Shooting Schedule

This is the schedule we have for when we want to film in our school location. We couldn't get permission to film in any theatres or cinemas so we are now having to film everything in school.

Prada has organised when our actors are free to film and has made a timetable for us to know when we are filming.

Our Film Settings

We were planning on filming in a cinema as thats where our murder is going to take place, however it has been hard to get permisson to film in any cinemas/theatres. We have asked in gerrards cross odeon and the empire in high wycombe which both seem like the most likely places to give us permission.

What we really need are the auditoriums as thats where we will be filming, we wont be showing the outside of the cinemas as we just want the seats inside. We were thinking something like this:

                   

We want to film our characters sitting down in the seats for the beginning so we were thinking something like this. 

Enhanced Storyboard

                                          

Prada has redone our storyboard in more detail, after we had our lesson on storyboarding we decided our original storyboard lacked quite a lot of detail so we decided to redo it and improve it. This shows the shots in more detail and the arrows show which way the camera will be moving.
This is each step of the storyboard explained:

1. Introduction- The logo of our production company (Hoyile Productions) 
2. Footsteps walking along a bright red carpet towards something.
3. Shot of the theatre, with people scattered around; preparing for the movie.
4. A couple in their early 20's sitting down watching the movie.
5. Curtains close for an interval in the play/ movie.
6. The man glances at his watch, realises the time and gets up assuring his girlfriend he'll be right back.
7. Exits the theatre.
8. Woman dressed in red awaiting his in the lobby.
9. They meet and proceed in a silent conversation, including the exchange of money.
10. The man quickly departs, walking towards the electrics supply and turns the theatre lights off.
11. It is pitch black and her scream is heard from his girlfriend.
12. The girlfriends dead body, with banknotes scattered around her covered in blood.
13. The man exits the theatre, whilst wiping a blood covered knife with his pocket square.
14. Enter his car and drives away into the distance.

It is important we have redone it in more detail as now when it comes to filming we will be able to save time as we have already figured out what we are going to do in detail. 

Order of the Opening Credits by Tiffany Leung

In a Motion Picture, television program, or video game, the opening credits are shown at the very beginning and list the most important members of the production. They are now usually shown as text superimposed on a blank screen or static pictures, or sometimes on top of action in the show. There may or may not be accompanying music. Where opening credits are built into a separate sequence of their own, the correct term is title sequence (such as the familiar James Bond).

Common opening order credits:

• (NAME OF THE STUDIO)

Name of the Studio that is distributing the film and may or may not have produced it (Walt Disney Pictures, Columbia, Lions Gate, Universal, Marvel Studios, Dimension, Miramax etc.).

• (NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY)

Name of the production company that actually made the film or name of the investment groups or companies that financed a substantial part of the film (usually credited as "in association with" or "A (studio name) production.").

• (PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION or/and (director only) A FILM BY (DIRECTOR NAME)

• Director's cut  first credit, often "a film by XY or "a XY film".

• STARRING

Principal actors, (Sometimes the stars' and director's credits will be reversed, depending on the star's deal with the studio; sometimes, as in the Rodger;s and Hammerstein films, or as in all three film versions of Show Boat, or, as in many of Disney's films, the title of the film will be shown before the names of its actors; sometimes, as in many of Cannon's films, the name of the principal actor will be shown before the names of the producer, i.e. "The Canon group presents X in a Golan-Globus production of a Y film").

• (FILM'S TITLE)

Name of the film.

• FEATURING

Featured actors

• CASTING or CASTING BY

Casting director.

• MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE BY

Composer of music.

• PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION DESIGNER

This research done by Tiffany is very important to our film making process because when editing our footage we will know what order to put our opening credits in so it looks as professional as possible. We  need to decide now whether we are going to have the credits separate on a blank background or over the top of the footage.

Continuity Task - Final Cut

This is the final cut of our continuity editing task. We have redone the shot reverse shot and we havent broken the 180 degree rule. The editing of this clip could be improved as when we were doing the over the shoulder shot the camera moved so we put a fade in so the jump didn't look so significant however, it still doesn't look very smooth. From doing this task we have learned how important continuity is in a scene and how difficult it is to film and get shots right. We had to film shots multiple times to make sure it looked ok. I think this task has made us realise filming won't be as easy as we might have thought it would have been as it was also hard to get enough footage to fill up the 60 seconds.

Non copyright music

This is a website we can get the non copyright music for our film from:
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/

We need to work as a group and decided what soundtracks we want to use in our film. It would probably be something from jazz or silent film as they would fit most into our film noir genre.