Planning: Storyboards - Scene 5

Scene 5 - Seductress street encounter, recruitment of seductress

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Planning: Storyboards - Scene 3 + 4

Scene 3 - The Closet night club, recruitment of Master thief

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Scene 4 - Shut-In's Lair, recruitment of the hacker

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Planning: Storyboards - Scene 1 + 2

Scene 1 - Main character introduction, setting the plot

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Scene 2 - Alex introduction, quick planning session

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Planning: Possible Filming Locations

Scene 1:

- House

- Friends House

Scen 2:
- Outside House
- Outside Friends House

Scene 3: Club Scene

- CSG Scout hut

- CCC Hall

Scene 4: Shut-In Scene

- House

- CCC ICT Room, Side Room

Scene 5: Start 

- Street down St.Giles

- Street In St Peter

Scene 5: End

- House

Planning: Short Film Review Layout Plan

This is my first design for the Film review. Writing the text for the review itself would be difficult without the product made so for now I have started planning a good layout for the double page spread magazine. I have attempted to leave as little negative space as possible and also to try to balance out the text and the images. Since the film is aimed at a teenage - young adult audience I decided on using more image than text as thats what appeals more to them as an audience.

Planning: Plot

The story for the short film is as followed:

Malcolm Myers, a completely average man is thrown into a situation from his missing fathers old employer Mr.X. He has been blackmailed by Mr.X who has his fiancé held captive. He had been tasked with performing the heist of the century and must steal a newly discovered jewel from a high security museum. He and his best friend Alex Smith (the supporting character) must gather a crew of trained experts in order to perform this mission.

In this film Alex helps Malcolm recruit other characters: A homosexual master thief, a shut-in hacker and a attractive yet deadly assassin.

This short film will end when the crew is recruited leaving it on a cliff hanger in which a potential sequel could be made.

Planning: Costume Planning

For each of my characters I have decided on not using precise outfits, but rather more open ideas about what the actors can wear. This means that it will not be a challenge for the actors to find outfits suitable for there roles.

Main Character/ Questionable Protagonist (Malcolm Myers)

- Should wear casual clothes at the start, ordinary average middle class man, e.g. Jeans, T-shirt

- During the Club Scene should change to a shirt for smart casual appearance

SideKick/Fool (Alex Smith)

- Will start out dressed similarly to the Main Character, casual clothing

- After initial introduction changes into smart attire or suit for remainder of film

Homosexual/Master Thief (Andrew Davison)

- Flashy Outfits, Brightly Coloured, Pink, in your face

Shut-In/Hacker (Mark)

- Slobbishly dressed, lack of care, Baggy T-shirt, trackies

Seductress (Alice)
- Smart Casual, showing skin

Man in Black (Mr.X)
- Will be mostly blacked out, but parts of suit will be visible.

Planning: Mind Maps

Genre

Plot

Characters

Research Decisions

During my early stages of research I learned about the history of short films, I learned that they are much more varied than their feature-length counter-parts. I learned about all the different types of short films and how different cultures approach them. One of the more practical parts of short films that I have learned was how to maximise the effectiveness of a short time period.

From my survey I have been able to work out the best target audience for my short film. Since the majority of the surveyed were between the ages of 17 and 21 I have decided that thats the target age group.  I have decided against making ethnicity and religion take part in narrowing the target audience, as I feel that featuring these two into the factor will narrow it to much, reducing the audience quite a bit.