Posters using our Lead Singer

These are the two posters i created to use in our pop video. The two posters are designed to show the contrast between the 60's and modern.

The poster on the left shows a modernistic design

The one on the right shows a more 60's retro design.

Shooting Schedule

8:30am Cast (Band) meets in No10
- get into costume + make-up
9:00am Shoot starts in the Studio

- band performance (60’s)
10:00am Studio
- audience (60’s)

10:30am Studio

- transition from 60’s into modern (audience)

11:00am Studio
 - modern audience

11:30am Studio
 - TRANSITION

1:00pm LUNCH BREAK

- meet back at 1:45

2:00pm Studio/Corridor

- Paula walking through corridor (both versions)

3:00pm Studio

- missing shots of Paula

3:30pm BEDROOM

- SET - UP

4:00pm Bedroom

- getting ready shots

4:30pm OUTSIDE

- SET - UP

5:00pm Outside

- entering shots

5:30pm INSIDE

- TV zoom in


still needed: Blue screen for TV + Hugo Presenter Shots !!

Some commen views of music stardom

Drug Abuse

A DISREGARD FOR SOCIAL VALUES RELATING TO DRUGS, SEX AND POLITE BEHAVIOUR

agression/anger

Creativity/Talent

Our Star Image

Our star is Jack Thompson. he is an organic artist being nurtured by the record company. he needs to be presented as talented and artistic. like John Mayer or Paolo Nutini. he is the 'Good Guy'

Our camera

Marconi V322
Period: from the beginning of 1960's to the end of 1970's
Type: Broadcast TV cameras
Quantity: 2 specimens available

Not strictly a 'broadcast' camera, but certainly a quality vidicon camera. The V322 was intended for industrial and educational studio applications and saw widespread use with educational bodies and in corporate training/promo facilities. Not to mention a few broadcasters too! The camera appears here on a 'Dennard' pedestal. Click on the image to see the reverse aspect.

This is the camera that we found on goldenagetv and I have contacted Paul Marshall and he said we could pick it up in Sessex for our shoot day for about 150 pounds.

we have sent an email to Paul Marshall, and he has come back to us and said he needs some form of definite proof that we are ordering it. we have sent him a formal letter with our request to buy, when we will pick it up and how we will pay.

we ended up not being able to afford this camera and so we created a replica camera that looked realistic through the blurry lens

Organizing Costumes for Cast

This is the final version of our Pop Video Cast

Will Teal - Lead Singer

Tom Evans - Guitar

Sam Hindmarsh - Bass

Jamie Parker - Drums

Glen Pegado - Bongos

Paula Riemann - Lead Girl

Helen Lageder, Courtney Madincea, Tabitha Brown, Emma Stack - Audience Members

The shoot day is the 25th of November and we will send you the shooting schedule as soon as it is finished. Please come with you hair undone so we can then do it for you. You'll be given costumes for when you should look like you are 60's, however when you are meant to look modern we were hoping that you have your own clothes.

If you are a member of the band please, as a modern outfit, wear normal shoes (not white), dark jeans and bring a "good" looking t-shirt and a white shirt in. If you are an audience member pease wear whatever you would wear if you were going to a concert of a rock band. If you are the lead girl (Paula) please wear your biker boots, skinny jeans (either dark blue or black) and bring in about 5 different tops you would wear at a rock concert so we can then decide what looks best.

As well as this for the boys and the audience members, we will sort out 60's outfits which you will have to try on, so please send me an e-mail telling me when you have some free time (probably just about 10 minutes) so that we can see whether it fits and looks good or not. Please also send me a mail with your shoe and clothing size.

Thanks already, I hope you are looking forward to the shoot and thanks for being in it.

Steph, Emma and Chazz

Idealologies of the Music Industry

Keith Negus has published a book, called "Producing Pop". These are some of the best quotes from the book.

"What I'm looking for is the working act. The real act. The act that can get up on stage and do it. That act will give you a career. I signed Black Sabbath umpteen years ago; they are still making records. These are acts that are career acts... Two years ago I started a dance label... Now that's not a career orientated label. I mean those records are non-off situations and every now and again maybe you'll get an artist come out of it." "When I first started it was more about going out and finding bands. That method is becoming more and more redundant. More and more these days I find it's as much about: I sit here and think "there's really a gao in the market for this kind of project...".

