Pre - Production Planning

• The theme we would like to base our production on is 'Social Realism'.
• Ideas we have liked/been inspired by from research.:
  

1. Working class families (Wasp/Eight)
   
2. Monologues (Eight)
3. Change in pace (long/short & fast/slow shots) (Lou Lou Lives Here)
4. Remaining in the same setting (Elevator)
5. Restrcited narrative.

• Favouring the idea of following a male child and his struggles with bullying and family issues. (Monologue explaining the situation) - Holding auditions for AS performing students.
• Attract an audience for both adults and teenagers, as they could relate to the situation as well as empathise with the character.
• Key shots we would like to use will be close ups and extreme long shots. This is to convey facial expressions to show the victim's emotions as well as showing how lonely and distant he is from the rest of society. By doing this, we fell that the audience can empathise and maybe sympathise with Jimmy. Although using these shots specifically, we are still going to use various shots and camera techniques to ensure that we have a lot of variety.
• The name of the film will be 'Anonymous'
• The name of the lead role will be 'Jimmy'. We have chosen this name over others such as Jack and James because it sounds like a 'rough' name and could be something that you are bullied for as it is not very popular.
• The reason to why he is being bullied is due to his father being in prison, this has effected his home life, including his mother.
  
• When filming we are going to try and include the college or school environment, a park and a lower class way of living. We may try and film in a block of flats as this portrays an element of being less 'well-off'.
• To focus attention on the protagonist, we will include the voices (and possibly a blurred identity) of other characters as we want the main focus to be on Jimmy.
• We have already discussed what our possible first 10 shots could be so a storyboard including those is soon to be made.
• The list of props we would like to include: Crusha, milk, cheap trainers, make up (for bruise), phone.
• All 3 of us will be taking the role as an editor, director/camera person, casting director and searcher for locations. This is important as we feel all our opinions count in every aspect of making this film so we are willing to put our input into everything and not rely on one person to do a certain sector.