First Cut

The first cut is up, any feedback is always welcome.

Plan for shooting

Still shots of:
-Stage
-Close up's of microphones being out into position.
-Guitar pedals being tested, close up.
-Assembling the stage.
-Close up of empty bottle.
-Close up of eyes.
-Back to the bottle and glasses.
-Face shot.
-Door knock, over shoulder to the door.
-Still over the shoulder, see man, stagehand notifying of five minutes left.
-Camera follows around the room, picking up on things to do with the band.
-One member playing guitar, close up of hands then wide shot.
-One tapping the tabletop, obviously drummer.

Ideal actors

As I wrote the roles and created the characters I had a clear vision of the actors that would portray them. I would use young, British talent, as they would fill the roles correctly compared to any out of place American actors, for example.

Thomas Turgoose, his appearance in This Is England was awesome, and I feel he may be perfectly suited to to the drummer character, as a chance to get out his aggression and anger through the drums and means of percussion. He has the 'look' of a working class adolescent, he has a great sense of warmth and looks so relaxed on screen, it is like he doesn't try. I can quite believe that as he gets older, he will appear in the Northern dramas such as 'The Street'. An actor of awesomely old fashioned British grit.

Andrew Garfield isn't particularly young, but his appearance in 'Boy A' based on the James Bulger murder case as the wide-eyed reformed child murderer trying to re instigate himself back into society. The performance was heartbreaking yet since then he has spent most of his time in bad films. That was until 'The Social Network'.

Jack O'Connell also appeared in This Is England. In Skins he was a bit of a idiot who liked to punch people. From this I thought his career was halted, yet his performance in 'Dive', a BBC drama where he actually portraying some great acting talent. I think he has the look of a faulted frontman, a great actor to play Grant, in the leading role.

Aaron Johnson was in the abysmal 'Angus Thongs'. 'Nowhere Boy' was better, but 'Kick Ass' was his big break, the intensely funny superhero film had everything going for Aaron, the lines and the talent. Aaron would be suited to the outcast member of the band who leaves to pursue a family after getting his girlfriend pregnant, a curse of his looks.

Logo finished!

The background is a photo of red curtains taken in the playhouse, whilst the foreground image is one I drew by hand, combining the two adds a sense of breaking barriers, which I like.

Initial logo idea.

Logo

The Song

http://soundcloud.com/charliesnacks/still-shining-produced-by-abc-da-smoke-beatz

I feel like this song would fit the opening two mintes of my film perfectly.