I don't go out to gigs. That's not how I find my stuff. It comes through various writers and producers. So if a writer comes in he may have some great songs and maybe is looking for a front person. Or maybe I have the front person who I want to launch into the market but I haven't got the songs. So you put the two together."

Keith Negus identifies two distinct ways of thinking about potential artists from within the music industry. These ideologies shape the way in which the artists' images and careers are developed, and the way that they are marketed towards specific target audiences. The organic ideology of creativity and the synthetic ideology of creativity.



THE ORGANIC IDEOLOGY OF CREATIVITY


...is a naturalistic approach to artists. Furthermore the seeds of success are within the artists, who have to be "nurtured" by the record company. The image of the artist is "enhanced" by the record company and the artist is given time to envolve and progress through their career.


Emphasis is given to album sales and the construction of a successful back catalogue. This is often aimed at older or more sophisticated consumers. Profits generated by this kind of act tend to be part of a long term strategy by the record company.







THE SYNTHETIC IDEOLOGY OF CREATIVITY

A combinatorial approach to artists and material. Executives attempt to construct successful acts out of the artists and the songs at their disposal. The image of the artist is often constructed by the record company. The artist will be given a short time to prove their success before other combinations will be tried out. Emphasis is given to single sales and to promoting first albums. Often aimed at younger, less sophisticated audiences. Profits generated by this kind of artist tend to be part of an immediate, short term strategy by the record company.

BALANCING THE TWO

In practice, the success of synthetic acts will fund the development and investment in organic acts. Most big record labeld will look at balance their roster with a combination of successful synthetic and organic acts to ensure that there are funds available for the day-to-day running of the company as well as long term profit making potential.

PROMOTING ORGANIC AND SYNTHETIC ACTS

--> There are clear distinctions between the ways in which different types of artists are represented to ensure short term or long term success. Organic acts are often sold on their "authenticity", both musically and socially. The image of the artist appears "unconstructed" (although, of course, this is in itself a carefully constructed look). Synthetic acts are often sold on their "look" or personalities. The image of the artist is carefully and unashamedly constructed.

Props List

Microphone (60's - modern)
Bass (60's - modern)
Guitar (60's - modern)
Drums (60's - modern)
Bongos (60's - modern)

These instruments in 60's style and modern version are provided and organized by the school. We want these to change as well because that will signify very clearly that we are changing time.

60's TV Camera

--> We will rent that for about 100 £ for our video.

Posters for the corridor

--> We will take pictures of people (and ourselves) plus the band (Jack Thompson and the Quartet) and then, with the help of the photography department print these of and make them in a 60's style to use for the corridor in our music video.

Cast List

Lead Singer: Will Teal
Guitar: Tom Evans
Bongos: Glen Pegado
Drums: Jamie Parker
Bass: Sam Hindmarsh

Main Girl: Paula Riemann

Audience Members: Helen Lagender, Courtney Madinca, Tabitha Brown,
Emma Stack

TV Presenter: Hugo Ellis

Bodyguard: James Tunstill, Adam Grant

Camera Man: Jason Guildford

This is the Cast for our Production. We had to find a Cast that could, especially in case of the band, look very 60's (hairstyle) but easily be made modern. With the lead singer being Will Teal we found someone perfect even though he is A2 so it was very hard to get him out of lessons, but he has the perfect hairstyle and look for the video. The rest of the band kind of fits that description as well and most of them play the instruments they are meant to play in the video which will probably make things easier. The audience members were chosen simply because of looks and availability and the bodyguards as well because they both look pretty scary and stereotypical. We chose Hugo as our TV presenter, because he has the kind of look as well and as he is my drama teacher I know he will be perfect doing it.

Storyboarding

our initial idea was allways that we would take inspirations from early 60's-70's videos, sometimes done in TV studios. we ran with this idea and decided we would set our band in a 60's television stuido, using 60's filming techniques such as long, mid shots of individual band members and long wide shots of the overall band and the audience. However, we decided that this wasnt enough to maintain the momentum of our video, and so we decided to incorporate inventions of the 60's that would still be relevant today into our video.
we played with the idea of adding a MINI car driving the band around to add some movement, because it was invented in the 60's and is still used today, but we ditched that idea after we decided it would be too difficult to film with all the different locations. We then realised we could incorporate different elements of fashion, i.e 60's fashions that were becomeing more popular today.

