Audience Feedback

From this feedback of our first cut of our opening sequence, I have found that overall, the first cut was of good quality but the props and Mes-en-scene needed to be greatly improved. Also, several of the scenes needed to be swapped around so that the opening sequence flowed well. Using this feedback, changes will be made to our opening sequence so that it better appeals to our target audience.

Changes made during filming

During the filming of our opening sequence, several changes were made to the shots taken, the costumes and locations-
1. Filming of the scenes in the interview room was moved from Friday(25th November), to Monday(28th November) due to the location not being accessible on that day.
2. Filming in the corridor was moved from Tuesday(22nd November) to Thursday(24th) due to a member of the group needing more time to prepare, as well as not being told on the day of the planning about the filming.
3. Several additional shots were taken in addition to the shots in the main shots detailed in the storyboard.

Health and Safety information relating to shooting

Office

A. Actors can receive paper cuts when handling paper props. To prevent this, actors are to handle paper props with care.

B. Actors can injure self on surrounding furniture and surrounding props by tripping. To prevent this, actors are to have no untied shoelaces or wear any clothing that may cause a trip. No trip hazards are to be present on the floor while walking.

Note-Creating scene

A. Actors can receive paper cuts when handling paper props. To prevent this, actors are to handle paper props with care.

B. Actors can injure self with scissors. To prevent this, handle scissors with care and do not leave scissors in an open position.

House scene

A. Actors can receive paper cuts when handling paper props. To prevent this, actors are to handle paper props with care.

B. Actors can injure self on surrounding furniture and other props by tripping. To prevent this, actors are to have no untied shoelaces or wear any clothing that may cause a trip. No trip hazards are to be present on the floor while walking.

Underpass scene

B. Actors can injure self on surrounding furniture and other props by tripping. To prevent this, actors are to have no untied shoelaces or wear any clothing that may cause a trip. No trip hazards are to be present on the floor while walking.

Locations chosen for filming

Underpass to George Abbot Secondary School
This underpass is to be used as a scene in our opening sequence due to the secluded nature of this location.





Science Classroom

A science classroom will be used as a dark room due to the equipment that is avaliable in the science classrooms that is needed to give the appearence of a dark room (large trays, etc.)



Drama studio

The drama studio will be used for the interrogation room as the room has stagelights and light can be easily blocked out, making it perfect for an interrogation room.




Study room

The study room is to be used for the stalker's board of his victim because it has a large whiteboard that pictures and similar items can be pinned up on.




Charlie's house

Charlie's house is to be used as the residence of the girl's boyfriend due to it being close to the school, where most of our filming will take place.

Filming schedule

Storyboard

Analysis of ocean's eleven

The film is about a person getting released from a prison on parole and then him and some friends then plan a heist by robbing the casinos to get back at his rival. The opening scene consists of Danny (the main character) being interviewed before being released on parole, asking him why did committed his crime and what he will do after he is released. Only Danny is seen in the first clip shot. in the second shot he is walked by a prison guard to his belongings before he was caught and put in prison. The full story isn't revealed to the audience. The lights used were a 45 degree angle either side of Danny's face. The editing techniques used in post production is the editing of the brightness in the first shot. so that the lights either side of his face show better on screen. This effect also shows the dark feeling about the prison.

The sounds we will use are footsteps and a police siren.

Story board update

Our storyboard has been updated so that we have changed our story because the previous one didn't fit together to make a full film. We have kept the question room with the detective and girl but the detective is sending the girl's boyfriend death threats. In the opening scene we have story boarded a flashback to a person creating the death threats and then posting it to a house. the final shot is of the detective's face.

post production skills

Feedback on locations

From our social media feedback, our locations were shown to be good choices and we will not change these locations. Using this feedback, we will use these locations as the locations for our opening sequence, unless these rooms are not avaliable, in which we will use a similar location and film at the original location at another time.

Feedback on Costumes

From this feedback on social media about our chosen costumes, there will not be any changes to the main actors' and actress' costumes, but additional changes to minor characters costumes might occur.

Feedback on props

Using this feedback, considerations will be taken into account when filming our opening sequence, but no changes to props will be made.

