Update

Since we finalised our film idea there has been a lot of progress, the most significant one being our animatic which is looking good and gives as a clear idea of where we are going with the shoot. Nico and I found a good track for the opening sequence however we had a few disagreements over the music-I wanted the digetic music to become non-digetic in the Hollywood scene but after discussions with the group/our teachers we decided against this and just to stop the music track earlier in the scene.

Secondly we talked about scripting concerns. The original draft script I wrote a while ago was completely useless now as the idea and style of the opening sequence has changed so much. Therefore we worked on a new script, where the only character to speak is the gangster while the assasin remains silent. At first Tash and I worked on an initial script with some basic ideas for speech such as "Why now, why right at the end?" and "One word of advice, get out while you can."
However we decided it probably didn't sound realsitic enough and so with the help of our technician who has knowledge in this area (the specialist terms, not the assasin/drug dealing buisness) wecame up with a more realistic script. However it contained strong language which although suited to our film was not good for a school project. As well as that we asked a few people in the other group their opinions and they found it a bit hard to understand terms like "a little green." However the script is still really good and with a few minor changes it should be fine.

Thirdly and finally I have been trying to watch similar films to ours to help inspire me personally. Nico has recommended several films to me and Tash that he has in mind so I am going to attempt to watch them before the shoot so we all have the same creative vision. These films are "Drive," "Bourne Supremacy" and "Kill Bill: Part II." This week I also watched Kill Bill Part I which helped me visualise what our character would be like (although ours is not driven by revenge.) The domestic scene in the kitchen also was similar to our idea and the conversation before Bill shot The Bride was similar to the type we are going for and helped inpsire me with the idea to only have the victim speaking and the assasin silent unlike in Kill Bill where Bill speaks while The Bride is mostly silent. Our teacher also recommended "Hanna" as an inspiration for these confrontational dialogue scenes so I will also try to watch this.



We are taking the equipment to my house today for Sunday's test shoot. We will spend an hour or so dressing the set then around 7 hours getting the footage.