FOUNDATION PRODUCTION - Rough Cut 1 of Film Opening

This is a first rough cut of our title sequence. Not all the scenes are finished and the music still needs to be edited.

RESEARCH AND PLANNING - Newspaper Front Page

We made this using Adobe Indesign.

RESEARCH AND PLANNING - Title Fonts

These are the two fonts we finally chose for our title sequence. We wanted to have a scratchy, street feel like graffiti but without choosing the obvious kind of graffiti type of font. We think this is a good compromise even though its been used on other British films like 28 Days Later. We plan to use red and black to stand out against the film and photos and to put across the idea of there being two sides to the main character.

FOUNDATION PRODUCTION - Radio 1 News Report

This is our completed news report done in the style of Radio 1. We want this to counterbalance the mellow acoustic music that we've chosen to use over our title sequence.

RESEARCH AND PLANNING - Shot List

RESEARCH AND PLANNING – Characters

Ryan Sanders:

-Main character

-Boy that gets stabbed to death

-Mix-Race

-Around 16 yrs old

-Urban

-Played by Malachi Green-O’shea

-Character influence- Adam Deacon (Kidulthood), Riz Ahmed (Shifty)

Mrs. Sanders:
-Mother of murder victim
-Late 30’s
- White, working class
-Devout Christian
-Thinks highly of her son
-In mourning of his death
-Played by Mocushla O’shea
-Character influence- Elaine Symons (Waterloo road)

Victor:
-Victim of mugging
-17/18 yrs old
-White, middle/upper class
-Drives car
-Stylish and wealthy

Reece:
-Victim of mugging
-16/17 years old
-Black working class male
-Casually dressed- urban
-Friend of victor
-Character influence- Tempa T (musician)


Sophia:
-Victim of Rape
-17 years old
-Attractive, Mixed race, Middle class

RESEARCH AND PLANNING – Locations

Two stills from the drugs handover scene in 'Shifty'.

The idea for the garage scene – with the double row of garages - came from the film ‘Shifty’.

The film is set in various parts of contemporary South London. This is due to its high crime rates and the way it is traditionally represented in the wider media.

The first scene will be set in Ryan’s house. We see his mother sitting in the lounge. It’s not clear what the location is but we know it is in South London.

The second scene will be set in a car, with the two young boys, again the exact setting will be unclear. This leads onto the flash back, which is set in an estate, within the collection of garages.

Finally, the third scene will be set in a house, in a much wealthier part of south London. This is clearly a more up market property in comparison to the other settings. The two girls will be in here, listening to the radio. The Flash back will be set in a park in the dark.

We want to use one of the main colours in the front cover of the DVD case of ‘This is England’. It stands out in comparison with the surrounding colours and matches the colour of the garage in our location shots.

Scene from This is England.




As well as the above influences, we found that many other films affected our choice of specific location shots. These include ‘This is England’, the setting of which inspired us in terms of the close proximity of the walls. We see this most when Victor and Reece have their flashbacks.

This is our location scouting for the flashback in scenes 2 and 3.