Feedback On Opening Sequence, Feedback On Clips Not Used & Why

Feedback on overall Opening Sequence Amount of people asked 20 Questions asked: 1)Did you enjoy the Opening sequence? 2)What Element did you like most about the opening sequence? (choose 2) 3)Did you understand the storyline? 4)Did you think the acting was good? 5)Did you find the music effective and did it create suspence? The general answer for this was yes the music did create suspence and caused those who watched it to want to watch more. 6)Do you think our film holds conventions of a thriller? if so, what? The common answer was "suspence" which people said it was is usually found in a thriller. 7)How would you improve our opening sequence? The improvements told by others were things like, having the setting darker would be better. Someone said create more suspense. Better acting. Actors should look more traumatised. The acting and the sript needs work and there was also someone saying we should change the title. Not all these things we feel are relevant because i feel that people were thinking about what they the individual wants as in they were being rather picky. Looking at the time we had, if we had more most of these points we would definately apply to our O.S. 8)Would you want to see the rest of the film? Most people said yes. 9)What would you rate the Opening sequence from a scale of 1-10 (1 being the lowest etc) Clips Not used why? The clips that we decided to disinclude were these two below the clip that involved Shanice singing turned out to be irrelevant as the filming went on.
We found that it didn't really make sense and also confused us when it came to thinking about how it would flow onto the next scene. So we decided to cut this out and instead of saying we were filming a music video. We changed our film idea to us starting with a group of students just together doing work.

The clip in which we had the group leaving the block and messing around with the camera was removed because of the time limit that we had for the opening sequence.

We also removed it because we realised it wasn't so relevant and this was just an opening sequence we didn't want to much to occur in such a short space of time. The clip we thought was very good, the clip that showed paranoia We liked this scene because it took all of us as a group to work together to make this work. The idea of us just flickering the lights to create the effect allowed us not to have to apply so much editing to it. This is also the scene that builds creates that paranoia effect just like the name of the opening sequence. This is what startled those who viewed it, this scene drew them into the sequence and caused them to really focus and leave them in suspence.

Script

TEACHER-SO NATALIA WOULD YOU LIKE TO EXPLAIN WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED LAST NIGHT?

NATALIA-WELL I KNOW WE WERE THE ONLY STUDENTS LEFT AROUND IN SCHOOL BUT….

JOSH-ALL WE WERE DOING WAS PLANNING OUR MUSIC VIDEO

Cut to clip of Shanice singing

BEN-WELL I CAME IN LATE, SO AS SOON AS I CAME, THE GROUP WAS ALL READY TO GO.

Cut to clip of group walking out

NATALIA-I REMEMBER HEARING SHANICE SAY SHE WAS GOING BACK FOR HER PHONE (voice over for clip when shanice says she’s going back for her phone)

NATALIA-THEN I JUST HEARD


Cut to clip of Shanice screaming around in M7

SCREAMING!

TEACHER-WELL WAS SHE ALRIGHT?

BEN VOICEOVER-WELL I ASSUME SO BECAUSE WE STILL HAD THE CAMERA WITH US. I WAS STILL RECORDING. IT WAS ME, MARCO AND NATALIA JUST MESSING AROUND. I TURNED TO FILM SHANICE BUT SHE WAS JUST TAKING HER TIME. I TURNED BACK AROUND AND SHE WAS JUST IN MY FACE! FROM THEN ON I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH HER.

JOSH-WE CARRIED ON WALKING AND I ASKED KAYDEN WHAT WAS WRONG WITH HER. I LOOKED BACK AND SAW NATALIA TALKING TO SHANICE.

NATALIA-SHANICE LOOKED SO SCARED, WE WERE MESSING ABOUT WITH THE CAMERA (until now it is a voiceover to clip until Shanice panicks)
AND SHE JUST STARTED PANICKING
SHE JUST PAN…….NICKE…D (breathing heavy starting to pass out) AND…..I….



SCRIPT IMPROVED PLUS FILM DIRECTIONS

BEGIN WITH NATALIA WALKING TOWARDS 6 FORM BLOCK.
BEN AND JOSH LOOK NERVOUS WAITING OUTSIDE THE OFFICE

TEACHER-SO NATALIA WOULD YOU LIKE TO EXPLAIN WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED LAST NIGHT?


NATALIA-WELL I KNOW WE WERE THE ONLY STUDENTS LEFT AROUND IN SCHOOL BUT….


JOSH-ALL WE WERE DOING WAS SOME GROUP WORK
HONEST, AND YEAH WE ENDED UP LEAVNG RATHER LATE (scratch neck looking nervous)

Cut to clip of Group getting up


BEN-WELL I CAME IN LATE, AS SOON AS I CAME IN THE GROUP WAS ALL READY TO GO.

