The Final Video

This is the final video with the new soundtrack:

Amending the sound

This is the current soundtrack that had been put on the opening sequence:



We thought that the sound was very repetitive and didn't convey the genre of the film very well. The different sounds were playing for a long duration of time making it seem boring and slightly irritating.

We adjusted the soundtrack of the opening sequence to be far more calmer and not as loud; having a track run through the whole video consistently and gradually building the changes in the sound when events occur on screen. The feel of the newer soundtrack of the opening sequence makes the video more interesting for the audience. We had built the mystery of the sound until the end of the sequence when the narrative begins. 

In addition to changing the sound we added simple, yet effective credits to the beginning blank screen of the voiceover. We thought that we could make the beginning more enhanced for the audience to easily watch fading credits. Once we had put the new soundtrack onto the sequence we felt that something was missing from that blank screen, this indeed was main feature credits.

Editing Photos

Genre Inspiration

Our first inspiration for the genre of our opening sequence was 'Children of Men'. We decided this as we wanted our opening sequence to include an element of the future. Children of Men was a key film which we had watched and liked how sutbly we were able to see the difference in time. This was something that we wanted to achieve in our opening sequence also. From this extract, we also got many ideas of how we could technically manipulate our footage to realistically protray to the audience the period the film is set in.

An obvious way to indicate the time to the audience is to have the date visible on-screen. This is something we took into consideration when we wanted to clearly show the era.

Friday 20th January

Updating blog and scanning.

Monday 9th January

Today we continued to storyboard our opening sequence. Some shots, we knew what we wanted to show but weren’t too sure which shot type to use. Therefore we drew out both and decided that we would film both and decide during editing which shot we preferred. We also continued to think about casting. We made a note of people we would ask and the role they would play. Later during the day we asked some of the people whether they would be willing to act for us and photographed them.

We also checked that the dog would be available and her owner would be able to bring her to the location on the scheduled day. When this was confirmed we also checked that the dog would be able to do what we had planned and story boarded.

Friday 5th January

Today we continued to brainstorm ideas and began storyboarding our idea. Whilst doing this, we decided upon our locations to film and possible actors to fulfill the roles. Our story began in an alley way, where a man who we decided to be a tramp, was sitting on the floor with his dog. We then thought of various shots and angles we could use to build suspense. The story continued with the dog running off and the tramp following him into a shed, where he would discover a crime map on the walls. The tramp then investigates the map he has discovered, that the map entailed future plans for the worlds.

Each of us had photographed possible alleys way and sheds which could be used, although we were a bit sceptical about the idea of the shed and filming at this location.