Shooting schedule for photography

For the images for the magazine cover and film poster we will try both a studio shoot and location shoot. For the magazine cover we will have an image of just the main character, and the film poster will also include the two muggers in the background. We will need to find a time when the studio is free so we can book it out and also when the actors are available for the shoots to take place.

Studio shoot - 16th December
Location shoot - 22nd December

Skrilla - animatics

This is the anamatics for our trailer. This is to help us as a guideline for how our actual trailer will go and look like. It has helped us with a timeline and see how the shots work together and whether the order of shots needs to be changed. This will support us when editing as we added in the music to the anamatics and saw when the music should change over. We also listened to it and found that it sounds better when it fades and has a smoother transition. Adding in certain sound effects allowed us to hear what parts of the filming we want to keep the sound on and take the sound off. We know the placement of when the title cards should be put in and when they work best and this should help make our actual trailer more successful.

Mock up of film poster

This is a mock up of our film cover. I have used images from google, and fonts from dafont.com using the possible font list that I made earlier. I used photoshop to make this, this is just a first idea of what it could look like.

This is just one of the ideas of how our film poster would look like. It would have Steon - the main character - in his costume, possibly with his hood up to portray his character. The colours would mostly be dark as it is more of a boy’s film so it will attract our main target audience. The title of the film will be across the top slightly behind the image but not much of the text will be covered. The background would be of the alleyway where Steon does the drug deals. The alleyway will be dark with a lamppost in being the main source of light.

Analysing page layout and design article

Grace found a media magazine with information on how to analyse page layouts and design. This is to help us with the construction of our ancillary products. She made a photocopy of this and I have analysed it making points that are important and necessary to our work

Music Selection

Tim and his friend who does music production worked together to create a soundtrack for the trailer. They used Logic Pro to make this. Tim helped his friend Jonny Spence to know what would go well with the trailer and at which points things were needed within the music. What they created works really well with our trailer as it goes with the genre and style of our film and has the right pacing for how the trailer progesses from calm to eventful and the excitement grows. It really helps to make the trailer look better and gives it more emphasis on the outcome.

Magazine Fonts

For the magazine cover, I decided not to use a fotn from dafont.com as I thought they were a bit too much for the title. I preferred the look of the simple 'Impact' font as I think it worked better and I liked the look of that better than the more creative fonts from the website. I also liked the use of putting an arrow facing upwards and then having 'up' written in a smaller font alongside the arrow. I decided to do that in photoshop as I think it made it look more creative and effective.

Selected magazine title

'Follow Up' will be the title of our magazine. I think this is a good title for a film magazine as it is giving reviews of films and also giving out information of what to expect of future films.

Selected font

We have decided to use this font as it is similar to the type that other films of the same genre would use. This will give an edgy feel to the poster and also create tension and unease which is good for the storyline we have created. This font will hopefully emphasise our genre and storyline. 

http://www.dafont.com/base-02.font?nb_ppp=50&text=SKRILLA

Possible fonts

http://www.dafont.com/28-days-later.font?nb_ppp=50&text=SKRILLA

http://www.dafont.com/base-02.font?nb_ppp=50&text=SKRILLA

http://www.dafont.com/breakaway.font?nb_ppp=50&text=SKRILLA

http://www.dafont.com/living-hell.font?nb_ppp=50&text=SKRILLA

http://www.dafont.com/coolvetica.font?nb_ppp=50&text=SKRILLA

http://www.dafont.com/aaaiight.font?nb_ppp=50&text=SKRILLA

http://www.dafont.com/harabara.font?nb_ppp=50&text=SKRILLA

http://www.dafont.com/action-of-the-time.font?nb_ppp=50&text=SKRILLA

http://www.dafont.com/que-fontita.font?nb_ppp=50&text=SKRILLA

These are possible fonts that we could use within our trailer and also our poster and magazine cover. I have found all these fonts from the website http://www.dafont.com/

Most of these fonts have some of the text fading or looking sketchy which i think works good for the excitement of the film. Some of the fonts are plain and simple but have a graffiti look to them which works well as people associate graffiti with chavs.

Location Recee

George's house

 This is where Boss and Steon would do the drug swap in Boss' car

 This is where the muggers come and take Steon's bag and money

This is where Steon deals his drugs to the mugger

Shooting Schedule

13th December –

LOCATION: George's House

SHOT 1 - KITCHEN - At this location we will film the opening scene where 'Skrilla' is written out in the 'drugs'

SHOT 2 - BEDROOM - This is where Steon walks in and sees his sick girlfriend sleeping in the bed. He walks over and strokes her head. Then he walks over to his sock draw and takes out a gun.

SHOT 3 - HALLWAY - We then film Steon walking out of his house into his car and reversing off his drive.
SHOT 4 - OUTSIDE- Steon smoking

LOCATION: Alleyway

SHOT 1 - Steon waiting to do the drug deal 

SHOT 2 - Akile(mugger) walks up to meet Steon, gives him the money and takes drugs .

SHOT 3 - Akile(mugger) walking off round the corner

LOCATION: Car park
SHOT 1 -Boss and Steon in car doing drug swap
SHOT 2 - Steon walking out of the car
SHOT 3 - Steon walking across car park
SHOT 4 - Car pulls up next to Steon, 2 muggers jump out (fight scene)
SHOT 5- Car reverses and Steon lays on floor without drugs or money

LOCATION: Main road
Steon running

For each of these shots we will take several shots so that we can choose from them which one works best and work well for the trailer. They will also be done in different angles to make the trailer look better.

