Location Reece 15/10/12

Location Details	Possible problems	Risks assessments
Outside behind the tennis court between the tress Classrooms shooting as CCTV Room 45 Humanities block underneath staircases	Climate- if it rains then it could damage the cameras and equipment also actors wouldn’t perform on a rainy day being all wet P.e class occurring while shooting- this can affect our filming where the class are very noisy of course and if that happens then   Can interrupt the scene making it very difficult to shoot - If there is class being scheduled then it would be difficult to shoot as many students will glare at the screen Class occurring in rooms - Yet again can interrupt the scene and could lead to a high risk of equipment being damaged by the students There’s a teacher meeting or room being used and also a lot of objects in the way of shooting   Students appearing through the screen when they usually come down the stairs Students going through the fire exit	We then have to change to our 2nd location which is in the humanities block There will be only 4 lines of dialogue therefore for editing process,the audio must be very low or must be done before the p.e class started. Have to try and ask permission for the teacher first and just shoot the camera for a long period so the students wouldn’t bother glaring at the camera   Try and post posters to inform students to take another route because of the shooting period. Must shoot the scene in a different classroom Must be shot after school Shoot the scene where all students have lessons so there won’t be any students going through the corridors and interrupting the scenes. Block the exit so the students can take another route - could lead to another risk becuase we are blocking the fire exit therefore putting a note will make them understand only for that particular shooting scene.

Shooting schedule on Wednesday 17th october - 15/10/12

Date//Time/Location	Shot Number and Shot Details	Props in the shot and where they need to be	Character(s) in scene
17/10/12  7:45am-10:30am – humanities block through windows, upstairs in IT to get a big view of the quads. - 1:00pm -5:00pm This depends if there are any additional shots which are needed to be taken so therefore the rooms available which is room 45 would be the location.	1-5 N/A	Props are not included for these particular scenes in which it only presents the school premises as a CCTV camera      N/A	No characters involved with these scenes N/A

Shooting schedule on Tuesday 16th october - 14/10/12

Date//Time/Location	Shot Number and Shot Details	Props in the shot and where they need to be	Character(s) in scene
16/10/12  8:00 – 11:00– Astroturf – behind tennis courts   11:00am till 12:00pm (extended shots included from AstroTurf) 1:00 pm– 4:00pm (room 44)	1 -12   14-42   43-48	Vodka – they need to be held in the teenagers hand as they pass it around Phone – Kate will be holding the phone to record the scene herself also will be involved in a shot where it drops being placed on the ground     Mainly be set in a classroom Gun- as it will present as a flashback of how the girls were shot by the prefect. Paper, pen and prefect badge	1-there will be no characters used at that time will present schools students as a cctv camera 2-5 –Kate, Olivia and the other girls will be presented in these scenes 6 – 8 the prefect needs to be in the scene and also one of the group member 9-11 Kate Olivia and the group of girls 12 – only see one girl from the group of girls   14 – a extreme close up of Kate as she opens her eye 15-32 – Katie and Olivia will be involved with the scenes where Kate tries to escape 33-36-the projector screen will appear in which presents the prefect shooting Olivia and Kate. Olivia and Kate are in the shot watching 37-42-olivia and Kate panicking and finding out they have been shot 43-seeing the prefect holding the piece of paper 44-48 presents the names on the list in which the prefect crosses out in which the prefect then whispers ‘almost perfect’.

Hiring actors 11/10/12

As me and my partner managed to organise all the components for our shooting, our most important component that we only need is actors;

As you know we consider of having actors between the age of 15-18, this is because of our scenes in which involves with drinking ect.Our previous plan was to hire year 9 students, however as this will come across with a drinking scene, the students would not be suitable for that position, therefore we have managed to hire a few actors from our school that my partner knew who are:

• Zarah Mpopo
• Stephanie in year 13
• Claire Astley

These actors were hired by my partner Karis in whom she managed to inform them about asking permission from their teachers of missing their lesson and also providing them a permission slip to be signed by their parents.

We then realised that we needed extra actors, in which they will be involved of being the group of girls surrounding Kate and Olivia. Therefore I have volunteered to find those actors from a year 10 drama group and managed to receive two well mannered year 10 students who are:

• Hannah Patel
• Paige Poole

I have managed to inform them about the shooting schedule which is on the Tuesday 16^th October from 7:45am to 11:00am in which they will only be involved with a few scenes. However before confirming their roles in our film it was compulsory for me to provide them a permission slip for their parent sand also ask their head of year named Mr moloney.This was very important for me to ask because without asking permission of their head of year could get our group with a lot of trouble so therefore we must be very certain and also secured of our options.

