Thursday, 12 February 2009
Tolu Lawal
Sounds for our opening sequence
I watched a few trailers of thrillers and listened to the change in the sound as the story got more exiting. I found that they made very little use of popular music and the music fitted with the scene. It was synchronous and became more exciting and tense at the same pace as the scene. This is going to help Maria and I when we editing our video and adding all the music into it. Our music will also have to be synchronous and help to portray the current happenings of each scene.
Tolu Lawal
Changing ideas
Maria and I have once again decided to change the some of the idea for our opening sequence. We have decided to change the gender of our actors from male to female. This is because finding an older male character was proving very difficult so we decided to employ female characters as we found it easier to find an older looking actress to play the part of the woman. This changes the bullies into younger female characters. also we have decided to have a female Psychiatrist because all the other characters in th The main story line of our opening sequence is going to stay the same. Also we have decided that there will be no murder scene any longer, we have finalised the story board and have decided on all of our shots.
Friday, 30 January 2009
Titles for the opening scene
For the opening of our movie I have done 12 second titles opening, I included our productions name and the title of the movie. Also I found an interesting image with and eye and world in space, which I thought would look very affective for our symbol. So I did a lot of work on it to make the eyelid move. I’ve used programs like Paint, Photoshop and Premiere element.
I edited the image and then put them one after another to create a movement on Premiere element. It worked out very impressive. Also I found a non authorised music; the song is very mystical and hunting which makes the image more interesting. I used simple font and text style to make it look professional, so the viewers believed that it is a real movie. Our movie is a murder mystery, so the opening has to be quite serious and representative.
Maria T

Thursday, 22 January 2009
Tolu Lawal
16/01/09
Scene 1 – this will be set in the Hopeman mixed common room. It will be a point of view shot from the psychiatrist’s point of view. So you only get to see the back if the psychiatrist’s head.
The next shot in this scene will be a close up of his feet tapping continuously in order to convey a his nerves to the audience.
Scene 2- will be a flashback. This will be done in the woods and will be black and white making the audience aware of the fact that it is a flash back. It will consist of him walking thorough the woods after the boy who is alone and plunging the knife into him several times. We will have to film this scene just before it gets too dark so the camera is still able to pick up the footage.
Scene 3- this scene will be a series of flashbacks between the common room/ psychiatrist’s office and our final setting. This will be a range of different situations where his victims are bullying him. And we will flash back to the various incidents including name calling and tone throwing and flash forwards to close ups of our offender’s face.
Monday, 12 January 2009
12/01/09
Tolu Lawal
Maria and I have chosen to do a kind of thriller for our opening sequence. Our story is based on a man who is forced to look back at his school days when a psychiatrist asks him about it. He confesses to killing a fellow pupil. He is finally comes face to face with the realities of his actions when he is faced with a series of flashbacks 5 years later. If we were going to make the full movie, it would consist of him telling his story of how he ended killing this fellow student who bullied him throughout his school years and we would explore the reasons as to why he was willing to commit murder. Our opening sequence will only consist of the first little part of story as we only have two minutes to grasp the audience’s attention. We will require 4 main characters, the Psychiatrist our main character, the younger version of our main character, and his victim. We will also require another 2 actors to play the victim’s friends and close allies. We will have three main mise en scenes. The main one will be the psychiatrist’s room. This will consist of two sofas by the window and a desk separating them. The other settings will be the murder scene in the woods and the finall setting we require is the scene in school where the boys would be picking on him. I think this will be filmed outside G House near the lake.
Saturday, 10 January 2009
Preliminary Task
As i had to concentrate on filming i tried to make unusual shots and zooms. So i started the first shot to be the doctor looking on her watch and realising that she is late with a wide shot. Next shot was her waling towards the door. I decided to make another shot of her walking but with a zoom only on her feet to make an affect of moving motion. Them i am filming her opening the door and sitting down(pan shot). I used shot reaction shot to make a good affect of a conversation, also i made different zooms to make it more moving. i zoomed on doctors hands while she was ti ping, also when she was listening to the patient she was moving her hands which on i made a zoom as well. The last shot was a pan shot of the patient standing up and leaving the room.
I had a lot of shots to edit. I made the video black and white because i filmed it in two days and the light was different every day, so the black and white affect didn't show this. I



