Updated Equipment & Prop List

Updated equipment list:
This was the equipment we used on Saturday to film.
We will be using the same equipment on Wednesday, along with an external light, rope and lighter as two extra props. We wont be using a photo, padlock or paperclip from the original prop list.

Zippo

The above pictured Zippo is the lighter that we used during the second shoot after the change of storyboard. The Zippo s use throughout the opening was short but it was essential as it guided the character to be able to switch on the light. The black colour was used over my other silver coloured one because it blended into the shadows more and so was more subtle in that the audience spectates at this objects entrance to the opening sequence, creating a short moment of curiosity to what it is, creating slight tension. Thriller movies have often used fire to light situations, however I found a couple of Thrillers included a zippo in their opening sequence, such as Buried, pictured below. This prop goes into thriller conventions. 

Buried, Zippo used by Protagonist

Rope

Although this is not the same rope that we used in our opening sequence it is very similar however the one we featured was green. In the context of our story, I think the rope was appropriately used for the torture/prisoner character we used in the opening. Thrillers often use Torture scenes, however ours did not show any torture but Thriller such as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Prisoners do show it. Below you can see the film Prisoners portraying their character who has been a prisoner and gone through torture.

Prisoners film

 Canon 600D DSLR:

This was simply the camera we filmed on, it allowed us to shoot a slow-motion part at a reasonable resolution of 1280 x 720 (720p). I captured the footage as .mov files because often it keeps a better video quality than others such as AVI. Slow-motion footage can be seen below and this was heavily influenced by the slow-motion scene that I had analysed in my section 3 of G321, read it here along with the clip on YouTube here.

 Ross Tripod

The tripod was required to be used to capture the steady opening shots, although less than half of our clips actually used a tripod because it broke up the fluidity of the video and therefore we shot by hand which also allowed us to have more control over the focus and zoom on the lens. 

External Light

As above you can see the light we used in our shoot, the purpose of which was to patch up our previous mistake of lack of lighting which produces the film to become grainy therefore my new storyboard that I created incorporated this light to create reason for light to be in the room and to remove any possible grain to the film.