inspiration

I had recently watched the 1991 Jonathan Demme film, Silence of the Lambs and thought that the titles used in the film opening were very effective, and I thought I could use aspects of it in our production, like the font, which was a courier style to give the feeling of an official typewritten document. Also, with the sond, I took inspiration from the Atonement, where the diegetic sounds of the typewriter become incoporated with the background music.

Music

The music we used was called "He's Alive" and was by a man called Derek Audette.
This was possibly the hardest part of the production, as finding half decent non copyrighted music on the internet is near impossible, it took hours of searching to find anything and the piece we chose was a last resort, however I feel that it fits very well with the special agent genre of the film, as it has a spy film theme, with the up beat and fast tempo.

Feedback for improvements

We showed the class our first cut on Monday the 6th December.
At this point our sequence was still very much un finished, we had not finished editing and not all of our titles were correct, we got the following feedback;

• To change the production company logo, and to make it bigger.
• Add faded between the pans to make it flow better.
• Add music- which was our main prority
• Add a car sound at the end of the sequence
• Add more footage or dialouge

As we had under a week to complete these changes we had to proritise, and work out what would be most benificial to our production.

Prop List

There were props we needed in our production to help achieve the genre characteristics.

• passports and credit cards
• paper work
• Keys
• Binoculars
• sunglasses to keep identity hidden
• various items of make up
• a handbag