Influences for our film opening

One of the main film openings we looked at for ideas for our own was 'Se7en'. When we watched this film opening in lesson, we both liked the images of the opening which give the audience the idea that the stalker has an obsession with religion and is intricately planning how to kill his victims. This is done in Se7en by the audience seeing the character of the murderer putting a great amount of detail in creating a religious symbol from the Bible and finding out information about the Seven Deadly Sins, a clear sign to the audience that this character is very religious and is planning to kill. We liked the idea of seeing a stalker planning to kill his victim, as like it did when we saw the Se7en opening, it creates tension to the audience and makes them want to keep on watching. We also liked how the opening of Se7en was in black and white and how it gave the scene an eerie and mysterious feel. Again we thought this would be a good idea for our own film opening, so to give our stalker scenes the same eerie feel we edited them to be black and white as they are in Se7en. Our music choice was also influenced by Se7en. The music in the film opening is fast paced but has an edgy feel about it, and as the scene goes on it gets louder which helps create an eerie atmosphere to the audience. By using similar techniques to the Se7en film opening we hope to have created a similar edgy feel and build the same tension to the audience as Se7en did to us when we watched it.

Animatic

So this is our animatic for our film opening 'He's Coming After You'. We decided to draw out our storyboard pictures onto post it notes so that we could move scenes around if they didn't look right. Some of the ideas we have drawn out in our animatic have changed since we originally drew them due to some last minute changes we made when it came to filming. However this only affects a few of the scenes and everything else is pretty much the same as our film opening.

Script

This is the script from our film opening. I forgot to post it on here around the time we were filming, so here it is now:

(victim walks up to friend, who is standing in the park waiting for her. They start a conversation.)
Friend: Hey, are you alright? You look a bit worried...
Victim: Yeah I'm fine, just thought I was being followed again, thats all.
Friend: What, again?! Thats like the fifth time in two weeks.
Victim: I know, but its probably nothing. Nothing to worry about.
Friend: I'm not so sure. I don't think you should walk through here on your own anymore, its getting too freaky.
Victim: Its fine, honestly. As I said its probably nothing. Now come on, lets go...
(as they walk away, victim looks over her shoulder to see if anyone is behind her, with worried expression on her face.)

Pretty much everything is complete...

We've been able to edit the sound on the conversation scene so that now the audience can hear myself and Lucy speaking and still hear the music in the background. Now that we've done this our editing is finished! Yay!
All that is left to do now is to add the animatic onto our blogs. I will be trying to do this over the weekend so hopefully by next week it shall be up on here (at last!).

Continuity Sequence

This is our continuity sequence that myself, Shazna, Lucy and Chris did quite a few months ago.

Got our music at last!

In todays media lesson we finally found our music and imported it into our film clip.
We looked on a copy right free music website (http://audio.lgfl.org.uk/) and searched for thriller music. There were 10 choices of thriller music clips, and our favourite two were 'In Memoriam' and 'Hidden Threat'. These two stood out to us as they went well with our stalker theme, built up suspense and gave it an eerie feel. We didn't take long to choose what music we wanted, and after listening to both clips a few times we decided that 'In Memoriam' would be the more suitable music for our clip. We think it gives our film opening a mysterious feel and builds up the suspense and tension that we want to get across to the audience. We've imported the music into our sequence and thinks it goes very well with our film opening. In scene 10 (the conversation scene) we need to change the volume, as even though the audience can hear myself and Lucy speaking, the musics volume is still quite loud and goes over the conversation. We need to find a way to make the music volume in this clip quieter so that the audience will be able to hear the full conversation but so that the music can still be heard in the background.

Conversation Scene Editing Stuff...

So in Wednesdays media lesson we edited the new shot of the conversation scene into our film opening. We'd filmed it three times to make sure that we got a good shot of it, incase the tape corrupted again and just to give us a choice of which shot we preferred. Both myself and Lucy were able to remember what clothes we wore on the original day of filming, and we used the same umbrella again so as not to ruin the continuity. The umbrella was also used to disguise the background. This scene was shot in my back garden like before, and the umbrella helped disguise any signs that we were in my garden and not the woods where all of the other stalker shots were filmed.