Expansion Of Concept

Expansion of concept to suite

James L & Jonathan A

BBC's concept is based on a circle. In all of their indents they have a circular motion for example the bikes going round in a circle. They do this because its representing their headquarters which is a circle so corporate identity comes into it. 

However our idea of expansion of concept to suite will be to spray our new MTV logo onto famous landmarks around the world. I will do this because if my logo is on a famous landmark it will go global and not just in one country as well as i want everyone in the world to feel welcome and to view my channel. 

This fits the target audience because of the spray painting, the target audience for MTV is 16-34 and people in that criteria would be interested in and want to look at because spray painting isn't easy and is classed as urban street art so its stereotypically 'cool.' I also done this because i wanted it to be known worldwide i think that if i spray these famous locations it appeals to all the the world within the age group so it wouldn't just be viewed in a few countries it would be viewed in many. 

I would get the MTV logo onto these buildings by recording the buildings first for a brief 15seconds and then i would record me spraying the logo onto a green screen so i could just place the logo in front of the footage of the building and it would look like i was actually spraying onto it.

Which gives MTV a wider of who it reaches to going over language barriers and turning the logo into a universal art piece so many people will know of it even if they dont like it.

Production Log for ' Ways of Escape'

Production Log

On the first day we were delayed filming because of  my unexpected English exam, we originally planned to get our footage in school but because of this incident we didn't have enough time in the day so we are having to get this footage another day. Once i found alex and James , we collected the camera and tripod i booked out and took them back to Alex's house. We had to walk to Alex's and it was a lot of hassle trying to hold all of the equipment and our bags. Once we got to his we sat down and decided what shots we needed because we decided not to stick to the original script. It was hard finding the right angles for the shots as the tripod had a broken leg and keep needing to be adjusted.

We filmed the shots of Alex in uniform a number of times to see what angles looked best. We got all of the right footage we were looking for and then moved on to the skaters parts, making the link to the uniform footage. To get the actually skating footage we took equipment down to Bromley skatepark. It was a real struggle getting the filming and skating equipment down there as the only way of transport was getting on the bus. We got there abut 2 o'clock which was perfect as it wasn't very busy.  We needed to get a shot of Alex asking through the park into the skatepark but because people were getting in the way it was very difficult to get it. We set the camera up in different angles to get body shots and close ups, we needed to get a variety of shots of me skating different obstacles in the park.

We decided to get footage on the ledge, the street section and the rail. This footage went well, however with some tricks it took a while to land them to make them look good. Also it was hard dodging other people in the park in order to land the tricks. We got all of the skating and chilling footage we needed for Alex's character and took the camera back to his house. We originally planned to film on the second day, however there was no battery left on the camera and someone put the wrong charger in the camera bag. This meant that we had to trek back to school to sort out the problem. There wasn't another battery so we decided to upload the footage so i could start editing. On the third day of filming we were meant to film my parts but I wasn't able to come in so instead i used the time to continue with our paper work.

On the fourth and last day we were meant to meet at normal school time in order to get the last bits of footage, however James couldn't make it into school until 11 so Alex and I done paper work before he came. As soon as james got into school we took out a camera and all of the equipment and began filming. We didn't follow the script so before each shot we all had to clearly know what we were doing. We didn't have enough time to film outside of school so we had to go to the right areas in the ground in order for it to fit in with our film. We got all of the shots in the media block then we went to the history corridor to get following shots and my footage. It was difficult to stay up with them while filming the following shots but it looked great when we got them. We had to figure out the right angles in the classrooms to show the characters frustration, it was difficult but with trial and error we got there in the end.

To show how one character has health problems we got permission to film in the sickbay, luckily no one was in there and we could film there and then. To show this characters way of escape we used a over shoulder shot when he got a message to go and graffiti. This shot was very hard to film as we needed to get the camera straight while getting the wording and his hands in the shot. It took a few shots to get the right angle we were looking from. To film the graffiti scenes we got spray cans and transparent pieces of plastic from the DT department. We went round the back of the school because there is just a plain wall which was perfect to use. We found pieces of wood to do trial shot on to make sure we got the perfect footage when filming on the plastic as we only had the one sheet. After filming that we came up with the idea for each character to graffiti each word of the title which looks really effective for the ending of the film and that was the last shot we needed.

Overall as a group, we kept well communicated and we got what need to be done when we needed, I would gladly work with james and Alex again.

Screen Play for 'Ways of Escape' (OLD)

Screen Play For 'Ways Of Escape' 

*Character 1/The Skater*

Skater does tie up for school - this will be an under portrait shot of the chin up to mid way of the chest

skater leaves the house, opening the door, as he opens the food he spins wheel closest on his skateboard before closing the door, showing that he's left for school

Skater has his feet up in the common room wearing vans one/ two people pass camera showing its kind of busy

skater comes from living room, ready for a skate session

Skate leaves house, opening the door, as he opens the door he grabs skateboards and leaves

Skater leaves skate shop heading up the road for the skatepark

Skater skates through high street turning into churchill park

Skater in mid 50/50 on the ledge

*End for skater*
*Amount to 2:30mins*

*Character 1&2&3*

Shows the three chilling in a room talking

*Character 2*

Character 2 is in a classroom doing work which he eventually gives up and gets angry and storms out the room screwing up the paper throwing it at the camera

As he walks out the teachers points at him telling him to come back and the characters reaction was to throw the books on the floor n anger and storming out

*Character 3*

Character 3 is in sick bay and receives a text from character 2 saying that he is angry and wants to go and do some spray paints

He agrees and waits for him to get there

*Character 2&3*

Character 3 walks into sick bay and meets character 2 and then they head off the spray

The camera then is filmed round the back of school then they spray paint and show their way of escape

*END*

pencil Troubles short film

Ways of Escape Short film

Ways of escape Production schedule 1 & 2

Ways of Escape - Crew Roles & Casting

We chose James to represent the angry person because he can act in a aggressive manor that can show that he is angry, he talks in the movie but you cannot hear it but you can tell thats he's not being nice and know he's angry because of the expressions he gives us.






We used Alex as the kid who is always bored and depressed because he has a innocent face and has a tenderness to him to make him come across as if he is sad if he wants to, not much facial expressions shows that someone can be depressed you can tell by looking at him that he is down, he played the part well because he can also skate, when he skated he looked like a much brighter person who was happy and that shows his way of escape

We used John as the kid who is always ill because he has a fragile look to him and usually is ill so with no disrespect we thought he'd be perfect for the role because of this and he pulled it off well.