Podcast 2

Screenplay

This is the screenplay for our short film:
One Step Back Screen

Storyboard

After a load of technical issues I've finally managed to scan the storyboard and uplolad it to Scribd.

One Step Back Storyboard PDF

Ancillary texts ideas & research

As part of our
coursework, we have to include two ancillary texts.
For our coursework we have chosen to do:
a poster for the film
and
a film magazine review page featuring the film

Our poster will most likely be produced in Adobe Photoshop and the film magazine review page in Microsoft Publisher.

We will produce the ancillary texts after we have finished our main production as you can't review a film that hasn't been made and the main poster needs to be relevant to the film, for example, you can't include things on the poster that won't be in the final production in case things change (cast members changing etc.)

I have a basic idea for the film magazine review page based on the main review style of the magazine Empire.
This includes a large picture/screencap for the top half of the article with the main review in the bottom half. The bottom half of the page contains the article itself as well as

Production Schedule

A production schedule has been uploaded by my partner, Sam Thomas, for this week.

Schedule for Filimg

This has been made to give us both an idea of where we should be in the filming process and takes into accounts dates when we are not available.

Casting/Costume

All casting has been sorted and organized by us.
The costumes have been/will be organised by my partner, Sam Thomas.

There will be two protagonists in our film. The rest of the cast will be filled up with extras which have been sorted out as friends and other actors have agreed to help out where-ever they can.

One of the protagonists will be the 'Blue Man' he is never named but this is what people have come to call him. He will be portrayed by my partner, Sam Thomas, and will be dressed in a work-style uniform (white shirt, black ties, working trousers, black shoes blazer and a hat) over a blue Morphsuit.
He is too look like a busy business man, with not much time on his hands and will be holding a newspaper under his arm.

Our main protagonist will be portrayed by Ben Gibson. He has had acting experience when he was younger as well as in my AS coursework film and he is also available whenever we are as his school timetable is roughly the same as ours and is also a friend of ours and will happily give up free time to work on the film. He is of a normal stature and is what we see as the average teenage boy. He is 17 years old and is middle class.
The costume for this character will be basic clothing. He will most of the time just be wearing a leather coat, jeans and a t-shirt.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack for the film will be almost, if not entirely composed by me and my partner, Sam Thomas.
We will be using the Garageband software. We both attended a workshop on composing music in Garageband at the recent Coop Young Filmmakers Festival.

I recorded the music for the film by initially making a drum track out of loops in Garageband at school.

I then took this home and played around on guitar trying out different chord sequences until I was happy with them.

When I was ready to record I used a program called Tracktion and imported the drum track into there before using a piece of hardware called a Stealthplug to record the lead, rhythm and bass guitars over the top, using another piece of software called Amplitube to apply filters for different sounds.

The product of this resulted in a song which we felt wouldn't really fit in our own production but which was donated to a fellow student, Holly Davy.

Our own production required a slower sort of track so I went back into Garageband and made a slower, more jazzy drum track before settling on just using bass for a more lazy "just woken up" feel.