Locations for 'Joe'

Joe isn't a film that will benefit from a plot that travels to various locations. It's an exploration of the turmoil and emotional strain of the characters and therefore the back drop only serves as a way of increasing the realism. We have narrowed the locations we will need to a few easy to access ones.

The streets

The streets will be an integral location throughout the film. Our film is dealing with a cast of teenagers who lives in a quiet town. With the lack of things there is to do in quiet towns most young people will take to the streets looking for something to entertain themselves with. The streets will be where the story begins with Joe's death, where the characters try to seek solace and where the story runs its conclusion.

Here is a prelimenary shot of the scene of Joe's death; an alley on the same estate that most of the characters will live on. There's no lighting down here so a tense mise can be created at night time. I plan for the film to begin here and for the film to end here.

As with all youth there needs to be a place for them to collect and socialise together. Hastings has many places where these types of locations can be used effectively. For instance this play area:

William Parker Sports College

Our own school William Parker Sports College will serve as the location of the school that the teenagers all attend.

Character profiles for 'Joe'

Joe

As a character Joe never directly appears in the film. It's the scenario surrounding his death that is crucial to the plot of the film. As a person he is popular amongst his peers in college with good job prospects with his grades and good sporting ability. He was someone everyone in the college knew and got on with.

Danny

Danny is Joe's best friend. They play sports together and go to every event they can together. Some might say that Joe's death hit Danny harder than anyone else, even Lucy. He would be very similar to Joe in personality and attributes. However what is important about Danny is how he copes with Joe's death considering his personality. He's not an aggressive character but he feels vengful. He wants the perpertrators to suffer for what they did to Joe but he doesn't know how to make it happen.

Lucy

Lucy was Joe's girlfriend and was completely infactuated by him when he was alive. She is a very popular attractive girl who feels great pain over the loss of her Joe. However she is a very rational charcter and believes just fighting with the perpertrators will cause more fighting. Her biggest desire throughout the film is just to move foward with her life and forget the catastrophe that has changed it so dramatically. To do so she seeks comfort

Trailer Draft for 'Joe'

Here is a preliminary draft for the trailer of 'Joe'. In our trailer we want to portray the emotional instability of each of the characters as they try to cope with the loss of their friend or in Anuar's case the guilt that he feels. As it develops I want an audience to see that Lucy is trying to regain a sense of perspective in her life and trying to develop as a teenage girl again where as in contrast Danny is desperately trying to seek justice for the murder of his closest friend. With Anuar the trailer will show his paranoia as he tries to cope with knowing he participated in the murder of an innocent person. It's aim is to make an audience feel interested in the stories leading up to the state they are in within the trailer.

A trailer I feel is good to draw inspiration from is the trailer of Shane Meadow's This is england '86. Being in the style of independent film it follows the conventions that we want to follow. It's especially helpful from the 42nd second when the sinister moments for the characters begin to be drawn in. It shows mid close up shots of the characters argueing, angry and crying. It becomes intimate with their emotions drawing us into a sense of peril that they are experiencing.

• Shot 1 - Danny in tears - Fade to black - 3 seconds
  


• Shot 2 - Lucy in tears - Fade to black - 3 seconds
  


• Shot 3 - Anuar in tears - Fade to black - 3 seconds
  


• Shot 4 - News report voice over 'a another young boy has been stabbed in another random street attack' while black - Piano music begins to play
  


• Shot 5 - Lucy talking to Danny "Danny we loved him both but we got to move on"
  


• Shot 6 - Danny punching the wheel of his car in a fit of rage
  


• Shot 7 - Anuar walking down a street, hood up, checking over shoulder, jumpy at sirens.
  


• Shot 8 - Lucy dressed up for a night out. Laughing with gal pals.