Rough draft midterm

The rough draft went well. We already started to break it down and see what things we need to fix.

Scouting locations

We went and scouted our locations before filming. the good news is we never had to switch location as the people that owned each property gave us permission. we chose a bank looking building out east at a friends warehouse which made it super easy to use. then we went to a parking garage downtown that was close to the school which gave us easy access. The drag racing scene was done out east on a long open road owned by a church. as stated before everyone gave us permission.

Schedule filming

Due to time crunch and how fast this had to be due. this blog post is after when we already filmed. we scheduled for December 17 around mid day. Everything went well though. it took a little longer than expected but besides that everything went smoothly. we got permission to film on all of our locations. and kept everything we did within reason,. overall i say that our filming day was very successful. Everyone got to use the camera and be in the film, at the end everyone had a blast!

Casting

All of the people in my group except for Jane ford wanted to have a lead roll within the film. We all have a passion for cars so it made it very easy for us to fit in character. Cierra is very beautiful with a fun attitude which made it very easy to fit the roll of the girl within this video. Trey is a very rebellious type of person so he fits perfectly with the roll of Austin. I love being the bad-ass main villain that runs the show.  We chose the rest of our car friends as extras as this will solve two problems. the people who would be hanging around with the villain and the cars for Don (the villains) Crew. No other better options presented themselves to us.

Story board

3 out of the 4 of us cant draw at all. so we decided as a collective to have Jane ford draw it. She did an absolutely remarkable job. I couldn't have imagined a better job. We are ready to move on with this project!

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Shot list

After making the script now it was time to make a shot list. the group as a whole broke down the scenes and evaluated each shot. I know a lot about cameras and filming so i held the leadership role in this activity as well. i made sure that the group was headed for a successful film creation.

Shot List

1.    Mid shot: Tyler and Trey running

2.    Low angle: Front of car

3.    Close up: Tyler when speaks

4.    Shot reverse shot (close up): Trey when speaks

5.    Low Angle (of rear): s550 leaving bank

6.    Pan: s550 entering garage

7.    Low-angle mid-shot: Camaro and the s550 in the parking garage

8.    Long shot: Camaro pulling into meet

9.    Low angle tracking: Door opening Trey gets out (feet)

10. Transition over the shoulder: trey walking towards Josh

11. Shot reverse shot (over the shoulder) mid shot over Josh

12. Two Shot: Trey & Josh talking (Josh drops duffle)

13. Low angle: 2 cars pulling up to drag race line

14. Insert shot: exhaust (revving)

15. Low Angle: cars from front

16. Shot Reverse Shot (low angle): cars driving away

17. Tracking (inside civic) at Camaro

18. Low angle of finish line (Camaro winning)

19. Wide shot: cars pulling back to meet (both get out of cars)

20. Mid Shot: Josh cocks gun

21. Eye line match: (Josh looking at Trey)

22. Hand held tracking: Josh walking towards Trey (everyone rushing in)

23. Insert Shot: bystander handing Trey keys

24. Over shoulder of Trey: Cierra walks up to him

25. Two Shot: Cierra & Trey

26. Close Up: Trey “Austin, Austin Jones”

27. Transition to over the shoulder: Cop car pulling up behind

28. Over the shoulder shot: police officer and Trey slowly turning around

29. Two shot: police officer cuffing trey

30. Tracking shot: Trey being put in the back of the police car.

31. Downwards pan: police station entrance stop at mid-shot of trey walking out

32. Close up: Trey answering the phone

33. Insert shot: letter in back pocket of jeans

34. Insert shot: open letter transition to pan up from the letter

35. End scene

Script

Over the series of the past week our media studies group met to work on the script. The group gave a lot of input but i took the leadership roll in this one. I set the scenes up for everyone and gave a lot of the dialogue ideas where the rest of my group edited my inputs. They also added some missing dialogue that could further the meaning of the scenes.

