Risk Assesment

This afternoon I carried out a Risk Assesment for our filming project. Here it is below. I had to think of all people involved in the filming process, all things that will be taking place in order to get the footage, from where we would place the cameras to actors having to tackle or be tackled in rugby.

Casting.

Over last few weeks I have been looking for a variety of people to play the roles of the girl from California and the Young men playing the roles of the Rugby player and Footballer. I asked around in my school if anyone was willing to play such roles. Many respones were that they had no time for extra curricular activity and needed to spend time doing there work. I finally found one man to help me with the role of the Rugby player. He is the current rugby captain of Gordonstoun school and is willing to participate in our trailer, As for the footballer I will be willing to play the role. As I am a footballer it is easier for me to play the other man which removes the hassels of looking for someone to fill that role.
Robyn who I had asked and was ready to cast her into the lead role of the California girl had to back out because of many other commitments like Art and Drama coursework assignments.
This is not a major problem because we still havent started filming as yet and have just found the locations to shoot first few scene of the trailer. This would be a exciting new prospect to go in search for a new girl for our trailer. Now I would advise people to look deep into their schedule and occrdingly accept our proposal.
A new role star could prove worthwhile to the whole production of our trailer.

Location Shots & Planning

This afternoon we planned the locations that we would like to use in our trailer. Here are some of the pictures we took of our chosen locations.

1) This first image is one of the socialising areas in the school that the characters will be using to relax in and spend time with each other.

2) This is just another picture of a room that they could use to relax in.

3) When the girl is watching the rugby captain play it will be at this location; The 1st XV rugby pitch.

4) Again this is where she will be watching the football captain play football; The 1st XI football pitch.

5) This is the house of which the rugby captain is living in on campus. It is surrounded by trees which allows the girl to be with him with a certain amount of secrecy. She blames the fact that they only seem to kiss in the woods on her being shy.

6) This is the woods on the other side of the house that if we see the characters going anywhere else on campus, apart from the sports centre, from the rugby captains house then they will use this path.

7) Again just another shot of the path just to show it in a different light and show just how hidden they will be when they are together, helping to hide it from her boyfriend, the football captain.

Story Roughly Illustrated

This picture is of the first scene of the story where the new girl is with her friends and they are encouraging her to go and speak to the football captain.

The second picture is just simply to illustrate that the chat pulled off as they are happily together and things seem to be going great! Everyone is happy.

Everything was going so well until she has an encounter with the rugby captain and things start to get cosy.

She will only kiss the rugby captain in discreet places, which he doesn't understand, but he goes a long with it because he starts to like her.

The boys find out that the girl is playing both of them but immediately want to fight as opposed to being angry at the girl.

After fighting the boys calm down and realise that they didn't know that she was playing both of them and then decide to team up and turn on the girl to get her back!

Pictures of us working.

Gregor Sharp and Vidur Bharatram

Here are just a couple of pictures of us working in class.

Vidur is on our blog reading over the most recent post that we did & Gregor is on YouTube researching the key elements of a film trailer to help us with our project

Story Arc

This is our synopsis of our stroy that we are going to create a trailer. In our movie there are two boys ( Vidur, Michael Wallace) who are enemys and a footballer and a rugby player respectively. Both of them hate each other but are linked in one way; They both get together with Robyn the new girl from California. She is good looking, stylish and up to no good. She does not let on to either of the boys that she is also together with their enemy. This heart renching comedy and love story starts of in Gordonstoun school.
When the two boys find out that they have been played by Robyn the two of them team up to get her back. They embarrass her in the dining hall infront of other people and many other things to make her feel bad for what she did. However while this is taking place on boy can't seem to let go but does not want to admit it to his recently aquired friend, creating lots of difficulties!
What happens next has not been decided yet but this story shall be a classic, not to miss movie.

Key Trailer Elements

After watching trailers and analysing what makes them so good I have managed to get a good idea of what is necessary for our trailer to succeed.

In an action film it is the stunts and other explosions etc that people see in the trailer that makes them go and see the end product. In a thriller it can be the gripping story that may relate to people's personal experiences etc that encourages them to go and watch them. Comedies however have many things that encourage people to watch. This can range from a cast the people know will bring natural comedy to the film therefore making it funny. Also some simple stupidity and clumsy behaviour always leads to people laughing no matter what their personal taste is. A good example of what I think a successful trailer is 'The Dilemma' posted below.

1:17 min's in to the trailer is an example of what I was talking about when I said stupidity and clumsy behaviour to get some laughs. Some more of this behaviour is showing in the next trailer at 0:43 mins when someone sits on a broken chair and breaks it and also at 1:22 when he punches a woman harder than expected when testing the strength of her stomach muscles!

Personally I also think that light hearted controversial behaviour is more often than not successful at making people crack up! 1:13 mins in to 'Keeping the Faith' trailer is an example of this when a priest punches someone in public while in his religious clothing! This however is not taken seriously because it is a comedy and is very obviously not meant to offend anyone.