Wednesday 30 March 2016

First Filming Session

On our first day of filming, we managed to film the key scenes that will depict the three main protagonists' faces to help the audience identify them as significant characters. These include stills of the characters' criminal mugshots as well as their criminal records stating all of their previous offences as well as their names and current status from the government's perspective.
We also decided to film a scene depicting a public execution, in which Robert plays the role of a governing official while I play the role of the civilian being executed. This is a significant scene as it shows how oppressed our characters are by governmental status, and how this oppression affects the country as a whole. This is the overall plotline for our film, and so this one scene emphasises that. This also helps to set the scene as our audience can now recognise this as a dystopian society in which the governing bodies dictate over oppressed civilians.

Myself and Harry also went on to film a scene in which the antagonist looks over and signs the documents of the three main characters, however this scene is not canon nor necessarily significant and thus may not be included in the final edit of our sequence.

Brief Changes

Changes to original brief-


Prior to producing the props, we discussed as a group whether there were any details wanted changed from the brief. We eventually decided to change the character names:


We changed 'Damien' to 'Damon' to avoid familiarization to any biblical or anti-biblical figures.
We then changed female protagonist 'Hannah' to 'Anna' to add some uniqueness to her name, as Anna is less common.
Following this, we changed the names of characters 'Rob' and 'Harry' to 'Jared' and 'Sid'. This was because their characters were originally self titled (Robert Conner and Harry Arnold), however we didn't want to appear unprofessional in this sense so decided to give the characters their own titles.
Finally, we changed the antagonist's name entirely from 'General John Reckson' to 'Terrance Samuels', as we all felt that the first name seemed more suited to a sci-fi film.

Friday 4 March 2016

Anna Clarke Criminal Record (prop)


SUSPECT NAME: ANNA CLARKE

 

SUSPECT STATUS: APPREHENDED, IN CUSTODY

 

SUSPECT CURRENT LOCATION: QUEEN ELIZABETH II’S ROYAL PENITENTIARY

 

SUSPECT DANGER LEVEL: YELLOW

SUSPECT IDENTIFICATION NO. 356/826  

 

SUSPECT PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: BLONDE HAIR, BLUE EYES. WHERE APPLICABLE, SUSPECT IS USUALLY SIGHTED WEARING DARK CLOTHING AND SYMBOLS OF ANARCHISM, REVOLT AND DEFIANCE.

RELATIONS TO SUBJECT:

N/A

CRIMINAL OFFENSES RECORD:

ARSON, HOMICIDE [MURDER], GBH, ASSISTED HOMICIDE [MURDER], ASSAULT ON GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, FREQUENT ASSAULT ON LOCAL OFFICERS OF LAW, VANDALISM, ARMED THEFT, DRUG POSSESSION, KIDNAPPING OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE [MURDER].

ALL OFFENSES COMMITTED ON MULITPLE OCCASIONS.

 

 

 

 

SIGNED BY LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND AND WALES, TERRANCE JONATHAN SAMUELS

Jared Rhiner Criminal Record (prop)


SUSPECT NAME: JARED RHINER

 

SUSPECT STATUS: ALIVE

 

SUSPECT CURRENT LOCATION: UNKNOWN

 

TO BE NEUTRALIZED ON SIGHT.

HIGHLY DANGEROUS, IF SUSPECT IS SIGHTED PROCEED WITH CAUTION AND NEUTRALIZE AT LONG RNGE. DO NOT APPROACH SUSPECT.

SUSPECT DANGER LEVEL: BLACK

SUSPECT IDENTIFICATION NO. 356/829  

 

SUSPECT PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: LIGHT BROWN HAIR, GREEN EYES. WHERE APPLICABLE, SUSPECT IS USUALLY SIGHTED WEARING DARK CLOTHING AND SYMBOLS OF ANARCHISM, REVOLT AND DEFIANCE.

RELATIONS TO SUBJECT:

MARGARET JOHNSON, MOTHER
STATUS: DECEASED

AUGUSTUS RHINER, FATHER
STATUS: DECEASED

 

CRIMINAL OFFENSES RECORD:

ARSON, HOMICIDE [MURDER], GBH, ASSISTED HOMICIDE [MURDER], ASSAULT ON GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, FREQUENT ASSAULT ON LOCAL OFFICERS OF LAW, VANDALISM, ARMED THEFT, DRUG POSSESSION, KIDNAPPING OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE [MURDER].