Script

INSERT TITLE CARD - HORIZON FILMS

FADE OUT

FADE IN

EXT. NIGHT TIME, DARK ALLEYWAY

In a dark alleyway just off the main street, STEON (22) meets BOSS (41) where Boss hands Steon some drugs for him to sell and give the money back to him. Weather is dry, and it is dark, but not pitch black. Streetlight for lighting.

BOSS (to Steon)

              You have two days to sort my money out

Close up of Steon's and Boss' fists together

FADE OUT

FADE IN

INSERT TITLE CARD - IN A CITY RUN BY CORRUPTION

FADE OUT

Shot of the car as Steon is driving down the road, camera pans and follows the car

Close up of Steon in the car seat still driving, with money visable on the passenger seat.

CUT TO

EXT. DAY TIME, OUTSIDE STEON'S HOUSE

Steon standing in front of his stationary car. Quiet road, not many people around.

FADE OUT

FADE IN

INSERT TITLE CARD - WITH CRIME THE ONLY ANSWER

FADE OUT

STILL BY THE CAR
MUGGER(21) comes up from behind Steon as he is walking into his house

POINT OF VIEW SHOT

Fist comes towards the camera as Mugger punches Steon, camera pans down towards the floor as Steon falls to the ground

Foot comes towards the camera as Mugger kicks Steon in the face when on the floor

BLACK OUT

FADE IN

INT. DAYTIME

After Steon wakes up, close up of Steon holding his phone, with 'Boss is calling' written across the screen

BOSS (angrily)

             Where's my money? It's been two days!

FADE OUT

FADE IN

INSERT TITLE CARD - HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO

FADE OUT

INT. DAYTIME, IN STEON'S BEDROOM

Steon walks over to a set of drawers in his room and opens the top draw where a gun is. Stion takes the gun out of the draw.

FADE OUT

FADE IN

EXTERIOR, DAYTIME, OUTSIDE STEON'S HOUSE

Steon walks out of his house with the gun in his pocket

FADE OUT

FADE IN

INSERT TITLE CARD - TO SETTLE THE SCORE

FADE OUT

STILL IMAGE

Mid close up of the muggers face in colour with the background black and white. Title card across with his name

CUT TO

EXT. DAYTIME, IN THE STREETS

Shot of two cars racing against each other, camera pans to follow them

CUT TO

Steon is running and getting chased by the people after him

CUT TO

Steon hiding and heavily breathing

CUT TO

INSERT TITLE CARD - SKRILLA
INSERT TITLE CARD - COMING SOON

the end.

Costume Design - Mugger 2

Costume Design - Mugger 1

Costume Design - Boss

Costume Design - Steon

Characters

Steon – Steon is the main character in this story. He is a chav that works for Boss dealing drugs. He has a sick girlfriend which is the reason he is selling drugs so that the money can go towards making her better. We added this into the story so that the audience has a bit of sympathy for Steon.  (George Ready)

Boss – Boss is a drug dealer who is at the top of the whole chain. He controls everyone and is wealthy off all the money he makes from selling drugs. Boss isn’t someone that you would want to get on the wrong side of as he could do serious damage to you if you didn’t pay back his money. (Tim Purser)

Mugger – The mugger isn’t in the story that often, but just comes up and mugs Steon and takes his money, leaving Steon in a dilemma of having to get £100,000 to Boss in the next day (Greg Martin)

Steon’s girlfriend – The girlfriend is ill but they don’t have enough money to pay for any tablets that would make her better (Ellie Graham)

Trailer Structure

This is a flow chart of how the trailer should go

Shot of Steon smoking out of his house, to show how this is starting of as any normal day.

→

Title board of Skrilla written in cocaine on a chopping board, and the 'S' being sniffed up, setting the tone.

→

Steon kisses his girlfriend, romance is shown through camera and music.

→

Steon picks up his gun and goes out, showing the setting he lives in, and how his lifestyle means he needs protection.

→

Steon buys coke off a prolific dealer, shows Steon's power.

→

Steon is dealing further showing his lifestyle choice.

→

Steon gets jumped and his money and drugs stolen, showing his dilemma

→

We see him running away with a tracking shot.

→

End Titles

Final Cast List

Tim Purser
George Ready
Akile Burgess
Greg Martin
Ellie Graham

In the lesson before I had wrote the possible cast list and then I had to contact the members of the cast list to finalise the decision for them to be in our productions.
Due to change of characters we have had to change the name of the main character  from Jermaine to Steon as the names wouldn't match the person playing the part of the main character.

Possible Cast List

This is the list of people that could possibly be cast in our film trailer. We need to make sure they are flexible so that they can film when we need to. Each of these are comfortable to be a part of our filming and the final cast list depends on their flexibility and ability to get to the location of our filming. 

 George Ready - Steon

Tim Purser - Boss

Emile Ruddock - Steon

 Greg Martin - Mugger

Akile Burgess - Mugger

Ellie Graham - Steon's girlfriend

Grace Reohorn - Steon's girlfriend

Shot List

Here is a list of shots that we will be using in our trailer and have been shown through the storyboard.

·         Title card

·         Boss giving the drugs to Steon

·         Boss and Steon knocking fists together – freeze frame

·         Title card

·         Steon driving car – outside view

·         Steon driving car – inside view

·         Steon walking into house

·         Title card

·         Mugger coming up behind Steon

·         P.O.V – mugger punching Steon and the kicking in the face.

·         Steon’s phone ringing with ‘Boss’ on the screen

·         Title card

·         Steon looking over his sick child

·         Steon walking over to draws

·         Steon rummaging through draws and pulling gun out

·         Steon walking out the house with gun

·         Title card

·         Car chase

·         Steon running/getting chased

·         Steon hiding, heavily breathing

·         Title card

·         Title card

Storyboard