Our Ident

This was our ident that we used in our rough cuts we took the idea of the millennium and tried to go along the star theme with the background looking a bit like a night sky. 

Costumes For Our Opening

For the character of Genette we want our actor to wear clothes current to this time period as we are setting our film in the present day. We want our actor to wear a hoodie jeans and trainers, these are pretty basic clothes but they give the connotations of a typical teenager and she is doing a paper round so she will not be wearing anything particularly fancy. 







Similarly to Genette for the two other teenage girls we want them to dress in clothes current to the time period but also to be suitable to what they were doing at that present time so for example we are not going to be putting them in high heels cause that would not be suitable. Supposedly at the time of the disappearance the girls were looking for boyfriends. 






For the kidnapper we want him to dress in plain dark clothing giving connotations of mystery because his clothes do not say a lot about him. We just want yet again a simple hoodie and jeans because you would only see the back of him we didn't need anything too fancy.

Ident Ideas

In our group we tried to come up with ideas to use for our company ident. We came up with a few ideas for example

Jem productions (Jasmine, Eleanor and Macy)
Future productions
Visual productions
Zodiac productions
and Millennium productions because we are all born in the year 2000

If we used the idea of Jem productions we came up with the idea of maybe using a diamond as it is a gem and that is a sort of play on words as they sound the same but are spelt differently.

We thought about using stars and constellations when coming up with the zodiac idea and they could maybe spell something out or just be a plain background.

For our idea of Millennium we looked up 2000 in roman numerals and found out that it was MM this is quite a simple design and I think it could become easily recognisable. This picture shows more than just the number 2000 so just look at the middle two letters.

We have decided to go with millennium as our ident. 

Synchronising Sound

We were taught on Tuesday the 10th of January about synchronising sound and how to edit it and use it in a film opening. Synchronising sound is when you record sound so you can play it over what you are filming and it is clear.

We got taught how to use the microphone to record a conversation between two people. Alongside this we got shown how to record the conversation at the same time so then it can be synced  This is useful because we will use this for our film opening.

Sound Workshop

Tom Joyce and A2 media studies student at our school came in to teach us about sound and how we use it when filming. He demonstrated how to use a handheld digital recorder and a long microphone and how combining them with the editing software audacity we can create the sound we desire. 

Audacity is a free audio editor and recorder and it can be used to 
Add sound effects
Record live audio 
Mix sounds together 
As well as other things  


Here are the two pieces of equipment Tom showed us.

location Shots

We went to Within Lane in Aylesbeare to do some filming and take some photos. This is the exact place where Genette Tate went missing.


Using the place where Genette went missing helps with the realism of our opening scene because we can accurately copy the route she took when she went missing.

Taking the photos and finding out the route enables us to decide how we are going to film our opening.







As you can see from the pictures, the environment sets an eerie setting.

This is a signpost for Within Lane. We are going to do a close up shot of this signpost to show where the disappearance taking place.


The road pictured below is the exact location where Genette left her bike. We know this because there is a picture taken from around the time which looks exactly like this photo.

For the scenes with the kidnapper we shot them in my dads office with that supposedly being the kidnappers office. We tried to use low key lightening in their to add to the mystery but we also made the lighting lower when editing.

Sound In Our Opening Scene

My job in our group is to be in charge of the sound so I thought I would research different types of sound used in drama films and also research what types of sound we want to include into our opening. I found a very interesting website that gave me an idea of what sounds we would like that link to what is happening in the scene. The website is called film.sound.org/cliche/  

We thought we would use diegetic sound to emphasise the sound of the door closing behind Genette as she leaves the house. We could do this by emphasising the click of the door as it closes this sound would contribute to the realism of the film as it is an everyday sound that you would hear most days. Linking in with the sound of the door clicking we could highlight some sound that the bike makes like the squeak of tyres and breaks and the bell on the front of the bike.   

Another form of dietetic sound we would use is the characters talking to each other. For example the girls talking to one another as they go past Genette. The conversation between the two girls will be pretty basic and just be everyday topics. 

Rough Cut

This a rough draft of our film opening by doing rough shots like this it enables us to know exactly where we are going to film each shot. This then makes us more prepared for when it comes to filming.