Perfecting the concept

Finally managed to get our long awaited vlog onto YouTube and onto our blogs! During last fridays lesson, I think we all felt as though our two minute opening had lost its spark. After rather a stressful morning trying to figure how we could incorporate some sort of story base rather than just simply travelling throughout London, we came up with a 'Salt' inspired idea, based on the transition from quirky traveler to spy

Initial Pitch

Story boarding

Today we thought we'd story board all of the locations we plan to use. It's particularly important that we do this because a lot of our filming is in central London, so preparation is key. We're finding it particularly difficult to schedule filming times that we can all meet, as we all seem to have jobs and school work. It seems our beloved, relaxing Sundays are definitely going to suffer.

Concept Vlog

Brainstorming

These are just the notes that we made yesterday during our concept brainstorming/little meeting in Starbucks. Rachel cleverly thought to actually bring a pen and paper, unlike the rest of us. We just spent the afternoon jotting down pointers, genres and any props that popped into our heads, in order to go from there. Overall it was a very successful afternoon, particularly as we had the vision of us just talking the whole way through the brainstorming, it seems our group definitely knows when to just get down to work, which is always good.

Possible filming locations

Yesterday our group finalised a few possible filming locations that we would like to incorporate within our film. We definitely want to take of advantage of living in a central location. From very early on we liked the idea of possibly filming from within the London eye, the plan would be for two to go up and two to stay down, doing whatever various actions we decided. We just feel that this shot (if successful and planned thoroughly) would add effect and depth to our film. We are still in the early stages of preparation and therefore perhaps ultimately we will not use one or two of these locations, although at present these are definitely strong contenders. It is clear from our locations we've chosen that the film involves a sense of travel, using this we want to create quick sharp movements, creating a fast pace and tension. Although these locations involve us travelling a lot in order to achieve the shots, we are definitely committed and therefore shall power through.