The whole of this first section is fast passed with fade to blacks between shots and some shots will be black and white or inverted to make it more distorted. all of this section is for the credits, inspiration taken from the opening of 'Se7en.'
Script
[Darius speaking, who plays the detective]
It starts with one There's no guilt behind it so they move onto there next victim Serial killers i mean as a detective i see them a lot you have to put yourself in there mind to catch them Obsessive behavior like stalking documenting note taking on there victim anyone would think they were you average Joe but they're wicked smart calculating organized clean to the point of obsession you have to able to spot the signs and clues right from the first drop of blood.
i couldn't do the shots in school because the people i wanted to be in it weren't free when i was free and i couldn't organize time after school because they work and having things to do, but they are free on Sundays and as I'm already doing shots at church i decided to do some other shots at church as well. the good thing about changing where I'm filming means that i have a lot more freedom to what i want without disturbing anyone, if i was filming in school it would probably be during lesson times so few classrooms would be free and filming might disturb lessons and there are a lot more people to get in the way.
i wanted to keep the fade in fade out transition between the doors closing and opening in so i had to work out how i could do that without changing the plot or setting to much,
in my new storyboard, the idea was that there was a mysterious book, that was worth a lot of money, because of time limits and everything i've changed it to a laptop bag, this also means i can add a lot more shots in because i can do shots of people taking the laptop out of the bag even though im sure that all the shots i've already done will fill up the two minutes easily
after watching some other students videos and working out the time i had to do the project in i didn't look like i would get it done in time so I've changed how im doing it slightly, its the same plot same characters but from a totally different perspective, before it started with the two main good guys and there race to the shop how im changing it so that it is from the bad guys point of view, i've also given the over all story more of a plot in doing so.
my new plot is that the bad guys have stolen a very very valuable book, and intend to use it to get money from the government or owner of said book. i've now made the character who has stolen the book and the main good guy related, the good guy is aware of what his relative is up to but is completely oblivious to the fact that his relative is aware of what he knows and that they're watching him
the storyboard opposite is basically what happens before the original storyboard, in the very last shot you can see the good guy go on the computer, that would be where my original storyboard started but having watched other openings more closely and doing my test shots i think that my original idea isn't good enough and its also difficult to keep the clips shot while having credits mixed into them
i think seeing the bad guy before the good guys makes a much better hook as well. one of the key things to my opening is music, after watching other peoples videos one of the huge flaws is that the audio quality of dialogue is terrible. my previous idea had a lot of speech in it and i had planned on getting a separate recording thing so i could film while recording the voice from close up but i couldn't find anything suitable so by changing my idea and using music as the base Audio i can use minimal dialogue to maximum effect, the only real speech in my knew idea is during the church scene when only 20 something words are said between two people before music starts back up again and credits start again. Our teacher said that the feedback they got from the exam board last year was that the credits weren't creative enough...so i went all out.
most of my new idea is set indoors, with no particular time of day this is so that im not restricted with time limits, i have a paper round that i do and it takes an hour by the time i get home its already dark and im busy for a lot of weekends around deadlines so by setting it in doors i can film whenever i have time. i also moved some scenes to school because i can film in school hours as well by doing that and it gives me plenty of time to edit and re-film if necessary.
Below is my rough test shots for my previous idea, i think its alright, but it just doesn't feel right to me and i don't think it flows. one of my pet peeves is when videos don't fit together very well.
i did my storyboard completely on photoshop and did each shot in a separate file so that if i wanted to change anything i could just make a new file, finish it then drag it over the top of the old one and I'd still have the original image to show changes.
in the 18Th shot, i drew in the hoodies that the characters will be wearing. hoodies to hide there identity this is so that there is enigma codes as to who the main characters are and what they are doing, the black hoodies also make the audience think that the characters are up to no good when actually they are the good guys.
I started storyboarding using Photoshop I've done about 31 shots at the moment which are just idea's i haven't put any explanation on it yet because i might change my mind and switch some shots around
James bond - Casino Royale chase scene
my 'chase' scene isn't going to be quite as dramatic as this but i want to make it look and feel as frantic as this, up until one of the two main characters hits a lamppost during a tracking shot. having the music fitting with whats happening on scene would be ideal, there are two times in the opening that i want the music to suddenly stop, once when they're waiting for the light to turn red so they can cross, and a second time when one of my characters hits the lamppost, I'll also add non diagetic sounds to this clip, the sound of a lamppost being hit but louder so it has more impact and sounds more painful! this clip does the same with the added bumps and bangs while James bond is punching someone.
all of this section is for the credits, inspiration taken from the opening of 'Se7en.'
