Partner Losing Work

During the editing of our first attempt for our Opening Sequence, my partner, Luqman, has lost his video editing process file, meaning that he had to re-do the whole editing again.

After the Filming

After our last filming, we joined all the video clips up onto our school computers, and separately edited them, joining them together with transitions, sounds, music, and what not.

For this to be able to happen, we used the editing program Serif MoviePlus X6.

First Opening Scene

Before our feedback, we obviously created a first Opening Sequence, by filming with the flip camera, and editing with Serif MoviePlus X6.

You can watch it below.

Thoughts and Feelings v2

I am quite confident in myself that I will finish this project in time. I feel as if we both did our best, in both the filming and the editing. Hopefully it will be good enough to ring our feedback up to where we want it to be.

Equipment I Used

Equipment that was needed to film our Opening Sequence project were the simple items first of all; The camera, and the tripod.

 Unfortunately, we barely used the Tripod, because most of the scenes were outside, and high-angled shots. Plus, we only had that short tripod, and not a bigger one, because it is at school, and we cannot access school during holidays.

Research - Music/Sound 2

While looking for different sounds from the copyright-free website, I had some in mind that I thought I could use, like for example screams, shouts, footsteps. I found these sounds on the website, that I thought would be good enough for our Opening Sequence;
- Blood Deep - Dark Dimensions Vol 3
- Jagged Edge - Dark Dimensions Vol 3
- Skeleton Keys - Dark Dimensions Vol 3
- No Reflection Dark Dimensions Vol 3

Research - Music/Sound

During the process of creating my opening sequence, I had to think about diagetic and non- diagetic sound. I did some research into other opening sequences from a website called 'The Art of the Title' and looked at what they used;

Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

I noticed that this particular sound they use, is non-diagetic sound.


Psycho (1960)

Se7en (1995) 

My Thoughts and Feelings

To be honest, I don't think we've given it our best, even though I think it's the most we can do with filming videos, as we are no experts on it. I think that it will hopefully give us the grade that we deserve. I also think that if we had planned out the times on when to film properly, we could of done a bit more, and possibly even improved on it a bit better.

Title of our Opening Sequence

While filming, we still had no idea of what name to give to our Opening Sequence, so we thought for a while, until we came to conclusions, on placing the title as 'Unexpected Email'.

Our Indent

After looking at some production companies, and how nice their indents looked, Luqman and I decided to make our own indent, by using Serif MovePlus X6. It will be shown in the final opening sequence.

Production Companies

What we have decided to do is to research on some famous production companies, such as Universal, Paramount and many more. What we have also done was do some research into the background of these companies, and how their indents represent the companies.

Universal Studios

 Founded by Carl Laemmle in 1912. Universal Studios is one of the oldest American movie studios which is still in continuous production. Some of the films they have done with other companies are Bridemaids (2011), Scott Pilgrims Vs The World (2010), and 8 Mile (2002).

                                                                                                                                                                
Universal Pictures Indent




Paramount Pictures

Also founded in 1912, by Adolph Zukor. This corporation is also one of the oldest companies in America. Paramount is still one of the largest, top-grossing movie studios. Many films they have done are also with many other cooperation such as Universal studios, and others. Megamind (2010), School Of Rock (2003), and Rugrats Movie (1998).

          

             

                                                                                                                                              
 Paramount Pictures Indent                                                                                                                                            



DreamWorks

Founded in 1994, by Steven Spielberg, Jeffery Katzenberg and David Geffen. This particular company normally produce animated films. Films such as Chicken Run (2000), Shrek (2001), and Kung Fu Panda (2008).

Dreamworks Indent



Lions Gate Entertainment

Founded by Frank Giustra, in 1997. As from 2011, LIONSGATE is the most successful, and independent television company in North America. Here are some of the films they produced; Saw VI (2009), Transporter 3 (2008), and Kick-ass (2010).



                                                                        

                              

 

Lions Gate Indent

 

 

Columbia Pictures

 

American Film Production company founded in 1919, by Cohn-Brant-Cohn, which is Jack and Harry Cohn and Joe Brandt. Here are some films which were produced by them and others; Peter Pan (2003), Thunderbirds (2004), and The Holiday (2006).

 

Columbia Pictures Indent                                                                                             

Equipment

Here's my Prezi Presentation showing different equipment that are used for all Production Companies.

Filming

Since we had the poor feedback, we created the new script, and had to re-film the scenes all over again, at the same places, just in different ways.

Newly Re-created Script

Since we had gotten low feedback from our teacher, we had to re-create the scenes, obviously meaning a new script, so we have created a new one.
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Voice over

Isabella: 2 years ago my father died, leaving only my mother to look after me and my younger sister clary. It was tough times but we managed.

In the living room

Isabella: Clary, Come here.

Clary enters

Clary: What?

Isabella: Look at this.

Clary: It's an e-mail. So what?

Isabella: Look at who it's from.

Clary looks at the screen 

She looks confused

Clary: But that's impossible.

Isabella: I know right. Do you think someone is trying to play a prank on us?

Clary: if it is a prank, it is a very sick one.

Another email appears

Both are scared

Isabella opens the email

Both are scared 

They look out the window

Fade out

Problems With Filming v2

We had another problem, that we had to re-film some of the scenes, as the sound wasn't recorded for some reason, which was disappointing, because we had to use up our own time again, to go to the places again.

Problems With Filming

A problem Luqman and I had with filming our opening sequence, was that the props were out of hand, and we only had a limited budget, meaning that we had to spend some of our own pocket money on the rest of the props.

First Day of Filming

Things That Went Well
For our first day of filming, I think it went pretty well. The setting was good, as it had just snowed the day before, so we had a nice, snowy graveyard.

Thing That Went Bad
One of our actors didn't know her lines pretty well, meaning that we had to stop filming, and re-commence it, but with the script well-hidden, so it could be read, but not seen on the filming.

Planning - Storyboard

Luqman and I created both half of the Storyboard for our filming.

Planning - Music + Sounds

The sounds, for e.g. voice dialogues, will be added through the filmed videos, together.

As for any other sounds, they will all be copyright-free, and collected from the website; http://freeplaymusic.com/.

Planning - Location

Luqman and I have planned to use our friend's house, for most of the filming scenes. For the scenes in the graveyard, we will be using the church near our school.

There is a scene where it will need to look perfectly dark, and therefore, since Luqman has a very dark, photography room, back at his house, with no windows and around 5% of lighting, he will film the scene there.

Planning - Actors

The actors we are going to use:

• Patricia Rosa -The Mother 
• Kate Sexton - Clary
• Chelsea Weatherill - Isabella
• Luqman - Murderer

Other than Luqman, these actors are friends of ours.