Legislation of workshop

Planning and Development: Legislation of workshop

These images below are all screenshots of our emails to teachers making sure we have our location booked so that there is no confusion, and everyone knows who is where and when.

Sourcing costume

Planning and Development: Sourcing the race suit costume

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JG

Jacob Gregory

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To:

Harry Squire;

Thu 10/12/2015 14:42

I wouldn't call it a race jacket, its more like a protective jacket and trousers but if you want to borrow them yeah that's fine 😊 how much are you paying me??

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Titling our film

Planning and Development: Titling our film

After coming up with a countless number of titles for our film, we have come up with the name 'Don't look back'. Amelia came up with the idea, we think it has slight implications to what the narrative of the film is without giving to much away.

Classification

Planning and Development: Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) was set up in 1912 as a non-governmental body for classifying cinema films. All classification decisions are based on the BBFC's guidelines which are regularly updated based on current views on film.

We have decided that we want to make our film a 12A because we want the widest target audience as possible. Also teenagers of all ages will be at the age of aspiring to be motor-sport drivers so will be interested in watching the film. There is no reason to make our film rated 15 as it would not add anything to the film and would only make our target audience smaller.

Test shots

Planning and Development: Test shots

Shot 2
 This shot will be part of our short montage; it could also be called an establishing shot. This will be quite a long take to signify that nothing much is happening. There is the conventional iconography here of the race track and the red and white stripes which denotes that this is a serious racing circuit.

Shot 3

Unfortunately, we cannot get a test shot of the angle we will use in our film; we are planning to get a shot tracking up from the track to a LA shot of the lights. This again will be a long take as it is also signifying that there are no events on and we are trying to create a sad and emotional atmosphere. Again, we have conventional iconography here of the lights which denote the professionalism of the location.

Shot 7/8/9
This is the location where we will shoot the shots of the driver getting ready for the race. They will be short, close ups which create a frantic, fast paced atmosphere. I think this a good location as it is a simple workshop which connotes a professional place. All of these shots being CUs, there will not be much visual iconography

Shot 1/6
Not the most attractive picture! But with a bruised face, bandage and a better camera, this will look like it is set in a hospital. We have gone for hard lighting in these shots because hospitals have very hard lighting. Also this creates a serious tone to the film from the first shot which is the preferred reading of our opening.











Shot 4
Simply an establishing shot. This is one of the shots that is filmed outside so usually we would have to think of background noise from wind, but we have decided to have a soundtrack so this wont be an issue.

Shot 5
This will be a long, over the shoulder shot showing the argument between the protagonist and the girlfriend. The dark lighting represents the stress that the girlfriend is in. The reason this is being shot in a kitchen is that this is where most work is done in the house, again, representing the stress the girlfriend is going through.

During filming we found some locations that we had not realized would be available to us, one being the stands. This shot means we can get the iconography of the race suit and the track in. It fits well with our story line so we decided to add it in.

For the shot of the tire we took this as a test shot, however looking at it afterwards we thought it needed to be more of a CU so in the filming we decided to film slightly closer to the tire. The tire is an example of conventional iconography surrounding this genre of film.

Make up

Planning and Development: Make-up(Amelia wrote this post)

Another element of the opening I given to look at was the make-up of the characters. Below is what I came up with:

Girlfriend:

When deciding on the idea for the opening of the film we decided on the idea of the girlfriend having an argument with the racer. We wanted the idea of her being stressed to be showcased to the audience, from this we want them to read that she is stressed because of the dangers in his career. I will be acting the girlfriend in the film opening and her make will be messy, so her makeup will be smudged to show she's upset and her hair will be messy, we don't want her character to seem that she is too interested in her appearance at this stressful time for her.

Racer getting ready:

The character has a professional career so his hair will be neat and he will look very clean and well presented. The audience will hopefully read his character as a professional racer that is passionate about his career.

Racer in hospital:

In the opening we are aiming to hint that a crash has occurred and it could be career ending and so we have decided to film a scene in a hospital where the character will have bandages and bruises on his face. The bruises will be created with face paint, I have done a practice on my hand with the face paint to see how realistic it looks and as a group we have decided that we do want to use the face paint to create these special FX. We have also decided that the bruises will be on the actors cheekbones to signify pain and trauma.

 Below is a picture of the practice:

Storyboard

Planning and Development: Storyboard