SOUND part 2

Today is the day when we added the sound to the first part of the opening sequence. Veronika already added the shots together , they look pretty good with the continuity and my part is to add the sound to it before we start changing colours and adding more stuff to it.

I decided to add some sad instrumental song at the beginning of the shots when the girl appears and she looks all messy coming from the party. We want to transmit drama to the audience by using the song and the bad appearance of the girl.

We also wanted to add a suspicious song when the guy comes up behind her so the audience would understand that something bad is going to happen to the girl that already seems vulnerable because of the look that she has.
So I gave it a try and I found a perfect piano song , I have made some changes with it so when the guy comes up the song changes along with the audience´s mood. I realise that the shot between the girl disappearing of the screen until the boy appears is too long , so to make it look a little more professional I cut the shot a little in between. The sound that appears is a mix between suspicious and person following. I have also added a heart beat when we close up a little more to the girl´s face so the audience can see that she is not looking healthy or happy , straight after that ,we see the blurry P.V which I think is a good method to transmit the drug effects to the audience by her look , vision, and heart beat.The heart beat accelerates along with the movement of the guy getting closer to the girl so the audience´s heart beat would change along to it and creates more tension but it stops when he grabs her and the scene finishes , in my opinion I made this because I think will bring intrigue to the audience so they would like to keep watching the production. To find the heart beat I used the programe Logic-Pro and to find the introduction song I have researched different web sites with piano songs and find one that is free copyright , I have also used Logic-pro to add the suspicious song with the piano song which I think is amazing , I am very happy of learning new things by experimenting with Logic-pro . I have asked some people including Veronika of what they think about the introduction song and all of them liked it even more when they watch it along with the video.
I also had the idea of adding some song at the end of our production , in the second part because in my opinion it did not brings any tension when she gets the drugs , so I have decided to add the suspicious song that I already used when the guy comes up following her. I have showed it to Veronika and she thinks it is better now , it attached better the both parts.

editing titles

Hello everybody it is very difficult for us to use original ideas for the titles because we don´t have that many possibilities 

It would make the opening too exaggerated, so in our opinion it is much better to use simple

titles m I had the idea of adding the ´´Unique Products presents´´ in the water as a shadow

and with simple font because it would look a little more original and at the same time simple 

Veronika suggested to put produced by quickly coming on the screen each second becoming bigger 

fonts ,at the end we will add our both names. We both added the titles because we were quite struggling in this.

All are simple with Arial font and white colour, because we want to transmit drama to the audience

and there is no need of exaggerating titles.

editing part 4

Veronika and me have discussed and planned carefully the editing , we have also experimented with the shots that we already got for the second part of the opening sequence. This time, as we already said in older posts, we want to make it look sad I am the responsible with the sound and Veronika is the one that already putted all the shots together, in my opinion I think she did a very good job because we do not have any problem with the continuity , it works very well. The only bad is that i think we should of film more shots to have even more variety but is too late to apply them to our production, but it good to know that if I would do it make better. Veronika and me decided to change the colour of the additional shots because we want to compare it the bright shots that we already have edited and give straight away the dramatic feeling to the audience and to also differentiate the different moods that each part has to produce. Using brightness and contrast in all the shots with less brightness and with more contrast. Veronika also changed the colours adding to it. Veronika also changed the colours , adding them more blue so the weather looks worse and darker which we think it would bring more tension. The girl looks even more vulnerable. We also had the idea of using video transitions , in some of the shots , the one that we used was cross dissolve to make the scene of the girl walking in a shorter time but dramatic. Veronika had the brilliant idea of slowing down one of the shots were she was steeping on the water in the street without shoes , is a good idea to shock the audience a bit more.

We also had the idea of blurry point of view , so veronika made the point of view shot of the girl blurry , I have also made some improvements changing the colours and making them more colourfull because would transmit a better idea of use of drugs and transmit straight away the danger to the audience , because one of the important things that we want to make is to show the consequences to young and adult people so they are aware of what could happen.

Filming - 1st part of the opening

Good morning everyone

This last Sunday morning we , finally , filmed our 1st part of the opening sequence.
We started the preparation at 5 a.m , double checked the storyboard so I know exactly the shots that I had to film and if they were the right ones for the feelings that we wanted to transmit to the audience and also for Veronika to know how to act. We had to calculate and had everything ready because at 6:30 a.m to 7:30 a.m the sun rises very fast and we wanted to film with the same light of the morning because like this we can transmit the impression of coming after the party. Another reason why we wanted to exceptionally do it at that time it was because there would not be people disturbing at that time and we could of have more freedom to use the places that we wanted to use , that usually there are many people during the day in there.
We did not have any problem with the weather , which is very surprising because it was raining before and after we started filming , I guess we had so much luck . Rain would not be a big problem we can always protect the camera with umbrella but would be harder to film and would of take us longer to finish before the sun rises and the light changes.
There were 2 people helping us with the preparations, holding the umbrellas and me with the tri-pod and I personally would like to thank them for all their help and their effort. 2 other people acting, Veronika and Daniel , the rapist. They did a very serious and good job , we did not have any distraction.
While we were filming we had to make some changes in the storyboard because we realised that some other shots produce a much better effect and transmits better tension to the audience ( I will soon upload the changes that we made and explain why with more details)

EDITING PART 3

We have decided to make some changes in the editing of our second part of the opening scene.
We are nearly finished with this part , we filmed it and edit it , but we still have to film and edit the first part which is the most important and will take longer. The second part is already taking too long of the time , 1 minute and 16 seconds , and the only thing that is happening is girl taking ready to go party , which is taking too long and appearing to be boring, and the part where the main character shows the drugs to her friend. After analysing everything we decided to cut some of the shots and also make them shorter in the part that she is getting ready.
After the changes we asked some of our colleagues to give us their opinion and it seemed to be quicker and less boring.
We have now the first part of our opening sequence so we can start editing it tomorrow.

screen shot title

Me and Veronika decided to use our own logo with this universal picture at the background because we think we will give a better universal impression to the audience.
Unique production around the world and the universe. Like this we want to transmit whatever the audience wants to watch.
The picture that is on the top is the first screen shot that we done yesterday but after I had the idea to add another picture because I seen it to simple and it end up like this

First appears the image of the screen shot that we see on the top to show the universe and after the image of the world comes just under the unique production with the very brilliant star . showing like this universe , brilliant and around the world , Unique productions.
The colour and the font of unique productions goes with the colour of the image of the world and universe.