Storyboard - first draft

Completing our task sheet

Today we should have received emails back from the Bath film office to confirm whether or not we can use the locations that we had decided on. However, Jenni who was in charge of this was not in today due to being ill. So we had to compromise and do the things we were able to do and print them out. We completed the film treatment, printed out the analysis of three short films and a list of props and costumes that we will need. Without the emails we cannot complete the following, our new storyboard, printing out the emails sent and received from the Bath film office, an updated printout of our locations plan and a detailed shooting schedule.

Jo has suggested that she tries to get hold of the Bath film office so they can resend the emails to one of our email addresses.This would be great as we could then complete the above.

20th November Lesson

Continuing with our new film project we finalized our ideas for the story and created a rough storyboard with camera angles and techniques we may use. We also finalized our ideas for the locations and filled in a Bath film office permission file and sent it off to Jenny and Rachel at the Bath film office. This will let us know if it will be ok to use the locations we have chosen and whether or not we will have any difficulty with filming where we would like too. We have decided that the best locations to show off the ‘other side’ of bath are Helting close near Bath Spa, Railway Close tunnel near the railway station, Walcot street staircase leading to Roman Road, Sydney Gardens riverside, The Royal Crescent, The Circus, Laura place fountain and the new Southgate Shopping centre. All of these locations offer all aspects of modern day life and architectural past times. Our first scene is to be of a couple in love in the past and the rest of our scenes are about the woman looking for her lost love and her being trapped in the present day. We decided as a group that these locations will hopefully give the gothic look by using the amazing architecture we have found around the city. As this is a type of advertisement for the city of Bath we came up with the idea of using different camera angles and shots to show off the city in the background whilst we tell our story.

13th November - writing film treatments, locations scouting session

Unfortunately I was not present at this lesson as I had come down with the flu. However, my team mates worked efficiently and were able to continue without me. They had to come up with locations for our filming, which are as follows:

• Alleyway by Bath spa
• Steps opposite Domino's
  
• Top of Walcot street stairs
• stairs by Pultney bridge
• Southgate
  
• Tunnel by train station
  
• River by Sydney gardens
  

6th november lesson

This was our first lesson with the film company 'Suited and Booted'. We were introduced to the lovely Sara Strictland who told us about what her role in 'Suited and Booted' is and what our project will entail. We also met Jenny and Rachel from the Bath film office and they gave us information about how production companies went about closing roads and setting up locations around Bath. After being introduced to our project we went off into our groups and thought about initial ideas for our films. I was put in a group with Jenni, Jack and Daisy. Our project is to make a 3 minute film advertising the 'Other side' to Bath. This means to advertise the Gothic aspect of Bath rather than the Georgian side of the city.

As a group we thought up a lot of different initial ideas. in the end we decided to base our film on the idea of a woman trapped in time. Basing our film on Love to get across the romantic aspect of the city. The ideas we came up with are:

• A woman trapped in time and lost her love.
  
• We want to make it elegant.
• Having period costume clashing with modern day clothing.
• Using the weather to get across the atmosphere.
• Black and white silent movie - not slapstick.
• The costume for the woman will be red and this will be the only colour in the film.
• Romantic piano music in the background.
  
• All films will be filmed in a different location advertising the architecture and gothic side of Bath.
  
• The film will also include captions throughout to tell the story - this makes it accessible for people who are unable to use sound on the computer.