PRODUCTION - Production schedule update

This shows our original production schedule which we created for our presentation:

However, we have made some changes which also affected the production schedule:
1. Our first change was that along with us 4 being characters in our opening, some of our friends are also going to participate because we decided that the people being killed should be different than the killers itself. Our decision was that Eloise's victim is going to be me, my victim is going to be one of my friends, Tyrese's victim is also going to be one of my friends and Vicky's victim is going to be one of Eloise's friends.

2. For our Thursday, 26th, morning lesson where we were going to film the scene in Liverpool, we filmed our scene in the Drama studio instead as one of the victims couldn't make it that day.

3. For Saturday, 28th, our filming coulnd't work again as we realised we didn't have our memory cards and the weather outside was also bad, windy and raining.

This is our improved schedule that we are using:

PLANNING (pitch) - storyboard (Eloise)

PLANNING (pitch) - Mise-en-scene: Costumes and make up (Eloise)

PLANNING - Pitch feedback and evaluation

 

From this feedback we know that to improve the pitch we could go into detail on the technical aspects, for example, who was filming, what angles.

We also now know that we should have included all of the actors in the pitch.

From the feed back we've decided to change location from Liverpool Street Station to Angel Station as we researched and found out that most people are told to stop filming in Liverpool street station as it is so popular, whereas angel wouldn't be as busy and is larger so we wouldn't get in the way.

Also we have also managed to put in time to film during a 3 hour lesson otherwise it would be a waste, and it would meant that we gad  ore time to re film if anything went wrong.

PLANNING - Final mise-en-scene decisions - locations (Petya)

PLANNING - Half-term planning homework

My ideas for our "Project Scorpio" opening are:
- 4 spies who are connected in the same secret organisation 
- each one of us being a spy and all having something symbolic, such as a scorpion necklace or a scorpion tattoo
- having one character who will be our boss
- having a fighting scene (however, that would be difficult to accomplish as we need to find two people who can imitate a real fighting scene)
- having a scene with all of us in the same room in school and having the text "3 years ago..." to create an interest in the audience of what has happened to us that we became the killers we are as grown ups

For locations I thought we should find more quite and not so crowded locations:

   Firstly I thought about the Greenwich foot tunnel as it looks a bit creepy to me, as well as mysterious.

  There is also a path in Jubile Park in Leyton, which would look good with our plot, genre and actions

I also considered not so quiet places such as the front of Westfield, Stratford or a big station like Kings Cross or Liverpool street station. 

The props I thought are significant for use are:

There are a couple things I considered about costumes as well:

 All black costumes would be significant as black conveys power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery.

All formal and elegant costumes (no ripped jeans or t-shirts or shorts, etc) will convey that we are all grown up people when we are killing the people.

 Casual costumes for the scene where we are in a school classroom and we show how we were 3 years ago

(Task 39) PLANNING - Final storyboard and shot list (Eloise)

SHOT LIST
mix of medium close ups, medium and close up shots of Petya from different angles in Angel station, including tracking shots and match cuts.
The shots then continue like that following Tyrese.
Close up of book exchange.
close up of names being crossed off list.
Close up of phone.
Over the shoulder shots of each character.
Match cuts of all sequences.
Close up of cup being poisoned.
Close up of paper being thrown in a bin.