Shooting schedule

Day/Date	Set/Page/Description	Cast	Props	Location
Day 1	EXT. CANARY WHARF Establishing shot of London city. Dolly shot of a road in canary wharf using a car. Long shot of Richard Smith leaving big building holding a brief case.	Richard Smith	Suit Brief case	London city
Day 2	EXT. LONDON CITY Mid –shot of Richard Smith leaving his firm. Wide shot of a car mysteriously appearing.	Richard Smith	Car Suit Brief case	London City
Day 3	INT. ROOMS IN EBC Point of view shot of assassin punching. Over the shoulder shot of assassin pointing a gun at another character. Mid-shot of a man in a chair and the assassin standing next to him. EXT. OUTSIDE EBC Long-shot of man being chased by an assassin.	Richard Smith Assassin Business manager Fighting Actors	Suits Gun/Knife Brief case	EBC
Day 4	INT. DARK ROOM IN A CELLAR Point of view shot of lamp turning on Over the shoulder shot of Richard Smith whimpering on chair. Reaction shot of Richard Smith.	Richard Smith 2 Interrogators	Lamp Chair Rope	House/Room in EBC
Day 5	EXT. WOODLAND AREA/PARK Low angle shot of Business owners expression knowing his assistant Richard Smith has been taken.	Business owner	Suit	Woodland or Park

Email to Young Turks record label

Email: theyoungturks@theyoungturks.co.uk

Dear Sir or Madam

For our media studies project, we are making a teaser trailer at our school Ernest Bevin College. We are writing to you to ask you if we can use the song ‘Intro’ from the XX Album by The XX which is a part of your record label Young Turks.

We understand that you are the owner of the song, but due to our low budget we would like to use the entire song to help us create an exciting tone to our teaser trailer which has the working title ‘Seizer’.

If this is not possible, please let us know what fee would be required for the use of your song.

Your signature below indicates that you have given us permission to use your song in our production. You can reach us at our college by asking for our supervisor Mr.Dickie.

Thank you for your cooperation

Yours truly Crown Productions

Emre Ibatoglu & Kiyan Patel                                           

Ernest Bevin College

Beechcroft Road, Tooting, London, SW17 7DF

Tel: 020 8672 8582

Fax: 020 8767 5502

This is an email we had to sent to Young Turks production label. Because of copyright reasons, we had to send an email asking if they can let us use their music for our teaser trailer. 

Research: Impact of real media products.

This has been one of the biggest impact and been the most helpful for both me and Kiyan. We advise anyone else who is deciding to make a film or already in production to look deeply into this. My reasons being are if you are deciding to make a film or something else to do with media, you should always look at what is out there and what is similar to what you want to create. For me and Kiyan this was a teaser trailer with an action thriller genre. We looked at films such as James bond Casino Royale & Skyfall, Taken and Hitman. We can take the idea of the interrogation scene from Casino Royale, the way the pace of the Skyfall trailer changes from slow paced to fast paced. The way the main protagonist is dressed in Hitman, that slick formal suit. Lastly the idea of kidnapping and fighting scenes from Taken.

Audience feedback: The impact it has had on our planning

Our audience feedback gave us a huge insight into what the public want. We done two surveys and 2 focus groups. From the survey we asked specific questions to help us with certain scenes. For example we asked them how to set the mise-en-scene  for our interrogation scene. This gave us specific answers back from the audience that helped us set out the scene. We will include a little lamp and a picture of a child, because the public decided that the little lamp will set the focus straight onto the person who is being interrogated and the picture of a child for blackmail. These ideas will be taken in and we will carry on making changes.

Screenplay

Screenplay scene 22

FADE IN:

22)         INT. ROOM OF A HOUSE CELLAR – NIGHT <<COLOUR SCHEME>>

A dark room with no sign of life. A bright light turns on. TWO men come from either side of the light, helping in hiding the brightness from the light. The characters are in silhouette. The two characters seem to stare into the camera. A man takes a gasp.

Man 1

Well...

CUT TO:

Richard Smith on a seat with his hands and feet tied to the seat. The light is shined on him. His head looks down and comes back up.

Richard Smith

Well what?

CUT TO:

Man 1 lifts his hand up and threatens to give Richard Smith a punch. Man 2 gets in the way of Man 1 and holds him back. Aggressive motions are made by the man who wants to harm Richard Smith.

CUT TO:

POV/Over the shoulder shot of Man 2.

