Carson's Aice Media Blog

These two weeks went well in editing. We had a few problems though. Our videos did not flow very well together so we had to do a little bit of re-fliming to add to our movie opener. We have yet to put any titles or credits yet, which we plan to do in our next week of filming.

We decided to have our opening scene at the school. This is where we will have the main character get into her car to start driving to the bank. The school is a pretty convenient place to film this part of the opening. We started filming shots that we could use for the credits and title of the film. We thought these would be best with a more plain, aesthetic background instead of the action shots.

One of our ideas was to have shots of the people robbing the bank hiding and creeping around to make it more suspenseful. We decided that this would be better if we shot this at the bank instead of at school. We wanted to choose an airport to film at for the opening. We thought the Marco airport might work, but it just wasn't what we were looking for. We think the Naples airport will be better for what we are trying to do in our opening.

Actors- We have not yet decided who will play each role for our film, but we have a general idea. We all plan to be in the film opening. Costumes- The person robbing the bank will wear all black and a black mask. The people working the bank will wear a business type outfit. Props- We will not need many props, maybe some fake money and maybe a fake gun. Location-  We will try to use Saoirse's dad's bank to fake rob one day that it isn't open. We will also go to an airport to film the robbers trying to flee the country. Dates and Times- We will most likely be filming February 8th some time in the morning. Scripts-  We don't plan on writing any scripts. We will just talk about the main idea we will cover in each scene and go from there. Film Equipment- Saoirse has a camera that we will use for filming.

We took a whole period deciding what each scene of our film opening would be. We worked well together drawing and writing out the storyboard, and we are excited to start filming and editing our film.

Rise- I really liked how this film opening was based on sports. I also liked the part where the music went along with the boy dribbling the ball. Also when it got louder when it switched to that player is a cool concept, but maybe if they had the music gradually get louder instead of cutting straight to the loud music would have made it flow more. Offline- This was a pretty average horror movie opening. The girl being in the cage was pretty creative though. I thought the title could have been a little more creative as well. Dear Lover- This was a cool concept for a film opening. How it went to the end so that the movie would be a flashback of how they had gotten into that position. Also the music was soft and made it enjoyable to watch. Dare to Thrill-   This was my favorite film opening by far. The music with the car was so energetic and lively. At the end of the film they open the trunk to see something inside. The camera angle coming from inside the trunk makes that scene ...

We decided to chose action and adventure because it we like thrilling movies that keep us on the edge of our seats. They are very fast paced and I can connect with them really well. One of my personal favorites is the Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Arc . The opening of this film is considered by many to be the greatest action movie opening sequence ever shot. It starts off with Indiana Jones in the cave trying to capture the arc. He sees a pressure plate and presses it with a stick, so that he doesn't get shot by the arrow. He the approaches the arc and attempts to to replace it with a bag of sand in hopes of not setting of the trap that is most likely set under the arc. He fails and the trap is set off so him and his partner start running back through the cave trying not to get hit by the arrows firing out of the wall. His partners made it over the hole in the ground and convinces Indiana Jones to give him the arc and runs away with it. He then finds him dead around th...