Shooting Schedule

Shooting Schedule
This is my visual presentation of our first initial shooting schedule


The shooting schedule was later edited to be more specific, this can be noticed  in the template below;

The motive behind the shooting schedule is to make a table of which all group members can meet up for filming. These days show that our group has discussed which days we are to film certain location, our team work has helped us to create an efficient timetable that allows us to film in the areas and ideal areas that we has in mind. Our group were creative as we decided to experiment, to shoot some scenes in setting that created the same emotions as the one described in our initial ideas. Our choice of shooting at different locations was deprived from our storyboard and shot types which showed us that we have to be at certain areas to take successful shots relating to our genre for example the bridge, is located in the forest, though we decided to single it out as its own area. Due to the fact that it makes it easier for us as film directors to differentiate whereabouts in the forest we need to be.

Research - teacher

Planning - peer

Casting - Angel Sali

Casting 

The First Actor; Angel Sali 

We have chosen Angel to play the main character Helen because she fits the requirements of a victim as a female she is already depicted as vulnerable. Also her experience with acting during GCSE studies and outside school activities have made her more professional at fulfilling this role. in addition to that her appearance makes her relate able and a success at being looked at as fragile. 

The Second Actor: Stuart Bean

We have chosen Kris to play a Lazar because his experience at Drama Academy has enabled him to know how to play various roles; both heroic and villainous.  Kris is a very talented actor as who is capable of acting in emotions that display both emotionless and mystery.

The Third Actor: Ben Wakely 

Lastly we choose Ben  to play Blade who acts alongside Kris, the significance of his role and abilities is that his qualities match that of Kris as he is practising Drama at Btec level. This has given the ability to look both expressionless yet mysterious and mischievous. 

Titles

Costume, Props and Character Discription

Character one

This Video introduces the main character. who goes by the name Helen. 

This is Helen the character I play, she is picked for this role because of her normality. She is an ordinary office lady, being young she can be portrayed both vulnerable and innocent. This is significant as it helps the audience relate to her and depict her as the victim. Relativity is very important in thrillers as it is the way in which the movie reaches the audience by enabling them to empathise with the character and experience various emotions.

Costume
The Costume that we have chosen for this character is a suit and heels. We wanted this character to wear heels to enforce her femininity thus created a sense of ordinarily. the heels would help portray this character as both feminine, ordinary and classy, this makes it much easier for the audience to connect with this character as they can recognise features of normality.  The heels allow the audience to immediately differentiate the gender of this character before the face and clothing is revealed, this is what makes this costume significant.  We decided that a suit was the best costume for this character to wear as it reveals both her gender and personality. The  prop the handbag and the costume the suit, includes a skirt thus confirming her personality, that she is very feminine as she is wearing a smart skirt instead of trousers. The smartness of her clothing suggests that this woman is very clever and professional. The suit alone announces her occupation, suggesting that she works in a smart environment e.g an office or a law firm as she is wearing a smart costume. This overall presents her as a normal hardworking lady. The hint of a smile on her face suggests that she is a happy bubbly person, that she enjoys her life.

Character two 

This Video introduces the main character. who goes by the name Lazar. 

This is Laser, the character that Kris Bean plays, the video above helps to illustrate his personality and his role in this opening sequence. The video presents Laser as expressionless, this is an abnormal way to present a character as it makes him appears as though he has no emotions, no pain. The make up of this character; short hair, reveals this character is masculine. Laser is presented as a character that is hard to analyse as he seems disconnected the the features of normality as his face is expressionless. His eyes are staring straight ahead which creates a feeling of paranormal as though this character can stare deep into your soul. This positively creates a sense of mystery, fear and threat when focusing on this character.


Costume 
The costume that we have chosen for Blade is dominated by dark colouring as his jacket is black, this presents this character with dark imagery as black is associated with negative things. this gives the audience the impression that this character is evil, however, the ordinariness of his clothing types conflicts the nature of his character. as his clothing is regarded as casual; dark blue jeans and converses, this makes this character seem more interesting as there is more to him than what meets the eye. Its these conflicting impressions that keep the audience engaged in the movie.

Character Three

This is Blade who is played by Stuart Bean. His personality is presented in this image by created a theme of rebelliousness within the costume and body language. The character eyes look  focus and determined as if this person is on a mission. His hands are placed calmly by his side which demonstrates that this character is domineering, he's in control of the situation. The ordinariness of his face however create a sense of normality, which creates a feeling of mystery within the viewers.

Costume
For this character we have decided that his costume should present a rebellious youthful nature. The costume successfully does this by having a hood and jeans, clothing both considered as casual and hoods are considered as a concealment weapon for anti-social behaviour. This overall presents this character as a troublemaker, we found this interesting as it creates more mystery and questions within the characters. As the two actors Lazar and Blade are presented as partners in crime, their choice of costume suggested contrasting personalities. For props we decided that this character should have a phone; a blackberry in particular, as it confirms his youth. The usage of the phone is what will interest the viewers as the character is expected to get a call in the movie, whom is he calling is concealed.

storyboard

The Making of the Story Board



To successfully complete this task we shared out the roles of the design of the storyboard. Each of us contributed into filling out the box entitled; dialogue, camera movement and edit. I dominated the colour scheme for the drawings, Stuart Bean found the music that was to play during our storyboard sequence and Ben Wakely put the video together.

Our storyboard


We decided to a storyboard to show a visual presentation of how our opening sequence will be like. The sound helps to reveal the pace, and allows the audience to connect with the images on screen. This helps the audience to know what to expect from our opening sequence. We decided to draw rather than to type what is happening on screen because it is quicker to interpret and gives a much clear portrayal of what is happening.

Script

The video above is a creative visualisation of our script which is like this;

Blade, Lazar: People don't last long here, your time is up
Blade: we always knew you would come
Lazar: it's been predicted
Blade,Lazar: we know who you really are

Our choices for the dialect was dominated by our needs to create a mysterious feeling. We decided that the actors make statements rather than questions as this creates more seniority. The phrases selected are sentences that are considered to be very factual and authoritative. We wanted the dialect to be this way so that it both provide clues on the story line yet leave a heap of questions pondering in the viewers.

Research- Peer

Sound

Below are samples of sound that we may use for our opening sequence

 1..

 we choose this sound as it starts off sound like a rush of wind which suggests its a windy day and then ends on a mysterious note, almost as if the sound has disappeared of the screen.

2.

This sound was particularly interesting as it swam through different emotions, this tune creates the emotion of both fear, danger, threat and hopelessness. the high notes are significantly  distinctive as most high notes are used to create hope whereas this tune uses a high note for the complete opposite, the high note helps to create a sense of hopelessness and vulnerability as though it proclaiming that something bad will happen and there is nothing you can do to stop it. the deep notes confirm death, repetitive notes help to enforce hopelessness.