Animation for my opening 2 minutes of Lost Girl:

For the animation storyboard of my film I chose to take photographs of the scenes of the clips I will be recording and left the photo on screen for how long the clip will be. By doing this it enabled me to receive a strong understanding/ feeling for what my film opening will look like as well as planning how long it will be on for. From making this storyboard I realised that my idea may be slightly repetitive, which is going to be a problem, also if I feel that it is going to be slightly repetitive I also believe that it will reduce the timing of my film opening and make it shorter than what I need it to be. To resolve this I will be thinking about filming and maybe even including the moving images as I feel that they came out really well.
Overall I feel that by taking photos and putting them together in a sequence rather than drawing pictures allowed me to get a much better as well as who is viewing my blog of what the opening will look like. I am pleased with the opening titles, they work well and are not all the same transition so therefore mixes it up a bit but follow the same colour theme/ font type therefore remaining a strong brand image that I would create if I was to look at the advertising side to my film. The music also fits in well with what is going on, it builds tension and keeps the audience wanting to know what may happen next resulting in them carrying on watching the film which is what I was aiming for.

Looking at opening titles for my film opening of Lost Girl:

For my opening titles I feel that in terms of keeping a strong brand image that it was successful as I used the same colours/ same font throughout. This makes it easier for my audience to recognise my film if I was to broadcast and advertise in other cases such as film posters or a trailer. Editing on the Mac I was able to know what I am and am not going to use. In the future, so for example when I make my animatic storyboard I need to research further into the order that the titles go in and link it to the production company that I am choosing for my film.

Preliminary Task:

For my preliminary task I practised filing different shot type techniques as well as practising editing them on the Macs. Because I was using a new editing programme and filming a conversation it was new and I found it hard to adapt. After this task I was a lot more familiar and felt confident with using imovie to edit with.

Location Research:

For my location I have chosen to pick an everyday setting which a young girl would be likely to walk through on her way home for example.
Because I'm choosing to film when it is dark to fit the setting of my film I needed to consider if the video even came out when I record and that the lighting isn't too poor reducing the quality. Because of this I looked at areas that was well lit with street lights and found that it still wasn't bright enough. So, I went to a road that is next to a football training pitch which had the flood lights to light up the pitch. Because the road is on the other side of the pitch it will allow me to use the lights without me getting the football pitch in the recording, so the audience will be unaware of this.
So in the picture to the right it shows the flood lights that I will be using, the audience will be able to still see that it is dark/ late evening time because the sky is still dark grey and over all the atmosphere is still gloomy and dull.

In this picture to the left is an example of the lighting without the flood lights in the shot. I think the lighting looks natural, it looks like the light is coming from the lamp posts/ street lights which is good and the effect I wanted to achieve.
The only problem I will have with this is that the majority of all my film opening will have to be on this one street, because of this I will need to think about ways I can change it up to avoid repeating myself as well as making it boring and predictable for the audience, especially if I am trying to create enigma towards the end of the opening which is stereo typically shown in horror films.