Evaluation - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

by frankiealexiex

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Final opening title sequence after feedback

Final Opening Sequence

Story Board

This is a story board of our footage, to give us an idea of what our opening sequence would look like. We planned to follow this when we was filming our opening title sequence, although when it came to filming some scenes got changed because of the access we had. The story shows 18 shots which we have put into a story board to show camera angles and shot sizes. We decided to include a lot of close ups to create enigma so the full story wasn't given away, close up's also connote some kind of mystery which is a convention of the thriller genre. This story board was drawn by Kelly Simpson and written up by me.

Character Profile

My contribution and roles.

Throughout the pre-production stage of my opening title sequence, I have completed the following:

• Costume and Make-up
• Prop List
• Treatment
• Risk assessment
• Timeline - I called out the titles as Kelly Simpson drew them.
• The write up of the shot list
• Location Recce

The production stage of my opening title sequence, I have completed the following:

• I edited our opening title sequence.
• I filmed the scene with the male character (The paedophile scene)
• Setting up props
• Getting characters together
• Setting up lighting
• Me and Kelly Simpson edited the audience feedback video which has been put on to YouTube.

Location Recce

 Our location recce was taken place in an art room in school. This worked well because we was able to darken the room by shutting the blinds and using lighting equipment. We set up a day do light I increased and decreased the light source from this when I was filming from behind the main character this enhanced the lighting so he's silhouette was clear. The lights we used allowed the room to be dark but also reduced the grain so the footage was clear this also created the feel that it was set in the stalkers secrete room. The darkness portrayed the feel of the unknown which is what thriller films do to build tension.

I also filmed our footage out doors in a natural environment, the woodlands we choice were local to school. We filmed during the day therefore natural lighting was used, although we did use a reflector when filming close up of the girls face which made her eyes bright and her face clear. The location was muddy so the character wore welly boots which worked well as this connoted that the girl was young and innocent.

 

 

Shot List

Location	Scene	Shot	Description
Set up studio in the art room	1	1	Close up of the man lighting a match
Set up studio in the art room		2	Medium close up as he begins to take off his coat
Set up studio in the art room		3	Medium close up as he goes to hang up his coat
Set up studio in the art room		4	Close up as he hangs it
Set up studio in the art room		5	Close up of the man getting out a record and turns his back to wipe the screen
Set up studio in the art room		6	Close up of him taking his shoes off
Set up studio in the art room		7	Close up as he loosens his tie
Set up studio in the art room	2	1	Over the shoulder shot of him writing
Woodland area		2	Close up on girls hair
Set up studio in the art room		3	The man opens a briefcase
Woodland area		4	Close up of the girls eyes, the eye line matching with the mothers
Set up studio in the art room	3	1	Close up of the writing as the plan gets revealed
Woodland area		2	Close up of the mother and daughter holding hands
Set up studio in the art room		3	Close up of the briefcase as the man lifts up pictures of the girl
Woodland area	4	1	Medium close up as the girl lets go of the mothers hand
Set up studio in the art room		2	Medium close up as the man strokes a sculptors face
Woodland area		3	Long shot as the girl runs towards the tree.
Set up studio in the art room	5	1	Over the shoulder shot changing focus
Woodland area		2	Medium long shot as the girl peaks out from behind the tree
Set up studio in the art room		3	Over the shoulder close up of the man picking up the photo
Woodland area		4	Close up of the girls face

Risk Assesment

This is a prezti I made, to present the hazards when filming our openinhg title sequence.

Treatment and log line

 Log Line
A young, innocent 7 year old girl, living at home with just her mother, becomes the centre of attention to a stalker. The stalker becomes more and more obsessed with the girl until he decides to kidnap. Its thoughts become more twisted as he keeps diaries of her routines in the guest to capture her.

