Our film opening

This is our completed and finished film opening, we are happy with how ‘Vengeance’ has turned out and we our excited to be have our opening finished!!

Titles

Below are the titles we used for our opening. The titles included the directors, editor, cinematography, starring and title names which were created in Adobe fireworks using the OCR A Std font, size 39. We decided to use this font because in many other thriller openings we watched the main types of font they used where plain colours such as white, black or red and were in capital letters which is why we felt this font and colour chosen was appropriate. The red connotes danger which is what we wanted to emphasize through the opening.

Screen shot edits

We put our film company logo 'Boom Productions' at the start of our opening and added the explosion sound on the audio.

We aimed to put our titles on the film sequence at the appropriate time, for example we put our 'director' title on at the start, in the first 8 seconds of the opening because the directors' names usually come up at the beginning of a title.

 

 

We used a red colour balance as the gangster is standing behind Lisa because we wanted the audience to know that danger was arising, which was also emphasized by the slowing down of the film at this point.

The title appeared at 1.04 seconds, during the middle of the opening as it broke up what happens before she gets kidnapped and what is happening after she gets kidnapped.

 We added on scary, eerie music in order to make it more thrilling and scary for our audience.

At the 'phone call' scene we used an echo, to show that they were in an eerie room and because they were on loud speaker it emphasized even more the desperation for Lisa to find out more about her captivation and if she will ever be rescued by her boyfriend Steven.

Updates/Changes we have made to our coursework

If there was any difficulties to completely understand our changes and the reasons for them whilst watching the video here is a typed up explanation of it:

We have now changed a few things in our film opening because as a group we felt this was best and we were faced with circumstances where we couldn't meet our original ideas so changes were obligatory. We have removed the car scene from our opening as we couldn’t get hold of a car to use to drive Lisa off in.
So we came up with a new idea instead of dragging Lisa out and putting her into the car, she will still be dragged out of the party but you will see the gangster putting white tissue over Lisa’s mouth which is meant to seem as it contains chloroform and we meet this target by showing her pass out. We decided on this idea as it's still as effective as our other idea and it also links into our next scene perfectly, as when she passes out the screen will go black and the next scene will consist of Lisa being tied up, this makes perfect sense as when somebody is poisoned they usually wake up in a location which is unknown to them.
This meets the codes & conventions of a thriller as suspense is very significant in a thriller, and the use of poisoning Lisa builds suspense as the audience are not aware on why or what Lisa has done for this to be happening to her, so this is effective as it leaves our audience wondering and it also meets our aspect of our crime thriller as poisoning somebody and kidnapping them is a crime.
Although we liked the idea of the car scene we weren’t too disappointed when we couldn’t find a car to use as we feel the chloroform idea works just as well and we improvised which shows we can as a group think on our feet and use our initiative well.

Rough Cut

When editing the opening of Vengeance we had to watch through all the footage and find the best footage, which meant putting all the funny shots aside. Once we saved them in a folder named 'Footage for coursework' we imported the files and just had a quick practice editing and cutting the shots as well as fiddling with the effects to see what we would use. We editited them in chronological order, aiming to use most of the best shots that we filmed. It was really tricky trying to edit the clips to get precise match on action because of the way we filmed the scenes (in small sections and cutting) and so it was difficult for it to run through the whole of the opening smoothly. We were still in the process of making our titles as well as getting the final sound effects and reording/uploading our audio files so they were not included in the rough copy.

 

Here I saved the file suitable to upload to youtube and made commentaries on the yotube video so viewers were aware of the missing bits and peices to the opening.

Below is the footage of the opening:

Props and Wardrobe

Sound effects

Changes we have made to our opening

We have now changed a few things in our film opening because as a group we felt this was best and we were faced with circumstances where we couldn't meet our original ideas so changes were obligatory. We have removed the car scene from our opening as we couldn’t get hold of a car to use to drive Lisa off in. So we came up with a new idea instead of dragging Lisa out and putting her into the car, she will still be dragged out of the party but you will see the gangster putting white tissue over Lisa’s move which is meant to seem as it contains chloroform and we meet this target by showing her pass out. We decided on this idea as it's still as effective as our other idea and it also links into our next scene perfectly, as when she passes out the screen will go black and the next scene will consist of Lisa being tied up, this makes perfect sense as when somebody is poisoned they usually wake up in a location which is unknown to them.
Although we liked the idea of the car scene we weren’t too disappointed when we couldn’t find a car to use as we feel the chloroform idea works just as well and we improvised which shows we can as a group think on our feet and use our initiative well.

How we created the music for our party scene

Our teacher instructed us that we should create our own music for our party scenes due to the fact that using already existing artists music could be considered as copy right. So we decided to search on the internet for websites where we could create our own beat.

At first, my group and I experimented on the different types of beats that we could use and which one we thought would be appropriate for our party scene.
We then narrowed our choices down to two beats as our party scene isn't extremely long, its approximately 40 seconds, we chose two different beats to include in our party scene to make it more realistic as in a real party the same music isn't played over and over again so we wanted to portray that same variety.

Furthermore, as you can see below there are two print screens which look similar, however, if you look closely into the blue rectangles(which make up the beat) you can gather that they're placed in different places in both print screens, this is because, as said earlier, we created two different beats.
Here are the print screens of the website we used:

Although we made our own beat, during the filming of the party scene we played music that our characters know so that they would really get into the party spirit as this will benefit our party scene into looking realistic, and during editing we placed our beat over the party scene and muted the music used before.

Here is both of our beats(However, the video footage that is used isn't extremely relevant as it was filmed only for the beat so no attention isn't needed to be paid towards the video footage, only to the beat):

 

 

Our film company titles

We felt as a group we should include our own production company logo to make our film opening more unique and eye catching. Below is a few pictures of how the moving logo looks:

 

 

We created this using Fireworks for all the different images included such as the bomb, tag, title and all of the different sized sparks. As we are adding this to the start of the film you couldn't see the bomb and the title in Adobe Premiere Pro as the background was black. So we decided to change the bomb to grey and the colour writing of the title to white.

 

As you can see in this image the tag and writing are not visible as this is how it looks on Flash, but when we transferred it to Adobe Preimere Pro they are now visible.

 

  

 

 

 

 

This is how the bomb looks and I have added different shots of how the logo looks when it is moving. We like how it has turned out and we like how the spark moves to blow up the bomb, we think it will look good at the start of our film as it seems dangerous and exciting which is what our film is like. Although we didn't want to change the colour of the bomb and title from black to a grey bomb and a white title, we actually like how it turned out and think it looks good on the black background.