Our opening sequence

Evaluation Questions - Alex

Evaluation Questions

Evaluation Question

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.

Work in progress 2 - Alex

As of now we have created our opening sequence and put it on this blog and YouTube at KLAJ Productions. This means that it is open to both the moderators and the public. This will allow us to get feedback from the public and others that watch it which will furthermore allow us to improve where we are able to.

When we are able to improve the opening sequence, we will look vastly and vigorously through the comment if there is any to see what the public have said they think we should improve. This will allow us to achieve a better grade at the end of the course but it will also extend our explanation and also understanding of the film industry.

Audience Feedback

Work in progress -Alex

In terms of our overall completion of this AS course we have at this stage completed the rough cut for our opening sequence of our film 'Information Error'. To go with this we have also been giving audience feedback and also self feedback on this rough cut of which is on this blog itself.
We have recently finished our full opening sequence included with titles and music to go with the feedback we were given.

Our next step this year is to get feedback and our OS marked and then we will all focus on the rest of the year including mocks and further assignments.

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