Filming Over Holidays

Today the group had decided in our latest production meeting that we will be filming our thriller through the dates 3rd-5th January. We hope to stick to this plan and hope to finish everything in these 3 days. We gave our self quite a lot of time to film as we are working with an animal. This takes patience and time to complete well and to a decently high standard. We know that this will be a task but we are willing to take on the challenge.

Storyboard

Shooting Schedule

Day	Scene	Location	Equipment	Costumes	Props	Cast +Crew
1 2 3 4 5	Opening Theft Chase Downloading Set-up	Fairlop Park - - Car-park/ Car -	Mono-pod Mic Camera Tri-pod	Casual black clothes Black gloves Black hoodie Black gloves	Ball/treats/dog lead/collar Small Handbag Dog collar Laptop/USB/Car 2 prop guns	Alex +Dog +Mum Malerich + Freddie + Alanta + Carl

Location Sheet

Production Schedule Location Visit Sheet Film Title: Writers: Alex Malerich, Alanta Tarling, Carl Palmer, Freddie Taylor Producer: Alanta Tarling Director: Alanta Tarling Date:

Rough Sketch/Explanation of location and key points to note We will be filming in this park and will also be using the car park for the car scene. The grassland area will be mostly used as it will be used for the start scenes and the chase scene. The car park will be used for the car scene in where Freddie gets in the car. Access to location via: Car Name and number of location contact: Fairlop Waters, Forest Road Barkingside, Essex, IG6 3HN How to find us. Tel: 020 8500 9911

Health and Safety Issues to note: ●      Risk of falling over because of slippery ground.

Potential Filming Problems: ●      Dog might not co-operate ●      The ground could be wet and muddy. ●      Weather: rain, snow etc.

Additional Notes:  (map of area/weather forecast etc)

Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment

Group Members: Alexandra Malerich, Alanta Tarling, Freddie Taylor, Carl Palmer                                                                                              Location:Fairlop WAters

Hazard	Person(s) at Risk	Likelihood of Hazard 1 – Extremely Unlikely 5 – Extremely Likely	Severity of Hazard Outcomes 1 – Very Low Risk 5 – Very High Risk	Risk Level (Likelihood + Severity) 2	Measures to Take to Manage Risk	Risk Managed? Y/N
Might/probably will be very muddy	Everyone	1/2	1	2+1 / 2 = 1/2	Do not spend too much time on the grass	Y
It might rain and/or snow	Everyone	3	2	3 +2 / 2 = 2.5	Try to film some of the film inside, or at a dry place.	Y
The dog doing something dangerous	Freddie and camera	4	4	4+4 / 2 = 4	Make sure that Alex is always with the dog so nothing bad happens.	Y
Other people in the park running into us (kids)	Everyone	4	1	4 + 1 /2 = 1/2	Always be aware of our surroundings	Y

Treatment

Treatment

Group Roles Cinematography: Alanta Tarling Mise-en-scene: Alex Malerich Sound: Carl John Palmer Editing: Freddie Taylor

Title: - Tag Line: Don’t judge a dog by its collar.

Synopsis: ·  Alex is walking dog ·      (Extreme opening, black screens with credits) ·      Freddie (thug/spy) steals Alex’s handbag with USB inside ·      Dog runs after Freddie (dogs collar has a GPS tracking on it) ·      Dog chase thug/spy ·      Freddie gets to his car, put the USB into the laptop ·      Alex is tracking her dog with GPS from her phone ·      While Freddie is un-coding USB on his laptop ·      Freddie realises it was all a setup and he’s actually looking at his own file ·      Gun shot appears from behind his car seat ·      And a hand from the car window with a gun as well ·      Screen goes black and we hear 2 gun shots

Key Genre Conventions: McGuffin: USB/Laptop Red Herring: Dog’s Collar

Costume and Prop list

Costumes and Props

Character Name: Alex
Costume: casual dog walking outfit no glossy clothing /matte finishes black gloves	Props: Dog lead Dog collar Handbag USB Fake gun x2
Character Name: freddie
Costume: Black clothing gloves black scarf	Props: Car Laptop
Character Name: carl hand	Dog
Costume: gloves	Props: Collar Treats Squeaky toy lead

The Unsuspected - Preliminary Task Video

'The Unsuspected Evaluation - Preliminary Task

Plot

The story we created was based on a innocent school boy (John played by Carl) who was asked to speak to his head teacher. He thinks he is in trouble because he accidentally pushed another school child down the stairs when he is only there to speak about the lessons he has not been attending. 

Overall Technical Points

At 0:05 of the exercise, we see carl entering the teachers class room and at 0:10 we used a match-on-action shot to connect the movement between carl on the outside of the door and on the inside of the door. The next shot moves into a sequence of shot/reverse shot where we see the head teacher speaking to carl from the different angles. at 0:25 we used a low angle shot to make carl appear bigger when he confesses. This isn't something we planned to work as he is nervous when he confesses. However the idea of carl being further away makes him appear more nervous and distressed than freddie who we can only see part of. The follow through shot has dialogue that challenges carls confession. I decided to write this part of the script to make sure the audience would understand that the head teacher did not expect carl to confess this kind of action. We asked freddie to put the 'dead cat' on the side and to lean forward in this shot. This gives the audience the idea that freddie is fully concentrating on what carl has to say. Carl continues to talk and get himself into more trouble and this ends with him 'breaking down' and trying to exit (0:43) but the head teacher holds him back and gives a cliffhanger line at this point where he says 'now we have a serious problem'. At this point carl runs out and crashes into another teacher (0:51) This is another match on action as we see him run from the class into the hallway at the same pace. Here we tried to do an eye-line match where the head teacher would look at the other teacher and give the small amount of dialogue we improvised on set, however this did not look effective at all and we decided to leave it out, 

Personal Overview

I think this task went extremely well considering me and my group started with little to no ideas of how to make this task just as good as our others without having a similar storyline. We edited this piece over the course of two lessons which proved to be worth it in the end. Me and my group take editing seriously and we spent a lot of time making sure the match on actions were perfect (the door creak took us a while to perfect). There is not anything i would really change about our piece as we used the most of what we had to work with. The only thing i wished we could have changed was the shape of our set. As we couldn't move the desk in the class we had a small amount of space to put the camera and therefor we couldn't use the space efficiently.