Shot List

Today my group and I decided that it would be good to complete a shot list so that our film will be organised. Whilst doing this, we came up with a number of ideas to add to our film, such as putting credits on toast with white cake icing tubes (which could represent Philadelphia cheese), and then making our protagonist using a knife to smudge the icing as it its a spread.

Storyboard

We have just finished completing our storyboard, and we are happy with it. We are aware that certain things may be altered for specific reasons, but despite this, we are happy. Our storyboard looks like this:

Typography Brainstorm

We discussed some brief ideas whilst the completion of our brainstorm took pace. some of the things we discussed were:

The font colour - we decided on using the colour purple for the font titles as it is a very feminine colour, also reflecting how the protagonist wants to be.

The font - a curvaceous font, making it quite light hearted, what a romantic comedy would usually include.

We decided to have the credits written on things such as a Blackberry mobile phone, an iPod, letters stuck on purses, names on bank cards and even on toast. We aim to make our opening somewhat unique. The choice of having the credits typed on technology, reflects her busy life.

Researching into the Timeline of 'Sliding Doors'

Our task this lesson was to draw a timeline of the opening of 'Sliding Doors'. It helped me realise the amount of roles people have in producing the film. For example, the producer, director, costume designers, etc. This timeline shows, when each shot is taken place (eg. is it 20 seconds into the beginning of the opening etc), where they are, what shot type and other specific

information.

Planning -

We have started discussing as group a few ideas that had jumped into our heads and brainstormed them as a group. We came up with a number of ideas but one that really caught our attention was one that had the same concepts as 'Sliding Doors'. We have all seen Sliding Doors in the past, and really enjoy it for the unique concept it had.

We decided that out film opening would start with as a dream sequence and this dream sequence would show our protagonist walking through the streets of London with numerous shopping bags, her walking into shops, looking at and buying clothes, with a close up of her purse showing a lot of money in it, symbolising her wealth. She then goes to the counter, and pays for a dress or top using her credit card, and this is then anchored by the diegetic voice of the person at the till saying "Sorry madam, your card has been declined". Her phone then rings and she struggles finding it. It then overlaps to her being woken up by her boss calling her, whilst she is asleep. She picks up and her boss tells her "how many God damn times are you going to be late?! Did I not tell you yesterday that it is an important day! Hurry up and get yourself here right now!" The protagonist tries to apologize but is constantly interrupted by her boss.

Her morning routine then takes place, showing the protagonist:

- Brushing her teeth.

- Doing her hair.

- Running around the house.

- Making toast and many other things.

We decided that the best way to do this would be by increasing the speed of the clips, which would add to the panic.

When she finally gets ready, she heads for the door, grabbing her keys and an apple, followed by a rewind effect showing her picking up the keys and apple again. The next shots will show her in a split screen walking down the road with the apple and keys, and the other side without the apple and the keys.

The aim is to give a message to the audience that what would be the outcome of taking the apple and keys, and not taking them. It shows the protagonist going into two paths, similar to sliding doors. This path could be interesting because although she is living out the life she has always wanted, there could be a consequence in taking the morally wrong path in life and this would provide a leeway for a moral message in our film opening. We also decided the target audience which would be mainly young women. We are hoping to get a protagonist that looks slightly older, however, this may be proved as a struggle, because none of us know anyone which would take the ideal role.