Evaluation: Production Companies and Film Distributors

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?


A production company is the basis for most works in film, television, radio and video, etc, and is responsible for things such as funding, budgeting, scheduling, scripting, supplies, staff, post production, distribution and marketing and most things during the creation of the work.

A film distributor is a company with the responsibility of releasing films to the public. This can be either theatrically or for home viewing, such as DVD, video, TV, etc. The distributor is also responsible for ensuring advertising material is available to help attract an audience to the exhibitor (theatric showings) and ensure the film arrives where it should be on time, and is shown in the intended manor.

One company who might distribute our film would be Warner Bros. They have many different subsections of their company, and as result, distribute many different types of film in many different genre's yearly. It is also the company which distributed The Hangover, which was one of the films that we used as inspiration for our own.

Another company which could distribute our film could be 20th Century Fox, as they distribute many successful films of all genre's particularly comedy though, and another of our inspiring films, Dude, wheres my car? was distributed on the same company.

Because our film is only small scale with a small budget, we could appeal to the UK Film Council as a way of gaining funding. They run a series of different schemes and funding plans which could be benificial to us for things such as software for editing, or filming equipment, and other basics such as paying staff had this been a real production. An aternative could be to self fund the movie, though this could have an incredle amount of effect on quality.

The people named in our titles are only people who acted in it, or would have acted at some point during the rest of the movie, meaning it was essentially our group with several other names.

Evaluation: Progression

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?


Editing and Camerawork- during the progression from preliminary task to full product I feel I have become more confident with using a camera and editing software. During the preliminary task, I was very uneasy with filming, and needed a fair bit of help from the rest of my group, however during filming for my opening sequence, I felt a lot more confident and comfortable with filming footage. Also, during editing of the preliminary task, I had no idea of how to use the software, and required a lot of help, whereas when editing our final product, I felt more confident and able to use the software, even though it was different to the one I had used previously.

In both the prelim and the full product, 180 degree rules were used several times;

Evaluation: Technology

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Throughout the process of creating the opening sequence we came into contact with a number of pieces of equipment and software's.

Apple Mac


Final Cut Express- We used final cut express in order to edit our final product.

iMovie- We used iMovie to upload our footage from the camera to the Macs.

Safari

Blogger- We used blogger to record our progress throughout filming, etc, and post our research and planning for the opening sequence.

Youtube- We used youtube to

OpenOffice














Photoshop/Gimp

Evaluation: Representations

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The character of Louis could be compared to Jay from The Inbetweeners TV series and movie. Both characters are represented as typical teenage boys, who are both concerned with drinking, good times, and women. Louis' love of a good time is represented quite early on in the opening sequence; from the fact that he is drink/hungover and from the small flashbacks, whereas Jay's love of the same things are shown through his constant want to go to parties, drink and hang out with his friends. Louis' concern for women isn't shown much in the opening sequence, but is shown by his paranoia that he perhaps took it too far with his best friends sister, whereas throughout The Inbetweeners, Jay makes his wish to get all the girls clear throughout every episode and regularly throughout the movie.

Both characters also have darker senses of humour and a habit of being rude to their friends. Louis' darker humour is shown from the flashbacks of where he is torturing Barry and winding him up, and he finds it amusing before winding Barry up further by reminding him that he is claustrophobic as he is taped to a tree. Jay doesn't necessarily wind his friends up, but he's very often less than nice to them.

Evaluation: Conventions

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The film title of a comedy film tends to not have any real conventions to it, just normally that it is interest provoking. For example, 'The Leap Year' provokes interest as it already makes people wonder what will happen, as it gives nothing away, only that it has something to do with a leap year (this being that is is set on a new year party for a leap year, and is a reference to the year it was made, though this isn't obvious to begin with) and means the audience will watch on in order to decipher why this film is titled in this way, because it intentionally makes no sense to begin with. However, the title being obscure is quite unconventional when our inspiring movies are taken into consideration, as 'The Hangover' and 'Dude, where's my car?' introduce the movie's events quite quickly, primarily the 'we got drunk and a lot of crazy stuff we can't remember happened', wheres as 'The Leap Year' does hide this quite well.

The title style/font is a clear development of the comedy genre. Although the genre has no outward conventions to which the title styles must comply, many films within the genre have title sequences designed to fit the film, and therefore the genre. Our title sequence are in rather large bubble style writing, and falls to the bottom of the screen with a clattering sound, which fits the conventions of alcohol and accidents within the film.

