Film Locations

For our film opening we need three different locations:

1) An interrogation room

2) A street

3) A room for the artifact

The street was the first and easiest location to acquire, as we planned to use my road as it is quiet and want to film early on Saturday morning. The reason for it being in the morning was due to the difficulty of having to use the pavement as a set and so we needed to film early in order to make sure there was little people around. Other members of our group said they would be busy on that day so the earlier the better.

The second location we want to is the assembly hall in school to film the scene where the “artefact” was found. We want to use this because we can make it really dark and pretend it is a cave/underground area of some sort to add to the enigma. We figured that if we were able to acquire some flashlights and have access to the assembly hall we could turn off the lights and film the scene in there. The only problem we see with using this location is that we have to make sure it is not being used by other people due to the fact that we need the entire space. We hope to film during our Media lesson so fortunately the hall would most likely to be unoccupied.

The final location which would be used as an interrogation room was difficult to think of where to use, at first we had the idea of using one of the school rooms that had a glass window in order to look inside, however this might be a problem due to the school hours that we had and our ability to make the footage seem realistic. If this doesn't go to plan then we will use my living room.

Mood Board

Digital Story Board

The beginning of the opening will start with the main character opening up his eyes to find himself in an interrogation situation.

The main character will have a blood stained shirt to show he has been beaten for answers about the mysterious artefact the interrogator is after.

Credits will keep splitting up the footage.

The interrogate will begin to get angry and start making physical gestures at the main character to let him know that if he doesn't give them any asnwers soon then they will continue to torture him.

The main character will be forced to look at photos of the mysterious artefact to try and trigger his memory and provide the interrogator with the answers he needs.

[Credits]

There will be a flash back of the main character almost remembering what happened when he found the artefact to tease the audience and make them want to keep watching the film (if it was a proper length film).

[Credits]

The interrogator will continue to physically abuse the main character in order to get answers out of him.

The title sequence will be played last.

Characters

We discussed how many characters we should have in the opening and decided to only show two; the main chatacter and the interrogater. Our film is mainly about the interrogater finding out information from the protagonist. Evertyime a bit of information is revealed by the interrogater, a flashback will trigger and the audience will find out what happened to the main character and ultimately what the artefact does and why the interrogater wants it so desperately.



Main Character

The protagonist  in our production is played by Annas Elfarsi. The protagonist's name is not known throughout the opening scene. The audience in the beginning sees through him in point of view shots which is his first part in the film. The main character and audience do not know what is going on. The protagonist seems to have a case of amnesia and the audience sympathises and start to build a relationship with the character.

The protagonist is an archaeologist who was in a secret and apparently forgotten location looking for an artefact with an archaeological group. As they find the artefact something occurs, unknown to him or the audience that kills his expeditionary group and he seems to have survived but on the verge of death and badly bruised. The first time he is visible in the film is when there is a point of view shot where he looks at his hand and finds unknown archaic writing on his hand. The movie would carry on with the main plot being that the protagonist trying to find out what happened to his expeditionary group and find the artefact before the interrogator which will be revealed to the audience as flash backs at first and then in present time with the film later on.

The Interrogator

He is unknown through out the opening scene and the only reason he is known is because of his loud commanding voice that echoes. It is mysterious and the audience doesn't know where it is coming from but knows its menacing and is the interrogator and a possible danger to the protagonist. He is seen a little more when he smacks down on the table in frustration when he realises that getting answers out of the main character would be harder than he thought.

When the interrogator physically abuses the main character we know he is truly a 'bad guy' because he doesn't care about the well being of others. This also gives off the impression of being selfish because he only cares about the information he needs. The audience is left to think about whether this is the main 'bad guy' or just someone hired by the real 'bad guy'.

Production Meetings (Based On Second Treatment)

Location

Actors

Sound

Costume

Credits

Editing/Special Effects

Opening Scene Script

Notes:

 Italic writing is voices

• * indicates sound
• inside brackets indicates text on screen (smoke effect) (clearer text)

Script:

Scene 1:

(Outside from persons view, unfocused)

*Heavy Breathing

Protagonist looks down at hand: noticing symbols on it before falling unconscious.