Planning - Group Photos

Planning consisted of us discussing locations where each scene would take place in and and what type of shots we would use. It also consisted on us considering the whole plot of the story and what would happen for the rest of the movie, not just the opening scene.
We finalised the plot line and made sure everyone knew what the final idea was, we also made sure that we had noted down what movements there would be involved while recording, for example panning from left to right or zooming in or out.

Match Point - 9 Frame Structure Analysis

Tennis instructor Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) grows friendly with Tom Hewett (Matthew Goode), a wealthy student who shares an interest in opera. Invited to attend a performance with Tom, Chris meets the family and instantly attracts Tom's sister, Chloe (Emily Mortimer). Chris marries her to get a job with her millionaire father, Alec (Brian Cox), but a dangerous affair with Nola Rice (Scarlett Johansson), Tom's American girlfriend, threatens his newfound social status.

The first shot suggests that the movie is going to be about a tennis player or someone who plays tennis for a hobby. It also suggests that the guy lives a stylish high life because of the place that he's at, a private club which suggests that he has an elite status.

This frame suggest that the character really enjoys the arts such as reading books, maybe the opera and theatre.  This could mean that he supports people that have worked hard to get to where they are... harder than most. Maybe because he himself has worked hard to get to where he is.

These stills suggest that he's starting to catch feelings for both of these women. Who knows who he'll end up with. 

These stills suggest that he's in love or just looking for someone to spend time with that he actually likes and can actually talk to about real things that happen in life rather than just about money. This also highlights the fact that he's having an affair and that things might get complicated because of it.

These stills highlight that he intends to kill in order for the complicated situation to end and therefore not having the risk of it coming back to ruin his the life he has now.

These stills suggest that he's been caught for the murders he committed, however in the end there's a plot twist, while getting rid of jewellery that he stole from the old lady that he killed her ring doesn't land in the river, it lands on the floor and a homeless man finds it, and the police arrests him and assume he's the murderer.

Costume Planning and Audience Expectations

When planning costumes we thought about what a teenage girl would wear based on what I normally wear and what other people that we know wear. We also thought about what would be appropriate for a girl the characters age to wear.

We also took into consideration what our target audience thought, for example the characters had to be portrayed correctly for the opening scene to be good, if it wasn't good the target audience would not want to watch the rest of the movie.

When planning what the detective would wear we looked at T.V shows with Detective characters and what they tend to wear, from that we noticed that they mainly wore suits, usually not expensive looking suits and mainly grey and brown suits rather than black.

I think that the costume we chose for the detective meets the target audience expectations because it fits with what you would expect for a detective to wear, if it didn't look like something a detective would wear then you would not think from the very beginning that the character is a detective, you would think that he's just a person in the movie and that he doesn't play that big of a part in the movie, that he isn't important at all.

Audience expectation interviews

We collected feedback from our target audience on what they thought about the plot of our film to gather if it would be suitable for this audience. From what we learnt, the synaposis of our film was understandably good and there are no alterations that should be made to the plot of our film.
From this planning that I have conducted, I conclude that the plot of our opening sequence needs to appeal to our target audience.

Mood board of film and genre

This mood board was created to help us collect ideas on our opening sequence, by incorporating various imagery that is associated with the crime-thriller genre.





Actors selection

Mariana - girl (left)
We chose Mariana to act as the girl because she has previously acted, making her the right choice for the role of the girl in our opening sequence.

Anthony - Detective/stalker (right)
Anthony was chosen to be the detective/stalker because he has the most acting experience of all the people in our group. Also, he has previously played the main sinister protagonist in other productions, therefore he is comfortable to play this role in our opening sequence, as these previous characters have similar qualities.

Charlie - Boyfriend of girl (left)
Charlie was chosen to play the minor role of boyfriend of the girl because he has previous acting experience. Also, due to Charlie having the least acting experience of the three actors, it is appropriate that he given the role with the least screen-time.

Props list

Memento StoryBoard

This is our memento storyboard. We labelled timings and as well as the type of shot and shot angle. We also showed how long each shot lasts for.

Iconography associated with genre

Crime thriller is all about solving a murder or finding someone who's been kidnapped, the audience can see what has happened, maybe they see a shadow going up the stairs and that's the killer or kidnapper. 

Dark places to highlight mystery and danger that will affect a certain character.