Prezi:

This prezi, made my group member Charlie, shows some details about costume, sound, location and some props.

Costume Ideas - For Female Lead

The Order of Titles:

The usual title arrangements is as followed:

·      ‘Film....’ in association with...

·      ‘Company’ presents

·      A ‘director’ film.

·      Star

     Star
     Star 

·     

·      Technicians - Director of photography, production designer, costume, make up etc. (order of importance)

·      Executive producers, producers, director.

·      FILM TITLE

Of course this is all dependent on what kind of film it is. If it is a massive Hollywood blockbuster  there will be more of an extensive list of actors (in order of how famous they are - normally) this is to get those film fanatics on your side instantly. Whereas if it is a smaller independent film then the list of stars will undoubtedly be shorter and there is more likely to be more investors listed.

Our film, as it is set so specifically in Dorking, is going to be a small British independent film. Therefore we will probably only have about two or three actors names but have more 'investors' listed. Hopefully this will make our opening title sequence more authentic.

Cast List

Paul Wingfield as the character of Michael. We decided to go with Paul as our male lead because he is a clearly attractive man who fits the age and look of our young journalist. Paul is a technician at Hurtwood and not an actor, so we have to take into account that he is not going to be as experienced as our female lead when it comes to acting in front of the camera.

Lottie Stent as the character of Jennifer. We decided to choose Lottie as our female lead because she fits the mold of our blonde bombshell perfectly. She is a classically pretty blonde with features that we believe will work well on camera. We were able to get in contact with her as she was an ex-Hurtwood pupil. She is a working actress so she has experience in front of camera which is an added bonus. Lottie is in her early twenties, which is exactly the age that we needed.













Our extras will be Adam and Leah Grant. This is mostly due to the fact that they will be on location during the filming process as it Leah's office we are using and Adam will be supervising the shoot. It just seemed sensible to use people that are already there rather than busing more people over to simply say two lines and walk out. As the role is so simple there really doesn't need to be any acting or camera experience at all.

Character List

In this film opening we have two lead characters.

Male Lead:
Michael. A clearly attractive, young but successful journalist working at the local newspaper of Dorking. He is total neat freak which is shown in the organisation of his desk. He is in his mid-twenties and has a classic British look. He will most likely be wearing a tweed jacket and some thick rimmed glasses - almost Peter Parker like. He has an obsession with finding the perfect woman, which is why his aim is to make the perfect woman his self.

Female Lead:
Jennifer. A very beautiful classic blonde bombshell who works in the office with Michael. She is actually his assistant and works on a desk directly opposite him. She on the other hand is incredibly messy which once again is shown through her desk which is covered in trashy magazines. She also loves her Starbucks drinks, which is why on her desk are always numerous empty cups. She is Michael's latest obsession.

Extras:
A couple of extra office staff appear right at the beginning of the opening, they are leaving the office at the end of the day leaving Michael and Jennifer alone.

Shooting Schedule

Today we put together a (rough) shooting schedule for our shoot day in January. A lot of our timing will be dependent on the sunset time in January. We have had a look online at the sunset times in January, so we can get a rough estimate.

      Sunset times in January.

Production Meeting

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Production Meeting (with Matt)

Today we had a production meeting where Matt (Media tech) came into to talk about how we could turn our ideas into reality. He liked our idea and thinks that it has great potential. We have decided we now have the basis of our idea as we have done a first draft of the storyboard; we now need to get to some depth into our characters. Matt said, that to create a legitimate character you need to think about their backstory. For our lead male: does he prefer using a notepad or a laptop? Is he a messy person or really neat? For our female lead: what magazines does she read – are they on her desk? Does she doodle in her notepad? These things will make the character more realistic, the audience won’t register it directly but combined with personality of the characters it will factor in.

Thinking about titles:

As a group we are in the process of deciding what kind of font we would like for our titles. So far we have narrowed it down to two (very juxtaposing) ideas.

The first idea is to have the font incredibly neat and tidy. It would be a classic computer generated font, like american typewriter for example. This fits in with his image of perfection and order which we shows on the outside.

Title Idea One (for example)

To completely contrast this, the next idea is a messy hand-written font. This would mimic the writing that he does in his secret notebooks. It could look really effective or it could just look out of character and context with the rest of the footage. 

(for example)

Script (in progress)

Extra 1: See you tomorrow mate!

Extra 2: Aright, have a good evening.

Jennifer (Lottie): Michael I’m off now. I’ve just arranged the case files you wanted and I’ll just leave them here. Oh and do you want me to get coffee for you tomorrow morning? Is there anything specific you want? (Sound of voice begins to blur out)

Michael (Paul): She’s quite a pretty girl. I’ve always thought she was pretty but nothing special. All the guys in the office are crazy about her, I don’t see it. Good body, nice hair, pretty eyes, cute smile…She’s not perfect though… and I want perfect. Pause. Those ears. I could use those.    



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At the moment we have drafted this VERY basic script. The words that we do eventually use will undoubtedly be different but we have this here as a starting block for us to use to begin with. The lines that Michael says at the moment are a bit vague and we will most likely tidy it up dependent on the footage we get.
Our script isn't very long because our opening title sequence consists of very little dialogue, most of which will be recorded in the studio after shooting. 

Props List:

This is our current props list. Some of these items will need to be collected by Al, others will be collected by ourselves.
The laptops we will use, will be our own. Magazines are already in my possession so we can recycle them.

First Draft of Storyboard