Title Sequence

Before filming, Sam and I decided to plan a title sequence and decided what titles we would have running over the film. These are:

1) Insanity Entertainment
2) Production studio - Magnet and Steel Productions
3) Directed by - San Miguel
4) Filmed by - San Miguel and Rodge Lawrence
5) Casting by - Kelvin Smith
6) Production designer - Carrie Williams
7) Producer - Tiffany Steel
8) Co-Producer - Tony Magnet
9) Written by - Clint Woods
10) Actor 1 - Nathan Hill
11) Actor 2 - Sam Nyilasi
12) Movie Title - Psycho Sundays

Research and Planning

 As a group we had to decide the actual main theme of our video and what exactly was the plot of our video. To start off with we started brainstorming lots of different ideas, so we juts through in whatever came to mind and by the end of it we had quite a lot of ideas so we went through them all and prioritised the ones we definitely thought we should do and the ones that were actually do-able with the equipment and resources we had.
Secondly we came up with a narrative as you can see in the picture. basically the narrative is just a general step-to-step plan of what was going to happen in our video. After we had chose all the ideas we were definitely going to include in the final film we had to put them into place in the narrative and come up with a basic story.
Once the general building blocks for our film were in place we had to go into more detail and decide on things like props, actors, location, costume etc... We did this and jotted down all our ideas and chose exactly which ones we were going to use during film. Since our general theme was about creating mystery and suspense, all these factors had to be along the similar trend so we took all that into account and finished off all our planning.

Evaluation

I thought there were many strengths and weakness' we faced when making this preliminary task. Firstly the weakness' were that everything was limited, for instance the props were limited as it was during school hours and there weren't too many props we could use from school. There was limited costumes so we had to make do with the clothes that we had came to sixth form in that day. Also the locations were extremely limited as there was only one place we wanted to film in the whole school and the majority of the time that room was being used by another group. Another problem we faced was the camera. For some reason the majority of our shots were quite blurry which obviously affected the overall film because some of it was blurry and faded. Also we had quite a lot of background noise in our film which was quite annoying as there was no way we could get rid of it.
However we did have many positives. Our group did manage to get a lot of different and good camera angles, this gave us a lot of variation to the film and final edit did look very professional and original. Another positive was that we got our lighting right, all the lights we had in the room had to be placed correctly and had to be the right strength and in my opinion I think we got it spot on.