Costume, Props, Make-up

Here are all the props that are needed:

Costume

Man:

Dark suite with a tie and white shirt

Lotus:

Grey jeans, military boots, black vest top and a leather jacket if possible

Props:

Whisky bottle

Whisky glass

Briefcase

Big knives

Stack of money and fake money (a lot)

Cigars

Ash tray

Drugs (flour in clear bags, pills

Gun

Table

Drinking storage e.g. Silver tray or shelves

Make-up:

Blood

Concealer for both shades

Face paint/ eye shadow

Latex/lash glue

Cotton

Eye liner  

Costumes

Here are the final costumes we will be using:

For Lotus we went for simple, practical clothing. We wanted it to be dark to contribute to the "shadow" idea. Not photographed is the leather jacket she wears which makes her look sleek and classy as well as hard and professional.

As for the "businessman" we wanted him to be in a shirt, tie and suit, formal trousers and formal shoes to connote the ideas of money, greed and dodgy business (which the iconography helps with.) This is shown in the photo above.

Shot log

We made sure we were organised and kept to our schedule by noting down everything on the table.  It also will help us when editing when using time codes. Here are our shot logs:

Shoot Schedule

This is our shoot schedule.  We have planned when we will film each shot throughout our day of production, giving it structure and organisation.  Surely nothing can go wrong now??
Set-Ups:
11:00 Dress Set and Walkthrough
12:00 Sink Setup: 1, 5
12: 20 Knife Setup: 2,
12: 30 Sharpening Setup: 3
12: 40 Radio Setup: 4
12: 50 Kitchen Setup: 6
13:00 Briefcase Setup 1: 7, 8
13: 20 Briefcase Setup 2: 9
Lunch
14:20 Walkthrough setup: 10
14: 30 Long shot Front Room Setup: 11, 25
14:50 Chair Setup: 12, 15,16,19,22
15: 40Drink Setup: 17, 20, 21
16: 10 Headshot Setup: 18, 23, 24
16:40 Picking Up Briefcase Setup: 27, 28, 29
17:10 Money in Briefcase Setup: 13
17:20 Flicking through money Setup: 14
17:30 Glove Setup: 26
17: 40 Outside setup: 32
(Hour allowance means 19:00)
Hollywood:
Hollywood Chair setup: 30
Boss ear to phone setup: 31
Lips Boss Setup: 33
Walk out hotel setup: 34
Walk down Hollywood Boulevard setup: 35

Animatic for opening sequence

Here is the finished animatic for our sequence.  It has really helped us visualise how our final product will turn out, and has enabled us to consider shot duration and timings without yet filming, definitely worth the time doing! One thing we need to change is the script, as it isn't sounding quite right yet. After talking with our teachers we've also decided for the purpose of this opening sequence, it's best not to use bad language.

Storyboard

Here is our group storyboard.  There are a total of 35 shots in our sequence, ranging from closeups, which are shown in orange, to mid-shots and long shots which are shown in purple and green.  Doing our storyboard in this way has helped us balance out the range of shots in our sequence, as we were able to see if we had too many closeups or too few midshots.  We finally created a suitable mixture of shots so that our sequence is interesting and engaging for the audience.   Our titles for our sequence are not in this storyboard as they will be entered digitally on Adobe Premiere Pro when we produce our animatic using these stills.  From this we will hopefully create a rough structure to our sequence.

Locations Addition

In addition to shooting in the kitchen like we posted earlier, we are also going to have the character cross into the front room, as the glass doors work well, and here is a more suitable place for him to sit and relax.