1. Ext. Bank – mid day

Austin and Steven run around the corner with duffle bags to be picked up in Mercedes s550.

Trey: (yelling) Lets go! Lets go! Lets go!

Tyler: (worried) I’m freaking out! We’re going to get caught.

Trey: Don’t worry we’re fine.

They speed to a parking garage to change and switch cars.

Cut to: Car meet

2. Ext. Car Meet – mid day

They pull up to the car meet

Trey: You said come back when I have enough to risk.

Josh: You think this is some sort of joke? Even if you had the funds there’s no way you could beat me in a quarter mile.

Trey:(confident) I got a hunnid racks I’ll win.

Josh: Bet it’s on

Don pulls out a matching duffle bag and drops it on the ground. They get into their cars and the race begins. Austin wins. The cars pull back up to the main meet and get out. Don pulls out a gun and cocks it and aims it at Austin. Everyone at the meet swarms Don and takes the gun from him.

Random car person:(screams) WOAH! WOAH! WOAH! NOT COOL.

The guy then takes his keys and hands it to Austin.

Brittney: What’s your name again?

The girls walk over to Austin and he places his arms around them.

Trey: Austin. Austin Jones

Immediately squad cars pull up with sirens and lights

Cop: Are you Austin jones?

Trey: Yes?

Cop: Place your hands behind your back you are under arrest.

Cop reads Miranda Rights while he throws Austin into the back of the car.

Cut to: Jail

Austin walks out of jail.

His phone rings saying unknown. He answers.

Unknown caller: There’s a letter placed in the back pocket of your pants. It contains all of the men that set you up. You decide what to do.

Film Research: The Town

The scene opens up with a security camera footage of 3 masked men running into a bank. A man quickly jumps over the counter and takes control of the people behind it. The other men get control everyone else in the bank and make sure no one tries anything crazy. They now remove everyone's cell phones and get to work on the safe. They get a hostage to open the vault but she keeps stalling. Once its open the men proceed to take all the money and all the security camera footage. all of the sudden someone tries to enter the bank. After the person leaves the men take the hostage to their van were they make their escape. not much of the movie is told in the opening, all it does is set up how the hostage they have got with them in the first place. During the first part of the scene a bunch of short takes occur as a bank robbery has to be fast passed to beat the cops. so in this case the short takes emphasize the time crunch. unique camera techniques used were the security camera footage which made it feel a little more real. also an insert shot towards the end of the scene which shoes one of the robbers tattoos on the back of his neck. this also is an eye-line match between on of the hostages on the floor. it then cuts to some over the shoulder shots of the men pouring bleach over every surface in the bank. The ambient noise of people screaming shows the intensity and fear the civilians had. the guns used in the movie create a sense of reality as the props used dramatize the bank robbery. There were no opening credits in the opening scene. i believe this is done so you can focus all your attention. The budget for the movie was 37 million USD they made 154 million USD worldwide. awards they received includes the movie of the year at the AFI awards.

Film Research: baby driver

During the 6 minute opening of baby driver a young kid is behind the wheel of a red Subaru wrx. accompanied with him are two clean cut men and a sharp edge women. all of them but the driver exit the vehicle and enter a bank across the street. baby driver begins listening to music and jamming out in the car until a cop car with sirens sets his attention. he looks over at the bank and waits for them to exit. once all the bank robbers are in the car baby driver goes through a dramatic scene of events where he escapes the cops in the most insane way possible. Not much of the story is told, but it does give a baseline of what the movie is about. Some cool camera angles used was a handheld cam following the 3 people into the bank. this kinda makes it feel as if you are walking with them about to rob the bank. The majority of the driving scene consists of short takes with many camera techniques like tracking, pans, and many action shots to emphasize that quick escape. The opening credits only list the star actors in the film with no description (names of people you are supposed to know). the budget was 34 million and they made 105 million domestically. won at the golden trailer for best action. international online cinema awards best film editing, best sound mix, and best sound editing.