The Process of Making Our Film Opening

 Blog #12:


While creating our film opening, we had many decisions to make. Our screenplay that we had created prior to actually recording wasn't set in stone, since we all didn't have much time to create our screenplay and it was hard for all of us to collaborate for it. So we began on filming the scene with the two girls since we were very iffy about what we were going to do with our detective scene. We knew we wanted to make a transition of a picture of the suspect, to her being seated at the coffee shop with her friend. So, when we were filming our scene with the two teenager girls having a conversation we knew the gist of what we wanted to say, but we didn't want to the conversation to sound scripted. So, we let our actors to improv their conversation while still being able to keep with the plot of the film. We did have problems filming this part of the opening though.  We had problems with scheduling because many of the people that we asked to help us with the film went on vacation so we had to get different people who all were free at the same time. Even when we had a set time to film, we still had to have one of us to be in place for the actual actor because they were waiting for their ride since none of us have cars that we could drive ourselves. But we ended up figuring it out and that part of the opening came out looking great.


We knew that we also wanted a part of the opening to have the victim in the bathroom looking at herself, trying to get herself to calm down and put together. Filming the bathroom scene wasn't as hard as we thought it would be, because once we got the angle where we saw her but not have the camera be in the mirror, it was very easy to film it in like 2 or 3 shots.


Now when we went to film the detective scene, we decided that he wasn't going to have any dialogue since we didn't see what we would say that would make sense to the plot. Once we knew what the detective was going to do, we started creating the props. We created the suspect board that the detective would have in his office, the newspaper about the girl missing, the stacks of papers that the detective would have on his desk, all the sticky notes, and just making the detectives desk look as messy and professional as possible.


We didn't really have any problems when filming this part of the opening but we did have to do many takes since our detective would not stop laughing. We then filmed the part where we show the desk as a whole and the transition, which we had to have many takes because we wanted to the best angle to show the whole desk and be able to zoom into the picture to make the transition. We had the one who didn't have the bad shaky hands to film this because we wanted it to be a clean shot and transition.


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