Locations

For the filming of our opening scene, we will be filming in these places:
- A House
- The alley in Yale
- The film studio in Yale
- A street corner

We don't have any plans for what we are going to film and where but we have ideas.

Costume, Props and Casting

Costume:
Jimmy (Protagonist): I will be wearing my casual everyday clothes but made to look a bit scruffy
Big Arth: Wears a scruffy suit
Drug Boss (Antagonist): Smart suit, with cigar and hat
Goons: Leather jacket and jeans

Props:
Sugar in a bag (represents cocaine)
weed (garden plant)
house hold items
comical items
coca cola

Casting:
Luke B as Jimmy
Luke M as Drugs Boss and Big Arth
Luke M's friends as Goons

Script

So the script for the opening scene of the film we are shooting, is in progress and will be done ASAP

Audience Research

This is a questionnaire I did in class with questions thought up by myself. These were the results (Note: Each question that has a hyphen - in the answer was multiple choice):

1. Favourite Genre?
    - Western   0
    - Thriller   0
    - Comedy   3
    - Horror   1
    - Action   4
    - Crime   1
    - Romance   2
    - Sci-fi   0

2. Favourite film of favourite genre?
Fight Club
Disturbia
Inception
Twilight
Big Daddy
Taken
Cars
Snatch
Wild Child
Step Brothers
The Orphan

3. How Often do you visit the cinema?
    - Weekly   0
    - Monthly   9
    - Hardly   1
    - Other   1

4. Do you buy a film on DVD, watch online or both?
    - DVD   8
    - Online  0
    - Both   3

5. What makes you want to see a film?
    - Actors   1
    - Director  1
    - Trailer  8
    - Genre   1


6. Who is your favourite actor/actress?
Jim Carrey
Jennifer Aniston
Jason Statham
Aaron Johnson
Rob Patterson
Megan Fox 
Shia LaBeouf
Angelina Jolie
Johnny Depp x2
Sam Worthington


7. Who is your favourite character of all time?
Jimmy Conway (Goodfellas)
Edward Cullen (Twilight)
Shrek
Sherlock Holmes
Frodo (Lord of the Rings)
Fiona (Shrek)
Austin Powers 
Wikus Van De Merwe (District 9)
Dorothy (Wizard of Oz)
Pete (Green Street)


8. What is your age?
    - 16   6
    - 17   2
    - 18   2
    - 19   1

Conventions of Crime

For conventions of crime, we looked at 6 different crime related genres of film, which were action, film noir, american gangster, detective, spy and police. So we took a look at 6 openings to the said film genres and looked at how the opening scenes told you it was action, or film noir, etc. For film noir, we watched the opening to "Sunset Boulevard", american gangster was "Scarface", detective was "Poirot", police was "Hot Fuzz" and action was "Lethal Weapon".

Preliminary Task

This task was to shoot a scene of:

1. A character opening a door, crossing a room

2. Sitting down in a chair opposite another character

3. The two characters exchange a couple of lines of dialogue

For ours, we did me, walking through a corrdior then through some doors and into an office where the other character is sitting. We exchange lines of dialogue and thats about it. But when it came to edit it, we noticed that we had broken the 180 degree rule which we never noticed or even thought about when filming so we have now learnt our lesson and will be sure not to break it next time. 

When it came to edit though, we had a good use of Match on Action. We used in when I was walking down the corridor and past the camera then cut straight to a handheld shot behind me that followed me into the office. We used shot/reverse shot when the 2 characters spoke to each other within the office and with the camera angles and editing, we kept eye-line match between the 2 characters. 

Preliminary Task