Film Planning: Final Idea

We have decided to use Idea no.1 as our final idea. Our idea is that we’re going to have a middle-aged man sat in the stands of the race track, reminiscing about his time as a driver. The ex-driver will also be disabled, after an accident he had previously in the sport. the voice over will be read by this character, and will be slow paced and emotional, whilst it slowly reveals the plot behind the film (if it were made). We have decided to not reveal his disability to the audience until the last take in the opening, however we do not know how to do this yet. 
The first logistical problem we talked about was actually getting a wheelchair for the injured man to sit in. We need to go and ask school medical to see if they have one there that we could borrow for the day of filming. If we can’t find the wheelchair we will have to find crutches or something else which symbolises how dramatically he was hurt in this crash, unless we are able to find a wheelchair from another source. 
During the opening sequence we are planning on doing a long shot of the man in the garage surrounded by girls, which then fades into a long shot of him sat in his wheelchair in the same garage. This conforms to the stereotype of disabled people that they’re not as popular as abled people, and it also makes the audience feel sorry and sympathise for the older man which is what we want as he’s the protagonist.

We also need to source some props to include in our opening scene which might be difficult. We need trophies and newspapers to show how successful this driver was before his crash, and we’re going to make some fake newspapers with headlines about his success and then about his crash. We also want to include a yellow flag, which highlights that there has been a crash on the track which will just make sure that the audience knows that there was an accident. 

 For costumes we need to source a race-suit for the younger man to wear which will signify that he was in fact a driver and it will be a comparison to the ‘normal’ jeans and t-shirt that we’re going to have the older man in. We want to conform to the stereotype of older men and make him wear dull and boring colours, which will show a comparison to how exciting his life used to be compared to how it is now. 

We also talked about character and casting. As we’ve decided we need an young adult to be in our opening, we need to find and cast one who will be available for filming the whole day we have on the track. This could be a problem because if we ask a teacher they may not be free for the whole day and it will be difficult getting a student out of lessons for an entire day. 

The last thing we need to look at is the sound and lighting in our shots. For most of the shots we don’t want any ambient sound and just want the voice over. This means that we need it to be silent when we film, however we could just edit the sound out. For our inside shots we need to make sure that the lighting is good enough to film. We’re going to take test shots in the room we were planning on using to see if we need to add artificial light to make the quality of the shot better.