Planning

Main Task
(Pre-production)


Planning

Location

Firstly, all four of us went location scouting around the school/college area and decided that the actual school/college was the best place for our filming as for the ideas we had in mind the filming fitted in well with the resources we had at the school/college. For example: the buildings, long drive ways and fields as shown in the pictures below.(The picture on the bottom indicates the plan we made for the rout the characters are going to make within the filming)

Storyboard

Before we started to film or piece, we all sat down together and created a storyboard to follow so we knew what shots we wanted to use and put into our piece and what we wanted to include within the piece including things such as: Close up shots, Mid shots; Tracking shots and lots of other different types of shots and things we want to include within our piece.

The storyboard below shows what we are going to try and keep to as much as possible to be able to create the best possible end result that we can.

Casting

For our casting, we decided to just use ourselves for the piece as it would be easier to get the actors (us) to do what we want to do as we all know exactly what is going on in the filming and in the plot etc.
Also, Matt and Ash were able to follow up one of our ideas of using a car in or piece and managed to get Phil Dixon in on the filming with us to help with the driving parts and parts where the car is in shot etc.

Mise En Scene (Props)

For props in our piece, we decided to use some plastic guns for the runners/good guys (Me & Josh) to use to threaten the victim/bad guy (Matt) with. So Josh went into a pound shop and aught two plastic guns for us to use and then we decided to spray paint them black to make them look more realistic towards the audience.

Mise En Scene (Costumes)

Originally for costumes, we were going to dress up smart as agents but since none of us had anything smart like a suit to wear/use, we came up with the idea of being undercover cops instead of agents as it would be easier for us to do then having to rent out a suit or whatever so we used the idea of using casual/undercover cop style clothing instead.

(Josh's costume underneath; Plain black t-shirt and jeans)