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Question 4- Who would be the audience for your media product?

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FINISHED

Today we managed to finish editing our entire opening sequence. I am incredibly proud of our final piece and personally feel like we did everything we could to make it the best as we can. I enjoyed working with Serena and felt that we really got along. This is a picture to show our happiness...

I Am Legend Opening Sequence Analysis

There is off screen diegetic dialogue of a sports news report. When the topic changes a news reader appears on the screen.
There are a few shot/reverse shots, as they are having a conversation. The camera then stays on a close up of Emma Thompsons character which could suggest her importance in this particular scene.
I chose to analyse this sequence because the concept of the movie is very similar to ours. However, there is not much to talk about.

The Dark Knight Opening Sequence Analysis

Sound

At the start of the clip there is a low beat that beats once repeatedly slowly. Then there is the sound of traffic in the background which suggests that it is set in a must city. A foley track is used to enhance the sound of people walking on gravel and the breaking of the glass. The sound of a car is also enhanced when it pulls up to the curb. All the characters are wearing masks whilst they are talking. I believe that they recorded the dialogue and placed it over the footage. This makes it clearer for the audience to understand. 

Camera Movement

There is an establishing shot of skyscrapers which suggests that the movie will be set in a busy. As it is in America I would think that it is set in New York. A high shot angle is used whilst the robbers are transitioning between two buildings. There are many close ups on the characters mask which could suggest that they are planning on committing a crime. There are also a few tracking shots following the different characters into buildings. Makes the audience feel as if they are part of the action. 

Genre

The music is one element of the opening sequence that helps establish the genre. The use of props is also another element. There are many guns shown throughout the opening sequence which indicates that there will be a lot of violence. Violence is usually used in action/thriller movies. 

Group Update- 15/03/13

Today Serena and I thought it would be best to re film the entire lab scenes. We felt that it would work better if there was no dialogue in the entire opening sequence. We have filmed twice before and we managed to work out what went wrong each time we filmed it. I felt that this enabled us to produce better footage. We were paying extra attention not to make any errors such as holding a beaker in one glass then in the next shot it is being held in the other hand.

I am extremely confident and please with our new footage and feel that it is definitely been the best we have managed to film.

Narrative Applied

I tried applying Tzveten Todorov narrative theory to my own opening sequence. I thought it would be fairly simple to apply this to my sequence, but I found it difficult. I could not chronologically order it, as when there should be a new equilibrium it is actually a disruption. There is also no evident recognition of a disruption which again proves that it is difficult to apply this theory. However, it is possible to apply a binary opposites to this film. In my opening sequence my character shows her head poking through the door looking left and right. This suggests that she is being weary that someone unpleasant is watching her moves. This then brings the idea that she is the good person whereas there is also a bad person.

Group Update- 14/03/13

Today we were given the opportunity to edit our opening sequence for the entire day. Whilst editing our open sequence we all realised that there was quite a few shots we needed to film. This was an issue as none of us were wearing the same clothes; I had changed my hair colour and we had not made a plan of what to film. This resorted to us re-filming the entire lab section again.

I personally feel that we had made the right decision to re film these scenes again as there were many errors in continuity.

Group Update 7/03/13

Sound Analysis

The music/sound that appears the most in action/thriller is normally intense and chilling, but then becomes fast paced. This is dependent on the scene. Many action/thriller music starts off quietly and slowly builds up.  I have analysed two different pieces of sound that could potentially be used in our opening sequence.


This sound is more thriller...

When I first listened to it I got goosebumps. I would like to think that this a good effect that hopefully our audience will have too. I also find it engaging due to the eery and dark sounds. It starts off quite and builds into creepy, spine chilling sound. However I do not feel that it is intense enough and it does not build up enough to shock the audience. 

                                       

In this clip it shows an example of action/thriller type of music from The Rock. Just like the first clip it slowly builds into a more dramatic piece. I feel that some parts of this particular track would fit in very well with our film. I feel that the strings really bring the intensity and the mood that our opening sequence has. 

Plan Of Action 15/02/13

On the 15/02/13 I decided that our group should sit down and discuss everything that we need to do, as we are very disorganised. I led the group discussion and this is what we planned:

Blue- Filming schedule: We organised at least 2 days of filming that we could all attend to

Monday 18th Feb: Filming
Tuesday 19th Feb 
Wednesday 20th Feb
Thursday 21st Feb: Filming
Friday 22nd Feb

Green- Reshooting: We decided that the following need to be reshot

We need to film some of the science lab shots again as the framing was poor.
Due to the feedback we got, we had to add in some POV shots of someone spying on Theo's Character for the sequence to make sense.

Red-Blog: We are behind on updating our group blog. We have done many of our work on paper, however we need to upload it on the blog.

Yellow-Title: We have not yet agreed on a movie title for our sequence. We narrowed it down to these four:

• Bacterium
• Infliction
• Infected 
• Virus 

If i was to make the decision i would go for Bacterium. I personally think it goes best with the concept of our movie.

Orange-Sound: This is unfinished but we began to discuss the sound that would be used. Serena and I will begin to compose the music towards the end of the editing process. The other half of the group decided that it would be best to use a quiet instrumental music for the science scene. We also decided that we will experiment with synth, drums and symbol to create a mysterious effect. 

Feedback- Action Taken

One criticism that was mentioned from all the groups was that our opening sequence did not make sense. Having looked back at our opening sequence, we can see the confusion.
We used a POV shot for the ending of our sequence. This indicates that someone is watching+following Theos' character. We decided to add more POV shots during the rest of the sequence to make it more evident that someone is spying on him. We believe that this would solve our problem, as this gives our movie more of a story line.

Another criticism we had was Theos extended walk towards Mats character. There is nothing that we need to reshoot as we can simply edit some of the walking out. This also gives us an extra few seconds free to add any other shots we are planning on shooting.

Stolen Computers 11/02/13

On February 11th we discovered that majority of the media equipment including the computers were stolen. Our edited sequence was gone which means we have to edit all over again. However due to this tragic event, it has given us the opportunity to work better as a team and for everyone to take part in the editing. This has also given us more time to finish filming anything we have left.

Final Idea

Feedback- 7/02/13

Today we showed our rough edit to the class even if it was not finished. Our classmates gave us their opinions on shots they liked and what needed to be improved.

We received a lot of positive feedback for our rough cut:
"The last POV shot in the sequence was excellent and unique"
"Establishing shot was good"


We were also given constructive criticism:
"It didn't quite make sense"
"The walking part was too long"

From this information we will discuss how to improve the opening sequence and plan a reshoot schedule.