Backstory

 Wed 26th Jan 2022

Whats the backstory of Thomas

Thomas grew up in a big city in his early life with his single mum. His Dad left when he was 7 as he cheated on Thomas's Mum. When he was 16 his Mum moved them to a small village in the countryside as she wanted a new life. At first Thomas didn't want to move as he had to leave his friends and school. When he is 18 he meets this girl called Cassie who also lives in the village. She works in a small cafe in the centre of the village. In the village Thomas is known as a quiet mysterious man but he does have a reputation for sleeping around. Both Cassie and Thomas get on very well and start dating a year after knowing each other. Their relationship is perfect and Thomas experiences live that he's never felt before. However, after 4 years of dating when they are 23, Cassie has to move away to Scotland meaning that she has to put their relationship on a break. This breaks both of them but they both now that this has to happen as its an amazing job offer that she can't decline. A few months after she leaves, Thomas is broken and starts to sleep around again as a way to try and forget Cassie. He knows that she won return back to the small village when she has experienced amazing things up in Scotland. He becomes very depressed due to having meaningless relationships and as his mom has become older and unwell. He is trying to take care of her with also juggling work. He decides to go for a walk around the village that they used to spend time in. When walking around, her favourite song places in his headphones bring back all of the memories of them together. He visits the places that they used to go to and also visits her working in the cafe where he first saw her. He keeps getting constant flashbacks of moments that they have had together. He is completely destroyed with loosing her and feels like he will never be the same again. Sadly his mum passes away which leaves his feeling isolated and lonely. He needs a job and see's one in the cafe. One evening before his shift is about to end, someone walks through the door. It's Cassie.  He takes a moment to process as he can't believe that after years of believing that she will never come back, she has returned. He starts to see the light come back in his life.    

Our chosen soundtrack

 Mon 31st Jan 2022

Chosen soundtrack

We chose Babushka by Kate Moss because we thought it was most appropriate to what was happening in our opening title sequence. We also thought that having a song which is suspenseful and is building up to the chorus which is the tighten part of the non-diegetic soundtrack. We new that due to it being to long, we were going to have to edit it to be shorter so that it fits the 2 minute mark. I really like Kate's version of the song as well.

Narration of action and types of shots

Friday 28th Jan

Shot by shot - whole group brainstorm

* close up shots of perspiring glass being drank by a man

* cuts too close up of women drinking from a wine glass and leaving lipstick on the glass

* cut out to a wide shot of the man sat alone at bar 

* He starts to leave and cuts too a mid shot of him walking towards door 

* mid shot from other side of door

* Close up of him putting the headphones into his pocket

* Back to the same mid shot as man puts in headphones 

* camera pans along as he walks straight out of bar and turns camera follows him

* cuts to wide shot of widow of cafe with girl

* The man walks past *the camera shot wont move he will walk across the screen* as he walks past the woman she will disappear.

* Cuts to wide shot of the man sitting on a wall

* Close up shot of him getting a cigarette as a second hand comes in*nails painted same hands as on the wine glass* and lights the cigarette 

* extreme close up zoom to her lighting cigarette in slow motion close up.

* Zooms back out and he is just sitting on the wall alone holding the lighter in his other hand.

* sideways mid shot of him smoking as he gets up to leave

* Spike Lee Dolly shot of him walking down the road towards the bridge from face on.

* Cut to the girl, *studio shoot* close up of her 

* Cut back to spike lee dolly shot

* Cut to girl close up her in bed

* Cut back to spike lee dolly shot

* Cut back and forth speeding up pace quickening

* Cuts to mid shot of him on the bridge screaming and will slowly zoom out *title will be overlayed over the top in big white text*

Whats a Spike Lee Dolly Shot

A Spike Lee Dolly shot consist of having the camera operator and the actor on a dolly so the only action moving is the action happening is off the dolly. This is called the 'Double Dolly Shot'. This is effective as both camera and actor moves simultaneously which looks cool for the audience. It also makes the actors look as if they are floating or hovering above the floor.

