PLANNING: Shooting Schedule, Location and Props

SHOOTING SCHEDULE

Date	Actors	Crew	Props Required	Location	Scenes To Film
Sunday  4th Morning	Alice	Amy Jessie	No props required (need to ensure clear space)	Alice’s house(landing)	1-5
Morning	Alice	Amy Jessie	Ring Letter Alice’s costume: Jeans  T-shirt  Jumper converse	Jessie’s Garden, pond (outside)	16-17
Afternoon	Alice	Amy Jessie	Ring Letter Chest (Alice owns) General attic things (all ready at Amy’s house) Alice’s costume: Jeans T-shirt Jumper converse	Amy’s house Attic	6-15

Equipment: (Borrow from Shool)

Camera

Tripod

Location:

Attic: Choosing our attic location:

We ruled out Jessie’s attic due to health and safety so it was a choice of mine or Amy’s.

Here is my attic:

We decided not to use mine as there is a lot of stuff that would get in the way and make the filming angles limited. It will also not be a suitable location due to space being restricted. Although we did decide that we quite liked the ladder as it is easy to use. 

LOCATION: AMY'S ATTIC

Our last resort was to use Amy’s, this will be more suitable to use. Although Amy lives in the next village to our other location we can get our parents to drive us.

Entrance to Amy's attic. We have decided not to use Amy's ladder to enter the attic because it is flimsy and difficult to use, therefore we are going to use my attic's ladder but Amy's attic.

Same with my attic, there is a lot of stuff in it. To expand the area therefore more space, we will remove some of the things. We will leave a few things to make the scene more realistic.

The boxes in shown in this photo will be removed. The attic is smaller then my attic.

Here is the view looking down the ladder.

Here is a video to show the size of the attic.

Controlling this location:

-Energy saving light bulb change to ordinary to ensure light is bright to film in. (Artificial light)

-Ask everyone to get out of the house so no distractions or added noise

-move boxes out of the attic for extra room to film

LOCATION - THE LADDER (MY HOUSE)

From visiting my attic and finally Amy's attic we came to a decision to use my attic's ladder as the accessibility of our character (Emma) to the location. This might be quite difficult to construct due to the fact of continuity errors disrupting the flow of our opening sequence but overall we think it will have a better effect. 

 Here is the attic door to my attic; this will be our establishing shot of the film.

 This angle will be used in shot 2.

This angle will be used in shot's 2/3. Again it is critical that we don't have any props in this view. When we come to film the scenes at Amy's house there will be a continuity error if we do not remove these things from this location, therefore this is very important. 

This is the ladder, it is sturdy and easy to lift down which will create a smooth shot.  We will close the doors and make sure the area is tidy.

Here is the angle as if i was in the attic and looking down upon the ladder, this will be used on shot 4. Therefore we will have to ensure that no-one will walk into the shot and that the area is tidy.  

LOCATION - JESSIES GARDEN 

This location will only be needed for a few seconds, but we need to ensure:

-Not raining (check weather of date)

-Make sure that family members will not use the driveway to get in the way of the shot

Here is the weather forecast for Sunday the 4th (the day we will film)

Here is a picture of our chosen location at the bottom of Jessie's garden.

Props

Letter:

To make the letter look old and authentic we will get a white A4 piece of paper and soak it in tea. This will make it look old and realistic; we also want the letter to look convincing to the audience so it actually looks like Emma’s great grandma has left her a note from years ago. This mise-en-scene prop is important to get right so we may have to do it numerous times.

We decided to call our character Emma because we felt that it is an ordinary name which connotes her to be a typical ordinary teenage girl. We didn’t want a peculiar named character so settled for Emma.

The grandma’s name however we struggled on finding a name, therefore we searched some possibilities into Google.

We wanted an old fashioned name to represent her being from the past. Here are some of the names we found:

-Ethel

-Grace

-Beatrice

-Violet

-Clara

-Hazel

-Florence

-Eleanor

-Betty

In the end we decided on Violet due to its uniqueness.

Here is the letter:

Dearest Emma,

Hope this gives you a helping hand when you need it most,

Potayoe-Crawtom

Love Great Grandma Violet

As I am currently doing A-level art and did GCSE art I feel like this will help when we make the letter. Amy and Jessie are also creative which will add to the creation of this prop.

Here is an annotation of the letters wording:

Final Prop

Ring:

We wanted a ring that appears old and has that ‘Wow Factor’ which will make the audience feel intrigued to what the ring has to do with the film. We didn’t want to spend much money so we ended up finding a cheap one from Primark for £2.

Here is the ring: