Planning 3

After doing this research we felt confident enough to proceed with ideas that we had. The main ones we had were

a drug meeting
a spy breaking into a house
a meeting over a botched bulgary from a high security facility
a soldier being hunted by a psychotic sniper.

We decided to attempt at briefly filoming each one so we could get a good idea of how it would work and also which one would be best place to offer us the oporunities to use a large number of camera shots and editing but while staying within our chosen genre. After doing brief filming attenpts and basic story boards for each one of our ideas we noticed that some of them would be very difficult to do. The first idea that we decided to cut was the soilder being hunted by a sniper we felt that although the story line fits in with the sub genere and it would give us the oppurtunity to us a number of diffrent media devices we felt that we could not accuratley portray the film sequence for the simple fact of time. Another problem with this idea was that one of our actors injured himself during filming and this persuaded us that it may be to dangerouse to get good shots. it also led to us creationg a risk assessment so we would not injure ourselves further.

The next idea that got cut was the meeting over a botched burgulary job, this was because we felt that we could not get a disent location to film and also we could not rely portray to the audience what the meeting was about and this may lead them to lose interest in the film sequence.

After cutting theese 2 ideas it left us with 2 strong possibilities

the first was a drug meeting and the second was a spy breaking into a house. To help us decide we created better more detailed story boards for each idea. We did this so we could get a ruff idea of what we could include in the clip im terms of sound, camra shots and basic story. We then compared the two together and decided that the spy breaking into the house would be the strongest in terms of keeping in the conventions of the sub genere, use of media devices the abilty to adapt the editing to show diffrent pace and the oppurtunity to use a good a variety of camarea shots. We did not choice the drug meeting because we were very limited in what we could achieve in terms off diffrent camera shots and we felt that this lack of variety would hamper our mark and make filming and editing difficult. we also planned and acted each one to see which one worked better and to get a feel of what we could and had to include the filming. After we went through the drug meeting we saw that there was some negatives about the plot in the fact that it was too short.

The next thing that we did after chocing to do the spy idea was to search for suitable locations. We knew that there had to be a house for him to break into , the house also had to have alot of corners and diffrent level objects so we could optimise the surrondings and it waould allow us to use a variety of low and high angel shots. We also thought that the outside of the house should have some treese and places for him to hide and sneak around it was also hoped that the trees would allow us to play with lighting to portray the secrecy and stealth of the spy.

This is the first house we looked at it had some strong and good points about it. The first thing was it had some cover in terms of trees but not rely enough to match our specifications it was also sigted on a busy road and there was alot of passeres by and this would affect our filming

This is the second house we looked at using like the first one it had positives and negatives about it. the main positive was the fact that it was out of the way and thus we would not be interupted by things going by however it is two open at the front so would not rely allow us to use enough camera shots of the spy sneaking up two the house and we decided not to use it

This is the final house we looked at. we felt that it provided

enough cover to allow us to film good shots of the spy. Its appearence was also good because it allowed us to set the kind of sinister mood

and it was this reason that we used it.