Wymondham High Film Studies

Thursday, 26 March 2020

Thursday, 5 March 2020

Yr12 NEA practice- group singing sequence

Almost Famous 'Tiny Dancer' scene

American Honey 'American Honey'

Gavin and Stacey 'There is a light that never goes out'

We're the Millers 'Waterfalls'

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Using the above scenes to help, you are each to produce an original scene of a feature film where a group of characters sing a popular song. The conditions are as follows...

The scene should include a sequence of 15-25 seconds before any singing begins, this could include dialogue, or not, it is up to you. It will however, set the scene... Suggest a genre, key character(s), a location, a reason for the singing...

The final cut should be a minimum of 2 mins 20 seconds. Therefore, you could finish the whole song if you like, do just a verse and chorus, or end the scene at 2.20...

It should be clear how the song originates (where it comes from). Either from from a single character's voice or a radio, television, phone etc...and more should join in as the scene progresses. you therefore need to decide whether we hear the original song (quietly) or not...

my suggestion is 1 of the following...

- 1 character is listening on headphones, starts singing and others join in (we don't ever hear the original track this way)

- the song is on in the background (quietly) on radio and 1 character joins in, followed by others...

(we hear the original track but only quietly)

Your scene should have between 5 and 7 cast members, all should sing... however, some might join in as the song goes on. At least 1 character should be originally reluctant to join in.

It should be clear from the scene any character roles and functions, binary opposites and indeed the scenes position in the whole film's narrative could be given a guess to.