Risk Assessment

Before even going in to finding our location we had 3 things in mind.

1) It needed to be a  quite and out of the way road

2) It was crucial that the flow of traffic though the area was small as we were using a Fake gun.

3) The location needed to be as un-populated as possible


Because in our intro we have danny our victim being shot whilst laying on the floor in a pool of blood there are certain procedures that we needed to make sure were closely regulated. We contacted the local police station about getting permission to film the fake shooting on the Wednesday of filming. They gave us the number of the local officer who was directly integrated within windsor boys. He then gave us a written letter saying that we had permission to film in public with a replica firearm.

What this means is that if any calls came in from the general public saying that there is a man with a gun in the particular area we were filming the call would not be sent to the local authorities so that they could intervene. We made sure that all crew and cameramen had high visibility jackets on we did this so we could guide traffic. This was because Danny was lying in the middle of the road for a very large percentage of time so there was a danger of him being in harms way of a passing vehicle, but with us guiding the traffic there was no danger of this.

Target Audience and Demographics.

When looking at our film we came to a group conclusion about the Target Audience we looked at a few films that were very similar to ours. We really focused on the James Bond films, they are very similar to the kind of plot and characters that we feature in our intro. In terms of Percentages and Demographics Casino Royal  in Particular was a 60% Male viewing audience and a 40% Female viewing audience. The 60% male audience are very much drawn into the cars the guns and the women, its a typical male fantasy to drive beautifully crafted cars with stunning women in the car with you, so james bond does wonders for the male viewers. The appeal for 40% women is majorly Daniel Craig who is the attractive male lead who draws a large female gathering. For our intro we are using the same demographics 60M/40F our film is definitely more male orientated however its not all action and is driven by a story line that is alluring to both Males and Females. Our Film is not targeted at a niche Audience its is geared towards appealing to the masses. However our main audience age boundaries are 16 to 45 year olds. Its very action packed so would automatically appeal to the younger members of the spectrum, but as audience grow older they start to look for more in a film rather than just an action packed thrill ride. This is why the older members will appreciate the more intricate plot behind the action.

Behind The Scenes Photos.

Just a View photos showing what things looked like on the opposite side of the camera..

Here we see Aymen positioning danny before shooting the particular scene, in Aymen's hand you may see on of the two cameras we used on location. We used this camera in particular just for the sound because it had the superior mic.

Here we are shooting one of the opening sequences where the character "Danny" the victim is seen to be running away form something or someone through a rural English field.

This is the car that we used for the Hitmans transport and the Vehicle   used to hit danny. As you can see Oscar is inside at this point filming some of the interior car shots prior to danny being hit.

This is danny after being hit by the Hitmans car, we sourced a local shop that sold fake blood that looked extremely realistic. We weren't really sure how it was going to turn out, but we were extremely happy with the overall result and realistic outcome we came out with.

Location Photos.

 We traveled to Old Windsor to film, we found this Private field which was perfect for our opening running sequence, we proceeded to ask permission of the land owner so that we could use his field.The lane that was near the field was also the ideal location for filming all our car scenes it was remote and quite and the perfect back road. We had very little traffic passing through giving us large amounts of time to perfect the final shots.

The way the road meandered round was perfect for staging danny being purposely hit by the Hitman. There was also the perfect amount of road available for us so that we could shoot plenty of interior and exterior shots.

Initial Film Ideas

At first we filmed a draft intro based on a few ideas that we all had. after filming it and editing it we decided that we were not happy how it turned out, and we as we were all very unsure of the plot itself. The plot consisted of this one character a mysterious man who wakes up in the morning loading his gun that is placed carefully beside his bed. We thought that the gun would make the audience ask questions. For example Why has he got a gun? What does he do for a living? etc etc.  The man then continues to go into his kitchen and fill up a glass of water and then he mysteriously collapses. As we finished filming at started to think about the whole idea we came to the conclusion that perhaps it wasn't thought out well enough. We also felt like we were capable of a lot more.


I could not upload the official script document so i just re wrote it for the benefit of the blog..

Opening Sequence:

Oscar Wakes Up in his bed its seems like every other day.

Oscar spins out of bed and puts his slippers on

He then reaches over to his bedside table and picks up his gun.

He loads it and secures it in the back of his trousers.

As he walks over to a large window towards the right and side of the room

he lifts a portion of the blind up to look outside in a discreet manner 

Main Sequence: 

Oscar walks though into his kitchen slight dazed and still asleep

 He walks to a cupboard situated on the right hand side of the room

he reaches in and picks out a regular glass

Oscar walks calmly over to the kitchen sink and fills his glass up

his expression changes to one of illness and pain 

he collapses to the floor violently 

A strange ghost like figure starts to rip itself from oscars corpse 

It stands there starring.

END

Shooting Schedule for Initial idea

We decided that we wanted to get all filming done within one day. 
we finished school early on wednesday and made our way straight to the previously sourced location in which we had planned to film at. We spent about 4-5 hours on shooting on the day. and in total have put at least 2-3 hours into the final project. The reason we didn't spend a great deal of time on editing in this case, was because going into the production we all knew that initially this was just to test the water, to see how things panned out.

Our First Film Idea

Although this film was still done to a very high quality and would gain us a fairly good mark. However we went into this wanting better than just a fairly good mark, we wanted something that could gains us a perfect mark at A Level. So coming out the back of this project we got feed back from out teaches and knew what we had to redo or re film completely. we learnt from that and came back with out with a far better intro