Call Sheets for Production of "Street Style"

To make sure our cast are organised for all production days, we designed call sheets for the actors and crew for each day we will be filming. This will be given to our actors prior to filming days so they have all information needed to quickly get onto set and begin filming.

Shot List for "Street Style"

We created a shotlist to follow during filming to make sure we get every shot required to make our opening sequence.

Job Roles for "Street Style"

In our opening sequence production, we need to be clear on who performs what role during production. These are the roles, who they are assigned to what these people are required to do.

Cast:

Eliza Wade, Nathan Dorman, Erika Andrejuskinaite, Viktoriya Pavlova

Acting and performing as the main four characters in the opening.

Screenwriter:

Erika Andrejuskinaite

Writing the script for all opening scenes.

Directors:

Erika Andrejuskinaite,Viktoriya Pavlova

Controlling and running the production, deciding how the filming goes and telling the cast how to act.

Casting Directors:

Erika Andrejuskinaite

Deciding what talent to use for the roles in the opening sequence.

Production Designer:

Viktoriya Pavlova

Setting up the locations for filming.

Props Coordinator:

Viktoriya Pavlova

Oragnising the props for filming days.

Costume and Make Up Designer:

Viktoriya Pavlova

Provding make up and costume for the actors that require it.

Camera Operator:

Viktoriya Pavlova, Erika Andrejuskinaite

Filming the shots, making sure to followe the shotlist and storyboard, controlling continuity.

Director of Photography:

Erika Andrejuskinaite

In charge of the cinematogrophy, making ti looking proffesional and fitting for the atmosphere.

Editor:

Viktoriya Pavlova, Erika Andrejuskinaite

Putting footage together to make the opening sequence.

Sound Effects/Music Coordinator:

Viktoriya Pavlova

Mixing audio tracks together to make the appropriate sound for the opening sequence.

Visual Effects Editor:

Erika Andrejuskinaite

Adding in effects and titles in the opening sequence during edit.

Production Schedule for "Street Style"

To make sure we were organised and completed filming before the deadline, we planned our filming days on a production schedule which you can view here:

Risk Assessment and Contingency Plans for "Street Style"

In order to make sure we can safely film our opening sequence, we create a risk assessment and contingency plans in case anything goes wrong. You can view this here:

Storyboard for "Street Style"

For our opening sequence, we created a storyboard which we can work from. For this task, we created a photo storyboard on paper and also an animatic to see how it would come together and look.

This is the photo storyboard:



And this our Animatic:

Script for "Street Style"

This is the script we wrote for the 3 opening scenes we will be including in our opening sequence. It's also a shooting script, including shot types and camera movement so it can be used during production days.

Location Recce

For our film opening, we decided on two main locations in which to film in: a dance studio and an alleyway. Here is the information on the places we chose:

Characters in "Street Style"

In order to make our opening sequence story interesting, we had to make sure we had well written and interesting characters which fitted the drama genre. For this, we did research and decided on what our 4 main characters would be and how they would included in the beginning of the story. We write up information about these characters before putting them into the script and then did short auditions with the actors we thought would fit them best.

These are our 4 characters:

ELEANOR

► Name: Eleanor

► Age: 17

► Gender: Female

► Hair Colour: Light Brown

► Eye Colour: Green/Blue

► Height: 5’4

► Passion: Dance 

► Character: Quiet, Brave, Focused on her goals despite her troubled past.

► Occupation: Student in a dance academy,gets involved with gangs so she can afford dance school

► Friends: Tori (best friend) and other people from her dance class

► Figure: Medium height, thin but healthy body, strong legs, skinnier arms and rather broad shoulders and straight poisture

► Weakness: She is not as strong as she acts and tries to be, breaks down under pressure and falls in a bad place

► Wardrobe: Dark, baggy clothes, dirty shoes, effortless look to show she has given up on impressing people and has bigger problems to worry about

► Accent/Dialect: East London, uses jargon when with the gang, speaks properly with her friends to cover up her background

► Voice: far from high pitched, more developped and reassuring, quiet as if she doesn’t want to be noticed

