Mood Board

This is the mood board for the topic we are doing as "Split" will include football themes which are evident in the pictures of the Nike kit which Nile O'Meally Newell uses in the opening sequence and throughout the start of the film before he digs in deeper by trying to get into Arsenal and the football pitch which is similar to the Astroturf where we had filmed our football scene from the opening sequence that will also be used as a location in the 'Split' movie as Bradley Keano attempts to rise from being the school star player to superstardom by playing in the Emirates Stadium.

Other themes are also present in this mood board such as the gang pictures which represent Keano's life as a gang member and the Union Jack flag which represents the fact that the filming will take place in Britain and the gangs that will be present in the movie will be British gangs. This means that the 'Split' movie will not take on different gang cultures but attempt to include British gang culture in the movie only.

Audience Expectations from Genre of Film

Since our genre of movie will be particularly hard to execute and keep refreshing as the same ideas have been recycled and used in previous movies such as Kidulthood, Adulthood, Anuvahood and Shank and over the time that had passed, each movie had been receiving less favourable reviews from the audience meaning that there is nothing new brought to those movies as even the storylines of those movies bear many similarities. 

With that being noted, that is why Split's storyline is a storyline played from three 'perspectives' but all played by the main protagonist (Bradley Keano) where an equal amount of time will be spent fleshing out the football character, gang member character and academic character so that none of these three personalities are felt by the audience as not being able to be fully fleshed-out or leaving any 'plotholes' in the movie as any questions that are unanswered about any of these personalities would leave the audience being questionable too.

Health and Safety Info -- (Split Opening Sequence)

As part of our health and safety, we ensured that the environments/areas that we had used in our opening sequence would be beneficial to us and would not harm us in any way. An example of this includes the Astroturf football scene -- we ensured that Nile used football cones since if we had other characters be included in the scene, he may suffer from an injury of some sort whereas with football cones laid out as he's dribbling his way past them; he would be more comfortable doing what he can with the scene as there are less restrictions and it would be fully safe since he is the only character apparent in that scene.

Furthermore, in the football scene; Nile O' Meally-Newell made sure that he was not wearing the actual football boots but casual Vans since there would be a slight risk of him injuring himself (e.g. spraining his ankle -- this would cost us since he has to use his feet to dribble the ball in this scene so a character replacement would blow the whole opening sequence out of the water since we would have to replace Nile as the main protagonist with somebody else) whereas with Vans, the shoes have no studs and are simple sneakers so this means that Nile has little-to-no risk of spraining his ankle etc.

Font Analysis

Calibri is a font that is simple and bold yet it also oozes professionalism and would more likely be found in letters and documents on softwares such as Microsoft Word etc. It is proven to be more professional in comparison to other fonts by the fact that it replaced Times New Roman as the default typeface in Word on Microsoft Office 2007 and replaced Arial as the default on PowerPoint, Excel etc..





Century Gothic is a more rounded font in comparison to fonts such as Arial etc. and gives that sense to the viewer that this font would be less likely to be found on letters and professional documents and more likely to appear in magazine articles, leaflets and on video game covers etc. (as it is the font used for both BioShock and Battlefield Heroes).


#Omar Abasi

SPLIT story board

Props List

• 7 Football Cones 
• 2 Footballs 
• 1 Folder 
• 1 Pen
• 1 Phone
• 1 School Bag 
• 1 Set of Headphones

Costumes

Costumes

Mirror scene 1 (football kit)

For this scene the character will be looking at his reflection in a mirror, when we film the character we will film him wearing:

·      A football kit complete with football shirt, football shorts and football socks.

Mirror scene 2 (smart dress)

For this scene the character will be looking at his reflection, we will see himself wearing smart dress as this is what he will be wearing when he in his 6^th form this will include:

·      Smart trousers (grey), smart shirt (white) with a skinny tie (black).

Mirror scene 3 (gang clothing)

For this scene the character will be looking at his reflection in the mirror; the character will be looking at him before he is about to go to his gang, in this scene the character will be wearing:

* Dark blue jeans, white t-shirt black jumper and a black bomber jacket.