Construction

Initial Photography:
We began to construct our sequence around the photo animatic that we did previously. After looking at the finished photo animatic, we decided we needed a wider variety of shots as there was only a small amount included at first. Along with changing the sequence from the initial photography, we stuck to the story it told, still including some of the same shots.

Initial editing:
Most of the initial editing we had to do was cutting shots down to the appropriate length's. We connected the camera to the Mac's and uploaded all the footage we had recorded. We first ordered the scenes and watched it through to see how long it was and to see where shots should change. The first draft of our main task was 2 minutes and 50 seconds long, with the maximum time limit of 2 minutes we knew it had to be cut quite alot and so we cut needless scenes and shortened uneventful shots from some of the scenes.

Re-shoots:
After looking at our first draft of our opening sequence we noticed that some shots needed to be re-taken, and also it may help the atmosphere if we put in some extreme close ups. We decided to use these in scenes where the main protagonist and antagonist would run past the camera, but not seeing the whole profile of the characters, just the middle half of them. We also added a point of view shot of Gareth as he is running in the first few scenes of the sequence. Also we re-shot the whole of the last few scenes in which the protagonist is intimidated in his house and ultimately killed, we did this because of the first takes of the scenes in our first day of filming did not look professional enough.

Re-edit:
After re-shooting the scenes we needed it was time to re-edit our sequence. Most of the scenes we had recently filmed were for the start of the sequence, so it was very easy to just slot them before the rest of the sequence. After deliberating with each other we decided to cut the sequence at the point where Gareth enters the room and quotes "is anybody in here?" rather than the sequence going all the way through until he is eventually killed. We decided on this because it only has to be an opening sequence, and with the way were originally going to structure it, it seemed like we were trying to fit a whole storyline into the 2 minutes we had been allocated for the task.

Rough cut:
After re-shooting and re-editing, the rough cut was complete, although there was no digetic sound in it. We were pleased with what we did because there we believed there were good shots, for example the extreme close ups of parts of the body of the characters running past the camera were good as they created a good enigma as to who are these characters and why are they running?

Sound construction:
The sound for our piece is a mixture of digetic and non-digetic. The non-digetic was originally going to be fast but the samples on the programme we used (Garage band) did not suit our sequence. We instead opted to use slower music to set the scene for the atmosphere of the piece. The digetic sound we used was all captured from the camera during filming, such as footsteps and breathing.

Final cut:
The final cut is the stage where we pieced together everything we had done in past weeks and put it together for the final time for the finished article. We had already cut our sequence alot, then added more scenes, then cut some more out, this meant that we had not kept to our original plan that we had drawn up on our storyboard, but we felt this was the best we could make our task. After viewing our opening sequence as a class, the feedback we got was very positive, although we got the opinion that it would be better to cut the film when the main protagonist enters the house, as this set's the scene up nicely as an opening sequence. Another reason for this is that when viewing it again and again we found a few faults with the camera work for inside the house and with no time to film again we decided it best to just cut them. After the door shuts we see 2 seconds of Gareth standing by the door and then cuts to the title " Desperation" comes up at the centre of the screen

Below is the link to the final cut of "Desperation" our opening sequence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUX6yRe9Xsg&feature=channel_page