X marks the spot

This is our final edit of our film opening, X Marks The Spot.



This is the final edit of the preliminary task.

Question 7

Question 6

Question 5 and 4

Question 3

Question 2

Question 1

Construction: Titles

Titles consists of a list of the most important people involved with the film, the name of the film, the name of the production company and all the companies associated with it. The font and colour of the text gives the audience a sense of what the genre of the film is.You can see a presentation of the fonts that we used for our film opening below.

Construction: Sound

Introduction

we have decided to add non diegetic sound to our opening film. The reason for this is because by adding non diegetic sound (sound that is applied to be present in action) it makes the film be effective by creating a very eerie and suspenseful atmosphere fort the audience.

The page where we got all the sounds was from  Free Sound. This is because we weren't able to download any sounds from anywhere else because if we did that would be copyright.

Here are some screenshots that I took while researching for different types of sounds.

Firstly, as you can see I was searching for a background sound for the whole opening film, as it creates  mood and tension.

Secondly, we were also thinking to add a non diegetic sound at the beginning of the film when the murderer opened the door, to make it more dramatically.

After deciding what sounds would sound good for our opening film, we downloaded it and we uploaded it into Premiere Pro.

On the picture above you can see that we added a simultaneous sound when the title shows up. We got this idea from the opening film of Sev7en.

Here are some examples of the sounds that we have chose at the end.


This is the sound that we chose for when the titles appear.

Construction: Rough Footage Of X Marks The Spot

In the video above, you can see rough edit of our film opening. We took some of the raw footage, that we have already filmed and put it together, to create a rough idea of how our film opening would look like. This helps us to see if we are missing something and if we need to film any scenes again. For example, we do need to film the very first scene again, as it is quite blurry.
This video is one minute long, so that tells us that we also need to think about, what we will do to make it longer. We could either put in some more footage that we have already filmed. We could also do more filming or add titles in separate shots.

Construction: Evidence Of Filming Taking Place

You can find the evidence of our filming in the presentation below.



The first slide shows some pictures of us preparing for filming in Corby. In the first picture you can see Enilze finding some newspaper articles of teenagers, murdered in the woods or near the woods. We inserted photos of some teenagers next to the articles, we used these as the killer is keeping track of the people that he has already killed. We also got some images of Ashley (Michael) and Emma (Gabriella). Those images were used as the killer's next victims.
In the second slide you can se Amanda filming the point of view, of Natharn sticking the images onto the wall. You can also see Jeseena holding a lamp, which was used to make the footage clearer. 
The third slide consists of photos of us, filming in location 2 (Kettering Town Centre). You can see us filming from different angles. In the next slide we put a picture of the killer's room (garage) and also a short video of David ( Natharn) preparing his wall of victims. 
The sixth slide shows Natharn applying red food colouring on his hands, as blood to make it look like he had just murdered someone. This would give it a sense of danger.

The last slide consists of 2 videos, one is from location 1 (garage) and the other one is from location 2 (Kettering Town Centre). In each video, we put together short clips of raw footage and also bloopers.

Construction: Practising the Camera

Before filming, we thought it would be better to practise the camera and see the quality of the footage, and also to understand how it works. We as a group, arranged a date and time when we were all free. We used that time to walk around the school and film some short clips, that contain different angles, shots and camera movements.

In the video below, you can see and edited video containing the short clips of different angles and shots we took.

Planning - Filming Schedule

Date	Cast needed	Time	Location
23/01/2016	One cast member and crew	7:00pm-11:00pm	Garage-Corby
30/01/2016	One cast member and crew	6:00pm-9:00pm	Garage-Corby
07/02/2016	All cast and crew	5:00pm-8:00pm	Town Centre-Kettering

On the picture above you can see the filming schedule of our film opening. Filming schedule consists of the date, time, location and people that we need for our filming. We created this schedule, because it will help us organise our time we can spend on filming. We also need to organise our equipment that will be needed. We decided to film on the weekends, because all of the cast members and crew are free on the weekends. We have chosen to start the filming in evenings, as this is more convenient as we need the darkness.

Planning : Shot List

 A shot list is a list of all the shots that is going to be included in our film opening. It can also be used as a checklist filled with details of all the shots, to give the film a sense of direction and efficiency. We produced the shot list to know exactly what kind of camera angles, movements and shots we are going to use in each scene. We also need know the location in which we are going to film, and the characters that we will need.

Shot Number	Shot Type	Dialogue	Actors	Location	Equipment	Description
1	Pan movement, establishing shot			Kettering – Town Centre		A shot showing the location.
2	Low angle, long shot.		Ashley, Natharn and Emma	Kettering- Town Centre		Three friends walking, shown from the back.
3	Low angle , long shot		Ashley, Natharn and Emma.	Kettering-Town Centre		Three friends walking shown from the right side.
4	Low angle, long shot		Ashley, Natharn and Emma	Kettering-Town Centre		Three friends walking shown from the front.
5	Mid-shot, arc movement shot.		Ashley, Natharn and Emma	Kettering- Town Centre		Arc movement, showing their faces of each character.
6	Tracking out shot, long shot		Ashley, Natharn and Emma	Kettering- Town Centre		All three friends walking, form the front.
7	Point of view shot.	Gabriella: ‘So what are trying to a gangster?’	Ashley, Natharn and Emma	Kettering- Town Centre	Hat	Gabriella’s point of view of her flipping off David’s
8	Mid shot, from back		Ashley, Natharn and Emma	Kettering- Town Centre	Hat	Gabriella flipping off the hat from behind.
9	Low angle	David: What are you doing?’	Ashley, Natharn and Emma	Kettering- Town Centre	Hat	The hat falling down on the ground
10	Point of view		Ashley, Natharn and Emma	Kettering- Town Centre	Hat, map	David picking up the hat and seeing something strange.
11	Close up, hand held			Kettering- Town Centre	Hat, map	Showing that there is something hidden
12	Long shot, from side		Ashley, Natharn and Emma	Kettering- Town Centre	Map	Picking up the map
13	Extreme close up, high angle		Ashley, Natharn and Emma	Kettering- Town Centre	Map	Showing the map
14	Mid shot		Ashley, Natharn and Emma	Kettering- Town Centre	Map	Michael wants to see the map.
15	Over the shoulder shot.		Natharn	Garage-Corby	Pen, piece of card	Writing clues.
16	Pan movement shot.		Natharn	Garage- Corby	Pictures of people, map, newspapers.	Showing the room.
17	Close-up going into an Extreme close-up.		Natharn	Garage- Corby	Pen and piece of card.	David writing the clues down on a piece of card. Close-up of hands, which is faded going into an extreme close-up, where it is more focused.
18	Extreme close up, still		Natharn	Garage-Corby	Pen, pencil, marker, paper	Writing a clue
19	Point of view		Natharn	Garage-Corby	Pictures of Gabriella and Michael	Walking to the wall and sticking down pictures
20	Extreme close up			Garage-Corby	Pictures	Extreme close up showing the photos of his next victims.
21	Extreme close up, tracking shot		Natharn	Garage-Corby		Showing David’s footsteps
22	High angle, over the shoulder		Natharn	Garage-Corby	map	Puts “X” marks on the map
23	Close up , from side		Natharn	Garage-Corby	Photos, scissors	Cutting out photos, (cannot see what is in the photos)
24	High angle		Natharn	Garage-Corby		Folding the clue
25	Point of view		Natharn	Garage-Corby	map	Writing a clue.
26	Close up shot		Natharn	Garage-Corby		Puts “X” marks on photo of a person that he has already killed