Final Opening Scene

This is our final opening scene:

Editing

Problems we faced during editing:

• We filmed a shot of our actor running across the road and down the street whilst we panned the camera round to follow her. However this made our actor mainly stay in the centre of the screen and so this caused some issues for us when we came to edit into a jump cut scene. As when we took a chunk out, we hoped it would look like she ran a long way, but because of our camera movement it only appears that small distance has been covered. To solve this we had about 0.8 seconds of her running, then cut out about 6 seconds in between the next running shot so that it looked as effective without it being unrealistic.

• When we inputted our chosen soundtrack over our video we quickly realised that the placement of the beat drop didn't fit the video as well as possible. If the music starts at the very beginning of our opening scene then this would cause it to drop when it zooms in our the headphones and so it looked very out of place. We hoped that the beat drop would happen during the swish shot to Tunbridge Wells, however if this happened then there would be no music at the start. And so we compromised and had a couple of seconds silent at the start which resulted to beat dropping when our actor stood up out of her chair which worked well.

• Our next problem, was with the dialogue at the end. Without the footage we filmed, there is significant background noise which you can hear when our actors say their line. This white noise meant that we had to mute the whole clip and record a voice over on the top of it. It took a couple of tries for the audio to match up with video perfectly, but when it did this increased the quality massively as there is very minimal background noise which also meant we could increase the volume of the dialogue so that it was clear to hear, as well as fading in and out the music between each line.

BBFC Rating

Our film would be classed as a 12 because:

• There is moderate language and occasionally there may be strong language used for comedy purposes.
• There's no emphasis on injuries or blood.
• There may be moderate violence but only for comedic purposes. 
• There are no graphical images or frequent crude content on sex.

When asked about what age rating our film would be the majority of people said 12/12A, and one being PG. This shows that just from our opening scene people are able to get a feel for what the rest of the film will be like and whether it will be suitable to watch or not.

Legal Concerns

Parent Consent for Actors

Before filming we made sure to call all the actresses parents and confirmed with them that their child would be allowed to feature in our Opening Scene.
We had to do this for all the actors as all were under the age of 18 and so all needed parental consent.

Permission to use Locations

We got permission to use the house from the homeowners and we made sure to let the homeowners know exactly when we were to film, what we were doing and made sure that they knew everything so that on the day there was nothing unexpected.

We also looked into whether we were allowed to film in the car park and in the Tunbridge Wells area and online there was no mention of it not being allowed, to make sure we were safe we also tried to make sure that there were no background characters if we didn't have their permission to film them, or if they were in the background, that their faces were unrecognisable.

Shooting Script

Iconography

As we have chosen a specific theme within the action genre, being gamer/sci-fi, we will also need a specific font to accommodate this. iMovie's default fonts are not suitable for our film as they appear too basic and boring, meaning we had to look elsewhere for our desired look.
A website called 'dafont' has a vast array of different types of lettering, and so below is a collage of possible iconography examples associated with our genre.

We choose the style called 'gameplay' and so downloaded it to the computer, from here we had to google how to 'add a font to macs' and so followed the steps to completion. 
Now we were able to use a specific font within iMovie, we could then change the colour. 
We choose a dark greenish colour to represent a hacker type feel which matches the mise en scene throughout our opening.

Filming in the Server Room

Shooting Day 4

To add a more substantial ending to our opening scene we decided to continue the plot, so that as the actors face isnt revealed, this then changes to a point of view shot showing her journey to a 'server room' in which her other gamer friends are there hanging out. Props used for this shoot were a collection of retro game consoles, headphones, textbooks, food wrappers. The mise en scene of this room worked well with the overall theme of hacker/gamer.

We experimented using 2 cameras, one on a tripod, and one being held by the actor herself. However none of these angles got the desired shot, and so we decdied that it was best for me to run behind the actor as she ran upstairs and through the door, and then she could smoothly transition to being on screen as I held onto the camera and zoomed into the computer sceen. This created a very smooth continous shot and resulted in a clean and concise ending.