Monday 19 October 2009

Prelim: Locations


For the Victim Scene: the angle for the tracking shot (otherwise it is an uninteresting gray building that is ugly)

The track for the POV shot in the Victim Scene.

Steps outside the library for the victim scene

The fence VICTIM has to vault (must be cleared of rubbish for mise-en-scene purposes)

Track for the Victim scene; other view.

Mr Inman's Office

Mr Inman's Office door. The camera angle would have to be low or the sign covered in order not to include the door sign for mise-en-scene purposes.

Mr Inman's Office; THE BOSS' chair

The Hallway; from the perspective of the agents

A workstation; will be furbished with stationary, files and paper for mise-en-scene purposes

Within the Hallway there are a few lots of lockers. They are not found in Assassination agencies so had to be covered up with boards on which we stuck WANTED posters. 

The Hallway


Thursday 15 October 2009

Prelim: The Ideas Behind it

Brief Synopsis:
Two assasins walk down a corridor towards the Boss' office. The boss is made out through their dialougue to be the meanest, badest, scariest boss around. The agents are slightly worried about meeting him, even though they know the job is done.
Meanwhile, the victim is being chased and murdered brutally (the murder will not be seen by the audience, but alluded to in order to avoid murdering someone for real and in the effort not to create a corny and low budget murder scene that will cheapen the hopefully high quality of our project).
The assassins enter the and find the boss has a bit of a twist; he is actually PICKCHU!!!

Locations:
Corridor: Sixth Form Media Corridor
THE BOSS' office: Mr T. Inman's office
VICTIM scenes: Fences outside Library, Stairs outside Library, Long strip of pavement running alongside Fitzroy, the Library and the fences.

Costumes and Props:
2x suits (female)
Blue Boards
Men's suit
Casual clothing (trousers, t-shirt, trainers) for VICTIM
Pickchu mask
Office suppilies
Wanted posters

Equipment:
Camera
Tripod
Skateboard (for tracking shots)
Mac computer
Microphone
Clapperboard

Casting:
AGENT 1: Jemma Rowlston
AGENT 2: Sonia Wan
VICTIM/THE BOSS: Jack Blinman
EXTRAS: Friends; Jodie Glassenbury, Nick Lange, Luke Goodliffe

Comments:
We planned the majority of the shooting around the availability of the extras for the corridor scenes as they were vital and are not in our media class (other member of our class could not help as they were filming their own prelims at the time). We shot the office scenes according to Mr Inman's schedule as to not disrupt any of the higher members of sixth form staff. The victim scenes were shot during the media lessons. This slowed the process of filming down a lot as we couldn't film everything all at once and easily. It also took a lot more time to set up the set etc than the three of us (Jack Blinman, Sonia Wan and I) thought. However, the lessons where we were not filming due to unavailability of cast/sets, we spent editing and/or uploading footage (see another post for the complexities of that...).

October 15th Lesson

Today we had a double with Mr Alvarez. We watched over everyone's prelim's ('The Pizza' was great!) and made notes and critisisms about them in a table. All seemed to suit criteria, baring one or two that were missing a few elements.