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Firstly this is the comments made by A.Hampson on our blog, We are having problems with the comment field so he has been unable to leave comments.

'Tom
I still cannot post a comment on your blog word verification is greyed out.
Can you please change the template below is the comment I want to post. 
When you have made the changes can you post this comment

Will you two stop messing with the templates.
You need to get your animatic up here asap.
Also some research on Wasp and funding/promotion
and one other short film. I would like you to be more visual on this
 blog hyper links screen grabs etc. Have a look at the trailer for The
Road you might find it helpful. Can you get some photos of your location?
 and some initial audience feedback on your ideas'

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Location - Cellar
Characters - Two parents and two children - character names - Roger (39) is the Dad, Johanne (36) is the Mum, James (19) the son, and Lucy (6) the daughter.
Lighting - shadows, use of redheads, cut natural lighting, dark cellar.
Situation - 2012, calendar shot, shows its February 2012. The family is slowly running out of food. But they are extremely reluctant to venture through the cellar door because Roger left a few days ago and hasn't returned.
Potential film titles - Lock In, Kegs, Barricade.

The roles are as follows: -

Director - Tom/Michael
Lighting - Tom/Michael
Location Photography - Tom
Storyboarding - Tom/Michael
Costume - Tom/Michael/actors
Editing - Tom/Michael
Scripting - Tom/Michael

As we are in a small group, it is feasible that both of us have a hand in everything. Although some parts of the process need both of us anyway, the script or storyboarding, which would normally be allocated in a group of 4, can be done by both of us. Most of the roles will be shared.

The acting parts are proving difficult to fill. Fo the young girl, Tom's younger sister is ideal. For the part of James, who is 19 years old, any suitable student from Performing Arts or Drama. As for the mother, we may need to put up audition notices around college. This part will prove hardest to fill, as a college student would be unconvincing without correct make up or prosthetics, which we simply can't afford. We may have to manipulate the lighting to hide her appearance somewhat. A similar technique to Apocalypse Now, when Francis Ford Coppolla was filming Marlon Brando, he could no show Brando's weight gain, so he countered it by hiding him in the shadows.

As for costume, we will have to use regular clothes, a few weeks in a cellar won't reduce them to medieval peasnats, but we will have to taint the clothes. Hair must be unstyled and rough. Skin must be diry and unwashed. Lucys costume will consist of her regular clothes, but with an oversized jumper over the top. The cellar is a cold environment, and the candles provide little relief from the conditions. James will be wearing typical fare for a young man, jeans, check shirt, trainers, maybe shoes. He'll be wrapped up in a fleece or a jacket. Johanne will be wearing a fleece, skirt and trousers and thick walking shoes. The costumes themselves are nothing special to get hold of, however, the deliberate dirtying of them may mean we have to use old clothes.

Props wise, we will need candles, a chess board with all chess pieces, cans of soup and beans, a battery radio, and a can opener. The candles are for use because the electricity is out. The chess board is used for dramatic effect, and symbolic of their situation. The cans of soup and beans will show that they've been holed up for a while, and canned food keeps well, so that's why canned food is the only thing they are eating. The battery radio is for the closing radio message, and the can opener is for the cans. We may need a budget to attain some of these props, but we have yet to decide on a fair price.