Planning: H&S/Risk Ass

Risks Assessment

The risks that we would be facing during our filming sessions are; 

Outside-

• getting run over by not watching out for cars
• tripping over stones 
• twisting ankle 
• dropping the camera onto foot
• bad weather - getting electrocuted 
• getting attacked by animals - cats, dogs, cows, sheep

Inside- 

• objects falling onto you - camera, tripod, 
• tripping over cables
• camera falling 
• tripod breaking - falls hit participant 
• getting electrocuted 
• falling off chair
• trip over objects
• falling down stairs

To avoid these risks to take place we must be careful outside and inside by being aware of our surroundings, making sure the camera is secure in hands, being aware of where objects are placed. Make sure the days that are planned to film fit with your idea. Making sure the camera is securely fixed to the tripod so it doesn't fall off. Not going near animals that could scare us or attack us. 

Call Sheet

These two attachments are the front and back of the 'Call Sheet' written for our production Remember Us. Having a Call Sheet helped with the specific things about the opening of our film, like the reasons why we go to the locations, things about the characters and roughly how long each clip will take to film. We wrote this out before we started filming and so when it came around to using this as reference to the filming times we had to change a few things slightly as it took a little longer than we thought it would to film some clips, others took less time or the right amount of time. Travel made everything a little harder, we had to become more organised to fit everything in. Over all I learnt allot, I have become better at managing my time and organising meet ups to film, along with my filming skills- needing to think out of the box for what could work, this was a positive experience.

FINAL story board

SCRIPT #1

Story Board for Film

Story board for film

Final Script

SCRIPT

SCENE ONE

INT. HOSPITAL BEDROOM. DAY

Fade In-

               Cara laying on a hospital bed, a heartbeat monitor is beeping in the background

00:03 sec, Cara voice over

Camera- Overhead- moves over Cara, once reaching her face zooms in. Cuts to a static close up of a tear rolling down her face.

              

00:03 Cara (V.O)

If you told me that this (.) would have happened a year ago (2) I wouldn’t have believed you.

By the end of Cara Voice over, camera is on last frame in SCENE ONE showing close up of Caras face, a tear falls from her eye.

SCENE TWO

INT. BEDROOM.DAY

Screen fades to white-

                                         shows same girl getting ready for school, making bed, getting ready,                                                                 normal school morning.

Camera- in a static position, which clearly shows her movements. Cuts to shoes, sees Cara putting shoes on, then to when her phone rings

//bedroom is lit with natural bright light, reflects her personality.

When Cara is sitting on her bed, phone rings.  Moves to pick her phone up, phone is beside her.

Cara (on phone)

Hey Kat how are you? *break*

Yes, I’m about to leave

SCENE THREE

INT/EXT.BEDROOM/OUTSIDE HOUSE.DAY

Screen cuts to Daniel in his bedroom, on the phone mid convocation.

Bedroom is lit with natural light but still dark, reflects his persona.

Daniel getting ready for school, pulling jacket on body with bag.

When Daniel starts top talk camera pans out to show his face and torso

Daniel (on phone)

Yep, football tonight? *break*

Good good mate, at lunch? I’ll need that practise. Yes, I’m leaving about now.

Daniel leaves bedroom, walk down his stairs.

Camera is stationary facing the stairs then cuts to the bottom of the stairs, allowing Daniel to walk down them, then follows him to the front door. The camera is a static wide shot, showing Daniel walk out of the house, then a second stationary wide shot positioned in a corner showing him walking out of his house.

SCENE FOUR

EXT.MAIN ROAD.DAY

Camera-

                Stationary, establishing shot.

Cara walks up a pathway next to a main road and crosses the left side // camera cuts // Daniel is crossing over the right side of another main road. Both going to school.

After Daniel walks across main road, camera is stationary and shows Daniel walking up the path on the side of the road he just crossed over to. Camera changes; hand held as it follows in walking down another path separate to the main road.

Camera shows Daniel’s feet walking away from a stationary spot.

SCENE FIVE

EXT. SIDE ROAD.DAY

The camera transitions between Daniels feet walking forwards and Cara’s, this portrays that both of the people have the same drive; forwards.

Camera-

                Is stationary showing Cara walks past the camera, along a side road surrounded by                   old houses.

                Is stationary and Cara is walking along the side of a wall, camera is parallel to Cara walking forwards.

Daniel is now walking down a similar side road to school, appears that the two will meet but they don’t.

Camera-

                Is stationary, shows Daniel walking down a road until he walks round the corner, cuts to him walking round the corner.

The film is nonlinear, within this scene the editing will cut between these shots, breaking up the single route of just one person going to school.

SCENE SIX

EXT. MAINROAD/SCHOOL.DAY

In this scene Daniel crosses over the main road and makes his way over to school, Cara eventually making it there.

Camera-

                Stationary, wide shot as Daniel walks across the main road. Changes to hand held, following behind him, behind POV shot.

