Production Planning

Production Planning 

After deciding on our genre, we mind-mapped our different ideas. These ideas are all based around real life so can clearly show the conventions of gritty realism. We assessed each of the ideas, going through how we envision the each of these ideas to play out on screen; we looked at the props, characters, lighting, music/other sound, location, camera and editing. Finally we decided on the drug angle. Our idea involves a young girl living with her drug addicted mother. Our opening consists of her reliving her child hood, the abuse and the effects that the drugs had on her. If we were to further create the film, we would have her reliving her past, trying to help other addicts to come clean, however she would eventually fall under the influence of drugs and be forced to live in her mothers footsteps.

Test Shots

 These are a few of the test shots taken from our story board. The one on the right is the feet of the girl running up the stairs. We found that there was enough lighting from the hallway when we took this shot, but due to the formation of the stairs, they are quite difficult to run up. To avoid any accidents the actor must take special care when performing this shot. Even though shots of feet are very stereotypical, we found by adding a very short shot of the feet running up the stairs we could connote panic and urgency the character is feeling.

This shot is of the girl walking into the apartment, we found that there was not enough lighting so additional lighting must be used in order for the camera to pick up the character and the set. These seen was longer than our original ideas, however we did feel like we could still achieve the same effect with having the longer shot. Our original idea involved having the shot from the shoulders to the waist, this sustains the mysterious element and helps create a variety of shots which could interest the audience.

This shot on the left is a shot from inside the lift. During editing we intend to make it too like a CCTV camera is looking down on the character. This shot will connote the location of the lift to the audience and enables us to include a wider variety of shots. This type of shot is also versatile in terms of editing as it does not have any dialogue or digetic sound or specific/ distinguished action, and therefore can be placed anywhere within the lift scene and still make
sense to the audience.

This shot is a close up shot of the characters hand putting a set of keys into the apartment door lock. This is the first shot directly showing the apartment, which will therefore connote a sense of mystery as the audience cannot see the whole location and so have to use their imagination to try and guess the location.

Film names 

Risk Assessment

In our film we will be using the location of a roof top setting. There is a risk of falling off the roof, however we will prevent this by standing at least a metre away from the edge. There is also a risk of being cut by the smashed glass, to prevent this we will stay at least a metre away from the expected point of impact and wear sensible shoes. 

Costume, props and actors

Location

   This is the setting we will use in our final production. This setting is my grandmother's apartment. The location is perfect for our story line as it is untidy, due to packing up her belongings, and is on the top floor of the building, and it has a lift. It has a lift, big front room, kitchen and spiral staircase which leads onto the roof. When we decided on our location, we had ideas of moving the film up onto the roof to build tension, and also using the lift at the start of the film to create suspension as the audience to not know the characters destination. 

   We had other ideas, like using the High Cross car park for the roof scene and using a crew members house for the rest of the film opening, however, by using my Grandma's place, we would not have to move location as it is all accessible in the apartment building.