Production Stages

Throughout the production of our opening, we tried out many techniques and many different versions were created in order to find our final product. Here you will find videos of our previous attempts leading up to our final product.

This is our title sequence which I took responsibility for shooting and editing. It was a time consuming procedure but paid off in the end as it worked well with the opening sequence. We took inspiration from the opening sequence of the movie Se7ven, which we thought would create a very disturbing and mysterious image in the viewer's mind.

This is our initial attempt at making the opening scene of our film. It had certain good qualities about it such as having close ups but overall we decided this was not high enough quality to use for our final piece and did not do a good job of keeping the viewer confused.

This is our second attempt at the opening scene which we thought came out much better than the first. While there may have been no close ups, this was done to prevent the audience from getting too much detail in the inspector's face. We also thought the shots in general were smoother.

This is our Rough Cut, which we presented to the class and asked for their feedback on. They liked the editing that was used but said there was one particular shot that was not smooth enough and needed to be corrected. They also pointed out how Tom did not seem menacing enough and clearly viewing his face gave away too much about the movie too early on. We therefore took this on board and made the necessary adjustments.

This is our final product which rectifies the problems pointed out with our Rough Cut. We also decided it was best to tone down the colour of the opening sequence as in the rough cut it was sunny and made the scene look happy rather than melancholy.