Man 2

He will talk, soon enough.

The men leave and turn the lamp light off. The room is left in the darknes

Film Characters

Me and Kiyan decided to use many different characters for our trailer, so we have created 6 characters by 6 different actors.

Lee, played by George Robinson which is one of the main characters also known as the Hitman.
Richard Smith played by me Emre Ibatoglu.
Samuel and Riley played by both Hinesh Patel & Julian are the interrogators.
Mr Jackson Wilson played by our teacher Mr Day is the business owner and also Richard Smiths Dad.
Jason played by Murray Wilson

Costume ideas

In our film business is a key theme, so we need very formal
outfits. Our clothing for our Hitman will be exactly like the image below. A black suit to show darkness, a white shirt to show some sort of light or good within him and a red tie to indicate blood and danger. Costume idea from the film Hitman.

Our other main protagonist Richard Smith is a business man and we have decided to go for a formal outfit like the picture to the left. We think the colour grey is a light colour as we do not want to cross paths with the same colour outfit as the Hitman. This grey colour will give off more of a light tone due to Richard Smith being a normal average business man.

Props

Our props are not out of the ordinary. We are using a chair for the interrogation scene also seen from the image below which is James Bond Casino royale.

We are also using black leather gloves for our hitman also seen in the game and film Hitman. Image below

Final Storyboard

This is our final storyboard. It shows some of the key shots we used and shots we may not have used. The first shot is an establishing shot of London were our teaser trailer is based. The second shot is a shot of a car following Richard Smith, however we have not used this scene in our teaser trailer. The third shot is of Richard's father in an office along with the Hitman, this shot and scene has been used in our trailer. The fourth  picture was the interrogation scene in a dark room which we managed to do, this has been included in our teaser. The fifth drawing is of a fist, we used this in our teaser as a point of view shot of a punch. The last shot on our story board is of the Hitman holding a gun to a character who is on the bad side in our trailer.

Moodboard

                                                                                                                

This is our first moodboard for our film production. As you can see we have different themes and locations that our film might consider. First thing is the locations. As this film has a business side we thought it would be best to set it in the heart of either central London or Canary Wharf. We chose this because this is were they would associate rich business's and also a very well known location so the audience will know where the film is set. These locations will be giving our protagonist a very high status. The central image of money is the main reason why Richard is in trouble so me and Kiyan decided to put that image centre framed and everything else around it, as money has got him to where those images show. The graduation hat with books on the bottom right is to show that our main protagonist is smart as he has studied hard to get where he is now. The two formal pictures of a man in a suit is to show how our main protagonist will be portrayed as sophisticated. The Hitman poster is to show what type of character Richard will encounter or be against. The last image is a picture of a dark room with a light shining on the chair and the person who will be in the chair to create tension and suspense. This has been seen in many films and hopefully me and Kiyan will be able to use this to create a dark background to our film as we both feel this should be the tone to our production.

Pitch

Pitch

Pitch Sheet

Title: Working Title

Genre: Thriller/Action

Time Period: Contemporary

Location(s): London City

Budget: Low

Target Market/Demographic Focus: Male 18+

LOGLINE:

London, 2013, Richard Smith is a business man who works for a big investment company but little does he know that his boss has done illegal things to other companies. Richard is on his way home from a meeting with another company who is interested in the firm and suddenly he is grabbed and thrown into a car. The kidnappers want Richard to either frame his boss or give his boss to these people. Richards has no choice or say in this matter. If Richard slips it won’t be just his life that’s in danger.

TREATMENT:

Richard Smith is a hard working, businessman who has taken a long time to get to where he is with a lot of hard work and preservation. His boss is a man who has done a lot of illegal dealings to make his business successful and Richard is his assistant but, Richard has never seen or taught of his boss doing illegal dealings to get the business to where it is now. One afternoon, after a meeting with the members of a firm interesting in investing into the business, he is then taken.

Richard Smith is left tied up to a chair in a dark room with one door and no windows. Richards’s boss finds that Richard hasn’t been at work for a couple of days and starts getting worried. His boss wants to help find Richard and uses a very close friend to find Richard. His friend is an assassin/Hitman used to protect him. A sequence of fighting and searching leads to Richards’s boss’s close associate finds Richard but a final twist happens during this moment.

Richard goes through a tough life and doesn’t even know who his father was, yet he finds himself at gun point. His father is hinted at the end of the film.