Planning: Call sheets

When we were delegating the jobs Harry created the call sheets and informed us of the plans so that we could be prepared for the days with the correct resources.

Planning: Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is a non-governmental body for classifying cinema films was set up in 1912. All decisions on the classification of a film are based on the guidelines from BBFC, they are regularly updated which is based on the current views of different films.

Our group has decided to rate our film a 12A, this is because we want to allow the widest range possible to view our film. Teenagers are at the stage when they are understanding what they want to have as a career so we thought by opening the film up to all teenagers it will allow those teenagers that are aspiring to be motor-sport drivers to understand the industry and its consequences clearly. There is nothing in our film that will make it a 15 as we knew not to add these elements as it would mean our target audience would be even more specific and this is what we were trying to avoid.

Below is an image found on the BBFC website, it is all of the ratings that films can be given:

Planning: coming up with the title

As a group we had a meeting to decide on the name for our film, everyone came up with a few ideas each some of them are list below:

• The drive
• If I drive
• Indicator
• Don't look back
• HeartBrake

From this list we decided on the title of Don't look back, we chose this title because it hints at the narrative of the film but without giving too much away, this is what I had in mind when I came up with this idea to pitch to the group.

Planning: Sourcing race suit

Thu 10/12/2015 14:42

I wouldn't call it a race jacket, its more like a protective jacket and trousers but if you want to borrow them yeah that's fine �� how much are you paying me??

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Thu 10/12/2015 14:25

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Hi Jacob, 

For our media project we need to use a race suit and as you bring your bike in to school we were wondering if we could use yours. All the shots with the suit in will be in school and all filming will be done in January. 

Let us know ASAP if this is ok with you? 

Thanks, Harry.

For our race suit costume we needed something that looked professional and Jacobs biking suit was perfect so we emailed him making sure we were able to use it. 

Above is the conversation between Harry and his friend to borrow his race suit.

Planning: Legislation of the workshop

These images below are all screenshots of our emails to teachers making sure we have our location booked so that there is no confusion, and everyone knows who is where and when.

Planning: Test shots

Shot 2
 This shot will be part of our short montage; it could also be called an establishing shot. This will be quite a long take to signify that nothing much is happening. There is the conventional iconography here of the race track and the red and white stripes which denotes that this is a serious racing circuit.

Shot 3

Unfortunately, we cannot get a test shot of the angle we will use in our film; we are planning to get a shot tracking up from the track to a LA shot of the lights. This again will be a long take as it is also signifying that there are no events on and we are trying to create a sad and emotional atmosphere. Again, we have conventional iconography here of the lights which denote the professionalism of the location.

Shot 7/8/9
This is the location where we will shoot the shots of the driver getting ready for the race. They will be short, close ups which create a frantic, fast paced atmosphere. I think this a good location as it is a simple workshop which connotes a professional place. All of these shots being CUs, there will not be much visual iconography.




These are the only shots we have been able to get test shots of so far because... 
- Shot 1+6 are XCU so the location doesn't matter so much. As long as we have bright lighting.
- Shot 4+5 we have been unable to get the camera we are using to my house so as soon as we are able to do that, those test shots will be taken.
- Shots 10 to 16 are all going to be shot on the track which we can only access on the day of filming.

Planning: Storyboard

This is a picture copy of our story board:

Planning: Make-up

Another element of the opening I given to look at was the make-up of the characters. Below is what I came up with:

Girlfriend:

When deciding on the idea for the opening of the film we decided on the idea of the girlfriend having an argument with the racer. We wanted the idea of her being stressed to be showcased to the audience, from this we want them to read that she is stressed because of the dangers in his career. I will be acting the girlfriend in the film opening and her make will be messy, so her makeup will be smudged to show she's upset and her hair will be messy, we don't want her character to seem that she is too interested in her appearance at this stressful time for her.

Racer getting ready:

The character has a professional career so his hair will be neat and he will look very clean and well presented. The audience will hopefully read his character as a professional racer that is passionate about his career.

Racer in hospital:

In the opening we are aiming to hint that a crash has occurred and it could be career ending and so we have decided to film a scene in a hospital where the character will have bandages and bruises on his face. The bruises will be created with face paint, I have done a practice on my hand with the face paint to see how realistic it looks and as a group we have decided that we do want to use the face paint to create these special FX. We have also decided that the bruises will be on the actors cheekbones to signify pain and trauma.
 Below is a picture of the practice:

Planning: casting, props, costumes and lighting

When we were delegating the jobs Harry was given the role of looking at how we will tackle Casting, Props, Costumes and lighting. Below is what he concluded:

Casting

We have decided that we will cast members of our group. There are a number of reasons why we did this. 

1.      People who are not in our group will be less motivated and committed to filming on weekends 

2.      Also people not in our group may not be able to get out of lessons

3.      Amelia took drama at GCSE so she should be good at acting 
-   For the voice over, we will probably use Dan. We will try and find some online software or an app which changes your voice so he sounds more like an F1 commentator. This will make our film feel much more professional.

So we thought it would be a much more reliable way of doing it if we just acted it ourselves.
Out of the two male members of our team, we have chosen the taller of the two, which will represent that character as being powerful and important. 

 Props

1.      Bandage- easily sourced, Amelia has this at home. 

2.      Car- The car is being sourced for us by the school, unfortunately this means that we don’t know exactly what car we will be using.

Costumes

1.      Smart-casual clothing- This is for the protagonist when his girlfriend is telling him not to race, representing him as respectable. I have smart-casual clothing at home.

2.      Scruffy casual- For the girlfriend, this will represent her as being stressed. The preferred reading here is that the audience will feel sorry for her. Amelia has track-suits and baggy clothes that she can wear.

3.      Full race suit- Protagonist on race day. Preferred reading here is that this is a serious race. We need to be careful with the CU shots of the helmet as to not get a reflection of the camera. A friend from outside the group has a race suit, so sourcing this is not an issue.

We don’t need a costume for the hospital scene because we only have an XCU of protagonists face.

Lighting

1.      We need hard, bright lighting on the protagonists face in the two hospital scenes because hospitals are generally well lit environments so it will look more realistic.

2.      When we are filming the deserted track, hopefully it will be a dull grey day, because we want this to be a sad opening, but if it is a sunny, bright day then we may have to put a dark filter on in post-production editing.

We are not filming any scenes at night, so lighting shouldn’t be too much of an issue for us.