in order to add some different elements of colour and texture to the video, we thought about blue screening the instruments and having different images of 60's and modern day on the instruments. we also thought we could have cutaways of fans signing the instruments and having them change their patterns gradually as the video progressed, but we decided it would be very difficult and expensive to buy bluescreen paint and it may look blurry or not work at all. this is because we may have shadows on the instruments which would create different shades of blue and it wouldnt work properly.

we realised the video needed some contrast and development, so we came up with the idea of filming the first section in black and white, sticking to the tv studio performance idea, and then introducing a girl dressed in modern clothing during the contrasting part of the music. in this section everyone would still be in black n white except her.

the girl would then slowly start to change the the band members into modern clothing and the video would progress like that until, climaxing at the end of the song when the audience and band members are all in modern dress and colour.

Copyright letter to Label

To the copyright holder

We are a group of A Level students working on an A Level project for a qualification in Media Studies. We are writing to reqyest permission to use the following track as part of this project:

"For Your Love" by John Rzeznik/The Yardbirds

With your permission the track would be used as the accompaniment to a short form video that is made purely for assessment purposes and will have no commercial usage. The video will be viewed only by members of the school community and the assessor of the examination board.

The artist and the copyright holder will of course be fully recognised in the pre-production and evaluation material that accompanies the project. We can also include a full copyright notice if required both in the planning material and on the video itself.

Yours sincerely

Charles Douglas Hiett
Hurtwood House School

Chosen Cover Track

The John Rzeznik version of "For Your Love" by the Yardbirds

Artist Profile

Our artist is Jack Thompson and The Quartet

Our Target Audience

Our audience is the mainstream 15-25 year olds still in education or just finished. however we have a secondary audience of people who have lived through the 60's-70's or people who have previously like the rock n roll genre.

Our Record Label

today it is the 5th of november and we havent had a reply from MetalBladeRecords

Institutional Context

The artist we created, Jack Thompson, was born in New York City in 1991 into a working class family. He started writing his own songs and playing guitar when he was 9 years old. After a brief period trying to make it as a solo artist, playing the bar and club circuit when he was just 16 with music similar to The Kinks and more modern Paolo Nutini influences, he was seen by chance by the producer of a heavy rock band called, 'The Clocks'. Jack was frontman to the clocks for allmost three years, in which time he gain in popularity with the young male and female population of america. after this He broke with 'The Clocks' to persue a solo career. He is now gaining in popularity with the british audiences, portraying himself as a charming musician similar to Paolo Nutini and John Mayer, who are both very popular in britain.

Jack's infulences include both modern mainstream pop music and classic rock n roll bands such as the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks and Cream. His contemporary competitors are both solo artists such as Paolo Nutini, John Mayer and Newton Faulkner and some bands such as Nickelback, Band of Skulls, The Libertines, The Klaxons and other pop/rock bands that appeal to similar audiences.

The genre of music he plays helps to shape his star image because we associate classic rock and alternative rock with a more masculine artist, possibly a sex symbol. Jack fits this stereotype, but also distorts it slightly as he does have a more femine aspect too him than a generic rock band frontman, this helps him to appeal to a wider audience.

comercially we wish to represent Jack as a real 'Artist'. As his music stresses the use of guitars, we want to show that he has real passion and skill, moreso than the stereotypical pop/rock band. this means we can appeal to both a mainstream audience in that he is a sex symbol and plays popular alternative rock, but can also appeal to a more niche audience, who appreciate skill and artistry with guitars and music.

Jack is signed to Metal Blade Records, a sub company of Warner Bros. Other acts who are signed to Metal Blade include Daniel Powter, Lilly Allen, Jasen Derulo and Mika. All of these are solo artists who have had great success in the UK. As Warner Bros is both horizontally and vertically intergrated i.e it owns companys across all areas of music production, distribution and promotion, Jack has a very good chance of becomeing a succesful solo artist with them. However, the label may decide to push Jack towards making more and more mainstream music, which may alienate his niche auidences, but in general, Metal Blade are very experienced and good at what they do and so provide a good,strong base for Jack.

Who are the Bands/Artists Audience.

Gender: Both male and female

Age: 15- 35

Ethnicity: White

Education: Basic, possibly highly educated for the Niche audiences

Class: Low to Middle

Sexuality: Straight

The typical fan would either be still in or recently out of education, living in low to middle class areas, and would consume other media products such as live concert DVD's, Fan shirts and music television. they may listen to different alternatives of alternative rock, blues rock and classic rock.

