Executive Summary
“One Day in December” by Josie Silver is an exciting New Year’s love story, in which a talented author shows how fate can be favorable to people, giving them a fairy tale with a happy ending. The plot is based on the story, when a young girl, Laurie, meets a boy through a blurred window of a bus. She is looking for him everywhere, but it is quite difficult in a multi-million city. Once a friend invites a girl to a party and introduces her fiancé named Jack, who turns out to be that very guy. Laurie questions her own life while thinking about her destiny, but it seems that she and Jack can never have the right time to explore their love chemistry. An unpredictable plot, unique author’s style, and touching romance will be understandable and close to the soul of any viewer.
The story of two lovers constantly keeps in suspense and drives in circles. “One Day in December” captures from the first sight as it makes one feel all the experiences of the characters, such as pain, loss, joy, love, and gaining. Watching the proposed movie, the viewers would grow up and change with them with the main heroes. This story shocks and inspires, making people believe in themselves, those around them, and love that they are all trying to find. It is possible to suggest that the movie will be met with excitement and positive feedback since the spectators received the opportunity to better understand their own feelings and relationships.
The main characters seem to be quite similar, both internally and externally, to the characters of the film “Love, Rosie”. For example, the description of friendship between Lori and Sarah is a great example of female friendship. The story also focuses on the eternal topic of love at first sight, and it becomes clear that it is everyone’s personal business. The scene with the leaving bus that is the beginning of the “One Day in December” perfectly emphasizes the potential of this story to become a successful movie. The bus leaves the stop, and the stranger, whom Laurie is hopelessly in love with, stands on the sidewalk and looks after him. Confusion in the eyes, internal hope, and the complexity of a human soul can be expressed in looking at him until he disappears from sight. The whole book is full of similar scenes that make readers stop and think about the essence of love and relationships between people.
Today, films are shot at a frantic pace – several hundred films of various genres are released per year. Some of them represent a fictional story, others tell about real events of the past, and some are screen versions of books. Paper books make it possible to take one’s eyes off the monitor or TV screen and devote some time to reading. The opinions about what is best, a book or a movie, are distinctive, and one can give a lot of arguments in defense of one way or another way of knowing the world and self-development. One of the key benefits of producing the “One Day in December” movie is that modern fast life does not leave time for some people to read. If the plot of the book needs to be found out, and there is its adaptation, it is easier to spend 1.5-2 hours of time viewing the film. A feature film is not only the opportunity to relax but also receive deep emotions and the ground for further reflections.
Resources Needed
To start creating a movie, a screenwriter, cameraman, production designer, production manager, recording engineer, and make-up artist should be recruited. The process of filming a movie is always a team work, and attracting colleagues will help to better express what one wants to say. It is critical to make the actors live their role so that they can play vividly, which is the core task of the team of professionals mentioned above. For example, on the set of the “Titanic”, the director, James Cameron, gave each actor, a story according to which he had a purpose and a place on the ship. The ability to feel significant has an advantageous effect on the actor’s game. Therefore, the movie staff should help them to dive into the role by organizing all the required conditions. By letting the actors improvise or suggesting scenarios before and after the scenes, one may achieve greater inspiration and emotionality.
To conduct the casting, one will need a special place, camera on a tripod, and assistant, who will give out candidates to the number recorded so that they are captured with them on the camera. The camera is to be located in the surrounding area of the actors to record and listen to, checking the actors on the clip. Before the casting, one needs to choose from the script some dialogues to reproduce. It is desirable that these dialogs be vivid, personifying the characters.
The movie production costs are conventionally divided into several categories. They include the scenario, and since there is an idea, one can imagine how the dialogs will be built on the screen. The Internet can be used to find a lot of published scripts for good films, and the director needs to meticulously disassemble as many of them as possible. It is also important to follow the design rules to make sure that all the requirements are met. According to a well-written script, it is convenient to work for both actors and artists who are engaged in the storyboard. There are a lot of subtleties: for example, one page of a correctly edited script equals a minute of screen time.
Licensing and legal aspects compose another important area for cost considerations. The producer, as well as the owner of the rights to the audiovisual work as a whole, should also own the right to use each of the components of the audiovisual work separately. The legal status of the producer today is regulated by numerous legislative and other regulatory legal acts and primarily civil law since in the vast majority of cases, the activities of the producer are entrepreneurial. A successful project always touches upon legal issues, because in the process of its creation, preparation, and rental, film producers create and distribute a large number of contracts. The optimal type of legal entity, as well as providing assistance in organizing legal issues is to be performed in terms of consultations with lawyers. The lawyer also resolves tax matters, budgeting and its distribution between all participants, and is necessary for the production process to regulate issues with the director, producers, crew, screenwriters, and actors.
Every individual involved on the movie creation should be involved on the basis of a written agreement, which will solve fairly standard issues such as compensation, working hours, and the general period of employment. In addition, more specific issues, such as the participation in profits, an indication in the credits, travel, accommodation, and much more should be noted. In the United States, the practice of film guilds is common, for example, there are the Writers Guild of America West (WGA), the American Society of Cinematographers, et cetera. If the company will work with the members of the guild, the lawyer should also consider and draw up appropriate collective agreements to ensure that the company’s contract to attract a specialist meets the requirements of the union or guild.
The salary of major players, including the producer, director, and actors is another point of costs. In addition, production expenses compose the current salaries of all the people required to produce the film, where the remuneration of crew members occupy a tangible share of the budget. The talented cast is not inferior in importance to having a good script. Camera equipment costs may include a camera, stabilization system, lighting, and accessories for them. Also, the so-called point of milk and cookies contains minor expenses associated with environment adjustments, unanticipated costs, and so on.
Film festivals present a platform where the films can be seen by producers and distributors, who are interested in considering applications, including those of newcomers. There are also film festivals dedicated to the debut movie, which can be used to distribute the proposed film. It makes sense to make a trailer for the movie in the form of a one and a half minute presentation to reveal the main idea.
Actors/Actresses
The detailed analysis of the “One Day in December” and the review of the current actors and actresses allows considering several persons who fit the characters described by Josie Silver. The role of Laurie can be played by Florence Pugh, Daisy Ridley, Emilia Clarke, Emilia Fox, or Emma Watson. In turn, Madelaine Petsch, Ellie Bamber, or Karen Gillan seem to have the skills and charisma to play Sarah, who is the best friend of Laurie and girlfriend of Jack, being between two people, who love each other. Richard Madden, Jack Lowden, Theo James, or Sam Palladio can be invited for the character of Jack, who should be portrayed as prudent, indecisive, and passive person. The key idea of considering the mentioned actors and actresses is the assumption that they should create an atmosphere where live at first glance is something possible in a real life, and it is critical that their cooperation would be natural on the screen.