Planning

Story Board

Before we started to film our short film we were in need of a story board, so we all sat down in a group and exchanged ideas is what we wanted to shoot, what angles, camera effects and locations.  During making the story board we were throwing shot types back and forth, and ended up using many; such as long shot, mid shot, high angle shot and many more.

These pictures below shows are story board we created; when we were filming we wanted to stick to this storyboard/plan and much as possible.  When filming we did go off track slightly, but this caused us to get better shot which turned out better than the ones we planned in the story board.

Chosen actors

When I came to casting, as a group we decided to just keep it within the group.  This is because if we were to get more friends into the film, we wouldn’t get as much done as there will be less motivation and more messing around. Also for the start of the film me and Ashley were able to make our idea of a car chasing a character possible as we had the help of Phil Dixon driving the car.

Chosen costumes

When we were thinking of costumes, we did start thinking of big black suits and black sun glasses “the typical agent”.  Due to none of us having any suits and if were to keep the suit idea we would have had to hire/rent them which would put all four of us out of pocket. So we all decided to stick to casual clothing and with this it will still fit into the film and not look out of place and randomly filmed.

Location Scouting

All four of us went out in search for a location to shoot our short film.  After looking around, as a group we finally decided that the school grounds would be the perfect place to shoot our film.  Our location is perfect as it is equal distance from each other’s homes.  This will make it a lot easier when it comes to filming as there is easy access to the site, and I can be used any day of the week.  When we were looking around the site we found it was perfect for building and items around the area. Such as the long drive way for car scenes and tall buildings for establishing shots.

Props

For our short film, we are needed of minimal props.  The main prop needed was a gun. Josh managed to find some cheap plastic guns, which we managed to spray black to look real towards the audience/viewers.  These guns would be used by Phil and Josh “as good guy” chasing the “bad guy” me.