Shooting Schedule for Production

Shooting Schedule

Day/Date	Set/Page/Description	Cast	Props	Location
Day 1	EXT. CANARY WHARF Establishing shot of London city. Dolly shot of a road in canary wharf using a car. Long shot of Richard Smith leaving big building holding a brief case.	Richard Smith	Suit Brief case	London city
Day 2	EXT. LONDON CITY Mid –shot of Richard Smith leaving his firm. Wide shot of a car mysteriously appearing.	Richard Smith	Car Suit Brief case	London City
Day 3	INT. ROOMS IN EBC Point of view shot of assassin punching. Over the shoulder shot of assassin pointing a gun at another character. Mid-shot of a man in a chair and the assassin standing next to him. EXT. OUTSIDE EBC Long-shot of man being chased by an assassin.	Richard Smith Assassin Business manager Fighting Actors	Suits Gun/Knife Brief case	EBC
Day 4	INT. DARK ROOM IN A CELLAR Point of view shot of lamp turning on Over the shoulder shot of Richard Smith whimpering on chair. Reaction shot of Richard Smith.	Richard Smith 2 Interrogators	Lamp Chair Rope	House/Room in EBC
Day 5	EXT. WOODLAND AREA/PARK Low angle shot of Business owners expression knowing his assistant Richard Smith has been taken.	Business owner	Suit	Woodland or Park

This is our shooting schedule for our production Siezer (teaser trailer). As you can see it is a 5 day production time period which takes place in two major places one of which is Canary Wharf. Not only does this location bring a sense of realism into our production, but it is also a bit problematic. We aren't usually allowed to film in the city and so may get stopped by police and so we will need to take our college ID so that we are able to film. 

Screenplay scene 22

FADE IN:

22)         INT. ROOM OF A HOUSE CELLAR – NIGHT <<COLOUR SCHEME>>

A dark room with no sign of life. A bright light turns on. TWO men come from either side of the light, helping in hiding the brightness from the light. The characters are in silhouette. The two characters seem to stare into the camera. A man takes a gasp.

Man 1

Well...

CUT TO:

Richard Smith on a seat with his hands and feet tied to the seat. The light is shined on him. His head looks down and comes back up.

Richard Smith

Well what?

CUT TO:

Man 1 lifts his hand up and threatens to give Richard Smith a punch. Man 2 gets in the way of Man 1 and holds him back. Aggressive motions are made by the man who wants to harm Richard Smith.

CUT TO:

POV/Over the shoulder shot of Man 2.

Man 2

He will talk, soon enough.

The men leave and turn the lamp light off. The room is left in the darkness.

This is a screenplay for a scene that will appear in our production.

Storyboard final

This is our final Storyboard. It shows a few key shots that we intend in using in our production. The first shot is a establishing shot of London City where the film is based. The second shot is a car following our main character Richard Smith. The third shot on the Storyboard is a shot of Richard's father and the Hitman who is going to save him. The fourth shot is the interigation scene which has Richard Smith in a dark room. The fifth shot is of a point of view shot of a punch. The final shot is of the Hitman holding a gun to another character.

These shots may not be included in the teaser trailer and definately not in the order but they will be filmed.

Impact of Product Research

By doing product research and with our knowledge of films of similar film genres, we were able to add key scenes into our trailer sequence. We have added a shot of our main character in a dark room, who gets interrogated. We saw these types of scenes in 'The Dark Knight Rises' and 'James Bond - Casino Royale'. In these films, the protagonist is interrogated in a dark room and creates a lot of suspense and tension which is what we need to create in our own trailer.
We also added the idea of the father of our protagonist is his business manager. This helps create a sub story but we will not be mentioning this in our trailer.
We have also chosen to try make the production companies fit in with the colour's of our production, this is what our product research showed us.
Finally, from our product research, we have seen that trailers for this genre of film tell a different story to what may happen actually in the film and so that is why we have left out many ideas and tried to show an Action genre film but our idea show other genres which we don't want to show.

Email to Young Turk Record Label

Email: theyoungturks@theyoungturks.co.uk

Dear Sir or Madam

For our media studies project, we are making a teaser trailer at our school Ernest Bevin College. We are writing to you to ask you if we can use the song ‘Intro’ from the XX Album by The XX which is a part of your record label Young Turks.

We understand that you are the owner of the song, but due to our low budget we would like to use the entire song to help us create an exciting tone to our teaser trailer which has the working title ‘Seizer’.

If this is not possible, please let us know what fee would be required for the use of your song.

Your signature below indicates that you have given us permission to use your song in our production. You can reach us at our college by asking for our supervisor Mr.Dickie.

