Unexpected friendship in films

Is Anybody There? 2008

Goodnight Mister Tom 1998

Karate Kid 1984

Up 2009

These are films that have inspired our own film. They are not all social realism however they all include an unlikely friendship. These film all feature old gentlemen and younger boys that are pre adolescent, They all serve roles as mentors or some kind of guidance be it martial arts or as in 'is anybody there' he en-stows wisdom about life and death. This gave us our inspiration for our own old character, He shall be Jacobs guide in how to get out of his situation.

Poster Idea

This is our first poster design. We wanted to create the feeling of hope as he looking towards the sun hoping for a better future. However as the poster is for a social realism film we needed to include some sort of corruption to connote his difficult life, therefore we chose this font. The font has a cracked effect to represent the struggles he faces. We thought about using a graffitied font so that social realism was connoted further, however we believed this would be too difficult to read and is associated with gang culture which we did not want to represent. 

This is the idea for our website background. Even though it is graffiti and more urban that our film suggests, we decided to use it because of the message written on the wall. We felt the message was a good correspondent to the basis of our film. We took the image from google.

Test shots- cafe scene

The location we have chosen for the cafe scene is in Tonbridge by the library. we took these shots to experiment on different angles for the scene with the old man.

Character shots-mum

These are pictures of the actress we were going to use for the mother character. We chose her originally because of her accent and appearance, both fitted a working class woman. However, recently we learnt that she was no longer available to film so we are having to look at other options which is delaying our filming.

Film Title influences

When thinking of the title for our film trailer, we decided to use the main characters name which is Jacob. We chose this name due to it's religious meaning.

The story of Jacob is in Genesis, and tells of a man called Jacob who leads a deceitful and sinful life in which he betrays several people. Jacob has a dream, in which he see's God at the top of a ladder signifying the bridge between heaven and earth. This significant moment in Jacob's life saves him as he becomes good.

We do not want out story to be directly inspired by the religious aspects of this story, however the meaning behind the story if reflected in out film by:

• The old man can be interpreted as a saviour in the boys life leading him to good.
• The narrative of the film reflects the change from bad to good.