Final project: First shooting

We have now started to film our opening sequence. We have chosen roles for the group. Joel will be filming and directing, Xav is the main actor and I am prop management and assistant director. We were going to film firstly in the multi storey car park but it is temporally closed due to maintenance. this means have had to reschedule filming dates which may have a deep impact. disregarding this set back we managed to film most of our other scenes in oxford. We used a few alleyways to show the character making his way to the car park.

We decided on using a few filming techniques in the parts we filmed to give the opening sequence a little more depth and character. the techniques we used were as follows:  We used a high angle to set the status and power of the character. We used a focus pull to pinpoint attention on the character. We used a close-up dolly shot (seen above) to make it obvious who the main character is. We felt that these techniques we help create the atmosphere we want. We are now in the process of editing these first few shots to see how well it works together.

Final project meeting 3

In this meeting we decided on figuring out a soundtrack to use in our opening sequence. To do this we looked on a website that had royalty free music. The website we used was Incompetech. The idea we had for a soundtrack would be similar to other films found in the same genre. An example is Little Green Bag which was in the film Reservoir Dogs (directed by Quentin Tarantino). The songs we chose are as follows:

1. Cool Rock-Kevin Macleod
2. Retrofuture clean-Kevin Macleod
3. Broken Reality-Kevin Macleod 
4. Twisted-Kevin Macleod  

We then went out to designing the title. We have changed the title from The Hit to Birdlime. This is because the title now has a background meaning instead of being generic. Birdlime is cockney slang for time done in  prison. We felt that this gave the film a bit more character and intrigue. We took some time on deciding the font, colour back ground and position of text as this will be present for a long portion of the ending of the opening sequence.   

Final project meeting 2

In our second meeting we had to reconsider and overcome flaws in our plan. We thought about using moving titles. We were unable to do this because we didn't have the software to make this happen. To overcome this we decide on  putting our titles on to objects with in the scene. This will help us to incorporate the titles without them seeming superimposed.

Oxford- Multi Storey Car Park

We also had to change the idea of our location. We changed it to multi storey car park in oxford, we also will be using a few alley ways in oxford for some scene. The reason we change from London to Oxford is for practicality reasons. As Oxford is closer and less busy it will be easier for us to film better quality shots. The fact its closer allows us to not rush through the filming stage as we can easily get to Oxford and back.