Our final opening

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Look back at your preliminary task; what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

When originally planning how we were going to produce our film opening after coming up with the idea, creating a time schedule of when and where, came easy and simple to our group. This is because we previously created an animatic of our opening which included the setting, mise en scene ect luckily an member of our group had a big enough space in her bedroom to film.  When pre producing the opening we left out a key element which was vital when it came to filming the scenes, this being the table which the girl is sitting at. 

This cost us allot of time as our plan was to get the filming completed on a tight schedule of two days because the actor used was busy. In addition, we had planned to film the morning scene that day but could not because it was getting darker.

Other mise en scenes were used throughout the opening such as the crystal ball, which we used for a match cut.

From filming our prelim we understood the 180 degree rule and challenged different shots when filming our opening,

3 shots - wide angle above with a close up and medium shot below. We used all 3 successfully in our final product.

As we were filming at night (in the dark) it was isential that we had an attached light for our camera to help make the image more clearer but had to use it on a minimum power as the bright light would show up  as a square on the walls so the final opening was darker than wanted.

We had previously had practice in editing and found that we all had our strengths in different areas such as final cut pro, sound track pro and word pro, we used this to our advantage. Instead of working on each one at a time all together, we focused on different area and put it together in the end, still helping each other on the way. Editing the scenes took the longest as the clip resulted in being too short so we had to rethink a beginning and quickly film it. We were going to include blank screens to split up scenes therefore making it longer but as we have a lot of layering in would not look right and may confuse viewers.

So we elongated the beginning by filming a wide shot of the building and following through to the bedroom, we thought this would be good to show where the film is being set.

We had a vague idea of what we wanted the sound to be like, based on what mood we wanted to portray by looking at previous thrillers and searching up particular instrumentals  on YouTube but when it came down to creating it on sound cut pro it was difficult to get the perfect sound. From using sound cut pro for our preliminary task we were familiar with the instrumental used then and thought that would be a good sound to use for our opening (which it was).  We also had a problem with finding the rite alarm sound so we had to play around with the volume and tone to get it to the sound we wanted.

For our tittles we wanted to create a suspicious and psychological theme so we used a crackle effect on the writing to show the girl is unstable ect.

By doing the preliminary task it has helped us with the knowledge to complete our thriller opening with a considerable amount of ease as every technology we used to complete it very much familiar to us.

Evaluation: Question 1

The purpose a film opening is to engage the audience to continue to watch more of the film, a film opening should show the main characters and genre of the movie. Directors can do this in the following ways 

- Flash backs. This gives the audience information of key events that is usually unraveled throughout the movie.

- Panning of landscape. This is used to set the scene and gives the audience an idea of where the film is set.

- Narrations . This can give the audience more detail into the movie.

- A chase/ fight. Straight away this can draw the audience into the movie because of the action.

- Tittle sequences. This gives the audience knowledge of who is involved with the movie and what known characters are featured.

In the opening of 'attack the block' there is a shot of the sky which then follows down, showing a shot of  a train station and the road zooming in until we get a shot of a main character coming out of the station.

For our opening we used this technique to show the location of our film letting the audience know where  the movie is being filmed. showing the outside of the building leading into a corridoor and finally into the main characters room.

The conventions of a tittle sequence always feature the distribution and production company, this lets the audience know who was involved in the making and advertising of the movie. We used the standard conventions of a tittle sequence by following the order of them, with distribution first and production second.

To make the tittles more interesting and relatable to the film we used a crackle effect on the tittles to relate to our psychological thriller where the girl is challenged by her split personality with causes torment and distress.

Editing credits/Influences

Our influences on editing came from the film Insidious and Orphan we liked the way it was styled and its editing. The  speed was also convenient and the way the music also gave way for the title sequence and how the both merged together. It was inciting to see how producers can do so little with title sequences, although it is the first thing you see.

Editing Process

This is a screen grab of the editing process, i used LiveType to create the title sequence, LiveType was very easy to use and the effects were great as they added a more gothic feel to our opening. The different fonts defined our opening more. This screen grab is of our title we used two effects so that the title stand from our other titles. 

Inspired Movie

Our opening was inspired by Paranormal Activity. We tried to create a scene similar to it, form the first movie where the actress is in her room walking around etc.We were thinking about using a timer, but we thought it would seem more like a trailer than an opening to a movie

                                Paranormal Activity                                                               3:01

The scenery is slightly different compared to ours but we did try put best to make it as good as PA1. As you can see the bedroom in PA1 is bigger and ours was smaller. They were both set in bedrooms mainly and the night camera effect was used

We did have problems with the lighting, but we were still able to shoot the scene of her walking around the room. 

Roughcut

Opening of thriller: Editing so far

Planning Story Board & Animatic

Planning our story board was challenging as we had so many ideas, but could not include them all. The story board consisted of our opening scene , and what blank spaces needed, till the end of the film. As we went on with our planning each picture was drawn accurately to how our scenes in the opening will occur.
In addition the animatic was an easy process as we have done it before, the only challenging thing is getting the timing right  and the speed correctly.

Planning Costume & Props

Although our initial idea of costume was a victorian white dress gown, to be very creative. It did not come together and we had to find an alternative which was a plain white shirt and leggings.

                                                         





Here is a snow ball/crystal ball we used to emphasise the character in our films innocence, and the progression of it, though it is slightly ironic. we also used it as it had a useful lullaby that could be used in our background sound.

Here we used a snow globe/crystal ball emphasising the  Actresses innocence, giving off a theme of slight innocence as well, which is fairly ironic. Also it has a lullaby with it that will come in handy with our sound.

These are other props we used, like the drawings, pencil, make-up etc.

Thoughts on the filming process.

Day 4 of Filming

On the fourth and final day of shooting the thriller opening we shot the two very last scene, which is also a vital scene as it shows what the main character is capable of.

The mixture adds a gory feel to the peice.

We then filmed a final panning shot of the room.

We used acrylic paint mixed with water so that the colour would resemble blood, we then did a pan of the room in the morning, so that the audience could see that the bedroom was different to how it was after 3am.

Day 3 of Filming

On the third day of filming, we mainly shot the scenes that needed daylight in them. This included the scene where are main character wakes up and comes out of the room. We had to get a close up of the time, which showed 7am. We filmed her pressing the snooze button on the iPod dock that we used to tell the time. For sound we were planning to record another clocks' alarm so that it sounds more effective, because the dock we used did not have a loud alarm sound that fitted our expectations.

For extras we did a cutaway from the girls face to the train. We thought we could add this to our opening whilst editing if needed. We also did a cutaway to a snow-globe because the sound was very gothic and we thought it could add a nice effect to our piece

Whilst filming, we tried to get re-film some scenes if we saw something that looked odd or we left a prop out. We did this because in our preliminary we missed small mistakes which made the piece look very amateur. 

Day 2 of Filming.

On day 2 we shot the scenes where our actress was drawing out pictures in the night. We got close ups and medium shots of her face, as well as the pictures she drew. The pictures consisted of scribblings of eyes, random shapes and a person. The most significant one was the picture with the person, with the face scribbled. This was supposed to represent that she is not in her right state of mind, and out of control. This was one of the ideas that we thought we could add into the opening, but are still not sure whether or not it will definitely be in it.

Once that scene was done, we then shot the scenes where she walks around the room. We got her to go around the room, scrunching up the papers on the floor and slowly coming back up.