Final Task: Production Schedule

We have decided on the following draft production schedule.

Deadlines:

15-Jan-2015 Start filming

18-Jan-2015 Complete first draft edit

15-Feb-2015 Complete last draft edit

28-Feb-2015 Wrap filming

27-March-2015 Finalise editing

Final Task: Props

We have decided that we also want to have a laptop showing hitman related suspicious and intriguing documents on the desk with the hitman in our opening sequence. This will add an extra layer of plot into our production, and will hint to the viewer what is to come later in the film.

Final Task: Actors

For the final task our group is the same as it was for the preliminary task, with the addition of one person. Jordan Bunning will play the hit man as he is the most suited to the role, and I will play the person who gets killed. Because we will only need 2 characters, Joel Pickard (the director) and Ali Rice will be able to concentrate on filming.

Final Task: Props

For our film we don't need many props to tell the story, however we will need a car and a gun.
We wan't the car to be ordinary so that it adds a sense of realism to the film. For this reason we can use the car belonging to the parents of one of our group members, this means it will be available to use whenever we need it.
For the gun we want it to look realistic but for obvious reasons we can't use a real gun. We can use a cap gun as this will look realistic in the shots. One of the members of our group has a metal cap gun similar to the one pictured below:

Final Task: Costumes

We have decided that the costume for the hit man character will be slightly more casual than the costume for the character who gets killed. We still want to present the hit man as professional, so we will have him wear a suit but without a tie and perhaps the top button of the shirt undone. This will create the sense that the hit man is both professional but casual in his job, emphasising how to him killing someone is just a daily occurrance. An example of this ideas is the characters Tommy and Turkish from the film Snatch.

Final Task: Costumes

We want the costume for the main character in the opening sequence to be a very ordinary representation of a professional individual. We want the audience to be able to relate to this character and believe that what happens in the film could happen to them, which is why we want a very plain costume. For this reason we will use a black suit for the main character's costume.

Final Task: First Meeting

In class we are deciding on the locations and the script for our opening sequence.

Locations:
One of our first ideas for the locations are Canary Warf Tube station in London. This is where the titles will begin.

We have also decided that our other locations will be a small alley near St.Johns College in Oxford and Joel's house, which will be the scene of the shooting.

We also have a first draft of the script (written by Joel Pickard);

“Being a Hitman is a fine art; it appears spontaneous, impulsive, brash. But what you don’t see,  is the meticulous planning, the perfect timing, the outstanding execution.

A Hitmans job is to get away with murder so you’ve got to be bloody good at it or else, well you won’t. Now I can see why most people don’t appreciate the service that I deliver, but you don’t give the post man a hard time for delivering ransom letters or fake cheques.  

I’m just a messenger, with a gun, a middle man if you will. Don’t ask me about my business and I’ll leave yours alone. I’m just there for the hit.”