Churchill Productions - Brief synopsis

    Synopsis 

The story takes place in a modern era but uses flashbacks to tell the main story of the war character being talked about by the young male character. Flashbacks show the story as the narrator tells the audience what he's reading from the book. The book tells the story of Fritz who was the grandfather of the reader. The grandson finds out what his grandfather really did during the war and experiences a fierce breakdown. 

Churchill Productions - Shoot list

Churchill Productions - Site plans

Churchill Productions - Talent release

Churchill Productions - Risk Assessment

Churchill Productions - Location scouting

For the main setting for the shoot we decided on filming at my house and partly at the field behind it. It posed as a useful area due to its openness and distance away from the neighbors, giving us more freedom in what we were filming and avoiding disturbing them too.

For the setting of the first scenes, taking place in the present time, the modern office look worked well in confirming to the audience the difference in time for each of the settings.

For the first scenes taking place in the past, during the beginning of the second world war, the old fashioned wooden hut created a perfect scene for the home of a at first innocent man during the late 1930's.

For the last scenes taking place in the past tense an empty field was used as the scene of a battlefield. The large empty field also allowed for us to be out of view of anyone other than the cast and crew.

Churchill Productions - Edit decision list

Each scene in the past will be colour corrected, each past scene will be blue scaled to give the impression that the scene is from the past. This will differentiate the past scenes from the scenes in the present 

Wartime music from World War II will be added at the star for the introduction 

Christopher Fritz's monologue will be added and spoken out loud when he is writing in the trench  

Age 15 certificate, title of the film opening and the image of our Company Logo will fade in from the start and fade out after 10 seconds. Audience will beware of what they are watching and if three are adult theme throughout the film 

Scenes from the present will fade to darkness then afde in to reveal scenes from the past

Titles for the year the scene is in will appear at the bottom of the screen