Task Ten: Costume Choice

C O S T U M E   C H O I C E S

The costumes we have chosen to use within our opening sequence are predominantly black. The black colour is used in order to appear stealthy and subtle. We are going to use black hoodies and black balaclavas to cover our faces, giving a sense of hidden identity.

We have chosen to use this basic balaclava in order for our characters to appear stealthy and professional. Moreover, this balaclava could represent a sense of danger and suspense, a main feeling we want the audience to experience from our opening sequence.

These two pictures above are broadly similar to the costumes we have chosen to use for our opening sequence. the black clothing could give the impression that we are more professional than your average mercenary. the black gloves show our professionalism on how we cover our tracks. this is matched with back shoes and trousers.

There is only one differing costume from the rest, and that is the costume of Hades. He will wear a grey suit and a black button-up shirt, representing a 'Godfather' figure. Similarly

Task Nine: Casting Shots

Below are the profiles for our characters:

Name: Michael Nyame
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Height: 5"8
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Brown
Preferred Hand: Right
Character(s): Reaper

We have chosen to cast Michael as the character 'Reaper' because of his sarcastic personality and dry humour. Moreover, his overall deadpan facial expression, posture and physique fits well with the idea of a stereotypical sarcastic person, as his character generally has the stance and face of someone who will not easily crack a smile. We want the character of Reaper to be someone that is quick on his feet, and easy to act stealthily with during missions. When choosing the characters for our opening sequence, we concluded that Michael best suited this character.


Name: Charlie Netherclift
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Height: 5"9.5
Hair Colour: Dark Brown
Eye Colour: Blue/grey
Preferred Hand: Right
Character(s): Odin

The character of 'Odin' portrays the stereotypical leader of an army or militia, as he is bossy, but always has the best interests for him and his team. We have chosen Charlie for this character because he gives a sense of a leadership, and we feel that the character of 'Odin' somewhat reflects Charlie's confident yet laid back personality.


Name: Yassir Elbashir
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Height: 5"11
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Brown
Preferred Hand: Ambidextrous 
Character(s): Oracle/Hades

Yassir's Characters, 'Oracle' and 'Hades' are contrasting characters. Oracle is the 'eye in the sky' for the rebel squad, and is a computer whiz which is similar to Yassir's traits as he is knowledgeable with a computer. On the other hand is 'Hades' who is the commander of the enemy group that the KVA are at war with. Hades was a good role for Yassir as he has the serious look on his face and fits in with the type of clothing we want him to wear. Yassir did not chose the role, the role chose Yassir.


Name: George Skeet
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Height: 6"3
Hair Colour: Dirty Blonde
Preferred Hand: Right
Character(s): Hulk

We chose George for the role of 'Hulk', plainly because of his size. 'Hulk' is the strongest member of the group. However, his mentality lets him down, due to the fact that he is not that intelligent, however, due to his size and strength, he is a valuable member of the unit.

Task Eight: Location Shots

Location

We took various shots around the school. These pictures may be used as location shots for our opening sequence. 

Alley way

We took this picture because we felt that it will be a good spot for one of our main scenes within the opening sequence which involves someone dropping a package off to the main group. We thought this location was best because it is well hidden and secretive. This adds a sense of realism to the scene.

School Entrance

We chose this location because it shows the main entrance to the setting which will become significant when using any establishing shots. It will also be used as a place for the characters to meet before doing a mission or objective.

Classroom

The classroom was chosen for consideration as one of our main base of operation. for the actual filming of the sequence the tables will be flipped and posters will be ripped down to make it look more like a place of war environment. 

stairs

We chose the stairs as a location because we thought that it would look good for a scene that involves all of the characters running up the stairs with their weapons. This would be a tense scene (possibly a chase scene) to make the sequence more dramatic.

Corridor

We decided to use the corridor as one of the locations because it leads up to the main base which is the classroom. Many of the shots will be filmed in corridors as it adds a claustrophobic feel which makes the audience feel like they are really there.

Classroom with computers

This is another idea for the type of classroom we want to film in. It has a lot of computers which will be involved in our sequence for one of the characters who specialises in computing. We liked the idea of this character having more than one computer to work with. However, we are still considering this and it is not definite.

Task Seven: Target Audience Data and Research

Our opening sequence is aimed predominantly at the age categories of 15-25. We feel that this is a suitable age to base our film around, as it would contain violence, explicit language and brief scenes of gory images. We also feel that the film would appeal more to the male genre than the female genre, due to the content we will show within our opening sequence. We have chosen to conduct a survey to find out who our best target audience would be.

Below is a survey for you to conduct to tie your opinions on a target audience.

We used these questions in hope that it will help us decide on who our final target audience will be. The results are below.

As you can see from the votes given below, our films opening sequence will not be aimed at any specific gender, but more aimed at a 12 to 18 year old age group. Moreover, will we use gun fights, and potentially a car chase in order to raise audience satisfaction levels. The overall age rating of our film will be certificate 15 from the BBFC rating system.