Mise en Scene

For our opening sequence we decided to focus on including the following:

Tape: This was used to cover one of the actresses mouth to show that she's vulnerable and can't scream for help, she's isolated. This shows the twisted nature of the protagonist that's followed throughout the sequence. Tape was also used to tie her hands together, this shows that there's no escape for her and that she's weak, showing the dominance and authority the protagonists withholds.

A computer (and its accessories): This communicates to the audience that the protagonist is an internet stalker as he's seen focusing on a computer and typing on a keyboard. This shows the audience how he finds his victims and therefore sets the mood for the film by defining it with a clear genre of a techno thriller.

Wire: This was used to again, tie an actress up showing that she's alone and defenseless. The choice to use a wire/ cable instead of tape, this time demonstrates how dependant modern society is on their electronics as they're what are accessible in the common household. This also vindicates the protagonists dependency on cables that allow him to find his victims when connected to the back of a computer, and later claim them as his own when they're dead.

12/02/14

Today, we filmed the last scene for our film which involved Richard Harrison and Natalie Gardner at the front of the school. This is the part after our entire sequence and leads the audience into the film. This scene is where the film begins and tells us gives an idea of who the characters actually are which is not clear in the start of the sequence because of the montage editing which makes us think that the protagonist is a psycho.

Creating the Title

Using After Effects, Nader and I decided to create a unique title intro which would be used for our thriller opening sequence.

Using the unique font that we chose for our intro, Nader and I decided to use different tools in After Effects to be able to create an effect which allows for the text to look like it has been coded in to be able to end up with the name of the film "Requested".

Since we used a Facebook layout in our other footage to give the audience the impression that the antagonist is a social network stalker, Nader and I decided to give the title intro a light blue background which looks quite fuzzy. This was to make the whole opening sequence link in with each other.

In the end, Nader blended all of the individual effects together to give it a final look which looks like the image above.

10/02/14

Today, we made the music for our opening sequence and we added it to the footage. We made the music quite fast paced so that it fit in well with our montage editing since we have many quick cuts. The music we focused on making was a bit difficult as we needed to fit it with the footage where parts builded up to a climax and had to be higher pitched. We also updated our blogs making sure we had everything that we needed on there.

Title 'Requested'

05/02/14

Today, we filmed the title credits for the group members, Blaine, Molly, Nader and Tony. To do this we found several candidate websites to choose from and we decided to use the best ones with the least search results so that the typing can be focused on. Then we added these to our film footage using them as transitions and splitting footage making different scenes clear without losing continuity.
We also updated some blog posts as well as creating the one for the day.

Shotlist

03/02/14

Today, we filmed some shots of Richard Harrison and we got some close up shots of his nose, eyes, eyebrow and ears. These gave us the ability to improve our production further, in the sense it allowed us to make it more montage and non linear which is how we wanted it to look.
Also, we did some editing on the film footage putting newly filmed scenes in and making them fit in the right place as well as filming The third Victim, Natalie Gardner. We filmed her in a dark room tied up with wire to a black chair. We filmed close ups and various other shots, allowing us to merge these with her Facebook picture in various transitions such as graphic matches. We are also planning to film Natalie and Richard on Wednesday, we are going to give Natalie more of a storyline in the sense that we will uncover the fact that Natalie is actually Richards student and he does in fact know her. Adding a further sense of mystery but also adding a further emphasis on the non linear side of the production.