Tuesday 20th November

At this meeting we brainstormed problems with shooting on set, and organised what equipment we will need for our text shoot on Saturday. We have also finalised our idea and ending.

Potential Problems and Solutions

• Weather - inconsistent conditions: We have no problem with rain, in fact it could look quite effective as it would make her seem more uncomfortable as she would be wet as well, but if it rains one day and not the other, or one weekend and then not the other we would be in trouble. If this does occur, then we would have no choice but to either: 1.) re-shoot all shots on the second day/weekend or 2.) see if dusk looked similar to dawn as far as lighting goes and try to shoot after school. Although these solutions are problematic in themselves, there is physically no way around this.
• Sun Rise - too fast: We are going to have to be very organised because each day we are going to have one hour at most to shoot, so we are going to need an exact shot list with a tight schedule. On top of this, if the sun comes up even faster we are going to have to convince our actors to shoot on some more mornings.
• Actors don't turn up: This is very unlikely as we only have 2 and the female is quite a good friend to some of the group so would only not be able to do it in an emergency. If she can't make it on the test shoot the Alix would stand in, and on the real thing we have a possible understudy of Ciara. For the test shoot Liam or Matt can stand in for the male and either would also be fine on the real day if our actor can't make it - particularly as you might never see his face.
• Distractions - people/animals in the park: In this case, for example - dog walkers, we would ask them politely if they wouldn't mind taking another route round the park for their walk - which most people wouldn't mind doing.

Equipment

• Obvious ones: Camera, Tripod, Small Whiteboard + marker
• Digital Camera: To take quick stills of our shots for a more detailed/clear storyboard
• Dolly?: We are going to try out different methods for tracking shots.
• Sound Kit: We are going to record some sounds (without visuals which we would use) like bumps, thumps, breathing etc to go over the top of our piece, we will also experiment with a little dialogue from our male lead.
  

Final Idea

• Opening shot (10-15 seconds) calm woods
• Blurry POV shots - disorientating
• One establishing shot to show her stumbling/drugged up
• Man appears from behind her, striding confidently after her - obvious it's a chase
• More stumbling etc
• He disappears from her view
• Then from our view for a little
• Appears possibly in front of her - makes audience jump
• He captures he, chloroforms her - whisper things in her ear, particularly something about 'you look lovely today' to make it obvious he dressed her.
• Montage-style sequence, very fast, going back in time, goes back to before she is in the park, to when she escapes from his house, final shot: she is tied up in a shed.
• Title flashes up almost instantly
• Then possibly her dress ripped and muddy left in the stream - obviously something awful has happened - rape/murder etc
  

Targets Set

• Draw up contracts for actors
• Go to Marks and Spencers to buy dress
  
  

Alix