Sunrise and Sunset Times

In order to get organized, as we would be filming in the day and the night. We found out the sunset and sunrise times of the next 2 weeks (the time period we are planning to film in). This way, we will be able to know how much time we have to film and be certain on the lighting quality we will have in each scene.

Location...

The locations that we will be looking to film at are:  

• Crystal Palace Stadium (External)
• Local Pub
• A House (Bathroom,Staircase,Kitchen and Bedroom)
• On the Street ( Near Crystal Palace, and Outside Down the Pub)

Crystal Palace

This location will be for our first scene. The football Stadium with our characters will represent that stereotypical Father and Son bond as they are coming home from a football match. This location is also easy to film at as we will be filming on the external of the Stadium. 


Local Pub
(images used are not real images of location they are interpretations)


This Location will be our secondary location and will be in our second scene. Once again the reason for the Pub is to still show that Father and Son relationship of going to the pub for a drink to laugh and converse. It is at this scene where difficulties arise in our film and a little bit of tension arises. 

With this location we have yet to have confirmation on whether filming in these places are allowed. However we do have back locations that we will take on board if finding the Pub Location proves to be difficult to get hold of.


A House
(images used are not real images of location they are interpretations)

The house Location we Have yet to find but we know what we are looking to get out of this location. Hopefully we can use one of our actors houses or a friends house in order to film the scenes required. In the house we will be using many rooms such as the Bathroom,Kitchen, Sitting Room, Bedroom as well as the Stairs.  This location will have more filming done within it as most of the action takes pace within this location. This will also show the emptiness of the house in terms of it just being the Son and Father. 

The Street


We will be filming also on the road nearest to the pub to show how the characters travel from the stadium to the pub. Not much focus will be put on these shots as it will be the Transition as well as passing of time from Crystal Palace to The pub. 

Getting Copyright Music

For our animatics we found a copyright free website to get instrumentals off of for our short film. We sieved through many songs which were saved as individual moods such as: heroic, tension and anger. We chose a couple which we found fit the mood at certain times.

this picture is of the website: http//: audio.lgfl.org.uk

Working on the Animatic

A view of our Animatic in Final Cut express

We uploaded our storyboards into Final Cut Express in order to make our storyboard into a short video.  We did encounter some problems when trying to produce the Animatic such as the files where not opening correctly and saving correctly and so in the end we had to save our animatic on a hard drive. We recorded our script that we produced into Final cut Express. Channan played Mitch the son and Vivienne played Stan the father. When recording our script we matched the script to the images and ensured that we got the timing correct.

Vivienne working on the Sound of the film

When it came to recording we added sound effects that would be heard so that the animatic could seem more real rather than images changing.  We incorporated some good sounds that would be heard in everyday households such as when the father is cooking breakfast we incorporated a frying sound and the footsteps we created as well.  We also added an underlying theme tune that was copyright free. We really targeted on how we was going to set the scene and what music should be added in order to relate to what is happening. 

Channan looking over the animatic

Working on The StoryBoard ( Pre-Storyboard Planning)

Pre StoryBoard Planning

Before we planned our storyboard with images we first completed a pre storyboard sheet where we wrote down all our shots and what would be happening in them. It was here where we made changes and improved our ideas that we had first formed for our Short Film. 

(Storyboard Planning sheets)

StoryBoarding our Short Film Idea

Example of Storyboards we created

The storyboard we created basically was images of how our film would go. We drew images for each shot to portray how we would go about filming it. Each shot highlighted a specific part in that scene.  The storyboard enabled us to see our film in still images before filming it and make and quick changes into how we would film them as well.  When drawing the storyboards we also named them via Scene,Shot and a brief description of that shot. By having our images of our shots it will help us make filming easier as we will know what to film and what emotions should be displayed. This will also help us position our characters and know what they should be doing in each scene. We organised our images in chronological order. Our images were basic still frames that we drew onto post stick notes. 

Scene 4 Shot 28 & Shot 29

We found this process really time consuming because we had repeats of shots and we had to make each shot look effective. Many of the shots we had to re-draw again due to them not looking how the description made them out to be. 

Examples of the storyboard images that we photographed and placed in the Animatic

In total we have 5 Scenes and 43 Shots

Our Actors

For our short film, we thought it would be best to tell our story with minimal characters. This will give the audience time to connect emotionally with the characters, and come to some conclusions by themselves of who can be considered right or wrong. As well as practicality, we will be much more flexible with a small cast. Therefore we will only have two actors, the Father and the son. We will be able to explore each character individually to make way for a high climax, echoed in many dramas and especially short films.

For our father figure we wanted some what of a 'diamond- geezer', but at the same time be identified as a father for our target audience. Much of our secondary research went into finding father figures in not just films, but television shows that achieved that balance. we found that the best actor was Mike Reid. The father also had to have some arrogance about him and 

So we went on a search for someone who could not only be a visual representation of a 'diamond-geezer' like Reid, but achieve this balance on screen. we found Russel Jones:

 He has been in numerous theatrical roles and has the actual life experience of having two teenagers, so we have much raw emotion to play with.

The son would have to be a stereo-typical teenager that had a great bond with his father. The son would mainly relate to many teenage boys of today and with the theme of religion many young teenage boys are converting and so his appearance woulnt need to be altered at all.As we cast the son after Russel, we looked for someone who had similar facial features and after much scouting, we casted Harvey Shadbolt:

He fits our character image and has had much acting experience.

Extract of the Script

 The script is the basis for our film, the dialogue remains between Stan the Father and Mitch the son. The script highlights our main theme that our short film is going to be based on.  This is an extract of our Script:



Example of the Script