Main Post 9 Production

Whilst filming and editing of Behind Blue Eyes our group had to make decisions about how we were going to present our final opening sequence and what should go into it. These decisions were made as a group and we made them in order to insure the outcome of our opening sequence was at a high standard.

One decision our group made when editing the second half of the opening sequence was to take out the scene in Paige’s bedroom with Sophie and Paige doing their homework and another scene with Sophie getting out the car and walking towards her own house. We felt that these weren’t needed and just made the overall opening sequence longer and repeated what we had already established in a previous scene. We also decided on this as we thought that by having the scene of them both in Paige's bedroom it would make the audience feel as if the opening sequence had ended and the film had begun and but we that we had missed out linking a scene.  We instead put in scenes with Paige and Sophie walking away from school and getting into Alan's car and with them both inside the car, beginning to drive away. These decisions were
Even though the shot of the girls getting into the car outside Paige's house was cut, we kept the shot of them getting into the car, this time outside the school instead of Paige’s house. This decision was made because it kept the continuity from the previous scene. The added scene shows the girls walking towards the car, and we can therefore still show Alan looking out the car window at them and still highlight the fact he's looking at Sophie's short skirt and loose tie.

I personally think that it was a good decision as the end result of the girls walking to the car and then the shots inside the car look really effective and contribute to building the tension for the audience.

We also took out the from inside the locker where we would've seen Sophie getting her books out and shutting the locker door, leaving a black screen for 'Behind Blue Eyes' to appear. However we decided to take this out was because it was difficult to keep continuity, as we couldn’t put the folder in the locker laying at the same direction as it was in for the shot before hand, this was because the camera took up more room than we had initially planned. It was also because we had trouble keeping the camera at a flat angle whilst filming and when editing we discovered the title looked better on a black screen anyway.

Another decision our group made was about the beginning of the opening sequence, with the math equipment. We decided to film the different pieces of equipment at different angles all of which had a black background, making it easier in the editing phase to put them together. We also made the decision that because when filming, we captured lots of different shots of the colouring pencils to use more than just one shot of them and instead we put several shots of this in from different angles.

I think that using the different shots of the pencils has improved our opening sequence as it gives it more colour, compared to the plain colours on the black background and also gives it another dimension, with the different angles.  

During the editing of the opening sequence we had to make several decisions, these being where to put the opening titles, what font to put them in and how many we should have. From our research, watching the openings of several drama films, we found out that there are a lot of opening credits, as they mention every main job in the creation of the film, and from this to keep to convention; we put the majority of them in to ours.

Another decision we had to make was about the opening credits and where to put them as our opening sequence doesn’t have space in the shots, for this reason some of them may differ from what we have put on our shot list. We spent a long time deciding where we should position the credits as we wanted them evenly spread through the title sequence and in places that looked visible yet not taking up the entire screen or taking the focus off the action. However we found that when we were adding the credits in, because there are so many we couldn’t keep putting our four names on every single one of them as it would look unprofessional so, for this reason we made up names meaning that when the audience watched it they felt that it was more realistic.

Overall all the decisions we made as a group during the filming and editing stages, I think, have been good ones as they have meant that they film not only looks more professional but mean that we have managed to give the audience just enough information for them to carry in watching.