Diary Location Shooting 26th January 2011 Wednesday

Today my group and I went out scouting for locations for our opening 2 minutes,

·      We stayed around the leatherhead town area searching for alleys and small-secluded areas.

·      We took photos of three alleys which we think could become useful, two of which are fairly busy and in constant use which may make them harder to use, the third one is smaller and leads to nowhere but it fits in really well with the storyboard.

·      Also in our opening 2 minutes, we need a good amount of space to do a chase scene.

We’ve uploaded the pictures we took onto our blogs

Soundtrack research using the film 'Snatch'

Turkish and his accomplice Tommy get pulled into the world of match fixing by the notorious Brick Top. Things get complicated when the boxer they had lined up gets the life beaten out of him by Pitt, a 'pikey' who comes into the equation after Turkish, an unlicensed boxing promoter wants to buy a caravan off the Irish Gypsies. They then try to convince Pitt not only to fight for them, but to lose for them too. Whilst all this is going on, a huge diamond heist takes place, and a fistful of motley characters enter the story, including 'Cousin Avi', 'Boris The Blade', 'Franky Four Fingers' and 'Bullet Tooth Tony'.

We decided that this clip of snatch would be good to have on our blogs since it shows how they use music to change the tension. For example in this clip there’s a scene where the boxer everyone thought would win gets knocked out and loses, but instead of having a dark piece of scary suspenseful music playing in the background a soft acoustic piece of music starts to play. This makes the scene less threatening and slightly more relaxed. The music used down plays the tension which is what we hope to do in our film.

Soundtrack!

In a previous post i said that we would use non-copyright music for our final piece but we have decided to use copyright music for our animatic as that is allowed . The track we have chosen is called Slam by Pendulum, it starts off at a slow pace and then speeds up as it plays. I think this would be a really good track to use because it sets the pace of the scene and what the film be like; an action packed film full of adrenaline filled chases....... or at least that's what we're aiming for!

For our final piece, unfortunately, we will have to use non-copyright music which I don't think will be as good but as a group I'm sure we will be able to find a suitable track to use

Pendulum's album which has Slam on it!

Idea for our film

 The idea for our film relates to the book 'Scorpia' by Anthony Horowitz. The plot of the book is about an organization of assassins that want to kill all 12-14 years olds in Britain to destroy the relations between the United States and Great Britain. The leader of the organization poisons a member of her own organization when he speaks of retiring. This relates to our plot as organization 13 is an organization of assassins that plot to kill a former organization member when he wants to leave the organization. As the organization needs 13 members, a trial is held for a new assassin to join and so the job is offered to the first interviewee who kills the former organization member.

Media Diary. 18th January 2011 Monday

Today my group and I started on our research and planning sheet, in our two media lessons, this included...

• We completed our new action movie mood board of explosions, great action films and well known action movie actors.
• We started research on props, actors and costume for the movie.
• We need a soundtrack to the clip, so we’ve started looking at sound for the first time with our new action theme in mind on non-copyrighted sites.
• We’ve also started looking at things similar to what we hope to achieve for example movie trailers and books. One of us found a great trailer which relates to the brief storyline that we’ve come up with so far, its called The Tournament and one of us has read a book which might be good research called Scorpia.

We uploaded the action movie mood board onto all of our blogs.

Our Media Group/ Actors for film

Actors & Props:
We will cast family, friends & students of the drama department. Members of our group may also appear in our filming. Props we may need are a gun or several guns, a cigar, a distinguished walking stick, cars, phones, walkie talkies, money and briefcases.