Choice of sound track

After creating our final opening sequence, it was important that we research and apply the best sound track which is relevant and fits with our opening sequence. The soundtrack takes up half of your overall production and can influence the whole scene, without the correct soundtrack, it can change the view point from the audience perspective and change the whole atmosphere of the scene. Because of this, it is vital that we create enough research by looking at other opening sequences of the same genre and pay specific attention to the soundtrack and ways in which it connects and fits with the scene.

By already produced our opening sequence of a mystery drama, following a young girls journey and dealing with the guilt and loss of her best friend. This has allowed it much easier to find a sound track that fits with this as a happy, loud and cheerful song would easily confuse the audiences and create a happy environment. This tells us that we need to select a piece of music that is sad and depressing giving a clear insight towards the characters life and emotions. Due to not being able to choice a piece of music that has been copyrighted we have to ensure we found a soundtrack that isn't branded or a mainstream piece of work. This involved looking on YouTube at simple soundtracks that do not involve it being copywriter. There are many we were able to select from but as a good we have decided on an instrumental which follows a rather sad tone in order to suit out production.

The track we have selected is liked below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qlHMQGcFtk

Barriers towards our Opening Sequence

Throughout the process of creating our opening sequence, as a group we faced several barriers restricting us from what we would like to achieve.
 

we faced several different difficulties that we had to consider and at some points, change. The weather had a huge impact on our filming due to the wind which caused an impact on the characters expression and the back ground noise which became easily distracting. We faced a problem with props as when we came to filming we were advised to use a photo of the young girl instead of getting the image up on the characters phones as it allows the scene to feel more emotional and stimulating. We forgot to bring the photo when we came to filming so had to go back and make sure that all props that we need including the photo was there for us to use. As a group we filmed out final production over a period of 2 days and were filmed out of sequence. We filmed the outdoors section first when it was day light and nice weather, but we noticed something when looking back after recording that we need to make a slight adjustment and change a certain scene the following day. This meant that we had to take into consideration the weather and wait until the weather was nice and not raining or to dark.

Script for Main Production

This is my groups script for our main task which will provide clear detail on each shots and angles for each scene. By having a good and detailed script it gives us as a group a better oppurtunity of producing a well presented scene including a mixture of shots and range of angles and make sure that we are filming in the correct scene.

Below is our script:

Changes to Pre-Production

After creating our pitch, we found that we wanted to make a few changes to our pre-production plan. As a good we decided that we wanted to create a drama mystery genre but we would like to add some supernatural touches due to altering the ending of the opening sequence. As a group we came up with the idea of at the end of the scene the young teenage girl walks away in a hurry but we felt that this wasnt the best way to leave the scene due to leaving it feeling dull and not attracting the audience attention to wanting to watch the whole film. Instead, we have now decided to have the girl being touch on the shoulder by the person who has been following her throughout the scene. This leaves the scene questioning to who it could be, and i find it a better way of leaving the opening sequence due to the audience intreged to find out who the msytery hand was and what then happens to the young girl.

I believe that change our pitch and ideas have enabled us to create a more mysterious and well explained openening sequence that will draw in the audience attention and create a dramatic atmosphere.

Production Pitch

Me and my group created a production pitch which includes all important information for the main pre-production of our main task, such as the brief, our initial ideas and a planning of how we would like to shape our ideas into a practical film. We were asked to present our ideas to the rest of class so they were able to identify our thoughts and ideas of what our brief of our opening scene was being based on.

We put all of our ideas on a PowerPoint below;

Pitch2 - Media