Planning, key questions

1. Is it practical?

• Our idea is practical because it is achieveable because my group and i know we can do it. Our idea works well because the group and I have got some key concepts to work with for our film opening. We get on well we can speak our mind to each other and we are well organised.

2. Is it an idea that works to the strengths of the group?

• The idea we have chosen works with the strenghts of the group because my favourate genre of film is horror and the Sophie and Danielle like horrors to so i think we have chosen a great genre as we all know alot of genre conventions. The group is organised especially Danielle she works well at these sort of ideas, whereas Sophie is very creative and came up with a lot of the ideas for the film opening and I am good at the planning and all the theory work involved in the planning section. Because we are friends communication won't be a problem during this production.   

3. Will it show of the skills you have learnt so far on the course?

• I think that the horror genre is a good film to do because it shows of the camera shots and the camera angles that we can do in the 2 minutes because there is a variety of shots taht can be used in the scene. It will allow use to show of our skills with the camera such as match on action, 180 degree rule and the basic camera shots such as close ups, long shots and establishing shots.

4. Is it something you can reasonably shoot and edit in the time available?

• The ideas that my group and i have had are possible to do in the 2 minutes because we dont want to do much, and 2 minutes is alot of camera time after editing. We have only got two locations we have chosen for our film opening so we hope to get the filming done in maybe two weeks, Because we only have about 6 to 7 weeks on the practical for example the filming and the editing. 

5. Can you get access/ permission to shoot in the chosen location at the chosen times?

• We can gain access to Sophie's house when the killer knocks on her door and knocks her out. Also we have been granted access to the old RAF buildings in Newtoft.  

6. Can you organise lighting to use in that location?

• We have got some construction sight lights to use on scene when the woman is locked away.

7. Have you included dialogue? If so, will it work to shoot the conversation in the selected location?

• We have only got a little dialogue and it works with the location we have chosen. We are not using much dialogue because we want to create suspense for the audience.

8. Do you have gaurenteed high quality reliable actors to play the characters?

• We have chosen some very reliable actors to play the parts of the dead bodies and the woman that is taken hostage and the killer so we shouldnt have a problem with actors in the scene. The actors we have chosen are good because they are all of high quality because we have a range of students from media studies and drama studies this helps because they can help if there is a technical problem and we cannot fix it and the drama students will be good at the acting in the film opening.