Planning meeting #5

Today we planned to storyboard & begin our basic sketches in order to go on to create an animatic sequence. However when enquiring into renting locations for our 60s/70s style disco we had found that we were facing many more barriers that originally perceived. Financially & in relation to extras & props / dressing a venue, we knew that the idea's we had were perhaps to large for the reality of our resources. We decided that perhaps we should begin to think about other iconic events which we could perhaps twist into a visually interesting scene for the 60s or the 70s, I suggested touching on the liberation & push for change that was ever evolving throughout the decade. I felt that a protest (anti-war, anti nuclear development, women's lib, anti thatcher etc) may be a simpler way of creating an affective / multi casted scene without having to use a drab location that would look like a poor attempt at a 1970's location. The exterior locations which would be freely available EG: local streets in areas like Surbiton where the architecture is very 70s (being built in this decade) - would create a lack of any attempted & failed authenticity & hopefully therefore deliver a stronger final product. Additionally we had originally planned to devise a 1940's  war style hall dance or as a second choice a family style deferential dinner. However one of our group members informed us that they have an authentic bomb shelter in their back garden, and thus this seemed a perfect location for a war time scene. We want each location to denote such obvious connections to each particular era & clarify our intentional effect & internal meaning behind the female protagonists journey. Finally we needed to start thinking about where we would film our band performance shots, we debated between using a green screen & later editing in either a simple white backdrop or an exterior location + using either our school hall or booking in one of the drama studios. I felt that one of the drama studios would be most affective, as we would have the option to using the green screen in there or cut between this location and shots filmed on the GS. I spoke to the head of our drama dept and secured availability, I knew that this space would then allow us to play around with different lighting styles, something which when making our opening sequences the previous year we had little chance to do, and something which is key for effect & aroma in the most professional music videos / band concerts / gigs / performances in general.