Soundtrack

My group and I were discussing what we could use for the soundtrack of our film opening. We wanted it to link in with the mysterious side but have it innocent at the same time, just like a child.
We thought about having slow acoustic guitar or piano playing in a minor tone in the background almost unnoticed to give it a weird edge. We tried using the software 'Garage Band' on the Apple Mac to play around with the different sounds. By using this we then decided that the random strums of the guitar and the sounds from the piano wasn't what we were looking for as it didn't relate to the children being innocent. This is when we decided that we should use a nursery rhyme such as 'Three Blind Mice' or 'Baa Baa Black Sheep'. We searched around for a simple yet effective nursery rhyme that we could use and found 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'. I liked this a lot and started bringing it together using the different instruments on Garage Band. When putting the sounds together we made the start of the song sound normal and sweet like a child, but then the longer the song plays, the sound turns twisted and becomes out of tune and began to be played clumsily. This was played in time with our film as it starts to echo and turns twisted as the doll is seen on the clip.This creates suspense which is exactly what we wanted.

Our First Attempt At Filming.

This is our first attempt at filming and putting the main parts together on iMovie. We tried to get as many shots as possible from different angles and positions so that when it came to editing, we would have a range of shots to chose from.

My group and I understand and have spoken about the fact that it doesn't look very natural for two teenage girls to be skipping down the path with a doll and playing in the park. We thought about it for a while and came to the conclusion that the doll could be affecting the way the girls act which would add to the weirdness to the sequence. We would possibly show this by showing the parents discussing how childish the girls have been acting since the doll appeared or a news report of a doll that has had an odd affect to teenagers.

A soundtrack still needs to be added which I think will make the clip a lot different. Currently, a few ambient sounds are included but I think we need some eerie, unnatural sounds playing when the doll is shown and a low humming sound in the background. The idea of using a low humming sound was inspired by my research done earlier for the film opening of 'Let Me In'.

Location #1 for our final film opening

In our storyboard, we have decided to use the park for one of our locations as this comes across as innocent and unaware. 

The picture below shows where we will be shooting a tracking shot of the car pulling up.

We are planning on using this path for where the two girls skip up towards the gate with the doll in their hand.

This is an establishing shot of the park which we are planning to be show as they enter it.

The see-saw will be shown with the two girls playing happily on it as the doll sits beside the tree.

An over the shoulder shot will be used at this point to see the unawareness and happiness in the girl's face.

These swings will be shown when the girls run from the see-saw to play on something else. 

Final Film Opening Story Board

This is our storyboard for our final film opening. We have had many ideas to make the movie come together, all of which we have tried to include.