As you can see below I have informed my media teacher in which seemed very pleased.

The print screen shows how I informed the year 10 to meet me to receive the permission slips

 

I have managed to message the head of year 10 and hoping to receive a reply in which ill then update as soon as possible.

Overall what I have learnt from his process is that I must very accurate and very certain of the specific actors, it usually takes a lot of time consuming however the end result will be perfect if the actors are professionally good at acting.

Location updates 10/10/12

As me and my partner organised the location Reece we then suddenly realise that one of the location Reece might come across with a problem in which can effect the whole storyboard plan.

One of our beginning shots outside the tennis court can come across with a problem if the weather isn’t very good considering with the rain in which can cause damage to our camera and its equipment. Therefore we had to produce another storyboard to change only those particular shots in that scenes into a location in the humanities block underneath the staircase.

Overall this will be our back up plan if on the day we shoot our film rains, in which we will call another location.

Location Reece plan A 09/10/12

After producing and finalising our treatment as well as coming across of producing our story boards ect, we then had to decide which particular locations that we need to set up our film.

One of our 1^st location would be set outside the tennis court between the trees in which there won’t be any permission needed to be asked ,so therefore this wouldn’t be a trouble.

However there is another location, which involves the scenes where Olivia and Kate realises they are dead considering it will be shot at a classroom. We first considered to have the media studio as our choice, however according to the film cinematography it wouldn’t seem very realistic as we want to present something that is a more thriller type that the audience will recongise.Therefore we believed that one of the maths room which is room 44 would be our recommendable choice for shooting the final scenes.

In order to book the room 44 we had to ask permission from the head of maths if the room are free during the shooting period.

Therefore by asking the head of maths, Mr Davies accepted our permission according to their point of view. This will benefit our legacy of shooting the film in the room and include all the creative shots that we desire of shooting for our film.

Costume list 10/10/12

Before shooting the film, we have manage to organise the costumes specifically for each character. However this process was done in a decision in which we both were very cautious of being accurate of the costume that actually suited for the characters.

 

Kat

Her costumer would preferably be:

 

• Wearing a jacket
• Shirt and tie which are loose, considered that she’s a student that doesn’t care about her education and seems very unorganised
• Wearing casual shoes
• She can wear a fashion jacket in which most typical teenage girl wears.

Olivia

Her costumer would be similar to kat however

 

• If she is going to wear a jacket it must be something very different to kat
• Preferably wear a coloured jacket in which goes against thwe school uniform codes

Group of girls

 

Their costumer would all be the same in which they would wear:

• Shirt and school tie (must be worn loose)
• Could wear jewellery
• School bags
• Girls can bring their hand bags
• Casual shoes

 

Sam

As same is considered to be a prefect their costumer would be:

• Blazer
• Shirt and tie worn properly
• Prefect badge
• Smart shoes

 

 

 

Props list 07/10/12

Vodka Bottle
Replica Gun
Ingredients for bullet wounds
List
Red marker
Prefect badge

Script First draft 07/10/12

EXT. SCHOOL FIELD - DAY 

4 young girls (Kat, Olivia, Girl 1 and Girl 2) sit amongst trees passing around a bottle of vodka, all wear school uniform. All the girls are intermittently talking and laughing.

A male figure in the near distance begins to approach them

Girl 1 squints at the figure, then identifies him

GIRL 1 

Oh great, here comes Mr Perfect-Prefect, Sam 

 

GIRL 2 

Oi Sam, you gonna tell on us then? 

 

All the girls laugh

 

Kat begins to stumble and wobble, then passes out

 

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INT. CLASSROOM - DAY

 

Kat wakes up and looks over at Olivia who is sat at the next desk

 

OLIVIA

Good you’re finally up. I have no idea how we got here, but I'm pretty sure we're busted.

 

KAT

Me neither, but you're probably right

 

They both begin to laugh. 

 

Kat suddenly slowly stops laughing and her face becomes grave as she into stares space for a few seconds (as she does the sound of Olivia's laughter fades away, and the sound of screams fades in).

Kat turns to Olivia

 

KAT

Something doesn't feel right. Where are the others? I feel like something might have happened out there.

 

Kat gets up and walks to the door. She tries to open the door and finds that it is locked.

Olivia gets up and walks over to the windows. Both Kat and Olivia then try to open the windows, which they find are locked too.

