Adaption of the Storyboard

Once we had all the footage in the correct order we found that the sequence did not work as well as we planned. The scenes including the victim being punched and killed made the story line unclear to the audience. It was hard to portray how the victim linked into the main character's life.

We attempted having a match on action shot in two of the shots. One was in the child scene, where he walks down the alley. We wanted to show him from the front and then the back. This made the sequence of him walking too long of just one element, therefore boring and less entertaining for the audience. The second shot was where our main character goes to punch a punchbag and the match on action shot shows him punching the victim. We had to take this out due to the confusion in the storyboard, also it was difficult to make it flow seamlessly with the resources we had available.

We decided to have all the child scenes next to each other because we wanted a certain part of the voiceover to play alongside it. This part of the voiceover makes it clear to the audience that the child is our main character in the past.

Filming Completion

After completing the filming of the alley/walking scenes, we were on course to continue filming our Boxing scenes.

On Thursday 4th March, we used a friend's garage to implement our Boxing sequence. After spending approximately 3 hours, we collected enough footage - 8 minutes 37 seconds (to be precise) - in order for our group to work with and commense on successfully editing our opening sequence.

Due to our actor being ill, we had to put back the filming of our 'child on a swing' and 'child walking' scenes from Thursday 4th March to Friday 5th March. This piece of filming has now been completed and the voice over of our character Owen Haynes is the piece of audio/filming that is yet to be completed and is expected to be done on Monday 8th March which will then put us into good stride to start finalising our opening sequence.

Titles

Main Title- We downloaded the font we chose to use and imported it into LiveType. Using this we added two effects; Lurch and Float Away. We chose Lurch because we wanted a shaking effect to create an eery atmosphere. Float Away was chosen because we wanted the title to fade out and this effect flowed well with Lurch.

Other Titles- We used all the same fonts with these to make them consistent. We wanted them to flow with the footage so chose to have them fade in and fade out swiftly.

Progress

So far, we have completed the filming of the alley scenes, which have been edited in Final Cut Pro. We have also filmed some extra footage consisting of boxing and gym scenes, which we may not use in our final piece. Today, we completed our animated logo which will be used at the beginning of our opening sequence. We are going to work on completing our soundtrack and finishing the filming of the boxing and childhood scenes, ready for the end of the week. Once we have finished this, we will then need to record the voiceover and finish off editing our sequence.

Production Logo

This is our production company logo. We made this using programmes including Photoshop, Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack Pro.

Animated Production Logos

We have started making our production logos for the beginning of our opening sequence. To make them look more proffesional we have decided to animate them. To do this we are using Photoshop and Final Cut Pro.
For our Production company we downloaded an image from Google. In Photoshop we then erased the fire and created the name of the company. In Final Cut Pro we then created the animation to make the words appear out of the dragons mouth representing the fire.

Music ideas

Our first sample of music for opening sequence was to have a bass and a drum kit for the whole sequence, with strings in the middle to resemble his childhood. We chose to use a bass and drum kit as the sounds create tension and correspond with the images we are portraying.

Our final music piece was very basic and just drums and bass throughout. We kept it basic so that the voiceover would be the main focus of the sequence.