Planning

Whilst planning our short film, their we many aspects which we need to work on and plan as a group to make sure that we can produce this to the best of our ability. These included scripting, storyboarding and making it in to an anamatic, looking for suitable locations and finding the right cast. 


The first thing which we started to do was to storyboard. We did this on post it notes, as it would be easy to change the order of the shots if wanted, and would be easy to correct mistakes. 

After doing the storyboarding and putting it in to the right order and making sure that the whole group was happy with everything, we uploaded them in to final cut to make the animatic. After putting them in to the right sequence, we wrote a script to go over this we recorded the voiceover for them. In the voice over it stated what was going to happen in each shot and also the dialogue if their was going to be any. 

After doing this the next thing that we decided to do was to write the script. Hector was the main script writer but all of the group made contributions. 

When the script was written, we thought about who we would cast to play certain characters, there were many things that we needed to consider when casting, like their acting ability, availability, and if they looked right for the character. After searching through many actors, we were able to decide on the final cast members. These will be Alex Eagles and Adeel Ikram.  Alex will play the main character and Adeel will play his Asian friend. 

One of the final parts of our planning decide on the locations that we are going to use. From looking at film is out genre we have decided to use various locations. These will include a kitchen, bedroom, and a street. These are perfect for our 'at home' scene as it represents our main characters background. We've also looked at different streets for when we are filming the boy leaving home.  

 We also made a shot list. This in detail shows and describes what is going to happen in each shot. Also it talks about any sound that we are going to have. We thought that this would be a useful tool to use so that when it comes to filming, it will make it easier and quicker, as we will not have to carry around many other sheets of paper it will be all in one.