Shooting Schedules

SHOOTING SCHEDULE NAME: Cloud 9 productions
Scene	Date/Time	Location	People	Equipment	Props
Union inn pub and hotel scene	Febuary 15th 2011 am	Union inn pub and hotel old Windsor	Ollie Webster – Hitman Danny Pyatt Aaron Harris	Tripod, Camera	Alarm clock, I phone for picture on screen saver
Bathroom scene	Febuary 21st 2011 am	bathroom	Ollie Webster – Hitman Danny Pyatt Aaron Harris	Tripod, Camera.	Lithobid antidepressant tablets.
Shooting scene clewer park	March 2nd 2011 pm	Clewer park	Ollie Webster – Hitman Danny Pyatt Aaron Harris JJ Moss	Tripod, Camera.	Masks, balaclavas, handgun
Garden scene	March 3rd 2011 pm	Garden at home	Ollie Webster – Hitman Danny Pyatt Aaron Harris JJ Moss Gus Bowles	Tripod, Camera	Football, trampoline
House/ birthday scene	March 3rd 2011 pm	Kitchen at home	Ollie Webster – Hitman Danny Pyatt Aaron Harris JJ Moss Gus Bowles	Tripod, Camera.	Birthday cake, candles, present, cups, food, birthday things

Filming Risk Assesment

Filming Risk Assessment

Date	Location	Potential Risks/Hazards	Level of risk (L/M/H)	Actions needed to minimize risk
February 15th 2011	Union inn pub and hotel.	N/a	Low	N/a
February 21st 2011	Bathroom scene.	N/a	Low	N/a
March 2nd 2011	Shooting scene Clewer Park	We were carrying a fake gun this is potentially dangerous as dog walkers or passers by may think this is real and call the police.	High	The filming crew wore high visibility jackets to show we are part of a filming crew and we told people in the area before filming what we were doing to minimize risk of this.
March 3rd 2011	Garden scene	Had a local neighbor and friend playing the part as the hitmans kid, he did a back flip on a trampoline as part of our film.	Low	The neighbor Gus is very confident in doing this so there was little risk but we put the padding on the edge of the trampoline back on to protect him from the metal poles and holes in this area.
March 3rd 2011	House scene	N/a	Low	N/a

Our film Lithium is a fairly Low risk film as seen here, we do not have any dangerous or risky scenes in our opening 2 minutes of our film, our only potentially risky scene was our shooting scene as passers by may of mistaken this for a real gun, we did our best to minimise this through telling dog walkers and every one in sight within the park we were filming and the director and camera man wore high visibility jackets.

jarhead

Jarhead is a film Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's best selling 2003 book about his pre Desert Storm experiences in Saudi Arabia and about his experiences fighting in Kuwait the role of Anthony Swafford is played by Jake gyllenhaal and the film directed by sam mendes. The film had a budget of $70,000,000 and in its opening weekend recieved $27,726,210 with an overall gross being $62,647,540. The film opens from a blackout using a fade in to a wide angle shot of the army boot camp where anthony swafford has joined, this is probably used to show the negative begining the film hosts, the film is very stereotypical straight from the start as his staff sergent begins to scream and shout ordering the new recruits around like in every typical war film. This is the realistic stereotype used of the training and toughening process used for setting marines up for future war which they will be servicing in. The film is a stereotypical view of the war as it shows from the very first day that swafford begins to regret applying for the army as most new recruits do realising the demands put upon them, to lighten the mood happy non digetic music is played as he gets on the bus to his traing corp. From this point the expressions on the recruits faces tells us they have underestimated the marine corp and what it will require. The mise en scene is used very well in this film from the start as marines are dressed in full kit, they have many background actors, they have used a realistic scene and base and the film feels real from the first instance. the camera angles from the beggining have been set upon using simple techniques, following all the rules of continuous (invisible) editing to give the viewer the feel they are in his shoes. The camera has not broken any rules of invisible editing and the editing within this intro seems basic but effective. Jarhead has used sound very effectively within this film opening to portray the mood and feel of the soldiers, for example the loud shouting from the staff sergents, the distant muffled orders from other platoons, the mumbling of the marines and the soundtracks used to lighten the mood and darken it in the corect times.

 

In more detail the film is set about Anthony Swofford, a Camus kid from Sacramento, enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp, but makes it through as a sniper, paired with the usually reliable Troy. The Gulf War breaks out, and his unit goes to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. After 175 days of boredom, adrenaline, heat, worry about his girl-fiend finding someone else, losing it and nearly killing a mate, demotion, toilet cleaning, faulty gas masks, and desert football, Desert Storm becomes mentally hard for swafforf as in less than five days he gets his chance for a kill but is finnaly denied by senior officers. Before he knows it the wars over and after everything he trained for, did and saw he did not get that kill he went for.

here is a table showing the most important demographics of viewers, Age, gender and class. The table i have put in to show i have also researched into the type of films i will be creating (Action) the film was rated a 15 so obviously no one under the age of this viewed this film in the cinema, as predicted there was a larger percentage male audience and  the highest percentage viewers from 15-24 year olds.

final film !

Unfortunately i was not in school on the thursday last week and wednesdasy could not transfer our video to my blog so when im back to school on tuesday i will make sure the video is up :)

cast

 Aaron Harris: Directing and Filming

 Danny Pyatt: Directing, Filming, Acting















Ollie Webster: Directing and Acting

Jamie McWalter: Acting

props and costumes

our hitman (ollie) wore his bed clothes, trackies and a top for when he wakes up in bed and for when he goes to work he wears a suit, there is a perpose complete opposite clothing style because it will develop later on in the film to show his split personality. the terrorists (Jamie and me) were wearing terrorist/criminal wear, we wore balaclavas, scalf over the head, i wore a hoodie and jamie wore casual clothes other than his mask. ollie has a hand gun for his props he is an assasin/hitman so this is a vital prop for the killing and to show his charachter build up. The bag, we used a bag to put over the wife of the hitmans head, this means he could not recognise her and in the moment did not see. the mask ollie used a clown balaclava mask, he is a hitman but due to he has a wife and kid he wants his identity hidden when he works to take out the risk of his family getting hurt.

story board

here ive uploaded the basic story board to our final film, it goes through scene by scene with a different picture representing the beggining of each scene.it tells you the time scale of shots for filming and the sound or dialougue, i also in some columns filled in with a bit about the story.