The Retrograde.

Of course, every film has a title. The title of the film could be the name of the main character, the event, or something completely different.

We wanted our film title to be the name of the event that the government perform. To achieve this we thought of ideas such as wipe, restart and amnesia. We thought these were too predictable so we typed these into the thesaurus and went through a lot of words to see which fitted the most.

We stumbled upon "The Retrograde" and to cut a long story short, this is now our film title. 

The Tense Call.

Costumes, Props and Make-up

Costumes, Props and Make-up

We chose to have our main character, Lewie, wearing jeans and a top/coat for most of our filming. This is because we want him to look like any normal teenage boy. Also we thought that it would be much easier for him to wear something like this, that he always wears anyway as it would help continuity. If his outfit was very complicated and he needed vast amounts of make-up and props, each time we filmed, it would not look exactly the same and then there would be major continuity errors.

Planning our cast and location.

Cast (order of appearance):
•Boy: Max Boyden 
•Host girl: Hannah Rae 
•Girls friend: Bee Williamson 
•Party goers: Ross, Conor, Jak, Joseph, Sam, Katie, Hannah,Bee, Georgia, Tiffany, Lucie, Alice, Georgia, Tamsin, Beth, Grace, Holly, Sam MS
•Girls other friends: Tamsin, Beth, Grace, Holly 
•Boys friend: Lewie? Jack Cutler? 
•Government 1: Jak's dad? Tiffany's dad? 
•Government 2: Jak's dad? Tiffany's dad? Tom from year12? 
•Chat room people; Boy x3, girl x2 

Location Bookings:
•School corridor 
•Drama studio 
•Bedroom 
•Canteen 
•Area for boy talking to friend 
•Government screen scene 
•Bedroom again with computer

Progress.

Our progress and our next three steps... 

Script.

As our trailer includes a lot of dialogue, we felt it would be sensible to create a script to follow so that we keep on the right lines and are focused. The stage directions also act as a guide to our storyline.

Storyboard.

This is our first storyboard for our film trailer. To suit the genre we decided to throw in moments of action and tension to increase suspense and also to speed up the pace of the trailer to reflect the genre.

Inspirations.

These are our inspirations for our film trailer. 

Location and Props.

Location (School Scene)

- This scene will be done at the Weald of Kent School. The reason we chose this is because it is our school and will be easy to film there once quiet.

- The corridor and walk ways at the school are perfect for the trailer as they seem clean and when we see the students walk out of there lesson it will be easy to fill up the corridor

- When the boy gets embarrassed in front of everyone we will film this in the school canteen as this is a very stereotypical place to have this humiliation

Location (Party Scene)

- The party scene could also be filmed at Weald in the drama studio as we could flash lights of different colours and get a group of people to fill up the room and dance so it looks like a house party

·   - If we decide we don’t want to film this at school we can use an actual house and with clever camera angles and shots we could make it look like there are more people at the house then there actually is

Location (Friends talking scene)

- Because we are linking this scene to the school canteen scene, we have to ensure that the backgrounds of both these scenes are the same colour.

·   - A white wall will work the best as you wont notice the cut in the scene

·   - For this we will have to find a white wall or something similar to the colour of the school canteen

Location (Government Scene)

- We need to film this scene in a room without windows

·   -  We will need a big enough wall in which we will stick green card on the walls for the green screen effect

·  - The lighting needs to be perfect as the men need to be blacked out and the green screen needs to have enough lighting, this will be hard to film

Props:

·      Folders

·      Phones

·      Alcohol

·      Cups

·      Shot glasses

·      Lights

·      Music

·      Canteen trays/food

·      Green card

·      Guns

·      Cars