Shot List

This is the list of shots for our production. The next stage is to turn this list into a storyboard which visually represents each shot.

Risk Assessment

Now that we have secured our location, I have completed a risk assessment to allow us to conduct the shoot in a safe manner.

Sound Research

Genre Research: Dystopia

Our Location Choice

We chose this location because toilets have connotations of dirt and grime plus, it is also small and claustrophobic and this is the sort of environment we imagined our character would be living in. From a logistical point of view the small space makes it easier for us to dress the set because there is less space for us to 'cover' so it is easier to prevent out of place objects from appearing in any shots and we will not have to worry about random people appearing in the background of our shots because we will have the area to ourselves.


We had originally decided to use another set of toilets but we were denied permission but we were offered use of this room as an alternative and upon inspecting it we are confident that it will still suit our needs.

Final Pitch

Production Log: 04/12/15

Today I finished off my equipment planning and uploaded it to the blog. Me and Hayden then started to plan out the shot list for the production. We are planning on completing the preliminary on tuesday next week.

Equipment Planning

Focus Group

Yesterday We conducted a focus group with a small group of 4 people. Hubert and Hayden were responsible for leading the session while I was mostly responsible for ensuring that the session was properly recorded so that we can refer back to it as we plan our production.

Below you can listen to the recording of the session

Carrying out a focus group has helped us during the planning for our production. Firstly, it confirmed our beliefs that our target audience would like the idea of our production. The group also strongly supported our idea of setting the opening in a grimy set of toilets, they particularly liked the fact that the toilets are going to look dirty and abandoned and so we will place particular attention on making the set look good and also using colour correction during the editing stage to give everything a yellow-y-green appearance. Our idea of having "lively" music while the character is washing blood off his hands was not so well received and so we have decided that we might not use this idea, we will wait until we edit this section to make the final decision though. The group has led us to decide to use the "radio announcement" idea over the plain monologue because the group said that it would be more realistic, offering an overview of the backstory for the audience.

Transcript:

Production Log: 01/12/15

Today we conducted a focus group at lunchtime with a small group of 4 people. We had originally planned to film this but the cameras were unavailable so we decided to record the audio using one of the handheld audio recorders. I cannot post the audio yet because I did not get the opportunity to retrieve the audio file from the recorder today but tomorrow I have a lesson in which I will be able to retrieve the file so that we can discuss the results of the focus group in detail. Overall, it seemed to go well!

Target Audience Age

We have decided to aim our Dystopian Thriller towards this demographic because even though our opening will not include much violence, we feel that due to the action that we plan to incorporate within the flashback and the overall concept of our idea this age rating is best suited. Despite males being our main audience gender as they are stereotyped to prefer violence we will still try to attract female audiences through the use of mise-en-scene and our idea. Furthermore, we vision the main character to be quite confident and to use derogatory terms to connote that he is not a true hero which will allow our production to be against the normal conventions.

Representation Theory

Hayden has looked at representation theory