Research and Planning: Storyboard artist Martin Asbury

Martin Asbury is one of the most renound storyboard artist who has worked on films such as the da vinci code, Harry Potter and James Bond. In making the storyboard for our opening we looked at his work to see what professional storyboards look like and what sort of work goes in to them.
http://www.martinasbury.com/sb_dvc4.html Link to his website and part of the storyboard for the Da Vinci Code. The image to the left if from Quantom of Solace.

Research and Planning: Synopsis of Whole Film

Synopsis

Recurrence

Set in a suburban town a young girl is praying in a very ritualistic way. Yet she is being watched, she kneels down and says the Lord’s prayer which are her last words as she is murdered horrifically by an unknown assailant.

Present day Lara and Paul Allgood daughter and father, have bought a new house near the town center and ideal for Paul to commute to work, yet little do they know that there is much more in store for them as they are moving in to the house where the girl was killed 80 years ago. They arrive at the house and begin to unpack boxes, Lara who is not all together happy about the move places a box on the hallway table, after coming back to the hall after collecting another box, she sees that the box has moved.

After moving in Paul receives a phone call telling him that he is needed at work a day earlier than expected and so he leaves his daughter alone in the house. Lara wakes up and sees that her dad is gone, and so takes the opportunity to explore the local area. She takes a stroll along the river behind the property where she meets Matt Simmons, who turns out to be her next-door neighbour, who after startling Lara offers to help her any time she needs him. Back at the house things begin to change, pictures have been moved and it looks as if the house is trying to get her to follow its inner depths.

Paul arrives home to find Lara hysterical and after discovering the root of the problem is just an “unlikely” and “unrealistic” tale about the supernatural he fails to believe her and thinks that she is merely making it up to get out of the place she didn’t want to move to. Terrified Lara calls upon Matt to help her and together they begin to explore the house finding more than they could ever bargain for.

The house is standing on a secret, a secret that no one has ever understood or never wanted to understand. That everything that we know is wrong. The world does not work in the way people assume. Time, is thought to run in a straight line with the past behind and the future in front. Which until 2000 years ago was correct, but a travesty occurred causing time to change so that everyone would be equally treated for the way the world has acted. Time now travels in a circle and the horrific things of the past come back and haunt everyone forever. And the next person to have time fall upon them is Paul and Lara.

Lara and Matt begin to search desperately to find the answer to setting the souls free. But time is running out the souls are becoming restless and soon Lara and Matt come t realise that the house will never leave them alone. 

THE PAST ALWAYS REPEATS ITSELF

RECURRENCE. 

Research and Planning: Dialogue

The script does not involve much dialogue as we wanted the audience to be actively involved in the film and so it is up to them to fill the blanks. We thought that having less dialogue in the first few scenes would mean that the audience would feel the uneasiness that we wanted the opening to portray.

Research and Planning: Sound and Music

We have decided that we wish to leave selecting music to after the filming is completed as we believe that this would allow us to create a more effective sound with in the film and so composing will begin once the editing starts.

Research and Planning: BLS MEDIA PRODUCTIONS

BLS Media Productions is a new production company, which is based in Pinewood Studios. We work on making major motion pictures for the ever growing British film industry. We are currently a low budget company that focuses on the story lines and basics of a film in order to make something great. Recurrence is our first major film yet we have made short films such as:
-The Briefcase
We consist of a production office supported by Debbie McWilliams and Shaheen Beige. And in the past have had funding from Film Four and The British Film Council.

Research and Planning: Props

The props that we need for filming are:
-A white lace night dress
- Candles
- Land River Discovery
-Boxes
-Hall Table


The main mise-en-scene that we want to be in the film is the house itself as that is the main history of the story. And so by using simplistic props the story will not be overshadowed by the mise-en-scene.

Research and Planning: Title Ideas

1.  Continuous
2. Unknown
3. Recurrence
4. Fate
5. Return of the Unknown
6. Replication 
7. Duplication
8. Repeat
9. Recurring Nightmare
10. Return
11. Chosen Destiny
12. Nightmare

We Chose Recurrence as we believed that it suited the concept of the film the most. As recurrence is about time and history repeating itself for justice of the souls to be reached.

Research and Planning: Synopsis of Opening

The film begins with a scene set 80 years ago. A young girl is seen playing for her life, before an unknown killer murders her. RECURRENCE appears on the screen with the sound of the girl screaming. The scene then changes to present day where Lara and Paul Allgood are moving in to their new house, the very same house as seen in the first scene. Lara begins to move in the boxes, yet soon realises that they are not alone in the house.

