Final Film: Rough Cut

We have chosen to upload our rough cut to youtube, this will allow us to receive feed back from our class as well as comparing our progress against other groups.







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Lighting

In our piece we need to think about lighting very strongly. This is due to the type of message which we are portraying across to the audience.

We will make sure our trailer has a variety of different lighting. We will use the contrast of high level and low level lighting to show the mood in each scene. We need to make sure that each one of our shots use natural lighting as it gives the sense of real life which we are trying to portray in our piece.

In areas our piece is shot at night so the clip will only be lit by street light. This is twinned with a flashback which is also dark to show both the difference in time and to give the view that things change at night. This is another idea that our piece is based around.
We want to have the day time shots with high level lighting, this connotes innocence and trust. This is contrasting to the feelings commonly found in low level lighting which gives a sense of mystery and deceit.




During the interview scenes, we want the lighting to be high level. This will give the view of intelligence and the people being trustworthy, this contrasts with the low level lighting found in the drinking scenes. This contrast shows the difference between the social life and times of study with people in university.


Drinking Scene: During the drinking scene there will be dark lighting, this will signify that it is night to the audience. Also through using darkness we submit a feel of rebellion upon our audience.


Outside University Shot: For the shot outside of the university there will only be use of natural lighting. This will show the audience that this scene is happening during the day.

Sam waking up Scene: For this scene the use of natural lighting will be used to shine through the curtains that this character will have closed. This will signify to the audience that this character is lazy as the day time light is shining through the room and the character is still asleep.

Trailer Auditions Film

We recorded our auditions so we could choose what actors we would use in our trailer.


Below are the videos of our auditions:


Character: Jake





Character: Sam






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Final Locations

As a group we have have decided on a different set of locations that would best fit our piece. We need to take different things into consideration such as availability, timings that we would need to film and what settings would be best to achieve the shot that we need. As a group we sat down and worked out what places would suite our piece the best.

We have decided on:

Writtle College:

• This is due to having contacts inside the college. This enabled us to gain letters of approval of filming quicker then we would with any other college. The college also fits with the criteria as it has a large range of different types of buildings ranging from modern to farm houses. This will help us to choose our perfect building to film.

Alex Cockburn's Bedroom:

• We have chosen this setting due to the large amount of space available. This would allow us to achieve the type of shots that we need. This bedroom also gives of the atmosphere that we want as the room is very separate from the rest of the house so we can show how out of sync this character is.

Chelmer Valley High School:

• We have decided to use an office in our school such as the sixth form office. This is because on the walls it has lots of information on universities which would set the scene well. We will also use Chelmer for another shot. This shot will be in a study area, which would give a large contrast to what is going inside it.

Chelmsford Town:

• We want to use a large variety of outside shots as our piece is predominantly inside. This will allow a different angle to the shots which give the feeling that this behaviour is behind closed doors. The use of out door shots in both day and night time will allow us to show that the stereotypical behaviour of teenagers is a wide spread thing and is not being hidden any more.

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Photographic Storyboard

We have created this photographic storyboard. It contains pictures of the type of shots that we would like to achieve in our final piece. We have not included music or transitions as this storyboard has the sole purpose of showing what shots and angles we need to include in the piece and the atmosphere we would like to create.





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Shot list for Soap Opera trailer

We have created a shotlist so when filming we can refer to it. This way we will make sure we will not miss any shots. This will help us save time by making sure we have all the shots that we could need. This will help us to save time in the future.

shot list



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Location scouting

We needed to consider Locations for where we can film our Soap opera trailer. We needed to think about the mise-on scene of the location and even take lighting into consideration.

As a group we decided to try to find a H.E college which would fit in with the storyline that we have planned. We want to find a modern looking building which have large windows which would allow us to zoom into the window and allow natural lighting to be used in the interview scene.We would like to film in a local university or college, we have approached a number of these and are currently waiting for confirmation.

We have a shot of a boy in a bed waking up late, this would need to be filmed in a quite large room due to the camera angles that we need to achieve. We have a number of places to choose from for this setting. Each of the members of this group have bedrooms that would suite the emotions that we would want to portray.

We have thought about where to film our piece. This has given us the opportunity to figure out what settings we would like to find for future reference.


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