Problems

I faced various problems in the process of making this film opening, and had to overcome these problems, finding solutions to try and solve this.

One problem which I encountered was that a couple of weeks before I was scheduled to film, one of my actors refused to be in the film. This was a big problem that I faced as I needed to find somebody new, who was willing to act at short notice. Luckily however I did find somebody who said that they were willing to feature in my film. This could have been a serious problem for me, as I may not have been so lucky and found somebody else to act in my film, and could have possibly missed my deadline, or not have given myself enough time to evaluate or ask for audience feedback.

Another problem that I faced was (as stated previously) trying to get copyright free music. As I was unable to use music that is owned by somebody, I wasn’t allowed to use it is a piece of media that I am saying was made by me. Therefore, overcame this problem by downloading copyright free music, that still fitted with the genre and overall feel of my opening title sequence.

A third problem that I faced was trying to film my whole film at sunrise. I planned to do this however nobody that I talked to was willing to get up early enough to film at this time in the morning. This could have resulted in me not having any footage and unable to post anything as my final and finished opening. To overcome this problem decided to only film my flashback at the early hours of the morning. To make my other footage look darker, without filming in the morning, I was forced to use filters to make the scene look a lot darker than it actually was on the day of filming.

A problem that I could have faced would have been not having enough footage. I would notice this when editing and finding that there isn’t enough footage to fill the whole soundtrack, and two-minute target length I was given. I ensured that this wouldn’t happen to me by making sure that I filmed more than I needed, and made sure that I had spare footage that I wouldn’t need, and would become unused.

I also faced unpredictable problems such as the weather. I was originally going to have my film opening in the rain. However due to the weather being unpredictable, and me having no influence in the weather, this is one factor of my film that I had no control of and had to adapt to as I wasn’t able to do exactly what I wanted.

Another problem that I faced was trying to get sound effects for my opening. I did want to have sound effects in my opening, however found it very difficult to download sound effects as I would have had to pay a subscription to the site to access the sound effects. I was originally going to have a sound effect when it cuts to the flashback of the fairground ride. I was also going to have a sound effect of footsteps and heartbeats very quietly throughout the opening. This would have added to the effect of the opening and in my opinion would have improved it.

A final problem that I faced was trying to get the match on action shots. The match on action isn’t necessarily what needs to happen in my opening as it mainly cuts to a completely different type of shot, medium shot to extreme close up for example. I did however need to make sure that nothing changed drastically from scene to scene. I did have a slight problem that I realised whilst editing that there is a shot of the characters rolling up their sleeves, and the sleeves are rolled back down in the next scene which is a mistake of the opening, and should have been done differently. I also found it fairly difficult to piece it together and cut the clips with the piece of music. A couple of the cuts are in fact slightly out of time with the music, and is something that I had to try and do to the best of my ability.