Titles

For the titles we were going to use some font's off of dafont which is a website which does cool effects with words and has different font types and styles. We chose the following ones as possibles to use in our movie.

http://www.dafont.com/nervous.font?text=The+Unexpected

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http://www.dafont.com/crash-mh.font?text=The+Unexpected

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http://www.dafont.com/streetlight-manifes.font?text=The+Unexpected

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The order in which they appear should be the production company name, the name of the actors/ people's position, spatial thanks to (the bike store that helped us, extras etc...) and finally the title of the film.

We finally decided to use the Hauser font fot our production name because it dosen't seem out of place in the opening of an action film.


http://www.dafont.com/hauser.font?text=The+Unexpected


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Casting

Sam: Delarney Ewerse

Rose: Latoya Hay

The Gaff: (Me) LukePower

Corrupt Officer: Daryl Hay

Delaney Ewerse

We have decided to choose these people (including myself) to be in our cast for two reasons, one being, we know that each of us will be available for the shooting schedule and also because Delarney is 17, an age where young people would be looking for jobs and working in small stores such as a bike store. This makes it seem realistic as many other young people would also be working, any younger age wouldn't look as realistic.

Latoya Hay

We have chosen Latoya because she has to be a woman, and, she is also available to film based on the shooting schedule also because she is good actress and can play the role of Rose because she is close to Delarney's age making them seem a realistic couple. She has also been chosen because she can come to the required locations for her part at any time as she lives there.

Luke Power

I am playing The Gaff because we thought I fit the role of an unsuspected drug lord, giving an element of surprise to the audience and enabling a feeling of shock and interest. Also because I'm a drama student and therefore will be a great asset to have as I have experience playing various roles meaning that explaining the script and directions to me might be easier than with others in the group.

Daryl Hay

Daryl will play the corrupt police officer because once again it would be unsuspected by the audience creating a sense of surprise and shock. He can play the Corrupt Officer because he has previous experience playing roles of "bad guys" as a result he'll pick it up quite easily. Also, we chosen him because he was part of the group who made the storyboard and as a result he knows what the group needs to do at each point when needed.

Character descriptions

We only have four main characters in our piece: -

Sam: - Works at the bike store and isn't involved in the money laundering scheme. Rose is his girlfriend. He is kind, considerate and compassionate.

Rose: - Sam's girlfriend and housemate. She also has no knowledge of the money laundering scheme. She is generally sweet and innocent and is pretty much both harmless and helpless.

The Gaff: - Is the ringleader of the money laundering scheme and also is the boss and owner of the bike store. He's the kind of guy that will do anything to get what he wants by doing anything and by any means necessary.

The corrupt police officer: - Is sort of the Gaff's puppet. He's bored with putting criminals away and so he decided to become one. He's still working as a police officer so Sam can't expect any help form his department. He's only in it for the money. He's cunning, quick to think and act and he's creative.

Shooting Schedule

A shooting schedule is a list of Dates, Times , Locations, Shot numbers, What prop and costumes, Crew and equipment are needed to do a particular scene or section of you film at a particular time.

This is a copy of our planned shooting schedule which we hope to stick to. However I do believe that we might need more time than this that is not including editing, special effects, or presentation creation.

Script

Scene 1

Customer: "Excuse me mate do you know where the bike valve caps are?"

Sam: "Errmm... I'll have a look for you."

Customer: "Ok, thanks."

Sam: "I'm just gonna go and ask management where it is for you mate, just bear with me for a sec."

Scene 2

Sam: "... What's going on??

Corrupt PC: "He's seen too much!"

The Gaf: "Well don't just stand there Get Him!"

Scene 3

Rose: "Hello."

Sam: "Babe, get out the house, go to your mums, it's not s-"

(The phone line goes dead)

Sam: "NOO!"

List of props, costumes and locations

Costumes: -

Because of the fact that this is based around a bike store I thought that both Sam and the Gaff should be in the shops uniform because they both work there.

The corrupt officer should still be in police were because he's still on duty.

Rose I thought should be in white because white is an innocent colour.

Props: -

Because there are two phone conversations in the extract we will need a couple of phones.

When the hit men go to abduct Rose they should carry restraining material such as duck tape rope possibly a chain.

In the chase scene we'll obviously need bikes to do the scene.

In the meeting we'll need money, crates bikes and extras.

Locations: -

Were asking the permission of the local bike store to use their uniform and to film on their premisses. We are also filming in the high-street and Stoneleigh.

Sound

Sound effects: -

We might need to include a few sound effects in our opening mainly to emphasise certain movements like for instance -

We need to include the sound of someone walking when the costumer is walking into the bike shop because it would be good to add hyperbolic sound but also because when we film it it will probably be too quiet to properly hear.

