Titles

Because of the amount of time we have and the lack of footage, our opening sequence isn't as long as it should be. We decided because of that, we would have a long time at the beginning of the sequence for all of the titles. At the moment, it doesn't look very effective and looks like it would lose the audience's interest, but once we have added music and more effects, this problem will be overcome.

Editing

Today we started editing properly. We had previously cut the shots and ordered them on Final Cut Pro. So, we started to think about how we could make it more creative with the lack of footage we had. We tested some effects but decided that they didn't work for our film. We decided that the pace of our opening was quite slow, so to speed it up we cut an extremely short clip from our footage and wanted to place it in between one of our longest clips to make it more interesting for the audience. After doing this, we realised that it looked like it wasn't meant to be there so we decided to add in more of the same quick clips in random places on the long clip. It made it more flashy and fitted into the genre more. We then added an earthquake effect on the short clips to give it an even better effect.

We now need to add the titles and soundtrack to our opening sequence. We realise now that some of our ideas (polaroids) were too hard to film and would have taken a lot more than we initially thought. Our aim now is to make our plot/story behind the opening clear to the audience. As we could not get our actor in the same shot twice, we need to edit it well to make it apparent that they are clones.

On set shots

We arrived to the disused warehouse and inspected the whole area inside to check it was free of any other people,so it was OK to film.

We then started experimenting with lighting and camera angles inside the building to see which parts would be the appropriate places to film our different shots in.

After finding the correct places we intended to use, we then with the help of a few others not included in our group, swept and cleaned the floor so it would okay for our actor (Jake) to lay down and to walk on while shooting without distraction or danger.

Once this was completed we started on the filming for our second and third shots,in which Jake walks through the room and through the door into the main area. During this time, as a group we worked all the lightning to the final places before starting filming.

We then proceeded to the shots that take place as he is lying on the floor, playing dead.We did some final preparations before this to make sure the floor was completely clear of any debris, not only for the safety, but also for the placing of the camera shot. We added fake blood to his face and part of the floor as well.

After leaving the warehouse,we decided that starting our film with an establishment shot of the building would be better than the original idea we had which was the polaroid scene we story boarded (inspired by Memento). So we shot a slow moving along establishment shot of the outside of the building. in which the light turns on in the room where Jake's character is placed,to show which part of the building he is in.