Diary Post

Today I have started planning the story board for our opening sequence with Luke, however Laura wasn't in so we were limited to the detail of our story board. I decided I wanted to create my story board alone which would allow me to use and develop my artistic skill and professional pencils. I have also started writing the marketability for our opening sequence, I have stated who my target audience is but still need to come up with people the movie could be aimed at.

My target for next lesson will be to complete my marketability post and begin completing all the other required posts on my blog to change the table to all green.

Ident

I chose the name of my ident because one of my favourite animals are owls and I thought it would be quite good to animate an owl flying away. To make the ident I found a Youtube clip of an owl flying and took various stills from the video. On Photoshop, I erased the background from the clip then edited the colour which made it black and white. I also posterised the picture to make it look more comical. To animate it, I used stop motion animation and put all the clips together with short time frames using Windows Live Movie Maker on my laptop. 

I added sound by downloading a clip from a Youtube video of owls hooting and imported it into the video.

The Evelevator Pitch

25 Word Treatment

Walking alone will never be the same again for one girl. Time's running out for the only person who can save her, will he make it?

Opening Synopsis

Our opening sequence will be set in a dark and eery room. One of the main characters in the film will immediately be introduced as she walks down an alley, closely followed by a shadowy antagonist. The villain in the movie will then capture the main character and the screen will cut to black after hearing her struggling. Shortly after, the viewer would see the eery room from the Point of View of the main character. We will see shots of the antagonist before she begins the attack. The antagonist will then use her phone to talk to a retired police officer who has the sole responsibility of keeping this girl safe. He's given a time limit to find her location before something fatal happens. Throughout the sequence we will see credits falling from leaves and appearing in parallel to the action, for example whilst the actor is moving forward we see the credits appear behind them. The opening sequence will end with a long shot of the location and screams of terror will be heard.