Final Opening

Vlog #2

Vlog #1

Typography

In our typography, we decided to go with a look which was based around crime and detective work; this was due to the whole story line behind our thriller opening. we used keywords such as 'target', 'classified', 'information' etc, in order to develop the theme.

we also used videos from recent violent events, for example, there where extracts that where taken from news reports on the 2012 London riots. The editing of fire in the video is more beneficial as it is a key object that links back to the title of our thriller 'Londons Burning'.

We used the soundtrack from batman begins which is called 'Antrozous'. We decided to use this soundtrack as it has a slow build up to the climax which is the big title, Londons Burning. We also used it as it has a more 'modern day' feel to it, and also sounds very corporate.

I used text from random news reports on violent acts to make up the text in the background; again this was down to subtly make implications about what this movie will be about. Most of the typography was created on photoshop, which is the backgrounds and the text etc. Then once that was down i then imported each frame into after effects where i made each frame a composition, so that when it came to adding the cast names, all i would need to do is write them in, with all the preset effects.

The typography looks sort of futuristic and techno, which is the look we are looking for, as again this links back to the story line behind londons burning, and explore how technology is benefiting criminals in there manufacture and detonations of bombs.

Call Sheet

^17th December

Jordan's House

2:00-3:00 PM

Actors needed: Jordan

This will be our initial shots involving an actor known as Rakim, the shots are likely to be part of our opening 

Costume: Home clothing

Casual clothes will be necessary in order to fit the character of Rakim who is a young ‘urban’ teenager. This includes colorful sports tops, tracksuit bottoms and other sports apparel.

Interrogation scene:

December 20th

Harris Academy Beckenham

2:00-5:00 PM

Actors needed: Andrew and Jordan

Andrew will need to wear a suit in order to follow the usual conventions of a detective in order to give our audience a true representation of his character. Jordan must be in casual wear (jumper and trainers) also as he must follow the provisions of an urban teenager.

During this day we will be filming the entire interrogation scene with varying angles, test shots and even interviews. We will be using lighting that may vary in order to give us the opportunity to follow the mise en scene of crime thrillers.

Script For Our Opening

Scene One

Rakim is sleeping in his bed when he receives an unexpected text message from one of his friends, Ahmed. The Text message is explaining how he should get to Ahmed’s house as soon as possible to pick up something important. Rakim gets up, freshens himself and heads out.

Scene Two

In this scene, Rakim is boarding buses and trains to get to Ahmed’s house. Once he is at Ahmed’s House he knocks on Ahmed’s door. Ahmed answers.

Ahmed: Wait here, I’ll be out in a minute.

Scene Three

Once Ahmed is out he takes Rakim to a secret place where there is a bag with important “tools” in them

Rakim: What’s in there?

Ahmed: Don’t worry what’s in there, jus deliver this to a friend of mine named Saeed

Rakim: Litsen, I don’t wanna get myself involved with your dirty stuf—(cut off)

Ahmed: Do you wanna get paid or not?

Rakim hesitates to answer

Ahmed: (Assertively) Do you or not?

Rakim: Yes

Ahmed: Cool, then deliver this to saeed buy subway in Beckenham, got it?

Rakim nods his head. As he leaves, a smartlty dressed man is seen from across the road observing the scene.

Scene Four

Rakim reaches the destination and is scoping around looking for Saeed. A figure from the alley way appears and calls Rakim in.

Saeed: Is that the bag yeah?

Rakim: Yeah it is, but what is it for?

Saeed: (Rudely) Listen, your job isn’t to ask questions, it’s to deliver the damn bag, don’t be asking questions that don’t concern you.

Saeed makes a swift exit. Rakim receives a phone call from another friend asking him to come to meet some girls with him; as Rakim has found something to do for the day, he makes his way to the train station to meet his friend. Again. A man from across the road is seen observing the scene.

Scene Five

Rakim has just woken up and makes himself some cereal. He switches on the television onto the news, only to see the scene of an explosion and a picture of him as a wanted individual. As he is shocked he rings Ahmed. It goes to voicemail.

Rakim: Ahmed, as soon as you get this, ring me back! I don’t know what you got me into but whatever you got me into you best get me out of it.

As Rakim is stressing, he freshens up and makes his way to Ahmed’s house.

Scene Six

Rakim reaches Ahmed’s house, only to find the door half open. He is hesitant to go in but proceeds to anyway, making sure that he is quiet.

