Final Major Project Year 2


FMP Year 2: Learning Journal

13th March This year I kicked off my FMP by taking a trip with the college to Tenerife. Over the two weeks I was supposed to spend there, I would have worked with a charity called Whale Nation in their animal rescue projects all the while learning about the island’s cultures; specifically its witches and…

FMP Year 2: Project Proposal

Dylan Whitehall 256487 Project Proposal: Final Major Project – Flicks Area of Activity: Film – Screenwriting Rationale During the second year of my course I have had the opportunity to learn about screenwriting and write my own scripts. In October I collaborated with students from other courses to create a production in the style of…

FMP Year 2: Research and Inspiration

Primary Research Books: Two pieces of research that have been instrumental to the development of my project have been Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting by Syd Field and Joker: The Official Script Book – the published version of Todd Phillip and Scott Silver’s script for Joker (2019).  The former was a detailed introduction to the…

FMP Year 2: Evaluation

Production For my second final major project of this course I decided to write a screenplay for my own  short horror film called, FLICKS. Throughout this past year I have worked on a number of  projects that involved screenwriting, the production of films and an abundance of research  behind the medium in general. I felt…



Primary:

Film(s)

Scream 6 (2023) [Film]. Tyler Gillet & Matt Bettinelli-Olphin.dir. California: Paramount Pictures

Scream (1996) [Film]. Wes Craven.dir. California: Dimension Films

Scream 2 (1998) [Film]. Wes Craven.dir. California: Dimension Films

Halloween (2018) [Film]. David Gordon Green.dir. California: Blumhouse

Evil Dead Rise (2023) [Film]. Lee Cronin.dir. California: New Line Cinema

Ferrarrie (2023) [Film]. Boris Biaou.dir. 

The Red Suitcase (2022) [Film]. Cyrus Neshvad.dir.Luxembourg:Cynefilms

Suspiria (2018) [Film]. Luca Guadagino.dir. California: Amazon Studios

Book(s)

Field, S (2005) Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting. Revised edn. New York City: Random House Publishing Group

Philip, T (2022) Joker: The Official Script Book. 1st edn. London: Titan Books

Video Game(s)

Supermassive Games (2022) The Quarry (Standard edn) Playstation 5 [Game]. San Francisco: 2k

TV Show(s)

‘The Autopsy’ (2022) Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Series one, episode 8. Available at: Netflix (Accessed 17th April 2023)

Artist/image(s)

PITCH CANKER (2023) [Guilty]. Available at: https://twitter.com/pitchcanker/status/1619841610707251200 (Accessed: 15/05/23)

Secondary:

Website(s)

Reddit (2023) r/movies. Available at: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/ (Accessed: 24/04/2023)

Twitter (2023) Home. Available at: https://twitter.com/home?lang=en-gb (Accessed: 24/04/2023)

YouTube (2023) Home. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/ (Accessed: 01/04/23)

Celtx (2023) My Studio. Available at: https://www.celtx.com/a/ux/index#documents (Accessed: 21/05/23)

PITCH CANKER (2023) Home. Available at: https://www.pitchcanker.com/ (Accessed: 15/05/23)

Software

Procreate. (2011). Australia: Savage Interactive

Online Videos

Lessons from the Screenplay (2016) Gone Girl — Don’t Underestimate the Screenwriter. [Online video]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF3lFPW4E1o (Accessed: 05/04/2023)

 FRAME INTO FOCUS (2021) David Lynch on Writing a Script. [Online video]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yngWNmouhP0 (Accessed: 01/04/23)

MoodboardS:

Film(s)

Halloween (1978) [Film]. John Carpenter.dir. California: Falcon Films

The Thing (1982) [Film]. John Carpenter.dir. California: Universal Pictures

Army of Darkness (1992) [Film]. Sam Raimi.dir. California: Universal Pictures

Friday the 13th (1980) [Film]. Tom McLoughlin.dir. California: Paramount Pictures

Evil Dead (1981) [Film]. Sam Raimi.dir. California: New Line Cinema

Dracula (1931) [Film]. Tod Browning & Karl Freund.dir. California: Universal Pictures

Frankenstein (1931) [Film]. James Whale.dir. California: Universal Pictures

Dawn of the Dead (1978) [Film]. George A. Romero.dir. California: United Artists

Nosferatu (1922) [Film]. F.W.Murau.dir. New York City: Film Arts Guild

Cabin in the Woods (2011) [Film]. Drew Goddard.dir. Santa Monica: Lionsgate

Carrie (1976) [Film]. Brian De Palma.dir. California: United Artists

Se7en (1995) [Film]. David Fincher.dir. California: New Line Cinema

Artist/image(s)

PITCH CANKER (2023) [Guilty]. Available at: https://twitter.com/pitchcanker/status/1619841610707251200 (Accessed: 15/05/23)

PITCH CANKER (2023) [A HEAVING CURSE]. Available at: https://twitter.com/pitchcanker/status/1657549338032185346 (Accessed: 15/05/23)

PITCH CANKER (2023) [I WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN]. Available at: https://twitter.com/pitchcanker/status/1657549338032185346 (Accessed: 15/05/23)

PITCH CANKER (2023) [WRATH]. Available at: https://twitter.com/pitchcanker/status/1657549338032185346 (Accessed: 15/05/23)