By Jazmin

PLANNING AND RESEARCH

Research and planning is important because it helps you understand the genre. It’s important to research on the genre so you know your target audience and the generic conventions of the film so people can identify the genre, it also helps you film the right things for example if you’re doing a horror opening then you will need to have a lot of dark and terrifying conventions you can’t keep film a love story because that’s not horror it’s romance.

Planning is important because when it’s time for you film you can go film straight away and you will know what shots to do straight away. Also you will get a idea of how your opening is going to be.

RESEARCH AND PLANNING

WHAT PROGRAM DID YOU USE?

The programs I used was Google, YouTube, IMD, Prezi and Webs

WHAT KIND OF RESEARCH DID YOU DO?

When it was time to research films I went on IMDB and looked for films in the genre wrote them down and then I watched them and analyzed one. I concentrated on the types of clothes they wore and what made the first two minutes mysterious.

The films I watched were The girl with the dragon tattoo

The shooter

Abduction

When watching the girl with the dragon tattoo I remember a extreme long shot of the area and then a close up to the house as the phone starts to ring.

WHAT KIND OF PLANNING DID YOU DO?

We first thought of idea’s for the opening and we all pitched in our idea’s and came to a conclusion that it should be a drug deal gone wrong. We thought of way how we could get the bag to be swapped. The original idea was to have to boys go on the train station and a 2 random boys get into a fight and both of the main characters drop their bags and try and stop it and the innocent character see’s his train and quickly picks up the wrong bag.

We all made sure we was free after school and during the weekend to film parts for the opening. We used to go filming every weekend. This was effective because we got the filming done and we knew what we was doing. We knew what kind of shots we had to do and where we had to go.