► Taboos: her family and financial problems

► Motivation: the big dance competition coming up 

► Wishes: winning the dance competition and getting out of her debts 

► Mood: Sad and Paranoid all the time

► Enemies: Jack and Camilla

TORY

► Name: Tory
► Age: 19

► Gender: Female

► Hair Colour: Auburn 

► Eye Colour: Green

► Height: 5’6

► Passion: Making people happy and mentoring the younger dancers

► Character: Happy, Girly, Cheerleader Stereotype, Supports Eleanor and guides her through her problems
► Occupation: Student in the dance school from above, volunteers to mentor the younger years and visit their lessons
► Friends: Gets along with everyone, but has one best friend - Eleanor
► Figure: Tall, Thin, typical ballet dancer figure
► Weakness: Trusts people way too easily, is very innocent which can get Eleanor into trouble when she is not careful
► Wardrobe: Bright coloured crop tops, leggings, tight, trendy clothing, typical girly colours, well done hair and perfectly done makeup
► Accent/Dialect: Normal, teenage english, uses typical teen internet slang, nothing too specific - exactly the opposite of Jack
► Voice: High pitched, speaks fast and excited
► Taboos: She has no taboos … she is an open book
► Motivation: Other people’s happiness

► Wishes: To help her best friend deal with her problems and get her to see the bright side of life

 ► Mood: Happy, cheery no matter how bad the situation is, always excited and wide awake

► Enemies: No direct enemies, dislikes Jack and Camilla because of her best friend

CAMILLA

► Name: Camilla
► Age: 17

► Gender: Female

► Hair Colour: Black and Blonde

► Eye Colour: Brown

► Height: 5’1

► Passion: Causing drama and chaos, defending her gang’s title and boosting her confidence by making others feel bad
► Character: Mean, Violent, ‘Chavy’, disrespectful and challenging
► Occupation: A student in a fashion college, gang leader
► Friends: close with Jack and two girls that always trail behind her, but has no real friends, she is too self absorbed to care about anyone else
► Figure: Short and curvy, small frame but good build to defend herself if she was to get in a catfight.
► Weakness: She is nothing without the gang and Jack backing her up - she is helpless because of the lack of intelligence and common sense.
► Wardrobe: Dark, tight clothing, branded and trendy, takes her appearance very seriously.
► Accent/Dialect: Foreign accent (sounds Spanish), uses same dialect as Jack
► Voice: High pitched, speaks fast when she is angry
► Taboos: Her school grades and her family
► Motivation: Other people’s pain and misery

► Wishes: To put people down in order to feel powerful

► Mood: Either calm and rude or angry and violent

► Enemies: Hates a lot of people but mainly Eleanor

JACK

► Name: Jack
► Age: 19

► Gender: Male

► Hair Colour: Dirty Blond

► Eye Colour: Blue

► Height: 5’10

► Passion: Violence and Harming people

► Character: Short Tempered, street smart, manipulative and confident in his power over people

► Occupation: College Student as far as the country is concerned, Gang Leader
► Friends: Is close with Camilla, his right hand, but has no real friend or people he can trust

► Figure: Tall, looks skinny and normal but has strong legs, healthy and strong enough to fight back if he has to
► Weakness: Gets outsmarted by Eleanor which makes him look stupid in front of his gang and messes with his self esteem
► Wardrobe: Dark, baggy clothes, branded clothing, good planned outfits, has a little bad (pouch) he carries everywhere, his shoes are always clean and well kept, takes very good care of his appearance
► Accent/Dialect: South London, speaks in jargon only, often uses confusing terms to make the audience wonder what exactly he is talking about
► Voice: Deep, emotionless, monotone, as if he can’t be surprised, is always calm and has everything under control
► Taboos: His feelings, opinion on the people around him and anything to do with his family and past
► Motivation: questionable

► Wishes: To get his money back and bring Eleanor down
► Mood: Calm and careless all the time

► Enemies: Eleanor

These are the auditions we conducted:
We also wrote up all the actor information for the actors we auditioned, including parts of the script the auditioned with, which you can view here:

Lighting Workshop

Before we began planning our opening sequence, we took part in a lighting workshop. This was done to teach us skills using lighting and a green screen to broaden our range of skills and allow us to create a more professional look opening sequence.

