New Script

Outside the Goodman household as a voice over before moving into the kitchen.
Abigail: Where's daddy?
Mary: He's at church.

Inside the Goodman's kitchen.
Addison: Mum, I'm going to Cassandra's. You know, the girl from choir. Well, yeah I'm going there so don't wait up.
Clare: You're not going to be late for tomorrow, are you?
Addison: I'd never miss one of father's services, I know how important they are to him.
Clare: Okay. See you tomorrow.
The girls: Goodbye, Addison. 
Addison: Goodbye, girls.

Car scene with the customer.
John (Customer): Here you go, sweetheart.

Forest opening.
Addison: Please don't!

New Character Profiles

Name: Clare Goodman

Age: 39
Gender: Female
Occupation: Full time mother
Appearance/Costume: Very casual clothing. A plain top and some trousers - nothing fancy.
Characteristics: Very trusting, somewhat naive because of this. Loving, A good mother. Authoritative. Supportive. Compassionate. Loyal.

Name: Mary Goodman

Age: 7

Gender: Female

Occupation: Primary school student

Appearance/Costume: Casual clothing as home from school. 

Characteristics: Clever for her age. A practising catholic. Naive. Kind. Loving. Caring. Vulnerable. Polite.

Name: Abigail Goodman

Age: 3

Gender: Female

Occupation: Nursery attendee

Appearance/Costume: Casual clothing. Girly.

Characteristics: Nice. A little cheeky. Vulnerable. Naive. Funny. Kind. Has good manners.

Name: John Jones
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Occupation: Unknown

Appearance/Costume: Casual clothing.
Characteristics: Perverted.

 Name: James Soaft

Age: 22
Gender: Male
Occupation: Peering man

Appearance/Costume: Dark colours. Long, dark hair.
Characteristics: Weird. Scary. Mysterious. Quiet.

Name: Nicole Stanford

Age: 18
Gender: Female
Occupation: Regular jogger

Appearance/Costume: Jogging clothing. Tracksuit bottoms, trainers, zip up sweater with tied back hair.
Characteristics: Athletic. Weary. Caring.

Updated Locations

The opening scene will now be the Goodman's family home. The cars will not be present during the filming to ensure that the shots are more clear. The abode was chosen due to it looking very family-friendly, welcoming and a believable modern family home. It also contains a very large walkway/path from the door to the road and this would work well when Addison turns to walk down the road before the passing of time by a dissolve into the latter shot.

To the right is Dosthill Park - we have kept this location as it works well with our storyline, is ideal for filming, and has a road where the client can be paid yet it is not too busy that it looks unrealistic and is not too noisy.To the right is the car park at Dosthill Park where our filming will take place during the night scenes. This is where the client will be paid and also where Daniel, the darkened figure, will be seen watching Charlotte. As you can see, there is woodland like in the image above, making Dosthill Park not only ideal for the client scene but also Addison's death as it could show an attempt to hide the body due to it being enclosed and lacking interaction with people.

New Cast

In order of appearance:

Protagonist: Addison Goodman, two outfits; one for the church and a provocative dress and a cross necklace.
Charlotte Batey: A friend of mine whom is an aspiring actress: she has been the main character in many productions such as Grease, We Will Rock You, etc. She also is studying performing arts at King Edward's.
Mother: Clare Goodman, wearing casual clothing.
Marie Stokes: Older sister who was happy to step in and help out.
Youngest sibling: Abigail Goodman, also wearing casual clothing.
Ruby Stokes: My youngest niece.
Slightly older sibling: Mary Goodman, also is casual clothing.
Ellie Stokes: My oldest niece.
Customer, wearing casual clothing.
Alex Farrell: A friend who is an aspiring actor whom has worked previously in acting jobs such as appearing in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and even in a BBC teen-drama The Cut. He is part-owner of an acting agency, he won Tamworth's entertainer of the year award, frequently puts on Broadway shows, works with theatre companies and volunteers at a youth club to get young children into drama.
Strange peering male, dark clothing.
Daniel Lindsay: Part of the production group.
Jogger, wearing jogging gear.
Kiran Paul: Part of the production team.

Plan Changes

Our initial idea had to be changed due to Father Sheeran letting us down at last minute saying he could no longer become the role. This resulted in a major set back for the team and we had to find a way to not change our storyline completely and not waste the shots we have already got from Charlotte. We decided we would keep the idea but show her father is religious in another way; also we figured we would find a random person to be seen looking at her so that it kept mystery to how/who murdered her rather than giving it away completely. 


We use a zoom into the house, from the outside into the window. Then a shot-reverse-shot between Addison (Charlotte Batey) and her new found mother (Marie Stokes) where Addison asks to stay out for the night. After this we use two point of view shots showing her saying goodbye to her siblings played by Ellie Stokes (6) and Ruby Stokes (3): the children would question where the father is also. Addison would be shown leaving the house where a horizontal track would follow her down the street editing into a dissolve as previously agreed. Rather than her standing around counting money a exchange will be made from somebody within a car handing her the money to let the audience see what has happened rather than them having to solve it themselves as previously they could have interpreted it wrong and the story would then confuse them. During the exchange of money through a car window Alex Farrell (the customer) will drive away and a figure will be shown standing over the road watching Addison who walks away. This is where the grab would occur and Charlotte would still shout father yet is it a mystery as to why because audience are unsure of whether or not her father did grab her, or if it was the strange peeping man played by Daniel Lindsay. 


The new actors/actress' were found at short notice who happily stepped into help due to them understanding the pressure and the struggle.

