Response to Brief

Shooting Script

Production Planning

Time and Date of Filming: 


Wednesday 23rd Feburary 2011, 7.00am onwards


Actors and Crew


Director- Anid Bytyci (me)


Producer- Kayan Patel


Visual effects- Graham Oddoye


Camera man- Anid Bytyci (me)


Damien Taze -Michael Oddoye

Youths-Graham Oddoye 

             Savion Bepot

Youth in trouble- Shey Hinds-meikle

This was our original shooting scrip, however during production the bike was no longer available so we had to shoot the footage but with Damien walking hence the reason the storyboard is different. 

  

It’s a cloudy day with little sun. Damien is about to leave his house but is making sure his bike is good and running just outside. Currently, his bike is upside down while he makes some adjustments.

It’s a cloudy day with little sun. Damien is about to leave his house 
but is making sure his bike is good and running just outside. Currently, his bike is upside down while he makes some adjustments.


Audience Research

PICTURE	TIME (aprox)	AUDIO
Low angle shot of back bicycle wheel turning. Camera is facing upwards at an angle of approximately 45 degrees.	0.02	Pleonastic sound of clicking of bottom bracket in back wheel
Cut to: Damien picking up bike so that it is the right way up. Camera starts from low angle shot from handle bars and slowly tilts up	0.04	Natural Diagetic
Cut to: Back wheel of bike falling on the floor, (possibly in slow motion)	0.01	Pleonastic sound of tire hitting ground
Low angle shot of Damiens hand testing brakes. His hand and brakes are at bottom left corner of screen and at first camera is focused on his hands but with manual focus we loose focus of his hand and can see his face at which we see him give a nod of satisfaction to his work.	0.03	Pleonastic sound of brakes tightening.
Damien then gets onto his bike. Shown with Low angle shot 1 foot away from rear of bike, highest point in the frame that is visible of Damiens body is his waist and lowest point is the ground. Damiens hand reaches into his pocket.		Diagetic
Cut to: Close up match on action shot of Damiens hand getting his phone out. Cut to: Damien using phone, low angle shot, phone is close to camera but we can see Damiens face and body above. Cut to: Back to Match on action close up of phone in Damiens hand as he chooses the song he wants to play.	0.01 0.01 0.02	Pleonastic Music turns on in sync as he presses play. The audio soundtrack is all we can hear at the moment.
Damien puts his phone back into his pocket and rides off. Low angle shot from waist as Damien rides past camera	0.02	Soundtrack
Damien starts riding his bike on the pavement. Tracking shot can be done by using a bmx with stunt pegs on back (one person riding bike and camera man standing on pegs on back of bike)		Soundtrack
Cut to tracking shot: Camera tracking shot is on road filming Damien as he’s riding his bike.	0.03	Soundtrack
Cut to: Over the shoulder shot from Damien looking at a group of youths on other side of road. Cut to: low angle shot from group of youths talking, camera rises upwards until we see the youth notice Damien and turns head towards him. In the shot we see Damien riding past in the background but two youths are in the frame. Cut to: Close up of Damien’s face, staring at the youths (remember to use rule of third) and Damien then looks away and continues riding.	0.02 0.04 0.02	Soundtrack
Damien approaches the end of the road and stops, ready to cross and is looking for traffic both ways.
Tracking long shot going past Damien as he is at the end of the road.	0.03	Soundtrack
Damien crosses the road, and starts riding on road 2 (Bensham Manor road) Tracking shot on road showing Damien riding his bike on pavement.	0.5
As Damien reaches the alley way he realises his shoe lace is undone and stops to do it up and as he goes to do his shoe lace he sees a group of youths bullying a girl. Over the shoulder shot of Damien as he’s riding bike, camera tilts downwards to show his undone shoelace. Cut to:  low angle shot of Damien looking downwards at his laces. Cut to: Match on action of Damien stopping the bike with the brakes. Cut to: Mid shot of Damien getting off bike and kneeling down to the floor and gets his phone out to stop music Cut to: Match on action shot close up of phone in hand showing him pressing stop Cut back to: Mid shot of Damien about to do shoe laces but looks up Cut to: over the shoulder shot of Damien looking up to see the 3 youths bullying the younger youth halfway down the alley way. Cut to: Wide shot (a quarter way up the alley way) showing Damien looking at the youths.	0.04 0.02 0.01 0.05 0.03 0.04 0.3 0.04	Soundtrack Diagetic Voices of youths and younger youth
Damien gets back onto his bike but keeps glancing down the alley way. Medium close up shot from his head height as he gets up to go on his bike and rides away it turns into a mid shot.	0.06	Diagetic
As Damien is riding away from the alley way he has a sudden change of mind and pauses while his conscience battles with his feelings whether he should go back and help or not.
Mid shot of Damien riding bike, camera is slightly tilted upwards and his face is very clear. Cut to: Match on action close up of hand pulling brakes Cut to: Match on action of back tire skidding Cut to: Close up shot to extreme close up shot of Damiens face as he gets closer to the camera. Sudden pause of around 5 seconds as he decides what to do.	0.05 0.01 0.01 0.06	Diagetic Pleonastic sound of tire skidding
Damien turns around and starts riding the other way, As he does so the camera tilts upwards and the name of the movie is revealed through editing.	0.03	Soundtrack

To research what type of opening scene and genre of film that would satisfy our audience, Anid had created a questionnaire on survey monkey we had all decided and evaluated the quesstionnaire and gave the link to 42 people between the ages of 15 to 18 years as this is the age range that we want our target audience to be in, we had used facebook and twitter as a means to recieve quantative data.

