Louise Jarvis - camera woman Altering The camera settings, for filming.
Louise Jarvis - To the left hand
Evie Mullahy - To the right hand
This photo displays The set up of the filming in the corridor , since we needed the corridor to be dark to create the idea that it's late , the lights had to be turned off. However with the lights turned off , we were unable to film to a high quality , so we improvised , and used a lamp shade to release an effective yet suttle shade of light .The light enabled , the character to be visible in the dark , when being filmed.
Synopsis/Plot: Our opening sequence will revolve around , a teacher who is working overtime , by herself in her secluded office in which she is writing a witness statement relating to a murder incident which she had previously witnessed. The main character appears to be becoming increasingly aggitated whilst writing her statement , this can be seen through her eratic and irrational movements and fustration exerted throughout her facial expressions. The main character becomes alarmed as she hears suspicious noises outside of her office,she then walks outside to the corridor to investigate the noises she heard , as she does this the lights turn off instantly , where we see a slow shot of her face. The main character slowly turns around , where we then see a long point of view shot of the villan.
Setting : An enclosed school office , in the upper floor of Trinity House. The setting appears to be rather isolated with nobody but the main character who plays the role of a victim. An empty corridor will also feature in our opening sequence. The idea of lonliness is particularly emphasised through the use of our quiet and isolated setting.
Genre:thriller
Characters : Marie Browning (main character ) - Mrs Edwards
Atmosphere : The atmosphere is both lonesome and isolated, which helps evoke a gloomy feeling amoungst the audience , This correlates to the theme and genre of our opening sequence so therefore works very well.
Tone : There is a rather negative , and glum tone.
Sound: Slow, classical sad music to emphasise on the plot of ur opening sequence
Lighting : Medium , with dark moments to create the idea of the time being late.
Target Audience : Mature audience 15 onwards
Location : The top floor in Trinity house, a private office and a lonely corridor
After filming our opening sequence , unfortunately... once we uploaded and viewed our footage , we were far from satisfied with what we had filmed .Which therefore meant that we either had to re-consider our story line plot , as it simply didn't make logical sense to the viewer , whether or not it was edited or re-arranged. Another Issue that was brought to light was the 'lack of shot variety ' throughout the course of our opening sequence, our footage appeared to be dominated by one shot type, which was by all means nowhere near effective, and wouldnt have gained us sufficient marks. As a group , we decided that our best option , was to completely re-construct our opening sequence which in effect , meant refilming our whole project and altering the story line.
This font , master plan was the first font that I'd researched , What particularly caught my eye , and stood out , was the eroded look about this font. I think that the distorted and worn away effect works well , with the our story line , a young vulnerable girl who has experienced a distressing kidnapping. However , although I like the distorted text effects , I think that this image lacks scary and horrifying features, it's almost too casual, so therefore as a group we've decided not to choose this font as our main title font .
Following on from the previous text I'd researched , I took a deeper look into the Idea of eroded anddistorted text types as I thought it was extremely Effective , I particularly like the top font '28 days later' It carries a real sense of agony and apears like a Font type that you'd associate with our opening sequence's genre . I'm not too fond on the second text , as I don't find it has any form of impact of relates to our genre. It reminds me of some form of graffiti or texts that represents an urban lifestyle. It's not very serious looking and looks considerably childish, which is therefore inappropirate for our selected genre.
The last text 'Project Y ' I believe is also effective but yet again lacks scary features , so there fore won't evoke a creepy feel amoungst the audience.
Since our Chosen title is "Infatuation" I have researched several font types which I feel are particularly effective , and have used them in Photoshop to give a preview of what the font may look like in our actual opening sequence .
Since our opening sequence revolves around a girl , who has been Stalked by a mysterious character for some time , We've decided that it would be most appropriate to centre our title around the theme of Obsession . We believe that the theme of obsession is ideal as the mysterious character has been recollecting images and footage of the victim , which has collated to such extent , that it appears as abnormal . Although the title name ' Obsession ' is completely relevant to our opening sequence we feel that it's almost too simple in the sense that it reveals too much about our story line/plot. We were looking for a title slightly more sophisticated, a title that wouldn't reveal too much about our opening , before it was even viewed.
Title ideas , that we have collated are as follows :
Evie and Louises preparation - Louises make up (Victim) - For Louises make up we wanted her to be quite pale and disturbed, for the face we chose to not use much make up for the face however for the eyes we put mascara on the then got a cotton bud and smudged it so it would seem like she had been crying. For the blood, we didn't use any fake bloody so we improvised and used red lipstick mixed with water, we mixed some of the 'blood' in with the mascara so it looked like it had been smudged together. On the neck we wanted to make it seem like Louise has been violently hurt, so I put the red watery lipstick on my fingers and smudged it across her neck to make it seem like she had been in serious pain with a gash across the neck. Along the hairline we also put smudges of the lipstick so that again it looks like she has been beaten up.