Rakim: Ahmed? Are you here?

There is no answer. However he does notice something weird which is a bloody knife. As he notices the seriousness of the situation he is hit from the back and black out as he falls to the floor. He vaguely sees the image of boots and looks up to see the man who has been following him.

Scene Seven

Rakim is in the police station, and is being interrogated by the man who has been observing his movements.

Detective Victor: My name is detective Victor, this interview will be recorded.

Detective Victor: At the moment you're facing a ten year stretch... But you can drop that...

Saeed: I'm not a terrorist

Detective Victor: That's a lie

Detective Victor: What did you do at Albert Square with your friends Ahmed and Saeed?

Saeed: We were chilling

Detective Victor: Chilling doing what?

Saeed: We were just chilling.

Detective Victor: Is chilling killing a hundred people heinously, unmercifully is that what chilling is to you?

Saeed: What do you mean killing people I don't know what you're talking about.

Detective Victor: You know exactly what I'm talking about.

Detective Victor: You and your friends Ahmed and Iqbal, went to the festival in Albert Square, planted a couple bombs and killed hundreds of people.

Saeed: Do you have evidence of this?

Detective Victor: We have so much evidence... Fingerprints, CCTV, DNA. We even have eye witnesses.

Detective Victor: So here's what you're going to do. You're going to infiltrate your little friends gang and get evidence for us.

Saeed: I can't do that!

Detective Victor: On the contrary you may just.

Saeed: And if I don't?

Detective Victor: If you choose to disobey us, we can make you disappear...

Posters For 'Londons Burning'

Casper, as the designer, created posters on Adobe Photoshop as he is and expert and the most experienced at using the software's in our group.

He created posters that would give a negative look upon the world today. He used pictures from the London Riots and altered them to highlight certain aspects of what our movie is trying to point out. For example; in the picture below, he used an image from the London riots and duplicated the file (CTRL + J). He then put the copied layer on to the blending option of 'multiply' which would make the layer transparent/semi-transparent in some areas of the picture. Before this is put a purple tint over both the picture; we used purple as its a very dark and sinister colour (which the viewer would know subliminally). After this was done all that had to be done to get the final outcome is to slightly move the copied layer out of its original position which gave the distorted look. He then put the phrase 'If a threat was standing at your door, what would you do?'. 

In this image, Casper got another image from the London riots and used the lasso tool to carefully highlight the front entity. He then used the 'Hue and Saturation' tool (CTRL + U) to tint the selection a luminous yellow; this could connote to the viewer that the hooded individual could be the reason for the catastrophic site. The fire in the background is also not its normal 'orangy' colour, instead its also been tinted to match the front entity which again can connote the same point.

In this poster, Casper used an ordinary block font to to put the images of the riot inside of it; sounds complicated but I will try to explain it to the best of my ability!

Firstly Casper got the block font and sized it so that it almost filled the whole canvas, at this point the text was in black. He had written our movies title 'London's Burning' And this rasterised the layer (Rasterisation is just a simple effortless process which just makes the layer into a simple object with no particular settings, this makes it easier for edits to take place on the layer)

He then got a picture from the riots which shows the police riots squad lined up. Now obviously, that one image alone could not be stretched to fit the text without the image becoming pixilated (we know......-_-!). So what Casper did was duplicate the image a number of times until the width of all the duplications (including the original) roughly matched the width of the text. So that there where no OBVIOUS (again we know -_-'!) seems in the duplications, Our boffin Casper used the gradient tool to fade the duplications in and out; to do this the gradient setting must be on black to transparent and also the images must slightly be overlapping.

Once this was done, Casper merged the layers into one whole layer and walla! the image was ready to be put inside the text. How this was done was simple; the image would be put on the top (above all layer). We MADE sure that the next layer from the duplications was the text, otherwise this would not have worked. Once we made sure of that Casper held on to 'ALT' and pointed the cursor in-between the text layer and the duplications layer and a box-like symbol should appear. He clicked this and walla! the image is within the text. This gave a bright 'Orange-Fiery' Colour which set his colour scheme.

Logo such as 'BBC' 'Metropolitan Police' and 'Crime watch' were put on the poster, to give a sense of seriousness to the movement which links it back to the storyline being based on real events and issues (as terrorism is a crime and the UK are currently fighting it). Finally the logo was put onto the poster below the title.

Same process as the first