Initial Ideas

in our first few sessions, we talked about our initial ideas.

We decided on the idea of reconstructing a realistic 60's tv studio, with everything in black and white, with period costumes, 60's audiences with costume and hairstyles and we looked into the behavior of 60's audiences. we started off looking for an appropriate genre to use.
we decided on a genre of 60's-70's rock n roll, things like the beatles and the yeardbirds. we eventually, after considering things such as the Kinks and the Beatles, decided on a song by an early 60's band and the Yardbirds, Covered by a recent artist John Rzeznik. we decided on this version because it needed to sound modern and recent so that todays audiences would listen to it.

after we decided the song we could develop our ideas further. we thought that doing the whole video in a 60's style would get boing after a while, so we thought it would be good to add some movement to the video. so we thought about iconic 60's symbols. We thought the MINI is generically 60's so we had the idea of the band or audience members cruising around in a modern MINI.

we also thought about showing the story of the lyrics in the song, somehow showing how either the singer could show his love for a girl or maybe an audience member being obsessed with the singer.

Our Production Group

Star Image

Targeting an Audience

Conventions of Magazine Advertising

Conventions of Album Artwork

Conventions Of The Video Promo

A look At Sub Genres

Background to the Music Industry

Advanced Production Portfolio

Audience Reactions

Shahla - Interesting stroyline, and i like the fact it was done on a mobile phone it added to the dramatic effect.

Ross - I enjoyed the way all of the cameras were timed to play at the same time. And i liked the idea of using phones to create a realistic feeling.

George - I think it is really clever how you used different camera angles, and mobile phones, all shown at the same time. I like the special effects.

YouTube comments:
hurtwoodhousemedia i really like the idea its different!!! well done
fatboy22222222222222 reminds me of elephant which is a proper good film just like this one
stephaniemareen Great idea - reminds me a little of the movie "rec". However i really like the idea and the way in which it is edited.

Preliminary Task AS

Task 1 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products

1. In this first shot, it is clear that our film doesn’t conform to the regularities of title sequences. You would expect to see it on full screen, but instead we use only a section with a shaky shot filmed on a camera phone, which is unusual by today’s standards compared with Hollywood films, which would be shot steadily on a high resolution camera.
2. Introducing yet another screen breaks conventions completely. It asks the audience to take in two different pieces of action at the same time, which is unusual as title sequences are mostly simple credits and a gentle introduction to the film.
3. Adding 2 more screens asks the audience to take in too much at a time in any detail, so the audience picks out the parts which are important to them. This means that the audience start to care about the characters. We chose Film Four as our production company. All title sequences have the Production Company in the titles.
4. The actual titles in the sequence conform to the regular order, introducing our main actor first, but we decided to keep the title font simple in so as not to overwhelm the audience.
5. Introducing the name of the director after the actors is a tradition in title sequences.
6. Continuing with split screens after the credits finish subverts the traditions of title sequences, usually the action would concentrate on one full screen, but continuing on several screens means that the audience doesn’t lose concentration and keeps engaged with the different characters. It also lets the audience focus completely on the action without being distracted by the titles. And gives the audience a chance to realise its one coherent moment filmed from different angles.
7. Adding a fifth screen shocks the audiences, and the tension that is built in the period before the shooters are introduced is released. When the screen is introduced it changes the action so suddenly the audience will be horrified at the realism of the events. This further subverts the normalities of title sequences. Usually it gives you some warning to what’s going to happen, but in our film, the audience is dropped straight into the action.
8. The end of the title sequence both conforms and subverts audience expectations. Though it shocks the audience with its brutal realism and unexpected horror, it brings an end to the title sequence when the two girls are shot at the end, and leaves the audience wanting more, and leaves questions to be answered. the fact that the dead bodies are left on their own screen after they die leaves the audience disgusted and horrified by the realism, yet encourages uncomfortable voyeurism.
9. The last part of the sequence conforms to the tradition of cinema today, by showing the title of the film in the last shot. It leaves the audience asking questions and builds tension and drama regarding the film to come.

Task 2 How does your product represent particular social group

Our film specifically represents 2 social groups. One of them being teenagers. As the teenagers are the victims in our film, we wanted the audience to relate to them, connect with them, and sympathise with them. So rather than represent them in a negative stereotypical way i.e violent, rude and grimy, we decided to focus more on the positive aspects such as fun loving, full of life, young and friendly. For example we showed this through the shot of Suleiman rapping. We directed him to do a freestyle rap for part of the take, with his friends around him cheering and laughing. Another shot of the girls downstairs in gentle conversation about a music festival also shows the positive side of the characters. This dissipates our target audience’s apprehensions of a negative stereotype and starts to make them care about the characters, which is essential if we want an emotional reaction from the audience when they are shot.

