New decisions

Today, due to limited members of the group, we had to discuss between the two of us the key aspects of the opening. We may have changed the idea of filming in the alley, due to it being harder to commit a murder scene in a public place. It could be possible to film the murder in Ben's house as it will be easier to control the lighting. However we will need confirmation from Ben himself. Also due David's lack of being in the lessons, we have to have make decisions without him.

However, Josh and I have managed to decided that when the girl is killed, she will be murdered by the slitting of her throat. The only downside to this way of killing, is how we are going to make it an effective cut. If we can't figure out how, we will be stabbing the girl in stomach.

For the stabbing, a potential idea was to have a shot from behind with the killing appearing out of nowhere.

Filming Location

The 'Getting Ready' scene is going to take place in Ben's house which is in Reigate. The college will not be included in the filming.

The 'Alleyway' scene is being filmed near Monks Walk in a secluded alleyway. Hopefully this means that the location is not recognized due to our local filming.

The picture above is the Alleyway where we are going to film our scene. Benji added this photo through his mobile phone to Blogger. Other pictures of Location of Scene are here- http://benjiiimedia.blogspot.com/

Opening Credits

For our opening credits, we have decided to use the music from the opening credits in the sixth sense. We feel the music creates a mysterious feel and would be an interesting way to open the film with the dramatic start after the credits. 

Summary

In this lesson we have watching the openings to analysed film openings of the Sixth Sense and The Business; and how to produce our production company logo.
We learnt that we can produce an effective opening like the credits from the S.S and The Business.
In the Sixth Sense, the opening credits were effective showing the producers, actors and the title. It allowed us to visualize the order we would place our credits.
We looked at the opening to The Business in order to think about the camera work and editing for when we shoot our own openings.

Film Review

For our film opening we have looked at openings such as

• Mean Girls
• 21
• 10 Things I Hate About You
• When You're Around - Frankmusik (Music Video)
• 28 Weeks Later
• Mean Machine.

We found that most of these openings helped us to give a wide range of potential options for our final idea.

We have concluded the idea of a Girl getting ready for a party, then being followed as she comes out of her house. We have based this idea on FrankMusik's music video.

Production Meeting 1

In today's media lesson, we discussed our strengths and weaknesses. By doing this, it will help plan ourselves for the main task, by allocating everyone to specific roles.

In addition, we also discussed our timetables, and came up with possible times for us to continue our Media work.
These times include Mondays and Tuesdays after college times and Saturdays every fortnight.