Casting, costume and props

Thurs 27th Jan 2022

Todays lesson

In todays lesson we looked at the costumes and props we could use throughout our scene. We looked at all our our scenes chronologically and worked out what props we needed. We found out that we didnt need a lot of them however, certain props will make our scene seem naturalistic. After that we thought obout the criteria for Thomas and Cassie and what costume they will need. We discussed that both Thomas and Cassie need to be aged around 30 however still need to have a young quality. I think that Thomas should wear jeans and a hoodie as he is still trying to act younger than he is and reject on his youth. He is wearing headphones which is the soundtrack of the sequence. We then discussed Cassie's costume and criteria. All three of us imagined her to have blonde hair and also be aged around 30. For her costume we thought that she should have redlipstick to show youth, wear a scarf and a long coat.

Casting

criteria for Thomas: around 30, preferable brown hair, bit of stubble 

criteria for Cassie: around 30 , preferable blonde straight hair

Costume

costume for outside Thomas: puffer jacket, hoodie underneath, jeans, headphones, trainers

costume for outside Cassie: straight blonde hair, sweatshirt, acrylic nails, long wool coat, red lipstick, scarf

costume for studio shoot Thomas: white t shirt, pleated pj bottoms

costume for studio shoot Cassie: dark red tank top and grey sweatpants

props

- headphones

- cigarette 

- lighter 

- wine and beer glass

- bed

- lamp

- lipstick

Context - names and music

 Tuesday 25th Jan 2021

Character names

In todays lesson we were brainstorming name ideas for the characters and what impact they will have on the entire plot. All of us decided that the names would need to to feel connected to their characters so we took a while brainstorming names. Doug like to use initials for inspiration. For instance he referred to the male as C.K as he thought that his character represented 'Captain Kirk." I spent lots of my time thinking of many film and tv characters to create inspiration for the female protagonist. I liked the surname Sheridan which I thought of from the tv program Normal People and Mumma Mia. I then thought that her first name should be Cassie due to my imagination thinking that she would be blonde and Cassie from skins is blonde. Doug chose the name Thomas C which I really liked and it also can be abriviated to T,C.

Male protagonist: C.K, Ozzie, Oz, Thomas, T,C

Female protagonist ideas: Cassie Sheridan

Music ideas

We decided that we wanted the music to be parallel to some parts of the action on screen but as we we're pretending that the soundtrack is what he is listening to on his headphones, we wanted it to be a little bit contrapuntal. Mia and I spent some time over a few lessons looking at music, we found a song called Become a Mountain by Dan Deacon. We liked this song as it has a build up and a section of fast place music. We thought the fast part would work well for the studio scenes when he is having flashbacks. Doug also did some research and found the song Its a Trip by JoyWave. We all liked this song as it could easily be a song Thomas would be listening too and it also contains a fast pace section.

music ideas: joy wave- its a trip

- I chose this song due to the amazing build up and chorus. We want to show the flashbacks when the climax of the song is happening. This will be very memorable for the audience as I hope that it very romantic and emotive. 

Joywave- it s a trip

music ideas: Babushka - Kate Bush

- I really liked this song as both the genre of the song and the lyrics of the song match what we want our opening title sequence to include. I think that this song matches the thriller genre we want to portray to the audience. Kate Bush is also a very famous singer so using a popular song will gain more attention and it will be rememberable.

