days before Second Draft of Opening Sequence is Due

Ok, so we only have a couple of days to get our second draft together.
so what we are going to do is film the investigators part so we can edit it in, then see where we are left with the rest of our filming.
From what i know Jamilla (Director) has told me that the part of the investigator takes up 1 minute of time in our opening sequence so herself and Adriana have managed to cut down the investigators scene so we can get more done within the 2 minute time that we are allowed for our opening sequence.

Jamilla brought in a small bottle (which is part of our props) for us to use as the bottle of poison of which the femme fetale (Mica) is planning on killing the investigator. She then found on the Internet a logo which allowed us to let the audience know what it was without using words to describe it.

While she did that myself and Adriana sorted the planning for how we could make the rest of the things we needed to film shorter. Changed we came up with were;

• The femme fetale (Mica) opens the door straight away rather than walking toward the door and opening it. (which is one of the things that took up a lot of time also)
• Having a close-up shot of Mica's footsteps toward the desk she will sit at.
• Instead of a collage, we cold stick the images of the men in the diary which will give the connotations that it is a lot more personal, whereas a collage makes her seem as if she is just a random murderer and we want the audience to believe that she is in power and control.

What we have left to film is;

1. The femme fetale (Mica) making the phone call to the investigator and having the conversation.
2. The diary with the images of the deaths of the 3 men inside.

Feedback from First Draft

Some things that we go as feedback from both our teacher and fellow pupils in our class were that:

• We should make it look less rehearsed (no long pauses)


• Have longer shots


• More visuals (in diary)


• It didn't really capture the essence of film noir (try and stick to the theme of film noir conventions)


• Have shorter cuts


• Hold steady shots

Below are some targets that we came up with together for our group to help us improve for our second draft.

something that i (Victoria) was able to help with was finding a new location as the location we were using before was very far and we weren't able to be in there every day.

The new location is much closer and we can use it anytime after school for our filming which should not be a problem for anyone.

First Draft of Opening Sequence

Uploading our opening sequence was through the same process as uploading our preliminary task.

we changed the video from iMovie to Quicktime then uploaded it onto YouTube then embedded it onto our blogs.