Firstly in the production of this opening sequence, I contributed to the making of the music with Roopie. To begin with i first found a base tune to base round the music round, i went for quite a neutral tune with could be easily adapted and added to. I added to the base tune by finding accompaniment tracks for example a piano tune then drum beats towards the end to be in time with the opening title ‘Don’t Look Back’. I tried to gain tension through out the sequence yet dull the areas with the flashbacks so there is a contrast in the music as well as the filming.
I also did the camera work and props for all the opening sequence,first starting with the filming for the wedding and restaurant sequence in the clip. As i work at Francesco’s in Windsor, i was able to use this location in our production. I first supplied the dresses that both Ariadne and Ashlie wore, the flowers they were carrying and the rings placed on the fingers. I thought the wedding ceremony would look better filmed on the balcony however i found some difficulty filming this section without some camera shake as the camera was placed on the tripod and was fairly stiff. This restricted me from following Ariadne and Ashlie fluently. Working through this i then filmed the close up of putting the rings on, this was much easier to film as i had the tripod however we were going to include some sound of the couple saying ‘I Do’ consecutively however the sound did pick up on the filming so i decided to cover it with the music. The rest of the filming in the restaurant was fairly simple as it involved same level shots of the couple either at dinner or kissing or simply talking to family or friends. If i were to film Ariadne and Connor at dinner again i would use two separate shots instead of the same continuous shot as I believe this would add more to the sequence also conveying different expressions. The next section of filming took place on the stage at school where we closed the curtains so it was pitch black then used torches on our phones to create eerie, cellar-like lighting displaying how she is now trapped and highlighting her expressions and inability to move as the light is solely on Ariadne. To create different angled shots in this part of the sequence I decided to place the camera in awkward places for example on a tripod on top of a take to get a high angle shot which shows how weak Ariadne is now portrayed and how helpless she now is. I also done a extreme low shot of when Connor walks down the stairs as i was literally laying on the floor to get the camera as low as possible. This portrayed how the man now had dominance and was the superior and stronger out of the two characters. Finally, equally with Roopie, we both contributed to the editing of the production. One of the main difficulties we found was combing the music with the opening sequence as the music was far too long, after a considerable amount of editing to the music we combined the two and fit them together. Another difficulty i uncovered was matching the title of the opening sequence to the film as there was a specific beat in which each word was meant to appear.
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