What i want to my opening to achieve?

For my opening i wanted to give the audience a sense and feel to how the film will be and want my sequnce to reflect it. I wanted the opening to make the audience raise questions about where the location is, what will happen after and how they will have to find out. I want to make the sequence so that the audience watching wants to know more and become intrigued, so that it would be a sequence the would be wanted to watch again and again looking at all the different kind of shots. This is what i want to achieve and for my film, i want it to be the film that is said to have all the shots perfectly placed and cleverly used to make the sequence really good. I liked the idea of a simple opening, and realised that the most simpilist ones are the best...

Font

After looking through various different fonts i finally decided to pick the font called ' i still know'. I chose the font because i wanted the font to represent a horror, as well as a nice, smart readable font. I Didn't want there to be unreadable and full of bloody fonts with blood, contrastingly i wanted to keep the red colour to represent danger but keep it nice because of reflecting the Christmas festive time. Here is just a taste of what they will look like......... :)

Editing in final cut pro

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I edited my sequence in final cut pro, i wanted to show what my timeline for my sequence was looking at. It shows that there are grey patches and this shows where i edited the titles to shake and also where the point of view of the killer is the shot.

Editing can make a sequence great? :)

.... Today im just editing as all my shots i took look really nice and im getting into the editing and trying to make it into a proper opening sequence now. I think its going well and I'm starting to get the hang of editing making it even better nearly finished i hope ....;)

3rd Shoot

For this third shoot i reshot some shots because i was not happy with some and also i wanted to try some new shots i had in my mind. The previous shoot gave me the idea of an ending, once showing my teachers the sequence first copy and attempt, recommendations were put forward for a different ending. i researched some more on horror and decided to reshoot a different ending so that i don't give to much away. i shot the ending and it was very simple and straight forward. The filming was done fairly quickly and gave me the shots, from then i began to edit more and more and i know knew the timescale so i worked on producing a good length for my finished product. It was a short shoot but it was useful for me.

1st draft of sequence

This is the first draft of my sequence, when showing my teacher she Critiqued it very throughly. The first thing was that it was to long then should be as it was five minutes, and because of this i needed to shorten it. Also when looking through it showed to be telling to much of a story, i believe it was and was showing the audience to much and dint hold much back. It also flowed to much and needed to be looked at alone when thinking about where to put titles and how it needs to broken up into the sequence, from showing this to my teacher i believe it gave me good advice to go on and fulfil the boundaries of the sequence and also make sure that it would be ok for the screening in a few weeks time. Overall from this critique i had a platform and basis of what i knew i had to change and put right. It helped me enormously....

Action Plan

• Review of my 3rd Shoot
• Begin to edit the finished piece in final cut
• Choose title

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