Terms and Conditions of the sounds we used in our opening sequence

When searching for appropriate sound, we had to consider the terms and conditions of the piece before using it within our media piece.

Music To My Ears...

So now that we have finalised two of our sounds that we would like to use, its time to make them accessible to us by downloading them.. So since the source for these tracks was YouTube, the first thing we had to do is check if they were subject to copyright so we could use them.. once verified that they were not, I started searching my App Store to find Applications which I could use to download the videos as Mp3 files, and then edit them..
After a while, I came across two reasonable Apps which I then downloaded..

 

 

So then I stared downloading the Sounds into Mp3 Files..

 

 So now I have successfully converted these files into Mp3 files in order for us to incorporate these into our opening sequence for our thriller.

Diagetic Sounds

So our film consists of a Muslim girl, this girl is shown to be walking out of the mosque at  the beginning of the sequence, since we are unable to film outside a mosque, we can help to create the religious and congregational environment by using the diagetic sound of the Adhan

 

This specific prayer call that I have chosen has a soft mysterious sound playing in the back. The slow pace of the of recitation, alongside the soft music creates the perfect religious environment that we are trying to portray.

TAKE ONE!

So we have now completed the first part of our filming :)

So on Friday 15th of February, me and Hanah met up after school at 4:30 in the common room. Whilst I got ready for the filming, Hanah went to get the camera. Story board in hand, we started filming the first part to our opening sequence. The next part was of the girl getting run over, despite trying, we were unable to film this because of the amount of cars that were going past, and we did not have a third person that could help us stop the traffic whilst we were filming. Therefore we decided that we will film this after halfterm with the help of a responsible adult..This is an exciting yet tense time for us. as fun as the process may be of making this, we have our first deadline slowly crawling up our backs.. Good luck to us!! and the rest of the groups :)

Let The Magic Begin..

So now its time to actually make our film.. so here is how we have planned to spend the next 2 weeks:

1) 15.Febuary.2013 : at 4:30, me and Hanah will meet up outside Burntwood and film the first bit to our opening,,

2) During the half term holidays, me and Hanah will be experimenting and researching the impact of sound and different possible pieces that we could consider using in our opening. Whilst Elaine researches the logos that we will be using for our opening credits.

3) 25.Febuary.2013 : The group as a whole will sit together in our lesson time and import the clips and start editing them together, with the credits too.

4) 26.Febuary.2013 : Me and Hannah will use our lesson time and start filming the second part to out thriller opening, ready to be edited and to be put together with the rest of our opening

Locations

Our first location that we are using is outside our school, of the main road. we are going to portray our school as a mosque. our female lead will walk out of the gates and walk down this road.

This image is of a room that is located in the maths department, it is an empty room that only has a table, a couple of chairs and a computer. this room also has 3 large windows on one side that enable sharp sunlight to enter the room, this light brightens up the room and adds to a clinical effect, therefore we will be using this room as our hospital room when filming.

 

this is a picture of a backdrop that is used to take pictures in the photography room. in our opening sequence, our female lead has a dream, in our opening we show that dream, and in order to film it, we need to use specific backgrounds. for example to show something pure, we will film it against this white backdrop.

 

However, as well as filming things against a white background to suggest purity, we also need to film some aspects of our 'dream' that suggest darkness and evil, we will use the drama rooms since they have black walls and a black backdrop which we can use to portray the evil that we intend to imply.