The Music

We have been thinking of a few ideas for the music in our opening. Considering the genre of our film will be 'Gang Culture' we are wanting to play an urban, gang style song as we believe they will fit well together therefore identifying the genre and feel of the opening clearly. Playing the song will be copyright so we have decided to show that leanne is wearing headphones and that is why the song is playing even though it is done a lot in these types of shots moreover getting Leanne to rip out her headphones so we here the muffled sound of the music playing allowing us to put ambient sound in the background also. Here are the possible contenders for our opening:

First Time-Lapse

As we have decided to start with a time lapse in the opening of a film we have decided to to a practice run to see how it turns out. By doing this it gives us a chance to see how we can edit it and how to arrange the things like the positioning of the camera. We placed it in the class on a cabinet to see if it is difficult to speed up while preparing to film the time-lapse even though we want to get the change from dark to light. This is how it turned out, it's a bit boring but not bad for our first attempt:

Final Idea

So after all this faffing around we have finally got together and storyboarded all our ideas. Here is our Vlog about the idea and the different shots we want - including waking up at 5:00 AM - and as we are all finally up to date on the idea we can now start filming

Rough Ideas

Here is just a quick video of an overlook on our groups idea by Taneshia Hannah and I...

Brainstorming

Here are a few images of us brainstorming our ideas. We will be putting up the Vlog of us saying our final ideas so you can see the final idea before we start filming. These images are us in intense thought thinking about what we will be doing....

Story Boarding

The group and I got together to do a story board of our ideas so we could finalise a few shots and get everything sorted as we were all a bit confused about the shots. This was very predictive as we are all on the same level now. We are thinking of possible songs like 'Deepest Shame - Plan B' and we are now organising days to go out and shoot. The main area we are planning to shoot is in Trafalgar and from then on the journey home. We are also planning to add a siren voice that triggers a memory and from then on you see 'Leanne's mental state deteriorating.

Ideas Vlog

Here is my group and I talking over a few ideas of ours. We have now expanded on it and got all of our shots sorted out now. This was the first time we recorded our ideas but we now have a more in-depth clip of our finalised ideas.

Opening of 'Devil Wears Prada'

I have been watching the opening of a few films to find inspiration and I thought that the Devil Wears Prada has a good opening to the film. I like the idea of showing the variation between the different people throughout the scene, especially when they are showing the different shoes as it has been put together cleverly. It is so simplistic but draws you in and the music suits the scene so well. There is a variety of shots like a close up on the eyes whilst they are doing their make-up, a lot of tilt is used to show the person which is effective as it changes throughout. Also there is only one speech which is 'good luck' letting the viewer ponder why she needs luck

Shot Ideas

Fortunately the group and I all have a similar idea for an opening of a film. We have had a discussion and agreed that we want to include a time-lapse in Trafalgar, like seen below, then carry on getting shots around London, including several underground shots. The main idea we all like and believe would look good is to have one of us feature in each shot as we go around London, eventually ending up in Enfield, then returning home where the person bursts into tears leaving the audience wander why. I have found a few images of shots we hope to recreate or that I believe will look good in our short opening.

Here is the time-lapse in Trafalgar:

This is an image of the train moving which we want with the person standing on the other side so you can see as the train moves away.

This is a good underground shot also as it looks mysterious and enclosed.