Health and Safety Risks

As a precaution, we had to think and evaluate all of the possible hazard during filming in order to prevent them from occuring and harming any one or any equipment. 

Permission Documents

In order to get actors and extras for our opening, we had to ensure that any that were under the age of 18 had permission from a parent or guardian for them to be filmed.

Film Title - ROADS

After some discussion on the film title we finally came up with 'ROADS':

• We came up with this title because in the film, the girl takes lots of roads and paths to different places in her life and she has to make decisions. 
• We found that it was very common for a lot of comedies to take on film titles with just one word in it and for dark comedies to use word with room for interpretation from the audience. For example "Trainspotting", although there is not a single train in the film, it is the title and leaves audiences thinking about the reason why.
• When we googled roads to see if it came up with anything behind the name we found that it is a drugs centre in Bristol, so seen as our film is about drugs we were set on having this name because we liked the name and it suited our film. 
• Roads stands for 'Recovery Orientated Alcohol & Drugs Service' and this is what our film is all about so we decided to have a read of the website and find out what it was all about and to see if it would help to make our opening scene more real and authentic. 
• We also thought that when someone searches for our film it will also come up with the website which some people may find helpful as they may not know about it. We want our film to make people more aware of the problems of drugs and the effect it has on everyone and the services that are available to help with drugs. 
• This is what the Roads website looks like:

Location Recce - Bedroom Change

1st February 2017

Under certain circumstances, it turned out that we were unable to use the first bedroom that we planned so had to recce a second choice.

We liked how this bedroom looked as it shows the tom-boyish side of our protagonist from the stereotypical blue. It also has non copyrighted posters on the walls which we thought went well with the messy character.

We planned to move the bed into the centre of the room as this would allow us to use the space around it to fill with the credits and allow for panning shots.

As a group, we realised that we would have to remove certain parts of the room, such as names and photos of the boy whose room it is, as this could distract or confuse the audience towards the personality or identity of our character.

However some aspects could be kept, such as guitars and guitar amps, that build the background and interests of the character. As well as this, the bottle tops on the wall could be taken off and scattered on the floor to add to her messy persona and underage drinking, enhancing the theme of drugs once again as well as the genre of comedy drama.

When taking pictures of the bedroom, I decided to take a picture of the bed from a high angle, as this is what we desired to do during the actual filming of the opening, to allow a sense of what it would look like in the final piece.