Edit Decision List

Call Sheet & Shot List

Call Sheet

Shot List

Opening Plans

The opening will start with the main character being dragged unconscious into a room or open plan building by two other people, with possibly some unimportant dialogue, and being dumped onto the floor along with a bag.  It will fade to black for some titles, throughout this there will be a voiceover giving some back story.  It will fade back into the same shot with the person waking up and taking in his surrounding and finding the bag next to him.  He will open the bag finding a note explaining the situation (which the voice over will read out), some water, some food and a weapon which will most likely be a paper plane or possible something a bit more deadly.

Some gunshots will be heard in the background which will cause the main character to look up.  It will then cut to the main picking up his bag and weapon, walking to the door, opening it and walking out.  There will be some erie music probably low key piano music possible by the infamous Tim Minchin playing throughout the opening with some titles over-layed upon the video footage and some fading to a black out for the title.

Depending on the amount of time remaining it might also include the main character walking away from the building and encountering another player in this death game trying to reason with him and failing, leading to his first kill.

Audience feedback:

I have received a fair bit of audience feedback in person from friends and family all of them like what I have outlined above and think that it will make for an effective opening as it is.  A suggestion made by a couple of people was the possibility of seeing additional characters within the opening like someone friendly towards the main character.

Brief structural story outline

An underground organisation has been abducting apparently random groups of people every month and forcing them to participate in sadistic fights to the death on abandoned islands/cities or isolated locations where the last person standing gets to leave with their life.
The story follows a man from a military background who has not only risked his life for his country but to help make the world a better place.  He has been selected for the next game but does not want to participate, he attempts to find a way to get as many people as he can of off the island and with the help of other military people, also in the same death match, will successful but maybe not as much as he would wish.

Plans for shooting

Hair and Make-up
-messy hair and dirty looking faces for contestants
-Clean and tidy for underground organisation

Costumes
-ragged clothing- untidy and dirty
        - supplied by cast
-Gas Masks
        - Supplied by two cast members
-Combat fatigues
        - Supplied by cast members

Lighting
- Natural lighting mostly
- standard household lights for indoor shots

Shot Types
- Establishing Shot
- Close-up Shot
- Over the Shoulder Shot
- Long Shot
- Extreme Long Shot

Props
- Imitation weapons (airsoft weapons)
          - Supplied by cast member
- Axe/Machete
          - Supplied by me or cast member

Location Scouting Sheet

1) Risdens Wood, Harlow
Risdens would be good to shoot at as it offers both a largish field and a wooded area to shoot in, as well as having a small usually dirty hut that may be usable.

2) Dane mead wood
Dane mead offers a fairly large and dense wood land that I could shoot in as well as being surrounded by more woodland most of which is public.

3) Harlow Common
Harlow common offers a fairly large open field along with massive sections of woodland of varying densities, and although it does not have any building I think this is one of the areas that I will use to shoot my opening.

4) Overhall Farm
Overhall Farm as the name suggests is a farm although it features a large semi-derelict storage building with silos inside, it is nice and dark/dingy and will suit my opening nicely.

Audio Permission

For audio I will be getting one of my friends to crate and record a piano cover of the track 'Welcome to the Black Parade' by My Chemical Romance.

Risk Assessment

Location Release Form

Talent Release Form

Title Ideas Survey

http://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/137506PIKXK

Certification & Production Company Logo

Production Company Logo

Film Title Ideas

These are the title ideas that I have come up with I have narrowed it down to the four I think are the best which are:  Last Man Standing, Death Match, Final Countdown and Stranded.  I will get audience feedback through social media.

Shot Types

- Panning Shot - of a room
- Establishing Shot - of a building and it's area
- Long Shot - of something
- Medium Shot - of a person
- Close-up Shot - of an object/piece of paper with a line of writing on it

Main Story Ideas

Story Opening - Initial ideas

Story Opening

The opening scene will be used to establish the setting and the protagonist.  the main character, a male mental patient about 40 years old, will be sat on a seat in a busy corridor in the mental hospital.  the shot will be time lapsed with the man sitting still.  This will show the busy atmosphere of the hospital with patients (Old with walking frames and drips) and nurses (Uniformed) moving around him.  There will be a yellowish filter over the shot

Story Ideas

Idea 1

The Crisis - Suppose that a group of friends go on holiday to a city/town and there is a zombie outbreak

The Story Goal - My lead's story goal is to escape the city/town before the military take action against the outbreak.

The Story Idea - A group of friends go on holiday to a town/city while they are there a zombie virus spreads and the place is quarantined by the military, the group find out the truth behind it, and also that the military are going to bomb the place in 24 hours to stop the outbreak so they have to escape.

The Protagonist - Male, Between 18 and 28, Military man like appearance (combat fatigues, buzz cut hair), speaks using slang, cold hearted personality, has a problem with authority, russian origin with a russian name like Dmitri.

The Oppositional character - Some high up military person who doesn't want anyone to get out.

The Confident - The protagonists only surviving relative his sister.

Idea 2

Crisis:
Suppose a patient in a mental hospital is getting abused by a possessed patient that only he can see. It's trying to take over him, which means he cannot get better.

Story Goal:
The goal of the story is to figure out what it is thats controlling the man and for the workers to convince the man that it is all psychological. The main character wants to gain peace and stop him being possessed Overall, he just wants to be 'normal'. If the goal is not reached then the patient will end up being killed by the people who cannot deem him safe anymore. The main character can relate to the audience as we can see that he cannot help what he does and that he wouldn't be in this state if he wasn't in the hospital to begin with.

Story Idea:
The film is to be set in the a mental hospital and feature the life of the people who live within. It is based around the main character in the film, who is possessed by a devil and cannot control what he is doing. However, as he is in the hospital, the workers and fellow patients simply think this is just his mental state.


Audience Feedback on Idea 2:

When presenting to the class, we received feedback from the audience about altering the goal of the story and what will happen should the man not succeed in removing the devil. The feedback included using some background information and introducing why the man is in the hospital, making him more relatable to the audience. Also, it includes changing the plot as to what happens if he does not succeed, from him being killed to over taken by the devil. It could also include multiple possessions among the patients in the hospital. 

Titles Practice

Production Schedule

26/09/14 - Start to think of general title ideas and possible story lines for the opening (not definite)
10/10/14 - Create three initial ideas which I will gain audience feedback on through social media
18/10/14 - Continue developing story ideas and collecting audience feedback
25/10/14 - Collate audience feedback on ideas the most liked will be the one I use for my opening and start to scout out possible locations for shooting.
5/11/14 - Create necessary forms: talent release form, location release form, risk assessment and location scouting form.
7/11/14 - Create a logo and a logo animation for use in my film opening
19/11/14 - Research classifications of films and decide a suitable classification for my film based on this criteria.
26/11/14 - Create a mind map of possible title ideas and post to social media for audience feedback the one most liked will be the one I use.  Post some other things to social media so that the audience can see how the production is coming along.
3/12/14 - Collate result from the title ideas survey and post on blog with the winning idea.
5/12/14 - Finish the rest of planning and research so II am ready for filming.
10/12/14 - 12/12/14 - Apply finishing touches to planning and research and begin to think of the shooting in detail by: creating storyboard, detailed list of shot types, a call list and possibly a script.
19/12/14 - 30/12/14 - I am planning to start and finish shooting within this time period.
5/01/14 - Start editing everything together into a finished piece, possibly posting small parts to social media for the audience to see.