Props

We didn't use many props in our clip, and when we did, they were either household items or a few items of clothing.

A list of the props we used in our clip:

1 Plate, 1 Knife, a Kettle,  a mug, a picture, a chair, a table, some scarves representing a football team and a flat screen TV.

Props are an important aspect of films, they can help the actors tell the story in more detail, they can also be used to represent the character or to tell us more about them e.g a picture of the character and his familiy can tell us what he has lost/to lose, or war medals can tell us the horrors he/she has seen.

Costumes

This aspect of our clip was quite important as the actors needed to look the part. We asked our actors to wear casual or urban clothing, or even the colours of a local football team. We asked this because the theme of our film was the violence that existed between fans of rival teams e.g Nottingham Forest and Notts County. On the day we started filming, there was an obvious trend, Hoodies, it worked though, as when everyone put their hoods up, you couldn't see their faces, making them look more dangerous.

Actors

For our film we had to decide who we wanted in the film, so we went about asking anyone and everyone if they would be willing to appear in our short clip. In the end we only got 3 people to 'star' in our clip that were not a part of our group.
Our actors were:

Jake Afford, Harry Smith, Harry Edwards, Joe Clough, Ben Hall, Evan Jones (I believe) and myself.

Out of those actors, Ben, Jake and Evan were the three actors who were not part of our team originally.


Jake and Evan acted in the night time scene with Harry S, Harry E, Joe and myself, where two groups were approaching eachother and Ben acted in the house scene aswell as Harry Smith and Joe. Harry Edwards was behind the camera with me during the house scene, helping plan out the shots.

Planning on Site

As we did not do much planning before starting our filming we had to improvise and plan on site. When we arrived at the filming location we had to plan which shot we wanted to use when we needed to use it. For example, when we needed an intiial shot we just got Joe to put two rashers of bacon into the pan. To conclude, I would have liked to have done more planning so that our final product was better than it turned out to be.

Building upon plans

As we lacked any sort of storyboard or scipt we just improvised most of the clip. When we got to Harry.E's house we were able to better visualise what we wanted to film for the clip. During this section of our clip we soon realised that this was not looking like a thriller, but I tried to assure the group that this was only the introduction to the film, some thrillers are not easily identifiable as thrillers in there opening minutes, for example a scene in 'Lost Highway' where the main character is in his luxury home which is very well lit and clean, the only indicator of the film's genre is the myserious doorbell.

Brainstorming

Once we had decided our groups, Harry.E, Harry.S and I set out in deciding what we wanted to do with our two minute intro task. After a while of bouncing ideas off one another, Harry.E had an idea of a football hooligan thriller. As he described it more and more it started to sound better and better. The only issue was, 'How can we make this a thriller?' As far as planning went, we made a quick write up of the plot, characters, props and roles within the development of the clip. I nominated myself and Cinematographer as that is the field in which I have the most experience.

The following lesson (Wednesday) I was absent as I was at an open day and Lincoln Uni and I was disappointed to learn that no further planning had been made, such as a script or a storyboard meaning we were going into this blind and making it up as we went along.