The final task we had to do was make an opening scene for a film designed by our group. After discussing within the group for a short period of time we all decided we wanted to to do a Drama film. We came up with allot of ideas and everyone chipped in there own ideas. All these ideas soon came into an idea about thugs. We wanted to create a modern film and used other British drama films to help us come up with some different ideas.
When deciding the plot for the opening we came up with the idea we wanted to have a flashback in our opening. This flashback would be our hook and make an audience want to watch on. Now we had our hook we thought about what could happen for the rest of the opening scene. After another discussion we decided we had to have something happening that sets the scene for the rest of the film. This is what brought about the idea of having a drugs deal so it could be recognised as a drama. We then came up with the idea for our whole film. This was a lot harder but in the end we worked out a plan for the rest of the film.
The next stage involved making up a script. We made three scripts one for the garage scene, kitchen scene and finally the ending scene. These scripts were made to make the audience think and we did not want to give a lot away in them. The garage scene script we tried to not give anything away which is why we said many lines such as "why did you do it?".
The next stage was the making of a shot list. For this we had to work out the amount of scenes we needed, amount of shots for the scenes and write a description. For every shot we also had to say what shot it was for example, Medium long shot. This took a good few hours to make. However it helped us when we was filming it saved us a lot of time.
After this we had to do our storyboards. After using the shot list to help us we had to draw each shot to the correct shot size. As a group we all drew drawings for the storyboards. We used these to help us when shooting our opening.
The next stage was the risk assessment were we had to think about all the hazards there could be when filming and describe how we could avoid them. This part of the Pre-production was done at a fast pace and took us under an hour to complete it. After we had to do our location recce. Involved was just taking pictures of the site we were filming our scenes. When we had our pictures we had to put them all together to make it look like it was panoramic view.
As a group i would say we have worked pretty well. What helped the most was being good friends which helped us communicate outside of school when we needed to send work to each other etc. On a whole we all put our own in to the project and all helped each other whenever one was stuck on a piece of work. However in a way we did not work well as group as we did not communicate with each other enough to know who had finished what. This did not help when finally putting all the work together and realising some pieces were not finished or done to the best that they could be.
One main problem we encountered was the shot lists. This was because soon after finishing them we realised many were done wrong and did not match up to the storyboards. This problem was soon resolved though and as a group we all worked together to fix the problem. What we encountered was not enough shots on each of the scenes. However we soon changed each shot and to make sure it all works when we put the shots together.
A big change we made was the genre of the film. We started off as a action film however after researched soon discovered our film was more of a drama. Many action films
include special effects and weapons. Our film was more of a 'Football factory' or 'Adulthood' film' and soon after realising this changed it to fix the problem we encountered. The disagreements we mainly had was about the characters names. Some people in the group had different ideas about what names fitted the bill for the film we was creating, while others felt they were not right. After a short discussion though we all came to a final decision on the names and everyone in the group was happy. The majority of the time we all agreed on the same thing this made everything easy and quick.
Risk Assessment;
Risks are highlighted in bold and have been told how they will be avoided.
Mobile phone interrupting filming;
Turn the phone off to avoid it going off and disrupting the filming. This will help to keep full focus on filming.
Stairs;
Take care when on the stairs especially when carrying equipment. Also when filming on them, make sure equipment is positioned correctly.
Moving equipment;
Take care when you are moving equipment to avoid injury and damage to yourself and the equipment.
Opening and closing doors;
Take care when opening and closing doors making sure you don’t get your fingers caught.
Cooking;
Make sure we don’t burn the food otherwise this will waste valuable time.
Slipping on kitchen floor;
Don’t mess around and keep the kitchen floor clean.
Train noise;
Make sure we film when there are no trains coming along the track. If there is we will have to re-film the clip.
Cars;
Do not film during rush hour. This will ruin our clip if loads of cars come along the road.
People;
While filming in the train tunnel we will have to make sure no stranger ruins our clip. To avoid this we will have to minimise the amount of shots we take and make sure we only have to take many retakes.
Rain;
If it rains it would ruin our clip. We will avoid this by checking the weather forecast forehand before we film.
Script;
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