Storyboards

Today my group finished creating our storyboards.
Here are 2 of the 21 pages. 

Screenplay Draft 4

We as a group have been working on our screenplay and today managed to finish our work and create a screenplay that we and our teachers are happy with. Below I will attach a copy of the screenplay's final edit;

The Leap year, Final Edit Screenplay 4

Production schedule

We intend to have our final draft of the screenplay completed tomorrow and also begin to create our storyboard and shot lists. We intend to finish all preparatory work by or during the Thursday lesson but we will definitely be filming Monday, and we should have all our necessary footage by the end of the day on Monday. Our screenplay should be posted by the end of the day tomorrow and soon after the storyboard too should be complete. Whilst a few members of our group complete the storyboards (Me and Alisha) The other two members will be creating costume lists and shot lists (Jamie and Ryan) whilst working on separate things our group members will be all working together, e.g. Me and Alisha will still contribute to the costume ideas/lists etc. 

Screenplay Draft 3

We've finished a third draft of the screenplay and intend to adjust it further, a copy of the 3rd draft can be found belowLeap Year draft 3

Lesson Summary

Today we've begun to finalise our screenplay and have also received comments from our teachers about our ideas. We've decided that we need to cut down our screenplay as it'll be much too long and not fit within our 2 minute time limit. We've decided that we will keep the party montage but may have to re-arrange the sequence of events. We plan to continue adjusting our sequence and have a final draft by the end of the week. 

Shot list (Basic/Preliminary)

When filming our Opening sequence my group will be making use of the following shot types/camera movements:

• Slightly jerky/shaky movement- freehand (mainly during the party sequence)
• Extreme close up shots (again mainly during the party sequence also of the mobile phone as it rings)
• Close up shots of Louis as he awakens
• Change of focus (When reaching for the phone, the background is first out of focus with the only clear image that of the phone then it changes so that the phone is out of focus and Louis no longer is)
• From here onwards we would use a variety of long to mid shots
• We would make use of a tracking shots when Bonnie is walking towards the park
• We would possibly make use of Point of View camera work when they find Barry
• When they find Barry we would also use reaction shots
• throughout we might make use of panning or tilting (Tilt would be mainly to showcase the strange costume they're wearing)
• I think that overall we'd use more flat angle than low or high angled shots

Screenplay draft 2

Leap Year Screenplay Version 2