Tenth Draft

We have now recorded our police interview with Aimie and my own voice, this draft includes a sample of the recording which has been edited to distort the full name being spoken. Again, the sound is not very clear as it is a recording of the track as we cannot add the track so far as it is not finished.

Ninth Draft

We have now changed my credit to 'Introducing' rather than 'Starring' to make our film seem more realistic and professional. In Dreamgirls Jennifer Hudsons credit is also 'And Introducing'.
The recording is loud as we made a recording of our voiceovers so far, the real version will not be like this as this is only a test.

Eight Draft

This is our eight draft. We have kept the company names and title at the beginning but decided to spread the named credits out amongst the film similar to a real film opening. We've removed the effects off the shots of 'Leyla' after she has woken up to show the difference between her sleeping and her being awake which is not a mistake in our editing as we have added this on purpose!

Use of Sound

In the song In Regards To Myself by Underoath it begins with a clicking noise similar to a tape recording which would be used in a police interview. We decided to play a noise similar to this to create the sound of the recording effect to make the film opening for atmospheric.

The sound is used at 0.00-0.09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDRmbQLftLw

Seventh Draft

After watching the opening of Step Brothers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sczh_KjjFNU) we decided that we really liked the way that the production companies names appeared before any visuals and decided to attempt this with our film opening.
We put all our names at the beginning however it is a bit long to watch and ends up being very boring for the audience and also our footage became a bit full-on with out the name credits breaking it up

Credits Research

In lesson we watch film openings to a selections of films such as Babe, Derailed, Bourne Identity and In Bruges so that we could see where each film placed their credits to help us with our own film openings.
Most of the films had the production companies names appear, then credits and then the title of the film.

We've decided to move the title of our film to the start of the opening after a production company name and after that our names appear spreadout through our footage so that we can have sound before any footage is shown similar to all of these films which makes our film opening look more realistic.

Sixth Draft

After watching over our fith draft we decided we needed the make the time differences a lot clearer especially after getting people to watch and they were confused between past and present. We made the present day shots a lot slowed and changed the effect from 'Vignette' to 'Romantic' which makes the shots lighter and hazy around the edges rather than black to give a waking up and hazy effect. Slowing down the shots made the film slower paced so that our film opening looked a lot less like a trailer.

To stop the film looking like a trailer which we are in danger of we decided to have a black screen with sound paying before any footage is shown. For a test we added walkie-talkie noises over the beginning of this curent draft. We all liked this sound but we obviously cannot leave it simply as this.

After getting a few people in the lesson to watch the film opening they said the 'Filmed and Edited by' finished too quickly to be read so we have also extended the time it is shown on screen.