Call Sheet

by Lauren

Shooting schedule

By Rana 

Equipment list

by Lauren, Rana and Rebecca

Working Title Films - Budget, Gross and Success

Four Weddings and a Funeral;

Budget of $4.5 million and grossed $244 million worldwide, meaning a profit of $239 million. The film is a romantic comedy, and at the time of release in 1994 it was the highest grossing British film of all time.

Shaun of the Dead;

Budget of £4 million, grossed $13.5 million (£8.6 million). The film is a horror comedy, starring Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield and Simon Pegg and was released in 2004.

Johnny English Reborn;

Budget of $45 million, and grossed $8 million, meaning a loss of $37 million. The film is an adventure comedy, starring Rowan Atkinson, Rosamund Pike and Dominic West and was released in 2011.

He's Just Not That Into You;

Budget of $40 million, grossed $165 million, meaning a profit of $125 million. The film is a comedy/drama/romance, starring Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly and Morgan Lily and was released in 2009.

Notting Hill;

Budget of $42 million, grossed $247 million, meaning a profit of $205 million. The film is a romantic comedy, starring Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts and Richard McCabe and was released in 1999.

Bridget Jones Diary;

Had a budget of $26 million, grossed $71.5 million, meaning a profit of $45.5 million. The film is a romantic comedy, starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant and was released in 2001.

We have noticed a pattern in that the most successful Working Title films are romantic comedies or comedies of another type. Therefore Working Title probably would not be an ideal choice of production company for our film. However, we have noticed that recently they have expanded into the thriller and drama genres more - with films such as Contraband and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.


by Lauren, Rana and Rebecca

DVD Cover

Idea for our DVD cover. If we were to make a final copy, we would replace the girl's face with the face of our main character. I created this on photoshop by reducing the opacity of the photograph in the foreground, contrasting it with the bright city lights in the background. I thought that this worked with the storyline of our film - the character being lost into the chaos of the city. I chose to use this font to match in with the font of the titles and credits in our opening. I also added in the age rating we had decided would be appropriate for our film.

by Rebecca

Music created for the club scene

Media Club Scene by beckyd

I have created this track to use as the music in the club scene using Sony Acid X software. We decided that we should create our own music in order to avoid any issues with copyrighted material, and so that we could make sure that the music was a perfect fit with the mood we wanted for the scene. The music needed to be fast paced with a darker feel than usual 'dance' music, therefore I added deeper tracks in the background to add atmosphere and also so that the suspense is maintained.

by Rebecca

Test Shoot - Alleyway scene

When we shot our alley way scene it was light outside, however when it comes to filming the real thing we will be doing it at night time using lights. It was difficult to edit the outside lighting on iMovie. We used lots of long shots in this scene, but when it comes to the actual thing we will use more close ups, medium close ups and extreme long shots as the character is walking by. During the fight scene we might film parts of it from the point of view of one of the characters. We muted the natural sounds as it did not fit with the clip, therefore we will add music at different volume levels whilst the character walks further away from the club, this will fit the scene more. The main character walking drunk will not walk as unstable as she did because it looked to staged and not real.


by Lauren, Rana and Rebecca

Filming Locations

Opening City Shots 


For the first few shots of our opening scene, we needed long shots of a city, preferably a busy London location at night. There were a few locations that came to mind when we began to think about iconic London locations; the Millennium Wheel and South Bank, Trafalgar Square, Oxford Street and being a few of them. However, the practicality of filming in these places has to also be considered and we will have to visit them one evening to see if it would be possible to get the right camera angles and shots.

By Rebecca


Inside of the Club 

For the interior of the club, we have two options to consider.

• Firstly, we could travel with our main actor to a real club and film the shots of her moving through the crowd. The benefit of doing this would be that the background / settings would be completely realistic and believable, it would be easy to create the correct atmosphere and also the lighting would be that of an actual club. The disadvantages would be that it may be difficult to transform the filming equipment and get it into a club, clubs have age limits and some of us are under 18 and also we would have to consider a lot of safety factors. Also, we might find it hard to get the exact shots we want because obviously we could not direct the crowd at the club.
• Secondly, we could use the interior of our school's theatre. The benefit of this would be that we could select all of the people that were there and could therefore give them directions to make sure that we get the best possible outcome. In addition to this, more factors would be under our control, such as costume, lighting and the design / layout of the location. However, there would be much more organisation required in order to create a club look and atmosphere inside of a theatre and we would have to find quite a lot of people to act in this scene.

By Lauren

Alleyway / street scenes and the attack 


After thinking about the kind of feel that we want the alleyway / attack scenes to have, we decided to film the scenes near to an old looking brick wall. We then had to decide whether we wanted to find a suitable location within the school or whether we wanted to film outside on a public street / alleyway. There were many factors that affected our decision - how we would transport equipment to the location, the lighting of the scene, safety, travelling to and from the location and the amount of control we had over the surroundings.

• If we filmed in a more public place, we would be unable to control people walking past and outside noise. Also, it would be difficult to transport the equipment and find places to plug in the lighting. Safety would also be an issue, especially having the actors travel to and from the location and the security of the equipment. However, it would be much easier to create the look of a real alleyway and maintain the atmosphere of a street at night. 
• If we filmed inside of the school, we would have to figure out how to make it look like a convincing alleyway. Although we would have more control over the look of the surroundings, we would find it more difficult to get a specific location where we could create a realistic looking scene. Transporting the equipment would be much easier, and we wouldn't have to worry about travel to and from the location.

By Rana