Clips of Opening Sequence

This blog will show what filming we as a group have filmed already. On my previous blog I have shown the timeline of where each clip will be shown in our finished opening sequence. Our first clip we filmed was of our antagonist putting on lipstick. This is the third clip in our opening sequence. 

Our next clip we filmed was of the antagonist waking up suddenly, this gives the audience a sense of wanting to see what happens next. The clip will be one of the first clips shown in our sequence as it is them waking up.

Production Meeting 7

In our lesson we decided that we should do a timeline of shots to see the order of shots we should use, below is our timeline.

Our timeline shows the titles; when and where they will be placed within our opening sequence, and also it shows each individual clip. This allows us to show a clear narritive to our audience and how fast/slow each clip and titles will appear.

Production Meeting 6

We had a production meeting yesterday and decided that we are going to change our opening sequence. We decided that we are going to have a male protagonist and a female antagonist, this allows us to play with the audiences mind in order for them to try and work out who is the antagonist and protagonist. Our opening sequence will now consist of a fight between the male and female character, who have had an arguement.

Production Meeting 5

In our next meeting we discussed our action points form our last meeting and decided to produce a final copy of the shot list of each scene. Below is a copy of our shot list:


We then spoke about our locations for the other scenes, we came to the conclusion that for the first scene we would need a bedroom, and for the final scene we would need the bedroom. We preferably needed a boys/mans bedroom to film in so we asked around and found one. We discussed an appropriate date to use the bedroom and compared all of our timtables.

Action points for next meeting:

• Discuss what dates are appropriate to film Oxford scene
• Plan what dates to edit our film

Production Meeting 4

In our first lesson back, we confirmed our ideas as a group and drew out a rough table for our scenes and shotlist. We then came together and sorted out our location. For this we had to contact Oxford City Counsil via phone in order to ask them if we could use westgate car park as our location for our opening scene. We were then given an email address for the manager of the car parks in Oxford. However, we haven't recieved an email back confirming that we can use the car park. If we cannot use the car park we have a back up location, the streets of Oxford. This can be done because we do not need OCC permission and also other groups in the past have used it.

We then came up with our action points for our next meeting:

• Finish our shot list
• Discover locations for the other scenes

Production Meeting 3

Media - production pitch


This is our production pitch, showing our opening sequence ideas and how we are going approach filming it. We presented this to the class and got some really good feedback back. We got postive and focus points of feedback; our postitive points are that we have a really clear idea on what we are going to base our opening sequence on and that it seems as if we know what we are talking about and how we go about filming it. However, our focus points are that we need to focus on where we are filming our sequence, who our cast is going to be and what props we are going to use. We also need to focus on getting the message across to our target audience in order for them to understand what would happen in the film.

We then discussed our action points for our next meeting, these were:

• To discover a suitable location
• Put together a shot list
• Produce a final copy of a storyboard

Production Meeting 2

In our next meeting on the 13th December, we spoke about our action points, so where we could film our opening sequence, heard the soundtrack and the sound effects we could used and looked at the storyboard in which Bryony created.

We then, spoke about our ideas and decided as a group to produce an opening sequence on our first idea; the action sequence. This idea is where a person is asleep and is dreaming, as the action starts we will have a black screen with titles on it and then go back to the action. The sequence will end with the character waking up by the sound of a gun-shot and their alarm going off. By doing this we don't reveal the whole film throught the opening sequenece, it builds tension for the audience watching, making them want to carry on watching.


After this, we looked at various soundtracks and sound effect I had chosen. We narrowed them down to one soundtrack and two sound effects. Click on the links below to hear them.

Soundtrack

Sound effect - Alarm clock

Sound effect - Gun shot

We spoke about our action points. By our next meeting we wanted to have:

• A mood board created
• A powerpoint finished in order to make a production pitching
• Discussed cast and locations