Titles
In this lesson we came up with the relevant titles that will appear on screen at the beginning of our opening sequence.
Name of Studio
Shemol Studio’s
Name of Production Company
Million Productions
Director Name
A Film by Donna Ellis
Starring
Donna Ellis
Featuring
Shehabur Rahman
Casting by
Sophie Hardy
Music composed by
Alisha Salas
Donna (aka Victim)
Donna is playing the victim within this film, although we do not see Donna in action we do see images of her being cut up and documents that are made that are related to her and what may happen to her. Donna is portrayed as the victim because she is shown to be innocent through her choice of clothing; we can see that her choice of clothing is very light colours such as white and light grey. We do see an image of Donna where she is wearing a light purple scarf and a black coat and this image has been taken without her knowledge by the killer. The purple scarf yet again shows Donna’s innocence because it is so light. The personality of Donna is not yet revealed to the audience during this opening sequence as images are just being shown of her.
Shehabur (aka Killer)
Shehabur is playing the killer within this film although we do not know it is him playing the killer because we see nothing to suggest that it is him because we only see his hands and arms. The killer is shown in the opening sequence as someone whom is very disturbed and very sinister by the things that he is doing such as the cutting up of images. The choice of costume for Shehabur shows his sinister side because we only see him in dark clothing, showing that the killer doesn’t want to be shown to the audience just yet. The black clothing shows the killer not to stand out very much within the film and the personality of this character is shown throughout this opening sequence through the actions that he makes.
Alisha
We didn’t need to give as much thought into who we chose for our characters because within our film we do not see much of any characters. All we chose was two main characters; the killer and the victim. Although the audience does not actually get to see the killer we did decide to have Shehabur as our killer because although this is stereotypical within films, the male seems to be the killer in most cases. We then chose to have Donna as our victim; although they are just photographs of her because we thought that it would be appropriate due to all of the disappearances that we have heard through the media recently. Sophie and Alisha were behind the camera and so did not get a casting part within the film. As a group we thought that this particular casting would be effective and a good way to open our film.
We are seeing a killer planning out something to do with a girl, what the killer is planning out looks very sinister and so the audience may have thoughts such as, “is this girl going to be kidnapped” or “is this girl going to be killer”; the viewer may be thinking those things because we don’t actually know what the killer is planning on doing to this girl only that he is doing sinister things to images of her. We are basically seeing a story of a disturbed person whom has an obsession with this girl or girls in general and so the person is watching this girl from a distance and making disturbing and sinister things to do with her such as drawings.
