Signed Talent Release Forms

Talent Release Form Template

Chris has created this form to give to our main actors so that we have permission off of them to go on the blog. Once all actors have signed we will upload there signed copies onto the blog as evidence.

Filming Schedule

Casting

I have asked around for people willing to play the roles I created in the character profiles and have found people willing to play these four main characters:

Peter Warren: Dad

Peter Warren as Dad

Anna Gravett as Sarah

Daniel McLaughlin as Dealer

Tom Chapman as Shaun

Tom Chapman: Shaun

Anna Gravett: Sarah

We have also got a group of around six people who have volunteered to play as extras in scenes of the trailer with no main characters or scenes where the main characters interact with sub characters.

Dan McLaughlin: Dealer 

Character Profile- Sarah

Name: Sarah
Surname: Shaw
Age: 17
Occupation: Sixth Form

Background

Sarah is new to the area at the time of the film. Her life has been hard and she keeps herself to herself for the most part, trying to do better than how her parents lived. When she was younger she lived with her two parents in moss side Manchester and since she can remember the relationship was never a good one. They would constantly argue and fight, both were alcoholics and when they drank things became physical between them. It eventually reached the point where Sarah no longer found it safe to live with her parents and social workers stepped in to care for her when she was 8 years old.

She was placed in a care home and was adopted at the age of 10 by an older couple in their mid 50's and Sarah sees them as a grandparent figure. They are both kind and caring and showed her love that she had never been shown by her real parents who she cut all ties with. The elderly couple lived in Yorkshire a couple of hours drive from Manchester and it is here that she spent her teen years up until she was ready to do her A levels after getting straight A's and A* in her GCSEs.

Instead of staying in Yorkshire with friends and a loving family, she chooses a Sixth form college in the suburbs of Manchester. Her reasons being to put to rest her bad memories by staying in a location with easy access to where she spent her troubled childhood. She believes this ill help her move on with her life as even though she was happy in Yorkshire, she always had her past following her like baggage.

At the school she meets Shaun and develops a connection with him as she begins to discover that he is going through a similar situation she went through and she feels that by helping him she will also help herself the way in which her adopted parents helped her.

Character Profile- Dad

Name: John
Surname: Smith
Age: 49
Occupation: Warehouse Worker
Widowed

Background

Father of Shaun, John, prior to his wife's death lived a healthy and happy life with a decent job as a manager at a local textile firm, earning a healthy living to provide for his wife and young child. He was a family man at heart, always pushing to provide with the best opportunities and this was reflected in his decision to move away to the suburbs of Manchester away from the inner city estates where he had grown up, so that his son could enjoy a life that he was unable to have when he was younger, a life free of the gangs, drugs and crime that he had to endure.

For a time this decision proved to be worthwhile. He managed to keep his well paying job, the wife was happy and Shaun was turning into a hard working and respectable teenager. Pride swelled within him as he would see Shaun go from strength to strength with each year leading up to his GCSE's, coming home with reports of praise for his A grades he would continuously earn across all subjects.

However, he was beginning to notice subtle changes in Shaun's behaviour; coming home late and smelling of smoke. When he confronted Shaun he received an angered response to which he was shocked by and hurt. This was the beginning of the divide between him and his son  which was completely fulfilled with the death of his wife a month after there initial confrontation.

Destroyed by grief he turned to alcohol, becoming drunken and violent which completely destroyed any relationship he had left with his son. It lost him his job so he took up part time work doing manual labour at a Warrington warehouse in which he spends most of his money on drink and bills leaving Shaun to fend for himself. Has he turned Shaun on the path that he worked so hard for him to avoid?

Character Profile- Dealer

Name: unknown
Codename: Dealer
Age: 19
Occupation: Drug gang leader

Background

Despite his young age the dealer is notorious in his area where he has lived his entire life. Growing up he had a number of social problems starting with being raised solely by his mum when his dad received life imprisonment for murder during a robbery before he was born. His mum prevented him from ever seeing his dad believing that he would corrupt him through his misdeeds. Therefore he has never met his dad his entire life and so has grown up to hate authority because despite her best efforts, his mum could not control him as a child.

His first run in with the police was when he was seven years old after shoplifting with his mates. Since that first taste of crime he has gradually got worse and worse; Graffiti,vandalism, robbery, smoking in school. Eventually he ended up working for  a small time drug dealer selling at school and making deliveries to houses. When his boss was arrested when he was 17 he assumed the position as head of the gang and since then has been busy making contacts to build up his control over his area.

He brought in new and addictive drugs that were low in use in the area but 2 years later in the period in which the period in which the film takes is when he entrusts a new and rising member of his group, the main character Shaun, with the dealing of the drug at his local sixth form.

The character is violent, controlling and relentless which will be shown in the narrative in his quest to deal with Shaun towards the end of the film.

Character Profile- Shaun

First Name: Shaun
Surname: Smith
Age: 17
Occupation: Sixth Form

Background

Shaun lived with his Mum and Dad in the suburbs of Manchester and like any typical family they argued and shouted, yet they still loved each other dearly. They were close and would always spend time together and Shaun used to enjoy these times when he was young, going for walks in the park and bike rides with his dad were some of his most cherished memories.

Throughout his school life, from primary to high school, he worked hard at his work and remained popular among his peers and so retained a large group of friends who were always supportive and good to have a laugh with. However all this changed with the death of his Mum.

The news came as a complete surprise as no sane person would think that your mum would walk out of the front door in the morning to never walk through again after dying in a car accident. Like water from a bath, Shaun's energy and life was drained away in the weeks following his Mum's funeral. his Dad had taken up drinking leading to violent confrontations as Shaun confronted him about it. These fights tore their relationship apart and they now no longer speak.

Shaun has since fallen into a bad crowd, selling and taking drugs supplied by the local dealer. The film centres around Shaun's dark path down a road of self destruction in which it appears there is no way out. As the film progresses web begin to see hope for Shaun but will it be a happy ending?

Location Conception Moodboard

I have created this moodboard in order to give me inspiration as to what I will look for when I go out to do my location research, therefore I now have an idea of the types of locations that would be ideal for our trailer setting. All the pictures I have found relate to the narrative and moodboard we created so this will help me to find similar locations to film in.

Group Roles

In order to spread our research work equally we have decided to split the roles between us so we can focus on them in more detail to create the best trailer that we can.

Group Roles:

• Sam Warren: Location and Costume
• Chris George: Camera Shots and Editing
• James Scott: Lighting and Props

I will be looking at location and costume. When looking at locations to film, first I will create a moodboard of pictures that would best represent our narrative using existing pictures and photos then I will search for similar locations that we could use in order to create a similar effect to that shown on the moodboard. The environment I will be focusing on is urban because that is a common setting in British drama films.

Story Board

This storyboard details the chronological order of shots in the trailer and some of the main angles and transitions we want to capture in the trailer.