Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Cast Photos



As a part of our casting choices we have started to collect images of those portraying our characters to give a real sense to the characters and their personal attributes. I will update this post when we have more photos.

Monday, 3 March 2014


Before shooting our film opening we created a storyboard to remind us of the sequence each picture of video clip will go in.

Scripts

As our film opening was a picture montage with only three video's included in it. There wasn't much dialogue. Here are the three scenes for our film opening

First Video Scene

Flynn: Say hello to Charlie
Amelia: Hi Charlie!

Second Video Scene

Steven Stevenson: Hello and welcome to Sass News at 6 with me Steven Stevenson...
Emma Holmes: And me Emma Holmes.
Steven Stevenson: 26 year old Amelia Forester and her unborn child have sadly been killed in a tragic house fire.
Emma Holmes: In the early hours of this morning, brave Amelia lost her life. Her husband and son have lost their beloved wife and mother. Here is Jenna with more on this sad story, and an interview with fire marshal Sam Fitzgerald.

Third Video Scene

Charlie: And that's why I want to be a fireman
Sarah Greene: That was lovely Charlie, thank you.


Sunday, 2 March 2014

Soundtrack/Voice Over

We haven't yet decided whether we're going to be using a voice over, music, or both within our opening sequence. To avoid copyright issues, we've decided to make out own soundtrack. We have looked into and listened to to a few soundtracks from other film openings and put our own spin on them.
For our voice over we have decided to create a short monologue for our films protagonist, Charlie. For this we are trying to write a monologue suitable for his character to present to his class, which is revealed at the end of our opening scene.

Opening Scene Plot Summary

The film opens with a montage of both pictures and home videos of Flynn and Amelia's life as a couple. The opening is presented in the style of a scrapbook; within this we see the important and memorable events that take place throughout their life; for example, their first date, their wedding day, their honeymoon, Christmas morning, the birth of their first child, Charlie and a second unexpected pregnancy. However, this tranquility was disturbed by a tragic accidental house fire, tearing their family apart forever. The sequence then skips 5 years, where we find out that this montage has all been leading up to Charlie, Flynn and Amelia's son (aged 9), explaining his career aspirations to be a fireman and save lives.

Setting/Location

As our film opening is based predominantly on pictures of the protagonists past we will be using a green screen to enable us to recreate these moments. Other than this we will be using a home setting to create mini 'home video' clips within our opening; a school classroom setting and a new report setting. As our film opening is based around pictures and short videos it is paramount that we get the perfect settings which truly represent our film genre and the ideas we have.