The a comedy film can take place in a number of places, meaning determining a setting for the genre as a whole is difficult, though less so within sub genre's, for example a space ship being a setting in a sci-fi comedy. Most films take place within settings or locations that are relevant to the film idea's or events. As the film is a teen based comedy, the film settings most associated with this are houses, schools, shops, and clubs, and so the setting of our opening sequence does slightly challenge this, although this could also be due to the alcohol conventions, which could mean the conventions of quite strange settings due to strange events taking place is actually developed.

Costumes featured in comedy films often depend on the particular sub-genre for which they are part of. For most comedy films, the costumes are quite casual (jeans, shirts, etc) which we chose to do also, as this made the film more believable and easier for the audience to relate to.

The props featured in comedy films are pretty generic to all film genre's, and tend to be basic or everyday items. In our opening sequence, this isn't much different. The characters both have mobile phones, basic everyday items which most audience members will own and therefore be able to relate to. However, a few of the props we used were to provoke humour, such as the mask, party poppers and masking tape. which aren't usually items the audience will use, or at the very least not in a park. Humour provoking props are often used in comedy films, be they generic everyday items used out of context, or actual strange or joke items.

The story and how the story is set up fits the conventions of this type of comedy film. The set up to the story is very much waking up the morning after something big happened and being able to remember barely any of it, and spending the rest of the film tracing their tracks back to the party in order to find out what happened. This is a pretty common convention for this genre, and is seen in both 'The Hangover' and 'Dude wheres my car?'.

The set up of the genre is probably quite conventional also. Like the way the story sets up the movie, this set up helps set up the genre. The opening sequence is full of gimmicks and little flash backs, which in themselves are gimmicks. These gimmicks set up the genre as comedy. For example, the first gimmick is Ryan (Louis) falling for the tree, which I don't beleive is in many if any comedy films, or at least not from what I've seen. Other comedy films use gimmicks also, notably in both 'The Hangover' and 'Dude where's my car?' the use of wild animals is used as a gimmick to address the fact that all is not well in the opening sequence, though we chose to avoid this gimmick and go with something a little simpler and more unique.

The way the characters are introduce are by falling and finding. Louis's character is seen just before he falls out of the tree, but we're only really introduced to him when he stands up and looks around, as we get a sense of his personality this way, that being that he's comedy's generic mean character with a stupid best friend, who we're introduced to when he walks to the other side of the tree and finds taped to it. Barry is seen in the flashbacks that Louis has before this point, but we just see the pair of them messing around, we don't see much else of them, and so Barry is only really introduced when he's sleeping taped to a tree. Barry's introduction is quite fitting with the genre, as in 'The Hangover' a few of the characters are introduced while they're asleep. Louis's could also be, as in 'Dude where's my car?' the characters are awake, though when Louis wakes up, he knows something isn't right straight away, though they're in their house and he's in a a park, so it's forgivable.

The camera work and editing in the film is conventional to any film. There is no real set way any film has to use a camera or editing, just so that it is in a away which suits the film. For example, we chose to zoom in ever so slightly on Louis before zooming right back out on him in order to establish confusion to those who notice it, and therefore the confusion which Louis will show shortly after. The editing we chose to do was mainly sequencing and music. All films use relevant music in order to establish genre conventions, and as so, we used 'Macho Man' by the village people to add comedic effect. Also, we chose to sequence the opening sequence with flashbacks after each object he looked at, in order to establish comedy, as the events in the flashbacks are slightly comedic as well as giving an insight into Louis and Barry as characters, and the night before.

Just as with camerawork and editing, special effects have no real conventions depending on the genre.

Evaluation: How we attracted our audience video

Planning for directors commentary on opening sequence (How did we attract our audience?)

Below is a rough plan made of points for our directors commentary on how we attracted our audience in our opening sequence. We plan for all, or at least most, members of our group to speak at some point during the commentary.

So, how did we attract our target audience?

Production logo- The choice for this to go first allows the audience to know who created the film, but also introduces the genre and music well.
Titles- By having the titles come in and clatter to the bottom of the screen, we thought the genre was well represented, and it also relates to the theme of drink within the film, as the clattering sounds like glass.
Music- We used Macho Man in order to add comedic effect.
Setting- We thought that the setting of  park would cause humour and confusion among the audience, and  interest them into watching the rest of the film.
Actions- The first action is Ryan falling from a tree, which we added as it was a simple and easy gimmick for us to pull of, and would also gain laughs from the target audience.
Flashbacks- We included these to give small insights into the night before in relation to where they are the next morning, without giving too much away, but still giving a comedic effect- the plan was also that after the opening sequence, the film would soon return to the party.
Taped to a tree- We included this primarily for comedic effect, but also to gain audience interest.

