Working Outline

Today i have also made the working outline for the production. We are now proggressing into making our opening sequence here is the working outine below:

Title/working title	Relinquish
Plot/outline summary	Small girl has been kidnapped by an unknown person. The girl is in some kind of mysterious unlawful imprisonment, the location is unknown.
Opening sequence outline/summary	The scene opens with an establishing shot (ELS) showing the surroundings of a character sitting on a bench. The Character has a tear running down his face as he looks at a picture representing something close to him.
Characters (consider genre, role, image etc)	Middle aged man that looks worried and disorientated to show him missing someone and giving up hope. Small girl that looks distressed to portray fear and subconsciously takes sides with the helpless young girl. Damaged clothing to show mistreatment.
Mise en scene Setting: Locations: Costumes: Props: Lighting (what mood are you trying to create? etc)	Sun set on a cold, winter night. At the start of the first scene the surroundings are light (high key lighting) however by the end of the scene the lighting has changed considerably until the lighting has all gone and the character is not visible   1st shot: Sun Set by a lake in winter (Present day) 2nd shot: Small girl in a dark small room (Present day) 1st shot: Small English town 2nd shot: unknown location Male Character: Up to date clothing, warm clothing to emphasise winter season Small Girl Character: Damaged clothing to show mistreatment and abuse. Kitchen Knife, Picture, Wrench, We have used low key lighting to create a mysterious mood and high key lighting for a contrast to show one is in imprisonment.

Making our Storyboard

Today we are making our storyboard for our final production, it is in its early stages as we are continuously changing the shots and scenes we are planning to use. We have decided to plan our opening sequence as detailed as posible, this should make the shooting of the film allot more efficient and less time consuming.

Planning the main task

Today in our media lesson we have began to plan our main media project we have sheet that contains main aspects of our film. By completing the sheet our film production should be more time efficient. We are still in the postition to change any of our ideas and planning at this stage.

Analysing an opening scene

At the beginning of this opening scene of blade you can clearly see that the titles are red and stand out profoundly. They have used the red titles to signify blood or romance further on in the film but as we know it is to signify blood.

the main characters are immidiatley addressed and shown to the audience. This has clearly been thought about by the durecter, the main characters and people around make it clear what there relation to each other is by the pronounced body language.

The film has immidiatley shows the audience the surroundings of where the people in the shot are. The titles that are displayed to the audience show themain people behind the making of the film including producers, actors and the director.

Sound in Films

We have now learnt the importance of sound within a film. Sound can create an atmosphere within a visual image that without sound would not be possible. Sound can create many different moods for the viewer including suspense, shock, happiness and sadness.

We learnt about the two types of sound within all films.

Diagetic Sounds

Daigetic sounds are sounds within the film, they are directly relevant and important to the scene showing. For example when a gun shoots the viewer hears a bang and someone talking.

Non-Diagetic Sounds

Non-Diagetic sounds are sounds that are not directly relevant to the scene being shown. For example someone narating (sound over) and music in the background which is not being played by any of the characters or in the film.

Film Intro Practise

We are currently in the proccess of filming and editing a film intro to 'resevoir dogs'. Creating this short opening to a well known film has shown me some of the difficulties in film making. I have learnt that it is extremely difficult to work with other people in the film, it requires manyakes to get the right shot and keep continuity.

Our short film opening is not to a very high standard as we were short of time for planning and filming, we hope our final production will be far superior than this practice film.