If you compare our film to Elephant, another teen based movie that deals with mass killing, we see that teenagers in general are represented in a similar way. They are represented in either a neutral or positive way by the use of their casual playful conversation, most of it improvised, much in the same way our film uses it. Elephant’s director Gus van Sant told the actors in the film to improvise their dialogue during some of the scenes. We also used this technique to make it more naturalistic.

Elephant also represents teenage mass killers. During the murder scene in Elephant, the killers are represented very coldly and negatively but not in an obvious way. They say almost nothing and show no expression, the same way our actors do in our thriller. This distances the audience from the characters and forces them to connect with the action happening, there are no so called hiding places for the audience, they are thrust right into the middle of the theme of the movie.

The representation of teenagers in our film contrasts with that of other media products such as newspaper tabloids. They usually focus on the violence of teenagers, knife crime and mugging etc. We challenge that, and try to show the majority population of decent and positive teenagers, and not focus in on the violent minority like newspapers do. We felt that the newspapers don’t accurately represent teenagers and in essence glamorise gun crime and violence.

Task 3 What kind of Media Institution Might Distribute your media product and why?

The type of film i have produced is ideally suited to being made and distributed by a small independent British film studio such as Warp Studios. Warp Film Studios is a small, well established and respected studio based in Yorkshire. Originally they started off as a record label, and so make their own film soundtracks; they then expanded to start producing such films as This is England and Donkey Punch. The films they tend to produce are low budget British films with new up and coming directors, often dealing with social realism and gritty storylines.
This is the kind of studio i see producing Hollow Point. Warp would most likely be interested in my film as it is low budget, dealing with real life events and social realism. They are experienced in producing these genres of movie and distributing them. For example, when distributing This is England in America, they realised that the film wouldn’t necessarily to American audiences as the film is about British history and culture. Warp studios decided to make the American trailer focus more on the storyline of Shaun, and his rite of passage into adulthood, whereas they stuck with the British culture and history campaign in England.
When producing small films such as Hollow Point, Warp often platform release it. Releasing it slowly in specific cinemas build’s up the hype for the film. Word of mouth advertising is powerful in selling these films as they don’t have the budget for large scale saturation campaigns. Also they focus more on selling the DvD’s as the box office sales may not guarantee a profit.
This understanding of the distribution and production of small movies would help make our product well known to the target audience and make sure our film was produced properly and professionally.

Task 4 Who would be the audience for you meida product

Our film deals with real life events, such as the Columbine Massacre, and centres on a sixth form college. Therefore it makes sense that our film would appeal to younger people still in education, and anyone else who was affected by the horrific events.

The product we have created contains characters mostly within the 15-25 year old age group, and so that mean that an audience of a similar age would be able to connect to the action in the film more easily. And also our film contains action and gun violence, which means that the males in the audience would be more interested in it.

Though our film does contain gun action, it is not done in a way that glamorizes it, like other big budget Hollywood films do, but it deals with it in a realistic way and encourages uncomfortable audience voyeurism. Because of the deeper questions and real life events that it deals with, there is no reason that an older audience would not be interested in this film. Hollow Point is a smaller film, and
so the audience would probably have to read newpapers or other articles similar to broadsheets. This means that the 15-25 year old and older audience is probably, educated and interested in current affairs.

our film has more of an Arthouse film feel to it, because it deals with serious issues. Therefore our secondary audience may be fans of more independent ‘indie’ films such as Elephant. These fans in turn may be university students still in education with lots of disposable income.

Task 5 How did you Attract/Adress your Audience

Task 5: how we Adressed/Attracted our audience

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Task 6 What have you Learnt About Technologies from the Process of Constructing this Product

Task 7 Looking back at our Preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product

When comparing my preliminary task to my thriller opening, i realise how much I have learnt in regards to filming and editing and the production of films.

Looking back to our preliminary task, I see how much more detail went into the preparation for our thriller. Our preliminary task was very basic. Planned, shot and edited over the course of a week. It was roughly shot without an accurate storyboard and we had put little or no thought into the arrangement of the shot or lighting.