Babushka - Kate Bush

music ideas: Become a Mountain - Dan Deacon

Become a mountain - Dan Deacon

Pitching ideas

 Tue 25th Jan 2022

Pitching ideas to Adam and Tom

Today was the first day that we told anyone else our idea other and we pitched it to Adam our teachers and Tom who is a camera opperator. We first explain our location to him which he agreed that Shere would be a perfect location to film in as it contains a pub, cafe and bridge. We then told them our concept of the whole film and for the opening title sequence. We explained that we wanted to communicate that a man has gone disappear from loosing his first love. He is fed up from having meaningless relationships with loads of women and his mental heath is at the worst than it has been for years. He decides to go back to the place that he used to spend most of his time with Cassie and reminisce about them together. When he's walking he is portrayed as heartbroken when he keeps getting flashbacks of them together. At the end of the sequence you see him standing on a bridge screaming as he can't bare to be away from his first love.  They both really liked the overall concept of our idea as they both could imagine it being a title sequence and they could imagine the rest of the film. They both thought that a way of showing that he his having flashbacks of times with his lover, we could have the lady popping up in shots but then disappearing as it would be a good indication that she leaves to go somewhere in the whole film. Tom really liked our studio shoot idea and thought we could have two different flashbacks. One of them shot in natural yellow lighting and the other one shot in red or pink lighting. The yellow natural lighting could portray the natural comfortable times together and the red lighting could portray more intimacy between the couple. We all agreed that this would be a cool idea as it gives us more to shoot and would look effective as it would establish that he is thinking about when he was with the girl now that he has lost her. We then brainstormed more about interesting shots and effective lighting that we could use to create impression that the love he once had has now been lost.

Lighting for red studio shoot- contain lots of flashbacks 

                                                                                    Lighting for natural studio shoot - filmed on bed

Problems that we might need to face:

If we want to contain the bed studio shoot we will need our actor to be over 18 and we would need to make sure that we get permission as even though there will not be anything inappropriate happening, we still have to make sure parents and them are okay with it. This is if we wanted them to lie next to each other on the bed as some people might think that we are implying inappropriate things are happening between them. 

Photo inspirations

Photo inspirations

- I think that it would be very effective to have both the different shoots completely contrast to each other as this will add suspense and surprise for the audience. The first shoot; in Shere, will establish the theme and genre for the film. This is why filming in a Village is so effective as lots of thriller's are about a murder that happens in a small village. The village also means that we have lost of different places and shops to film in such as a river, cafe, pub and graveyard. For the studio shoot we want to show the intimacy between the man and his lover which will create a clear understanding about why he is so upset that he has lost her. We want the man to look quite stereotypical so we have taken some inspiration from the film Shame, where the protagonist is a male who feels trapped because of his careless relationships. (In the bottom two photos you can see the photos of the man) He is also wearing clothes that we think would be fitting for our male protagonist as we want his to be portrayed as a middle aged man, however, still wears some 'younger' type clothing. We then took some inspiration from the use of LEDs in Euphoria as I think that it would look very good to have to studio shoot lit with LEDs. This would also show the contrast between the two locations. Red and pink lighting would show the love and  between the couple and yellow manmade lighting would portray comfort between them. 

Location: Shere, pub, bridge, cafe, bedroom

Outside vibe: rain, bad grey weather

Studio shoot vibe: coloured gel lighting, close ups

Here are some photos which compliment my ideas for the location and lighting:

2nd camera workshop

 21st Jan 2022

Using the camera and filming

Today we had our first filming lesson where we were taught how to film with a camera and how to perform close ups, mid shots and wide shots. We all got puts in groups of 4 so we could each take turns acting and filming. We decided that we should make the scene simple and not complex as it was our first time filming so we wanted to learn properly. I came up with the first idea which is to to have Issy bending down and tying her shoelace then Mia came up with the second to have us walking into the frame and then doing a handshake. Both Bert and I filmed the first sequence of Izzy tying her shoelace and then I got a chance to act in the second one. It was really fun to film our first sequence. 

We first had to assemble the camera and tripod together before filming. We lifted the Vinten tripod into the place that we needed it. We then screwed in the lever onto the side so that when it came to filming, we could have the camera round smoothly. Carefully we lifted the camera out of the box and slid it onto the grooves on the top of the Tripod and then made sure it was properly attached. After that we bubbled the camera to take sure that it was level and not slanted. I then turned on the camera and saturation of the film to match the light indoors. Issy then sat down on the chair in her first position when I focused the camera on her. I made sure that the camera was focusing on her and not on another object. Bert and I also made sure that the Tripod was level to Issy and we that we didn't leave too much headspace, so that the footage would be correct.

