Final Main Production Task

Here is our final opening sequence. We have taken into account our feedback from our questionnaires and have edited accordingly. We have made the editing smoother so that there are no lags and so that the pace is fasted to suit the tension of the sequence. we have also added the most voted for font for our 'Schizo' title to make it more appealing. To make the music more effective, we have stopped it at certain times and on top of this, added a drawing sound effect over the title so make it resemble someone drawing it out. I am very proud of what we have accomplished with this piece and I believe that we have produced it to the best of our ability.

Additionally, we realised that we made a spelling mistake for 'director of photography' in our other drafts for our opening sequence, and we have corrected it in our final piece. 

As well as this, we have decided to create an ending that creates more anxiety, so we have cut out the last 10 seconds where Lauren says "you?". This has made the sequence shorter and has made the audience more on edge because of the abrupt ending.

Second Draft - Opening Sequence

Here is the opening sequence that we showed our class and took feedback from them on how to improve it and create our final cut.

The main topic that came up was the ending of the scene in which the character says "you?". Some students said that they thought the editing of the ending was quite slow and it would be more dramatic if it was cut shorter.

We also got feedback to not use fake names, as we used here, and instead create the credits using our real names, so the opening is more personal. This would hopefully make the credits more effective in the opening sequence.

Here is our second draft for our opening sequence.

Storyboard Analysis

Storyboard analysis from Sarah Nurse

Analysis of Questionnaire - Audience Feedback on Opening Sequence

Here is my analysis on the feedback we got on our questionnaire about the film opening:

The Filled Out Questionnaires - Audience Feedback on Opening Sequence

We asked 16 students, aged 15 to 17 of different genders, ages and ethnicity's to watch our opening sequence. We then gave them a questionnaire we created for them to fill out. 

Here are the filled out questionnaires:

Analysis of Questionnaire - Font of Film Name

Here is my analysis on the feedback we got on our questionnaire about the font of our film name:

The Filled Out Questionnaires - Font of Film Name

We were undecided on a few fonts for the title of our opening sequence. We asked 16 media students of different genders and ethnicity's, who were all the ages of 16-18 to fill out a questionnaire to help us decide which font suited our opening sequence the most. 
Disclaimer - we accidentally added a ninth option to tick, however it is discarded because we did not add one to choose.

Here are the filled out questionnaires:

Mapping of Our Opening Sequence

Here is the mapping of our opening sequence, which shows all of the credits which appear and what time they appear in. We didn't add in many credits because we didn't want to overload the sequence with a lot, which could potentially distract the audience. These titles are based around the three mappings of title sequences that I have previously completed.
In the first cut of the sequence, we used fake names, but we ended up changing the names to our actual names. All together there are 14 titles, which is not a heavy amount like a Hollywood film would be, but it is enough to be effective.

Final Animated Production Company Logos

Here are our final animated production company logos that we have created using Serif DrawPlus X6. Some of them are a bit blurry and not very clear, however we still think they are still usable and we will ad some sound effects to them when we add them to our final piece so that they are more effective.

Logo For Production Company

We have taken our initial sketches of our production company logo and have turned them into our final production company logo using the program 'Serif Draw Plus X6'.

These are our options for our production company logo, however we have changed them from sketches into suitable logos so that we could accurately decide which one we like out of them all.

After seeing how the designs looked, we decided upon this design, as it is simple, yet effective. We have then animated the logo so that we can include it into the beginning of our opening sequence.

Logo for Production Companies Planning

Here are drawings of our initial ideas for what we would like our production logos to look like. We will choose three of these for our final production and animate them to make them more attractive.

