Film Production

I had a preliminary shoot of pictures with the gun which i will include in my title sequence for my film, but unfortunately the background was a problem because I shot it in a classroom and it will be very difficult to edit out the background and insert it into my title sequence. These are some pictures from the shoot:

I had to take pictures with the gun in a plain background so it will easier to edit them into the title sequence for the film, but these are not pictures they are short videos of movements with the gun. Here they are:

Film Production

I am currently in the process of filming my project ''Way Too Deep''. I have filmed some scenes for the film, just using my main character. I shot the scenes on Mill Road in Cambridge.

This is a combination of some of the pieces I shot, set at night because my film is mainly set in nightlife. I included a lot of cars, there are some people in the backround but there will be more in the other scenes. I have shot some previous shots as a preliminary exercise, I did not want to use them for the final piece because they were all day shots and I did not like the setting for my film.

Production Log

We planned to film the intro to George's film on Monday 3rd December, but I was sick so George and Patrick had to do it without me. The 2nd day of filming took place on Wednesday 5th December we met outside the location at 2:15, we started filming Patrick, who was playing the lead in the film, from opposite Hope House which is one of the boarding houses in our school. Originally we we're suppossed to film a little bit of a bus that usually stops outside Hope House but sadly we could not because the bus stops every 20 mins and because we had moved on to filming other scenes we did not time it right. After filming Patrick walking up from opposite the house we then filmed him at a traffic light and we did not have any problems filming this part. Then the hardest part came, this is when we had to get permission from one of the flat residents across the street to see if we could get film a scene from their window. We tried and tried but we we're unable to get to film this scene so we decided to leave it for another day.

Monday 3rd December:

This is an example of what they did on Monday a shot of Patrick leaving the Hope House area and making his way ont the driveway and this was filmed from one of the rooms.

Then we are going to do a match on action using this shot filming patrick from outside the hope house area:

Production Plan

We had to film the Scenes for the opening Title Sequence to one of the other Media students film. We used a Canon camera with the help of a Tripod stand, we also used Sony headphones for the main character. The location for the film was at Hope House, which is one of our school Boarding Houses, so we used one of the rooms as well. The main character he had to wear jeans and a jumper for the opening.

Title Sequence (Story Board & Music)

The soundtrack for my Title Sequence is Traumatized by Meek Mill, in the song it talks about loss and struggle and this would relate to my film seeing how one brother is lost as his life is taken by someone and struggle part relates to how the other brother struggles to survive. In the song there is a bit about revenge, this also relates to the film as the brother who has to struggle to survive wants to find the man who killed his brother and exact revenge on him. It is the more tragic emotional dimension to my film that I am trying to get across to my audience, so they just dont see as another ordinary generic Gangster film.

The track was taken down off YouTube because the account I got the link from is the subject of infringement and copyright, so it has been terminated.

Although I have found the original upload of the track which was posted by the original source for posting persons music.

Way Too Deep: Title Sequence

With my Title Sequence I am trying to convey with my images and background what my film is going to be like:

I am trying to show the use of guns as my film is Gangster and it portrays a  range of violence. I am also trying to show the setting with it being in a city.

With the use of music I will convey how my movie will differ from just an ordinary gangster film. I will use the song Traumatized by Meek Mill, it will bring a sense of emotion an dloss to the film so the viewers can get another interpretation of the film from the title sequence:

 

 

I want the audience to experience to new things in my title sequence, to get the idea that this isn't just your ordinary Gangster film. In the Title Sequence I am using the backgrounds with certain images and music which is my key factor in this Title Sequence. I want the audience to feel chills when they hear the soundtrack, to feel the emotion and get captured by it. I have frequently used cars in the background, this because I want the audience to see the idea of action and high speed chasing which is not seen alot in Gangster films.

Film Crew

Way Too Deep
Director: Justin Lin
Producers: Brian Tufano, James Armitage, Alexandra Stone, Joshua Varney.
Costume Designers: Andy Blake and Brooke Davis
Visual Effects: James Clarke and Sean Baron
Editing: Daniel Boydell
Casting: Robert Williams
Production Design: Nicholas Keen and Lisa Tanner
Stunts: Bill Davey, Micheal Peters and David Holland.
Written By: Shamil Yusuf

I have chosen most of these people for the crew of my film because most of them have worked on the set of the film Kidulthood (2006) and my film will be similar to that. I chose Justin Lin to direct the film because he has done a lot with action films in particular the Fast & Furious films, he can bring action similar to that into my film.

Kidulthood (2006)

Fast & Furious (2009)

Fast Five (2011)