Down the streets of Shere

We have decided to use a range rover for our change over’s and for the very beginning of our tittle sequence. We thought this was a good choice of car, as it looks slick. This also makes the man look very important. The only difference is that we are going to use a normal grey range rover so slightly different to the one in the video. 

We thought we would use this car as it signifies that he has a wealthy and important background. We use another signifier in our tittle sequence. The main guy who gets poisoned is going to be wearing a suit, which shows his importance. We also want him to have a driver instead of driving his own car. One of the main reasons for this is we wouldn't be able to get a young person to drive a range rover because of insurance issues. 

New ideas and changes

Today we discussed our tittle sequence again thinking about the new research we had done. We then decided that there are still many ways to improve upon it. We thought using our research that we can film it differently to how we thought. We are thinking of flicking backwards and forwards between the guy buying the cigarettes and the main character (the guy that gets poisoned). We thought this way it will make it clearer to the audience who they need to follow. At first we were just focusing on the pass over of the cigarettes, as that is what the poison is carried in. Normally in tittle sequences the camera will follow the main character and that is what we need to do to make sure the 
audience don’t get confused. 

When we realised that we needed to change it we started a rough copy of another storyboard. From this we could then see the changes clearly and draw in what we were changing. 

Characteristics of Characters

We have got 7 characters who aren’t counted as extras and we have had a long old process of deciding who should play who. We have also chosen the final people who we want to be in our prelim. We knew a while back what characters we needed and what they needed to look like. 

·      Spy – Large well built

o  Foreign look to him (dark skin, dark hair, stero typical)

o  Well dressed (suit)

o  Actor – Mike

·      Passover Man 1 – Large

o  Dangerous look

o  Skinhead

o  40’s ish

o  Actor – Adam

·      Oldman 1&2 – Old (50’s/60)

o  Stereo typically dressed (hat, jacket, etc.)

·      Passover man 2 – Young man

o  Hooded

o  Stereo typical teenager thug dressed

o  Actor –Theo

·      Passover man 3 – Biker

o  Leather jacket

o  Tattoos

o  Large

o  Biker boots

o  Matt

·      Cook – Large

o  Coloured

o  Chef outfit

o  Whites / hat

o  Actor – Habib

·      Deliever – waiter outfit

o  Young 20/30’s

o  Normal cooking

o  Actor - Hendrik

Our Characters

Character List

• Shopkeeper- short, quite large, has stubble (looks a bit rough and scruffy), middle aged, possibly Indian or Pakistani to eradicate suspicion by using a stereotype

• ·  Old man- quite tall, smart, takes care over appearance, woolen jumper with white shirt and corduroy trousers.  Neat well cut moustache, spectacles with large thick lenses that are quite dated
•   Young man (student)- around 24 years old,  stylish, slim, good-looking, fashionable clothing like, skinny jeans, jacket, smart shoes, well shaven and neatly combed hair
•   Biker- mid 30’s, beard, skinny (slim), sleeve tattoo, piercings, black leather clothing, dark glasses.
•    Chef- large man, late 20’s early 30’s, kitchen whites (clothing), white chef hat
•   Waiter- Tall, young, smart, lean, combed back hair, black trousers, black jacket, waist coat, and white shirt, looks clean generally

•   Spy- Broad shoulders, dark slicked back hair, olive skin (tanned), big eyebrows, big noses (almost has a jewish look to him) slim, healthy and kind looking man

Now we have brainstormed what we want our characters too look like, we can think about the sort of people that will fit well to the part. 

Prop List

For our prelim we need a variation of props in order to make it look the way we want it to. The start of our list is below but we may need more.

Prop List

·         Corner Shop

·         Packet of Cigarettes

·         Deck of Cards

·         Café ( chairs, café, tables, drinks)

·         Syringe (poison)

·         Biker helmet (whole biker costume)

·         Slick black motorbike

·         Restaurant

·         Plate of food

·         Waiters

·         Well dress spy-man (suit)

·         Slick car (range rover)

·         Alley way

·         Full restaurant

   
 This is just a rough draft of what we may need. We haven't decided how we are going to get  everything yet eg.range rover. By having a list written out we can look out for certain things that we may need and as we have done the list early, we have time to look for them.

Storyboard No.2

Updated Storyboard for Shere Vice by dautadra

Confession of a Dangerous Mind

This could also be a good way to help our filming techniques. How the camera focuses on him, allowing the audience to realise that something isn't right. This builds tension in the audience because the audience knows that he he been poisoned  But we thought that if we took inspiration from the Sherlock Holmes scene, where we haven't seen the cook poison his food, until he has a flashback type thing. We could make it so that, like in this, the man begins to realise somethings wrong, and the audience then also like him,  do not know what is going on,this could build confusion and suspense in the audience until it is revealed that the man has been poisoned.
Then from the close up of his realisation, through his slow suffering, having the cook,in her placement, over the shoulder, blurred into the background, but is still visible.I think this would be a good camera technique because it suggests that the cook did it, if the audience didn't already know,and created a more visually interesting screen, because it is setting up the rest of the film in the audiences minds, that the cook has a main part to play.