Evaluation: Target Audience

This is .

He is a sixteen year old student, who enjoys watching films, normally comedy, and watches films often. He also watches TV a lot, and uses the internet to catch up with friends, family and the latest movie news, particularly regarding new releases and reviews. On the TV, he watches channels like Comedy Central, Gold and Dave, because he finds them the most entertaining. When he isn't watching films and TV or surfing the internet, he is with his friends, sometimes on the weekends drinking, and this plays a role in his choice of comedy, as he likes alcohol related humour. He also listens to music often, and enjoys rock and old/cheesy pop music, which is reflected in his choice in film, and by his casual dress sense.

We went on to use this as a basis for several choices we made. For example, as the target audience is male and between the ages of 16-20, we made our actors this age, and male. Both actors also dress in casual clothes, as do the other actors in the opening sequence. The music used also is reflected from our target audience, as we use an example of a rock song, and a cheesy pop song. 

The finished sequence and reflection on editing

Reflection on filming

Reflection on filming- 24th January

Unfortunately, todays filming went far worse than yesterdays. Our camera was no issue, the weather, however, was a huge issue. It rained, and despite our efforts, it made filming impossible, as all that could be heard on the footage was the rain, and it was slightly more difficult to see. We now intend to film on thursday morning, though the weather says it will be lightly raining, we just hope that this will not cause the same interference as it did today.

Reflection on filming- 23rd January

Today, we went out to film during periods three and four. We encountered a few.. problems. The first, being that our first camera had a near flat battery, and Ryan had to run back to the school to get another one, which lost us around an hour. When he got back, we had one with only a little more charge, and so began to work as quickly as we could, though we only got about half an hours footage, which we now know is mainly unusable. We plan to meet up again tomorrow morning to continue filming until lunchtime.

Costumes

Shot List

This is the promised shot list we composed from our Storyboard and Screenplay.

Shot One: Establishing shot of the house which is holding the party, which begins to zoom in.
Shot Two: A close up drink cans which pans slightly
Shot Three: Extreme close up which tracks a hand as it reaches for and picks up one of the cans
Shot Four: An extreme close up which zooms out to a close up as we see bottles
Shot Five: A mid to long shot of people

Music

Wee selected two pieces of music to be in the opening sequence, Macho Man by the Village People, and They're Red Hot by The Red Hot Chilli Peppers.




We chose this song, as it links in with Louis' 'Interests', and adds quite a comical feel to the scene.




We chose this song as it is a rock song, and our questionnaire indicated that as a preferred genre amongst our target audience, and as it is quite a fast song, and sees up the pace of Louis' rush to get the phone from Barry's pocket.

Production Schedule (Two)

From our last production schedule  (We intend to finish our screenplay in our lesson on tomorrow, and hopefully begin to storyboard for it too. We should have everything finished by thursday, though we are giving ourself an extension to monday to have the filming completed too. Updates on the screenplay and storyboard will be posted within the next few days.) a few things have been altered. We are no longer able to film today, as we had a few adjustments to make, such as the Risk Assessment, edits to the storyboard, a shot list, and costumes (the latter of which are still to be uploaded) and the weather made it impossible to be able to film, as it is currently raining, quite heavily. 


As a result from this, we intend to film on monday, weather permitting, as we will definitely have everything else finished by this point and be ready to film. For the rest of todays lesson, we are completing any other paperwork which needs to be finished to enable us to do this. 

Risk Assessment

Due to some of the things which happen within our opening sequence, we thought it would be best to do a risk assessment on them, to make sure the two members of our group who are going to be acting in our piece are not in danger.

The first thing which we felt needed a risk assessment wis Ryan (Louis) falling out from the tree. Although Ryan did not mind actually falling from the tree, we have decided that for safety, we will film him beginning to fall from a tree then making it look s though he has just landed, in order to cause him no harm.

there is also the issue of Jamie (Barry) being taped to a tree.  Originally, we weren't sure if we would be able to do this due to the area we would be in, but once we found that we could, our concerns were for Jamie's safety. We ad to make sure that he had no problem with this for a start and also that he had no medical reasons why he could not be taped to a tree, e.g, asthma or claustrophobia. We found he has none of these issues, but we are still taking the precaution of not making the tape too tight, so that it does not constrict and cause problems. 

