Pre-production planning

Pre-production planning

We began exploring and planning the following titles so that we gained a better knowledge about how are opening sequence is to finally be planned out.

 

Actors:

Main girl: Connie Meek

Businessman: Christopher Gladding

Stuck up girl: Lydia Murray

Urban teenager: George Scott

Bully Girl: Sophie Mathieson

(minor) Man that Businessman bumps into: Jake Williams

Locations:

For introducing main girl: Torquay Pier

Businessman: Walks out of Costa, Palm court Torquay

Stuck up girl: Torquay High Street

Urban Teenager: Stairway outside Green Ginger, Torquay high street

Bully Girl: White Shelter, Torre abbey Torquay

Lift: Torquay High street lift in Car Parks

Costumes:

Main girl: Normal, she is required to blend in with the majority and so will be wearing jeans and most definitely a jumper.

Businessman: Business suit (shirt, tie, trousers, blazer)           

Stuck up girl: Smart casual. Her costume needs to be fairly normal but strong enough for the audience to recognise she thinks highly of herself through the way she chooses to show her appearance. (blazer, smart boots)

Urban Teenager: Tracksuit. This is in order to show his contrasting way of life in opposition to the rest of the characters. He needs to show the impression to the audience that he doesn't care for his appearance in similarity to the fact that he doesn't really care for the rest of society and the people around him.

Bully girl: Normal teenager (Jeans). She will also blend in with her environment. With 21st  century teens increasingly becoming more aware of the effect of bullying, this character needs to be related to these types of people.

Props:

Main girl: not needed

Businessman: Brief case and costa coffee cup

Stuck up girl: Chewing gum

Urban Teenage: Cap to wear 

Bully girl: Mobile Phone

Storyboard

Pitch

Dolly Zoom Practice

Lesson on 12th Feb 2015. The Dolly Zoom
At the beginning of the lesson we began storyboarding and deciding our favourite shots in our storyboard that we would eventually use in our real opening sequence.
One shot we wanted to use was a dolly zoom at a moment of realisation for our protagonist in the real thing. We hadn't actually had any practise of a dolly zoom so we decided to practise this technique, which involves zooming the focus of the camera out as the camera is being rolled forward and vice versa. We wanted to see if this technique would be possible and achievable to use in our real opening sequence. 
We all took turns using the camera to zoom with as we got pulled on a wheely chair by another person in our group. Our results were very successful in the end! We have put together a short videoclip to show the results of todays work.
The Dolly Zoom was introduced in a Jaws movie and since has been used a numerous movies to convey a moment of empathy and excitement of the protagonist. In my view, I think a dolly zoom is effective to show a character just before a moment of action that they are seen in. This will hopefully be the case in our opening sequence as the protagonist is seen through a dolly zoom as a moment of realisation just after she looks at the date on her phone.

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