Bert and I then started filming the sequence. We began in a wide shot level to Issy and got her to bend down and tie her shoelace. After we got the camera lined up we then filmed the same thing in a mid-shot and a close up. I then moved the camera in front/ on the side of Issy so that we could have footage of her tying her shoelace. This would made our sequence more interesting when editing. We had to make sure throughout that we didn't break the 90 degree rule by filming on the other side of Issy. This was because it would be confusing to the audience if she suddenly appeared on the other side of the composition. We had to keep checking that our camera was 'bubbled' so that the frame wasn't tilted. 

This is Issy the actor!

Filming the second sequence:

In the second filming we chose another simple sequence. Mia and I were acting in this one when Issy and Bert did the filming. We began by filming a wide shot of both of us walking into the centre composition of the frame and the doing our handshake. We then did this twice more in a close-up and a mid-shot. Then we wanted to create more exciting shots so we focused on one person at a time and we had to repeat the same handshake each time. This meant that we could choose who we wanted the focus to be on whilst editing. The footage also looked very cool as both of us look matching!

The second sequence:

first brainstorm of actual idea

Thursday 20th 2021

brainstorm:

we have decided to come up with an idea. the script in short is a man walking round town remembering an ex, and frequently cuts to him on a bridge remembering and those 'thoughts' we will create. The women will pop up many times in the frame but constantly disappears so the audience gets the idea that she isn't in his life anymore. You also get a glimpse of an intimate moment between the man and women when they were a couple. 

The groups shared notes

first shot, man on bridge, from sky above camera comes down to mine face shot. 

two close up shots of man and women drinking

shot of the whole bar but only he is there, lipstick 

walking down the street background noise etc, puts in headphones and soundtrack starts. 

walking down the street as credits comes up,

he turns as walking past the cafe, 

shot of cafe with ex sat down he staresbody moves in way of camera and she's gone, 

he continues walking unfazed like it happens all the time. 

he continues too walk as the credit roll cuts too him sat on wall, she lights his cigarette, 

In mid shot, her arms are visible only, cuts out too wide shot of him alone on wall, with lighter in hand/next too him

Starts walking down a long road

flashbacks of close up with him and a girl inside - yellow and pink lighting

cuts between him walking and flashback - flashing

walking with no expression - monotone 

cuts to him standing on the bridge again

he screams and the shot freezes on the image of him crying 

mid shot as title comes up into the middle of the composition.

Our initial film inspiration was from Shame

Doug thought that the film Shame would fit the themes, genre and characters that we wanted to portray in our opening title sequence. We thought the use of the rain was a good use of pathetic fallacy and we liked the age of the man. Obviously we won't be using the topics that happened in our sequence but we liked the way it is filmed. 

1st camera workshop

 Wed 19th 2021

First camera lesson in the studio

Today we went into the studio for our first camera workshop and learn how to set up a correctly. We were in the studio with Matt so he taught us how to do this safely and how not to damage anything! We were put into small groups so that we could each take turns setting up the camera and learning so we will have practice before the next workshop and the actual shoot day. Each of the camera's were assembled in boxes on the floor that we needed to unpack and set up.

Step 1:

We first learnt how to set top the tripod. We learnt that you have to make sure to lock all three sides or the camera will fall. The tripod enables the camera to film at different heights and also makes sure that what you are filming isn't shaky. When you have adjusted the bottom locks you can adjust the top ones, this makes sure everything is balanced. You wouldn't put the camera onto the tripod until you are sure that all the sides are locked and won't tilt.

Step 2:

We then learnt about the bubble which shows that the camera is level. To be able to work the bubble you have to undo a screw underneath the tripod and then move the head until the bubble is centre in the yellow bubble. We took turns to tighten the screw underneath the tripod to make sure that the bubble is dead centre. Making sure that your tripod is very important as it could ruin your shots is the frame is lopsided. Another interesting feature in the battery powered light which makes sure the camera crew can see the bubble even when the set is dark. 

