Allyssa Beatty Media Studies AS

For our movie opening we decided it would be best if we really didn't have transitions and it just went directly from one clip to the next.  This will give it the quick change to the different perspectives look that would make the opening look the best. With the titles and how they would appear and disappear, my group and i decided a simple fade in and fade out would look best as we don't want anything that will be too quick or sudden to where the focus is lost.

Looking at titles to movies intros, there have been a couple types that have been of interesting. One being those with a shadow behind them. These ones are cool because it makes the title like its 3-d or standing up.    

After kennedy sent us the rough draft, we have been looking at lots of different ways to put the titles in the opening as to where they should go. We know the title of the movie is going to appear at the end of the opening and everything else will flow in between. The names of the actors will go on shots that the actors are in and the other like film and producer will go on landscape shots probably.

Today kennedy started putting all the clips we had filmed to get a rough draft of the opening. After she had finished putting it together she sent it to me and izzy in our group message to get our inputs  on it and see what all needed to be fixed or changed. Me and izzy note some simple shots that needed to be switched order wise and as well as considering what title effects would be good to use since it was just the video without the titles yet.

Today we went back to kennedy's neighborhood to film the shots with me and kennedy in them. We filmed shots of each of us walking separately in the grass and on sidewalks. We also filmed shots of us walking together, and of us finally meeting up. When filming we also got cool switching shots from behind a tree, over the shoulder shots, and feet shots. During filming we had to work around the trash truck as it was coming by the same places we were filming at, so we had to film the shots that we didn't need sound for at that time to make the most of filming.

Today me and my group met up to film the establishing shots for our opening. We went to kennedy's neighborhood and got open shots of empty lots, retention ponds, houses for sale, the roads, and the sky. During our filming we had to work around cars that would drive by as they couldn't be in the shots and around people that would be walking. We overcame the problem by going to a different location until they were gone to make the most out of our time.

For our opening, our new setting for filming was in kennedy's neighborhood. The reason we chose kennedys neighborhood is because it had a lot of open lots and fields to film in to make it look empty. Her neighborhood also had retention ponds to film at for more scenery and location changes. Lastly, and probably the most important part is that it was in a neighborhood, so it showed houses where nobody was outside so it made it look empty. The neighborhood also had some houses for sale so it made it look like the people that lived there left. With the empty lots and houses for sale it can make it look like what we wanted in our opening which is that we are are the only ones left and everyone else is gone.

So in this new storyline the jobs are pretty much the same. Kennedy is an actor in the film as well as the editor. Izzy is the filmer and producer. I am an actor, and co-producer. Even though we have jobs our group does a good job with helping each other out and having a team effort to everything as we share ideas and opinions so our opening can be the best it can be.

The camera shots that we would need to include is feet shots, head shots, over the shoulder shots, landscape shots, establishing shots, action shots, as well as still shots. These all will be beneficial in providing a variety of angles that will be useful to the opening.

The inspiration behind our plot came from a couple different places one being from a netflix show called "The Society" in which a class of kids return from a field trip only to find out no one is there and they have no way out of their town, another is from the movie called "Passengers" in which they are being sent to live on another planet but two pods get woken up and they have to manage living on the ship for another 90 years by themselves when they were supposed to be asleep for the whole 180. THE SOCIETY TRAILER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MMEQA2UgXQ PASSENGERS TRAILER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BWWWQzTpNU

When it comes to editing our opening and putting it all together, we got the idea that it would be good if we put a hue on the whole thing. My group and I have had two in mind that we think would add to the concept, one being yellowish vintage hue and the other being a simple black and white one.  

For the outfits for our new storyline we were thinking of a vintage style. So not too nice of outfits but outfits you would see kids wearing that were on an adventure. We also got some inspiration for our outfits from the netflix series called "Stranger Things". In this series they are constantly on adventures and is based in the time period around the mid 80's.   

My group and I have finally figured out everything for our project to get it back on track and film what we need to create our opening. We decided that due to not being able to go to any public places, we are going to film in Kennedy's neighborhood. Our story is going to be about two kids who realize they have been left behind and have to find each other in their journeys so they can figure the mystery out, as no one is around and the town is empty. The two kids being myself and Kennedy.