Pre - Production Log (week 3)

This week with Miss Severn, we looked at sound in opening sequences and how they are used to grab the audiences’ attention and give a sort of theme to the movie. For my analysis, I chose Nowhere Boy; this opening sequence had a nice uplifting song at the start, which also suited the era of the film. It also gave a theme to the movie, since the film is based on the Beatles.

In Miss Bain’s class we found out that for our opening sequence coursework, we had to include a 750 word treatment, so in that lesson, we made mini 25 word treatments for British Social Realism opening sequence ideas. I and my partner Aran came up with one for our idea of sex abuse:

“15 year old girl gets sexually abused by her father, she cannot handle the stress, the pain eats her, the scars get bigger, she becomes pregnant…”

Even though there is one more word extra, it still counts. We will also be using this for our vox pops; vox pops are like short snappy interviews, asking a few questions. We will be taking a camera around to people, so that we can ask them a few questions for research on our opening sequence. We will also include a fragment of this in the treatment.