The rough copy of Vengeance opening and evaluation.

The rough copy of Vengeance opening and evaluation.

When editing the opening of Vengeance we had to watch through all the footage and find the best footage, which meant putting all the funny shots aside. Once we saved them in a folder named 'Footage for coursework' we imported the files and just had a quick practice editing and cutting the shots as well as fiddling with the effects to see what we would use. We edited them in chronological order, aiming to use most of the best shots that we filmed. It was really tricky trying to edit the clips to get precise match on action because of the way we filmed the scenes (in small sections and cutting) and so it was difficult for it to run through the whole of the opening smoothly. We were still in the process of making out titles as well as getting the final sound effects and recording/uploading our audio files so they were not included in the rough copy.

Here I saved the file suitable to upload to youtube and made commentaries on the yotube video so viewers were aware of the missing bits and peices to the opening.

 

Below is the footage of the opening:

 

Inspiration

Our 'kidnap' scene was inspired by this short thriller film I found on YouTube whilst doing research on what type of film opening we wanted to do.
0:27 onwards you can see what inspired our kidnapping see as in our film opening we have black tape over 'Lisa's'(one of the characters from the film opening) mouth and in this film opening called 'One more time' they also have tape over the lady's mouth which they have kidnapped. This inspired us before I felt this part of the film opening was effective in terms of the way it made me feel as the audience because the mise en scene caused tension as there was loads of creepy posters on the walls and when the girl was weeping and moaning with the tape on her mouth it made me have sympathy for her and this is what my group and I wanted to create in our film opening 'tension yet sympathy for character'.

 

Feedback:

Deniece: The rough copy looks very realistic in the beginning as the people in the scene look like they're generally having fun, which created a positive atmosphere.

Hilda: When 'Lisa' was being taken away nobody saw it, which was interesting because usually at a party due to the music being so loud and the people around you enjoying themselves, you wouldn't really notice somebody being dragged away or you wouldn’t take it seriously. Although there isn't much people in the party scene and the man in the hood looks very noticeable as he is just standing still in the mise en scene, on the other hand it got me scared and caused tension whilst I was watching it.

Keri: The party was alright, although it was quite long so it became a bit boring. I began to become really frightened when the man appeared out of nowhere standing in the background, although if spoky music was added to it that would make the scene much scarier.

Evaluation:I decided to make the kidnapper stand behind the mise en scene so it can cause tension and cause the audience to question themselves thinking why he is standing there, what he is up to and why isn't he showing his face like the others in the party scene. By doing this it will give the people watching an idea that something bad is going to happen hence the kidnapper wearing an off black hoodie.

Furthermore, by having the party scene full of young girls it makes it more realistic as everyone is interacting with each other and literally enjoying themselves.

Criticism/How we will make improvements:It was said by one of our commenters that there isn't much people in the party scene and we have taken that on board as we will be cutting some of the party scene out where it looks too spacious and we will make the party scene shorter because it drags on for too long.It was said by Keri that we should use spooky music in our scene, this comment has been considered and you will now see in our final film opening that we have scary music over our original party scene music.
There wasnt much mentioned about the phonecall scene by our commenters, but the phonecall scene didn't go to plan as it was not actually a phonecall scene due to it being an extreme rough copy! Although my group and I will definately add an actual phone conversation in our final copy of the short scene.