Crew and Talent

Erin Wells
April Mora
Ashleigh Shipton 
Jess Williams
Brittany Thomas
Sophie Maher - Leaf

Research

Two Strengths

Good comedic value

Good use of characters

Two Weaknesses

Could be difficult to make the voice overs sound polished

Could be difficult to fit into Five minutes

Two Questions
Where could you film this?
Will you find the right amount of dancers to make it effective?

Treatment

Music begins - 'Battle Without Honour or Humanity' by Tomayasu Hotei.

http://mp3skull.com/mp3/battle_without_honor_or_humanity_tomoyasu_hotei.html

Six young girls strut towards the camera. They are really over the top and doing spins and dance moves as they strut forward. Some are wearing eccentric Hippie style clothing, whilst some are wearing dance clothing E.g. Lycra, tights, ballet skirts etc. They are strutting to the music. And that scene ends with the girls 3 on each side leaning and posing around the male host.

Then that scene fades out, to Candy who is one of the six girls dancing on her own. Whilst she is dancing there is a voice over of her talking about how she thinks she'll win the competition, music is playing softly in the background. It cuts out and goes to the next scene.

In this scene the next girl Frosty is now dancing with music playing in the background, there is a voice over of her describing her dancing ability. Frosty is wearing cold blue sequined clothes and has an edgy personality. Cuts to next scene

Lizzie, who is the cute and small girl, is dancing whilst music is still playing in the background. The voice over, of her talking is playing over top. She is wearing pink / cute clothing. Cuts to next scene

Poppy is dancing with music playing in the background. Poppy is the preppy ex cheerleader, who wears cheer leader type clothing. She is very optimistic and loud. While she is dancing we hear the voice over of her talking and stating how she will win. Cuts to next scene.


In this scene Leaf flowingly dances like a free tree leaf flying with the wind. The music is playing in the background, and her voice over is playing in the foreground. She talks about her dancing being one with nature. She is wearing flowing clothing which is in neutral colours. Cuts out to next scene.


Harley is dressed in rock styled clothing, She is dancing with voice over in foreground, music in the background. The scene then fades out and jump cuts a little to the host. a description of him, but instead of him dancing he is just looking the girls up and down while they are stood posed around him. 


Jump cuts back and fourth and back to the scene where the girls are posing around the host . The title comes across the scene and then the screen blacks out and the music stops that is the end of the movie.

Concept

1) Brief outline: Dancing Mockumentary, different dancers do a short clip of them dancing and then it'll be a close up on them. But the mock part of it will be that they are actually not very good. After the opening sequence there will be a short clip of them talking possibly.
2) Ideas to explore: Whether to use voice overs or have people speaking in it, backing music and complicated camera angles.
3) Emotions: Mainly humour hopefully, OR dancers having their serious faces on.
4) Impact on audience: Laughter
5) Outline of the story, character, style of trailer: Americans Next Top Model / Dancing with the Stars type opening.The characters will be really full of them selves and some could possibly be quite eccentric. I believe that would add to the comedy.