                Is a hand held, close up of Cara reaching for the door handle, reaches for door handle, opens door and walks through the door down a corridor.

Camera, wide shot, showing Daniel walking down the corridor, he walks past the camera, cuts to Cara walking forwards, Daniel coming the other way- camera is hand held steady, a slight over the shoulder/wide shot, showing Daniel walking the opposite way.

SCENE SEVEN

INT. ROOM. DAY/NIGHT NOT MENTIONED

Cara and Daniel are sharing a kiss, sitting opposite each other, memory.

Camera-

                Camera is stationary facing Cara and Daniel sat on a bed, sharing memories.

THROUGHOUT THE EDITING, CLIPS OF ‘MEMORIES’ BETWEEN THE TWO (CARA AND DANIEL) WILL BE USED TO BREAK UP THE LINEAR STORYLINE.

BWTEEN THE FIRST FEW CLIPS, THEY WILL TRANSITION THROUGH BLACK THEN BACK TO ANOTHER SCENE, THIS SOFTLY BREAKS UP THE CLIPS. MUSIC WILL BE OVERLAYED ONTOP OF THE FILM, STARTING BEFORE THE CLIPS PLAY, AND THE OPOTUNITY OF CREDITS AND TITLE APPEARE ON SCREEN.

Planning: Initial Ideas

Planning: Props

Planning: Props

Any prop featured in the bedrooms were placed there before hand and art key to the film. The main props featured in the film is the two school bags and the two phones belonging to Cara and Daniel. Any props outside of the film will be a Camera, x2 tripods for the camera (different heights).

The representation of the props within the film portray that both of the main characters, Cara and Daniel, are the 'normal' teenagers seen in society today (set in the 21st century). The use of school bags helps the audience to view the older characters as more childish. If there were no school bags then the main characters could be viewed as adults and not by students going to school, which is how we want them to be perceived.
The use of a phone allows the communication between people and showing them with phones shows to the audience that they ant in the lower years of school, suggesting their ages and level of school work if they are allowed to have the responsibility of having a phone and bringing it into school.

Character clothing/ outfits

Character clothing/ outfits

Cara 

I would like Cara to wear a casual and a cute winter outfit. Wearing these clothes will help portray her type of character and how she acts, because people view you on the type of clothes you wear and this can affect any ones judgement on others. Cara's character is cute and she is known to be (and acts like) a nice person, therefore her clothes have to help portray the way she acts, that is why I have decided in choosing this theme of clothing for her.

• over sized jumper
• leggings or trousers
• brown boots
• hair down
• big winter socks

Daniel

For Daniel I picture him wearing clothes that are suitable for the winter but also trendy, this style will help show the audience that he is a 'confortable' person but you'd never want to get on the bad side of him. This will be represented in his style of clothing, edgy and fashionable.

• black trousers
• dark top
• bomber/winter jacket
• hat
• dark shoes

Planning - Casting

Planning - Casting

Within the two minute opening of our film the two main characters, Cara and Daniel, are featured showing both their similar mornings, entwining on screen to portray a possible future. I have chosen the age range to be between 16-18 because these are the ages where teenagers are becoming new adults and are stereotyped as 'wreckless people'. My film is a romance/drama genre so my characters will portray the stages of romance, denial, hate, friends, best friends, love etc...

Cara

• Aged between 16 - 17
• Dark brown hair // light colour eyes
• Pretty face (innocent looking face)

Daniel

• Aged between 16-18
• Dark brown hair// dark colour eyes
• Sharp jawline and cheekbones 
• Muscular and slightly powerful aura 
• tanned skin 

Location Recce Pictures

This is a screenshot from google maps showing a main road (oxford road running through Adderbury) which i am using as an example for what type of road i want to use for the main road in my film.  Ideally I would like a main road showing two sides and paths on either side because this will show ( even though one side is being showed in the shot) that there is actually a place being walked too-gives the impression of.
An open main road surrounded by houses shows that the area is set in the countryside, this has portrays a safe environment compared to a city surrounding. Although a main road shows that the area being filmed is used all the time which fits with what we want featured in our film.

In scene 5 both Cara and Daniel have crossed the road and begin walking down a path/single road that will lead them to their school.  These two screenshots are of the streets near Chenderit School that show two different types of streets that I am picturing Daniel and Cara walking down. The camera shots that will be used in this scene will be POV of cara and daniel walking down them and a video on a dolly stick, this will help bring in the audience and make them feel more part of the film.

These small roads 

Location Recce Ideas

Shooting Schedule

This is the Shooting Schedule for our film 'Remember Us'. It took longer to film than we intended but there were small clips and different locations to consider, which we didn't beforehand.
We paired different scenes together to make it easier to film as they could be done on the same day, examples of this is that we had more time and could then film more, I had more access to other locations and either Kat or myself were able to film at that time.
We followed the way we had written the schedule because it was easier to plan around than just picking out dates, we learnt that it is very important to forward plan and to work things around the schedule.