Possible locations for the start of our video.....

 This is the location that will be used for the very beginning or our film. Our character will run down the hill towards the camera fearful and looking over her shoulder the entire time.

 This is the bridge she will run across. There will be a point of view shot of her running across the bridge to put the audience in the girls shoes and build up tension.

 Like the lampost in narnia, this statue could act as a kind of gateway between the two worlds that are being represented in our video.

 Alleyway's are regularly used as places that strike fear into the audience so used properly, this location could be extremely effective. This location holds a lot of potential and could possibly be a place where the killer catches the girl but she then overpowers him and escapes again. 

 The girl escaping from the alleyway could run down this path. The path next to the riverside is very long so with proper editing and cutting, the length of the path could be reduced a lot. 

  At some point, the girl hides in a bush. This bush is the place that transports the girl from the black and white world of the 50's to the modern day world of 2011.

 The bin in this location seems very modern and the riverside is very long so a tiny part of this location could be used as a shot to link the previous shot of the bush and the future shot of the stairs. Although the camera will be looking at the girl running. The camera man will have their back to the river and facing the trees so the length of the river will not be obvious. 

 The girl stops for a second and catches her breath and holds on to the barrier. There is potential for this location as she could either hold onto the barrier and catch her breath or hide behind the corner then peek back round the corner to make sure she is safe. 

 The stairs are important as our location is seperate from the rest of the town. This is used for a simple shot of the girl walking up the stairs as she discovers she has entered a world that is not her own. 

  This bridge will be used as the character enters what she thinks is safety. There are people around so she assumes she will be safe from the killer but she notices that they are all dressed very differently from herself and what she is used to. There is a shot of her walking down the path and into the town where she is terrified to find the modern shops with the LED lights.

These are just the locations for the first small part of our film. It's a small but very significant part of the film as it is showing the difference between the girl and the world she has entered. The modern shops and the style of the girl is very significant to show the contrast of time periods. 

Plan for opening sequence

• Script
• Storyboard
• Video of set – Where we are going to shoot. What’s going to happen in the scene.
• Stills of possible locations
• Videos of characters, costumes, what their character will do.
  
  
  

Opening sequence outline

Our opening sequence for the movie starts of as black and white. It is set in the 50’s and this is shown by the girls costume, make up and hair. The girl is running away from something and is looking very fearful. The girl is seen to run and hide in amongst some bushes whilst her killer looks for her. The killer is seen to then run away. When the girl gets out from the bushes she enters a different world. The audience know that it is different because the colours will change from black and white to technicolour. The girl checks she is alone then runs but slower. She then sees shops and the town centre that is new and modern. The girl enters a confused state as it is now apparent that nothing that is around her is what she is used to. The girl looks scared again and frantically looks around at all the neon lights and modern day cars of the town and when she grabs a newspaper from a passerby it dawns on her that she is in a different time zone.

Opening sequence research continued

TV dramas that include time travelling are Ashes to Ashes and Life on Mars. They both start off slower than our movie sequence will but they both have the same type of storyline. Both programmes show the confusion of being thrown into a time zone that is out of the ordinary. In these two programmes the confusion of the characters is represented by the camera spinning around the character showing the world around them and making them look disorientated. This would be good to use in our own video as our character is thrown into a time that is not her own so she would have the same confusion as the characters in the TV dramas. The representation of both characters in these dramas is very clear and there is a story before they go back in time that tells the audience everything they need to know about this character. In our video however, we want to purposely create a sense of confusion so that the audience don't know anything about the character before she goes forward in time and learns everything they need to know throughout the film.





Both include modern day police officers trapped in the past but our movie will include a woman from the 50's in the future instead.

Opening Sequence research

Hannah and I are creating a movie opening for our final project. In the beginning of our movie, it is all in black and white. There is a 50's woman running away from a killer. She goes through a door and hides. When she comes back through the door, the killer is gone and she has been transported into the future. She runs through the town where the colour has changed from black and white to full technicolour. The woman is full of fear as she slowly realises that she is trapped in the modern world.
The video above is a good example of a woman running away from something. It is a clip from "kiss me deadly." The techniques that are used in this clip set the mood very well so we could use these techniques to show the fear that has struck our character. The audience don't know why the woman is running until later on and this is the effect that we want to create. We want to set the scene so it is obvious that she is in the 50's before we let the audience know what is going on. We don't want things to be obvious from the start so we want to let out little bits of information at a time to keep the audience interested. The video above does this as there is no information as to why she is running or what she is running away from so the audience have to keep watching to find out whats going on.
We have to carry out research and found openings for movies that included these components so we could film our movie in a way that would represent what we wanted.
  
In "The Wizard of Oz," Dorothy starts off in a sepia tone world. This is her home town of Kansas and this is what starts off the film. Later on in the film she gets caught up in a tornado and gets transported into a new technicolour world. This film was one of the first to use technicolour which made it extremely special in it's time. The techniques used in this film represent Dorothy's confusion and presents to the audience the sense of being lost and in a foriegn land. Dorothy is confused and doesn't know whats happening. She is in a world that she has never been in before and it is all new and scary. We want our character to have the same effect on the audience as Dorothy had as she presented forward the idea of a girl trapped in a strange world. Dorothy had the fearful attitude and the confusion that we need from our character.