Fourth Draft of Screenplay

From our last screenplay, we have made some quite large changes. Our teacher suggested that there was too much going on within the opening sequence, and that there was perhaps an overload of characters. As a result, we have decided to edit the screenplay, making it the same story, but changing the opening sequence. Originally, we had three characters within the opening sequence, Louis, Barry and Bonnie, the latter being because our focus group felt we needed a main character who was female, however, we have made the decision to remove Bonnie from the opening sequence, though not the main story, and re-write the opening sequence so that all focus is on Barry and Louis finding themselves in a park and taped to a tree. We felt this may be a better start to the movie, as it is just as effective, if not more so, yet simpler to do and watch. Here is the new re-written screenplay:

THE LEAP YEAR

SETTING: HOUSE

Company logo comes in with Macho Man playing in the background. 10-15 seconds of party montage. Sped up and slowed down moments. Shots of BARRY and LOUIS drinking a lot. Film title comes on screen and then goes off and reveals the next scene.

SETTING: PARK

(Extreme close up of LOUIS' phone on the grass ringing.

Macho Man changes from the background music to his ring tone. Extreme close up of LOUIS' hand twitching. Mid shot and flat angle of LOUIS stretching as he wakes up. Close up of LOUIS looking startled in a tree and then proceeds to fall out of the tree on the phone.)

(A caption appears listing his occupation – arsehole, Relationship status – Just done his best friend's sister, Interest’s – Drinking, having hangovers every weekend and the Village people)

LOUIS

(Groans) Shiiit

(LOUIS proceeds to roll over on to his back he also rolls off of his phone. Close up of the phone, it is now no longer ringing it is also cracked. He looks over at his phone and picks it up. Extreme close up of LOUIS pressing buttons to answer the phone)

LOUIS

Hello... Hello? Awh crap they hung up.

(LOUIS starts to get up and stumbles around. He then see's a beer bottle on the floor. Flash back to the previous night showing LOUIS and BARRY drinking. Close up of LOUIS looking around at the ground and spots party poppers and party blowers. Another flashback of BARRY popping the party popper in LOUIS' face. Slow motion shot of the party popper. Return to the present time with LOUIS rubbing his face as he remembers the incident. LOUIS see's a mask on the floor. Flashback showing LOUIS pinging BARRY'S mask so it hits him in the face. Return to present day where LOUIS grins. He then see's the cello tape and realizes that BARRY is missing.)

LOUIS

BARRY!

(360 degrees panning shot around LOUIS looking for BARRY. Reaction shot of LOUIS' face looking shocked)

LOUIS

OH sweet Jesus

(Panning shot from BARRY'S feet upwards so that we realise he is taped to a tree. A caption appears listing BARRY'S occupation – Works in a nursery, relationship status – his right hand, Interests – Colour by numbers, sandwich making and scaring young children. LOUIS proceeds to run round the tree looking for the end of the tape. Camera follows LOIUS as he goes around the tree.)

LOUIS

Where's the end, Where's the end, Where's the God damn end?! Why do you always lose the end?!

(Begins to tug at the tape. Which wakes BARRY up, We see a close up of his face. BARRY see's LOUIS.)

BARRY

Couldn't make us a cuppa could you?

LOUIS

I could. PAUSE. You are taped to a tree.

(BARRY looks down and see's he is taped to a tree.)

BARRY

Hmmmmm so I am, couldn't make us a cuppa could you?

LOUIS

You have no hands free and I have no teabags.

BARRY

tut tut excuses excuses. On a different note why am I taped to a tree?

(Close up of LOUIS' face trying to concentrate, he then has a flashback. LOUIS is running around the tree taping BARRY to the tree whilst he laughs at him doing it. Return to the present.)

LOUIS

Nope.... sorry I don't know mate. Don't be alarmed but I just remembered BARRY that you're claustrophobic.

BARRY
Oh shit, find the end of the tape, find the end of the tape, why can you never find the end of the god damn tape?!

LOUIS

Amen brother

BARRY

Wait, I think I've found it.

LOUIS

Well point to it then...

(BARRY's Phone goes off in Barry's front pocket playing they're red hot by the Red Hot Chili Peppers)

BARRY

WAIT WAIT LOUIS the phone get to the phone.

LOUIS

The phone? Oh the phone!

(BARRY starts to struggle/wiggle to try to loosen the tape and get to the phone, as LOUIS finds an opening in the tape and dives into his pocket)

LOUIS

(Muffled) Hey I've found the end too.

