We have produced a letter for the people that we would like to include in our media text just to make sure we knew how many people we would have for definate.
This is letter provided -
'14/12/09
Dear Sir/Madam,
As part of our AS Media Studies course for 2009/2010 we need to produce a film opening. To ensure that we have the best opening possible we will need many extras, we would be delighted if you would take part in this with us for the filming of our first scene on the 18th December at approximately 1.00pm at Sheldon Heath Community Arts College (for address see below*). The clothes you will require will be smart casual as we are hoping to get the effect of an incident at a place of work.
If this is of no problem you may also be required to film for our second scene at a later date for the “Wedding Scene” we know it will be taking place at some point over the Christmas half term. The venue for this scene is by Sheldon Country Park, but if you are able to come we will arrange a meeting point for all cast. For this you will need to bring smart clothes as if attending a Wedding ceremony. E.g.: Boys in suits and girls in dresses - weather permitted.
Bring umbrellas to both events.
Scene 1 – Incident Scene - 18th December 2009
Attending
Not Attending
Scene 2 - The Wedding Scene – Christmas Half term
Attending
Not Attending
Unsure until date is arranged
Best Regards,
Jodie Mills, Carlaina Breese and Remarni Miller.
If there are any problems please get in contact with the 3 of us through Sheldon Heath Community Arts College.
*Sheldon Heath Community Arts College
Sheldon Heath Road
Sheldon
BirminghamB
26 2RZ
0121-464 4428 '
We are hoping that most of the people we have asked will be able to come and join in because it will make it easier for us and make our opening look more professional.
Wednesday 16 December 2009
Rating for our film . .
I have been looking at ratings of films that are of a similar genre to ours, films such as;
The Notebook - 15
P.S: I love you - 12a
Titanic - 12
So our rating would be around this age, depending on weither we would decide to add sexual content and foul language. Up until now I hadn't thought of this but I'd probably suggest that we did use these because things like this attract different types of audiences. So if I were to include these I would say the rating would be a 15. Obviously the films above have used these factors and have been very succesful so I think that is a good reason to use them in ours.
The Notebook - 15
P.S: I love you - 12a
Titanic - 12
So our rating would be around this age, depending on weither we would decide to add sexual content and foul language. Up until now I hadn't thought of this but I'd probably suggest that we did use these because things like this attract different types of audiences. So if I were to include these I would say the rating would be a 15. Obviously the films above have used these factors and have been very succesful so I think that is a good reason to use them in ours.
I found the above peice of information on the offical BBFC website so I know this is information I can rely on. To make sure I wasn't incorrect with the rating I would give our film I thought I should check with official rating charts.
Things that are on this such as; Sex, Language, Nudity and Maybe violence.
There will be a lot of things like this included because we would be showing both of their lives and the troubles in it.
Song . .
After much diliberation I think we have finally chosen a song to put on our opening, we did prefer our first options but obviously they were copy righted so it has become apprent that we have to find something that is lacking in copy right. We used a website that we found through google which had many links to sites that would provide us with what we were looking for.
On this we found this website - http://www.joshwoodward.com/music/
It fits the genre of our film and the words fit with the situation our Lead role is in.
The song we have chosen is call "I'm Letting Go"
We can download the song for free which is also usefull.
On this we found this website - http://www.joshwoodward.com/music/
It fits the genre of our film and the words fit with the situation our Lead role is in.
The song we have chosen is call "I'm Letting Go"
We can download the song for free which is also usefull.
Monday 14 December 2009
Health and Safety Checks . .
Location 1
Back of School
Risks -
1. Car Park near by
2. Falling down stairs
3. People throwing items from windows above
4. Its now unused
How we will prevent the risks -
1. To prevent any risks from happening by the car park we will ensure that we stay away from it but if there is any need to go into the car park (only if there are no cars around) we will make sure we have a couple of people looking out.
2. When running down the small stairs we will make sure there is nothing on the stairs that they can trip up over such as water and loose stones.
3. We will film out of school hours so classrooms will only be in use by teachers, it also means there will be less cars on the car park as a lot of teachers leave as school ends.
Location 3
The Wedding Scene
Risks -
1. Cars
2. Falling over on gravel
3. Animals
How will we prevent these risks -
1. Have someone looking out at all times, on a path ready to tell if a car is approaching and at the top of the road.
2. Make sure people wear sutiable shoes for the unsteady ground and may be slippy so make sure there is also grip on the shoes.
3. Just ensure that the children don't go out of view also as it is winter time hopefully the Anmials will but put away.
Location 2 -
The House
Risks -
1. When she throws bottles off the dressing table
2. Initially smashing the Photo Frame
3. Throwing the Photo frame at the wall
How we will prevent these risks -
1.Make sure all the bottles on the desk are soft plastic such as moisteriser bottles, but if we need something to look like a perfume bottle we will use a harder plastic but put something soft on the floor out of shot and make sure they land on that.
