Planning - 31/01/13 Screenshots, Storyboard, Production Schedule & Further Tweaking.

In todays lesson we focussed on taking screenshots for the storyboard. We took all of our pictures in the park right outside the college called Owens Field. As we didn't have all the props with us we improvised, for example Layla did not have the walking stick we are going to use in our film opening so we used a stick that we found in the park. Also we didn't have any shopping bags so we used Ami's bag  for the storyboard pictures.

Also we found someone to play the role of the jogger as Emma contacted an old friend who attended the college last year. We all agreed that he fit the part well and also he took media as a A Level last year so he has experience with filming and acting in a thriller as he participated in a thriller film opening last year. 

Taking these pictures turned out to be handy as we noticed little things to look out for when filming our film opening. For example to making it seemed like our jogger had actually been jogging we would have to wet his face with water to make it seem sweaty and more realistic. Also when taking the pictures we had to make sure that Layla's face was always covered by her hair or her coat, as in the beginning of the film she is meant to appear as a very old woman.

After taking the shots we came back to class and uploaded them to the blog. When this was finished we sat down as a group and discussed what times we were all free to film. We noticed that this was tricky as we were all busy at different times of the day but we finally came to a decision that our best days to film would be in the evening on Monday and Tuesday. 

We all worked on blogging after coming back from taking our storyboard pictures.

I decided to blog about the events of today.

Once we had worked out filming times and finished our storyboard we asked our teacher if she would take a look at our storyboard and offer some advice. After showing our storyboard to Rebecca she pointed out that we could consider changing our storyline so that the old woman drops her shopping bags instead of bumping into the jogger. Rebecca advised this as the jogger bumping into the old woman would give the old woman a reason to hit him later and this may send the wrong idea to audience as that isn't the reason why she kills him.

Towards the end of the lesson our group discussed how we would prepare for the upcoming pitch with our teachers. We decided to meet at lunchtime before our pitch so that we could run over who was saying what and that everyone in the group was clear on what they were doing.