(LOUIS then pulls his hand out of BARRY'S pocket and holding the phone.)

LOUIS

Ahhh it's BONNIE.

(LOUIS hangs up the phone)

BARRY

We could of used her help. Do you have a problem with my sister?

LOUIS

No why would I. Are you insinuating that I've slept with your sister. Whats wrong with you. AHHH go away.

(Close up of BARRY's confused face)

Production Schedule

We intend to finish our screenplay in our lesson on tomorrow, and hopefully begin to storyboard for it too. We should have everything finished by thursday, though we are giving ourself an extension to monday to have the filming completed too. Updates on the screenplay and storyboard will be posted within the next few days.

Third Draft of Screenplay

As our last draft of the screenplay may be a bit too long, we've revised the screenplay to make it shorter. This has left us with two versions; the older one, and the new shortened version. We intend to film the entire long version, and if this ends up being too long, we will use the shortened screenplay in order to make sure it fits within the two minute time frame.

LEAP YEAR

SETTING: HOUSE

Company logo comes in with Macho Man playing in the background. 10 seconds of party montage. Sped up and slowed down moments. Shots of BARRY and LOUIS drinking a lot and BONNIE not drinking much. Film title comes on screen then goes off and reveals the next scene.

SETTING: PARK

(Extreme close-up of LOUIS’ phone on the grass ringing. Macho Man changes from the background music to his ring tone. Extreme close of LOUIS’S hand twitching. Close up of LOUIS’S foot in the tree. Low angle long shot of LOUIS looking startled in a tree and then proceeds to fall out of the tree next to the phone. Mid shot of a dazed LOUIS on the floor realizing his phone is going off. He picks up and answers the phone.)

LOUIS
Err? Hello?

(Mid-shot of BONNIE talking on the phone)

BONNIE
Where the hell are you two? Its eleven o’clock and neither of you came back last night! Why didn’t you come back last night? I’ve been calling all over the place trying to find you, and you finally answer your phone!

LOUIS
What?

(Close up of LOUIS recoiling from his phone as BONNIE shrieks. Mid-shot of BONNIE)

BONNIE
Where. Are. You?!

(Close up of a terrified LOUIS. Long shot of LOUIS looking around. Pan out shot)

LOUIS
Well, there’s trees and grass and I think I see a pond.

(Long shot of BONNIE grabbing a bag)

BONNIE
So, you’re in the park. Is Barry with you?

(Long shot of LOUIS looking around the park)

LOUIS 

Nah, got any bread? You know, for the ducks? I’m all out.

(Mid-shot of BONNIE as she freezes)

BONNIE
You lost Barry! You blithering idiot! Go and find him now, before he does something stupid! I’m coming into the park now (muffling sounds from the phone) LOUIS? LOUIS? What’s going on?

(Mid shot of Louis feeding his phone to the duck)

LOUIS

Here you go friend.

(Close up shot of BONNIE as she slams down the phone. Long shot of LOUIS as he begins stumbling around. Close up shot of LOUIS in shock)

LOUIS

Oh my sweet Jesus.

(BONNIE walks on to the shot)

BONNIE

LOUIS what happen – what the fuck?!

(Long shot. Camera pans up to reveal Barry taped to the tree.)

LOUIS
Hey, good news, I found Barry
Cello taped to a tree! Fast asleep bless him!

BONNIE
Get him out

LOUIS
I’ll try. *LOUIS starts gnawing the tape.*

BONNIE
You’re useless. I have scissors. In my manicure set.

LOUIS
Sheesh… women.

BONNIE
I wouldn’t need them if you watched him for once. I said he could leave when I left but no, you have to insist and he ends up taped to a tree.

LOUIS
Nothing wrong with a bit of fun.

(BONNIE glares at LOUIS and starts going through her bag for a pair of scissors. Long shot of a still sleeping BARRY. Mid-shot of an annoyed BONNIE and amused LOUIS)

BONNIE

Can you please explain to me how in the hell Barry ended up like this?

LOUIS

Uh... Can you tell me why you're such a bitch?

BONNIE

Louis. Stop being such an arse and at least help me try and get him down.

LOUIS

Hey I tried but my canines aren't doing the trick

(Extreme close up of BONNIE’S hands as she cuts the tape BARRY wakes up as BONNIE cuts the tape.)

BARRY

Morning. Couldn't make us a cuppa would ya?