We got try out three point lighting, where we learnt about using key lights, fill lights, back lights in order to create a smoothly lit, high-key effect. In our opening sequence, we could incorporate this into the happier scenes in the dance studio to create a happy, typical day-to-day effect.

We also tried out low-key lighting using a single light to create a more dramatic effect. From this, we learned about the importance of positioning the spotlight to well light the subject balanced with creating a big enough difference in light and shadows to reflect an eerie and scary mood. In our opening sequence, we could use this type of lighting in the alleyway to create a scary atmosphere and enhance the tension between characters.

Finally, we also learnt how to set up, film and edit together green screen scenes. In this, we were taught about how it is important to light the subjects to not create shadows on the green screen and how to edit together on Premier Pro with the desired background. Using a green screen in our opening sequence may not be as useful but it did allow us to think about being creative with background and also editing effects into our opening, making the sequence look more interesting and exciting.

Audience Research

In our target research, we decided to conduct and interview with some of the target audience we decided was appropriate for our film. We targeted people within group E (specifically students), within the age group of 15-21 year olds. This is what they answered.

Analysis of their answers and conclusions we can make from what was said can be found on our individual blogs

Preliminary Task

Before we began planning and filming our opening sequence, we had to do a preliminary task trying out a variation of shot types and practicing continuity. This is what our group produced.

Costume and Prop Research

To give us ideas for our opening sequence, we looked at possible costume looks and the props we would need for our characters. We created a mood board for each character of possible outfits and also one for props to give us some idea for what we should have for the actors in our opening.

Main Protaganist/Hero - Eleanor

• ripped leggings and shirt, dirty shoes to show that she cares little about her clothes as she has more important focuses in her life
• black and navy colour scheme to indicate she doesn't enjoy being the centre of attention and prefers to be more practical rather than flashy, fitting her personality
• little make up and messy hair to show she is often in a rush and busy, which explains that a lot is going in her life
• sports bag to reflect her passion for dance and to be used as a prop where she will hold the money, influencing the narrative

Helper/Best Friend - Tory

• bright colours to reflect loud personality and wanting to be out there and fun
• comfortable flowing dance outfits to suggest movement and always being on the go and having an adventure
• bright make up and large accessories to make her stand out
• complete opposite to Eleanor's character to reflect how they are very different people that still balance each other out

Antagonist/Villain #1 - Camilla

• black and red to suggest danger for Eleanor's character
• typical gangster style to reflect personality and explain how she will be involved in the plot
• bruising and piercings to show her living the 'street style' and being dangerous and intimidating
• similar to Eleanor's style to suggest a connection

Antagonist/Villain #2 - Jack

• very similar style to Camilla to suggest they work together
• black and grey to suggest darkness and shadowing, which can create a sense of danger
• bruising and dirt to suggest a rough lifestyle
• typical gangster wear to suggest street style and to appear intimidating

Various Background Dancers

• variations of dance appropriate outfits to create a street dance atmosphere
• variation in colour to suggest different personalities and to create a light environment that Eleanor can have fun escaping to
• Baggy and gangster style clothes to link to street style of dancing

Props

• a prop knife, possibly blood for the villains to suggest danger and create a tense atmosphere
• money in a bag to progress the plot and to suggest that Elanor is involved with very serious and scary stuff
• speakers to progress plot by playing music and creating the right atmosphere for a dance studio
• large bright lights to create the dance studio atmosphere and to help light the scene how it would look in real life, creating realism
• a giant dance studio mirror to be used in dance scenes to replicate a dances studio feel and to progress the story

Treatment of Opening Sequence (Short Version)

This treatment is a summary of the first draft we have on the opening sequence. It talks about the original idea of how things will go down and it sums up the key points to it.

Introduction

Hello! Welcome to the group blog for Media Studies at Coombe Sixth Form by us, Vicky and Erika. We've chosen to name our production group "A Work in Progress" and we plan to use it for all work related to our opening sequence coursework project which we are starting work on.

This blog will contain all our planning and production work leading up to the final product of our opening sequence to a drama film. Throughout this process, we also plan to film the making and behind the scenes, which we will then compile into a final video post on this blog, after our final product is posted.

You could find our blogs here:
Vicky's own blog for Media
Erika's own blog for Media

Thanks for visiting and we look forward to showing you the final product!

~ Vicky and Erika