Our New song.

After deciding that the original song we chose did not suit our opening sequence, we decided to change it. We have still kept the concept of choosing a rock song as it suits the genre, however i feel this song suits the sequence more.

Creating The Opening Titles.

Whilst Shyam was finishing editing the Opening sequence, me and Razi started to work on the titles that were gonna come up on the screen. We gave each other different titles to do, I was given the first few titles that would come up on screen and Razi had the other half.
First of all, I had to learn how to create the titles, when i did i started to experiment. I created all different animations as i wanted to see which ones would look best. I experimented how they would look when they came on screen and off. When i finished i gave the titles to shyam and we started to put them onto the opening sequence and we started to figure out where they would go.

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.