Step 3:

The next thing we were taught about was how to make sure that the camera is set up correctly so it is safely used. In the box with all the camera equipment in it you have the camera, lenses, a battery and a microphone with its cover. We took times taking the camera out of the box feeling how heavy it was. I was surprised by the weight of it! We were then taught about the correct language that would be used on a professional film set. We were taught to use "yours" and "mine" whilst handing the camera onto someone else. This was so the person handing the camera over new that the other person was holding onto it and wouldn't drop it. I thought that was very useful as it made sure that no camera were damaged. 

Step 4:                                                                                           We then we taught how to put a camera onto the tripod carefully without it falling. Firstly you have to make sure that the camera is lined up to the grooves that are on the tripod. On the right side of the tripod there is a switch that locks the camera onto it and on the right side there is a button that helps the camera be in the right place. When I slid the base of the camera onto the top of the tripod I felt a click which reminds me that it is placed correctly and won't fall. When the camera is clicked onto the tripod you should turn the switch, further making sure that the camera is secure. We each took turns placing the camera on the tripod, making sure that we used the "mine" and "your's" terminology when passing the camera to each other. 

Step 5:                                                                                            In this picture you can see that the camera has been correctly placed onto the tripod and the pan handle has been assembled on the left side of the camera. At the front of the camera the lenses have been attached. This includes the focus part and the zoom part. We haven't attached the battery and the the microphone part yet. The tripod has been assembled to be nearly at the highest level allowing us to be able to still attach the required parts to make the camera work. 

Step 6:

In this step you have to assemble the battery which will make the camera work. We also were taught about the lexar pro memory card which stores the footage so that you can transfer the shots to an editing suit. To attach the battery onto the camera you have to slide it down the back on the camera into two metal clamps, until you feel a click; that means that it is locked in. We each to a few time doing this to make sure that we all understood how to do this. 

Step 7:

In this step we turned on the camera and learnt how to focus it. To switch the camera on there is a small red button on the inside of the camera. To find this you have to open the screen to the side. Once turned on you will see what is being filmed on the screen on the camera. It was very useful that the screen was touchscreen! To focus the camera on a person or an object you have twist the lenses at the front. One of the rotation lenses were to zoom in and out. The other one was to defocus and focus. To set up to film to have to zoom in very close to a stationary object; that way it will be easier to ficus. Then you have to twist the dial at the front to defocus the film and then twist it again to focus. When you have it perfect you then can twist the dial to zoom onto the object and person to film. 

Step 8:

In this step you have to adjust the lighting on the camera to make sure that the shots to naturalistic. On one of the setting on the camera you have the option to change the saturation of the film. To show you which one to use, each saturation has a different logo. For instance they are clouds, a house, a light and a sun. When learning this step we also got to practice moving the other settings.

Bullet-pointed Action

Tuesday 18th January 2022 

Action List of my idea 1

- mid shot of 2 children playing in field- editing in show motion and slightly zooms in

- close up shot of their upper half of their bodies

- birds eye view shot of children laying in blanket pointing at clouds

- worms eye view shot of the clouds in the sky

- mid shot of the kids cycling down a lane -the camera is at the other side of the lane

- tracking shot side on to the kids on the bike

- wide shot of the kids running over a bridge with paper airplanes 

- tracking mid shot of kids walking out of an ice cream shop holding ice creams

- close up shot of the kids eating ice cream - right and left composition

- mid shot of the backs of the children sitting next to a river

- the scene is edited to now be the kids sitting but more grown up

- the shot pans to the right to be in front of the teenagers

- mid shot zooms into the kids to see him pass a letter to her and her put her head on his shoulder

- cuts to title of the film

Action list of my idea 2

- mid tracking shot moving left - stops of man in middle composition

- mid shot - camera moves backwards and then tracks the back of the man walking - follows to door

- mid shot of the side of the man putting on his hood and walking out door

- close up of his face putting in headphone - another soundtrack starts

- wide shot of him walking to across the village square

- camera pans to the left to see him enter the coffee shop

- tracking shot to the left of him walking through the coffee shop and picking up a coffee - filmed outside

