Project Log 7:

What have been the key issues for your production/post production this week?
The only issue we had for production in this week was that we had to re-film one scene of our opening sequence as we accidentally missed a couple of dialogue which hindered the whole scene. Apart from that there were no issues in the production.

What decisions did you make about the issue and why?
To solve the issue, we re filmed the scene again which only took around 15 minutes which was not really a bother. Another thing we did was change one of the locations that was supposed to be an interrogation room as we felt it was more ideal for our narrative as it looked more like a interrogation room rather than the old location we had picked, thus adding to the verisimilitude to the opening sequence.

Call Sheet 2

CALL SHEET

Date and time: 18/03/13      9.25-10.10 Location: Interview Room (Chadwell Heath Academy) Script scene no.s: Scene 24-29 (interview room/office) Contributors: Amandeep Sall, Jaspreet Kaur, Satveer Degun, Hardeep Panaser Contributors Contact Details: Amandeep Sall – amandeepsall686@gmail.com Jaspreet Kaur – jaspreetkaurrai28@gmail.com Satveer Degun – satveerdegun123@gmail.com Hardeep Panesar - hardeeppanesar16@gmail.com Crew: Amandeep Sall, Jasprret Kaur, Satveer Degun, Hardeep Panesar Equipment Card box Box, Pen, Clipboard, Tripod, Camera, iphone  Travel Arrangements: Walked to interview room in Chadwell heath academy

Project Log 6:

What has been the key issues for your production this week?
So far there hasn't really been any key issues in the production of our opening clip apart from creating the Production schedule as we had to figure out exactly what we were going to do at what time. We in fact finished filming the first session quicker then expected which has allowed us to have a free session to make our graphics. 

What decisions did you make about the issues and why?

The decisions we made about the production schedule was that booked extra time for after school filming almost every day if we needed it. I think this was a good decision as it was like a back up plan as it provided us with more time to film in case we run out of time. We also did this with the editing, sound and graphic time slots.

Shooting Script:

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Call Sheet:

 CALL SHEET

Date and time: 14/03/13      12.00-1.10 Location: Car Park Script scene no.s: Scene 3-5 (car park) Contributors: Amandeep Sall, Jaspreet Kaur, Satveer Degun Contributors Contact Details: Amandeep Sall – amandeepsall686@gmail.com Jaspreet Kaur – jaspreetkaurrai28@gmail.com Satveer Degun – satveerdegun123@gmail,com Crew: Amandeep Sall, Jasprret Rai, Satveer Degun Equipment Card box Box, Pen, Clipboard, Tripod, Camera Travel Arrangements: Walk to Chadwell Academy Car Park

Production Schedule:

Location Reccies:

Location 1:

The Chadwell Heath Academy basement.

Reason:

The reason why we picked this location was because the interior of the basement is very dark and gloomy - much like a British Social Realism movie. Its abandoned, not much happens in it which makes it an ideal place for the opening sequence due to the actions that take place. The whole point is that it is meant to be quiet so it seems like a place where potentially drugs can be sold.


Problems we might have:
One of the main problems we may have is the accessibility of the basement. We will have to ask the caretakers when the basement is available because other students may want to use it too. Other problems we may have is the lighting in the basement. The lights in the basement may not offer the type of image we want for our opening sequence. We may not have enough time given to film in the basement so might have to come back a few times.


Location 2:

Car Park (basement exterior)


Reason:
The reason we chose this location is because in our opening sequence we need to include someone looking from outside witnessing the protagonist being arrested. It also gives the audience someone else s perspective of what is going on and also provides the audience a better understanding of where the location is.

Problems we might have:
As it is a car park, it may be busy a lot of the time and there may be a lot of noise in that area too. This means we have to shoot at the least busy possible time to make sure there is no interruptions. We will need a car parked in a specific position so we can film from an over the shoulder position of the car. For this we might have to get permission from someone we knwo so they can position their car in the place we need it.

Location 3: School Hall

Reason:

The reason we chose this location was because at the end of our opening scene we see the protagonist going to court and being sentanced.We though that the hall resembled a court room really well and was an ideal choice.

Problems we may have:

There may be exams or assembly's in the hall which means we have to be careful what time we film. Also we have to make sure that it is quite outisde the hall too as we need there to be silence when filming in he hall.

Location 4: School Intrview Room

Reason:

We needed this room as it resembled an interigation room which we need for the opening.

Problems we may have:

Availability as we have to make sure no one is in the room when we are filming.

Treatment:

Title
The title of the film would be Framed. This represents what the film will be about and is like a clue to the audience. Many BSR films have a simple name which tells something about the film which is why i have kept this one simple.

