Policeman

The Policeman character appears for the shortest amount of time in comparison to the other characters. 

My chosen police officers uniform is fairly simple and based on one of the early police uniforms, with a button up knee length coat, belt, tall hat and baton. 

Main male character

My main male character, the shop owner and crook. 

Strongly influenced by Sasha Baron Cohen, both his characters in Tim Burtons Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and his character is Les Miserables

He will be exceptionally tall, much taller than all the other characters. 

Main female character

My two main characters are husband and wife, and they run their own camera shop/photographers, where they take fun photos and then charge their customers extortionate prices.

Basically fairly similar to the characters played by Sasha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter in Les Miserables. 

Here are my Female character drawings/developments:

Props

I have started to draw up props for my story, but christmas was a very busy and family orientated time, so I didn't get much work done over christmas. However, the props are mostly all the little details in my story, so I will add lots more drawings of my props as I make them. The props will be things that you find in a camera shop/photographers, so lots of frames and different cameras and prices lists. 

Below is a very rough drawing of tourist photo boards, (not sure what the proper word for them is) the ones that have pictures of people with the face cut out, so that people can put their own faces through the hole and so their face appears on a different body. 

Set design

Being honest I had the style/rough time period in which I want my story to be set, chosen for quite some time. 

So the first thing I started with was set and background research.

I try include things I've done and places I've visited in my life, because I like everything I do to contribute to something. And it just so happened that earlier this year we visited a model village on a drawing trip and I thought the images I took may come in useful as inspiration for drawing and eventually building my set. 

Schedule

We have started pre-production for our 3rd year student films.
The very first thing to do was to write a check list and then organise a schedule in order to start getting things done. 

Schedule