i am writing a character profile for an idea of a main character. there are some aspects of the chacater that me and alexx have come to make definite, however there are some variable concepts and values about the character that are still to be made definite. i would like to in someway capture the essence of a young character who is out of his depth, but has the determination to fight and always seems to servive by the skin of his teeth. an example of this that i like despite the very different narrative is the character of Harry Potter. Not in his bodily traits or the way he talks or looks, but the way that he seems to be out of his depth but have some form of fighting chance really creates character in my opinion.

Me and Reece took some test shots today for we had the idea of focussing in and out of an object. This is taken from the Billy Talent - Surrender video (the first 8 seconds).
We decided to use the manual focus on the camera, after a few attempts of trying to focus on a pen we managed to get the style how we wanted.


We worked out that in order to focus in on the background then focus back onto the object we would have to keep the camera still and zoom in on the item, this makes the focus change more obvious.

This is our storyboard (reads left to right :))

Our initial idea was to use an abandoned house for we thought it would give the effect of the character revisiting somewhere that he used to know. We were going to do this by using close-ups of different objects much like the opening to the surrender video by Billy Talent. This, however, may have to change for Reece went to go and take pictures of the location which he had visited previously and he found that the house we were going to use had been boarded up.
We're now re-thinking our location and we're trying to find somewhere with the similar feel to our original choice.
If this fails we're going to have to rethink our location idea and use somewhere public (may still be abandoned) or an inhabited house.

i like the action in this scene and the determination of James bond is something i would like to try and capture in our character, in a scenario that seems without hope, for him to be continuing to try creates a really great quality for me

By next monday's lesson!:

1. Make script for our film.
2. Take location shots. (See http://alexreecelcascw.blogspot.com/2010/01/location.html)
3. Make a storyboard.
4. Create animatic of storyboard.
5. Make the pitch better.
6. Character Profile
7. Update research so it's good.
8. Maybe research other things e.g. costumes or fonts.
9. audience profile

After considering our feedback from our pitch we have decided to try and appeal to a wider audience.
The class said they thought our Sherlock Holmes style appealed more towards the older generation thus making it boring, they also suggested a younger character and to get a clearer idea on flashbacks. We have decided to change our narrative as follows:

A boy has lost his father. He is 18ish and is searching frantically throughout his old abandoned house. As he sees something he gets a flashback to earlier in his life with his father (before he died). He then carries on searching throughout the house, goes upstairs and finds a body with a tattoo on it. He gets out an old piece of paper, compares markings and the door burst open. The boy picks up a knife. Blackout/