The final product 'Once upon a nightmare'

Here is the final product, our opening sequence 'Once upon a nightmare'. I hope you enjoy it.

Final Product Evaluation.

To evaluate my opening sequence 'Once upon a nightmare' I choose to create a website. Here is the link to my evaluation :
http://www.wix.com/gracelochrie/grace-lochrie-media

Once upon a nightmare script.

To add to our opening sequence we decided to have a narrative, to explain a bit more about our film. We choose that the narrative would be a fairy tale story, read in the way someone would read a fairytale to their child. We choose Thomas Panton to be the voice of our narrative, because he has a deep voice and it will make it very sinister. Here's the script for the narrative:
Script

Soundtrack for the main task.

Yasmine, Roxane and I want a creepy, fairytale like soundtrack for our opening sequence to at tension and make the audience feel on edge. We looked at many different copyright free music download sites to find the right track for our opening sequence to fit it all together. We narrowed it down to 4 tracks and listened to them along with our opening sequence, and choose the one that made us feel most on edge, this is the soundtrack we choose:

Shooting our opening seqence.

On 13th of February, the first Monday of half term, Roxane, Yasmine and I had our second shoot for our opening sequence. This time we were filming our actual shots for our opening sequences. We filmed from 3 til half 4 so the light didn't change. We didnt have our 'vilan' charcater on the shoot because he was working so we shot everything else that didnt involve him. It was a very productive afternoon, and we also got to experiment with the new camera using the tourch and focus tool to make some more creative shots we could possibly use in our final piece.
Here are a few pictures of us on set:

Once upon a nightmare trial run

We have edited the clips from the trial run together to give us a brief idea of how the final piece will look. By doing the trial run we have discover different things to add to the opening sequence to make it better, which i have explained in my previous blog.

After watching this we realised where the entrance to the woods is circular, it looks quite disjointed. However we think this gives a reference to how the killers mind is quite disjointed the way he follows fairy tails.

Preliminary task results

Around a month a go, our class was given the brief of our preliminary task: a continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room, and sitting down in a chair opposite another person with whom she/he the exchange a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.

I was in a group with Yasmine and Roxane. I was the director, Yasmine was the editor and Roxane was the actor in the preliminary task. Here is the task finished:

Once upon a nightmare

When Yasmine, Roxane and I went out on location to do a trial run of our main task, we discovered a few things we could add or change about it to make it more interesting and disturbing. Some things were little things like change the direction of our panning shot at the beginning from left to right, to right to left to right.
And some where big things like adding in more shots and adding more to the plot.
We have decided to give the killer a fairy tale motive, like he follows fairy tales to kill his Vitim's. We have decided for the opening sequence for the girl to follow the story of Hansel and Gretal. To get this across we are going to add a shot at the beginning of the girl leaving her house with a sandwich, so when she is walking through the woods she can drop bread crumbs. And in the final shot when you can see the bottom half of the killer walking away from a body he will be grasping a fairytale book in his hand.
We also needed to come up with a name so as a group we decided on 'Once upon a nightmare' because that is how most fairy tales start but it also shows it is not going to be like any ordinary fairytale.

If you are not familiar with the story of Hansel and Gretal you can click on the link to view the story.

Final Story Board

After Roxane, Yasmine and I individually designed a story board with our ideas for our opening sequence, we all worked together to put those ideas together to make one final story board. Here is the PowerPoint of our final storyboard.

Story Board

First Shot for Final Piece