Identify Target Audience:
This film would be aimed towards a niche British audience. It would mainly be for males within the age range of 15-24 year olds. This would because the film would be more interesting to guys as there would be a lot of violence and males character are more dominant in the film. The other interests would be law, drugs, gangs and revenge. The class would be aimed towards people living in normal areas such as seven kings, ilford, newbury, Barking etc... These areas would be working class places. It would be aimed towards people living in these areas as the film would be set in these locations and the audience would be able to relate to the areas. Here is a link to work I recently did on Audience. This is primary research.

Vox Pop Results:
http://amandeepsallyear12mediastudies.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/questionnaire-results.html

Technology
The technology I will need would be equipment such as cameras, tripod, mac to edit on with the imovie. the technology i will use when it comes to camera work would be a wide range of shots and angles were needed. This would make the film seem more interesting. There are also some limitations for what i can do such as using CGI and special effects. This would be because they aren't apart of BSR and don't have any verisimilitude  The other reason would be that it would be too expensive and we can only use what we have to make our film which has to be BSR.

Representation  
Our main characters in our opening sequence will be working class, and approximately 16 years of age, his representation would be more ‘nerdy’ and less suspicious, he would have a light complexion and would be 5ft10, he is represented as an innocent character and is caught delivering parcels, containing drugs, but he doesn’t know this.
Our antagonist is mysterious, we do not know much about him, as he mainly speaks to the protagonist over the phone, he would have a deep and intimidating voice, and would be feared throughout this movie, the enigma built up for this character would make the audience feel intimidated due to his actions and ruthless personality.

Narrative
Our movie will be about a 16 year old teenager who will be working a part time job of delivering parcels, he is an ordinary person, and his family is working class, who looks less suspicious to the police and is completely unaware of what he is delivering. One day when he is preparing his packages for delivery, he is arrested, and is imprisoned for 5 years, even though he isn’t guilty. He is released from prison and plots revenge upon his employer, he finds his employer after going through many sources and brawls with him, eventually getting stabbed.  

Conventions
How will you use the conventions of the BSR genre (conform/subvert)?
Some conventions we will use are real life sets in London. Other British Social Realism conventions that we will use are the use of unknown and untrained actors - us or other people we know.Our main protagonist is going to be working class which is another British Social Realism convention. Usually British Social Realism films contain a lot of fast paced rap and grime music. We will also use grime music (copyright free) which displays a convention. The type of camera shots and angles we will use are a lot of tiled and canted angles and use handheld shots. The camera frames will also look more rough. When editing, the contrast of the video will be lowered by 10% to provide it with that more dark, grimy feeling to it which confroms the BSR conventions. We will also use natural lighting.

Will you have any hybrid elements?
The only other hybrid elements we will have is a little bit of thriller in our opening sequence so we will try to build up some suspense and tension in the opening clip.

Style & Iconography
How will you use camerawork to create an effect for the audience?
We will use the gimey type of camerawork used in British Social Realism movies. This means there will be lots of tilted an canted angles. Also a lot of handheld shots will be used to capture the realness and rough trueness of Britain. This will help to create an effect for the audience that they are there witnessing the film taking place in first person.

How will you use editing to create an effect for the audience?
One of the main things we will do in the editing is to drop the brightness of the video by 10% which will again provide that more dark, rusty feel to it which will create the effect on the audience of experiencing the real Britain creating verisimilitude.

How will you use costumes/props as visual signifiers for the audience?
We will use costumes and props in our opening sequence. From these the audience can tell alot about, for example the location of where the film is taking place just from the costumes. We will also use props as appropriate to the character in the opening sequence which could connote to the audience what the personality of the character is. For example if the character is carrying a weapon the audience can connote from the prop that the character may be violent and has bad intentions.

How will you use costumes.props as visual signifiers for the audience?
We will use sound similar to what is commonly used in British Social Realism movies. For example a lot of grime is used so we may use grime too. We will also use real life sounds and no sound effects as it rarely happens in British Social Realism and it makes it creates a more believable experience for the audience.

Institution
Our movie would be distributed by Film 4, as it would meet their conventions, of having a low production budget, unknown directors, and unknown actors- also the movie would be aimed at a nice market and wouldn't be produced expecting a profit, but more to convey a message of life in Britain, we would exhibit this movie at film festivals to build slow word of mouth promotion, and also in small niche cinemas such as PictureHouse as they’re known for exhibiting independent movies.

