Film: Draft

This is our first draft of our film. There is a lot that can be worked on as well as fixed. One of our group members Jane didn't act in the film; however, we all did an equal about of work.

Schedule Filming

We filmed on 12/17/17. Due to the project having to bet submitted the following week we needed to get a lot done within that date. We started filming around 12:30 and it took us all the way till dark. Everything went smooth and well. We even got permission from all the locations we filmed at. As a whole the filming and blogging process was a success.

Casting Roles

A couple of our friends have a passion for cars. We knew it would be easy to gather some of them up to be in our film because it's what we do for fun; car meets. When it came to casting the main characters we took into consideration everyone's personality and who we felt fit the role best. The main character is named Austin Jones; he is a confident young man who also likes to live on the dangerous side. The second leading role is Don Brevito "Rampage"; he is also confident; however, he never goes down without a fight. We casted Trey as Austin and Josh as Don. We felt that both of their personalities really fit with the characters. Another character we have is Steven Puchulla. We casted our friend Caleb for this role because they both are very reliable and always willing to help. Lastly, I am Brittney Angel. I am the girl in the film who ends up with the winner of the race. Jane wasn't too interested in acting and being in the film, so she helped a lot behind the scene.  

Location

We have chosen 3 different locations for the opening of our film. For our first location we figured we couldn't film kids running from a bank with "guns"; therefore, we chose a building that looked similar to a bank. We found this location because one of our friend's (Tristan) dad owns a business right next to it. Our 2nd location was at the Buddy Brew Parking garage which is where the robbers switch cars as part of their escape technique. When it came to the racing and car meet scene we needed a long safe road. We figured that the Church of Hope would be a great spot to do this at because it is never busy and is off of the main road. Finally, our last location was Josh's house. This was when Trey (Austin) was released from jail 5 years later finding "The List".

Parking Garage

Car Meet

Parking Garage Entrance

Racing Road

The Bank

Story Board

As a group we decided to have Jane sketch out our story board. Trey, Josh, and I aren't skilled when it comes to drawing. We worked together to give ideas for each shot and this was the turn out..

Shot List

On 12/13/17 my group and I met up again to come up with a shot list. This gave us a basic outline of the different camera shots we plan on taking when we begin filming. We incorporated a variety of different camera, shots, angles, and movement.

Shot List

1.    Mid shot: Tyler and Trey running

2.    Low angle: Front of car

3.    Close up: Tyler when speaks

4.    Shot reverse shot (close up): Trey when speaks

5.    Low Angle (of rear): s550 leaving bank

6.    Pan: s550 entering garage

7.    Low-angle mid-shot: Camaro and the s550 in the parking garage

8.    Long shot: Camaro pulling into meet

9.    Low angle tracking: Door opening Trey gets out (feet)

10. Transition over the shoulder: trey walking towards Josh

11. Shot reverse shot (over the shoulder) mid shot over Josh

12. Two Shot: Trey & Josh talking (Josh drops duffle)

13. Low angle: 2 cars pulling up to drag race line

14. Insert shot: exhaust (revving)

15. Low Angle: cars from front

16. Shot Reverse Shot (low angle): cars driving away

17. Tracking (inside civic) at Camaro

18. Low angle of finish line (Camaro winning)

19. Wide shot: cars pulling back to meet (both get out of cars)

20. Mid Shot: Josh cocks gun

21. Eye line match: (Josh looking at Trey)

22. Hand held tracking: Josh walking towards Trey (everyone rushing in)

23. Insert Shot: bystander handing Trey keys

24. Over shoulder of Trey: Cierra walks up to him

25. Two Shot: Cierra & Trey

26. Close Up: Trey “Austin, Austin Jones”

27. Transition to over the shoulder: Cop car pulling up behind

28. Over the shoulder shot: police officer and Trey slowly turning around

29. Two shot: police officer cuffing trey

30. Tracking shot: Trey being put in the back of the police car.

31. Downwards pan: police station entrance stop at mid-shot of trey walking out

32. Close up: Trey answering the phone

33. Insert shot: letter in back pocket of jeans

34. Insert shot: open letter transition to pan up from the letter

35. End scene

Script

      On 12/6/17 my group and I met up to begin brainstorming about our opening. We came up with a basic sequence of events and then began writing our script. As I typed it out, Jane, Josh, Trey, and I all put together our creative ideas and this was the outcome...

11. Ext. Bank – mid day

Austin and Steven run around the corner with duffle bags to be picked up in Mercedes s550.

Trey: (yelling) Lets go! Lets go! Lets go!

Tyler: (worried) I’m freaking out! We’re going to get caught.

Trey: Don’t worry we’re fine.

They speed to a parking garage to change and switch cars.

Cut to: Car meet

22. Ext. Car Meet – mid day

They pull up to the car meet

Trey: You said come back when I have enough to risk.

Josh: You think this is some sort of joke? Even if you had the funds there’s no way you could beat me in a quarter mile.

Trey:(confident) I got a hunnid racks I’ll win.

Josh: Bet it’s on

Don pulls out a matching duffle bag and drops it on the ground. They get into their cars and the race begins. Austin wins. The cars pull back up to the main meet and get out. Don pulls out a gun and cocks it and aims it at Austin. Everyone at the meet swarms Don and takes the gun from him.

Random car person:(screams) WOAH! WOAH! WOAH! NOT COOL.

The guy then takes his keys and hands it to Austin.

Brittney: What’s your name again?

The girls walk over to Austin and he places his arms around them.

Trey: Austin. Austin Jones

Immediately squad cars pull up with sirens and lights

Cop: Are you Austin jones?

Trey: Yes?

Cop: Place your hands behind your back you are under arrest.

Cop reads Miranda Rights while he throws Austin into the back of the car.

Cut to: Jail

Austin walks out of jail.

His phone rings saying unknown. He answers.

Unknown caller: There’s a letter placed in the back pocket of your pants. It contains all of the men that set you up. You decide what to do.