Thank you for your cooperation

Yours truly Crown Productions

Emre Ibatoglu & Kiyan Patel                                           

Ernest Bevin College

Beechcroft Road, Tooting, London, SW17 7DF

Tel: 020 8672 8582

Fax: 020 8767 5502

This is an email we had to send to Young Turks production label because we would like to use a piece of their music and for copyright reasons, we can't just take it.

How audience feedback has impacted on our planning

We did two forms of audience feedback, two survey's and a focus group. From the survey's we were able to ask the audience on how to set the mise-en-scene for our interrogation scene. We asked this question because we had never made an interrogation scene before and we needed to know what to incled in that scene. Also we used our survey to help us understand what our target audience like for example if they would buy an Iphone will tell us we need to make our film more luxurious and more main stream like the film taken. From our focus group we learnt that we had a good plot but it was confusing to some people and so we need to improve our plot. Also they like our interrogation scene and so we should include the interrogation scene in our trailer or atleast shots of it in our teaser trailer as many people like the interrogation scene.

Characters for Teaser Trailer

For our teaser trailer, we need a few characters to help us create our main product. These are the characters we are going to need and their names.
Lee - Hitman
Richard Smith - Protagonist
Riley - Interrogator
Samuel - Interrogator
Mr Jackson Willson - Business Owner
Jason - Chaser

Props for Inspiration

Our production has an Action-Thriller film genre which has some key props that we may need.

This is an image of the Hitman character in the well known game Hitman. The use of guns in this frame has had in impact in our decision to want to use a gun in our production. This is a key prop used in many Action films and so it will help convey the conventions of our film. Also, one of our protagonist is a Hitman and so using a gun will help us convey a hirman character.

Also, we take our inspiration of using a brief case from the well known, main stream film, Collateral. In this film, the use fo a brief case helps create suspense and tension in the film as the audiecne are drawn into the object and hinder on what is inside it. Tension are suspense are two themes which we need to create in our own production and so using a brief case could help us in creating these conventional themes.  

Costume Choices

In our production, business is a key theme. Usually people dress smartly if they work for a business and so we will have Richard Smith and his Boss dressed smartly in suits. For Richard Smith, we may make his suit a bit more casual as he is a young businessman.
Our other protagonist is a Hitman figure and we take his costumes inspiration from the film Hitman.

We would like our Hitman figure to be dressed just like this. We would want a red tie as it is isociated with danger. We would also like the black leather gloves which creates mystery so we may also want our character to wear gloves.

Moodboard

This is our first moodboard which show a number of themes that are involved in our production. There are numerous images of London city because of the buisness theme that is the backbone of our storyline. London is the service and buisness capita and so having a buisnessman working in London, we are creating a high status image for our protagonist. There is an image of a degree scroll and education books under a graduation hat. This image is used as it shows that our protagonist has a high education showing how he has got to where he is now. The images of suits show a formal and safisticated person which is who our protagonist is going to be portrayed as. There is a image of money because money is the reason for Richard getting into this mess.

There are two other images which show another side to our film. The Hitman poster is shown because this sort of character is in our film. The final image is of a dark room with a chair, we are hoping to use a room like this for where Richard is kept captive as it is very mysterious and intense.

We have chosen a dark background as we feel as this is going to be the general tone of our production.

Pitch

Pitch Sheet

Title: Working Title

Genre: Thriller/Action

Time Period: Contemporary

Location(s): London City

Budget: Low

Target Market/Demographic Focus: Male 18+

LOGLINE:

London, 2013, Richard Smith is a business man who works for a big investment company but little does he know that his boss has done illegal things to other companies. Richard is on his way home from a meeting with another company who is interested in the firm and suddenly he is grabbed and thrown into a car. The kidnappers want Richard to either frame his boss or give his boss to these people. Richards has no choice or say in this matter. If Richard slips it won’t be just his life that’s in danger.

TREATMENT:

Richard Smith is a hard working, businessman who has taken a long time to get to where he is with a lot of hard work and preservation. His boss is a man who has done a lot of illegal dealings to make his business successful and Richard is his assistant but, Richard has never seen or taught of his boss doing illegal dealings to get the business to where it is now. One afternoon, after a meeting with the members of a firm interesting in investing into the business, he is then taken.

Richard Smith is left tied up to a chair in a dark room with one door and no windows. Richards’s boss finds that Richard hasn’t been at work for a couple of days and starts getting worried. His boss wants to help find Richard and uses a very close friend to find Richard. His friend is an assassin/Hitman used to protect him.  A sequence of fighting and searching leads to Richards’s boss’s close associate finds Richard but a final twist happens during this moment.

Richard goes through a tough life and doesn’t even know who his father was, yet he finds himself at gun point. His father is hinted at the end of the film.