Time Management

12/2009This is the plan for our filming time management. (This may change based on availability of actors and weather.)

Snow scene + Rob's House shoot - 19th December 2009.

School shoot - 11th January 2010.

Day shoot in town - 19th January 2010.

Forest Scene - 21st January 2010.

Night shoot in town - 23rd January 2010.

Costumes + Props

I have compiled a list of costumes and props we'll need for our filming:

Costumes:

Duct Tape - (to go over Doubt's mouth.)
Doubt's Outfit - Casual gear.
Angel Outfit (Good) - Grey clothing, scarf over face. (the scarf is because during the movie the character's face get horrifically burnt.)
Angel Outfit (Evil) - Dark clothing, mask on face, gloves, dark scarf. ( The mask is there due to the character's twisted personality.)
Main Character Outfit - Hat, warm clothing (to show that he is cold when in the snow.)

Props:

Leaf + String - used to lower the leaf down to the body.
Toy Skeleton - used by the evil angel during the movie.
Old Television - used by the main character during the movie as his connection to reality.

Location Scouting.

We went out to scout for locations to film at for our opening sequnce, here is a list of our proposed locations around the town:

Shot one (falling leaf scene) - Mentmore Forest, Outside/Day.

Town filming:

Crossing the street shot - Outside/Night.
Arrow signs - Outside/Night.
Block of Flats - Outside/Night.
Person walking across street - Outside/Day.
Suburban street - Outside/Day and Night.
Phone Box - Outside/Night.
Outside Shops - Outside/Night.
Ryan at the zebra crossing - Outside/Night.

School filming:

Red Light shot - Inside/Day.
Common Room - Inside/Day.
Car Park shot through window - Inside/Day.

Filming at Rob's house:

Bedroom - Inside/Day.
Visualizer from PC screen - Inside/Day.
Snow Scene ( when character wakes up) - Outside/Day.

Filming done prior to writing this:

Beach shot - Filmed on Rob's Holiday to Crete - Outside/Day.
Tv white noise shot - Filmed at Rob's house - Inside/Night.
Title screen - Picture staken in School - Inside/Day.

Creating the title screen and delude definition

This is the first screen in our opening sequence, I made it on Photoshop using the actual dictionary definition. We implemented this into our work because we wanted the audience to have an understanding of what the title means and the connotations of it. I think this will be effective from the audience's point of view because by the end of the movie they will appreciate what the title and overall meaning of the film.

This is a screenshot taken during the construction of our title screen. We took a picture of our main character and used a threshold filter to make it two blocks of black and white colour. This helps merge the character into the background and define the isolation the character feels throughout the movie.

This is the final version of our title screen, in our opening sequence you will see the title 'Delude' fade in and out to help create an atmosphere for the rest of the movie, also this effect makes the opening sequence flow better and contrast against the disjointed flow of the flash shots that come after.

Target Audience

Our target audience for Delude is adolescents interested in the science fiction elements of the film, those with an open mind, whose minds are open to an "out of the box" interpretation of the film. This film would also engage an older audience due to the nature of the film, the themes and representations could apply to any age, or atleast people with a basic understanding of the mind or an interest in something different when watching films.

Delude Storyline

Media Companies Research

This is our media company research, I saved it as an image file so I could upload it to the blog.

Storyboard.

This is our storyboard for the opening sequence of our movie called "Delude". This is how we plan to lay out and shoot the sequence. We have also included how we shall edit and implement audio to the piece. Notice how we have only planned out 1 minute 40 seconds worth of footage. We plan to include more flashes and increase the length of the title screen to make up the extra 20 seconds that would bring us to

2 minutes. We haven't storyboarded these extra pieces in because we decided the flashes would follow the same trend as the ones we have written about and that the title screen will only be made longer so we do not need to specify exactly how long so that we are able to change it to whatever we end up needing.

Screenplay first draft.

This is the first draft of the screenplay/script for our opening sequence, I wrote shortly after we were assigned the task in early October so it only contains the frist part of our sequence, I made notes on the page as I thought them up, in the top left I wrote down some possible films companys who might be associated with the type of movie we are making. This is an early draft so does not completely reflect the practical outcome but it shows the thought process I went on whilst creating the plot. The bottom scrawling may be hard to read; so here is what it says : "Mask" (refering to the grim reaper character's face)

Flicker Grim Reaper? (This is when I decided that splitting the shots and making them flicker from light to dark, or from normal to glichy would improve the scene)

Angel music playing (refers to our audio throughout the opening shot. We wanted it to sound angelic and comtemplative)

World turns evil when character disobeys (this is a plot idea I had where the character who is portrayed as an angel or "faith" switches from angelic looking to Grim Reaper. I figured the world being entirely creating the main characters own mind as it is, would be affected by the angels sudden shift from light to dark.)

Character follows "mask" and taps on shoulder, mask turns "flash" to angel character instead of mask man. (this is me taking the opening sequence a step further and thinking about what would come after, what I am noting here is a scene where the main character sees the Grim Reaper in a forest and follows him, as his reaches the Grim Reaper and taps him, in order to get his attention, the grim reapers turns and the shot would shudder and flash as he turns and the Reaper would change from evil to the angel version of himself. This scene would show that the Grim Reaper and the Angel are the same character because they both represent faith, just very different interpretations of the word. They are the same entity.)