Half way through our Media Production day, we began to work on short openings to films in which we had to stick to the conventions of a specific genre. Here's our creative process...
We first went about making a start on storyboarding what kind of shots we wanted to include to build upon the script and create something visual from it. This simply began by brainstorming ideas together of our visions of how the script could be interpreted and went from their. We primarily made creative desicions in the shape of the locations for certain scenes or pieces of dialogue, implenting features of the action genre as we went. Later during filming, these conventions were tested and improved upon based on the quality of the shots we got from following our original storyboard exactly.
Following the storyboarding desicions, we made pratical ones such as how would play each of our leads, what the leads would look like and act like in order to fit with our genre and where we should film to get the best possible outcome. We had to think realistically here, as well as considering the way in which these choices would effect the style in our opening.
One of the final desicions we made that day was that of what shots to film first. Ultimately, we decided upon our introductory tracking shots of walking up the stairs, as the weather did not fit with what we wanted (rain and general gloom!) at the time and they were shots that were relatively short and would allow us to get to grips with the equipment.
Creativly thinking before acting overall gave us an advantage when it came to recording at later dates, as most of the desicions had already been sensibly made, with influence from all of the techniques we had learnt that day.
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