Pre-Production Plan: January 2011

Monday, 24 January 2011

Scripts/Shooting Scripts

PICTURE	TIME (aprox)	AUDIO
Low angle shot of back bicycle wheel turning. Camera is facing upwards at an angle of approximately 45 degrees.	0.02	Pleonastic sound of clicking of bottom bracket in back wheel
Cut to: Damien picking up bike so that it is the right way up. Camera starts from low angle shot from handle bars and slowly tilts up	0.04	Natural Diagetic
Cut to: Back wheel of bike falling on the floor, (possibly in slow motion)	0.01	Pleonastic sound of tire hitting ground
Low angle shot of Damiens hand testing brakes. His hand and brakes are at bottom left corner of screen and at first camera is focused on his hands but with manual focus we loose focus of his hand and can see his face at which we see him give a nod of satisfaction to his work.	0.03	Pleonastic sound of brakes tightening.
Damien then gets onto his bike. Shown with Low angle shot 1 foot away from rear of bike, highest point in the frame that is visible of Damiens body is his waist and lowest point is the ground. Damiens hand reaches into his pocket.		Diagetic
Cut to: Close up match on action shot of Damiens hand getting his phone out. Cut to: Damien using phone, low angle shot, phone is close to camera but we can see Damiens face and body above. Cut to: Back to Match on action close up of phone in Damiens hand as he chooses the song he wants to play.	0.01 0.01 0.02	Pleonastic Music turns on in sync as he presses play. The audio soundtrack is all we can hear at the moment.
Damien puts his phone back into his pocket and rides off. Low angle shot from waist as Damien rides past camera	0.02	Soundtrack
Damien starts riding his bike on the pavement. Tracking shot can be done by using a bmx with stunt pegs on back (one person riding bike and camera man standing on pegs on back of bike)		Soundtrack
Cut to tracking shot: Camera tracking shot is on road filming Damien as he’s riding his bike.	0.03	Soundtrack
Cut to: Over the shoulder shot from Damien looking at a group of youths on other side of road. Cut to: low angle shot from group of youths talking, camera rises upwards until we see the youth notice Damien and turns head towards him. In the shot we see Damien riding past in the background but two youths are in the frame. Cut to: Close up of Damien’s face, staring at the youths (remember to use rule of third) and Damien then looks away and continues riding.	0.02 0.04 0.02	Soundtrack
Damien approaches the end of the road and stops, ready to cross and is looking for traffic both ways.
Tracking long shot going past Damien as he is at the end of the road.	0.03	Soundtrack
Damien crosses the road, and starts riding on road 2 (Bensham Manor road) Tracking shot on road showing Damien riding his bike on pavement.	0.5
As Damien reaches the alley way he realises his shoe lace is undone and stops to do it up and as he goes to do his shoe lace he sees a group of youths bullying a girl. Over the shoulder shot of Damien as he’s riding bike, camera tilts downwards to show his undone shoelace. Cut to: low angle shot of Damien looking downwards at his laces. Cut to: Match on action of Damien stopping the bike with the brakes. Cut to: Mid shot of Damien getting off bike and kneeling down to the floor and gets his phone out to stop music Cut to: Match on action shot close up of phone in hand showing him pressing stop Cut back to: Mid shot of Damien about to do shoe laces but looks up Cut to: over the shoulder shot of Damien looking up to see the 3 youths bullying the younger youth halfway down the alley way. Cut to: Wide shot (a quarter way up the alley way) showing Damien looking at the youths.	0.04 0.02 0.01 0.05 0.03 0.04 0.3 0.04	Soundtrack Diagetic Voices of youths and younger youth
Damien gets back onto his bike but keeps glancing down the alley way. Medium close up shot from his head height as he gets up to go on his bike and rides away it turns into a mid shot.	0.06	Diagetic
As Damien is riding away from the alley way he has a sudden change of mind and pauses while his conscience battles with his feelings whether he should go back and help or not.
Mid shot of Damien riding bike, camera is slightly tilted upwards and his face is very clear. Cut to: Match on action close up of hand pulling brakes Cut to: Match on action of back tire skidding Cut to: Close up shot to extreme close up shot of Damiens face as he gets closer to the camera. Sudden pause of around 5 seconds as he decides what to do.	0.05 0.01 0.01 0.06	Diagetic Pleonastic sound of tire skidding
Damien turns around and starts riding the other way, As he does so the camera tilts upwards and the name of the movie is revealed through editing.	0.03	Soundtrack

Sunday, 23 January 2011

This example of a film that we had gathered ideas to help us create the opening film sequence of is shank. Shank is set in the decaying future of london where the gap between the lower class and upper class and food has replaced drugs and guns as a priceless commodity. Leading there to be an uprise in violence.
The reason why we had chosen this particular

film because it represents the bleakness of scenary that we as students aare trying to potray within the openming scene.

Source: Youtube, Wikipedia

Kidulthood:
Kidulthood is a very good example of how we would like our opening scene to be portrayed it represents fully the harsh reality of the lower class lifestyle represented through the media. kidulthood is based on the two days in the lives of a group of fifteen-year old teenagers from a rough area of London. I.E gang life and the uprise of harrasement and viloence expericened by the younger generations.
Souce: wikipedia

Souce: Wikipedia, Youtube

Fishtank:
Fish Tank is another example of an existing product. In the first scene of the movie, she mocks and gets into a fight with other girls on the estate. Her only source of escape is hip-hop dance, which she practices alone in a deserted flat.
This first scene is a brilliant example of how we endeavour the film to go straight into action and involve the audience film. It further demonstrates how the opening scene can explain the rest of the film.