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.