Shooting Schedule

Titles and credits

The titles and credits help indicate the beginning and end of our extract and so are an important part when creating a short film. We have ordered our titles from least to most important so the audience can see who had what role throughout the film and also so it looks authentic and doesn't just end abruptly. I do however think the credits roll quite fast and so we would need to slow them down so the audience can read them properly. The titles help identify the actors/movie name again which plays a really important role in the film.

Costume List

Font research

 Using the word Hamburgevons to show of the typography of each font, I searched for possible fonts to use for the main title as well as the headings. As we have not come up with our Main title, it's difficult to tell which one would work for our opening sequence. How ever I feel that a messy, rugged font such as "True Lies" would look great for the Main title . It shows aspects of mystery mixed in with horror. It's dramatic and bold as well as strange. For the headings I thought a type writer font (Like "times new yorker")would work great as it would relate to our theme of detectives and their cases.

Title ideas

Casting

Actor: Matthew Tizzard

Character: Jack Matthews - The recently deceased co worker of the protagonist - Hugh Green

I volunteered for the role of Jack Matthews as I have had previous experience in performing. My appearance combined with the costume will match that of the characters bio and the features found out from the target audience research. Besides my looks and experience i was also chosen as i don't mind getting dirty, lying down on our set in the middle of the street, in front of people. Plus it might be fun.

Props list

Background music and sound effects

 I choose this as a draft or starting point for background music as it is calming however it still builds tension slowly for the audience by the use of the piano. I also think that we could are able to put sound effects over the backing track because the music itself is not over developed and complex so it wont be too manic like of an opening sequence if the sound effects were put over the piano.

 I have chosen this as it sounds as more of realistic Gun shot rather than the actual hand gun sound effects it also has a steady continuous after effect of the shot which makes it more dramatic and i would like to put it in the first 30 seconds of the opening sequence before the audience is first visually introduced to the opening sequence. 

Animatic Reviews

     Things that we will have to work on for our animatic are:
     - Sound Track
     - Timing on some shots lasting for too long

Overall I think the idea of our animatic is very successful due to the different titles and the customization of the colors on certain words. Our animatic is above 2 minutes so there is no worry of it being too short or too long, also with our soundtrack it links in a way to our storyboard as the shots we have fit the soundtrack we are using. Our storyboard is well detailed but some shots are placed a bit "randomly" which could potentially confuse the audience when observing or watching out sequence.

Animatic

Locations

 For our opening i thought that this alleyway would be good position to film it. Firstly it fits into our setting displayed in the storyboards, it's dirty, rundown and is a dead end, both for the alley and the victim.

The alley is also secluded meaning were're less likely to be distracted by members of the public whilst recording.

The set also comes with its own props! meaning less effort on our part. Of course we would still need to add a few more, such as the tape. On the downside it is unclean and could potentially req a futher investigation of the set as well a clean up.

The whereabouts of the alley is close to rose hill roundabout, by a block of flats.












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 I found a alley way near a local high school so it is in a safer area. it also has many angles allowing us to have many creative shots with angles and extreme close-ups.

 The actual alleyway itself is tidy and clear from any harm of objects that could be dangerous. This also gives us more space to lay our props in specifically places of the alleyway because of the amount of space given.

The Background of the shots are suburbia which fits into the sketches of the storyboard. it is also near a local park with a clear field so the 'victim' is able to be followed like in our storyboard.

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For our opening title sequence we have taken the idea of our crime scene to take place in an ally. Therefore, in order to prepare for our filming we had to establish specific locations that we were interested to film in and also set our storyline that would be appealing to the audience keeping them interested and one that also fitted the thriller genre. Taking into consideration the British market that our independent film our aiming towards, we used a local location in Carshalton. The local setting also is supported by our feedback from our survey that we completed with results identifying that viewers preferred to see a local setting for a thriller compared to an extravagant one.

Presentation Feedback

 For part of our planning for the extract we were asked to present what ideas and the plot of our story that we had so far. We were then given feedback from the class about what was good and what we could do better.

The feedback that we had been given proved to be very useful and so we have made some significant changes to our extract so it can be even better.

For example, a question that did keep coming up was, if we were going to show how the colleague died and if we would follow his story. We decided that we would not show the colleagues death and so that would add to the mystery of them finding out who the killer was without knowing the exact way he had died.

By doing this it also made the opening easier to make as we did not have to film two different people in separate locations.

We also had decided that our main characters name Hugh Green, was a bit too "old school" and so we will be coming up with a more modern and gripping name as the name was also brought up in the feedback.