- mid shot - filmed other end of the lane - man walking straight down the road

- cuts to studio shoot - close up shot of the man and a lady hand linking

- cuts back to the man walking down road

- cuts to studio - close up over shoulder shot of man tucking hair behind her head

- cuts back to man walking down the road

- cuts to studio - close up over the shoulder of man putting hand on her face 

- cuts to man walking

- cuts to studio - close up of him leaning into kiss her - left and right composition 

- cuts to mid shot of man walking onto bridge

- mid shot looking at him standing on the bridge - he's screaming

- cut to title of film

Dougs written idea:

we have decided to come up with an idea. the script in short is a man walking round town remembering an ex, and frequently cuts to him on a bridge remembering and those 'thoughts' we will create. 

first shot, man on bridge, from sky above camera comes down to mine face shot. 

in a bar, two people stand up too leave, after drinking etc, man opens door for her, she walks through 

shot from outside shows theres no one there and its just him.

walking down the street background noise etc, puts in headphones and soundtrack starts. 

walking down the street as credits comes up,

he turns as walking past the cafe, 

shot of cafe with EX-M sat down 

he stares

body moves in way of camera and she's gone, he continues walking unfazed like it happens all the time. 

he continues too walk as the credit roll

cuts too him sat/stood on wall, 

she lights his cigarette, In mid shot, her arms are visible only, 

cuts out too wide shot of him alone on wall, with lighter in hand/next to him

start walking 

flashbacks will be some in the studio some in the cafe. 

starts walking and the flashbacks starts happening, 

the flashbacks close ups in the studio with coloured lights *warm toned such as red and orange*

flashbacks start flashing between the mid shot of him walking with a monotone expression

gets faster and faster until it cuts to him standing on a bridge 

shot of just his face as he starts to scream *close up of his eyes as they widen and his mouth opening

freezes on image of him crying mid shot as title comes up

Mia's written idea:

* establishing mid shot of man coming out of a cafe with a large window you can hear the ding of bell as he leaves 

* He starts to walk and we follow him using freehand shot 

* Close up of him reaching in his pocket pulling his earphones out

* Back to mid shot as he puts them in and the music starts playing (background noise cut out)
* It cuts to establishing shot of us looking at him in the cafe with a woman *editing would make it slightly blurry so you can tell its a flashback* the sound would be cut out.
* Mid shot of the woman’s face she is laughing. * Then cuts back to him wide shot of him walking somewhere (starts to speed up). * Then cuts back to him wide shot of him walking somewhere (starts to speed up). 
* Cut back to cafe but different woman, although it cuts a little earlier
* This happens another 3 times the cuts having shorter intervals making it get faster in pace.
* Wide shot of him running flashing between close ups of women laughing and it keeps flashings between them
* The flashing calms down slowing as he slows down
* Mid shot as he takes a step up onto something *the camera fixed in place*
* Wide shot of him on top of the bridge just looking straight ahead
* Close up of his face as it freezes on that image and the title comes up

FIRST GROUP MEETING

mon-17th January

First group meeting

Today we got into groups for our opening title sequence. Adam chose random numbers which assigned our groups. I thought this was effective as we could work with people that we might not of thought to work with. I was assigned to the first group with Mia and Doug. We sat down together and started talking about all of our four ideas that we had planned. The group liked my idea which was set in the 1940s WW2 which would be filmed in Shere. Doug read his idea out about a man who bring lots of girls to the same place everyday and eventually falls off a bridge. We combined ideas and thought that my location of Shere would be a useful location for his scene as Shere contains a pub, coffee shop and a bridge. Mia and I then talked about what sort of music would work with this sequence. We came up with a cool idea that was: the man listening to the radio in the pub and then walking out of the pub and putting on headphones where the same music would be playing but louder. 