Cut to clip of group walking out


NATALIA-WE WERE HEADING OUT OF M BLOCK BUT SHANICE SAID SHE HAD LEFT HER PHONE SO SHE WENT BACK FOR IT.
cut to clip of Shanice saying she’s going to get her phone

BEN-I COULD SLIGHTLY SEE HER THROUGH ONE OF THE SIDE WINDOWS, I NOTICED THAT WHEN SHE REACHED FOR HER PHONE SHE LOOKED TROUBLED,………….. BUT STILL SHANICE HAS ALWAYS BEEN WIERD


JOSH-SHE’S KINDA CRAZY……YEAH UMM YEAH SHE’S ODD


TEACHER-OK SO YOUR SAYING SHE’S RATHER CRAZY DOES THAT HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH WHY M7 WAS LEFT IN SUCH A STATE…OR ARE THERE THINGS YOU AREN’T TELLING ME HMM


NATALIA-SIR HONESTLY IT WASN’T US, THE BOYS AND I WERE WAITING OUTSIDE M BLOCK, SHANICE WAS TAKING HER TIME I ASSUME SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN ON THE PHONE….SO WE WAITED


JOSH-FOR A WHILE


BEN-A LONG WHILE


NATALIA-I WAS ABOUT TO GO GET HER WHEN SUDDENLY I HEARD….


JOSH-SCREAMING (act more hesitant, use more angles)

Cut to clip of Shanice screaming around in M7

TEACHER-SCREAMING!
WELL WAS SHE ALRIGHT?


BEN,NATALIA AND JOSH-WE DON’T KNOW! (echo words) (VOICE OVER CLIP IN WHICH OPENING SEQUENCE ENDS) (clip where shanice hits the window)

HOW THE SCRIPTS LOOK LIKE

Roles Of Group Members

Ben - Director, In charge of Editing, Filming and Acting,Updates Of Blog
Josh - Director, In charge of Editing, Filming and Acting,Updates Of Blog
Shanice - Director, In charge of Editing, Filming and Acting,Updates Of Blog
Natalia - Director, In charge of Editing, Filming and Acting,Updates Of Blog
All in charge of Organising & Planning as a group.

Initial Ideas

Initial Film Ideas
- Teenage Girl goes on killing spree and kills all the boys she has dated due to a curse given to her when born.
- Boy murdered, best freind unfolds the mystery behind the murder
- Girl abused by bully, turns into psychopath
- 4 teens in a media group , little do they know that one of them is a psycho, however all working together until they start to get freaked out by eachother
- teenager finds large amount of money in a train station and doesnt know what to do with it..unaware that he has soem of London's biggest gangstas tracking him/her

Types Of Characters We Would Use In Our Opening Sequence:
- Young adults - the reason we would definitley young adults/teenagers as our main characters is because as we are teenagers ourselves it is more convenient then having to schedule to film an adult and we can relate more to their lifestyles so easier to act out.

- Detective
- Psychopath
- Criminal/Villain
- The undercover enemy (enemy pretending to be friends with main (good natured) character but is secretly evil.

All of the above character types have a sense of mystery behind them, and to build up a film there needs to be alot of mystery and questioning, therefore these are strong characters to fill our film with suspense.
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Types Of Locations We Would Prefer To Use:
- Basement
- Photography darkroom
- Park
- Canteen Area
- Elms Office

Location

This is just outside the room that the group of students were in - this is where they would come to when they leave the room on the other side. We chose this location because the classroom was not to far from the door and in front had night lights which were like dimmed glow that helped anchor a convention of a thriller, and create an eery atmosphere.



This is the door opposite the image above - this is where the group would exit.



Here is another better view of the block and the windows to the right is where Shenice would be filmed when she receives the phone call.



This is inside the classroom. Flashbacks would be filmed in here and this is also where Shenice comes in to get her phone and is filmed throwing furniture around.



When the group exits, this is where they would go on after they leave the classroom. They would walk down this pathway to exit the school.
As ideas changed and time went over, we decided later on to not film this part.


As for this image, it is a view of when you leavce the school gates. This is where the group of students would walk down and split up to go there seperate ways and eventually lead to a scream or somethign happening to one of them.
As for the previous image, this was not used or filmed because of time going over and ideas changing.

Character Profiles

Questionaire

Our Group Questionnaire

What age group do you fall under?
16-24
25-31
32-44
45+


What gender are you?
Male
Female


What thrillers have you watched?
What Lies Beneath
Phone Booth
Se7en
The Blair Witch Project
Others


What types of thrillers are more appealing?
Terrorism
Psychological
Romantic Pursuit
Abduction
Political Conspiracy Supernatural
Others


What makes a good thriller?
Music
Actors
Sound Effect
Costume
Lighting
Others


What setting would you expect to see a thriller in?
A School
Graveyard
House
Public
Others


Analysing Results
























When looking at the result above it showed us that most people liked thrillers that were phycological. From this we will make sure that our opening sequence will show phycological elements because it is only an opening sequence not an entire film. If it was an entire film we would most probably use this result to choose the genre of thriller, because that is what most of our audience would like.