Prop and costume list

Props list
3 Mountain bikes
1 BMX
Post (including advertisement for race)
Green jumper

Costume list
1 set of:
Dark red hoodie
Dark clothing

3 sets of:
Coats
Jeans
Bicycle protection

Our original choice of music

The clip below shows a sample of the music we originally wanted to use for our opening sequence. However, this choice of music was not from a copyright-free source, therefore, we were left no choice but to resort to a less fitting and copyright-free substitute.



- Freddie Meade

Location

We looked at other films of the same genre of ours, which we decided was sports comedy; we looked at cool runnings because it shared a few of our conventions. Donnie Darko was another film we looked at and thought the location at the start of the film where Donnie wakes up on a hill looked good. Obviously we couldn’t find a nearby mountain so we decided a hill and bikes would be good, this is where we took an idea from cool runnings to base it on a sports comedy.

The location we used was a spinney going down a steep hill; this was perfect for bike-orientated theme of our opening sequence. We chose a day to film when it was very wet and windy, the mud and cold added another layer of filming and provided pathetic fallacy. The location provides us with opportunities to use different shots; the banks of the spinney are higher than the track so we could use establishing and panning shots. The corners gave us the opportunity to do dramatic shots of the riders and to zoom in on individual’s faces and get close up shots.

We were able to add some match on action when we filmed the opening parts to the sequence at my house. We chose my house as the location for the opening sequence because it was the nearest house available to the spinney and it allowed us to do some interesting shots in the garage and outside.

- Simon Williams

Clothes

To get an idea on what style and theme of clothes we should choose for our piece we looked at films of a similar genre and the clothes used in those films. We were limited to wearing thick or many layers of clothes due to cold weather conditions but we chose to use casual affordable clothes to represent the characters’ age group. The chosen clothes match the area, time period and genre. We chose bland, colourless clothes to take attention away from the riders and place it more on the scenery, as it was more important. The antagonist in the film is dressed in a bright red top to emphasise the hostility of his character and help define him in unclear shots.

During the first part of the film the main character is wearing plain black clothing to represent the plainness and lack of ambition in the character. Once he becomes concerned with winning the race he also finds an item of green clothing, which marks his enthusiasm and determination about the race, we chose him to wear it throughout the race as a way of separating the initial unenthusiastic character from the more positive and determined character seen in the second half of the piece.

- Ryan Balloo