For the hair we wanted it to just seem like Louise had had her hair up and it had been made loose from being pulled around everywhere by her psycho killer. I basically put Louise's hair in a loose bun and then messed her hair up on top and pulled some of her hair out of the bun. I felt this look worked well, as we wanted it to seem like Louises hair had not been brushed for day and I think we accomplished this look!
Phils Make Up (Villian) - For Phil's makeup we wanted him to seem tired as in our film he was going to come across as psycho. We also wanted him to have a beard so he came across as being unshaven and not taking much care of himself. For under his eyes we put a bit of black eyeliner on for him to seem like he hasn't been sleeping and that he has bags under his eyes. For his beard we put alot of a bronzer/blusher Dallas on his chin so it would be quite dark, and this look worked really well. We put smears of blood on his face for him to seem like he has had a rough background and been in fights. For Phils hair we didn't need to do anything to it as he would have been putting his hood up for a hidden identity. However, if we didn't want him to put his hood up we would of messed it up alot.
1) CU of blood on the wall 2)Flash 3) CU of dead things/ body parts in the bath 4)flash 5) CU back of killer 6)flash 7) flashback-long shit of Louise walking/ipod in 8) flashback- girl looking happy 9) medium shot of villain looking in mirror 10) medium shot of man dressing in black 11)flash 12) high angle girl being dragged-MLS 13) close up- villian tying rope to chair 14)self videoing - ECU man setting video up 15) close up of girl distressed 16)close up of weapons 17)flash of lights- MCU of collage of pictures/blood 18)CU of specific picture 19)flash 20) self video POV of villian looking at the girl 21)credits on corner while the self video is rolling 22) black screen 23) title
Goodfellas- Is a1990 American gangster film directed by Martin Scorsese.
Set in 1970, Essentially the film Goodfellas is an American based Gangster film, this becomes clearly evident to the audience within the opening sequence, which not only reveals the genre , but also presents the audience with a vivid plot outline or clear idea as to what the film will revolve around. Initially as an audience, the opening sequence alerts us, that the film will revolve around gangs gruesome violence and regular deaths.
The overall context of the whole 1970’s American Gangster theme is evoked clearly amongst the audience due to a variety of tools and devices used by the director. Firstly whilst the characters are in the car we can acknowledge that their costumes that they’re all wearing are very smart ,formal and expensive looking clothes, which consist of silk shirts and sharp suits. Fundamentally these are all stereo-typical costumes for the typical gangster genre, as similar costumes were exhibited in huge successful films like Scarface and Godfather, which all share the same, context and genre. The characters dark, jet black gelled hair also is typical of this genre along with the sheer slickness and neatness to their faces, as we can see there’s not one hair out of line. Another convention which also has helps establish the genre is the strong American accents, the characters have instantly this informs the audience that this film is set in America.The mise-en-scene of the scene enforces our image of the gangsters. The sequence is filmed at night, this connotes that they are bad guys,The dark surroundings create a frightening mood within the sequence. The four characters appear to pull over in a dark and secluded forest which makes it more or less so inevitable to the audience that something major and corrupt is going to happen. The fact that they’re driving at night also suggests that they may want to avoid the police .
Camera angles and movement effect the opening sequence immensely as they exhibit the for coming events whilst also establishing the setting and the tone to the movie. The first initial shot presented to the audience is a tracking shot of a moving car. Classically a tracking shot follows the action and eventually pulls backward from the action. However, this opening scene rejects this typical and rather predictable convention, and instead tracks onwards past the moving vehicle and onto the dark and secluded road in which the vehicle pulls over.A close up focused shot is also used to introduce the main character of the film as shown.
The opening sequence illustrates a gang brutally kill a man who was ruthlessly tied up and severely wounded with blood stains in the back of the car.The dark surroundings create a frightening mood within the sequence. The four characters appear to pull over in a dark and secluded forest which makes it more or less so inevitable to the audience that something major and corrupt is going to happen.
This vicious stabbing instantly creates a violent mood within the sequence followed by this dramatic shooting, the fact that the main character looks so emotionless as he shoots at the poor man, suggest that he’s used to this lifestyle so therefore is a typical ‘American Gangster’ As we presumed.
