Plan B

Seven is a title sequence which is very discrete because it doesn't explain to the audience what is happening, and in some of my other exploring, I realised it identified the audience with the person that will be the cause for most of the things in the film.
As a group we reviewed this title sequence and decided that if our initial ideas, like the party, doesn't go to plan then we would use this idea.
For example we would only show the hands of the killer, and the plans he has, him preparing the party as a trap for Mia. However we only see his hands.

Some clips from filming

This is a clip from the filming of the sessions we had but as we looked through it we realised we didn't want to use some of these as the clips didn't have the better quality we needed for the title sequence.

Final Idea for Font.

This is the Final Font which we chose for our title sequence. We found this fitting because it like graffiti, which is stereotypically identified with young youths. Also the red and the almost like blood-like font fits with our target of making the title sequence scary and quite dark. 
However on risk is that it might look very professional, it might look quite childish but hopefully if we make our different clips look dark, then it might blend in well.

dripping marker

Location Change!

Location Change:

We initially decided to complete all our filming in the Hackney Marshes, as there is alot of greenery and the area is quite rural, dark areas which we felt that this could be very fitting for our quite dark and scary title sequence.
  

We changed our mind and decided to film our scenes in a location closer to us all and a if there is a problem than we can easily get some help, as our college is close. We decided to film our clips in City Road basin (the canal close to there).
We found this area as effective as going to the Marshes, but there was a local pitch that looked very much where youths would hang around in, so that was a very plus to the local.

This is the picture of the pitch that is in our location, the image is quite blurry but the pitch is a large area where we could do most of our filming.

What did we do today

What we did today!


Eunice:

• Looking at font styles
• Edited the videos that we recored on Monday
• Researching about slasher films

Jessica:

• Edited the blog to represent our theme of the title sequence

Sarene:

• Done more blog posts about our updates of production and the changes of our costume and scene

Simona:

• Planning the filming of the party scene

Updated production schedule

Updated Production schedule:

As we were supposed to film on Saturday 24th January we couldn't as personal issues occurred: church, illness & time issue. Therefore we decided to film on a college day: on Wednesday 28th January, we managed to film a small chunk of filming, mostly filming about the main plot as to why the "villain" doesn't like the "victim".

Change in costume

We changed the costume that the main character had to wear- instead of wearing a school uniform we decided to let her wear her normal, comfortable clothes to film because we think that "Mia" would look too innocent, even though she is quite bad.


Change in scene

The recent scene we made, where the characters were filmed outside, sitting on a bench, gathering together is now been scraped. The reason why we don't want to add this, is because we think that there is a lot of dialogue and not enough fast, sudden shots. We assumed that we weren't doing a title sequence, instead it felt like we were doing a"film", which we didn't like. Instead what we now try to do is only get shots of images of the area and any objects that represents a young, ghetto atmosphere. We believe doing the outside party is the main bit of our title sequence and the attack but in a faster and more of a mixture of a discrete and narrative opening.

37.) Changing the design of our blog

I designed the blog according to the theme of our title sequence. The colour used represent darkness and resentment and also foreshadows the scene where Mia almost dies. For example the reoccurrence of the colour red represents the blood on the weapon used to hit Mia on the head. In antithesis, it also represents the way the stalker wants to seek vengeance which is a dark action.

In addition the grey in the blog represents the dreary mood when the pictures are presented, because the pictures will be in black and white.

Updated Production schedule/ title sequence location

OUTDOORS

Because we couldn't access an indoor location to film the party scene, we decided to make it more accessible to everyone in that scene and move it outdoors.
So the closest and most convenient place we came up with was 'The canal', near that area we have lots of trees, a river, and also a closed area to film the mains scenes. In addition, its a lot more convenient for everyone as its located in Islington.
The order of the title sequence remains the same, the only changes we have made is the location which doesn't disrupt our initial plans whatsoever.

Exploring the Wix website

Whilst in lesson, I decided to look through the Wix website and get used to working with the tools, so that when we start creating I will know what we need to do, quickly and efficiently. 

Filming

Wednesday 29th  of January 2015

As a group we decided to film on this day, and when looking at the weather days before we were promised that it would not rain, However coming to that day, the weather was absolutely horrid and it stopped us dramatically from doing any type of filming. We decided to not travel to Hackney Marshes because it would truly we a waste of time, so we decided to go to a closer location, a canal on City Road.

This was quite good at the beginning but as we started filming and tried to film, it would begin to rain and as I most important thing (the camera) we had to protect it from the rain as it would get damaged.
We however was able to film a few shots, when we finally decided to stop filming because we couldn't risk damaging the camera and the weather was getting worse by the minute.
It was an extremely disappointing day.