Treatment
A young girl, vulnerable and naïve, brainwashed by the mind of psychopathic stalker. He watches her over  a period of time, following her routes home and keeping track of her destinations. Unknowingly the innocent child lives her daily life with just her mother whilst the stalker shows interest. Little do they know their lives were about to change when the stalker becomes overly obsessive over the little girl and plans to kidnap her.
His twisted disturbed life becomes surrounded by thoughts, movements and images of the girl. As he keeps photographs and diaries of her routines, craving her presence and becoming determined to capture her as his possession.
All begins to become more intense as the mother grows suspicious of the stalking that is becoming present to her and her daughter as they play in the park and take walks to school. This causes a change in action which speeds up his plot to take the young girl.

Conversation is made between the mother and the stalker when his curiosity about the young girl becomes unbearable. He makes himself innocent as he shows clear attraction to the mother when asking if they have seen his dog. He uses this as a cover up to decrease all suspicion. Although follows through the conversation asking questions about the young girl, comparing her to his 'niece' to disguise any further suspicion. The answers he got from the mother fills the stalking in on her hobbies and interests, which he dwells on as they give him ideas of ways to lure her in.

Thriller time line

This is my timeline which I made by noting down the second of each time a title is shown on screen, and what the name of the title is. To do this I used a thriller movie as it gave me more of an idea of the positioning and length of the titles used in thriller films, so I'm able to carry this out in my own opening title sequence. It also gave me a feel of what is shown in a opening title sequence and how regular titles are.

Skype Call with Mike Harrowes

Discussed Skype call being organised with BAFTA nominated editor Mike Harrowes who is currently  editing a Horror Drama for British TV. The questions we will ask him will be :

• How does the pace of editing effect the mood portrayed in the film and witch areas does it affect the viewer the most?
• How is tension built in a thriller film, is there a particular edit?
• How long did it take you to complete your opening sequence?
• What did you find easy to edit and what did you struggled with?
• Have you changed any ideas in the process of making the film or stick to the one plan?

This is the Skype call which we had with Mike Harrowes in class.

Equipment

Before filming our opening sequence me and Kelly had a group discussion and thought about the equipment that we would need in order to successfully film our footage. Here is our list:

 

1. Tripod - We would need a tripod to set our camera up on so that the footage is focused and clear, a tripod levels up the camera and keeps it still including leavers which we can use to pan and move direction of the camera without it being hand held.
2. SD card - We will place an SD card inside of the camera, the footage will save to this card so can all be together and also so it can easily be exported on to the computer for further adjustments.
3. Different size lenses - Different size lenses will need to be used so we can get different shots of the girl using the right camera lenses which we can easily focus when filming.
4. DSR 700 Camera - This is the type of camera we will use to film our opening sequence.
5. Battery - A battery will be put into the camera to give it power to work, we must make sure our battery is fully charged before putting it into the camera.
6. Laster light/Reflector - We decided we would film close ups of our character outside, so we will use a reflector to place under her face so her features are highlighted, making her eyes stand out and her face clear.

Group meeting on opening sequence

This is a picture taken of me and my group having a discussion about our log line and treatment for our opening sequence. Contributing ideas and thoughts, during this we also considered including narrative and enigma and using the 180 degree rule. This concluded us to decide on the environment we will be filming in and the characters and props that will be needed. Unfortunately Owen who is in this image left the group so is no longer a part of our opening sequence.

Costume and Make-up

This is a list of the costume and make-up that Kelly Simpson and I made, which we will be using in our opening sequence.

• Old grubby wrinkle hands - Keeping in mind the idea of our opening sequence of a stalker, we wanted old grubby hands which portrayed eeriness and a mysterious feel. The dirty hands also connote that he isn't clean and has been up to no good relating to his dirty mind.
• Rolled up sleeves - We decided that we wanted our character to have roll up the sleeves on his shirt to present that he wasn't formal and was getting stuck in, deep in thoughts of the kidnap planning.
• Desaturated drawn face ( Powered pale grey colour)
•  Wellie boots on small children's feet

Prop List

This is a prop list for our filming of our opening sequence.

• Pen
• Paper
• Table
• Candle
• Match sticks
• Box for images
• Photographs of the girl
• Record