'Elements' Opening: Costume

I would like to mainly represent the three main protagonists status in the world of today, so each of them would wear different types of clothing to show this. The character of Flo is a very normal person and has the life of a normal citizen, so we will be keeping her costume basic and relate to others. But for Autumn and Scarlett, I will choose certain parts for each of their costumes.

 Autumn is a rich and successful person, so the actress will be wearing a pencil skirt, a descent blazer and a blouse.




For the character of Scarlett who is unemployed and living low, she will be wearing clothes that are creased, too small on her and maybe a trench coat (long and green) that she wears constantly which would be raggedy to show the age of the clothes and her status in life.

'Elements' Opening: Animatic

When I finished creating the storyboard for our opening, I took pictures of each individual board and stitched them together to see what it would look like with a rough timing of the opening.
(There is no sound)

Elements Questionaire

We created a questionaire based on our film opening to ensure that audieces would for sure see our movie if it was a feature length.

Elements questionnaire

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"Elements" Opening: Locations

Location
We will be filming mainly in Bournemouth for the short film opening; for each section of the girls scenes they will be allicated in different areas of the town until the meet up outside a cafe.

For the first scene the character of Scarlett is beside the sea and looking out to the sea. We will be shooting here because it is a big contrast and will re-enforce the contrast between the three peoples lives.  Then when recieving a text from the other character (Flo) she will walk from this spot into the main town.

Scarlett will continue through the main Park in Bournemouth (look at Autumns scene below).




Effie's scene takes place inside the arcade in Bournemouth and stops outside entrance of it too read the text. Then we would film her walking through the main gardens of the town. (same as Scarlett)






We will be using this café's exterior for the end of the opening and the continuing dialogue of the film opening. This cafe gives a sought of modern world for the film as it is a very fresh and different looking cafe than others. 

"Elements" Opening: The Crew

Today we all came to the decision on what are roles during the production would be. Below are the job roles we have decided for each other...



Pete Wall - Director

Joseph Marshall - Cameraman

Ashley Hough - Photographer / Sound



"Elements" Opening: The Protagonists

We are soon to go into Production of our movie opening and have finally found

the actresses who will be playing the main protagonists in our project. The three

girls we have picked take Drama A-Level in our school and we have seen them

act, they seemed to be the perfect choice for the job.

Zoe Chapple as Flo

The character of Flo is the most mature out of the three characters and we needed
 an actress who looked like a strong character and able to be a surrogate sought of
mother to the other two. We thought Zoe was the perfect choice due to her look
and off course her acting is very good. I like to relate Zoe's look to '
Invisibility Woman' in the "Fantastic 4" movies who is also a strong character
to the superhero group. 

Effie Robinson as Autumn

Effie has a very powerful look to her in which we thought would fit perfectly with

the character of 'Autumn' as the character is a successful woman who earns a lot of money.
Effie was the perfect choice for Autumn due to her acting and also, we want the audience
 to be able to understand the characters status (which is high). The character is written and
 hopefully performed very stereotypical on rich people, for example the voice needs to be
posh and how she would hold bags of shopping or hold her mobile phone. 

Jessica Young as Scarlett 

The character of Scarlett is a unemployed young woman who is a bit of a rebel and still acts

 like a teenager most of the time. Jessica was our main person to play Scarlett as she is a
strong actress and had the look to her we wanted. The character also is not a very
fashionable person so we wanted to make sure that even though this character was
unemployed and hardly has a living, she still had an interesting look to her.

"Elements" Opening: Pre-Production - The Script

We decided that even though this was a two-minute opening, we decided to create a script in order to know what are opening was going to be and play out like instead of just scraps of notes. The script took about Two weeks to complete as we had done a script and then re-wrote it as there were a few changes needed to be made (thanks to Pete). Also we agreed to place in a page of dialogue for if we have space to place it within the two minute opening.

E l e m 3 n t s script

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