By our results we have found that the majority of people enjoy action, thriller and horror films because the results were equally matched. As a team we thought of doing a crime, gangster genre type of film and put in the elements of an action/ thriller film into it. Also, due to the environment that we live in being near the suburbs of South London, it would seem more realistic for this genre of film to take place here.

We found out that the majority of people (54.8%) preferred if the opening credits were being shown throughout the opening scene of a film, so this is what we will try to achieve in the editing process.

78% of people that completed the survey preferred if there was lots of physical action involved so during our opening scene we will try to include some physical action, i.e, a very short fight scene.

The majority of people preferred if the main character would be male, but this could be an anomaly due to the fact that a higher percentage of male participants completed the survey. But the sex of the main character would be decided by the group depending on what type of film it’s going to be.

A vast majority chose for there to be 2 to 3 main characters in the film, so we must take this into account when creating our story.

So from this we have established that we want…

• An action/Thriller type genre
• The film will be based in South London as this area is very easily accessible to us and we all live near each other
• Opening credits to be shown throughout the opening scene
• The title of the movie will be displayed before the opening scene
• There will be physical contact involved, e.g. a short fight scene
• Main character will be male because a male character is more likely to represent our type of movie
• The main character will be a good guy who is rather daring but knows his limits

Response to Brief

Opening Scene

- An Action Thriller

- In South London

- Opening vredits being shown through the opening scene

- The title of the movie will be displayed before the opening scene

- Lots of phsycial action

- Main character will be male

- The main character will be more of a good guy which is pulled into the world of gangs

- 2 main characters

- Name of movie: Bleak

- Name of main character (1): Damien Taze

- Name of main character (2): Michael Cortez

- Ethnic background of character: Both are Black where main character 1 is Nigerian and main character 2 is Ghanian

- Age of characters: 15-18
- Length of opening scene: 2 mintues

Exsititng products : 

Shank: 

This example of a film that we had gathered ideas to help us create the opening  film sequence of is shank. Shank is set in the decaying future of london where the gap between the lower class and upper class and food has replaced drugs and guns as a priceless commodity. Leading there to be an uprise in violence.
The reason why we had chosen this particular

film because it represents the bleakness of scenary that we as students aare trying to potray within the openming scene.

Source: Youtube, Wikipedia

Kidulthood:
 Kidulthood is a very good example of how we would like our opening scene to be portrayed it represents fully the harsh reality of the lower class lifestyle represented through the media. kidulthood is based on the two days in the lives of a group of fifteen-year old teenagers from a rough area of London. I.E gang life and the uprise of harrasement and viloence expericened by the younger generations.
Souce: wikipedia

Souce: Wikipedia, Youtube

Fishtank:
Fish Tank is another example of an existing product. In the first scene of the movie, she mocks and gets into a fight with other girls on the estate. Her only source of escape is hip-hop dance, which she practices alone in a deserted flat.
This first scene is a brilliant example of how we endeavour the film to go straight into action and involve the audience film. It further demonstrates how the opening scene can explain the rest of the film.

Source: Wikipedia ,Youtube

Opening scene Idea 1

Scene starts of with our main character Damien leaving his home .This lasts for about a minute or so while non diagetic backing music is played, or perhaps we see a match-on-action shot of him pressing play on his phone/ipod and we hear the music that he's listening to as the backing music to the scene. This music will be representative of the culture in the area to set the scene to the audience. He walks past an alleyway and he sees a group of youths hassling/ robbing a young boy. Damien stops, stares for a few seconds and then we  see close ups of his face which will display his emotion to this event, but he decides to walk off. Then after walking about 25 meters or so, Damien stops; While he's facing the camera, we have a close up shot of his face having second thoughts of turning back. As he decides to go back to help the youth, the camera points up to the sky and this is happening, non-diagetic music comes on and we see the title of the film appear.

FILM TREATMENT

The plot of the story is about a Boy named Damien who has never really been able to stand up for himself or others and has avoided gang culture despite being in a deprived area of London. He then see's a boy getting robbed and stands up to the youths but gets stabbed. He wakes up in a hospital bed with the boy sitting next to him and she tells him what had happened and thanks him. He builds a relationship with this boylater on in the film. He then goes back home and gets back to normal family life until he hears rumours how theres a new feared gang on the road that had stabbed a boy and put him in hospital. Damien realises it's him that they're talking about. His school holidays have come meaning he is free from prioties of school, therefore  he investigates further to find out who put him in hospital. He then gets dragged into a underground society of gang culture. Damien starts to carry a knife incase he gets approached. Damien tells the boy who he saved what he's going to do to his stabber when he finds him but he insists he leaves him and doesnt get involved. He then finds out where his stabber lives and awaits outside his house for him to come out to get revenge. Damien follows his stabber until he's alone on a quiet road and stabs him only to injure him, but then realises he's killed him. Damien runs home, buries the knife and burns his gloves and shirt which has bloodstains on it. Later on in the evening, police turn up to Damiens house and Damien is struggling to find out what to do or if he should hide. The police enter his house and tell his mum to call him down. Damiens mum calls him but he doesnt respond and she goes upstairs to find his room empty with an open window and she picks up a note on his desk that says "sorry mum". The film ends here.