Fake money for film use.

We decided to look into the best way to create a large amount of fake money for our film without making it look like we are committing a crime. This video has given us a really good idea of how to create our own and we have decided to give it a go. Hopefully, this will work out like it does in the video and would give us an overall better effect. We have decided not to make loads of this s it will make the drug deal look unrealistic as we believe that the girl paying for the drugs doesn't look as if she would be able to afford a lot therefore we needed to carry this out through the scene.

Photo Storyboard.

Storyboard.

Location Photos.

 

Set backs

Unfortunately, we have had a few minor set backs within the past few week. However, this has not been a disadvantage as it has allowed us to plan out exactly what needs to be done and allow us to arrange in plenty of time when everyone is next available to film. We are planning to go out and film two days next week which allows us to get the majority of our film out of the way in one week and allow us to catch up. This allows us to then start being able to editing in between the two days we are filming to see what works and what does not.

Filming plan.

Wednesday 26th November

• Film drug deal
• Re-film the bedroom scene
• Film outside of house
• Film downstairs scene (locking doors etc)

To be able to film all these we will need;

• Small zip lock bag
• Flour to be used as a drug substance
• Hoodies
• Pyjamas
• Knife
• Fake blood
• Envelope
• Black marker pen
• Black eyeshadow
• Fake money

Logo Ideas

After doing some research into different horror film promotion logos, i have found a common theme throughout such as colour; the colours mostly used are black red and white. These colours, especially red connote danger therefore i think it will be useful to use in our logo as our film contains danger and violence. Some of these logos are from mainstream companies such as New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. However most of them are Independent
and unique such as Handmade and GhostHouse. I think the use of
the word 'ghost' 'horror' or 'scream' instantly connotes a thriller film
which i think we should use for our film to show from the outset its
a horror.


 For our promotion logo i think the simple black background and white or red writing will fit our genre the best. Most logos use simplicity in their logos which i see as effective as it gives a hint of the film before it actually starts. Creating our logo will be very easy as a member of our group studies graphic design and we are going for a simple look therefore should be quick and easy to make. Some ideas we came up with was 'Scream' with a picture of a person screaming, an open mouth or a simple film strip which are ubiquitous in film production logos.

Independent film research.

I believe that our film, if created professionally would be classed as an independent one rather than a mainstream one due to the niche target audience of the film. Because of this I have decided to look into other independent films and their distributors for inspiration and to compare to our own.

As it is an extremely local production company to us, I decided to look in to Warp Pictures as it has a wide variety of films and also, being local, it means it may understand our concepts and humour etc.
Films and series from Warp include;

• Dead mans shoes
• This Is England
• Four lions

Analysis of questionnaire results.

Roughly 60% of people that took part in our questionnaire believed that the genre of our film was a horror. A further 50% of these believed that the film was a thriller. We have decided to disguard some of our results as people who have answered the questionnaire clearly haven't taken it seriously. However, overall I am happy with the results achieved from the genre question as the general public have clearly understood the genre we are aiming for. Around 70% of people believed that the film would be seen in either the cinema or put straight onto Netflix.
Roughly 80/85% of people really liked the title of our film 'counterplay' and understood the link to the film.
50% of people believed that the certificate of the film should be a 15 which is the certificate we were aiming for, however, many other people believed that the film should be a 18 which may be something we should discuss changing within our group.

Everyone who took part, minus three, said they would definitely go see our film if it got released. This is mirrored in the question 'would you recommend the film?'

We will definitely take the results from our questionnaire into account and may look at changing aspects of our film/ where we would expect for it to be released. Overall I am quite happy with the general publics responses to our film.

Tuesday 18th November

We intend to go out on Tuesday and have another go at filming this same scene. In order to do this we need to ensure that all of our group are prepared to go filming on this day and also that our venue to film is available. Due to none of my group actually acting in the film, we also need to make sure that the actors are available on this day.
To make sure our filming on this day is successful we need to make sure we have;

• shot list
• props (knife/fake blood)
• costumes
• appropriate lighting within the setting

Filming problems

On Monday we decided to take out a camera and have a go at starting to create our film. We set out to one of our locations and decided to just have a rough go at putting together one of our scenes. Due to having a limited amount of time, we only managed to get a small amount of this done. I believe that by doing this and it not working out the way we planned, it has given us a greater idea of timescale and how long it will take to shoot certain aspects. As well as timing being an issue, things such as lighting affected our outcome as due to the time of day we filmed, the light had faded much quicker than imagined. Other things such as; not being able to post the envelope under the door like we wished to. Also, the main girl in our film was pictured to be awakening from bed in one of our scenes. However, in this particular shot we had forgotten to remind our actor to change her clothes in order to fit the description we had given. After putting this footage onto final cut express, we established that some of our footage could actually be used as it created the overall image we was aiming for. However, a large part can not.
This is not a disadvantage however as we are now able to plan correctly to avoid these issues and try again to hopefully achieve a better overall result.

Risk Assesment