Actors Main Female:
Two Days of filming; £100
Cab Driver:
One evening of filming; £50 (Including Cab Hire)
Group of young females:
one evening of filming; £20 each (3 extra Girls)
Props Makeup; £50
Normal makeup for the girls evening, wound and costume makeup Drinks; £30
can be rotated between girls to emphasise excess drinking Costume; £20
White Vest Top, evening wearfor main girl,
On location Club Entry; £30 (£5 each)
Transportations; £30
Main Girl Train and Cab
Meals; £60
including staff and actors, both days Makeup artist; £40
for both days of filming
Our short film is based around 3 main locations, a front room, a pub and a cab.
We chose our locations carefully to match the story and the visual style we wanted to use. For the front room monolouge scene we used Ali's front room as her sofas are a clean white along with the wall behind them. This keeps a neutral feeling throughout the shot making the audience feel as if Felicitys story is innocent and fun but as the monolouge goes
on the audience start to realise that the reality is the total opposite to what they expected to find out.
For the pub scenes we used a pub in Shirey who in advance we asked if it would be OK to film there, they said yes and we were able to use some drinks and filmed on the bar, on some sofas, in the toilets and outside the pub.we had aimed to film our flash backs and the girls drunken state in the Croydon club Yates. Our plan was to visit all clubs during the day to speak with the managers and explain what we are aiming to achieve and whether they will allow us to film within their premises. In the end we decided to use a pub instead in Shirley which were fine with us filming inside and in their bathrooms.
For the cab we contacted a cab service that was nearby to the pub in Shirley and they allowed us to film as the cab driver just drove up and down the main road outside of the cab's office.
We carefully thought about costumes for the characters in our short film to wear. For the monolouge scene we asked our actress to wear a white vest top and jeans to be neutral and the total opposite to what we see her wearing in the pub.
For our primary research I created a survey based on cabs, This was created on the website www.surveymonkey.com Here are the questions we asked,
Our responses can be found here www.surveymonkey.com/s/KPWWQWX
1. What is your gender? Percent Response Count Male 66.7% Female 33.3%
2.After a night out do you go home by, Percent Response Count Cab/Taxi 66.7% Night Bus 33.3% Walk 16.7% Train/Tube 50.0% Car 16.7% Other 0.0%
3. After a night out how would you prefer to get home? Percent Response Count Cab/Taxi 50.0% Night Bus 33.3% Walk 0.0% Train/Tube 0.0% Car 50.0% Other 16.7%
4. Around how much do you pay for your travel home? Percent Response Count £1-£5 33.3% £5-£10 16.7% £10-£15 50.0% £15 or over 16.7%
5. If you do choose to call a cab/taxi do you order it yourself? Percent Response Count Yes 83.3% No 50.0%
6. For the majority of the time do you ask someone you know and trust to order you a cab/taxi? Percent Response Count Yes 66.7% No 33.3%
7. Are you most likely to go home alone in a cab/taxi? Percent Response Count Yes 50.0% No 50.0%
8. Have you always got your local cab/taxi number on you? Percent Response Count Yes 16.7% No 50.0% Most of the time 33.3%
9. Do you know how to tell is a cab/taxi is liscensed or not? Percent Response Count Yes 0.0% No 50.0% Not sure 50.0%
Aarr last night was a great night! I got absolutely smashed though! Hahaa, Dont think I can even remember most of it (pause) Oh no, wait, yeah i got ready at Hollie’s house which was a bit of a rush cos I’d come straight from stinking work and we had to leave by 8 for us to get to Croydon for 10, I dont know why we had to get ready at hers, shes such a spoilt brat sometimes so yeah i’m rushing TRYING to look good, still decididng what to wear when we got 10 minutes until we had to leave! Oh yeah I wore some sexy little red dress instead of the leggings and blouse in the end, it complimented my figuire more.
So yeah we left Hollie’s, my hair just puff up everywhere because of the rain I was screwing while Hollie was laughing...bitch! Then we bluddy missed the first bus so I’m sitting there in the cold, legs out and that, but the drink started kicking in, I had 2 smirnoff ice’s at mine and Hollie had a bottle of Rose she stole from her sisters bag, we downed that in turns.
When the bus finally came it was soo! Funny! We were singing ‘Black eyed peas-I got a feeling’ and you should of seen some old couples faces hahah oh and oh my god can you believe some little boy tried to grab my bum! Cheeky git! I wanted to slap him!
You should of seen the pub last night! There was loads of old men there but they were a right old laugh...I guess. One of the men said I had legs like Marylin Monroe...I felt like a queen. Well anyway, me and hollie put the ole jukebox on and danced to whatever came on. It felt like the room was spinning at one point, but it felt great!
Got to like 1 now and Hollie still wanted to stay but I’d had too much to drink and just wanted my bed, I told them I’d get the night bus but they didnt let me (angry) so stupid Hollie called up Brian and asked him for the cheapest cab service, I was just too drunk to argue.
