SCRIPT

Here are the scripts of our opening sequence ENVY, this is done to help us and give us an idea what we need to include in our sequence. Also, how to act them out.

Krina Gohil

How does our Opening Sequence ENVY reflect what our film is about?

WHAT IS OUR FILM ABOUT?

This is the final opening sequence of ENVY. The only disadvantage of our sequence is the quality, as it's uploaded on youtube.

> Click on this image to view the opening sequence of ENVY <

FULL SYNOPSIS OF ENVY.

HOW DOES OUR OPENING SEQUENCE SHOW THIS?

Our opening sequence reveals what happens to Kay when they both Jayde and Kay are both in a canal.

It shows Kay wakes up middle of nowhere and the flashbacks give hints to the audience and even to Kay, what had happened and why she's there. The flashbacks show Jayde getting annoyed and angry as soon as Kay mentioned "I can't believe Daniel tried it on with me". This relates back to where she thought she had a fling with him at the hotel party.

The suspicion grows from the audience when the view of Jayde's face flashing, to indicate that there's something dangerous about this character. It's also shown to illustrate Jayde's unusual eyes, indicating her abnormality. This is to warn the audience as well, that Jayde is not what she seems. This helps for the audience to understand Daniel's behaviour when he sees Jayde.

The effective and most memorable ending of the opening sequence shows Kay getting kidnapped by Jayde, and disappears into the darkness. This is the important part as the tension and actions starts to begin. This relates to where people, Kay's friends, at school get concerned and worried about the absence of Kay, and is aware of Jayde's absence too.

The ending can lead to any directions of what could happen, and this shows that our opening sequence hasn't revealed too much information. It's left with many unanswered questions.

Krina Gohil.

Storyboard

This is the storyboard for our opening sequence, showing our ideas and the story behind our sequence...

Laura Perkins

Distribution Companies

Distribution

Looking for a company which will distribute the film now is the next step and finding a distributor which will does that well is important because our target audience need to be brought in. These are some of the companies which I have looked at, for distributing the film and they are:

Film4
Film4 have distributed films however not that many, to be exact they have distributed 56 films over all and are still distributing films. Film4 have been associated with films which have done well in the past for instance ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ (2009), this was one the films which raised a lot of capital. And it did very well, not just in the UK but internationally it did well and made a lot of money. This shows that Film4 are associated with films which do well.

Pathe Pictures
Pathe Pictures have distributed many films over the past years; about 225 films have been distributed, which shows that they have done a lot of distributing and have a lot experience. It is also a well known company too, which means that there are expectations to deliver to the audience.

‘Adulthood’ (2008) was one of the films which was distributed by Pathe Pictures, this shows that they have catered to the target audience that we are looking to carter for with our film. This is shows that they will know how to target the audience and make the audience aware of the film.

Revolver Entertainment
Revolver has distributed many films as well, about 128 films since the company started; this shows they have a lot experience in distributing films. Two films which they have distributed are: ‘Kidulthood’ (2006) and ‘Shank’ (2010). These films both have the same target audience which is teenagers, there is the same target audience and they have pulled the audiences in to watch those films than they could probably do the same with our film.

‘Kidulthood’ (2006) was popular and the next film which was the sequel to it was ‘Adulthood’ (2008). ‘Adulthood’ (2008) was not distributed by the same company this time; it was distributed by another company, which was Pathe Pictures.

Screen Gems
Screen Gems is a USA company which means that they are less likely to distribute the film because of this; American companies are more well known and are less likely to take a risk to distribute a UK film which is small.

353 films have been distributed by Screen Gems which is many more than other companies which I have looked at, some of the films which they have distributed include:

When a Stranger calls (2006)
Obsessed (2009)
The Cottage (2008)
Cleaner (2007)
Prom Night (2008)
Quarantine (2008)
And there are many more films.

The films which are distributed by Screen Gems are mainly targeted at teenagers; this is an advantage because they will know what ways to target the audience and bring them in. Since they have been doing it for a long period of time and they probably know what is more effective than other companies which may have only targeted teenagers as their audience a few times.

This would be the best company to distribute the film however it is not the company that will be distributing the film since it a American company and our film is a small British film which has been made an independent company.

The company which will distribute the film is going to be Pathe Pictures because that is the best company for the film, they have distributed many films and some of them are thriller films. Therefore they will know how to distribute the film because it is also a thriller film, another reason is that Pathe Pictures seems to be better since the sequel to ‘Kidulthood’ which was ‘Adulthood’ was distributed by Pathe Pictures; this shows that Pathe is clearly the best choice. They have targeted the audience before that we want them to target and they are successful and have also distributed many films.

