Our Main Antagonist

For our movie we are going to need an actor to play the antagonist, we will then put the actors name in the opening sequence. We will also need to put the names of the actresses playing the mother and daughter but we will make those up.
After some research I've have some good ideas for who should play our main antagonist:

• John Travolta: After seeing his role as 'Ryder' in 'The Taking Of Pelham 123' I think that John Travolta would be a perfect antagonist for our movie. In this movie we see Ryder take hostages on a train in new York and threatens to kill them if he does not get the amount of money he wants and Johns performence brings the character of Ryder to life. 

• Kevin Spacey: It was Kevin's role in seven that really made me want him for this role. In Seven, Kevin plays the Psychopathic killer John Doe. The character of John Doe is not what we are looking for in our main antagonist but Kevin Spacey Performance shows that he can play an amazing bad guy.

• Vincent D'Onfrio: Vincent plays the character of Wilson Frisk in the TV series 'Daredevil'. His character would be perfect for our main antagonist.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Offical Movie Logo.

We decided to remove the AK-47 part of our movie name and keep it as Ace Kurtis as we want to focus on the playing cards more other than the military background.

The Playing Cards- What Do They Mean?

I've already stated that the playing cards on the clue board represent the family and the suspects, however we decided to add more to the story so the cards make more seance and so that they have a purpose. We have decided to add the fact that the main antagonist and protagonist were former best friends and used to play a card game called 'killer'. After the kidnapping occurs, Ace is left with a pack of cards and a note. The cards helps Ace know who he is looking for and Ace has to play the game again...in real life.

Journal- Footage Review 2 (23/2/1017)

After another look at the footage we noticed that we could get more marks for our opening sequence which means we are going to need to re-shoot once again. We noticed that we could possibly lose marks for mise-en-scene as some things in shot should not be there. Also to get more marks we are going to:

• Have a wide shot of the bedroom.
• Add 3 more shots of our main character changing clothes.
• Have a variation of shots.
• The phone alarm will be heard from a black screen before being revealed.
• The phones screensaver will be a picture of the main protagonists family (Wife and Daughter) 

Journal- Editing- (22/2/2017)

After putting all the clips into Adobe Premiere, we found out we had about 4 minutes and 30 seconds of footage to edit down to just 2 minutes which meant we had a lot to cut out. The idea of the opening is to show short clips that show the morning routine of our main protagonist. Cutting it down into shorter clips allowed us to to create a sequence less than 2 minutes however we may need to cut more than we intended to. We also thought it was a good idea to put the Warner Bros and New Line Cinema animation at the beginning to make it seem professional.

Journal- Reshooting (21/2/2017)

during our free periods we decided to re-shoot the scenes that we thought were not perfect for our opening sequence. we re-shot the opening were our main character is in bed and his alarm goes off as the times on the phone and the radio were different and could be obviously seen. This was the only scene we decided to re-shoot in the first half of our opening sequence, the rest of the scenes occurred in the second half were our main protagonist is downstairs. we re-shot the scene were we see his feet walk down the stairs as we wanted to put a toy on the stairs to show the enigma that he has a child.  we decided to shoot the scene were he puts the wedding ring on and reveals the police badge from two different angles at once (birds eye view and a close up). We then re-shot the scenes were he makes his coffee as we wanted to shoot it from a different angle. The final scene we re-shot was when he finally looks at the clue board containing the playing cards as the clue board itself did not look good enough for the final product so we decided to add more playing cards to it which represent the character we will see throughout the film. We then looked at the footage and decided that we was ready to start editing our final sequence.

Journal- Footage Review

After reviewing our footage we noticed that we are going to need to re-shoot some scenes as in some scenes the camera is not steady and some other mistakes have been spotted. we are going to need to re-shoot approximately 7 of the scenes we shot the make sure our opening is perfect. We are going to re-shoot these during school times on 21/2/2017.

Journal- Filming- Day 2 (16/2/2017)

For the second day of filming, we had our props ready and we was able to film the second half of the opening sequence. One change we had to make was the fact that we did not have a gun for our main character, so we used a reasonable substitute and used a bat which would add a slight element of comedy as it is not a normal weapon that someone who is an ex-marine and former detective would use to fight crime. Also the clue board is made from 4 playing cards which are two queens, a joker and a king. these cards represent the mother, daughter, antagonist and the main character, the TV series Daredevil inspired us for this idea. The second half of the opening sequence shows our character downstairs when it becomes more obvious that our character has a family as we see children's toys and him put on a wedding ring.

Journal- Filming- Day 1 (14/2/2017)

We filmed the first half of the opening sequence as we did not have the props for some scenes, such as the kids toys, the weapon and the clue board. Therefore we only filmed the upstairs shots first were we see our main character getting out of bed to him getting changed into his suit and bomber jacket for his mission. We took many shots and decided which one was the best however we may need to re-shoot in the future.

Typography

For when our text comes up in our opening sequence, the typography will need to relate to the genre of the film. Our main character is a ex-military solider and currently works for the police force as a detective so we could use a military or police type font. Some Examples we have are:

A potential logo we could use:

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Our song for our opening sequence.

We decided to go for a rock song as it suits the action genre of the film. We got the idea from Zombieland to use a rock song as they did the same for their opening sequence. The Zombieland opening shows over the top zombie attacks whilst rock music plays over it which is a similar element we would like to use. I also like the beginning as it feels like the build up to action (someone getting ready for a mission)

Institutions

The production company may be directly responsible for fundraising for the production or may accomplish this through a parent company, partner, or private investor. It handles budgeting, scheduling, scripting, the supply with talent and resources, the organization of staff, the production itself, post-production, distribution, and marketing.Production companies are often either owned or under contract with a film studio, entertainment company, or Motion Picture Company, who act as the production company's partner or parent company. This has become known as the "studio system". They can also be mainstream, independent, or completely independent. In the case of television, a production company would serve under a television network. Production companies can work together in co-productions.

Film distribution is the process of making a movie available for viewing by an audience. This is normally the task of a professional film distributor, who would determine the marketing strategy for the film, the media by which a film is to be exhibited or made available for viewing, and who may set the release date and other matters. The film may be exhibited directly to the public either through a movie theater or television, or personal home viewing. For commercial projects, film distribution is usually accompanied by film promotion.For our film we needed a distributor and production company so our group researched different companies to suit our film. In the end, we decided to go with New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. We decided to go with these as they have produced many films that work with the genre we are using. They have helped make action comedies such as Rush Hour and Central Intelligence. Both companies are own by the same people so it makes sense that we would pick these two companies.

Opening Sequence Inspiration: Dexter

Our main character is not a psychopathic killer like Dexter, however our group was inspired by the opening sequence and want to use the same elements for ours. Just like Dexter, we want to use lots of close up shots and zoom ins. We also plan not to reveal the identity of our main character until the end of the opening sequence. Our close ups and zoom ins will set enigmas to what has happened to our character as our opening will be set after the kidnapping of our main protagonists family has happened.