The Making of My Opening Sequence

This is the making of my opening sequence.

The video describes the problems that I encountered during filming, how I edited my film and what went well during my filming.

I created this video to show what i did during the filming of my opening sequence. The video includes shots that I used in my final opening sequence. It also includes shots that i didn't use, some of the shots could not be used because they did not fit with the final sequence but the video includes blooper shots. I included blooper shots to show the behind the scenes of filming.



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Things that went wrong during filming

The fact that the two boys where so young, made it extremely hard to film them. This was because they did not listen to direction very well and it was hard to get them to repeat an action when I wanted to film a different angle.

The boys would sometimes walk off camera, this would cause problems as i would have to have to begin the scene all over again, this was hard when editing because no two scenes that i filmed where the same and therefore it was hard to edit together

 I also had problems with lighting and trying to get the light bright enough, this was i filmed to late in the day and most of the natural light had gone. Therefore i had to finish filming on that day and begin again the next day nice and early so that there was enough natural light

I only used a tripod my second time filming, this was because I did not think i needed it however, some of the shots that I took where extremely shaky and i needed some shots that where completely still. However I did like how some of the shaky of the shots and included lots of them in my opening sequence as I felt like the shaky nature of the camera added to the suspense on the opening sequence.

My editing process

I used iMovie at the start, however I wanted to use a better and more effective editing process so I swapped and started using finalcutpro. This editing process allowed me to edit my opening sequence in fine detail and focus on the important element within it.

The main important feature that I focused on when editing was distinguishing time frames this was from the present tense and the past. My video focuses around the loss of boy but also includes flash backs to when the boy was with his family. With final cut I tried to distuingish the two time frames. I ended up making the past tense time frame in the format of an old video camera, this made the shots that looked like a flashback look old. By using the forms of an old video camera it also made the filming look realistic, like a family member had taken it.