Pooja Patel

Group Roles

Patrice Doe:
Patrice was one of the two actors in our opening sequence, she played the role of the murderer, Jayde. Patrice helped to come up with the final idea of the opening sequence, edited, and contributed to the group blog. Patrice, along with Krina, had the more interactive roles of the group, being in front of the camera - acting.
Krina Gohil:
Krina was the second actor and she played the role of the victim, Kay. Krina also contributed to the final ideas of the opening sequence, helped to come up with the actual storyline behind the film, and helped to edit some of the final product.
Laura Perkins:
I was the director of the opening sequence, and filmed the actual content. I helped come up with some ideas for the opening sequence outline, and I also edited some of the final outcome. I completed some film research along with the other members of the group, and I decided that we should do a short documentary of the final location.
Pooja Patel:
Pooja looked after the equipment on several occasions and contributed to the blog, and she also came up with some ideas for the seuqence.

Laura Perkins

RESEARCH 2

The Haunting of Connecticut click on this title to view the trailer

This was a clip which was viewed and there were certain aspects of it that we liked however we didn't use any of this in our opening sequence. There were fast cuts in and a lot scary aspects which would make a person jump whlist watching the clip.

The Haunting of Molley Hartley click on this title to view the trailer

This was another clip that we saw and we liked one specific thing in the clip and that was the eye, the way that the whole eye was shown in the shot. This whole shot focuses on the eye which is a close up. We have considered using this idea in our opening sequence because we like this affect, it will be creepy and since we have a prop that will make it even more effective than it is in the actual clip from this film.

By Pooja

Opening Sequence 1st Draft

This is our first attempt in creating our opening sequence of a thriller movie.

Click here to view out first draftExplanation...

We faced a few problems whilst creating the first draft of our opening sequence, which included the time limits and deadlines, however we did manage to overcome these problems which resulted in us being able to present a draft of our opening sequence. This opening sequence shows the beginning of our film, Envy, which is basically about two best friends, Jayde and Kay, and Kay's ex boyfriend, Daniel, has been quite 'forward' with Kay and she likes him back. Jayde finds out and her personality changes, she wants revenge on Kay. The first shot is a rotating shot of Kay lying down on a bench, and she has been badly hurt, but can't remember what happened. As she gets up and starts walking around she has flash backs of the night before, and soon realises that the blame lies with her best friend Jayde. My favourite shot of the opening sequence is when Kay is having her final flashback of the sequence, and the camera is in night vision - inspired by Quarantine, and Kay looks directly at the camera and Jayde is behind her. I think that this shot speaks directly to the audience, and we are able to empathise with Kay as it seems as though she is looking straight at us, and only we know that there is someone behind her.

Good points...

-Even though quite a lot of information has been revealed in the 2minutes 30seconds that is shown, there is still the element of mystery within the opening sequence, and questions can be asked by the audience, e.g. Why is Kay's best friend wanting to cause her harm?, What did Kay do to make Jayde so angry? and What's going to happen to Kay and Jayde further on in the film?

-A major clue in the film is when Kay tells Jayde that Daniel 'tried it on with her', and asks Jayde if it's ok, Jayde looks at the camera mysteriously and this shows that Jayde isn't keen on the idea, even though she said it was ok, it clearly wasn't.

-The flashes of Jayde's face when Kay is spinning around feeling dizzy, help to disorientate the viewers and hold their attention even more because the flashes are really short, and so the first flash makes the audience wonder if they are imagining it, but with the flashes that follow, help to entice the audiences focus.

-Tension is buit with the sound effects of the wind, and the suspense sound track, however there is also a lot of tension when the two characters walk up to the camera in the final shot.

-The flashbacks are quite distinguished from the reality within the opening sequence, and this helps the audience to understand what the film is about.

Things to improve on...

-When Jayde looks straight at the camera, we want to show the audience that her eyes are different (she is wearing cat eye contacts), but when we filmed it, it is unclear to the audience that her eyes are different, and so we need to re film this shot.
-We also need to re film the close ups of feet running in the light because it was too dark when we filmed it first, and so it just looks like a blank screen to the audience.
-The section where it is a point of view shot, where Kay is under the bridge, the shot stays the same for too long, and so we need to vary our shots so we can hold the audiences attention.
-The feedback of our opening sequence also stated that we should place the titles away from the end of the opening sequence because having them at the end makes it look like it's a trailer, rather than an opening sequence.
-Even though the flashes are good, we need to make them slightly shorter, to make them just flash, at the moment they are staying for too long, and we want to make them have the highest effect as possible.

Laura Perkins