Film Opening Rough Cut #3

TBC

We have edited the second rough cut and this is the third rough cut.

LIAR: Rough Cut #2

TBC

This is the second rough cut for our movie opening Liar. We have added music to the first part to get a feel for what the music will be like. We have re-edited some sections to make it a faster cut. We have added sound effects to the end when the scream queen runs into the CCTV footage and it is an audio bridge to the main title. 

We still need to add more music on to the second part of the movie opening. We also need to re-think the stabbing section as it looks fake and loses verisimilitude. We had feedback from a class of about 30 students and many of them mentioned the stabbing scenes among other things. (You can see the full feedback post here). We also need to continue editing it and cutting sections still to make it faster and a cleaner cut. 

Rough cut #2: 

Feedback from Rough Cut #1

We asked two classes for feedback on our rough cut. One wrote down on post-it notes what they thought, and we filmed the other class speaking about it. We summed up the post-it notes feedback in a video linked below. We also posted the full video of the class video feedback too.

Summary of notes feedback:

Class video feedback: 

Practice Shoot

Me and Sarah have shot and edited our practice shoot. We did a practice shoot to test angles of the camera and as a practice for the real shoot, so we can see where we can improve on the real shoot. This helps us make a better film and link better to our genre.

Here is the practice shoot:

Intertexuality vodcast for our movie opening

This is our vodcast talking about intertexuality in our movie opening and how it links to other movies (such as Scream) that also involve intertextuality heavily in their movies.

Intertextuality: the relationship between two texts.

SDB: Location and Props

Before...

... and After

We chose the bedroom location in our film opening, based on the main character - the blonde scream queen. We needed the bedroom to emphasise the stereotype behind her character, by using a pink, teenage, girly room. The room is almost entirely pink, however the bedding was not pink before so we changed it to a pink duvet. The room was also quite cluttered with school work before hand, so we tidied these away as they would not of worked well in the mis-en-scene, as it did not fit with the representation of our character- as she is not perceived as studious, but a more "dumb blonde" character.

SDB: Actors

For our film opening there is five main characters; a girl running in the opening scene (film within a film), the murderer also for the opening scene, the scream queen for the actual film, the scream queen's boyfriend, and the masked killer. 

The outfit used for the second scream queen

Firstly for the girl running in the opening we needed a blonde scream queen, who was willing to wear figure-hugging clothing, heavy makeup and would run through a field. We actually chose Poppy Potts to do this, the producer of our film opening, as she fits the scream queen representation and was willing to act. Poppy also knew of a good location to film this opening scene so this was very helpful. For the murderer who chases her, we needed a fairly tall, lanky actor (preferably a boy) to represent an initimidating character, even when masked. Poppy decided to use her brother for this, as he fit the representation and was accessible easily, and is also knowledgable with filming, so was able to help film the footage aswell.

 

For the actual film, we needed a blonde scream queen who was also willing to wear heavy makeup, revealing clothing - and also needed to be confident with acting skills, as this role includes a lot of speech. Poppy and I wrote down a list of possible girls to fit this role, we had a choice from about 5 people. We then asked the first girl on the list, Kathy Allen, and fortunately she was willing to participate. We tried out a practice shoot with Kathy and her acting was a success.  Poppy and I both agreed we would not need to ask any of the other girls.

  We used the same technique when choosing the actor to play the scream queen's boyfriend, and fortunately again, the first boy we asked was willing to take part, Alex Osborne. For this character there wasn't too many specifics required for representation as the actor is not shown up close, but only on CCTV. We just made sure Alex was wearing suitable 'teenage' clothing, such as a t-shirt, jeans and trainers. This was easily acssesible as Alex himself owned many of these clothes.