ALL OFFENSES COMMITTED ON MULITPLE OCCASIONS.

 

SIGNED BY LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND AND WALES, TERRANCE JONATHAN SAMUELS

Sid Wright Criminal Record (prop)


SUSPECT NAME: SID WRIGHT

 

SUSPECT STATUS: ALIVE

 

SUSPECT CURRENT LOCATION: UNKNOWN

 

TO BE NEUTRALIZED ON SIGHT.

HIGHLY DANGEROUS, IF SUSPECT IS SIGHTED PROCEED WITH CAUTION AND NEUTRALIZE AT LONG RNGE. DO NOT APPROACH SUSPECT.

SUSPECT DANGER LEVEL: BLACK

SUSPECT IDENTIFICATION NO. 356/828  

 

SUSPECT PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: BROWN HAIR, GREEN/BROWN EYES. WHERE APPLICABLE, SUSPECT IS USUALLY SIGHTED WEARING DARK, LEATHER CLOTHING AND SYMBOLS OF ANARCHISM, REVOLT AND DEFIANCE.

RELATIONS TO SUBJECT:

CHRISTINE WRIGHT, MOTHER
STATUS: ALIVE, CLINICALLY INSANE

AUGUSTUS WRIGHT, FATHER
STATUS: DECEASED

KURT BOCIAN, BROTHER
STATUS: DECEASED

 

CRIMINAL OFFENSES RECORD:

ARSON, HOMICIDE [MURDER], GBH, ASSISTED HOMICIDE [MURDER], ASSAULT ON GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, FREQUENT ASSAULT ON LOCAL OFFICERS OF LAW, VANDALISM, ARMED THEFT, DRUG POSSESSION, KIDNAPPING OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE [MURDER].

ALL OFFENSES COMMITTED ON MULITPLE OCCASIONS.

 

SIGNED BY LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND AND WALES, TERRANCE JONATHAN SAMUELS

Damon Carter Criminal Record (prop)


SUSPECT NAME: DAMON CARTER

 

SUSPECT STATUS: ALIVE

 

SUSPECT CURRENT LOCATION: UNKNOWN

 

TO BE NEUTRALIZED ON SIGHT.

HIGHLY DANGEROUS, IF SUSPECT IS SIGHTED PROCEED WITH CAUTION AND NEUTRALIZE AT LONG RNGE. DO NOT APPROACH SUSPECT.

SUSPECT DANGER LEVEL: BLACK

SUSPECT IDENTIFICATION NO. 356/827  

 

SUSPECT PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: BLONDE HAIR, BLUE EYES. WHERE APPLICABLE, SUSPECT IS USUALLY SIGHTED WEARING DARK CLOTHING AND SYMBOLS OF ANARCHISM, REVOLT AND DEFIANCE.

RELATIONS TO SUBJECT:

CLAIRE ROSE CARTER, MOTHER
STATUS: DECEASED

RICHARD SEYMOUR CARTER, FATHER
STATUS: DECEASED

MELLISA CARLISLE, SISTER
STATUS: DECEASED

 

CRIMINAL OFFENSES RECORD:

ARSON, HOMICIDE [MURDER], GBH, ASSISTED HOMICIDE [MURDER], ASSAULT ON GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, FREQUENT ASSAULT ON LOCAL OFFICERS OF LAW, VANDALISM, ARMED THEFT, DRUG POSSESSION, KIDNAPPING OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE [MURDER].

ALL OFFENSES COMMITTED ON MULITPLE OCCASIONS.

 

SIGNED BY LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND AND WALES, TERRANCE JONATHAN SAMUELS

Props

Props

Due to our character's significant past criminal behaviour, I decided to make this evident in by making conviction mugshots and criminal records for each of the characters. I will post each of the character's criminal records after this post

Tyler Szilagyi AKA Damon Carter




 




Harry Arnold AKA Sid Wright

Robert Conner AKA Jared Rhiner