Coming up to the first shoot.

Our team decided on thursday we do our first shoot. we did have a few problems finding actors to play the part of the side kick. in the end we found someone who fits the part. i an going to check our location and see if there are any other shots that i may find. i also found an office that has an overview of the allyway were the shooting is going to take place and the manager that owns the office have us permission to shoot from the office window. When we complete the footage Fahimah with the help of Dean will both be editing the footage. i am confident that we shall complete the first sequence which is the chase scene hopefully in one piece.

Discussion

This week in our lesson we discussed how and when we were going to shoot our crime drama. i decided to use my shot list as a check list to unsure that i have all the shots that we need. on the other hand, we also discussed that there might be a few extra shots that we might stumble on as we film the sequence. within our discussion we pointed out some problems that will occur while shooting the sequence. For example, while shooting the sequence in a low key environment because there might be a risk of the shot coming out grainy so as a solution to this Shamima is bringing a torch in to brighten our scene.

Currently i have a main character, a person to play the female dead body, and a police chief. The only character is left to find is a person to play the side kick. i have a some possible candidates but a few are unsure whether they can make it.

Feedback

Last week we received feedback from our presentation. majority of the feedback was positive and for the negative feedback our problems were. the narrative was a bit confusing and this was probably due to the fact that one character had two personalities and i think that is what made it confusing. Another problem/negative that we had that linked to the first problem however it could also be a possible solution is that we need to simplify or create a background story to the narrative. Th e final problem was that we needed to think about channeling our crime drama to an audience the final feedback made a lot of sense however we did have an audience but we did not have enough time to mention it in our presentation. Personally i thought the feedback was a great way to improve and progress in making our crime drama better its also a good way to tie up the loose ends to our project.

Filming The Sequence
Our group discussed how the opening sequence was going to be filmed and the shots needed to create the sequence. The P1 and P2 stands for Personalities 1 and 2.

• In the opening of the scene there will be a montage sequence (portraying the busy life in the city) this will also establish the environment where the scene will be shot.

• P.O.V -The next scene is where (P2)is standing over the body and this where a P.O.V and a (CU) shot of both the female victim and (P2) is going to create that sense of understanding that he is the killer/criminal.

• Over Shoulder - once we establish that he is the criminal. An over shoulder shot of (P2),as the side kick walks by noticing the crime AND THE CHASE BEGINS.

• High Angle of (P2) running out of the street/ally-way (LS).

• Pan of (P2) running into the main road while (Whip Pan)the side kick chases after him(LS).

• Tracking shot of both the side kick and (P2) while running (MLS).

• When (P2) turns into a corner while the side kick follows him round. However, once we see the other side of the corner we only see the sidekick running in the same direction(MLS).

• Then (P2) steps out of the darkness and the change over occurs.

• A XCU of the left eye then a XCU of the right eye to show the change over of the two personalities.

• Low angle (P1) entering the police HQ (LS)

• The chief having a conversation on the phone “We need our best man on this case send him in”. (MS) on the chief.

• CU on door handle and (MLS) on the door then (P1) walks in through the door.

END OF SEQUENCE

Setting

Shamima gave us a task to find a setting of where it is going to take place and we managed to find a few possible location (with the help of Dean) for our opening sequence.

This picture is an establishing shot of Birmingham's skyline.


this is a possible location where the chase scene is going occur i found at the back entrance of the Pallasades in the City centre.



This is another location for the chase scene.



This was an alleyway which i found round the corner from where the Pallasades was. This place would be great for when the change over happens

The opening sequence to the first episode of a new TV Crime Drama

In this assignment we were put in groups of four including our team leader which in our case was Shamima. She allocated job roles and my part in this assignment is the director of photography or camera-man for short, Dean's part is editing, and fahimah is working with sound. In our first lesson of coming up with an idea we used the 6 thinking hats by Edward de Bono to help us manage our ideas.The first hat which was blue only aided our team leader it explained what was needed from Shamima what she needed to do to keep control and observe the ideas in an open minded perspective. The other 5 helped us finalise the ideas that we were coming up with like for example, Red - our intuitions (feelings),Green - creativity,Yellow - Brightness (benefits of the idea),White - Information (were and when its going to take place), and the last hat Black - it is the final evaluation of the idea were we discuss if there was a downside to this idea. These hats helped us to establish a constructive plan to create our master piece (our opening sequence).

Our Idea

The idea for our opening sequence is a police officer by the name of Lt (Lieutenant) James Parker who suffers from MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder). Parker has only two personalities. The main personality is the police officer and the second personality is the criminal who kills his victim in the first few seconds of the opening sequence. The main personality is unaware of the criminal mastermind held within him. Although, the criminal is aware that of the other personality.