Factory Girl Texual Analysis

Feature Trailer of Factory Girl

Factory Girl is a feature length film based on real life accounts on the last years of a young woman's (Edie Sedgwick) life in the 60's who was closely associated with Andy Warhol. Although the setting, dates and basic themes of the film does not resemble the themes, settings and dates of my own film, some parts of the narrative in the film are extremely similar. The main narrative follows a girl who sets out on the New York art scene hoping to make something of herself and after being introduced to Andy Warhol, her life becomes successful and becomes Warhols new 'Superstar'. Her life seemingly couldn't get any better until Andy refuses to pay her for her contributions to his work and her life of partying, drug taking and thoughtless spending makes her homeless, funding her drug addiction from what she can scrape from her father and accountant and eventually causes the end of her life. Edie's life is very similar to my main character's, Tristy's, life. Tristy goes through events through the narrative of my film which are alike to Edie Sedgewick's, for example 'The Gang' is parallel to Andy Warhol as the anagonist and eventually the source that causes the end of the protagonists life (Tristy and Edie).

Here is a diagram to show the comparisons of narrative from the two films:

New and Improved screen play

Here is an example of the improved and simpler copy of my screen play. I find that it will be easier to follow and due to not having a complicated colour co-ordinated key to follow, I can easily read through the new screen play in detail with no time wasting on what colour means what. Another reason the screen play is improved is that when writing and planning my film is that it is simple to scan through the screen play, as it reads similarly to a script, and I can edit it with no complications of colour co-ordination and a disorganised layout. I will be using this new template to write the rest of my screen play.

A draft of story board

Here is a draft of half of the story board for my film sequence, drawn in pencil with little details to do with mise-en-scene, it has been created in order for me to be able to faguely see what my sequence could potentially look like. I need to add more scenes to the sequence and create more cinematics within my film to create an effective title sequence which will impact the audience within the first 3-4 minutes of the film if the audience were to watch the full feature length version of my film.

1st Scene Screen Play

Here is a draft of the script for the first scene including details of the shots. Because my sequence has no speech, I will be producing two types different scripts as during the time of creating this draft I realised two scripts would be necessary in order to organise filming and producing effectively. The first will consist of actions and narrative which the audience will see and the second will consist of director notes on mise-en-scene, shot timing, sound and other important details I will require when recording and editing my film.