Week TWO

Throughout the previous week we had been discussing the shed that we wanted to use. I personally didn't like the idea of a shed as I thought it wouldn't quite look right, especially as the only sheds we were able to find were garden sheds. Therefore when we decided to scrap the dog we also scrapped the idea of the shed. I was pleased with this decision. I suggested this crime map be marked out on the ground in chalk as another idea of having it stuck to a wall didn't seem like a good idea to me. The chalk idea was not overly liked and we continued to think. We came to the conclusion that this map would be on the back of a cardboard box on which the tramp would have been sitting.

This week it was suggested by a group member that we add some shots at the begging. The establishing shot that we already had planned was a tramp sitting on the group and the screen fading from black to this tramp sitting on the ground. The idea suggested was to add shots, in which we see the tramp walking to this place and sitting down, so that we could see where he had come from. I did not particularly like this idea as in real life you don't see where the tramp has come from and I didnt think it was important to the story. Also continuing on with the story the tramp would have to stand up again to start walking. We began drawing out these shots before it was decided that the rest of the group had the same view on this as myself and we decided not to include anymore shots at the beginning.  

We unanimously decided on the people we would ask to be our actors and luckily they were willing to act for us. Due to members of the group being away on a weekend that we were planning to film, we had to bring filming forward a week. I was slightly worried about getting everything ready before that weekend. Therefore we put in extra hours to get things sorted. We drew up a props list and allocated a few props to each member of the group. We also drew up a brief for each of the actors so they knew where to be, what time and what to bring.