Editing

Editing played an important part in our film we cut from many scenes this was increased as the tension of the chase increases. Throughout of our opening two minuets of filming we used a series of negatives to highlight the sections of the opening which our voice over is explaining. We started by using a series of shots of David White connoting to the audience that he is the main focus of the film and giving the impression that he will remain being the main focus throughout the film and the shots of the other characters show that they are important but not so much as David White. This then cuts quickly to a shot of our villain connoting that he is the bad guy in the film and raising the tension as the audience begins to realize that at some point these two characters are going to meet and something bad is going to occur. As David White realizes that he is being followed the cutting becomes faster indicating that the pace is increasing and a chase begins which seemed popular with our target audience in our questionnaire. The title sequence showing the font colour, type and the effect of the typewritter we drew form the game 'Call of Duty' we decided that this would make the font stand out against the sepia colour of the film and would connote to the audience the seriousness and intensity of the scene.

Film Inspiration

Throughout our research of various action/thriller films we decided that 'The Bourne Series' were the main film in which we drew our inspiration from. The protagonist in the film Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) was the inspiration for our hero of the film David White.

Camera Angles and Movement

We used a storyboard to outline and illistrate our ideas as well as helping us decide on camera angles and the movement of the camera so when we arrived on location we would have a set idea of what we were looking to achieve. The opening to the film we decided to have the foot of David White splashing into a puddle and from this puddle the title of our film would appear 'Blueprint' this shot of a foot would be done using a close up as to focus just on the foot and the puddle adding a sense of mystery to our opening. This shot then moves in to a longshot of David walking away from the camera and down the road where the camera next captures a long shot of him walking toward the camera and he comes closer as he walks briskly past thus connoting to the audience that he is knows where he is going and is intent on reaching his destination. The next shot we got from inspiration from the film 'Kindergarten Cop' which we had analysed in a previous media lesson. Here the villain is walking along and on another tier in the mall you can see the man stalking him appear, we used this type of shot in our film with shot of the villians had containing a knife on a extreme close up and with David White in a long shot walking past not yet clocking the villian and adding suspence to the scene as the audience are now informed of the villian being armes. Throughout the film we also used a series of close ups both of David White's and the villians faces to show the different emotions portrayed in both of them and show the audience some of their character. This made the villian seem more sinister and also made David White come across as more clever than first thought as he has known the villian has been there all along. We got our idea for the villian from the American series 'Heroes' and this also inspired our camera angles as we tryed to keep more detached from the villian and become more involved with the 'hero' of the film David White. These close up also showed the feet of both David White and the villian portraying the different speeds at which they were getting away conveying the idea of prey and predator. We decided a chase scene was necessary for our opening scene as in our questionaire this proved a popular choice for what our target audience enjoy in the opening few minuetes of an action/thriller. We also used a series of close ups to show the feet of both White and the villain to connote the pace at which they are performing the chase scene and therefore highlighting the sinister nature of the villains slow paced footsteps compared to White's fast running pace which ultimately gives him enough time to hand over the briefcase containing the brief case to one of his colleges.