Audience

The target audience for our opening sequence will be 15+ due to the inclusion of street/knife crime, as films such as Adulthood, Turning Point (Short UK Knife Crime Film) are rated at 15. There is a big demand for this target market due to teenagers are more likely to go to the cinema due to the amount of free time they have and that ticket pricers are cheaper for their age group compared to adult tickets. Street crime films are also popular in this age group as it is a viewpoint of urban life which attracts young viewers. The video below is of Turning Point (Short UK Knife Crime Film) which was uploaded to YouTube and has been given a PG rating by its up-loaders, this shows that even young audiences can see this due to the fact that there is no swearing or shown violence.

Editing Credtis

Today during academic mentoring I made the final adjustments on the credits which involved; splitting up the actors names throughout the sequence in the order that the characters appear, adding last names to the credits for the actors and lastly rotating the credits and adding shadows to superimpose them into the scene. This was all achieved in Adobe Premier's title creator/editor.

Title

Due to our media room getting robbed I used the old iMacs with the programme Live Type to create the title for our groups opening sequence. The title of our opening sequence is Graves and the font that is used is an adaption of the Stencil font. I chose the title to have a white shadow in order to give it the feel of street graffiti, this is because in some graffiti stencils are used in order to mark out words. I chose to have the graffiti style even though the genre is detective as I felt that with the fight scene it gave the sequence a feel of street crime due to the actors having the stereotypical "street thug" costume.

Editing

Over the past week we have been working on analytically selecting the clips for our opening sequence. From this we then developed a hierarchy for the work to be completed, this is ; 1. Sequence, 2. Monologue, 3. Credits, 4. Soundtrack, 5. Logo. In my opinion I feel that we are making sufficient progress on the opening sequence and we are overcoming the problems that we find with some of our shots. Overall I feel that the sequence should be completed by the end of next week.

Filming Day 2

Due to our previous piece of filming being unusable (because the shots were too dark due to filming at night for the desired effect of mystery and darkness) we had to shoot the majority of shots again. This took place on Saturday the 19th which we spent the day shooting our previous shots as well as new ones to help us pick the right shot when editing. The day went well with good idea discussion helping us to further improve our opening sequence through the use of different angled shots and completely new ideas that can be incorporated through the use of editing (such as a slow motion shot of a cup dropping with the use of a green screen to add a black background).

Filming

During mondays lesson we took a camera out to begin filming. We firstly went to New Malden High Street to film our panoramic view from a car park. We then went to Raynes Park to film the majority of the scenes, this included the build up of the alleyway scene and the actual atacking scene itself. We brought one of actors along for the attacking scene, who also participated in an acive discussion of ideas for the scenes and provided some useful ideas. Overall the filming went well and prduced good ideas for the future filming and development.