Storyboards

Here are are initial story boards for our production. These are early sketches of what we want to achieve in our film.

Audience and Genre.

we have been trying to come up with an over all theme or Genre for our film. We Have assessed several genres, like horror, thriller, drama, adventure and a few more. We have finally settled on Crime Drama. We chose this, as we built the story around our characters passed experiences, and how they will effect him through out the film. His passed life was one of crime, and its all about how he tries to escape it, but he cant, and his previous life comes back to haunt him.

As for Audience, we feel that this film would suit the kind of audience that is looking for a deep plot, and a lot of character development, as at the beginning of the film, you are meant to know very little about the character and his past, and as the film develops, you learn more. This also comes with part of the genre, as a good amount of crime dramas use more in depth stories, which contribute to the overall style of the film.

We also feel out film would be under the 15 age rating, as our film has elements of crime throughout the film, and the plot maybe to detailed for someone under this age bracket to grasp properly. There is also scenes of violence deeper into the film, which would be unsuitable to younger audiences. Crime dramas usually never fall under this age bracket, as a good amount of them contain scenes of violence, drug use and other themes like this. Most tv crime dramas are shown after 9:00 or the watershed, so although they don t have a direct age, the time they are shown usually dictates who it is suitable.

Music Change.

While I was away on friday, steve decided it would we best if we change the music we used in our film.
The original track was Onra = Hard Times, which although is a good track, it didn't quite fit our film as well as it should, and we were told this by our teachers.
Steve changed to a track Called Finding the Balance, which is a piece of royalty free music, which means we dont have to ask for permission from the artist.

shot list

Date	Location	Shots	Equipment/Costume
20th January 2013	·       Bristol Airport (Runway) ·       Bristol Temple Meads ·       Yatton Train ·       Yatton Station ·       Dan’s House (Portishead) n	·       Panning shot of plane ·       Wide shot temple meads entrance ·       Low panning (temple meads entrance) ·       Ticket booth close up ·       Platform establishing shot, close ups ·       Panning wide angle train shot (Coming in) ·       Stationary train entrance ·       Train window shot ·       Yatton station platform ·       Establishing car shot ·       Panning car exit ·       Entrance of house shot	·       HD Camera Lumix ·       Tri-pod ·       Backpack ·       Dark Green Coat ·       Black beanie hat
24 February 2013	·       Nailsea train station ·       Dan’s house	·       Stationary exit platform ·       Stair shots (Close ups, panning) ·       Car shots (Close ups) ·       Entering car ·       Exiting station ·       In car close ups! ·       Window shots ·       Car drives up road ·       Stationary shot ·       Exit car shots ·       Close ups ·       Panning over to door ·       Knock on door ·       Entering hose ·	·       Sony HD Camera ·       Tri-pod ·       Backpack ·       Green Coat ·       Black Beanie hat
28th March 2013	·       Co-op Portishead	·       Airport exit (kind of) ·       Stationary wide shot ·       Leaving Airport	·       Lumix HD Camera ·       Tri-pod ·       Backpack ·       Green Coat ·       Black Beanie hat ·

re-shooting done

We managed successfully to get all the shots we needed to finish our film.

Steve unfortunately couldn't join me, so i took it upon my self to go out and get the necessary shots, with the help of my brother.

It went really well, and as i said, we got the shots we needed. Most of the shots we needed were of the 2nd station and the end scene which was the character coming to the house, knocking on the door then entering, which is where the film ends. 

I also managed to get some good close ups inside the car, and experiment more with different methods and shots.

Re-Shoots

We got the main body of our filming done a few weeks ago. However, there are still a few clips we are yet to get (i.e close ups, airport scene etc).

We plan on going back out to get the last few clips this Sunday (24th of February), however the weather we went out in last time was some what snowier than it currently is, so we will have to adapt the way we film it to try make the difference in conditions less obvious.

We are going back to temple meads to get our close ups of the character on the train, we will than find a substitute for bristol airport, as we are not aloud to film there (i know right). we also need other small close ups, to boost our marks, and fill in the gaps in the film.

Music

We have been searching for the past few lessons for the perfect music for our film.

We were ideally looking for something that had a slow beat, and a low tempo, so it gets across the loneliness factor in out film, as the character is on his own on his travels, and we really wanted to get that across with the music.

after spending a long time searching on various websites, we ended up choosing a track by an artist called Onra = Hard Times. This track has the perfect beat, speed and tempo, and fits really well into our film. I have used his music in the past, I used it recently in a bmx web edit me and a few friends made outside of school, so his music fits all kinds of genre of film types, and is really diverse.