Burial Scenes

We looked at the burial scenes in Goodfellas and London to Brighton because we are thinking of doing a scene like that in our video. we liked the use of the red lighting from the brake lights to give the 'hell' effect.

Lesson 7 Plan

We started to plan our movie title sequences. On the location aspect, we decided to film just outside Kyle's house where there is a dull looking field with trees surrounding it, we thought this would be an ideal location for our burial scene as dead bodies tend to be burried in these locations. The props we decided to use to film with Jake's iPhone because his camera produces high quality images and we thought that it is just as good as the school cameras. Other props we decided to use were, a car so we can film Kyle picking the body out of the boot and we need the car to film Kyle inside it as well when he recieves a phone call. Another prop we decided to use is a shovel for when Kyle will dig up a bit of ground and burry the body. We also decided that we will use a zippo lighter and a cigarette so we can film and extreme close up of Kyle lighting the cigarette up. For the main character's costume(Kyle) we decided we would dress him up smartly, with black trousers and smart shoes and a smart jacket so it gives him the typical gangster/killer look. We also decided we will use fake blood on kyle's arms and face so it looks like he just killed some one. Finally we wrote a brief script for when the main character talks to his wife and daughter via his phone inside the car. These are all based on the mise-en-scene micro element.

Lesson 6

We watched more movie opening sequences, we watched one that was done in a single shot.

Lesson 5

We brainstormed the ideas of what digetic sounds we would hear in our title scene. Some ideas included;

• Digging sound of the shovel
• Sound of the zippo before lighting up the cigarette
• Dragging the body

We also looked at the soundbible website looking for sounds we could use for our title sequence. Then we opened up the garage band software and made our sequence with the digetic sounds.

Lesson 4

We looked at what props we are going to use for the clip, not what the character needs to wear but the way it looks. For example, we are going to use a shovel, so it has to look very old and muddy not a brand spanking new one.

Lesson 3

We started to look at what camera angles we were going to use, we used a camera phone to get still image previews of how the shots looked like. The shot i particulary liked was the shot of kyle pulling the bag. x

Lesson 2 part 2

After looking at example opening sequences, we discussed our idea for the opening sequence in front of the class. We discussed that it would be some sort of burial scene, with kyle burying the body, using a wide vatriety of shots, maybe an arm flopping out of a bag. Also we said that we could put a bit of clear glass over the camera lense and chuck earth on it to end the scene.