The Development of The Folder - Cast List

Our group were all on the same page in regard to types of characters we needed for acceptable and idealistic representation with in our piece. It was necessary we had specifically typecasted people and stereotypical ideals of characters. We needed to source people who we felt were fitting for our piece and that gelled well as a cast.

We needed to have back up cast incase some of our ideal cast were not able to attend our shooting day. In doing so we had to select candidates who were not just fitting for the role but were cohesive with the other cast memebers.

The Development of The Folder - Group Members and Task Allocations

The first task in our folder that we felt it necessary to approach was the Task Allocations list to make sure that everyone was aware of thier roles and the groups expectations of each other.

We all assessed our character traits of each other and from there suggested suitable roles for each other with in our work. We found it necessary to take into account the charactaristics of each member, and we allocated the roles accordingly. In doing so we were faced with some difficulties, however after overcoming them the cohesiveness of our group started to become more apparent and our work started to become more solidly sustainable.

The Development of The Folder - Research Sources

Once our final idea was finalized, we furthered our inspiration by looking into internet images, newspaper stories, films that we have studied and the way in which they use sound, lighting, music, atmosphere, narrative ideas and casting.

We were heavily inspired by Quentin Tarrentino and his use of camera angles and soundtracks within his pieces.

We then looked deeper in to his productions. We were mainly interested in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. Even the poster image defined how we wanted to present our sequence. The images represented portray the gangster, old school realism we want our sequence to reflect.

We were heavily influenced by the movie 15 minutes. This is seen through the two antagonists of our piece. From the link and the picture below we can see the progression of our casting and choice of appropriae figure. Also the malicious nature of both characters relates to the violence that is emplyed by both of our male leads within our thriller.

The Development of The Folder - Accounting of Storyboarding the Initial Concepts

Once we had established the sequence of shots, we moved to the storyboarding process. The necessity of storyboarding roots from the convenience in production and post-production. We as a group divided up the shots to be translated into storyboard means, and represent in more visual terms our necessities of production and construction. We have to outline all details of each shot to ensure that everyone within production is on board with the concepts and production we are producing.

The story board is presented as follows:

The Development of The Folder - First Group Meeting

Group Members:
Ben Marks, Millie Sherring & Leo Faulks

The Concept:
The idea revolved around the works of Quinten Tarrentino. It plays on the sequence from Resovoir Dogs that plays on the juxtaposition between the music that is uncharactaristic of the action within the frame.
It begins with a woman and her Ipod, jogging down a street. She waves non-challantly to a group of people at the bus station. She continues down the road further and is punched out and the screen turns to black. She wakes up in a warehouse type space, and there are power tools all around her. She is looking scared at the sight of all the tools, and starts to try to escape - but she notices that she strapped down to a try and her mouth is taped over. Two mafia-esk men walk in and start to torture her slowly with the power tools. One by one the power tools come into frame and her position is slowly lowered to show her vaunrability in the sequence. The final show is of her completely tortured and facially wrecked from all of the torture.

Set & Props:
Set - A plain road, and a warehouse (school studio)
Props - Power Tools, Ipod, Chair, Duct Tape.