Final Major

Project
Planning and
Production

Name: Dom Aitken

Production Title:

The Assassins

Date Submission of Production:

9th June 2017 CHECK

Length of production:

5-10 minutes

Crew names/ contact details:

Name Contact

Dominic Aitken Domaitken1234@hotmail.co.uk

Actors names / contact details:

Name Contact

Harry Johnstone Haz3r26@gmail.com

Paul Aitken Paul.aitken1977@hotmail.com
Berni Aitken Berni-71@hotmail.com

Production roles for crew

Nmae Role Date needed Deadline for work

Dom Aitken Actor, director, All dates.

creator.
 Nmae Role Date needed Deadline for work

Production roles for actors

Name Role Date needed Needed for

Harry Johnstone Voice acting various 5th to the 8th of June

actors
Berni Aitken Voice Acting Piolet 5th to the 8th of June
Paul Aitken Voice acting Zero 5th to the 8th June

Locations used (please attach recces to this document with photographs of

locations)

Location Address of location Permission needed Date at location

Y/N

Henley College Deanfield Ave, Henley- Yes. I will hire the Monday 12th june.
Studio on-Thames RG9 1UH studio out for use of
greenscreen.
My studio.(Dining 18 lackmore gardens, No. It is my house. 10th-16th june
Room) woodcote reading.
RG8 0SL
Props required

Props Scene Actor using Date needed

Plastercene All scenes. Will be used to make 8th-10th June and

models and parts of during all planning
the set. stages.
Piece of paper LT. Jones stage Part of set. 10th-16th June
scene.

Agreed content / amended brief (please insert a copy)

Brief for production idea 1

My production will be a stop motion animation using Plasterscene. The production will be in
the style of Blade runner and Robocop style. What I mean by this is how all of the main
characters will be augmented with technology and the main characters are a set of 3 other
assassins. These assassins are tipped off by a politician to assassinate the main leader of
augmentations for a sum of 4 billion dollars; the dilemma of the production comes through
how they support the ideas of the character they are going to assassinate through his
advancements in technology however the money they own will be enough for them to keep
off the streets and afford a way to get out of the low life; the tension comes from whether
they will kill the leader or will not do it and continue to have the major advancements in
technology.
The production will take place in 2052 when the world is at the highest point of technical
advancements. It will be set in a futuristic city called Wire 9 with flying cars and massive
advertisements looming above the city in the sky inspired by Blade runner. The reason I am
making the production was from when I was playing the videogame Deus Ex Human
Revolution and The Longest Journey both of which use futuristic citys and cyberpunk
themes and plots; while playing them I got inspired to create my own version of this,
however I originally wanted to do the production with live action but realised the scale would
be off and not produce the futuristic look I wanted, so I decided to do it with Plasterscene as I
can go crazy with it and animate anything I want with enough time. The characters in the plot
will have very 80s cyberpunk names that are seen to be quite cheesy yet have a unique style
to them;
The 4 assassins are a group of 2 boys and 2 girls.
The first boy named Star Proxy who is the hacker of the group and dresses with punky
clothing and helps the group to get into locations they need to enter his is in his early
twentys.
The main character who is a boy is called Blade Bayes who is the cocky yet kind at heart
leader of the assassins.
The second male is called Glitch he wears a mask and hardly ever talks, the group keeps
him for his katana skills and his tactical espionage skills.
The final female is called Axis Swift this is the older female who is the main piolet for the
group and is the escapist for when the group needs to get somewhere or get out!
I will animate the production using Plasterscene and will take a photo in rapid succession to
give the illusion of movement and will at some points use green screen to look like my
Plasterscene models are moving on the background and fit in and add better detail to the set.

Risk Assessments

1. Attach photos of risks

2. Attach risk assessment sheets for each location

Hazard Persons who Property Risk of hazard. What can be done to

may be which may Low Moderate. prevent?
harmed be damaged. High.

Tripping on Director- Dom Cameras and Moderate. Be wary when

cameras and Aitken other walking or dont
wires. equipment. have wires in
the way.

Getting Dom Aitken None. Low Wash hands

Plasterscene in after use.
eyes.

Dropping nobody Camera High Use a tripod

camera and be careful
when taking
pictures.

Team meetings, meetings with actors and crew

Date Attendees Meeting agenda Outcome

23rd/24th may ALL. Recording and Get all VO done

discussing all voice ready for production.
acting.
 Date Attendees Meeting agenda Outcome

Contingency / back up plans

If actors are unable to turn up, I can use people in my class to come and voice some actors if
they have only a line or so.

Detail how you solved problems

Problem Solved

Jules could not make it to do any VO. Included Berni instead.

Greenscreen not working well. Put more light on set.
Modifications (Why did you modify your work and what was changed during post-
production)

Modified How Why

There was lots of assassins at Changed to 4 Too much modeling and

one point (7 or 8) would be quantity over
quality as they would only
have one or two lines.
Blade and hacker were Would slit their throats when Changed due to an unneeded
originally meant to kill a few being behind them. scene.
guards with knifes.
The piolet was supposed to Cut down a lot Unneeded dialogue that was
have many lines of dialogue boring.
about the leader explanation.

Additional information
 Some scenes were mostly cut due to time constraints. I would have loved to have has lots
and lots more scenes and movement but there was not enough time so I had to work around
this and focus on making the story and plot interesting.

Attach any pre-production a material you may need

Storyboard

Script

Rough drafts of work / designs

Original Brief

Final mood board