Research and Planning: Copyright Infringement Law Concerning Music

If the composer of the piece has been deceased for over 70 years then the copyright has not been infringed.

Research and Planning : Cast and Crew Confirmation

Cast
Girl: Charlotte Harris
Paul : Paul Allgood
Lara : Lara Allgood


Crew:
Production Company: BLS Media
Directed by: Sarah Harris
Written By: Rebecca Atkinson
Filmed by: Lara Allgood, Sarah Harris, Rebecca Atkinson
Hair and Make up: Lara Allgood


The above are confirmed cast and crew for the shooting of the opening 3/02/12


Music is to be composed and added in the editing stage.

Research and Planning: Animatic of original storyboard

This is the Animatic of our storyboard for our film recurrence.

Research and Planning: Original synopsis for Recurrence

Synopsis

Recurrence

Set in a suburban town a young girl is praying in a very ritualistic way. Yet she is being watched, she kneels down and says the Lord’s prayer which are her last words as she is murdered horrifically by an unknown assailant.

Present day Lara and Paul Allgood daughter and father, have bought a new house near the town center and ideal for Paul to commute to work, yet little do they know that there is much more in store for them as they are moving in to the house where the girl was killed 80 years ago. They arrive at the house and begin to unpack boxes, Lara who is not all together happy about the move places a box on the hallway table, after coming back to the hall after collecting another box, she sees that the box has moved.

After moving in Paul receives a phone call telling him that he is needed at work a day earlier than expected and so he leaves his daughter alone in the house. Lara wakes up and sees that her dad is gone, and so takes the opportunity to explore the local area. She takes a stroll along the river behind the property where she meets Matt Simmons, who turns out to be her next-door neighbour, who after startling Lara offers to help her any time she needs him. Back at the house things begin to change, pictures have been moved and it looks as if the house is trying to get her to follow its inner depths.

Paul arrives home to find Lara hysterical and after discovering the root of the problem is just an “unlikely” and “unrealistic” tale about the supernatural he fails to believe her and thinks that she is merely making it up to get out of the place she didn’t want to move to. Terrified Lara calls upon Matt to help her and together they begin to explore the house finding more than they could ever bargain for.

The House is standing on a secret 300 years ago hundreds of people were killed in the very spot where the house was built. And so for the rest of time the souls of those who died will haunt the house and kill all those who live in it. And the souls next victims are paul and Lara 

Lara and Matt begin to desperately search for the answer, to try and change the way in which time was changed, if it was changed once before maybe it can be changed again. They believe that the key is to try and find out what caused time to change originally and if they can find that and do the opposite then maybe time will change, but time is running out they have a few hours and a house that will never leave them alone.

THE PAST ALWAYS REPEATS ITSELF

RECURRENCE. 

Research and Planning: BBFC Age Rating Certification

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/guidelines/15-2/


We think that the age rating of '15' would be the option in accordance with the bbfc age rating certification link which is above. We also wish to target our film at that particular age range as the main characters are ages 15-17 and so we believe that it will appear to that audience the best.

Research and Planning: Time Schedule

Monthly

November: Research
December: Planning
January: Planning/Filming
February: Post-Production
March: Post-Production/Evaluation

Weekly

Jan 2nd - 6th (Planning)
Jan 9th - 13th (Planning)
Jan 16th - 20th (Filming) [Weekend: (21st & 22nd) Film First Half]
Jan 23rd - 27th (Filming) [Weekend: (28th & 29th) Film Second Half]
Jan 30th - Feb 3rd (Filming)
Feb 6th - 10th (Post-Production)

[HALF TERM]

Feb 20th - 24th (Post-Production)
Feb 27th - Mar 3rd (Post-Production)
Mar 5th - 9th (Post-Production)
Mar 12th - 16th (Post-Production)
Mar 19th - 23rd (Evaluation)
Mar 26th - 30th (Evaluation)

[EASTER HOLIDAYS]

Research and Planning: History of Victorian Lighting

Our opening scene is set in the Victorian Era and so to be as accurate as possible the room would need to be properly lit yet with as little influence of electric light as possible and so this document has a detailed history in brief of Victorian light.
http://www.ironbridge.org.uk/downloads/

Research and Planning: Foundation Portfolio Storyboard draft