Plan for shoot practice (15/1/14)

Props: Red light source, pick axe, Fake blood, old clothes, a ladder, a torch, a fake gun (borrowed from drama department), smoke machine (If it is fixed by then, the one we were going to borrow has been sent for repairs), paper with address scribbled on it, a dog (I have one),

Transport to location: None needed, the location we are shooting at is at walking distance from our school.

Weather report: A chance of rain (Umbrella required for equipment in case it rains)

Cast: Me, Dan Hornigold, Tom Fagan, Declan Berry

Plan for the day:

·         The first scene we will shoot will be the last, as this will mean we will have the maximum amount of daylight for that scene. It will be in an alleyway next to the church near my house. The alleyway shouldn’t be too busy as pedestrians don’t usual go that way but if it becomes too much of a problem then we can relocate the shoot. This will be the scene that is set the day after the murder has taken place, when the murder is to be made into an everyday character through the casual small talk to a dog walker.

·         The second scene will be the attack in the house of the murderer. This will be based in my back garden and the kitchen of my house so there shouldn’t be any disruptions apart from maybe background noise.

·         The third scene will be chase scene through the woods. The location for which will be a small wooden area near my house. Train tracks do sit right next to the wooded area however and so may cause some disruption to filming; this can be counteracted by going deeper into the wood. The wood does have a few dog walkers sometimes, but as we will be shooting as its getting dark, this shouldn’t be a problem.

·         The fourth scene will be the victim lying at the tree suffering amnesia about the attack that went on, slowly recalling what had happened and then getting attacked by the murderer with a pick axe.

Health and safety considerations:

·         My dog may be a tad unhappy around some of the people helping with the shoot and so I’ll make sure that they have all met her before we film the scene with her in it. If it does become a problem then we can just leave her out of the scene.

·         As there won’t be any actual fighting in the house there are no problems related with that, however as the victim will be running away from the house trip hazards will have to be considered. This may not be a problem because the victim is supposed to be injured at this point and so he will be limping, but this is still something to take into account.

·         Running through the woods may prove a bit dangerous for our actor as it tends to be a bit muddy down there sometimes, to counteract this we will make sure that the actor has good tread on his shoes so he won’t slip.

·         He will be pretending to hit his head, obviously, and so this will also not be a problem.

·         Other than myself wielding the pick axe with caution I believe that is everything covered.

General notes:

·         As we don’t have that much daylight afterschool we will have to as quick as possible, this is perfectly fine as this is only a practice shoot. (The actual shoots will be on the weekend as this will allow us much more time to get the shots we want.)

·         We will not have the correct costume for the shoot as it requires being destroyed with fake blood and rips to make the victim look injured.

·         We will be documenting the changes we are going to make to the production process as we get along with it on either a separate camera or the same one we will be using for actual practice.

·         It will get edited together roughly and will be great practice to edit before we get onto our real footage.

·         Me and Dan will be trying to obtain all the necessary props this weekend, however we might not be able to get all of them for the practice. This isn’t a problem though.