It only took the cab about 10 minutes to come, so that was good(pause) So I said bye to Hollie and the drunken old men and stumbled outside, my feet were burning! I didnt even care I walked with no shoes on hahaha.
The cab man was actually a laugh, well I cant remember what the hell I was saying, I was just carrying away, it was the drink talking.(pause) but he didnt say a word(pause) I think he was scared of me or something(pause) He was driving some long way back to mines but I was too drunk to even notice...until this morning when I woke up on Midholm Road. I looked around me, I had no bag, no money and no shoes. What had happened? I had ladders in my tights and my cardigan was ripped. I was so confused, I couldn’t even remember what had happened really. I just sat there in silence. I didn’t know what to do, so I started to walk home. All I could remember was going out to a pub, having fun and dancing nothing else. As I was walking, people were staring at me, making me feel uneasy, like there was something wrong with me. This was at like 10 in the morning, so obviously it was all the old people having their midmorning walk, being nosy as per usual. I finally got to my house. I had no keys on me, so I had to climb over the back door and sneak through the kitchen window.
Luckily my mum was at work, so she couldn’t ask any questions. I walked into my bedroom and stood infront the mirror. That’s what was wrong with me. Half of my face was covered with bruises and scratches like I had gotten into a fight. I sat down on my bed staring at myself in the mirror trying to remember what had happened. Things started to come back to me slowly, getting ready at Hollie’s , then going into the pub, then eventually coming out, and...and going into a cab.
The thing is, oh yeah, Brian got the cab for me. Then I got into the cab, and I think I must of been talking to the cab driver because I do sort of remember there being an awkward silence..which wasn’t my fault. What is confusing me, is that I woke up on a different road. Hmm, maybe. But no. I do remember my clothes being ripped and me being robbed. But its not like I was asking it from anyone its just, I mean...maybe I gave the cab driver the wrong idea. I just spoke to him, nothing else. Now I can kind of remember him trying to take down my clothes, forcing me to get naked infront of him. Woahhh ok this is weird, because now im just not remembering anything else apart from being pushed out of a car with nothing. (silence) I don’t really think the cab driver realised why I was so upset, but then again now I’m thinking fuck it! Shit happens and it definitely happens to me.
For our logo, I went on the internet and searched for a licensed taxi plate, then traced it and changed it in Adobe Illustrator. This is the image off the internet:
This is the image that was made in Adobe Illustrator:
Samantha, an 18 year old girl, enjoys an eventful night out with her girl friends in a club, but has a bit too much to drink. As she stumbles out of the club and leaves her friends, a suspicous man pulls over and asks if she wants a cab. As she thinks about the cab mans proposition, she decides to get in but doesn’t realise that she has just made the wrong move, until she wakes up in a ditch. Samantha talks about her horrific experience, but tries to move on and look past it.
Characters Felicity: 18 Year old girl. A student who lives at home with her Mum and Dad. Her relationship with her mum is very good. They are seen as best friends and sisters rather then mother and daughter as they get along so well. Felicity tells her mother everything, but fails to find it easy to tell her mother about this situation as she is too scared of what she might think. Felicity’s mother Karen, see’s Felicity as her sister. She tells her most things including what what bad things Felicity’s dad has done to her in the past. Her dad is the silent part of the family. He has done hurtful things in the past to both Felicity and her mother, which Felicity doesn’t agree of, hence the reason why they don’t get along very well. Both Felicity and her mother, don’t take much notice of him. Cab Driver: The Cab Driver in this Short Film is seen as silent and mysterious. David is not a liscened cab driver, and has a criminal record of acting as a liscence cab driver and being reported by women as either attacked, raped or being in an unliscened cab. He put’s on a different personality so that women that get into the cab, think he is a helpful gentleman that just wants to make sure they get home safely.
We want to raise awareness about this issue, and have taken some ideas from 'About a girl' as the audience think everything is happy but then at the end we realise that something horific has happened to her.
We were also inspired by the billboard advert seen outside,
We have looked at different cab short films and adverts to influence our shots and style of filming,
For exhibition of our short film I have looked at different charitys, competitions and campaigns.
Cabwise-
Has been created by TFL (Travel for London) as a safe way for people to travel home, with the rise of unlicensed cabs. The government has set up cabwise, all you have to do is text 'CAB' to '60835' and you will be sent back 1 taxi and 2 local licensed minicab services. You can do this before you go out which will save you waiting for the numbers when you want to go home.
We thought that if we approached the company we could send them our short film and see what they think and they could even use it for their campaign.
For distribution, exhibition, sales and consultancy we will email the company 'Dazzle Films' who may be able to give us some help with our Short Film.
Withoutabox Also is an easy way of entering a number of film festivals at once so when our film is completed we will sign up to this website and apply.
Film network We will also submit our film to the BBC Film Network website by joining creating a membership. This will be good exposure as we can send the link around to peers and proffesionals which will look good to add to our portfolio.
king the audience feel as if Felicitys story is innocent and fun but as the monolouge goes 
