Whilst doing our continuity exercise, the amount of responsibilities such as the planning, editing and filming where very small as to what I had to do for my opening sequence.
Within the continuity exercise I worked in a group, with Phoebe and Ciara, we were told within the lessons the exact shots we had to take and how long we needed to take them for, which was very straightforward. We filmed within our school and tried to grasp the shots as much as possible to how they are in the actually clip, we used Imovie and Final cut express to import and edit and it was done within two lessons.
However, whilst doing the opening sequence I decided I wanted to do it on my own and it was a lot harder than what I thought it would be. The amount of research put into the film opening compared to the continuity exercise was massive. For the film opening I had to choose a genre I wanted to base my film opening on, then I had to decide upon what I wanted my film opening to be about, look at different film openings, compare and evaluate each of them. I had to plan each shot on a story board, decide how long I wanted each shot to be, what characters I wanted in it, who would be the best character for each scene, what props I would need, the locations, the camera angles and whether it would all fit in to the duration of the time given for the opening sequence. I got to grips with how to use Final Cut Express and Imovie properly on my own and not within a group all helping one another, it made me feel like I had a lot more work to do but I did feel in control and I did like having the responsibility.
I do think that from the continuity exercise to now I have learnt a lot and realized how capable I am. I never really cared much for planning and story boards, but within the opening sequence I realized how important and grateful I was to have planned so much and done a storyboard as it helped me a lot.
My research I did into crime thrillers really helped me under the conventions of a typical crime thriller and gave me many ideas on my own film opening, for example, the slow daunting music which helps sit the mood.
Whilst editing my continuity exercise I did not really have any problems where as in my film opening I realized the stress and issues you can actually have. I went over my duration and I had to cut down my scenes with I was not that happy with but if I did not it would have dragged out and I would have lost the interest of my audience. I realized whilst filming that the actors are not as serious as you would want them to be if it was there own film opening, I did have to film many scenes over three times until they were correct but I did not find that much of an issue as some of the funny scenes come in good use for the flashbacks.
Overall, I feel as if I have made a huge jump from simple filming to hard planning, I did find it hard as it is very time consuming to make sure your film opening is correct, to find the right music, the right fonts and so on, but it was all worth it in the end and I am happy to have had this experience to help me in the future.
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