The cards we made

The Cards we made 

The images that are below are of the cards we made for our sequence. We found out the right dimensions of a average playing card and we then used Photoshop to create the cards and give the cards a realistic feel after this we stuck it on real playing cards with a glue stick.

Map scene

                                                       

We shot the map scene for our  title sequence with the original idea being that we would have a birds eye view of the map whilst it pans across. However it did not go smoothly with the shot not coming out at all how we expected. We could not hold the camera still enough for it to look the way we wanted it to look for example the camera kept shaking making the road names not visible through the camera.

Burning the book

The buring book idea was not the original idea, it was first going to be blood dripping out of the book. We felt as if the orginal idea did not make that much sense to the scene and the thematic's of our film it also came across as if it was a horror movie which was the impression we did not want to give. 

We then came up with the idea of burning the books. We felt as if this was relevant towards the film as it is all based around the idea of Luther Lewis cooking the books. We felt as if this would add a nice touch to our title sequence as it foreshadows and explains the story if someone was to analyse the our sequence.

Re-shoot of hospital scene

We re-shot the hospital scene due to the fact that Thabo rubbed his head too much during the scene we shot before. This didn't feel right once we started editing and didn't fell as if he was mourning over his fathers death. It also was very difficult to try and edit because every time we tried to cut it and put another part in it broke continuity because of the amount of time his head was rubbed. Therefore the second time we shot this scene we made Thabo cut down on the rubbing of his head. We also wanted to add more intensity into the scene with Anton starting to get irritant and walk around whilst he worries for his fathers life. We felt as if this would give more drama to the scene and put the audience into the mind frame of the character.

                                              
                                              

Script

Son - "Take it easy dad" 

Dad - "The Books" 

Son - "The books are done dad, There okay, I took care of it. 

Dad - "Im sorry..."

Son - "You dont need to be!" 

Dad - "The book... Im... im sorry..." 

Son - "NURSE!" 

This was the script that we wrote for the end scene of our title sequence where Anton Lewis ( Thabo) is talking to his father Luther Lewis and discussing the situation that they are in whilst Luther feels bad for what he has left behind for his son.

Shooting of title sequence

Shooting of Title Sequence

These are some shots of the preparation and filming of our title sequence. In this scene we was trying to make a underground gambling like feel with dark lighting and poker chips. These pictures also show our first idea which was writing the names on the card which is evident through the picture below. We shot this round Harry's house, in his cellar because it was easier to control the lighting and had a lot of free space.

Voice recording

In today's lesson we voice recorded the scene where Anton lewis and his father Luther lewis are discussing the situation they are in, whilst Luther is on his death bed. This was difficult as we were trying to find someone who had the right type of voice and could act as if they are dying. We eventually found the right person and after a few takes we had the recording perfected and ready for editing.

New card idea

We shot our first card sequence with normal playing cards with only the actors names written in pen. This looked to standard, however, we believed we could achieve higher and give it more of a realist feel. We decided we should create playing cards using photoshop with each card to represent the characters position or personality within the card. For example the ace was tom hardy as he is ray winstons second in command and ray winstons is the king because he is the leader behind the crimes.

The First Shoot

The First Shoot

The first time we shot was in the schools science department. This was due to the fact that it looked like a hospital which is where our film is set. We also had white science coats that looks liked a doctors coat so to set the scene even more Charlie wore the the coat and just simply walked passed the shot to give the feel that Thabo was in an actual hospital.