Script - dialogue...

Tara put together a video of the dialogue used in our 2 minute opening film. The main speech we used was of Stefani's dad speaking as if he has a passenger in the back of the taxi, we used close up shots every time he spoke to give it a creepy effect. We also did this so that audiences don't initially see all of his face which adds suspense and makes them question why.

Costume...

There was not much to post about the costume choice for our final film as there were not many scenes where you saw what the taxi driver was wearing, however there were a few qualities which we wanted to make sure we included. We wanted to create a feel of a family man, someone trusted and someone who the audiences would not automatically suspect as dangerous. This is why we made sure we had close up shots if the hand with the rings on, this suggests that he is married and with a family as does the picture of the children. The only costume requirements we asked for was that our driver made sure he wore ordinary everyday clothes just so that the audiences wouldn't not suspect anything.

Storyboard/Shot types...

Since none of us were very artistic we struggled to create a storyboard to express how we wanted our film to turn out, so we decided to make a list of our different shot type's as an alternative. Although we did use a lot of shots the majority of them were extreme close ups and close ups because we had a lot mouth of shots of the taxi driver speaking and lots of close ups of different objects. From finding this I can now see that if we was to redo our film I would try and incorpoate a wider range of shots rather than the repetitive close ups. 

Location...

When we was planning our film and brainstorming idea's although most of the footage would be of insde the taxi we still needed a location which looked out of the ordinary and would make our audiences question why they were there, so we thought of a couple of ideas and decided that a wooded area would be the best. We then searched some local places which would have enough space for us to film and to park and found Whitewebbs. Most of us knew the location already and we all decided that it was just what we were looking for. Below is a picture:

Delayed sound update!...

Here's a delayed post about a change we made in some of the sounds in our film. We decided that although we like the 'My Funny Valentine' song there was something not quite right about it and thankfully Tara found a new song which worked perfecty and here it is:

We found that this song was a lot more subtle than the Frank Sinatra one and was more appropiate for inside the taxi.

We also added a sound at the end of our film of a baby crying, we knew that this would be very extreme and would push the appropriate boundries but we needed something to shock our audiences and this was just the thing. When we first added the audio clip of our friend Georgie saying "let me out" we liked it but there was something missing and it wasn't getting the big reation we hoped for, but after adding the baby sound effect we definatley achieved this.

Props...

Although we have finished our film now I thought that it would be good to post some of the props we used in our film and why we chose some of them.

We knew that from the very beginning we didn't want to give away too much as to what might happen in our film and we wanted to make sure that our audiences didn't suspect anything from the taxi driver so we decided to include a shot of a family photo (below). We felt that by adding a family photo the audience will automatically see the taxi driver as a family man and will suspect nothing.

We also included a shot of the drivers hands with the rings on, this shows that he is married and again implies that he is a family man and there is nothing out of the ordinary.

We also included some shots such as the taxi badge and the taxi light (below) just to emphasis the taxi and make it the most predominant element in the film.

BBFC research...

Once we had completed our film what we had to do was decide individually what age certificate we thought it should be given, if it was to be made into a full length film. I went online to the BBFC (British Board Of Film Classification) website and found their guidelines to giving a film a age certificate.
Since our film is a physiological thriller we knew that it would contain some scenes of a sexual nature, violence and strong language so it would definitely not be appropriate for a U or a PG, however after looking at the requirements for a 12 and a 12A it would not be suitable for that rating either:

The two possible options for our film would be a 15 or an 18, so I looked at the requirements for a 15 first to see what it contains:

From looking at the elements for a 15 and an 18 I have come to the conclusion that our film should be given the certificate of a 15, this is because although we may have to reduce our limits to what we would have wanted to include in our film, making the certificate an 18 may reduce our audiences and may mean that our box office sales will be a lot less than if it was a 15.