Location Inspo:

Extra opening title ideas

Two more working ideas of opening title sequences

idea 3:

The plot of the film is about a boy named Toby who wants to become a famous rockstar however still lives with his parents and cant't get a job anywhere. He decides to ask his best friend Sophie for advice and she agrees to help. In the beginning of the film he finds out that his eyesight has been effected due to his terminal illness and therefore he spends lots of his time in hospital. His dream of becoming a rockstar has stopped as he doesn't believe that he will be able to play his guitar without his eyesight. In the middle of the film a girl around his age is moved into his ward as she has a terminal illness. She also shares Toby's dream in working in the music industry. She is the one to pursuade his to carry on with his guitar and inspires him with the dream of become famous. In the middle of the film Toby is still in hospital and his eyesight has got much worse however he is slowly mastering how to play the guitar again. Sophie is helping him write the songs and decides that she will be his manager. At the end of the film Toby's carrier has vastly increased and his talent has been noticed by many agents. He gets the chance to impress a popular agent which he does by spending lots of time in the music studio. He writes a song about Sophie which eventually becomes a very popular song and he impresses his agent.

The scene will be set in a music studio. An establishing shot will be used to show the audience the location. A tracking shot will be used to zoom closer to the recording booth where a man is sitting on a stool with his guitar infant of a micro phone. In the right composition of the shot, a lady will be sitting at the computer in the room and say the words "ready when you are". At that moment the man starts to sing and play his guitar. A non-diegetic soundtrack will also be overlapping him creating more atmosphere for the audience. The shot will then transition to a few girls in the booth singing part of the song singing and dancing. The man in the booth previously is now sitting next to the lady at the computer dancing. The scene will cut between the man and the 2 girls singing to show that they are making the song. 

idea 4

The plot of the film is about a man who wants to find his siblings to get his parents Will. The family is very well known for its many family businesses and therefore, the family is very wealthy. Mr and Mrs Bowen are the owners of a pub and have a son and a daughter. At the beginning of the film you get the backstory of the family and you find out that there was a fire which meant that their house burnt down and the five children of the wealthy parents were left orphaned and moved to live separately. Mrs Bowen hadnt' seen her four siblings since the day of the fire which was nearly 15 years ago although she knew that they were all very successful and most of them lived abroad. In the middle of the film Sirius; who was the second oldest brother found out that their parents did have a will and it it had to be signed by all of the children for them to get the share of the inheritance. He however, didn't know where in the world his four siblings were so he thought he would never be able to complete it. The first sibling he found was Charles when he was staying in a hotel in New York and requested to see the manager. He found his youngest Sister Mary on a plane over to England as she was the pilot. The next person he managed to find was George who was his oldest brother, Siris and George were inseparable when they were younger but haven't spoken for 15 years. He found his brother when he was in an expensive restaurant in London where George was food testing for his new restaurant. The last sibling Sirius needed to find was Chloe but he had no clue where to look as he knew that she didn't want to work in any big fancy company and have loads of money. At the end of the film his car broke down whilst driving in a town and he had to stop to ask someone if they had a spare tire. He managed to find himself a little pub that he would wait in. He sat down at a table and ordered a beer from the man at the bar but when he settled down he was startled to see the face of the lady working at the bar. His younger sister Chloe. He dropped his beer and Chloe ran to see him.

The opening scene will start in a dim lit pub. A mid shot of people at the bar and people sitting round table. There are diegetic sounds of people talking and the sound of music playing on a radio. To show it is an opening title sequence there will be a few close up shots of items that will have the titles edited on top. The first close up shot is of the radio playing the music, the second one is the Christmas card on top of the mantle piece over the fire, one is on the bottom of the glass when someone lifts it up to drink from it and the last one is on a close up shot of a top secret file on one of the desks. The camera then pans upwards from the table and onto a man who is in a suit drinking a beer. The shot then cuts back to a mid shot of the bar at the pub. The scene seems to have nothing going wrong until a non-diegetic sound effect of a glass smashing is used and the shot pans round to face a man in a suit holding his hand out as he had just dropped the glass and he had a sunrises look on his face.