AS Prelim Task

AS Opening Sequence


Thursday 26 November 2009

Cast List

Group of gangsters:

Iman Shafi - wearing a hoodie
Edward Obeng - wearing a hoodie and holding an alcohol bottle
Matthew Parlett - wearing a hoodie and lighting up/holding a ciggarrete

CALL SHEET

Production Title: Granted

Production Group: Akin, Dhara and Astijus

Date: 1.12.09

Location: Upney Station

Shoot Start Time: 7:30 am

Wrap Time:5 pm

Actor(s)

Character

Call Time

Contact Details

Iman Shafi

Gangster

8:00am

07983888973

Edward Obeng

Gangster

8:00am

07506149364 07904106003

Matthew Parlett

Gangster

8:00am

07853959921

Name

Production Role

Call Time

Contact Details

Dhara Syal

Director

7am

07949151958

Astijus Kazlauskas

Camera

7am

07533873775

Akin Smith

Sound

7am

02085932720

Support Staff

Contact Details

Location

Miss Bundy

BundyL@babbey.bardaglea.org.uk

Media Studio/ Editing Suite

Ms Nair

NairM@babbey.bardaglea.org.uk

Media Classroom/Media Office

Ms Thiara

Thiara@babbey.bardaglea.org.uk

Media Classroom/Media Office

Props List

Alcohol bottles
Packet of cigarettes
Hoodies
Lighter

Trash
Police Line

We chose to add these certain props to our location as we did not want to break the illusion of reality (versimillitude). It was important to add this to the cinematography as we wanted this area to look in the worst possible condition, to ensure the audience would respond to this area in a negative perspective. This also reflects the genre of crime drama as the "ghetto" areas are always shown in the films of this genre.

Wednesday 25 November 2009

Character Profiles






















Name: Trey Smith
Nickname: Tee Dog

Age: 20

Date of birth: 10.08.1989

Place of birth: Barking Hospital, London

Gender: Male

Current Adress: 1 Barge house road, North Woolwich E16 3nx

1 Older Brother

Health Status: Healthy

Personality: Tough

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Chinese Zodiac sign: Monkey

Lives on his own

Single

Ethic Background:Black British





Name: Nicholas Smith
Nickname: Big Jon
Age: 22
Date of birth: 22.01.1987
Gender: Male
Current Adress: 42 Boxley Street, West Silvertown, E15 4nf
1 younger brother
Health Status: Healthy
Lives With: Gang Members
Personality: Never gives up, Risk Taker
Zodiac Sign: Aries
Chinese Zodiac Sign: Rat
Ethnic Background: Black British
Status : Single

Storyboards

As shown below, you can see the development of our storyboard as we started from one-two ideas and developed them into the final opening sequence.

Storyboard draft 1
This is the first draft of our storyboard. After feedback given from the class, we chose to redraft as it was commented that only a vague sense of the narrative was conveyed.














Storyboard draft 2
Here, we chose to redraft after as our feedback was not at satisfactory level. This is due to the sequence not reflecting previous opening sequences we have researched and using similar techniques. Also, we had a few more ideas, such as cutting out some shots and replacing them, and therefore thought about redrafting.




























Draft 3
This draft also vaguely conveys our idea for the opening sequence as the statistic titles and extra shots needed to be included, which we realised we needed.





























Final Storyboard
After some feedback from the class and group members, we were satisfied with the final draft as it was exactly how we wanted our opening sequence to look like. The comments that were given is that it's quick, attracts the audience's attention straight away and a variety of shots are shown.




























Location Recce Photos


Location Details

Possible problems

Risks assessments

Upney Railway

Upney Lane, Upney



Main road

Upney Lane, Upney



Graffiti Wall

Margaret Bondfield Avenue



Upney

Alley way

Upney Lane, Upney

Public interfering with filming by walking past. Bad weather.




Theft, equipment being damaged by public. Bad weather.



Quiet area where theft is more prone to. Bad weather.



Public walking through the alley interfering with filming. Bad weather.

Keep the camera secure.Bad weather - carry umbrella to protect the equipment.



Taking care of equipment – not too close to traffic.




Try not to attract real gangs – be quick while taking shots.



Again, try not to attract attention from real gangs.