Our Film Title

We wanted our film title to be short and give an element of mystery to what is happening in our film but for it to also clearly link to our film. Before deciding on the idea of Genette we came up with other ideas, these included

Missing
Gone
Vanished
Within Lane
Without a trace

We decided on Genette though after having asked some of our friends for help as to what they thought worked best and we also thought it perfectly suited our film. This is because it was short like we wanted it to be but also provided a bit of an insight into our film because are film is based on Genete Tate's disappearance. It also adds a bit of mystery though cause if you do not know the story of her disappearance you may be intrigued as to what the story is about.

Sound For Our Opening

I am in charge of sound for our opening and I had to download off free websites non diegetic sound for us to use.

We looked at various websites such as 

Freesound.org

www.bensound.com

www.purple-planet.com

We wanted for our film opening to use happier music for when Genette leaves the house this gives the impression that nothing bad will happen but we would then contradict this by putting a low horror sound for the clips of the kidnapper. 

We also needed to get the sound effect of a phone for the scene when it starts to ring. We decided to download it from a website called www.zedge.net

Rough Cut

This is our rough cut. At the moment we have edited all the footage we have filmed, the parts that our black are for clips of the kidnapper but we haven't filmed those scenes yet.

Audience Feedback

In our lesson we asked a few people to watch our opening and to give us feedback on what they thought. 

The strong points of our opening according to feedback was that the sound we added went really well with the scene taking place and that our ident looked really cool. However they did say that we should re film a part of it as our lighting was off compared to the rest and we knew this from having to use a phone when our camera lost charge. 

So after hearing this we know that we need to quicken up the pace of our filming as not everything is filmed yet and re do some filming again to get the lighting perfect. 

Risk Assessment

Before we start filming we have to consider the potential risks that can occur when filming so that none of the actors or crew get hurt. We have decided what potential risks there can be and have listed them below.

Risk - getting hurt by an incoming vehicle 
We must make sure that there is someone on lookout when we film by the main roads and down the narrow lanes for incoming traffic so there is no danger. This could be quite a high risk as if we are not careful and if the cars are coming at speed we my be in trouble, however as long as we keep lookout and are careful on the roads everything should be fine.

Breaking of props - bike
We need to make sure the bike is safe for our actress Eleanor (Genette) to ride so that she doesn't fall off or injure herself. We will just check before we film each scene that everything is ok with the bike and that there is no punctures or anything.

Keep actors safe when they are filming their scenes
For one of our scenes we have two of our actors sat on part of a mini bridge and there is a small risk that they could fall backwards and off it in the water. This is an unlikely risk and the drop isn't high at all but we need to make sure that the actors are not messing around so that there is no injuries.

Breaking of equipment
We need to make sure that we handle our cameras carefully when filming as the consequences of dropping them will delay our schedule and would be very expensive. From preventing this from happening we will make sure the camera is on a tripod when we are taking our shots so it is secure and that when we are walking from scene to scene with the camera we wear the strap around our necks.



    
                                     

Rob Jones Visit

On the 7th February Rob Jones who is a director and photographer and short film maker came in to give a workshop to the class and he watched our film openings and gave feedback. He owns flock 92 productions. 

This is the feedback he gave us

• Good shots of her walking she looks like she is walking towards danger and this adds tension
• Good enigmas
• Good timing of shots
• The transactions needed to be smoother 
• He liked the idea of crosscutting between Genette and the killer.

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.