2. When smashing the photoframe we will wear goggles, gloves (the photoframe will be plastic) and wrap the photoframe in a cloth to ensure none of the shards of plastic fly out.
3. Throwing the photoframe at the wall could be dangerous because it could fly back in the direction it was thrown, so we will make sure that as soon it is thrown she will move out of the way. Also we will smash the picture before it is thrown and therefore she ill not have to throw it as hard/fast and would probably mean that it wouldn't bounce back as easily.
Back of School
Risks -
1. Car Park near by
2. Falling down stairs
3. People throwing items from windows above
4. Its now unused
How we will prevent the risks -
1. To prevent any risks from happening by the car park we will ensure that we stay away from it but if there is any need to go into the car park (only if there are no cars around) we will make sure we have a couple of people looking out.
2. When running down the small stairs we will make sure there is nothing on the stairs that they can trip up over such as water and loose stones.
3. We will film out of school hours so classrooms will only be in use by teachers, it also means there will be less cars on the car park as a lot of teachers leave as school ends.
Location 3
The Wedding Scene
Risks -
1. Cars
2. Falling over on gravel
3. Animals
How will we prevent these risks -
1. Have someone looking out at all times, on a path ready to tell if a car is approaching and at the top of the road.
2. Make sure people wear sutiable shoes for the unsteady ground and may be slippy so make sure there is also grip on the shoes.
3. Just ensure that the children don't go out of view also as it is winter time hopefully the Anmials will but put away.
Location 2 -
The House
Risks -
1. When she throws bottles off the dressing table
2. Initially smashing the Photo Frame
3. Throwing the Photo frame at the wall
How we will prevent these risks -
1.Make sure all the bottles on the desk are soft plastic such as moisteriser bottles, but if we need something to look like a perfume bottle we will use a harder plastic but put something soft on the floor out of shot and make sure they land on that.
2. When smashing the photoframe we will wear goggles, gloves (the photoframe will be plastic) and wrap the photoframe in a cloth to ensure none of the shards of plastic fly out.
3. Throwing the photoframe at the wall could be dangerous because it could fly back in the direction it was thrown, so we will make sure that as soon it is thrown she will move out of the way. Also we will smash the picture before it is thrown and therefore she ill not have to throw it as hard/fast and would probably mean that it wouldn't bounce back as easily.
Wednesday 9 December 2009
Who is needed for each day of Filming . .
Today we worked out between the three of us who we would need for each day of filming;
Location 1 - The Tragedy Scene.
Actors We Will Need/Would like to have but need to finalise:
Stephen Mills
Jessica Bradley
Ellis Osborne
Karina Miller
Remarni/Jodie/Carla - MAYBE if short on extras.
Amy Gamble
Suzanne Young
Jade Tolliday
Aaron Collins
Ashley Wager
Baljot Randhawa
Maybe Teachers if there are some near
Location 2 - The Weeding Scene
Actors we will need/would like to have:
Stephen Mills
Leanne Hilton
Rebecca Osborne
Ellis Osborne
Jessica Bradley
Lauren Bradley
Grace Mount
Daniel Hammond
Suzanne Young
Matthew Gibbs
Aaron Collins
Karon Breese
Location 3 - House Scene.
Only Actor Needed:
Leanne.
There will probably be actors added or taken away but these are the people that we are hoping to use, any more would be a bonus. But we just need to finalise agreements with them x
Location 1 - The Tragedy Scene.
Actors We Will Need/Would like to have but need to finalise:
Stephen Mills
Jessica Bradley
Ellis Osborne
Karina Miller
Remarni/Jodie/Carla - MAYBE if short on extras.
Amy Gamble
Suzanne Young
Jade Tolliday
Aaron Collins
Ashley Wager
Baljot Randhawa
Maybe Teachers if there are some near
Location 2 - The Weeding Scene
Actors we will need/would like to have:
Stephen Mills
Leanne Hilton
Rebecca Osborne
Ellis Osborne
Jessica Bradley
Lauren Bradley
Grace Mount
Daniel Hammond
Suzanne Young
Matthew Gibbs
Aaron Collins
Karon Breese
Location 3 - House Scene.
Only Actor Needed:
Leanne.
There will probably be actors added or taken away but these are the people that we are hoping to use, any more would be a bonus. But we just need to finalise agreements with them x
Mood Board
This is an image of our mood board, I think it represents the mood of our film well. The use of the black and white pictures shows that the majority of our opening will be quite sombre. Also the images we have chosen show the story of what happens to the characters in the opening.
e.g; a woman crying and wearing black obviously mourning which is the same situation as in our opening.
Storyboard !
We have now completed our storyboard but have not yet put on the timings of each shot as we are unsure how long each shot will be.
I have took pictures of the story board as a whole and then individual photos:
Sheet 1.
Sheet 2.
Sheet 3.
Sheet 4.
I have took pictures of the story board as a whole and then individual photos:
Sheet 1.
Sheet 2.
Sheet 3.
Sheet 4.
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