Production

Production Report
In order to complete our production of an opening sequence to  a film, we as a group had to met to discuss issues which would arise throughout filming.  The location of which we were going to film had previously been decided-  outside Kings Langley School gates, so timing was now to be discussed.  We produced a filming schedual which outlined all the shots in each scene that had to be shot, and distrubuted our free time between each shot.  Timing was difficult as all three of us had lessons at different times which meant that we did not have much time to film, so we agreed to film throughout lunch times also. The position of the camera had to be discussed as the lighting would be natural which could affect the film, aswell as the effect the surroundings would have upon production.

Upon watching back on what was filmed, we decided as a team that the footage was not as good as it should be.  The rules of continuity was not followed and the whole concept of the sequence was confussing as we all had different interpretations of what we thought we was producing.  The original idea of the plot was to film from the kidnappers point of view in the opening sequence, then for the rest of the film to continue in third person of a police investigation.  We decided that this was too complex and can be very misleading, so decided to restructure our sequence.

Following many group meetings in which we discussed exactly what we was setting out to complete this time, and invited many other students to become involved in the filming acting as extras, we refilmed.  While filming this time, we shot each scene from many different angles and distances in order to have a mix of shot sizes and angles which would follow our conventions of our choosen genre. It also granted us the option of choice when it came to editing the sequence together, we could choose which angles we preffered and what we felt looked the best.