2. Today, I have uploaded the images of the blueprints which we are
going to use in our opening.
During our opening, the blueprints are moved around and pointed
at, suggesting planning. This is common in crime films, particularly
those focusing on organised crime, as the characters often plan out
jobs and heists with maps and blueprints. We did this to make our
opening more suited to the genre.
This task helped me to understand what kind of crime film opening
we were going for in more depth, as the blueprints make our
opening more realistic for a crime genre.
3. Today, we looked at other film openings to determine what order
our titles will appear in. Depending on the situation and the film,
some titles appear in different orders- e.g., sometimes the director
or producer will be first, whereas other films will show the cast first,
sometimes in order of appearance (although this most often appears
in the end credits rather than the titles) and in some cases the
management for the actors themselves will ask that the actors
appear higher up in the credits or titles.
This task was beneficial as we can now see how to produce our titles
and in what order.
4. Today, we have chosen to add an extra scene onto the end of our
opening to elongate it and give a better insight into the plot of the
rest of the film. In this extra scene, a man in smart clothing will
watch from behind a tree/some shrubbery as an exchange occurs
between the hit man and the boss. We concluded that this should
take place in daylight to make it seem more domestic, and that the
exchange should be payment for the job we see completed in the
first part of the opening.
This task was beneficial as it made me realise that our opening at
the moment isn't quite long enough and that by adding in a few
more scenes that it will add to our enigma.
5. Today we found this music which is could be used as a possible
choice for our opening.
This music we have found is the closest we've come to finding
suitable for our opening and what we want to use. We like the idea
of having it start very slow and simple at the beginning, during the
outside shot, as the music increases in tempo during the montage
shots of our opening. The increase in the tempo will mimic the
audiences heart rate as they will feel the tension arising and would
begin to worry about what's going to happen.
This task was helpful as we have now found some un-copyrighted
music which we could potentially use for our opening.
6. Today, I created a timeline we created for our opening, showing us
where our titles are going to go and how long they will last for.
This task was beneficial as we can now see exactly how long each
title needs to be and how to go about doing this in the most suitable
way, therefore adding to our enigma.
7. Today, we have decided to include two institution logos in our
opening, as our research showed us that most films had more than
one institution involved in their production. On top of our first logo,
we decided to have our second one fade to darkness, to set up the
opening more smoothly, as the first shot can then fade in from
black.
This task was beneficial as we have now thought up of our second
institution logo which will work very well with the bright red blame
of the match, contrasting with the fade to blacking, therefore adding
further enigma to our opening as the red from the match could
suggest blood and death to some of our target audience.
8. Today, we filmed our second institution logo. We decided to use an
image of a pipe, as it is a British company and we wanted to use a
quintessentially British item, leading to the choice of a pipe. We then
made the link of naming it Pipeline productions. We also chose this
image because it has the link to the smoking scene in the beginning
of our opening, and has connotations of importance and organised
crime.
This task was successful as the filming of our institution logo looks
professional adding further mystery to the opening as the red from
the blame could suggest an underlying meaning of blood and
danger to the audience, therefore gripping them into our opening
from the start.
9. Today, we did a side by side comparison of our movie opening
alongside James Bond. Throughout our movie planning process we
took many inspirations from this movie. James bond is a movie
which has a similar story line and plot to ours. These screenshots
both show close ups of the Protagonist.
This task was successful as from looking into James Bond we can see
that what we learnt at the BFI came in handy as our opening using
typical stereotypical conventions of film openings.