Analysis of Non-diegetic Soundtrack Music

This is the non-diegetic, asynchronous soundtrack that we chose to use for our final opening sequence. I have gone through the section of the soundtrack that we will be using and I have gone through it describing why we are using it any why it suits our opening sequence perfectly. Whilst editing the opening sequence when it is completed, I will add sound effects to it, such as sounds for the production logos, the phone ringing, and various other sound effects.
Here is my analysis of the piece:

Here is the piece of music by itself:

Our Non-diegetic Asynchronous Soundtrack Options

No Games - Civil Ryan

The first option for our soundtrack is a song produced my one of my friend's Ryan. It is quite fast-paced, so we may use this if our opening sequence ends up being a horror (idea one) because it sounds more upbeat than a soundtrack for a thriller film. This track isn't very creepy, but may suit a running scene or a scene with a lot of action.

Haunted - Ross Bugden

This second option is one of our favourites because it would go well with a thriller (idea two) and sounds very creepy. This is the sound that we're going for at the moment and resembles a child-like soundtrack or a lullaby. This soundtrack is copyright and royalty free, so I wouldn't have to pay to use it.

Witch's Lair - Desperate Measures

This last option creates a more eerie atmosphere than the first two and would also go well with a thriller opening sequence. It may suit a stalker scene or someone being followed and is also copyright and royalty free so would be easy to use.

How Did Our Filming Day Go - Video

In this video, we talk about how our filming day went. We discuss what went well and what could've been improved on our filming day.

First Cut - Main Task BLOOPERS

FIRST CUT - Main Task

This is the first cut of our main task. It is not the final cut yet, as we must change the names on the opening credits to ours. I used fake names for this cut because I wanted to test out how this cut looked with different names first. We also need to improve our first and second idents (Orion Films and Flight Pictures) because they are unclear and we could like to improve their quality. The film title screen must be changed as well because it is not very clear and we want to make the font suit the film a bit more by resembling someone's handwriting. Additionally, we would like the door scene to be a bit faster because we want the pace to resemble how the protagonist is feeling.

Filming Schedule for Opening Sequence

Here is the filming schedule that we used to keep track of what we were doing on the day of filming. We kept to it most of the time, but we were conscious of it getting too dark so we tried to speed up the final scenes that we shot a little bit. That being said, the rest of the schedule went to plan.

Costume and Props for Opening Sequence

We want Lauren to be dressed in clothes that resemble a teenage school girl. Therefore we have chosen typical clothing such as black skinny jeans. Also, white converses are typical for a young person to wear. As well as this, her hair will be up in a ponytail to show her innocence in the opening sequence.We are thinking about putting glasses on her to make her seem more vulnerable to the viewer as well. Her props involve her iPhone, covered in a case that makes it evident that she's young, and her backpack is to make her seem as she is coming home from school.

Tinika's costume is different because we want her to also look childish, but have a creepy element to her so it's obvious that her character isn't normal. She will be wearing a dress and a cardigan, which are normal items of clothing for a young person to wear, but the prop that makes her whole costume is the mask she wears. She will be wearing a mask so that the viewer can question whether she's the antagonist or not. Also, the mask hides her identity to create an effect that suits the genre (thriller).

Main Task - Schizo Script

Production Task- Schizo Script

EMILY- Lauren Hewitt

ABBIE/ABIGAIL- Monique Jackson 

FADE IN:

EMILY:

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.

I learnt that the hard way.

EXT. PATHWAY - DAY

EMILY walking - On an empty pathway next to a field.She turns around, but doesn't see anything.

A girl is behind her 

'ping'

She checks her phone,then texts ABBIE. She looks behind again and continues to walk up the path.

She Takes out her phone calling ABBIE on her phone.

'ring RING RING!!!' 

EMILY:

Hey, where are you?

ABBIE:

I'm at home, where are you?

EMILY:

But you said you wanted to play a game.

ABBIE:

No I didn't. You're acting crazy.

A girl is standing closer, to her left. She turns her head

EMILY puts the phone in her pocket and runs to--

EXT. THE FRONT DOOR - DAY

And turns around when she feels a hand on her shoulder.

EMILY:

You?

THE END

Shot List - Opening Sequence

Here is our shot list that we used for our opening sequence. We printed it off and took it with us to use whilst filming to make sure that we got all of the shots that we needed.