Wally Croft - Radio Trailer

  

Audiences and Reviews: This Is England (2006)

Wally Croft (Outsider Task) Script

Wally Croft 

CBA: (Voiceover)
One Girl. One Mission. One town. 

(music 5 secs)

CBA: (Voiceover)
Wally Croft- An outsider searching for an unknown destiny. 
A glamorous companion (ahem) tracked down by a murderous villainous gang, 

(music 10 secs)

Dialogue from film-
Chav: Awa lassa we’ll well mash yah up daft lass! Dissin’ owa city! Yerh that’s it bike away!!!!

(sounds of explosion)

Wally Croft:
Dirty stinking cyber-chavs

(music continues)

CBA: (Voiceover) 
Wally Croft - 23rd February 2012

Wally Croft (Outside Task) Poster

Wally Croft, no, not Lara, but Wally Croft, a figure which has been created using the admired characters of both fictional worlds of book and video game (Where's Wally? and Lara Croft). Two characters merged together to create a very superior lady, weird idea, but thats Paige for you!
The genres we are focusing on are Sci-Fi and Crime but with the occasional comedic element. Our Media Studies class were hammered by our Media teacher into steering clear from using comedey in our film idea, but our group feel that C-B-A wouldn't have the same kick and purpose, without his funny bone.
Wally Croft was created for the purpose of creating a story board with the same plot and theme as the film, ‘Outsider’ ; A hero winds up in a desolated town, owned by thugs who strike fear into every soul that settles there. The hero, (being Wally, in our story) gets attacked by the thugs and seeks safety in a nearby bar. The bar tender explains of the on-going situation and so the hero again meets with the thugs and partakes in a stand out, resulting in the hero winning the stand-off by shooting at the thugs. 
Hyperbole will be a key theme; we are talking about a century light-years away. Society itself will be bigger, bolder and crazier than ever before. Ms Croft has a variety of able weapons - acid-squirting pistols are a popular favourite of hers. Some of our film, we chose to be animated, with the lack of new-age gadget, we have in 2011, today.
Wally Croft- the hero of our film presents the characteristics of Propp’s theory of stereotypical characters used through visual presentations such as plays and films. Wally Croft is the hero and the soul of the film, the film is initially about Croft’s experiences through the desolate town of Vinnera and her missions undertaken there.
There are two gangs; Marco the robot gang and Jahnny the human gang. Both gangs present Todorov's main persona on the main character of the villian, in charcteristic and behaviour wise etc.C-B-A is Croft's sidekick but in a twist, C-B-A is working for Marco 'cos C-B-A owes Marco a debt that he can't pay back, therefore has to give Croft in himself. C-B-A is a robot companion who then evolves into the characters of Helper, mentor and narrator. CBA brings elements of both genres shown in the film, comedy and Sci-Fi. CBA, again has taken form from the character of ‘Bender’ In ‘Futurama’, fun loving, alcoholic and drug tolerant.  CBA helps and mentors Croft on her expedition of Vinnera and shows and explains the ways.
Genres again consist of Sci-Fi and comedy originating from the two main characters of this short film. The whole theme and setting of this short film would contain features of a Sci-fi genre. Comical elements are again devised by the main character of CBA.

Short Film Poster Analysis

How has Horror changed over time?

Basically, horror was once all about suspense and they used to be more psychologically scary, now it's more about how gory the producers can make a film and how many effects can be used to make someone scared. Horror is a genre that is based around terror, blood and men in scary costumes, now its based around gore, guts and ghosts, which is always good. Who's complaining?
Horror is my favourite genre, they're the only films I watch. I strive for the nightmares and the sleeping with the light on the night after.


Halloween (1978)
Halloween is a genuinely scary, stylistic and tasteful, extremely well-crafted slasher/horror classic. This film is is based on a young boy that murders his older sister with a knife. Fifteen years later, hehe escapes from a psychiatric hospital and stalks a group of girls. This 40 year-old film teriffied its audience with its cheesy storyline, scary costumes and creates alot of tension with the use of the constantly-moving camera.
The film contains little graphic violence and gore.









Silence of the Lambs (1991)
A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims. The film mingles the horrors of criminal acts with the psychological horror.  Basically, it's heavier on the suspense and lighter on the gore. 







 

 Saw 3D (2010)
As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror. Saw 3D had to be edited six times because of how gory it was. The Saw franchise are, and always have been, my favourite films, oosingly gory and brilliantly thrilling.











Horror has changed over time through the introduction and increase of gore and more suspense.

Film Genre

Film Hybrids:

Predator

- Combat/War Movie/Sci-fi/Horror 

Fight Club

- Action/Horror/Romance/Thriller/Comedy

Shaun of the Dead

- Horror/Comedy

Film Festivals

London Short Film Festival
This festival is recognised as the premiere UK showcase for cutting-edge UK independent films, showing the country's best raw talent. The London Short Film Festival is a Mecca for the UK’s young creative talent and a significant date in the UK film calender. The London Short Film Festival is governed by the content, quality and breadth of films submitted and believe filmmakers should not be bound by rules, or dictated by genre, length or theme.





Bristol Encounters International Film Festival
Encounters Bristol International Film Festival is the UK’s longest running competitive short film and animation festival. The festival presents one of the world’s best-known showcases and meeting points for emerging talent, and seeks to promote the importance of short film as a means to develop the next generation of filmmakers and animators.





Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival
They are a no profit festival celebrating the wealth of talent working across all genres of short film including live action drama, documentary, animation, music video, and broadcast design including online or mobile content, title sequences, and idents. The work of newcomers and established filmmakers is promoted by screening work at cinemas, screening rooms and cafes throughout Soho and London’s West End.   The event program also builds in networking and case studies

Short Films

My Short Film presentation, made on Prezi. :-)