My Final Opening Sequence - "The Streets"

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I think our camera angles/shots and our editing have come a long way since we shot our practise filming, looking back on it, it doesn’t look very good and I am glad we stuck with it and put more effort in because I am really happy with our final opening sequence.

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Costumes

Costumes are very important so we decided to put alot of effort into the appearence to our characters to make the opening sequence as realistic and convincing as possible. Part of our questionairre asked questions about costumes and the answers we recieved supported what we thought and gave us a vague costume to work from. This costume consisted of - Trackies, Flat Peak Caps, Hoodies and Trainers.

We decided that becuase our opnion about what the actors should wear was also supported by the people who did the questionairre, that we should definitely dress the actors in a very particular style of clothing to make the film more realistic.

Audience Feedback

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I asked my mum what she thought about our opening sequence, she gave us some really good points that if we made our film again we would definitely consider adding. She made a good point about the quality of equipment, we couldn't really help this but i will definitely use a HD camera for my Year 13 project next year.

We were also visited by two students which used to study at Tavistock College and now study Social Media at university, they gave us some verbal feedback and I wrote it down, this helped us because we were only half way through filming our opening sequence at the time and we took their advice. In my opinion the second half of our film is better becuase we took on the critisism of these two people and made sure we followed it to make our film better.

Our Script

I have created this script to help us with our filming, doing this has prevented mistakes from happening which would consequently make our film less beleivable and ruin the fantasy of it. This script has also helped our actors successfully do their part withiout any mistakes, this also helps our film remain realistic and convincing. If we didnt do this script our film would consequently be a disaster becuase no one would know what to do and all the actor would get annoyed at us for wasting their time and probably wouldnt act for us again. I am really glad that we made this script becuase it has helped us so much, it was a really good use of our time.

EXT. ALLEY WAY - DAY

Doyle is alone and leaning against a brick will, he is looking around and smoking.

INT. MURPHS HOUSE – DAY

Murph and two mates are stood in his house drinking and chatting, one of the mates is holding a joint.

                                                RHYS

                                Have you got a light?

                                                MURPH

                                Yeah, sure buddy. Light it up.

                                                RHYS

                                Yeah I will man.

Rhys lights the joint and take a drag.

                                                MURPH

                                We are going to fuck them up!

EXT. ALLEY WAY – DAY

Doyle is still leaning against the brick wall; he takes a last drag on his cigarette then throws it onto the floor and puts it out with his foot. Doyle walks up the hill towards his drug dealer; they exchange drugs and carry on walking past each other

INT. MURPHS HOUSE – DAY

Murph and his two mates are still drinking and smoking, Murph puts down his can of Strongbow and picks up a bottle of spirit.

                                                MURPH

                                We’re gonna get in their faces!

Murph takes a big gulp of spirit.

                                                MURPH

                                So strong!

EXT. CAR PARK  - DAY

Doyle walks over to meet his 3 mates, his shakes their hands and they exchange greetings.

                                                DOYLE

                                Let’s go.

Doyle and his three mates walk off together.

INT. MURPHS HOUSE – DAY

Murph and his two mates are getting ready to go out, one of the mates passes Murph his coat and they all walk out.

EXT. OUTSIDE MURPH’S HOUSE – DAY

Murph and one of his mates walk outside his house and towards a small car, Murph gets into the passenger seat and his mate gets in the back and then they drive off.

INT. MULTI STORY CAR PARK – NIGHT

Doyle and two of his mates are stood waiting for something, they are stood in a line. Murph and his two mates drive in to the car park and toward Doyle.

                                                MURPH

                                Mate, are they lost or just fucking stupid?

The car stops just in front of Doyle and his mates and Muph and his friends get out and walk towards them.

                                                DOYLE

                                Are you ready for this lads?

The two groups of lads face each other in two lines.

                                                MURPH

                                Mate, I’m the big man around here.

                                                DOYLE

                                Big man? I don’t think you are.

Doyle walks toward Murph and Murph takes a swing at him, Doyle dodges it. Doyle punches Murph and he stumbles back.

                                                MURPH’S MATE

                                What the fuck you doing?

Murph knees Doyle in the face and Doyle falls to the ground. Murph grabs him while he is still on the floor.

MURPH

                                I’m gonna fuck you up!

Doyle kicks him off.

                                                MURPH

                                Come on boys, let’s go!

Murph and his mates run back towards their car, they are being chased by Doyle and his mates.

                                                DOYLE

                                Let’s fucking get them!

Murph and his mates get into the car just as Doyle and his friends catch up with them. They drive off while still being chased by Doyle and his mates who are on foot.

Props used in Film Opening

There were not that many props used in our film, but all the props that were used we made sure they fitted with the codes and conventions of our genre. These props had to be stereotypical for the our characters to make our opening sequence more believable, the props included cans of alcohol and drugs. These props solidify the point that we are trying to make that these characters are from a poor background and that they are involved in small time criminal activity.

In our film it will show a few of the characters smoking marijuana and also them dealing drugs (cocaine), this puts the viewer on the edge because these things are illegal. It is important that our characters take drugs or that they are somehow related to them because it is stereotypical that they are so this helps our audience relate and escape in our film.

Also in our film it will show some of the characters drinking cans of "Strongbow", we have chosen for them to do this because it is what we expect people from these gangs to do. We chose "Strongbow" because it is relatively cheap and would be the kind of alcohol they would be likely to buy/drink.

In part of our film they will travel in a small hatchback, we chose this type of car because they are cheap to buy and insure and our characters don't have much money. All the characters are also still quite young so they will be trying to spend the least amount of money they can insuring a car. This helps the audience relate to the actors on screen because they have been in the same situation.