Second Draft of Screenplay

We have revised and re-written our screenplay (shown below). We showed it to our teacher, who made the suggestion that we try to get our five pages down to at least three and restructure our script, as it is currently too long, and would exceed our limit of two minutes. We will be doing this soon, but as we may not finish it within this lesson, we may have to meet up soon in order to complete it before we begin to film.

LEAP YEAR

SETTING: HOUSE

Company logo and stuff comes in with Macho Man playing in the background. 20-30 seconds of party montage. Sped up and slowed down moments. Shots of BARRY and LOUIS drinking a lot and BONNIE not drinking much. Film title comes on screen then goes off and reveals the next scene.

SETTING: PARK

(Extreme close-up of LOUIS’ phone on the grass ringing. Macho Man changes from the background music to his ringtone.)

(Extreme close of LOUIS’S hand twitching.)

(Close up of LOUIS’S foot in the tree.)

(Low angle long shot of LOUIS looking startled in a tree and then proceeds to fall out of the tree next to the phone.)

(Mid shot of a dazed LOUIS on the floor realizing his phone is going off. He picks up and answers the phone.)

LOUIS
Err? Hello?

(Mid-shot of BONNIE talking on the phone)

BONNIE
Where the hell are you two? Its eleven o’clock and neither of you came back last night! Why didn’t you come back last night? I’ve been calling all over the place trying to find you, and you finally answer your phone!

LOUIS
What?

(Close up of LOUIS recoiling from his phone as BONNIE shrieks)

(Mid-shot of BONNIE)

BONNIE
Where. Are. You?!

(Close up of a terrified LOUIS)

(Long shot of LOUIS looking around)

(Pan out shot)

LOUIS
Well, there’s trees and grass and I think I see a lake. I might go and feed the ducks actually.

(Long shot of BONNIE grabbing a bag)

BONNIE
So, you’re in the park. Is Barry with you?

(Long shot of LOUIS looking around the park)

LOUIS 

Nah, got any bread? I’m all out.

(Mid-shot of BONNIE as she freezes)

BONNIE
You lost Barry! You blithering idiot! Of all things to lose, why’d you lose him? Go and find him now, before he does something stupid! I’m coming into the park now *muffling sounds from the phone* LOUIS? LOUIS? What’s going on?

(Mid shot of Louis feeding his phone to the duck)

LOUIS

Here you go friend.

(Close up shot of BONNIE as she slams down the phone)

(Long shot of LOUIS as he begins stumbling around)

(Close up shot of LOUIS in shock)

LOUIS

Oh my sweet Jesus.

(BONNIE walks on to the shot)

BONNIE

LOUIS what happen – what the fuck?!

(Long shot. Camera pans up to reveal Barry taped to the tree.)

LOUIS
Hey, good news, I found Barry

BONNIE
I can see that. What the hell happened?

LOUIS
Cello taped to a tree! Fast asleep bless him!

BONNIE
Does it matter? Get him out

LOUIS
I’ll try. *LOUIS starts gnawing the tape.*

BONNIE
You’re useless. I have scissors. In my manicure set.

LOUIS
Sheesh… women.

BONNIE
I wouldn’t need them if you watched him for once. I said he could leave when I left but no, you have to insist and he ends up taped to a tree.

LOUIS
Nothing wrong with a bit of fun.

(BONNIE glares at LOUIS and starts going through her bag for a pair of scissors)

(Long shot of a still sleeping BARRY)

(Mid-shot of an annoyed BONNIE and amused LOUIS)

BONNIE

Can you please explain to me how in the hell Barry ended up like this?

LOUIS

Uh... Can you tell me why you're such a bitch?

BONNIE

Louis. Stop being such an arse and at least help me try and get him down.

LOUIS

Hey I tried but my canines aren't doing the trick

(Extreme close up of BONNIE’s hands as she cuts the tape)

(BARRY wakes up as BONNIE cuts the tape.)

BARRY

Morning. Couldn't make us a cuppa would ya?

BONNIE

Barry, now I don't want to alarm you. But look down.

BARRY

Morning Glory?

LOUIS

Yeah but that's not what we're on about mate.

(Point of view shot as BARRY looks at himself.)

(BONNIE looks angrily. LOUIS looks and waves with a big grin on his face.)

BARRY

Aha... Whyyyyy am I stuck to a tree?

LOUIS

Because BONNIE's a bitch.

BONNIE

Just shut up and um... Try to wriggle free.

(BARRY pushes forward and comes free from the tree falling on LOUIS.)

BARRY

Hey LOUIS is that a boner in your pocket or are you just happy to see me.

(LOUIS chucks him at the camera where it would fade in to the next scene.)