What company might release our film

I've done some research on production companies and was successful and found a company which is called BFI (British Film Industry). The reason I've chosen this company is because of the movie Kidulthood the movie is produced by the BFI and as our movie is quite similar to Kidulthood I knew that this descision was not bad and could be interesting to the producation company.

What we still need to do for the opening sequence

• Add music
• Add titles
• Add credits
• Edit/ cut more smooth
• Do some research for the genre
• Make sure every cut is okay (if not we have to refilm it or think about how to fix it)
• Do sound recording incase the sound is not very neat

Own initial idea submitted to group for consideration

My ideas for the opening sequence were firsty that we should use two characters in a school commiting a crime which is escalating and has no good end for one of the persons I also came up with the idea that in another story there is a pro- and antagonist in the story who are having an argument. We finally used this rough idea and had to develop it as we needed to think about the story, props and also the location.

Planning meetings stuff from week 3 (JAN 16-20)

On the third week we finished up our very final storyboard which included a setting,  actors and acting change and we planned every single shot in detail and tried to commit every ideas we got. After that we decided what props to use, we decided black clothes, black hat and a black bandanna for the criminal character, we chose to use the black bandanna because it represents Jay's gang. He wears outfits that could be seen as trouble kid or criminal just to be seen on public and gain respect. The other character which is a casual young man wears normal clothes. The story begins with Curtis entering the park and sitting down the bench. As he was playing around with his phone he recognizes a mysterious man who was dressed in a uncertain way that he couldn't tell but the audience could. That mysterious who is called Jay was walking up to him in a swaggered motion to show his status. Curtis didn't take him serious and answered Jay's question sarcastically. Jay didn't take too well to his response and he was getting aggressive towards Curtis. The situation escalated which Curtis couldn't control, suddenly Jay punches him and it was clear to the audience that Jay wasn't messing around. Already after a few shots Curtis was lying helpless on the floor. Jay was really serious and picked up a bunt object, he strikes at Curtis with all his strength and the shot fades out. Jay called someone and started to talk in another language we placed subtitles at the bottom of the screen so the audience knows what he's saying, then you can hear a zip and a car door which Curtis won't realize but the audience will. And this will carry on the story. We decided to call the movie "Redemption" because we thought about a complex story which is not easy to tell, can Jay clear his sins?

Planning meetings stuff from week 2 (JAN 9-13)

We brainstormed a completely different idea to our first one, it involved a troubled teenage girl who found a friend that can relate to her but behind the computer he was a criminal he was acting kind to the girl and she trusted him. He was manipulating her and she didn't realize. The problem in this story was her religion which forbid her to be in a relationship with him. We felt this story wasn't exciting enough and we wanted it to be unique. During the planning we suddenly had an amazing idea which we could commit to and it involves a trouble kid which is played by Tawhir and a criminal thug which is played by Daniel Glazier. The story starts with a long shot at the bus stop in which Tawhir receives a text message from his friend saying: "Are you bunking lesson again blud?" He just ignored him and didn't care about him. He was waiting for the bus and catches it to an illusive park. On the ride we tried to film him and the scenery so that the spectator can make a picture of the setting. We also wanted add a special effect where he puts on his headphone and the music can be heard from the audience. When arrives he enters the park by jumping over a fence. The audience can tell he's a dodgy character by his action. In an over the shoulder you can see him taking out something what looks to be like an illegal substance possibly Marijuana. As he smokes the shot is changing from the over the shoulder shot to a medium in which you can see another character who is played by Daniel G. . He comes up to him and they started arguing and Daniel ran out of patience and set Tawhir straight. He punched and robbed him. On the next day Tawhir was eating in a fast food restaurant and as he was walking out he sees Daniel on a public high street Daniel recognizes him and ran away. Tawhir ran after him and Daniel ran into the back of a deserted building where he trips and crying for mercy, you can see the anger in Tawhir's face and the audience can tell that something is going to happen in the next few seconds. The camera focuses on the brick and this is a significant object as it will be a murder weapon. Tawhir picks it up and you can only see a shot where he drops brick and walks away. This idea was good but during we were filming we realized that it is hard to film on some places like the bus scene or the park because we needed permission to film there so after a few tries we went back to change the story a slightly bit. The basic idea was there and we wanted to make it enjoyable for the audience.

Planning meetings stuff from week 1 (JAN 4-6)

We were put into groups and my group consists of Daniel G. and Kiran. The first thing we did was brainstorming ideas for our storyboard and everyone came up with some good and useful ideas. The first idea for the storyboard was really good but we had problems to commit it because we didn't have the right have the right props and location for the story. To get inspiration we watched opening sequences and student examples. As we were doing the first story we did another story as backup just in case there was a problem. We brainstormed ideas for the second story as well which should be completely different from the first one.