Pre-Production: Production Log Week 5

This week we focused on aspects such as the monologue and locations for shooting.

Our idea of a monologue running throughout the trailer was influenced by the film 'Trainspotting.'

Our main character will be speaking about his life whilst a variation of cut up clips are shown throughout the majority of the 2 minute sequence.

Together we both came up with our own brief couple of paragraphs to get an idea of what the monologue would be sounding like from both of our point of views. Although we have still not come up with the final piece, our ideas are strong and focused. Now all we must do is wait until the sequence is fully edited and adapt our monologue to the plot of the opening to ensure a clear connotation of themes and ideas.


After thinking of as many different locations locally as possible we came up with two final ideas, one which was a dark alley way with some graffiti and liter etc. However the lighting was not good enough to sustain a clear image throughout each shot unless we had majorly expensive lighting equipment which would not be suitable for our brief as it is out of our budget.

This led on to us finding a new location locally, which was hassle as our actors were fairly inpatient and annoyed by the fact that this meant a five minute walk! However, we did make it and it was worth it as the location was perfect in terms of its natural lighting, mise-en-scene including tonnes of graffiti and general grittiness that we were looking for. (shown below)