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The main idea behind my short film is that people should be treated fairly and should treat people how they would like to be treated. 

The topic of my short film is abuse towards men. I want to raise the awareness of abuse towards men and remind people that it happens more than they think. 

My thought process is if abuse towards women is so frowned upon and is taken as a serious matter, why isn't abuse towards men? 

Also, when the male gets abused, it degrades their persona which leads to them keeping it a secret. This is a problem. They often find themselves is a situation where they are trapped with no way out, in some cases it may be threats, blackmail and manipulation. 


My short film will explore the male side of abuse. You will experience a side of a man that you have not seen before. 


Intro
In attempt to meet the needs of the brief, i successfully conducted pre-production to create my short film to raise awareness of abuse. The pre production consisted of primary and secondary research. Primary research was used when i was asking people do they take ale abuse seriously. Secondary research was used when i was gaining a strong understanding of male abuse through books, articles, websites and journals. 


Research?

I highly benefited from using secondary research in my pre-production due to it giving me the most clear understanding of what its like for males to be abused. I also watched previous short films on abuse towards men to gain some foundation what to do for my story line. This helped me a lot because i checked the comments on the short film i watched and saw what the audience thought could of been done better. In my short film, i could take into consideration what the audience thought was bad and what they thought was good, an example of this would to not make the same mistake as the previous short films. 


aims

I want the audience to feel the hidden pain of the male. I believe i need to use exaggeration on real life scenarios to grab the audiences attention, to do this i needed to make the worst possible scenario but at the same time make it as realistic as possible so the audience can relate. If the audience can't relate to a film, in other words its to unrealistic, they tend to lose interest whilst watching. What i needed to do is create a situation that the audience will feel horrible if they imagine being in it. The more the audience is engaged to the film, the more they will realize that abuse towards men is just at worse as abuse towards women. 


Conflict 

The conflict in my short film will be what raises the idea of how bad abuse towards men is. 
The conflict will be between the male and his female partner. The women will be manipulating the man into thinking he has done something wrong, emotions will rush through his body such as fear, guilt and stress. I will try to get across to the audience that a women's actions can heavily affect a man through conflict and then the aftermath. The aftermath will be focused on the man slowly breaking down which is a case that tends to happen. I found this out through researching how men react to psychotic girlfriend. 


How will people find out about my short film? 

The main source of distribution will be social network. In this generation, i believe that social network plays a big part in societies. Nowadays most people use social networks, advertisement on the social network will be essential and the overall aim is to get people to share the video. The more people share the video, the people will be able to view it. I will also use DVD's as another type of distribution due to because it quite cheap and i can produce a lot of copies. I researched that for £120 you can produce 1000 high quality copies. Furthermore i will advertise around the local area, this would consist of putting eye catching posters around busy parts of the area. 


Cost I do not think that the cost will affect the customers decision in purchasing my short film because the price of the copy would take the customer just over week to purchase if they saved 30 pence a day. 

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Short film proposal from travy123

Proof reading

As you can see their a number of problems with this piece of text. Punctuation is poor and capital letters and missing from the text. Basic literacy is a must in terms of presentations due to portraying yourself in a professional manor. The way in which the message is expressed is poor
 and could be presented in a much better way for the audience to read the message.

This is my paragraph after i proof read it. As you can see the punctuality problem is solved followed by capital letter are used in appropriate places to show that i have a level of literacy. I read through it to check for any misspellings. Also i increased the level of grammar by rewording some phrases to make the sentences flow more.  The expression of the content is much more professional now once i looked for errors through proof reading.

Linguistic register

Linguistic register is the language that you use when writing about a topic. The main point is to make your writing seem like you have a high level of grammar and to make your writing seem professional. Linguistic register is key when expressing a short film proposal because you want people to be interested and take your film seriously but how can they do that if the way your writing in unprofessional. 

This short paragraph demonstrates poor linguistic register.

 I believe that people should be treated fairly and should treat people how they would like to be treated and Abuse towards women is really well known and is especially known for the bad things behind it. why would they feel the need to abuse men and it happens to men more than people think. men getting abused is weird and there's something about their pride that makes them not tell anyone about it.

This paragraph is inappropriate due to the sentence structure being poor. The word "and" is overused to join points together rather than using a variety of punctuation. Also the vocabulary is poor such as words like "weird" and "bad". It demonstrates a very low level of writing which in this case would be unprofessional. 

This paragraph demonstrates good linguistic register. 

In life I believe that people should be treated fairly and should treat people how they would like to be treated themselves. Abuse towards women is so well known and is especially known for the trauma behind it, so why would they feel the need to abuse men? It turns out that men are abused more than people think. When males receive abuse, there's something about their pride that causes them to keep the situation hidden. 

This paragraph demonstrates good linguistic register due to the sentence structure being good and the punctuation is used in the appropriate places. Also the the grammar of the paragraph is at a high level which leads to the paragraph expressing the message in the most professional way. For example, "abuse men?" is a good example of punctuation in right place. In addition examples of good grammar would be "keep the situation is hidden".

Reading techniques

Reading techniques are key to understanding what you are actually reading when looking at a text. the four main types of techniques are:

• skimming
• scanning
• extensive 
• intensive 

These techniques when trying to understand a text are vital due to them giving you the ability to grab a better picture of the text. skimming is used ideally for note taking, you will quickly skim over the text picking out relevant information out in your mind that you think is important. this could benefit a reader due to not filling his mind up with words that aren't necessarily relevant and also reading a large text often leads to boredom. 

Scanning is prefect for when you have a set topic for what you need to pick out from the text, skim over the text picking out key information which is only relevant to the set topic that you have chosen. this is extremely helpful due to grabbing the information that you need from a text quickly and not getting sidetracked with other topics. 

Extensive and intensive are mainly due to 'how' you read the text. having the right mind set is key when reading a text due to if your not really bothered about it then information will not soak in the mind. intensive is reading with high concentration followed by no distractions where as extensive is just having a general mind set of enjoying reading it, you tend to remember things you like so it adds on for a better study when reading through text. 

scanning is a great way to help the reader extract key information from the passage and gives a better understanding of the general idea of the text. 3 print texts insert below.