Throughout our production, our characters are wearing typical 6th form uniform clothes. These consist of suits for the male characters, and for the women characters, smart work style clothes. This was easy for us to do, as the characters were already wearing what was needed, as we filmed during school. The hair will change, as we will be showing different days, and therefore will need to be different. Other extras too wore the same smart clothes, apart from the lower year extras; they were wearing the school uniform. This was a burgundy blazer and black trousers or skirts.
In the classrooms, they were set out in a way that is easy to identify as a classroom, such as tables, chairs and posters. This too was easy to accomplish, as this was already done for us, we just had to get permission from the teachers. The outside of school too was already set out how we want, and didn’t need to change anything here.
We mainly used places outside, and therefore used natural lighting. This gives the atmosphere a natural feel to it, but we will have to make sure the weather is fairly consistent, so the continuity stays the same. We want the sun to be out, as this makes the overall feel of the film, as this will make the audience feel happier. We will use artificial lighting however in classrooms and places inside and these will be easy to access and use.
There will be many props used in this project, such as mobile phones. These will be used a lot, as this is shows the film is up to date, and will be used to contact one character to another, and this will also be used to create comedy. Other props include the book ‘Merchant of Venice’, as this is crucial to later parts in our film that won’t be shown. Others include typical school equipment, like notebooks, pencil cases, work books, laptops and bags. These will be used to create a sense of realism. These are the main props that we will use in our production.
For each character, they will have different character movements. For example, Arthur’s character is quite withdrawn and doesn’t make big actions. Lily’s character is bubbly, and is quite loud and will make larger movements than others. Another main character is Alfie, and he doesn’t make that much disturbance, and is ordinary in his manor of behaviour. There will be ordinary younger students walking around, and they will just be walking normally out of school. We want this to be as natural as possible, as this will further the naturalism of our film.
With this document, it ensures us that we are safe on set and will remind us to inform the cast on our set of saftey hazards and safety for the equipment.
Opening Sequence
At the beggining there is a medium long shot of Arthur sitting in his bed on his laptop. He is smiling and showing appropriate emotions fitting to the narration playing digetically in the background. While this is happening, he is typing on his blog all the things that he is saying. It is evident from Lily's facial expressions that she has feelings for Athur but he quicklly runs out of shot. Through this whole scene, there is diegetic narration over the top. It then moves into a corridor where Arthur is removing a script from his locker when Alfie appears around the corner in a really stylish way before quickly cuttin back to Arthur in his bed typing. It then cuts to Alfie appearing normally, as Arthur is again is talking over the top. Alfie briefly acknowledges Arthur, and you see a close up of his reaction, which is at first shock, but then he nods back and carries on. This then goes onto a sequence of shots showing scripts being read, pencils being chewed, facebook being checked as well as mobiles and ipods. This is then cut to a medium long shot of both Arthur and Lily on a bench in school talking about the play and Alfie. Alfie walks past and Arthur looks solemn. The opening sequence finishes with Lily leaving Arthur on the bench by himself as he sighs. There is a final screen shot of him blogging his thoughts.
No comments:
Post a Comment