Casting

For our film opening, we have three characters. For our main character Rose, we have casted Jessie Owens, because she has the quirky look that fits in the protagonist image perfectly. For the councillor we originally decided to cast Jonathan West, because he 35 years old, and is a professional actor, not only giving him to skills to create a professional performance, but he also had the very smart look, fitting the 'ideal' councillor. However, we had some trouble with his availability because he lives and works in London for most of the week, so we decided to was too difficult to plan around his schedule, and would cause us major problems if we need to re-film, because he lived so far away and was quite unreliable. It would be also be difficult to achieve the quality of filming we would like because we don't know him very well at all. However, we did have a reserve counsellor called Ben Howse, who is also an experience actor, but is slightly younger. Last year, he appeared in another AS media project, showing that is he capable of a great media performance.

Test shots

After we carried out our makeup practice ideas, and we decided to focus more on the location. The picture on the right is the location alleyway in the daylight, just to show the full dimensions of alleyway we are using. The photo on the left is the alleyway in the dark, which gives a more creepy feel to the dusty brick walls. In the dark, the alleyway seems to be closing in, which is the uncomfortable affect we wanted to create for the audience.

Filming device

For the filming we will be using Tilly's iPhone 6. This is because we were unable to access a professional camera and this phone has an extremely good quality camera, and will give us the most professional looking film opening.
"Stunning 1080p HP video at 60 fps, capture more dramatic slo-mo video and, for the first time, create time-lapse video. Continuous autofocus provides constant focus as you capture your footage. Cinematic stabilisation keeps your shoot steady even when you're not."

Makeup practices

These are our makeup ideas for the actual attack scene. For this we used dark coloured eye shadows to create a deep bruising effect, but not too much to give the effect that the injuries were recent. We also used fake blood to drop from like the eyes nose and mouth to indicate a severe and brutal beating. For our first attempt, we think this looked quite realistic, but to improve we are going to order a face paint called 'the bruise wheel', which we feel will give a  more realistic bruising effect to the makeup.

For the counselling scene, we had to create deeper, healing bruises, to give the effect that the attack was fairly recent but was quite a while ago. To do this we experimented with darker eyeshadows, and spread the extent of the bruises further. We also got rid of the fake blood to emphasis the bruises on the face. We also tried to make the bruises quite subtle to indicate the characters willing to try and cover up the injuries.

Storyboard animation

Storyboard

Logo design

This is our final design of our logo. Our friend Adil Rahman, who is experienced with art and technology, helped us out with this, because we had to experience and were clueless on how to make it, but we all had a vision in mind. We drew a design then met with Adil and started to create this on a mixture of Picassa and Windows movie maker.

Company name ideas

After a quick discussion of ideas, we found that we wanted to focus our company name around a moon theme. This is because its quite mysterious, and links to our film opening genre of psychological horrors. The darkness also links to our mystical theme, and we thought that it would be effective, and really show what our company is about.

• Peril productions
• Crescent studios
• Lunar Productions

Script