26. Casting 

Year 9 Girls&Boys
We've chosen a group of year 9 boys and girls as these are the closest age to young primary school children.

Gordon Young: Will Brockway
 This boy takes GCSE Drama and has a very bubbly personality and so loves to act and will be able to play this part well.

Small girl: Iona Simpson
This girl has the characteristics of being very friendly so any boy would have a 'crush' on her and she is very innocent looking aswell.

Gordon Tuiginam: Samuel Reid
We've chosen this person as he takes A-Level Theatre Studies and so can act well and will be able to play the dorky character of Gordon Twiginam.

Secretary: Louisa Robertson
 This girl is very organised and polite and so would be ideal to play the role of a secretary.

Point 27- Props and costume

A suit for the (Old) Gordon

The Invitation that gets handed to him by the secretary

The rugby ball (young) Gordon gets hit in the head by

The secrtary smart outfit to make sure she fits into the profesional vibe we are trying to create.

The umbrealla (old) Gordon carries around with him while he walks to the office.  

The children who are playing in the playground are wearing school uniform.  

25. Risk assesment  

 

What are the hazards?	Who might be harmed?	How severe could the harm be? A	What controls are in place?	How likely is an accident? B	Risk Rating   A x B	What extra controls are needed?	Who will action the extra controls?	When will they be in place?
- Slipping - Tripping - Falling (In G-House, playing field and the road) - Vehicles (when filming on the road) - Stress (due to the actors being tired)	-       Actors -       Students filming	Slight (1 No severe damage would be caused from these injuries of falling over etc.	Acknowledge to actors of areas to be aware of.	Low       1 Unlikely	1	Eliminate Substitute Barriers Procedures Warnings PPE	Our group, team meeting to acknowledge hazards and way to prevent injury	During and after filming

RISK ASSESSMENT CONDUCTED BY:- Blue Apple Productions

24. Locations

Aberlour Playing Fields

 
The reason for choosing this location is because it's a big playing field with lots of room for the children to play around in and really act as if they are in their school playground playing.

The road from Chapel to G-House

This road is perfect for the character of Gordon to walk down because it's a long road and so we can use this to our advantage to have a long clip of him walking down trying to impress everyone while they look down at him and laugh. It is also the actual road leading to G-House and it can mimick the idea of a busy road in New York city.

Outside G-House (Zebra Crossing)

With the zebra crossing right outside G-House building we thought this was an ideal place for Gordon to fall flat on his face as a zebra crossing can represent a busy street and people will be walking by when he falls as this is the location everybody uses when walking across a busy road.

Inside G-House (Reception area, CB Staircase and Mrs Hawksley's Office)

G-House has the perfect staircase that we need in order to represent an office and the office in G-House looks rather like an office that a secretary would use in our film before you walk into the 'main' office (Mr Barton's).

 

23. Shot list and shooting script

Shots	shooting describtion	Sound	Titles
Establishing shot	Abelour playground with year 9 students	Narration
Rewinds
Establishing shot	Abelour playground with year 9 students	Narration
Zoom in	Of Gordon on the bench (Aberlour)	Narration
Close up	Of the girl flickign her hair in slow motion (Aberlour)	Narration	Titles coming out of her hair when she flicks it
Close up	Back to Gordon (Aberlour)	Narration
Mid shot	Gordon is hit by rugby ball (Aberlour)	Narration	Title on the rugby ball
Tracking shot	Of Gordon walking and close up shots of people walking past him and their reactions (G-house) -       Close up of Gordon’s face -       Close up of people walking by him	Motown/ Funky Music	Title on Gordon’s shoulder which he brushes off when walking
Jumps cuts	Of Gordon walkign to his office (G-House)	Motown/ Funky Music
Mid shot	Of Gordon Falling in slow motion (zebra crossing at G-House)	Music Cuts	Titles on the zebra crossing & on the bits of paper flying out of his briefcase
Extreme close up	Of Gordon’s face	No Music
Mid shot	Of Gordon brushing himself off and walking to G-house	Motown/ Funky Music
Tracking shot	Of Gordon walking to his office (G-House)	Motown/ Funky Music
Pan long shot	Of Gordon walking up the stairs to his office (Colour Bearer staircase)	Office Music	Titles on the stairs
Dutch titlt	Gordon going up the stairs (Colour Bearer staircase)	Office Music	Titles on the stairs
Establishing shot	Of the office (G-House Mrs Hawksley’s Office)	Office Music
Close up	Secretary at her desk	Office Music
Shot reverse shot	Of the Secretary and Gordon	Music cuts after Gordon finds out about the reunion
Extreme close up shot	Passing letter	Dialogue	Title of the film on the letter (pauses and dissolves off the letter)`
Close up`	Of Gordon	Dialogue
Close up	Of the Secretary	Dialogue
Close up	Of Gordon	Dialogue
Black hole		Dialogue

 

22. animatic of our storyboard

21. The sound

The sound for our opening title was going to be a mixture of soundtrack and voice-over narration. It starts with narration in the playground scenes and then cuts to a motownish/funky track when you see the male actor much older and when he's walking down the road. It then cuts out straight away when he falls over onto the zebra crossing and then when walking into his office calm music is playing to set the location of an office job and then it fades once he recieves the invitation from his secretary and dialogue takes place between the secretary and Gordon Twiginam.

17. key elements

The key elements that have to appear in our film are:

• The main title of the film is one of the very first things that have to appear in the first seconds of the film 
• giving the audience a slight hint about what the movie is about however as little as possible information should be shared to keep the audience wanting to see more, so not too much should be happening in the first few minutes. 
• the production name 
• a clear introduction of the main characters 
• Simple but catchy background music to maintain a nice flow 
• voice over by the main character to set the scene and tell us about what is going on.

20. Story board



20. Story board