Whilst Shooting

Whilst out shooting...

Lilly and Ellie practising shooting the
flashback scene

Lilly lining up the shot



We first filmed the flashback scene for our opening scene. This had to

include both of us so Ellie filmed it with instruction from us. We tried to include rule of thirds in this section to increase the spacial awareness around the characters and therefore the isolation of them and the lack of connection of them outside this friendship. Here you can see Lilly lining up the shot whilst I am stood in position and then showing Ellie how to record and where to place the camera for he best effect. Upon reflection, I like the long frame of this scene however I would've liked us to have been closer together in the shot to show our friendship.

Choosing the location of the den

On the second day we filmed the majority of the scene (my bit). In this photo (see right) we have found the location of the place where we were going to make the den, and this is the finished result. We wanted to include more twigs and structure however we needed to film before it went dark. Upon reflection, I am really happy with this scene however if we included more structure to the den it might've been more obvious to the viewer that this is what they are seeing.




We did include a vlog of our time filming on the first day (see right) however on the second we may have forgotten and didn't really have time to due to the impending sunset. Therefore I have included a few of our outtakes.







Animatic of Opening Scene

This is an animatic of our storyboard, showing what we will do in each scene as well as the camera shots and how long each will last. This allows us to know exactly which part of the scene we were at and helped us whilst filming for that very reason. Some of the timings will probably be slightly out with editing and suchlike however the main body of the scene is planned here.

Non-copyright sound

In our opening scene we had too choose non-copyright sound. Before I realised this I was using the song Afraid by The Neighbourhood which worked really well with the scene; it  had a beat drop for the tense part of the scene and a calm, warped part for the part when the character was outside of her mind. However, I couldn't use this because it was copyrighted so instead I was going to use the song Fumes by The Eden Project. I had this set up as my main song for a while, although it never really suited my scene so i've changed my audio again.

  

I located royalty free songs on www.bensounds.com of which i used in my scene. I have overlayed songs to create the tense atmosphere in the first part of the scene and used a slower song to reflect the slower out of mindedness in the second part of the scene. Here you can hear each of them:

I included some nature sounds at the beginning of the scene also, due to the fact that we couldn't capture these in the audio of the actual film, everywhere else we could.

At the beginning of the scene I used some waves crashing sounds as the background for my production company logo which reflect the picture and atmosphere of the image.

Production Company Logo

For my logo, I used an image I had taken previously as the background (see right). This includes a sunset on a beach. I then imported it into Photoshop and edited some text over the top to read 'Gunning and Co. productions' which is a play me and my partners' surnames. When in the opening scene, I will include waves crashing to make the image come to life. I chose to use this image as not all production companies necessarily have post apocalyptic ties and I wanted to reflect this in my work.

Script

This is the script we wrote for the voice over in our opening scene. We wanted to make it sound informative and sure at the beginning and slowly get crazier by the ending. In the end the character doesn't even remember their best friend. We had a few options for the ending line however we decided to go with 'who are you again?' in the end. By doing this we could visualise the story whilst filming even though the voiceover would be edited in later.

Planning of Opening Scene

In our opening scene we have decided to include the following features in our opening scene:




Costume






Character 1:

• Wearing Black - to represent the foreboding of death, or the dying of the character
• Coat/ layers - to show the harsh realities of the world now
• Mud on shoes, clothes, under fingernails - to show lack of water, washing and the idea of having to 'get your hands dirty'
• Other aspects to show lack of care now taken - chipped nails, lack of possessions, frizzy, unkept hair

Character 2:

• Black - to blend into environment/ darkness and to forebode the characters' death
• Smudged Make-up - to show there's been a struggle between the characters 2 and 3

Character 3:

• Ripped Clothes - show the lack of care or humanity left in the character
• Ordinary Clothes - to show how this disease overtook the character in an everyday normal situation

Props

• Bag - the same bag character 2 uses in the flashback to represent the relationship and the clinging to the past that character 1 displays
• Lighter, can of food, torch, bottle of water - show normal items of significance you'd need in this situation
• Photo - shows memories and importance of character 2 in character 1's life. Represents the trigger that causes the madness at the end of the opening scene

Lighting

• Dark in the bad flashback to increase danger and tension in the scene
• light in the rest to show its the morning and to emphasise that this madness could happen at any time of day.
• Cloudy overall to show the constant bleakness and hopelessness in this time