AS Final Prelim Task

AS Final Opening Sequence

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Location Reece

Location Recce

In the beginning we spent a lot of time trying to figure where our location would be.

Thought process

1^st idea- Park

Advantages- there would hardly be anyone there, so it will be easy to film. There is a park that is just near the school, so it is close. We wanted to show the main character walking to school at this location. We wouldn’t need permission to film at this location.

Disadvantage- It would be difficult to move the equipment around and the equipment would, also be in danger of being stolen. We would be outside, so it would rain.

2^nd idea- The road outside of school 

Advantages- It’s close to school and if it starts to rain we could easily go back into school. This location was also going to be used in order to show the main character on her journey to school.    We also wouldn’t need permission for this location because we have already been told that we could film outside.

Disadvantage- Due to the fact that were so close to school students could easily come out in order to disrupt the filming. During break and lunch times or when students are going in-between lessons the noise could be too much.

In the kitchen

The only prop we needed for this part of the location was milk and a class. This was due to the fact that there were no pictures in the kitchen or any other props that could affect the realism of the opening sequence. However there were large windows in the kitchen that allowed a lot of light to come in, so we would have to worry about lighting and how it would affect continuity while filming.

In the bedroom

This would be difficult because the two girls in the group would have to bring in things from their houses in order for the room to look like it belonged to a girl. This was a practical issue because we all go to school and it would be extremely heavy for the girls to take their school stuff and personal belongings to school. This situation could be easily talked if we ask josh if we could bring things to his house little by little during the week.

In the bathroom

This location was completely fine because there were no props that would disrupt the film. This location was perfect because it already had some of the props we needed in it e.g. toothpaste. Deborah however would have to bring her own toothbrush.

Permission

Josh would have to ask his mum if we could use the house on the day we need it. Josh’s parents would need to be out of the house as well while we were filming in the house. Josh also had a dog which could cause a problem, so we would need to ask Josh if he could do anything about that.

Issues with the house

The house seemed a bit to posh for someone who was meant to be quite ghetto or bullied. We decided that this how how different she is to her family because she looks out of place in her hoodie and leggings. There were many polished surfaces in the house, so we had to make sure that there were no reflections of us.

Sound

The whether has already been checked for the day of filming. It isn’t raining on the day of filming in the mourning, which was the only time we were filming outside. House noises e.g. fridge noise would be alright because they are natural sounds you would hear in a house.

Research on Freedom writers

It is based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary by teacher Erin Gruwell who wrote the story based on Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California. The title is a play on the term "Freedom Riders", referring to the multiracial civil rights activists who tested the U.S. Supreme Court decision ordering the desegregation of interstate buses in 1961.

Looked at the theme of this movie and got inspiration to have it based in a schhol area because it makes it look for casual and it then plays as shool drama. The poster shows the face of a girl smiling which is what the character Nikki is like but behind the smile she's hiding a lot.

Its biography,crime and drama which all takes places in out final product thats why we decided to take a look at this film and see what we could add on the make out film better

Research on Music

Old School Rap
Paino Play

Looking at the genre we are relating to we had the idea of making the opening sequence start with a kind of old school beta mixed up with piano play to make it not seem to ghetto because she is a normal girl but just living a life whereby she struggles and does not know what to do so we looking to add the beat to make it more relate to the teenage days and the piano to make the tragedy fall in when she pulls out the knife in the kitchen.
There is plenty of other slow piano plays that I found in my research of music.

Research on Props & Characters

Freedom writes has the theme of living a school life which we is going play a major part in our sequence.
And how things just go all wrong all of a sudden this is the way we want to play out opening scene out also the character of the girl in the life she living is how we want to make "Nikki" be presented to the audience someone with struggles and just doesnt know how to handle them and is very scared.
There are many characters in the film that can relate to her friends around her.

Cast List

Cast List

Camera Man: Jesse Michealangelo Anim

Director: Josh Whincup

Assistant Director: Jesse Anim

Actress: Deborah Oyelade

Continuity: Abigail Fajobi

Sound: Mark Fish


The reasons why each of us were assigned this job in the production is because I as a camera had a good idea of how to take control of the camera and looking at the way I used the camera in the Prelim task I felt confident to make use of the camera again.
Josh was assigned Director mainly because he is the one that knows how to tackle on a task and tell people what to do so he had the power to direct everyone and himself to make this production successfull.
Deborah was the right material for the character so she was assigned as the actress. Looking at the attitude and physical looks we could picture our character.
The coninuity job was assigned to Abigail because she had the right mind and perspective to make the continuity flow properly and make our film look outstanding and as result she did make this happen so she was given the right job.
Mark Fish from the music department did our music because we needed someone that could make music and make use of it for our sequence. We wasnt allowed to copyright music so having someone that could make it would make things easier and it did.
In all the cast list was perfect we came out with the best sequence in all
and the team work worked perfectly fine. We got along and complimented
eachother whilse doing this sequence.

Planning on camera shots & character in Kill Bill Vol.1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew5EYd5_i6M

Kill Bill Vol.1 opening scene is absolutly brilliant the way it opens in with her all bleeding and her face all demolished then we see footsteps walking in , not knowing who on earth it is.
But the camera shot of her face close up and the opening scene is in black and white thats what were planning to do in our sequence to have the opening sequence in black and white however we are planning to do the opposite of Kill Bill to make the opening all normal and casual and then the
drama happens in after. She is the type that looks quite vicious and violent but at the beginning she a very kind innocent woman thats the same way we feel about our character until she pulls out the knife from the drawer.

Research on Setting in Shank (Equilibrium)

An action film for the youth generation, set in a decaying future London. A gang set out on a chase to avenge the murder of one of their own

Shank is one of the movies that our sequence relates to especially the setting of the movie is equilibrium
because everything starts out very fine and nice and the scene then turns into something that wasnt really expected. This is same way our sequence is going to follow with the character waking up on a normal morning and does everything any usual person does in the moring UNTIL she grabbs the knife in the kitchen.
Its all based around teenage kids of today not to be judgemental but this is what we mostly hear about now adays.