Account of our shoot day

Account Of Shoot Day



 

In the morning as a group, after we gathered all our equipment and made sure everything was in check, we packed up the minibus and left around 9:30 to our location. Due to previous issues with our original location - "Bulmurshe Gymnastics Club" due to unavailability, we headed to our change destination "Heathrow Gymnastics Club" and arrived around 11.00.

 

 

After arriving at our destination we began filming around 11:30 and discussed how we could achieve certain shots for our sequence. I would admit in saying we probably used up too much time on each shot and thinking about what we needed rather than just getting the shot and moving on quickly. Due to our brilliant location we were able to access the upstairs and downstairs in the gym in order to create the best variety of shots we needed for our thriller such as the establishing shots of the gymnast, making sure we used our location to the best we possibly could. In the end it took around 3 hours to get the shots needed in our first location so we quickly packed up the equipment again into the minibus, grabbed some lunch then made our way back to our second location at school in the studio.

 

We arrived back at school around 4.00 and immediately headed straight to the studio to set up for our next shots. Crerar did Emily's hair and makeup to help transform her into a performance ready gymnast ready for competition and also we changed her into a blue sparkly leotard which would stand out and contrast well against the black background on camera in the studio. While filming in the studio all of our shots filmed on camera were in slow motion to help capture Emily's movements and gymnast techniques in more detail which would look amazing on screen. To help with the overhead birds eye view shots we used a genie which will add a good variety to our camera work. The filming in the studio took around 2 hours and we finally finished on time sticking to our schedule.

Overall I really enjoyed my experience in shooting our thriller and hope all our hard work I shown on our final thriller sequence.

 
 

 

 

 

 



 

Opening Sequence Order 3:

INCEPTION (2010)

The opening credits of "Inception" starts with introducing the well known production company "Warner Bros Pictures". This conveys to the audience that the film is a high budget film due to being able to afford a big Hollywood production company. The main color theme of the opening credit sequence is very darkish grey giving the feeling of the audience expecting a dark and intense film. Next we are introduced to a scene of waves and the well known famous actor Leonardo Dicaprio which naturally gains the audiences attention and sets them up for what to expect in the up coming film.

Opening Sequence Order 2:

SEVEN (1995)

"Seven" opening credits start by introducing the director David Fincher who is an award winning director hence why his name is introduced at the beginning of the credits. Due to him being an successful director the audience are immediately informed that the film is most likely to be a high budget film due to being able to afford a big Hollywood director. The opening credits consist of different name such as the first four being NEW LINE CINEMA(production company), Arnold Kopelson(production), David Fincher(director), Brad Pitt(lead actor) all of which last less than the time needed to read over 3 times. The big names Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman who are well known world wide famous actors also set the audience up as to what to expect from the film as their names are shown before the opening title of the film or any of the production members are introduced showing how they are most likely to dominate the film. I like the idea of having the top actors in the film introduced first in the credits as it establishes the importance of their part linking to how in our thriller our one main actor of the gymnast dominates the whole opening thriller sequence.

Opening Sequene Order 1:

Credits Research for Thriller Sequence

We looked into different title sequences to research ideas for our own sequence, specifically on our credits, and gain a selection of ideas in which we could look at. Our main theme of our thriller was a psychological thriller and during my research I found a few opening credits to link to it:

The Black Swan (2010)

The thriller Black Swan starring Natalie Portman, is a good model to base our credit order on.
Firstly the film presents its production company and then the title comes next. The film then continues into a sequence of ballet; which the film revolves around. I like this idea of putting the title of the film before anything else. Black Swan does not present the starring actors or members of the production at the beginning of the film. Perhaps this was a choice made to prevent the audience being distracted from the beauty of the camerawork on the ballet. This works well with our thriller because we can use the beauty of the gymnastics in place of the ballet. However I feel for our film we should have the starring gymnast credited, along with the director and editors. Our sequence does not immediately start with gymnastic elements therefore we have time at the beginning to credit the members of the production without the aesthetic gymnastics being distracted.

Opening Title Sequence Research

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Gymnastic Videos

For my research for my opening title sequence i began looking through some slips from gymnastic movies, TV shows and competitions for inspiration on different types of shots and angles when we shoot our sequence. Our main idea was to have the gymnast on a beam so i mainly looked at videos involving beam work:

Clip from "Stick It"

"Stick It" is an American teen comedy-drama film starring Jeff Bridges, Missy Peregrym, and Vanessa Lengies and was out in 2006. I remembered watching this film and very much enjoying it so when my group decided on a gymnastics theme to our sequence i immediately watched a few clips from the movie, particularly the competition parts, to gain some good ideas in which we could use. A particular scene which stood out for me was the part where her tear falls into the beam which is very useful to look at as it matches a shot in which a drop of sweat falls onto the beam in our sequence, also the use of slow-motion creates a vivid and clear shot which looks amazing on screen.