Our opening sequence

Evaluation Questions

Health and safety

During filming we all took health and safety very strongly before we started anything. Some of these included making sure there was no tripping hazards.
Some of the things that we did are as follows:

• Tripods - Every time we as a group went out to film in the public or in the school domain, we always, made sure that the tripod wasn't dangerous to anyone. By this I mean that we all made sure that the tripod wasn't able to be tripped over or hit anybody when being moved. 
•   When we were deciding where to film our scenes, we all decided to only go where we though it would be safe to film. This was vital because we didn't want to have any injuries caused on set or in filming. When we chose the locations based on safety, we made sure when we got their we stuck to protocol and made sure people could easily get round us if they needed to and that they would also not be put at harm by our filming equipment. This also included us.
• Slipping - When on set sometimes it was slippery. To stop this as a hazard and risk to our safety, we all made sure that everybody working on set would be wearing sensible footwear/shoes. This was taken in mind when we came to thinking about the mise-en-scene department of pre-production.

Audience Feedback

Editing Schedule

Editing schedule from St Peters RC Comprehensive

Rough Cut audience feedback

In all of these sheets the audience had 3 questions each to ask us about the opening sequence. Some of these included questions like:

Why does the hitman threaten someone in the underpass and who is this person ?

The simple answers to these asked questions are that the person who is being threatened by the hitman is a person that was involved with the hitman in the past.

As to why the hitman is threatening him. This is because as the hitman walks past him, the stranger goes on to threaten the hitman. We chose for this to happen because the hitman's mind is a very unstable one, he could snap at any moment.  

If we made this as a full film we would have to make sure that to ensure these questions not being asked again, we would give the stranger a bigger role and explain his character a bit more.

rough cut OS

Storyboard

Filming Schedule

Planning for storyboard

Kareem and Alex planning he storyboard. Taken by Luke.

audience interviews

What would you expect to happen in the film? 

Hacker should play with the hitman's mind as he tries to track him down.

What type of scenes and shots would you expect in the opening sequence?

Hacker should stay completely anonymous. There should be subtle ways to hide the hackers face. Also lots of close ups.

What costumes would you expect?

Hacker should wear fairly normal clothes and the hitman should have a trench coat and maybe sunglasses.

From these interviews we have learnt many things. One of these were what the audience members thought the acting style should be for both characters. We will now make sure that all characters will be acting in the way that the audience want them to. 

The other thing we got the audience's feedback on was the props they thought we needed. These included a gun and computer, with this we will make that we used both of these props in the OS.

Iconic sound effect that we will also be using in our OS

Overview of story

Video of planning for storyboard

Our props and their analysis

Collage and Mood Board of Thrillers

Powerpoint of different representations-Luke Burnip

Power point of different representations from St Peters RC Comprehensive

Font of titles analysis

When a thriller film is made they must all have different types of font in their film and the font in the film must more importantly match what the film is suggesting.
Here are some examples of fonts in different films.

 In Shutter Island, the opening credits are designed in a bold flashing font to try and generate a type of fear factor to the audience. The font is also in a bloody red colour, meaning the font may be relating to a feature in the film.

However in the opening titles of Se7en, the titles are designed to look very flashy and sketchy. This is because the font and writing in the opening sequence is never still which is also a lot of the time the same case in Shutter Island, this suggests that both films are going to have a twisted storyline and plot.

History of our film Genre

The Crime thriller film Genre is one of the most successful in the film industry. One of the most common reasons for this is that Thrillers generally keep the audience on the edge of their seats as plot builds towards a climax. Here are some other reasons why people watch thrillers.

1.) Tension which causes your heart to quicken and you become more alert.
2.) Being able to experience danger without actually being in danger. 3.) The unknown aspect of most thrillers is quite exciting. 4.) Often you feel a bond with the characters more. Than say you would a comedy movie.5.) Action, suspense, anxiety, drama all of these things are hard to turn away from.6.) Often (not always) they have complex story lines and can be challenging to follow, so as a viewer you are always guessing what is going to happen next.7.) Usually have clever endings that maybe you didn't see coming. If I don't figure out the ending of a movie before I am halfway thru especially right up to the end that's great and often times. Thrillers will have such endings. 8.) Often thrillers are about subject matters the average person would never experience so that is or can be exciting to watch.

Some examples of other Crime thrillers are, No Country for Old Men, The Usual Subjects and The Long Good Friday. 

Momento storyboard comparison-Luke Burnip

In our groups we were tasked with making a storyboard for a scene in the film memento. After we made the storyboard we gave it to another group and they proceeded to film the scene by using our storyboard as a basis. I think it came out okay, the mock scene followed the storyboard very well and and it managed to get all of the shots we put in our storyboard. The only thing that i would change is to make the mock scene less blurry as sometimes it is hard to make out what is happening in the scene.
The point of this task was to see how clear our storyboard. If the result of it came out well then we know we are doing it right, alternatively it is a way for us to see what we are doing wrong and what we could change before our opening sequence. We can apply this into our opening sequence so our storyboard is clear and easy to follow when we are filming.