Film Title

With some thought and brainstorming of titles, we came up with lots of one word ideas such as 'Pursuit' and 'Chase' but none of them felt quite right, so we thought literal. What happens in our film? Where's our film set? This lead us to 'Suicide on Southwark Street' which also gave us alliteration to emphasises the title.

We created a title on Photoshop which we could use for any film related products such as a DVD cover or theatrical poster. The main problem with creating this sign was that Univers which is the main font used on street signs is very hard to get hold of so we had to find a similar font to it for our film title which was Univers. Unfortunately it's not able to be transferred into LiveType or iMovie so we couldn't use it in our final task.

Green Screen

We intended on having a cut scene whereby you saw Emily (Katrina) in front of sped up traffic for dramatic effect. To do this we needed to shoot at a green screen with Emily (Katrina) then film traffic for more time than we needed so we could speed it up. At the Blue Fin building we used a green screen but were left to our own devices without supervision to shoot at it. The end product after superimposing Emily (Katrina) onto the traffic and speeding it up looked good, the only problem with it was that we hadn't used bright enough lights in the studio therefore Emily (Katrina) body was almost strobing and sometimes the green screen bled through.

To solve this we tried to take the image of Katrina into Final Cut Express and clean it up with a chroma keyer then loop one frame continuously through the clip and add a video effect, this worked but didn't look very realistic and we decided it wasn't up to the standard of the rest of our work so did not include it in our final task.

Here's the final product:

Making Fake Blood

What technology have we used?

Filming Permission for Final Task

Above: Letter from the Facilities Manager of the Blue Fin Building
confirming permission for us to film.

Problems with Plot/Setting

To film at places such as Waterloo Station, Weybridge Station and on the train you need filming permission  so we set about it. I spent approximately 1 hour of time trying to find out who to contact on the phone to people from Southwest Trains and National Rail about filming permission only to get through to the person I needed and be told that they had 'too many requests at the moment, and that they could not provide permission for us to film at these locations or on the train. So we hit a brick wall with that part of our plot and setting!

This leaves us with the rest of the plot which we feel we can create our task without the train station and on-train footage as it isn't essential to the plot. This may however influence the fluency of our piece moving from the house to the building in London.

Target Audience and Rating

Our film like most thrillers, will not be suitable for young children, we have scenes of a disturbing nature such as suicide therefore these are not issues or events young children should be watching/experiencing. After looking on BBFC website and reading through the classification for each rating. We decided that due to scenes of imitable behaviour e.g. suicide, that impressionable people such as children could try and copy this and therefore we should rate it as a 15.

Our target audience will be people in their late teens as the actors will look similar to their age so they will be able to relate, this doesn't mean that older people are not in our target audience as they are very much included. This film will be suitable for everyone apart from people under the age of 15 years.