Final Preps:

Now all of our preparations are finished, I am now ready to write up the final idea for my 2 minute film opening! What follows below will be what all filming will be based upon and followed to as a strong guide.

In this post, I am going to incorporate the following points:

• Detailed biography's of the characters
• Who are the actors
• Script
• Plan
• Prop List

Final 2 minute idea:
Well, our main character is a very disturbed girl, and goes by the name of Lucy Maverick (Fionna Monk). She was an ordinary girl for most of her life until one fateful day where her life changed forever. Attending a lecture at one of the most prestigious universities in England, LSE - London School of Economics, taken by Professor Hawk (Duncan Rowe) of the Universities Theory of Maths department she finds herself being drawn into a mysterious and savage world, where numbers are used to control people's lives and are made to commit some terrible acts of robbery, murder and gene side. Our two minute opening begins with that fateful lecture where her life begins to be taken over by the Evil Professor. It generally sets the scene of who our characters are, whats happening and vaguely why.

Lucy Maverick: Born and raised in Oxford, she attended Headingtons School for Girls where she developed a great passion for Maths and the uses of it in real life. With her Father gone, she has only her rather old and senile Mother as family. At the age of 13, she was walking along the streets of oxford late at night on her way home when she witnesses a murder being committed just down the road from her. She is instantly traumatized by this event and lays the groundwork for how she comes to be possessed in the film. Keeping this a secret all her life that she knew anything of this terrible tragedy. Now at the age of 19, the event still haunts her to this day, she still feels responsible for this event, that she did not rush over and help the poor victim. It is not until the end of the film does she reach a form of peace with herself. Achieving an A+ in her Maths and Physics exams at A-Level, she then decided to follow on her skills in maths by attending the London School of Economics where the film begins. We see her right from the start of her year right through to the end.

Professor Hawk: The Evil professor hell bent on recruiting as many servants for her devious scheme of mass murder of all the people he faces to lose too. For about 20 years now he has been hypnotizing his lecture students and using to do his dirty work. He has no morals from a very restricted background, of a very punishing Father and with no Mother to look after him and show him love he is a lost soul hell bent on revenge on anyone who has ever angered him by the cruelest means. Now at the age of 55, he is more dangerous than he has ever been before. It was he who organized the murder in Oxford to which Lucy was an unfortunate bystander. He is a predator of the young and disposable, using them for his own devious ends, hence the name 'Hawk'.

Script: The script is very minimal for the most part of the opening sequence. The only real dialogue spoken is by Professor Hawk during his opening Lecture:

Stage opens to a typical lecture theater. Students are dotted around the seating at irregular intervals. The overall impression is that this is not a popular subject by the lack of students attending. Our main character is seated nearer the top of the auditorium closest to the stairwell, away from the main speaker down below. She is wearing smart-casual clothes, maybe jeans and a jacket and is listening with mild interest at the speaker below. The Speaker in question is Professor J. Hawk. He is an older Gentleman. He wears a formal suit and stands to the left of the projector screen which is taking up much of the main stage holding a small remote which will later be used to control the screen. At this moment, nothing is being shown.

P.Hawk: Ok, quiet down please, quiet down. Welcome to the Theory of Numbers. I am Professor Hawk, I will be taking all of your lectures for this subject.
Numbers can be used to manipulate, intoxify and destroy a computers line of code so that the hacker may gain access to the information stored upon it. The most common examples are up on the screen now.

Professor uses the remote to activate the projector. On the projector screen flash up lists of number codes all in uniform grid pattern, distinctly separate from each other.

Continuing... P.Hawk: These are all examples of codes which can be used to take over a computers data base. They can be used to make it do anything to our will.
Now of course, I am not talking about any particular computer, the computer in question is the human mind. Using these codes, we can use them to break into anyone's subconscious, including this one...

He uses the remote to the projector. Behind him flashes up the symbol for Pi (3.14...)

Continuing... P.Hawk: (With a menacing grin). Pi.

From this point, concentration is now back on our main character as she has a nervous breakdown at seeing the symbol. In the background students may begin to murmur in surprise. Lucy after a few short moments collapses in her seat and falls out onto the stairwell, there may be a few gasps from students as she falls.

End of Scene.


Character choices: 
Fionna Monk (Lucy Maverick): I chose Fionna to play the lead role, not only cause she herself is Asian in origin appealing to the audiences stereotype that all Asian students are some of the cleverest in our Universities, but also cause she herself is quite experienced in acting and came highly recommended to me to play the part. She also fills the ideal criteria for the role. Shes short, Asian but with a strong sense of assertiveness and is very confident in playing her role.

Duncan Rowe (Professor John Hawk): I chose Duncan to be the Evil Professor cause he too has experience in drama and performing, but also he can bring across a real sense of forbidding about him, making the audience immediately feel completely anti his character. His features create a feeling of presence and power and make him ideal for the role.

Prop List: I require very few props in my video, however the few I do are listed below:

• Mobile hand-held audio capture device
• Projector remote
• Projector screen + projector
• Podium
• Maths booklet
• School bag
• Headphones + audio player

Plan: I'm splitting the different sections of the filming processes into weeks, one particular task per week:

Week 1: Organize casting; Find date where both actors can be on one set, book venue for filming, organize extras to act as other students, collect together necessary props.

Week 2: Brief both my main actors on their roles and assign scripts to both of them to learn. Create other material which I would need in the video e.g. power point with numerals on

Week 3: Film the entire of the lecture scene and load into editing software. Film entire of other scenes and also load into editing software

Week 4 & 5: Edit video together, adding in desired audio effects+music.

Week 6: Finalize video and finish.