Narrative:

Exposition:

Character one (the protagonist) is an ordinary guy with an ordinary job. He has an ordinary job of delivering packages to places and people and as he’s sixteen years old – he earns minimum wage. Character one is around five foot ten; he has around a medium length brownie/black hair and has a light complexion. His family is of working class which is the reason why he needs the delivering job that he currently has. Surprisingly, he got the job as his close friend used to work there when he was younger, although character one has never met his employer only talked to him through the phone and his payments are received by the employer’s assistant. He is what some people may call a ‘nerdy’ type of character and never hangs around with the wrong crowd and never thinks too much of himself – completely ordinary teenager with an everyday, boring mundane life. The Exposition starts off with character one delivering his packages in a basement in London, when his phone starts ringing.

Agents of Change:

Character two (antagonist) is the agent of change, the character who changes the protagonists whole life. Character two is the employer of character one – his boss. Not much is known about him, he is a mysterious character. His description is unknown and only speaks to character one over the phone and that is only if it is urgent.  One day while character one in delivering some packages in a basement, he phones character one.

Conflict complication

In this part of the film, we see the protagonist framed for delivering drugs and goes to jail. He was betrayed by the guy he was working for and is proven guilty in court when he was innocent. He spends 5 years of his life in jail. This part of the film will have the scenes of him getting caught, the court, and some jail scenes. He comes out after 5 years out for revenge.

Elaboration

5 years later he gets out of jail out to find the people who framed him and got him locked away.

This is the main part of the film and will be the longest. In this scene we see the guy come out of jail and hunt down all the people involved in framing him. It starts off with him coming out of jail and then going back to the basement. He gets into contact with his old mates and plans his revenge. He finds out about where the employer’s assistant lives and goes there with his mates to find out who his ex-employer is and where he is to get his revenge. This is part of the scene will contain scenes of violence and as a result will leave the employer's assistant in need of hospital. The protagonist will go through many different people to get his way to the top to find the main guy who framed him. There will be many different locations used here. This will also be many scenes involving alcohol and drugs to portray the the stereotype of gangs. After when he finds the employer, there is a big fight scene between the protagonist and the antagonist.

Climax & Resolution

During the fight the protagonist and antagonist continue brawling; trading punches, and cursing each other, character one has been waiting 5 years for this moment where he finally can claim revenge! as they continue fighting they eventually break off of each other, they stare each other down, and character one walks away slowly, character 2 then draws a blade brutally stabbing character one in the back multiple times, killing him.

Coda

We see the protagonist to be dead, eventually the ambulance arrive, along with the police, and we see character one’s face covered with a white sheet, and also see character two arrested, and taken away in a police car; and character one finally claimed revenge, with a cost...

Project Log 5:

What has been the key issues for your pre production this week?

One of the key issues my partners and I had to tackle was where the location of our opening sequence would take place and how many locations we would have. We had to take into consideration if the location was free to film in, the times we could film and the distance of the location from where we live. Once we had made the decision of using a car park as one of our location, we came to another issue of the fact that we may need a car parked in a specific position. Other issues we tackled was the actual whole narrative of our British Social Realism movie. Even though the opening sequence is only 2 minutes long, we still had to decide on The Exposition, Agents of Change, Conflict Complication, Elaboration, Climax & Resolution and Coda. This took us a bit of time to figure out as we also had to figure out what exactly we were going to fit in the opening sequence. Another issue I had was figuring out the shooting script. This was because every element of the script had to spot on and had to be within the time limit.

What decisions did you make about the issues and why?

We decided that the best place to have our locations was in the Chadwell Heath Academy basement (interior) and the exterior of the basement which is the car park. We decided to resolve this issue by looking at what location would fit our narrative the most and we decided that the basement meets this. The basement is apart of the school which makes it easy to travel there, we can get permission from the caretakers and I have also filmed there before which makes it easier as a whole as I know what it looks like and how we can best take props inside to make the best opening sequence we possibly can. It also fits the narrative as the basement is  quite and dark - much like British Social Realism locations, which makes it ideal as a drug dealing frame will take place there in there. The car park is also ideal as we need to see the protagonist being arrested from the outside. We managed to come to a decision on the narrative structure by splitting it three ways, Exposition and Agents of Change would be my duty, Conflict complication and elaboration would be the partners duty, with Climax and Resolution and Coda being the other partners duty meaning we could each focus on more detail and thoughts going into each section and once we had finished we all read over it together so we could make any changed if necessary. We also then figured out which parts of the narrative structure would go into our opening sequence and pinpointed exactly what will take place in the opening sequence. To resolve the issue of the shooting script, I had to spend a lot of time on writing the script with my peers in the group and we had to keep checking over every single shot we included to make sure it was the best we could make it and also if we could shoot the particular shot and the total duration of the shots and also visualize what it would look like in our heads.  Overall I think we tackled the issues well and came up with good and appropriate decisions.