk assessment.
We will need to make sure equipment does not overheat because of how much we use them meaning they will have to be turned off every time we're not recording, since overheating not only damages the equipment but also it can harm the people handling them. Also carrying them in bags and handling them with care to avoid other means of damage to them is important as well. For the safety of the people whilst filming we need to make sure we film in safe locations (with permission to film there as well) and make sure they never have to do anything in the trailer that may cause harm.

LEGAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS.

The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification's) guidelines on 'Violence' and 'Discriminations' will need to be adhered to based on the content of our film trailer. We need to follow the guidelines in order to ensure that the trailer does not show any content which could be deemed offensive and would have to be removed by the BBFC.

The importance of following the BBFC to make sure that it does not create any legal and ethical issues. Our idea closely follows the regulation but may have some mature content such as swearing and the use of violence. This will be kept as minimum as possible but in order to create the effect we need, we are going to have one or two scenes with mature language. 

When creating the trailer for All Hail the Chocolate Dragons we need to ensure that we do not focus on pain when introducing violence into the trailer. We also need to ensure that the language does not include anything which could be deemed offensive.

The production of All Hail the Chocolate Dragons adheres to the rules of the BBFC because we have not shown any content which is too graphic and could offend anyone. We have made sure that the language which appears in our trailer is not too strong because it is a comedy trailer and we wouldn't want to limit the age limit of the trailer because it isn't necessary to use the language, and it would limit the demographic of our film trailer.​

The watershed is the time when more adult content such as swearing, graphic violence and slight sexual content is okay to put on TV (This time is 9PM onwards) and since this trailer features swear words, this would need to be after 9PM, because this is intended as a 15 rated product.​

We will gain permission for copyright music by emailing the companies that own the publishing for the required music. They should be fine with allowing us to use the music if they know that is for a non profit project. If this fails then there is always royalty free music that is available online an example of these websites include Incompetech.com
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In lieu of the Data Protection 1998 Law, we will ask for permission for every form of footage we have. We will ask people for consent concerning the fact that we are going to feature them in our production. We will use consent forms as evidence to them agreeing that we are allowed to feature the actors and the locations we use. The consent forms will be done before any form of filming.

DISTRIBUTION

The trailer for All Hail the Chocolate Dragons will be found on the internet such as sites like YouTube and DailyMotion, it would be in the cinemas as a trailer before a 15 rated movie (usually comedies), it would be on Television post-watershed on channels such as Channel 4/E4/Film 4, Sky/Sky Movies, ITV etc; it could be before Warp films DVD/Blu Rays to get the film even more known. The film itself would be released in cinemas such as Vue and Odeon as the cinema is one of the biggest areas of success for a movie, it will be on DVD and Blu-Ray as they are still successful ways of distributing a movie since not everyone has the internet or uses an online service, streaming services such as Netflix and LoveFilm as digital streaming is a growing way of watching movies and since they're prepaid services, people aren't going to lose much watching allowing people to be more willing to try the movie out, it will be available as a digital paid download on services such as iTunes, Xbox Live and Amazon as they provide more options for people to watch a movie alongside easy access to the movie on a range of devices, the movie will be on TV channels such as Film 4/E4 and Sky Movies as they, like Netflix, are prepaid allowing people to easily watch the movie without having to pay any more money and bring the movie to the TV watching audience without internet access, and the movie will be available On Demand on services such as Virgin Media and Sky On demand to further get the TV watching audience without Internet access. 

LO2 - Gant Chart

 This is to show us the timings that we intended on doing for the Chocolate Dragon trailer.

LO2 - Roles done while producing the Chocolate Dragons Trailer

LO2 - Documentation

Joe Taylor - Risk Assessments, Recce sheets, Shot logs , location scouting

James Hartshorn - Treatment, Edit logs , location scouting

Andrew Quinn - Treatment, Recce sheets, Edit logs, location scouting, Script

Kenneth Abrina - Script, Storyboards

LO3 - Filming

Joe Taylor - Cameraman, Costume and Makeup

James Hartshorn - Costume and Makeup, Actor

Andrew Quinn - Actor

Kenneth Abrina - Cameraman, Audio

LO4 - Editing

Joe Taylor - Speeding up footage, adding lighting and colour tones.

James Hartshorn - Moving around footage in the main project file.

Andrew Quinn - Moving around footage in the main project file, adding sound effects and transitions.

Kenneth Abrina - Creating the title graphics and logo.

This fulfils LO1/2/3/4​