Diary of our Group

Wednesday 5th January 


Our first meeting we discussed each of our ideas. We explained how we would do create each opening sequence of our idea. We then went home and created each of our own short storyboards to decide the following lesson which idea to expand on.


Thursday 6th January 


The next lesson we watched different opening sequences of other films and students that had made opening sequences before to get an idea of what ours would have to be like.


Friday 7th January


We decided to expand on the idea of a young girl in a boot, however we changed the setting  to an industrial estate as it become more convent as Dan lived nearby where we got permission and we also was doing our filming at his house.

Wednesday 12th January 

After deciding on what our story board was going to be based on we decided to talk about the acting that would be needed and who would play each character we chose Dan to be the male character and Georgia to be  the young girl in the boot, we also decided to have Alice as the 'girlfriend' of the male character who would not be shown just speak in one part  to give the audience the idea that the girlfriend was unaware what the male character was doing.

Thursday 13th January

This lesson was a teaching lesson of the different ways of using the camera in a quick demonstration.
1. PANNING SHOT
2. TRACKING SHOT
3. WHIP PAN
4. REVERSE TRACK
5. CRASH ZOOM
6. CRANE/BIRDS EYE VIEW/AERIAL
7. WORM'S EYE VIEW
8. LOW ANGLE of any of the above


Friday 13th January


This lesson we had to practice using a camera and different ways of  using camera actions which we had previously learned about.  We spent 2 hours on learning the different features and then filmed a shot of Alice and Dan arguing which we was then going to edit calling our primarily sequence to practise editing.

Wednesday 19th January

On this day we watched as a class different opening sequences e.g. The mummy, Legally blonde, Children of men and Seven.

Thursday 20th January

On this lesson we analyzed 'Children of men ' to help us see what features go into an opening sequence to intrigue the audience using mes en scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp1cXTJSVf0&tracker=False