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=31368

We might need to include the sound of someone peddling in the chase scene seen's that the shoots need to be short and sharp so we will be cutting them down a lot and if that happens then we lose the sound of peddling that goes with it.

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=78983

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=78960

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=78961

We might need to include a non-diagetic version of a dropped call because on the real thing we won't be able to hear it.

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=24271

And finally we'll include the sound of someone panting at the end of the chase sequence when he's catching his breath but before the phone call to emphasise that he's out of breath and he's cycled very far very fast.

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=54779

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=25456

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=81392 (Used in film)

The sound track: -

As for the sound track it need s to be something that is quiet at first but then gets louder and has a beat to it so there can be some sort of rhythm.

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=110268 (Used in film)

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=84377

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=84372

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=110267

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=110266 (Used in film)

Weird music in meeting section: -

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=24039 (Used in film)

Shop music: -

http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=24044 (Used in film)

Storyboard

This is our complete storyboard divided into fore sections for the story line. Shots 1 to 6 are of a customer entering the shop he is then looking for something he wants to buy, he can't find it and asks Sam if he can find it for him. We chose this section because it will enable us to do an establishing shot and an over the shoulder shot and we can also add a match on action section as well.

Shot's 7-10c are of Sam searching for the item which he can't find either, he then goes to ask his manager about it and his office is locked. He then forces his way into the office and disturbs a dodgy money laundering scheme meeting. I suggested we end the scene with a series of shot reverse shots to emphasise the confusion and the urgency. The first shot is of Sam asking what's going on. The second shot is of the room and the people in the meeting where the corrupt police officer says he knows too much and the Gaff tells the henchman to get him. The last shot in the sequence is of Sam's reaction to this disturbing new events just before he runs out of the shop.

Shots 11-16 are the beginning and end of the chase scene and also the beginning and end of the phone conversation and Rose's abduction. It begins with Sam being chased on a main road by the henchmen. Second shot is relatively the same with him still being chased but now on a path or street. The third shot is typical of action films and Sam throws something in the chasers path to knock him over so he can get away. The next shot is of him stopping to catching his breath and making the phone call to Rose to warn her about what's going on. It then goes into a split screen of the actual phone conversation. The final shot in this section is of Rose when she's dragged away by the henchmen.

The last shots are another short series of shot reverse shots an extreme close up and a still shot. It starts with 17a which is a close up of Sam as he screams "No!" it then zooms out to an extreme long shot. It then zooms in again and Sam starts to pedal. The next shot is an extreme close up of the foot on the pedal. And the final shot is a still shot of him riding into the distance.

Shot Lists

I thought that the first section of flming should be a series of close up's and shot shots. And it then flows into thesection where they go into the bike chase scene where they get on the bikes and start to chase but we then cut it.

I then goes to mid shots and long shots for the end of the chase sequence because it's to give a sence that he's losing them but this is also the half section where they go and abduct his wife so for that we could do some over the shoulder shots and different angles.

And finally for the end of the chase and the phone coversation section I thought it would be abropriate to add a focus pull and the very end add in a serise of mid shots and close ups during the conversation and me and Daryl talked about including a split screen to do the actual conversation.

This is my key shots list which include the main sections in the drama and my ideas for the title of the film.

Film Synopsis

The main character works at a bike shop. He goes into work and witnesses a money laundering operation held by his boss and other associates which include a corrupt Police officer.

He then runs out of the store and they chase him on bikes. The boss the calls a hit man to go round to his house and abduct his girlfriend.

The main character then stops from being chased because he's got away. He stops to catch his breath and to make a phone call to his girlfriend. The call gets cut off after a brief conversation and it dawns on him that they have her.

He moans and then gets back on the bike and rides off into the distance to do the rest of the film. Presumably to rescue his girl and stop the money laundering scheme.

Intial Ideas

We chose to do an action film because of it's wide possibility range and space for creativity. Although we we were thinking about not doing too much stereotypically we decided about keeping common action film conventions for instance we have someone being chased, a damsel in distress and an abduction.

Audience Research 2

This is a copy of the spread sheet that I put together to record what I did/ found out: -

Charts

I surveyed 20 people of reasonably different age groups as equally as I could possibly make it to make the statistic's a lot more fair and accurate.

Firstly most males were more likely to like Action films than females which doesn't supprise me.
Second most males prefer to see Angilena Jolie in an Action film compaired to Jackie Chan for the females.
Third 14 out of the 20 siad they think that Action films arn't believable compaired to just over a quarter saying that they are.
And finally when asked to pick another genre the people who didn't like Action films showed that the most popular alternative for males is either Si-fi or Horror and for females it's Romantic/Commedy.

Audience Research 1

Action films questionnaire This is my questionnaire which I surveyed people in Sutton high street with about what they think about action films in general and in the following poast are my results and what I found out.

Action films questionnaire