Location Permission

 
These two letters which my group have sent off to the respected owners/caretakers of the place which we want to film on and take shots. We wrote these letters to inquire and make sure we can shoot there without and problems being caused. We also explained in the letters the reasons for my group wanting to use the premises. As we have said that we are from Glenthorne school which is in the Sutton borough. Also that we are A level students doing it for an A level project, i think that will give us a better chance of being able to film there as it will be for our future. This will also help our group stick to our original idea of where we are wanting to film. So if able to film in these specific locations it will help us. 

props and costume

 

Picture of the shoes which Tom is going to wear whilst he is on the floor after being attacked. These shoes are smart shoes which will show that he may have come from school or college because he is having to dress smartly. 

 

This is a close up shot of the side of the shoes which Tom will be wearing.

 

The two images of the phone represents the flashback when Tom wakes up the morning on the day which he gets attacked. This is because we show Tom laying on the floor fighting for his life and then cutting back to when he wakes up preparing for the day ahead not knowing the consequences.

The 4 images of the sinks are practice images and making sure that this is the correct sink in which we can film what we need. For example we need to make sure we can get the correct angle for the shot and that we can make the blood drip and make it effective.

Casting

 

Casting

For our sequence to work well we need the correct characters tor for fill those roles and with the actors/actresses that we have got we have done that. As our target audience for the film is 16-20 years old we need actors to relate to that and be around that age. 

The Girls

The first 3 characters which i am going to talk about are the girls which are Sophie, Ellie and Zoe. The girls are at a similar height and build so this will help us to hide there identity because our film is all about the audience not knowing who attacked Tom and with the girls all being at a similar build we can do this. so throughout the sequence the audience want know exactly who each character is.When we film all of the girls will be wearing the same costume to show that they all go to school together and that they are friends. 

Main Actor

The main Actor will be getting played by myself Daniel. In the extract my characters name will be called Tom. I am the main actor because i represent the correct build and height needed to have to fit my characters role. I will be wearing everything which i am wearing in my picture above apart form the blue t-shirt which will be swapped for a white shirt. This will not giver any clues to the audience about my character because i will be wearing casual colours and i will be hiding my identity.

Animatics

Animatic

This is our group animatic which we have produced to give us a greater idea on what we can expect when finishing off our final draft for our opening sequence. To make it work we drew out pictures for each individual shot which we are going to take and then put them in order to make the animatic video. We drew them as storyboards so we know exactly how long we want each shot to stay on the screen for, if we want any titles to overlap the shot. We came to the conclusion that we might keep some of the more important titles on screen for longer as we felt they weren't on there for long enough. We also were able to test the music which we wanted to use to see if it sounded right with each shot/scene. However the music which we put in isn't the final music which we are going to use as we still wasn't sure as a group what music we wanted to use. The font which my group decided to use was 'CharparralPro-Regular', we choose to use this font because it is a very simple font but also bold as well so it will draw the audiences attention. This links well with our piece of work because the bold writing shows that it is going to be something serious which links in with the thriller theme and not a joke which would be a comedy theme.
   We also included our distribution and production company. For our production company we have gone with a name called 'Final Cut Productions'. We made this name ourselves and thought the title is effective. Our distribution company is called 'Lionsgate' we chose this because it has got history with distributing thriller films. 

Storyboard