The story progression would also change due to our opening now. Once the officers arrive after the jogger finds the body, we would have the officers searching for the murderer as DNA evidence would be found upon her body. This proves time consuming for the offficers due to the various amounts of customers she has been with that night. The question of her being a harlot is now touched upon within the plot as the parents become aware of her nightly activities; keeping her father out of suspicion as he appears shocked and distraught by hearing the news. The officers believe that her murderer would be one of the people she spent the night with thus they interrogate all of them.

Studio Logo

For our logo we chose to keep the image quite simple yet very recognisable and with meaning. As a group we decided upon this due to it being the first things in which the audience see's when starting up a movie, albeit it at home as a DVD, Blu-ray, VCR for the retro people, and even in the cinema after the advertisements and trailers.


We drew a few images with ideas and we were going to be called 'Cam-Line' but we thought against it after seeing it had no relevance to the style and genre of movie's we would promote. 


We then decided our logo would definitely have an eye image to represent what you can see as you watch the movie; in relation to our genre of movie being a thriller we delved deeper into a meaning which the eye could have other than this. We came up with the idea of being named 'Blind Side' due to the connotations of the word 'blind': when you are blind you cannot see what is happening and you are oblivious to the surroundings and events occurring; also, when you are driving you have a 'blind side' in which you also cannot see and this relates to thrillers due to the audience being unable to view everything which is happening, thus creating mystery and suspense: vital aspects of a thriller in order for it to be successful. We then thought about whether we wanted to be known as a studio, a production team, a cinema, etc. yet we believed neither of the others to have the same effect as productions did, as they weren't so becoming of the title.


We were going to use an eye with a full white pupil to reflect that of a blind persons but looking at images we discovered the one we have used and we decided as a group it was more effective than the white pupil due to the monochrome with the vivid green as an antithesis to it. This would be more effective due to the dull colours rather than using bright, forceful colours everywhere. It also brings the attention to the pupil of the eye which is separating the title name. The black here juxtaposes the white writing furthering it drawing the audience in. 'Productions' was wrote in black as we didn't want to take anything away from the title by using white again and upon the grey background we didn't want it to blend in too much as it would if we used another shade of grey.


During the lesson we looked at other studio logos and looked at their colour schemes, their images and how they relate so that we could focus ours around the mainstream ideas. The logos which we focused on were infamous therefore we would all be able to recognise them and compare them easily.

  



The four logos above all contain similar elements such as a cloudy, dreamy background, predominant centred writing and the colour scheme of white, gold and blues are also incorporated into the pictures. The colours used do not suggest danger or violence but rather a calming nature which is developed further by their centred images of nature and mythical creatures.The complimenting similarities between these suggest the bring a sense of haven within the movie's, suggesting the produce romance, comedy, maybe even children's cartoons as they represent only benevolence due to the dreaminess of their logos. 


Other logos we looked at were Warner Bros. Walt Disney and Sony, all very re-known media conglomerates, not only for their movie productions but also their other covered mediums.

Locations

Our opening location is Dosthill Church: St Paul's, which we chose due to our narrative being centred around a vicar and his daughter. This church is near to us so easy for filming, the vicar has allowed us to film here and there is a path which Addison can walk down to dissolve into our second location to continue the plot.

To the right is an image of Dosthill park; this location was chosen due to it being accessible and also containing woodland, roads and at night a frightful atmosphere. Most of our filming will be centred around here.

To the right is Tamworth Police station. We are not filming directly here but we were going to use an image of police sirens after Addison (Charlotte) is found by the jogger (Kiran). This would add depth as usually sirens are heard and seen in programmes/films when a body is found and their services are called upon.

Role allocation and casting

Within our group we decided that we would all write the storyline together due to our individual ideas of how our initial plot should progress.
We decided that we would all contribute into each different role within the production, however a certain person would have a more prominant position within the roles.
Kiran was chosen as a camera person as during our college promotion video she showed exceptional skills behind the camera and wanted to develop them further - she also would be the most reliable in regards of producing acceptable shots rather than ones which need to keep being re-shot.
Daniel was chosen as the main editor due to having skills in creating seamless editing between each shot; he showed us that through his editing of previous tasks and he also has a hobby of editing his own videos.
I was chosen as the director because I have good leadership skills and can control stressful situations in a calm manner. I also think I have a good overview of the narrative due to it being my original idea which was developed.
We all would be included and will all contribute to every aspect of filming, editing, directing, producing etc. yet within the titles we can only have one name per element so we chose our names to be specific to these elements.

         
For our casting we only needed four actors; two main characters and the other two are just in the production for one shot. We felt that we would get other people than ourselves to act in the opening film as we are not as skilled in acting than we are producing, so we came to a decision if we asked friends to act it would look more professional.


Cast:
Protagonist; Addison Goodman, two outfits; one for the church and a provocative dress and a cross necklace.
Charlotte Batey: A friend of mine whom is an aspiring actress: she has been the main character in many productions such as Grease, We Will Rock You, etc. She also is studying performing arts at King Edward's, she has been accepting into acting school and is taking a break after her A-levels to gain enough money to attend a strictly performing arts/acting college to continue her career in this field. 
Antagonist; Father Goodman, priest cloak and cross necklace.
Father Sheeran: A priest which we all know and who is happy to help out.

Script

Shot 3, 4 and 5

Addison Goodman: “The service was very interesting father.”

Father Goodman: “I’m glad you enjoyed it, will you be home tonight?”

Addison Goodman: “No, I told mom I was staying at Julies, I will be home by tomorrow morning.”

Shot 8

Man: “Here you go sweetheart”

Our storyboard