Planning: Inventory List, Locations, Actors

Inventory List:
-P90 (gun)
-MP5 (gun)
-Deagle (gun)
-Sunglasses
-Knife
-Army Combats
-Leather Jacket
-Army Boots

The main location I shall be using is a nearby park. It has various different forests that can be used, and as they are rather hidden away, it makes it easier to use the weapons in public. Another reason for using this is the numerous places that can be used as 'covert' places so that the actor can hide away in the bushes without being seen. We shall also be using a building in the town of Croydon, just to get a few shots of the actor walking through the front door and lastly we shall be using my school to finish it off, and get a few clips in the board room. This shall be used as the setting where the actor is given his 'hitlist'.

My actor is called Tom Springall. He is about 5"9 and has experience in combat forces due to the school CCF. He has many of the items that we have included in the inventory list, therefore saving us costs and time searching for these items. He also has many ideas as to how we could make certain scenes work. The other actor being used is Harry Gartell and he shall be seen for a short amount of time passing the hitlist over to Tom. I have used him as he looks like your stereotypical 'hardman', the 'big boss'.
My other actor is Charlie Tonge who is the other mercenary involved in the trailer who can be seen during the snow scenes.

Planning: Sound

The sound for our trailer is going to be fairly simple. The majority of the trailer will just have a heartbeat playing in the background which quickens up through the timeline where it finally reaches a point where it goes silent. Before this, we have approximately 30 seconds of establishing what it is our character does in which we will be using some sort of dramatic orchestral piece to give a sense of tension. As of yet, my partner and I have not decided whether the soundtrack will continue quietly behind the sound of the heartbeat, whether we shall just have a very low noise or whether it shall just be the heartbeat. This will have to be tested at a later stage.

Planning: Script

For the trailer we have decided that there will be very little in the way of the script, we shall be limiting it to on screen title sequences and a few pieces of voice over.

Ideas for the voice-over:
1:Sure you're up to it?
2: This is what I was born for.

1:Have you ever thought about doing something else?
2:Anything other than killing? No

1:You're in way over your head//You're taking too much on//One day your luck will end

Ideas for the Title Sequences:
-A man fixated on money
-His only motivation is money
-His only emotion is greed
-Becomes careless/sloppy
-A lack of feeling for other humans
-Born to kill
-His greed is his weakness
-1 man..........2 rules.........kill..........survive

Planning: Changes to Storyboard and Idea

Even though at first this seemed like a huge problem we are now using the weather to our advantage. After waking up this morning, we found a huge amount of snow outside, yesterday we were hoping to film the scenes with charlie as the weather has said raining. Instead of just waiting for another day, we have decided to take advantage and use the snow to add more effect to our trailer as a snow scene will be rather impressive. Thank You Snow!

Planning: Filming and shot lists

Tomorrow after looking at a weather report and seeing it is raining we have thought it best to film the scenes with Charlie in them. The fact that it is cold will be useful as I can film the warm air freezing in the air as he breathes. We are prepared, have all the rain Macs and umbrellas to protect the camera and to keep warm. Obviously stocking up and hot drinks and food, so our actor is not starving. Below are all the shots that I would like to get. This includes tomorrow and future filming:

-Tilting the head up into the camera (half of head filmed) Facial expression-angered.
-Turning body round quickly and then dropping to the ground
-Turning the whole body around quickly with the weapon adn taking a shot
-Shots of both Charlie and Tom getting shot in the leg or arm
-Tom dropping out of a tree onto someone running past, breaks his neck.
-Hand to hand combat, disarming Charlie of his firearm
-Rain dropping down the face
-Washing face in the rain
-Collecting rain in water bottle (army issue)
-Tom on the ground, beginning to give up
-Patrolling through the rain (long and close up)
-Running through the woods, water splashing up, close up of feet
-Gun to the back of Tom's head
-Throwing a knife into a tree
-Heavy Breathing
-Walking through Croydon in a big crowd
-Pitch Black, light flashes on, just see Tom's eyes
-Camera underneath Charlie, he walks over it as he patrols
-Running out of ammon with the MP5 and reloading
-Running out of ammo andgetting the deagle out to finsh off the job
-Clouds moving over the sun
-Shaking Hands close-up
-Passing over hitlist, maybe in briefcase, has money
-Shaking hands over the desk, with the big boss
-Patrolling a jumping from tree to tree, taking cover