Right, it really is time to get my arse into gear....

I could blame my lack of updates to this blog on not being familiar of this way of working, not fully understanding the point of a blog and complaining "what's wrong with a good old fashioned textbook". But even if I did use these petty excuses it's still my neck on the line and my arse in danger of being dropped from the Media course. So I think you'll agree it's in my best interest to tell you all what the duck I've been doing.

Below is the storyboard of our title sequence which is pretty faithful to the idea we have in our head at the moment. You'll have to forgive me however, as I do play more than one character and it may be hard to folllow exactly what's going on, but don't worry, I'll elaborate on the captions and try to explain.

It opens with the hand of someone graffiting the homophobic words such as "fag" on another pupils book before switching to another person (a pupil) walking down a school corridor, obviously a bully as children stay out of his way and he seems to intimidate everyone. Next, the same person is shown texting someone, telling the recipent(s) not to worry, he's going to sort the boy out, and arranges a meeting for the next day. It the cuts to people graffiting posters about homosexuals and memebers of this now clear homopbic gang making their way to the meeting. The meeting is then shown but no words are heard and the leader of the gang (bully) walks off. The scenes then alternate from a boy in the school showers, presumably the owner of the book and the purpose of the text and the bully making his way through the school. He then sneaks up on the boy in the shower and violently stabs him without hesitation. The final scene is the boy laying dead in a puddle of his own blood.

Hopefully that clears things up, or made it more confusing. But thats how we hope things to go when we film. It's probably worth noting that this storyboard is drastically different from our initial, and quite boring idea. Our first concept was just to have alternating shots from the killer making his way to the boy and the boy himself in the shower, it soon became apparent that this lacked any real story, excitment and point to be honest. There was no story to it, no way could the audience tell this was a hate crime from a homophobic group, no nothing. So we new we had to add some spice to this. How could we let the audience know this was a hate crime? The book and poster stuff. How could we show this murderer was part of a group and not a lone crazy killler? The meeting and so on.

So I believe we have now beefed our story up a bit and it's not so bland. Filming will take place Friday of this week with any luck but I will be updating before then.