They bang on the windows calling for help, but no one comes.

 

Both lean against a wall. They are breathing deeply as if they are beginning to panic.

 

The drinking scene in full is projected over them, where we see that Sam had pulled out a gun, took aim at the group and hit Kat and Olivia.

 

As they remember, both instinctively reach for the collars of their shirts, beneath which they both have bloody bullet wounds.

OLIVIA

(Murmuring) 

Oh my God

 

KAT

This is it. We're stuck here.

Both sink to the floor, their faces are blank with shock

 

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EXT. SCHOOL FIELD - DAY

 

Sam is frowning with concentration, hunched over a list of names labelled 'Naughty'. He crosses off Kat and Olivia from the list in red marker pen.

He smiles and reaches for his prefect badge. He strokes it.

 

SAM

(Whispering)

Almost perfect.

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New secondary research-school masacre 05/10/12

new research on Prezi

Response of new treatment 04/10/12

After producing the new treatment, me and my partner consisted to be very certain if the treatment is very suitable and doesn’t consider coming across any problems that we did receive from our previous feedbacks from other treatments that we had produced. We also wanted to gain the feedback of knowing any improvements that is needed to be taken under consideration; however we managed to receive positive feedbacks from our teacher.

Overall I visualise this treatment to be presented as an creative film, in which includes the great idea of referring kate of having drinking problems,suddenly coming across to have a limbo.However,by including a twist where she finds out how she died is a brilliant twist and of course presenting each character motivation will consider a great sense and avoids any confusion that our audience may receive by viewing this treatment.

Response for new story 03/10/12

After presenting the life swap treatment that me and Karis have produced, as you know by receiving feedback from our class, we then decided that we needed to either include more scenes that actually made sense to what we were attempting to present or ,to produce a new treatment. Therefore me and Karis decided to produce a new treatment since our feedbacks considered to be very complex and by including more scenes will consist a lot of time consuming of the film.

 

 

After the decision, we both individually manage to do our own research about building a character for Kat. I had to develop a lot of research to understand how we are going to present this character and also think of a new situation which doesn’t consider being very complex. Therefore I have managed to go through the mood board that I have previously produced, in which some of the images such presenting young teenagers drinking and smoking and also the family background can be used to present why has Kate become of who she is in today’s aspects. However I then thought of including a situation where Kate may become murdered in which she doesn’t know because of her drinking problem leading to her of having limbo. Therefore I furthered my research of looking up articles relating to school massacres such as the incident in columbine in 1999.

 

Overall me and Karis still preferred the idea of focusing on the limbo as an eternal state, in which can be used as an interesting twist for our story. I have managed to keep the research of the underage drinking and the idea of how teenagers interact with adults in today’s society. Therefore by including a new formatted treatment being involved of what the characters motivation is will be executed brilliantly.

Final Treatment- The perfect Prefect 2/10/12

 

The film begins with Kat and a group of her friends passing around a bottle off alcohol, all seen through the camera of a mobile phone as Kat records. They are all in school uniform, and eventually it becomes apparent the are sat on a school field. They laugh and joke for a few seconds, then they notice a male figure approaching them. One of them says 'Oh great, here comes Mr. Perfect-Head-Boy, Sam' another shouts 'Oi Sam, you gonna tell on us then?'. At this point the camera would start to stray away from what is happening, as Kat first stumbles and wobbles a bit, then passes out, the phone in the grass.

She wakes up to find she is in detention with one of her friends, Olivia. Olivia says 'Good your'e finally up. I have no idea how we got here, but I'm pretty sure we're busted.' Kat responds 'Me neither, but you're probably right' at which they both begin to laugh. Kat suddenly slowly stops laughing and her face becomes grave as she into stares space for a few seconds. As she does the sound of Olivia's laughter fades away, and the sound of screams fades in. Kat turns to Olivia and says 'Something doesn't feel right. Where are the others? I feel like something might have happened out there'. Kat gets up and tries to open the door, only to find it is locked. Kat and Olivia then try the windows, only to find they are locked too. They bang on the windows calling for help, but no one comes. Both lean against a wall breathing deeply as if they are beginning to panic, at which point the drinking scene in full is projected over them. In it, we see that Sam had pulled out a gun and took aim at the group, hitting both Kat and Olivia. As they remember, both instinctively reach for the collars of their shirts, beneath which they both have bloody bullet wounds.

Olivia murmurs 'Oh my God' and Kat says 'This is it. We're stuck here.' At which point both sink to the floor with their faces blank with shock