Release Forms

I will use the following release forms when conducting my short film productionand research.
Location Release Form
I hereby give consent for the following property........... to be used in the filming of Strange World...........by Tom Dallas During the period of (dates)...........Signed...........Print...........

Image Release From
I hereby give consent for my image to be sued as an on screen performer in the filming of Strange World...........by Tom Dallas...........During the period of (dates)...........Signed...........Print......


It is very unlikely that i'll need these release forms because we are filming the video in a public park which is available for anyone to use without permision. The forms would be needed if i wished to film on a location that was privatley owned.

Mood Board

Production Company

We have decided to name our production company Optimus Productions. This is because 'optimus' is the latin word for 'the best'. And we want our project and production company to be THE BEST! We have created the logo and background for our production company which will we show at the very beginning of our film...

Music

For our opening 2 minutes we needed to find a song performed by an unsigned group/artist that fit the mood and stroyline. We were looking for a slow, acoustic and a rather soppy song as it fit the mood of the opening 2 minutes. A while back we found an unsigned group on youtube called Obadiah Parker who we really liked! One of his songs particularly appealed to us and we realised that it was perfect for our film. Although Obadiah Parker is an unsigned group, we decided to send the lead singer Matt Weddle an email asking for his permission to use the song just incase he wasn't happy about it. A couple weeks later Matt replied saying he was more than happy for us to use the song for our project.

Pitch!

We had to pitch our idea for our film and 2 minute opening to our media teacher and two other senior members of staff. The following week we recieved positive and negative feedback from how our pitch went:

Positives

- Fantastic location ideas
- Certainly fits the target audience
- Good overall idea
- Appeals to couples - lucrative market
- Good ude of powerpoint
- Clearlypassionate about idea
- Potentially a great opening 2 minutes

Negatives

- Don't run away with your passion for the project, make sure you listen to people's advice
- Make sure you have a mix of ages...Parent actor needs to be convincing. Parents are huge facotrs in young people's lifes and shape development.

Our media teacher also announced the 'top 3 pitches' and the 'top 3 ideas'... And our pitch and idea happened to be in the top 3 for both which was was ver encouraging! This gave us further confidence in our idea and we believe we can make a great fil opening.

Locations

The first part of our opening is set in the house of Niall. So we are going to use one of our houses that we live in. The house is in tacolneston where we live so we'll have no problem getting to the location as we already live there!

The other part of our opening is set in a park. So we identified two different parks in the city that we thought would be suitable for the film. The two parks we came up with were Eaton Park and Chapelfield Gardens. We need to make a final decision on which of the two parks we wish to use as our location of the setting.

Actors

We were looking for a male aged between 16-18 to play our main character named Niall Fletcher. We imagined Niall as a good looking and rather stylish guy so that was what we were looking for when finding an actor to play the role.

In the end we decided to use Jack Gould as our actor as he fit the look we were going for. He's also featured in a small film before so he has acting experience and has been in front of a camera before. He also got an A grade in this drama GCSE suggesting that his acting skills are more than good enough. He is also a good friend so we know he is going to be reliable and he is very easy to contact when arranging dates.