Storyboard for Opening Titles/Sequence

Shot list

The First Shots we are going to film are the waking up after the Opening titles as they need to be in the daylight as they shot needs to be well lit and that is the time of day in the shot, we will be filming shots 14 too 24 in this time-space.

We will film shots 25 too 29 after the waking up sequence as we we will need daylight as it is right after the waking up sequence. you wont really be able to tell the time of day due to there not being any windows (Interview room) but even so we are going to film them at this time to simplify things.

When it starts to get darker we will shoot 1 too 13 as it is going to be a dark in the opening credits to create mystery as you cant see who is in the shot.

Location shot for remake of Parity

We Chose these Toilets due to them looking very similar to the toilets in the original sequence, also they are very quiet meaning we wouldn't be interrupted during filming.

Remake of student's work

 We have remade a opening sequence of other student's work, we have posted the location that we shot this short video in as they best represented the same toilets that the student's used in there video. I think our video works well, we chose an actor to play the main role in this scene so that our video would be more realistic and the emotion and tension in the scene would be more understanding to the audience as you can see it on the actors face.
 From making this opening sequence we have worked out that it is not as affective recording from two angles, e.g rotating the camera to create the shot because when it goes into final cut it is difficult to rotate the clip also to the audience the frame looks out of place. This did mean that we learnt some more skills on final cut, as we had to watch some helpful skills videos on youtube.
 We have not put music over the scene, which is not effective. The music is a important part in creating tension within a scene, because as the music builds the situation and shot represent this. For our own opening sequence we will use music and add foley into our scene's to create the tension and atmosphere that we want to create within our thriller.

This is the real video that we did the shot for shot remake;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5BIXi-cVLM&feature=related

Foley - Practicing sound effects

My thoughts on remaking the 'Dexter' opening scene

  When remaking the 'Dexter' opening titles, I have realised that sometimes things that don't look to difficult, can have complications and faults. For example the opening sequence is manly all extreme or close up shots, which is not as easy to capture without a macro lens or a good quality camera lens. So I had to come further away from the image to insure the pictures were still in focus, which means the shot for shot remake is slightly different as you can see more background area. Also I had to shoot the whole remake myself as my team member was unable to attend the shot, this created a task it itself trying to position the shot, directer and also be the camera person which is very difficult to do all at the same time. It did teach me a valuable lesson though to be more organized at to have made sure my team member was able to attend. A positive to this was that It forced me to work by myself which helped me to gain more skills in each area. I'm pleased with the outcome of my final remake, I fell the titles could have been produced better with more time to make them look more like the original but I was not incharge of this, my team mate was. I would have just personally taken more time to make them look more like the original. I think the edititing looks effective I included many jump cuts and did not let each shot drag on for longer than needed.
  Overall I am pleased I produced this piece of work as I am know more propared for what to acspect when we come to recored and edit our final opening titles and sequence.

Here are 9 frames from my own 'Dexter' opening sequence :

Brain storm of idea's