Script update!

The script has been printed out and given to each character to take a look at, and of course Joe Porello (Played by Daniel), to memorise the diegetic sound! :D

Preparing for Filming

Today, the three members of the production team have been at location B preparing to film at the weekend.

Some of the duties carried out, involved..

- Making sure all props were there (This included the cards, guns, and that everyone had correct costume)
- Making sure all characters were available and able to stick to the schedule.
- The car was cleaned (Just incase..)
- Cleaning the garage out, and making sure everything looked nice.

We feel we are now fully prepared for the weekend!

Weather forecast for weekend

Here is the weather cast for this week. As you can see, the weekend is ideal for us (and all of the actors), as the weather should be good on Saturday, and Sunday if it is not finished!

As you can see, on the map below (Around the Wakefield area), there is no rain forecasted for the weekend! We will be posting again to show the timetable for the cast (etc)




Buying Props

This morning me and Andy have been into Barnsley town centre to try and find some of the props we needed for filming with later on. We already had most of them, we all owned cards and poker chips and glasses and cans could be found easily around the home. We bought some ties for our characters from Burtons a clothes store. However we still needed some guns to use as props so me and Andy went into some toy shops and found some that were a good size and even though they are blue they should look alright when we edit the film into black and white.

Risk Assessment

Camera Positions

Along with the shot list, we thought it would be a great idea to plan out our shot list. Although this is not certain, at least it will help us position the camera a little better when we come to filming. The pictures are not too complicated, but cover the whole 34 shots during the filming process



Shot List

Shot list for opening two minutes

Exterior – Derelict Car Park – Daytime

Shot 1 – Static wide angle establishing shot featuring all four characters. (Here, narration & music starts)

Shot 2 – Panning very wide angle shot, establishing scene

Shot 3 – Long shot of Mickey Sullivan, zooming into to medium/medium close up whilst lent on the car whilst reading tabloid & lent on car

Shot 4 – Long shot of Paul Dunham, zooming into medium-long shot (different from previous shot to keep variety)(handling gun)

Shot 5 – Medium-long shot of Tony Coster, zooming into Medium shot (drinking)

Shot 6 – Static medium shot, showing Joe Porello stood in front of car (with dialogue)

Shot 7 – Return to original wide-angle shot to re-establish the scene, and show all characters getting into the car,

Shot 8 – slightly high angle shot of the back of Tony Coster approaching car door

Shot 9 – Closeup of Tony Coster opening door handle (match on action)

Shot 10 – Low long shot of car rear (maintaining 180* rule)

Shot 11 – Closeup of character putting key into ignition barrel and turning key

Shot 12 – Wide shot from side of car as it drives away, panning to the right with the car

Shot 13 – Wide angle shot of car approaching, then quickly pan to the right to show speed




Exterior - Driveway – Daytime

Shot 14 – from passenger seat, film driver opening door and starting to get out

Shot 15 – Wide angle shot, zooming out as car approaches

Shot 16 – Static wide angle shot of characters exiting car

Shot 17 – Very wide shot of characters approaching camera (with dialogue) getting out guns, going to a medium-closeup as they approach the camera

Shot 18 – Back of the characters, as a medium-closeup, and goes to a wide angle shot as the get further away from the camera... to open the garage door

Shot 19 – Wide-angle shot showing (other) 4 characters inside (one pointing gun, one with arms up in the air)




Interior - Garage - Daytime

Shot 20 – Wide angle shot of 4 characters (One character dealing cards)

Shot 21 – Closeup of props (cigarettes/poker chips/2 cards)

Shot 22 – high angle point of view shot, revealing cards

Shot 23 – Closeup shot of same character’s face, panning vertically upwards to show expression

Shot 24 – Medium shot of character putting chips into middle of the table

Shot 25 – (Shot reverse shot) similar medium shot of other character (later edit for a graphic match) putting chips in the middle of the table

Shot 26 – Again medium close up of other character (will be edited, so as to alternate between this scene and previous scene), putting more chips on the table.

Shot 27 – (Shot reverse shot) Similarly, alternative character in same medium shot putting remaining poker chips on the table

Shot 28 – Medium shot of character in black throwing cards on table

Shot 29 – High angle Extreme-closeup (again) of the same cards

Shot 30 – Wide angle showing white-dressed character, stop the black-dressed character from collecting poker chips; grabbing cards and throwing them on the table.

Shot 31 – High angle Extreme closeup of winning cards

Shot 32 – Medium shot of black-dressed character revealing a gun

Shot 33 – (Shot reverse shot) Medium shot of white-dressed character putting hands up

Shot 34 – Wide-angle shot showing (other) 4 characters stood outside the garage holding guns

** EDIT - You may notice that some of the shots are grayed out.. this is because, although we filmed these shots.. we couldn't include them in our final piece due to the 2:00 limit of the film introduction.
 
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