credits

For the credits to my opening sequence I want to have make it simple white colored font with our sequence as its background. I feel this will look good with the snow on the background. I want 'a simple yet effective' approach.
The credits will include:

• An atom productions film
• Edited by Ben Hunt and Tom Fry
• soundtrack by Chloe George and Aaron capociemma
• Directed by Ben Hunt
• starring Aaron capocciama, Tom Fry, Ali Sadique, Chloe George and Ben Hunt
• Credits by Tom fry 

opening of detective films and series

The opening of a detective film or series usually follows the same basic pattern of the audience being shown the crime being committed (usually a murder), where you cant see who's done it, then someone turning up to find the dead body and then the main detectives turning up on the scene to examine the body with the forensics team.

the opening 5 minutes of this episode of Law and Order: UK shows an innocent father and daughter finding a burning house with people trying to get out through the windows which are bared. This is the innocent bystander stumbling upon the body. The enigma within the audience is to weather the fire had been started by a criminal or if it was simply an accident. The scene then changes to the fireman team and the forensics team on the scene as the main detectives turn up to look at the body and the burned house before the credits.

I will try to use this pattern in my opening sequence by following the same rules with the audience seeing someone being attacked and asking why. Then the scene will change to the main detective turning up and casing the scene whilst working with the forensics team.

Green screen

For the last scene in our opening sequence I wanted to try and use the green screen to create an effect when the detective character drops his flask in shock after seeing who the dead person is. The effect I wanted to create was to put a black baground on the flask and slow down the scene to add to the dramatic effect within the sequence. I set up the green screen and filmed the flask dropping and I managed to get a black backround on to the greenscreen but it was too dark to see the flask properly so I'll have to try ironing the green screen which should help the flask show up better and make for a smoother background.

Colour correction

To add our pickups into our sequence we had to use the color correction tool on Final cut  which allowed us to change the color and brightness of the scene for it to fit into the rest of our sequence, I feel it went quite well and we managed to correct the color and blend the scene into our sequence therefore giving  it more of a flow and clarifying a part in the sequence.

Editing - 2

Today we continued editing and we just tidied up some sections of the sequence and have had thoughts on how we could end it by using a green screen and creating a slow motion effect just to bring the whole sequence to a close. I think this could work well and add to the enigma and dramatic effect of the sequence as well.

Editing - 1

Today we edited the first part of our sequence, I feel it went well and that we have a good range of shots and that the snow added to the general look of the whole scene and could work to our favor. I think the main problem we will have when editing is matching up the shots and adding all the ones we want into the sequence.

Filming 2

last week we had to re-film the first part to our opening sequence because it wasn't light enough and we didn't use a large enough range of shots to show reactions and setting.
I am pleased with what we re-filmed and how the shots came together and it was much better than our first take and we are all much happier with it as we have used more shot types such as close ups to further show what is going on in the scene and show enigma.