Post from Mori - decisions about the opening sequences of our film.

Actors, although hard to come by in our present situation have been chosen. We went through much deliberation whether or not to pick actors outside of our own class and we decided not to for several reasons, they may not realise how important the acting is to us and they may not be able to work at the same time as us, which wouldn't work as we need all the time we have got. We decided we only need two main actors for these few minutes of film, we also decided to have a teacher in our film or even two, considering the film is set in a school, or at least the first part is. We will also need a significant amount of extras in the sequences because it is set in a school similar to ours meaning it has to be busy. We decided we might film students when they don't know they are being film to make it more realistic but if this is not successful we may have to re-think and film actors walking by etc.

The perfect thing about this story line is that it is set in a boarding school similar to which we live at, this has a number of advantages a large one being that we have all the props and locations needed to make the film. So the mise-en-scene is already sorted with little degree of effort and time which is always a factor when filming, all we need to do is decide on where we are filming the different parts of the film around the school. Although we have most of the props and locations sorted there may be a few problems that we shall encounter, for example if we want to use specific parts of school we may need permissions from higher ranked 'so to speak' members of staff, as well as props such as contraband including cigarettes, alcohol and similar things.

We have also been thinking greatly about the sound, including dialogue and effects. We have been thinking about filming separate sound like dialogue to the film and then editing it in, but the only problem with this is that it may be very hard and time consuming to edit it in. Other sound effects we will have to make ourselves or even get off the internet as we can not use any copyright protected media.

Also the target audience has been in our minds, gender, age ranges, class, living locations. But we decided that we are going to be aiming our film at teenagers of both sexes of any class. This is specific in age but also leaves space to increase in different areas.

I think that the film is looking very exciting and after putting our heads together (after our holidays) have managed to come up with some excellent ideas to boost the professionalism and style of our piece.