While making the opening sequence everyone all wanted to take part in helping the production come together in one way or another, whether that was filming, editing, acting or just helping out with costumes. As a group we all thought it would be a good idea for all of us to do a part of everything and to really get involved, this also helped us share any opinions or ideas that we each had get put out there, because we were put into a group it wouldn't be fair to stop anyone from sharing what they thing about anything in particular so everyone in the group had their say.
We all had a turn filming different scenes, this let everyone see what angles or movements were being used and whether they worked or not.
When it came to editing we all sat around a computer and worked together as a team to put the opening sequence together so that we all knew that everyone was happy with the end result and also so that if anyone spotted anything that they didn't agree with or that they didn't like then it meant that we could easily change it because we were all there together.
With the costumes, Rabiha (reporter) wore some of her own clothing so that wasn't a problem, the issue we had was trying to find something that the two Patients and the doctor could where, this was where all of us as a group discussed what we thought would work best and we came up with the idea of using some of the science lab coats from school, of course we asked for permission and everything was fine. We made Fern (doctor) where the lab coat normally, seeing as she was a doctor and needed to look professional, then we made Marnie and Emma (the two patients) also wear lab coats but to wear them backwards to try and get the effect of a stray jacket, adding to the realism of the fact that they are both in an asylum.
To make the Make-up more professional and realistic for the viewers we wanted to try and find someone who knew what they were doing and who also knew how to do things like blood and scars, this is because the main character Marnie has been in an accident and we wanted to make sure that any injuries that she had we got across to the viewers. Some of the girls in the group knew a girl who was fantastic at doing gruesome make-up effects and making Marnie look disgusting, Nelly Stevenson said that she would be happy to help out with the make-up, she was also doing media with the year above as well which meant that she understood what kind of effect we were trying to get across. After trying to explain to her what we were aiming to do, she interpreted it into a work or art and we couldn't be more grateful.
When we told about the acting we were told that we didn't actually have to act at all and that we could in fact find people from outside the media class to do it for you, However most of us did want to act as that was we felt that we were completely involved n the opening sequence. Marnie was chosen to be the main character (Nina Ward) and she was more than happy to do it, Rabiha was nominated to be the second main character as the reporter. Emma wanted to be part of the film but she wasn't to keen on being a big role which wasn't a problem at all, so we all said that she should be the second patient (Fern Willow), this character doesn't have any dialogue she just had to stand there and look ill and she played that part brilliantly. We did have a bit of trouble finding someone to be the Doctor who guides Rabihas character to Marnie's character, but luckily we did find someone who was willing to play the role, this was Marnie's sister Fern. She had been doing acting and plays for most of her life so we thought that she would be perfect for a role like this and she was just what the group was looking for.
The music was something that we all again wanted to have a part in as it was quite an important part of the opening sequence, so like the editing, we all sat down together and went through all the different sounds and effects that we could use to make the sound that we were aiming for, it did take a while to put it all together, but because everyone put all their effort into making it the perfect soundtrack it was finished and ready to be put with the actual film.
So though-out the production of the opening sequence everyone in the group got involved as much as they could to make sure that it was the best of everyones abilities and that it was something that everyone was happy with.
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