• Fades to black

*Theme music starts

1^st set of credits:

(Director : sachin Ishmael)

• Voice emitting throughout darkness: “Wake up, tell me now!”

• Protagonist opens eyes and those closes again – falling in and out of reality.

2^nd set of credits:

*Heavy breathing starts up again

(Produced by)

“Im sorry, I don’t know what you want”

(Nathan Larkin)

“Just try and remember!”

  Scene 2:

• Dark room comes into focus.
• Protagonist registers images of artefact

Antagonist: “Where did you find the artefact?”

• Protagonist once again looks at symbol covered hand
• Antagonist slams hand down on table

Antagonist: “Tell me! Now!”

Protagonist: I cant remember everything, everything is a blur”

Antagonist: “TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW!”

3^rd set of credits:

(sound editor)

(Robert Kerr)

Protagonist: “the last thing I remember was”

• Screen changes to artefact and protagonist reaching out for it.

4^th set of credits:

(Starring)

*heavy breathing starts again

(Robert Kerr)

Antagonist: “Damn it! Just tell me!”

(Annas Elfarsi)

Scene 3:

• Looking from antagonists eyes onto sub-unconscious protagonist

 Protagonist: “Look please, I really don’t know what you want”

• Antagonist slaps protagonist

Antagonist: “Just try and remember!”

*heavy breathing as theme music starts to fade

5^th set of credits:

(Ignotus)

(Ignotus)

New Treatment

The film will show how a group of archeologists find an artifact that they have been researching for decades and have gone to look for it after tracking down the location and attempting to take it and study it further. The protagonist is part of the group of archeologists and he is with them as they discover the exact whereabouts of the artifact. The protagonist reaches out to take it but then wakes up tied to a chair with blood stains on his clothes and a bright light on his face. He is being interrogated by another man but he can’t see his face, only his shoes. He is also being forced to look at pictures of the artifact and being made to remember the events leading up to the discovery of the artifact. The majority of the film will be shown through the flashbacks the protagonist has in order to retrace his steps and find out the mysterious power the artifact holds.

Production Equipment List

This is the equipment we will use while making our opening scene:
1) Sony Ericsson digital camera (can also video record):
We used this to film and take pictures during filming and during planning. All videos were already put into an AV format.

2) Adobe After Effects:
Using to edit special effects.

3) Final Cut Express:
Using to edit the opening scene and rearrange clips.

4) Tripod:
To hold up the camera when needed.

5) Voice Recorder:
We plan to mute all the clips and redo the audio to have a better effect and this way you only hear the voices. it will be clearer and there will be no background noise.

6) White Board for plans and meetings:
We want a place to have meetings with chairs and a whiteboard and a computer if needed.

7) Food colouring (used for blood on the main characters shirt)

Props:
1) Chair (Interrogation scene):
This chair will be used to place the main character during interrogation.

2) Egyptian Pyramid:
Using as a pretend 'mysterious artefact'.

3) Bright light:
To make the interrogation scene more believable.

4) Pictures of artefact:
We want the interrogater to be shown as forcing the main character to remember previous events by looking at pictures of the 'mysterious artefact'.

5) Small Table:
To place the pictures and pyramid on.

6) Dark coloured blankets:
To cover up as many noticable things as possible to make the room look as dark as possible.

Production Scheduling

We have to set out when we will meet up and discuss ideas and progress and future objectives.

To do this we have decided to meet every Monday, Thursday and Friday for an hour and a half during our media lessons when we wrere allowed to discuss our opening scenes.

That will total to at least four and a half hours of planning, filming and editing.

We will also try and have skype meetings for one hour every Friday evening adding the time to five and a half hours a week, and also we would have production meetings every Thursday during our study period for fifty minutes.

In total that meant that we was working on our coursework for six hours and twenty minutes every week.

We hope this goes to plan!