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Sunday, 8 January 2017

Budgeting Table for our Short film

07:49:00

To be alert on how much Robert and I have agreed to spend, We have made a budget table of all of the props and accessories that we have used in our film that cost us money to obtain. Underneath is our budget table that clearly outlines each of the individual prices of everything we have used as well as the total:

Item number
Name of object/prop
Price of object/prop
1
Parking Ticket    X2
£5.20
2
Mercedes A200 CDI rental X3
£90.00
3
Petrol mileage – 14miles X4 plus 12 mile X2
£ 8.00
4
Balaclava
£2.00
5
revolver
£55.00
6
Dessert eagle
£20.00
7
Gas mask
£20.00
8
Smoke grenades
£17.00
9
Filming equipment
£350.00
10
Ford Fiesta(s) petrol
£10.00

Total
£577.20


Robert and myself  agreed to have a maximum budget of no more than £400.00. However, like most high budget films , we went over our budget by almost £200.00. This was not a huge problem, but we just didn't realise how much our budget eventually added up to.


Friday, 6 January 2017

The Sopranos

16:04:00

















In well-known franchises and trilogies, these films leave the audience asking questions as the films end on cliff hangers. Due to our storyline, we intend to leave our film on a cliff hanger, with ‘Jack Morgan’ escaping in a vehicle which leaves the audience wanting to know what happens next. Films such as Lord of the rings, Star Wars and Harry potter include this ending style in their films. Robert and I decided to look at a famous film that has a cliff hanger styled ending called ‘The Sopranos’. This film ending scene is famously known for the sudden cutting of the last scene just before the character sits down for dinner. This causes confusions for the audience as they are wondering if this was purposely done for the final scene. Robert and I have decided that we want to include lots of enigmas in our short film, so our audience will feel excited to see a sequel of our short film (if we ever made a sequel.)

Wednesday, 4 January 2017

Further Planning - Contacts

04:46:00
During the next couple of weeks, Robert and I are going to start filming the next two scenes of our short film which include an interrogation scene and the car chase. For these scenes, we plan to use other actors ,crew and props/technology to help us with our film. We need these extras for the following roles:


Introduction high sky city scene - 
                                                                         Boss/Master - Harry Cockayne
                                                               Mercedes Benz A Class - £30 a day to use 
                                                                                  



Interrogation scene - 
Hostage holder 1 - Luke Dix


Hostage holder 2 - Louis Vickery


Louis Vickery's profile photo, Image may contain: one or more people

Bounty Hunter/masked villain - Morgan Taverner



Boss/Master - Harry Cockayne


Hostage - James McCullin



Car chase scene - 
Car stunt driver 1 - Ellis Sage - Ford Fiesta Zetec S - 2016
                                                 
                                             Car stunt driver 2 - Oliver Hounsel - Ford Fiesta  2003
The reason why we have chosen to have a very up to date modern version of this vehicle against a much older model of the Ford Fiesta because we want to match the conventions of the rest of the film (like the Mercedes.)The reason we are not using the Mercedes A200 for the car chase is because Robert and myself feel that it does not suit the car chase to have such a high class car vehicle that could easily get damaged. We think that the Fiesta vehicle is a perfect hatchback that looks very sporty in  way that it suits our car chase.

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