Brainstorming for an Idea

Before we started to we had to talk about what the idea was going to be, also we had to talk about Health and Safety, this sheet of paper was the final brainstorm of our idea, it contains the story and a overall risk assessment on about any dangers or violations that we may approach, and how we as a group will avoid that.

Preliminary Sequence

Preliminary Sequence is a form of pre production research and planning. It’s a great opportunity to put to the test various different shots that may feature in the opening sequence of my choice. I’m at that stage were I’m still choosing what idea to explore and create. So the preliminary Sequence will be a more, ‘Pick some shots and see what they look like’.

This preliminary sequence that my group choose to do was a straight forward basic clip, where we would address the following areas, (match on action, 180 degree rule various transitions, sounds and dialogue). The location that we choose to film was within the school premises using a corridor leading to the gymnasium. We used only a HD Sony camcorder with a tripod; however we tried to make the use of some hand-held shots.

We encountered some problems when filming, most of all the back round sound as we choose a large area to film, the echo’s of our voices made it hard to hear the dialogue of the characters. We also faced the task when editing to fade two shots together tricky, as the software that we used was highly complex (Sony Vegas).

I made a better understanding of how to create and shoot the opening sequence after attempting the preliminary sequence, for example more creative (hand- held) shots make the film more enjoyable and interesting for the audience watching the film.

Research and Planning

As you may know before filming and posting ideas of my final idea. It's important to reasearch and plan, just like in the real film industry, Pre- production is where I will decide upon my real idea making sure that it's all planned out before I have to film (storyboarding, audio) etc.

Before I film I will be asking myself many questions constantly to make sure that the idea is possible, however most of all am I on target for example I could ask myself the question, Is this film realistic to be made? or Have I done enough planning and research?



It's alot of work even though the film (opening sequence) is roughly lasting about 2 minutes. I am currently on the stage of planning my final idea, but before I do that, I did some research on a well made film based on my genre which has a mixture of conventions like Horror/Thriller. Panic room was the film that I chose to research about, to understand the atmosphere, mood, editing, camera shots of the openinng sequence.

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