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.
Jay is a brutal thug from Germany who moved over to the UK a few years ago. He was living in a council estate with his parents. His mother was a drug addict and his father an alcoholic, Jay's mother died a few years later as result of taking huge doses of drugs. Jay was so depressed that he started to bunk school and taking drugs. With the age of 16 he left his father because he was really violent and not fit to be a father and started to live in a hostel and hanging around with wrong friends. Through the years he gained respect by others and he is a member of a gang of violent youths. Most of the guys are German and the gang is still growing and is getting popular for youngsters. The gangs signs are black bandanas and black clothes.
I have learned lots of things from the preliminary task such as keeping the actors in the frame while shooting a movie and also be organised and prepared for anything. I also started to realize that the planning is one of the main keypoints to make a movie. For the preliminary task we used the programme iMovie and after a few tries I got very confident with it and cutted the movie as smooth as I possibly could.
Our team did a quite a good job in this task which we are proud of. It has lots of different shots and also a fade in it. The fade is used to create a flashback which all student in the class recognised. We used continuity editing which was a bit inaccurate at the beginning but we edited it more to make it more smooth.and at the end you could see the smoothness and continuity of the sequence. Our team looked at some student examples on the media drive of the school to get some inspiration which helped us a lot. We planned our sequence with storyboards and discussions as well. The only thing we had to improve were the shots because we zoomed to much out and you were able to see too much background.
We each had different ideas on the setting, I've had the idea to go to a park near our school but when we started filming we realized the place wasn't good to work with so we had o decide on a different setting. Daniel G. had the idea of filming in manor park, it was a good place to film but it was too far. On the way of finding different parks Kiran had the idea of going to Blagdon park in New Malden it was a good choice because it was near, quiet and easy to film in. The only problem with this park is that parents and children can come inside the park so we had to stop filming. We had to go to the park during school time where children and parents would be at work and school. We filmed on two different days but we had to start over on the second day because change in the weather. It was easy for us to decide on what the characters would wear because it's in music and we're familiar with this situation so we definitely knew what types of clothes they wear. We also got ideas by watching opening sequences and trailers for props and clothes for example we used the trailer of Adulthood which can be viewed above. We decided to let Jay wear a black hoody, trainers, black hat and a Bandanna this shows he's not looking for attention from the crowd and for Curtis we simply used casual clothes. On the setting we needed to find a blunt object to be used as a weapon. This is a significant object and it could carry on a story.
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.