Our Thriller took much more time to prepare, as we had to decide on a concept and storyline, and produce a planned concept folder which included an accurate storyboard and plans for all the cast and locations. The thriller was much more in depth and every aspect of the shoot day had to be addressed, including finding appropriate cast members and giving them details of when and where they had to be on the shoot day.

In the preliminary task we used a basic selection of wide shots, mid shots and close ups to basically show a story using set dialogue. In our thriller we decided that it would be a much more effective storytelling medium to shoot the same moment from different angles on camera phones. We did this to tell the story from different viewpoints, which is something we didn’t consider when shooting our preliminary.

The editing of our preliminary was incredibly basic compared to the editing of our Thriller. Preliminary editing included logging the rush tape and cutting from one shot to the next. No work was done with sound or after effects.

The editing for our thriller was done in much more detail. We used 4 shots of the same moment which played simultaneously beside each other. They were shots of casual conversation between friends in a college. They are very long shots, which means it gives the opening a gentle yet tense mood, and leaves the audience asking questions. These shots reveal very little about the movie and so the audience start to feel comfortable watching the action, and connecting with the characters. When the fifth screen is introduced with the POV shot of the killer, the action changes very suddenly and so shocks the audience and changes the mood to a more fast paced and chaotic one.
The muzzle flashes were added to the guns using After Effects, which we had never used before, and which gave our thriller and much more professional look. The blurry outlines of the camera phone shots was also done in After Effects, it made the screen more visually pleasing and look more professional, it also gave the opening a flashback like feel.

Sound was also a very important part of our thriller, an aspect we didn’t look at during our preliminary editing. The dialogue of our different shots was faded up and down to subliminally draw the audience’s attention to different shots. We did this slowly to make the audience feel as though the sequence is much longer than it is, because they keep noticing different things. Also the sound of the gun shots was very important. They had to sound aggressive enough to break the calm of the action beforehand. We used the last shot of a machinegun burst and edited the EQ so it sounded more aggressive. Then we turned up the volume and recorded onto a mobile phone. We then put the mobile phone version into the thriller. This enhanced the realism of the scene massively as it sounded just as though it was a real gun. We also took sections of the screaming sounds recorded on the shoot day, and added them in in the sections we felt needed more of a panicked and chaotic feel.

We didn’t really use music in our thriller, apart from a low rumble that gradually gets slightly louder. We made it very quiet so the audience would hardly notice, but so they would feel the tension rising.

In regards to our titles, we researched an appropriate distributor for our film, i.e. Film Four. We followed the traditions of title order, starting with the companies that put up the money, then the stars of the film then ending with the director and the films title. The credits were done in a docu-drama style, aimed more at a younger audience, and to make the story more realistic. We decided to make the credits subtle so we wouldn’t draw attention away from the action on screen. We did this by making them fade in and out slowly and using an OTC font. We used the same font throughout.

Everything we did in our thriller was done to target a specific audience, i.e 15-25 year olds, and a more niche audience who are more interested in Arthouse movies. This was reflected in the pacing of our film, our title sequence, our choices of production and distribution companies and our editing processes.

Costume and Props

Props:
2 realistic/fake Uzi’s and 2 realistic/fake pistols – we chose these because it was unrealistic for two teenagers to be able to get hold of two AK47’s or other guns, or rather, it was more likely that they would come by these guns than any others as they are relatively easy too get hold of
4 ammo cartridges for various guns – again we chose these because they are neseccary and easy to obtain
Chair
School dinner meals
Mobile Phones
Costume:
Shooters:
2 Camouflage trousers we chose - these so the shooters would blend into the background
2 black t shirts – we chose these to reflect the menaceing and dark nature of the shooters
2 hoodies – we chose these because it conforms to the typical teenager stereotype
2 pairs of trainers

Account of Location Requirements and how they were found.

We only have one location in which we shoot, the school canteen at the lower end of the school. its a large well lit room with lots of space for different camera angles and as our film is set in a school canteen it is perfect.

We spend alot of time in the canteen and so we know it very well, and along with the reccy photo's we took we decided that the ideal lighting plan would to to use minimal artificial light as we wanted to keep the realsim of camera phones, so we are using some small artificial lights at the back of the canteen where it is darker.

The main sources of light is the large glass doors at the front of the canteen which lets vast aounts of natural light into the canteen. the area around these glass doors is where we are going to shoot.