Sound

Throughout our clip, narration, music and sound effects will be used.

Narration - The narration will be spoken by a male, this will be the only voice heard the duration of the opening. The male will be speak in a soft manor and slowly to entice the emotions of the audience.

Sound Effects - At various points of the clip, sound effects will be heard in the background. These will add to the story that the narrater is telling and help the audience to understand it more clearly. The sound effects that are going to be used are:

• Crashing sound of car
• Echoing of laugh
• Door Slam
• Sound of Handcuffs closing

We think that the noise of these in the background will add to the feel of the movie and make it more dramatic which will intrigue the audience.  We began looking for free sound effects on line but after we realised that the sound effects we needed were all provided on final cut pro.

Music - There will always be music heard in the background of our clips, at different points of this clip the music will become increasingly loud and at other times increasingly softer. This will help add to the feel of our clip and add to the emotions of our audience. It will also make the genre of our clip more clear as its romantic with a sad, dramatic feeling. Songs that we are thinking of using are:

Costume

All of the costume in our film we have decided would be best being casual - this therefore makes it more natural. Below find different collages of different outfits of the style we are considering.

Above is a combination of different outfits we think would be suitable for our female character. We want to go with a summery casual look. Although the above outfits aren't the costume we will be using, it gives a fair idea of what we are aiming for with pastel colour blouses, skirts, jeans and skirts.

The baby in the film we will be using from our already existing home video footage. Therefore it is hard to say very much about what there costume is. However the above collage gives a rough idea of the costume - the baby in the home videos in wearing typical clothes for a baby colourful skirts, tops, baby grows. Again this all add's the natural effect we are trying to portray with our film.

Above is a collage of the costume we are wanting to use for the male character. Again, the above pictures is not exactly what the character would be wearing though gives a fair idea of where we want to go with his costume. This will involve shirts, possibly with slogans, jeans and jackets. This is all typical clothes to man/teenage boy today, therefore preserving the reality of the overall film.

Above you can see a rough idea for the style of costume for the male from whom the flashbacks are coming from. He will be wearing typical blue denim jeans in a plain, blank white top. Therefore the above collage gives a better picture of how we will have this character dressed. We think that by keeping his costume so simple, it will draw attention more towards the setting. We again want to try create as real a look as possible therefore trying to maintain the naturalness of the scene.

Editing and Camera Angles

Editing and Camera Angles:
The methods of editing we have decided to use in out clip are:

• Dissolve - We are going to use dissolve in our clip as it will add to the sense of distant memories and allow the audience to understand that some of the clips are from the past. The images on screen will fade-in and fade-out allowing some images to overlap working some shots to come together. A dissolve is when one shot fades out while another one fades in simultaneously. The result is a blurring together of two images.This indicates the passage of time and the flashbacks of these memories. 
• Slow Motion - Throughout our clip slow motion will be used at various points. This will also help portray the sense of distant memories, but will also make the scene seem more dramatic and help draw the audiences emotions in. 
• Bridging Shot - This shot will portray the discontinuity in the clip and the jumps of time from each of the scenes. 
• Ellipsis: This refers to periods of time that have been left out of the narrative. The ellipsis is marked by an editing transitions which, while it leaves out a section of the action, nonetheless signifies that something has been elided. 
• Fade in -  The screen is black at the beginning; gradually the image appears, brightening to full strength. This will help make the opening of the film more dramatic and draw the audience in.
• Whip pan - A type of pan shot in which the camera moves sideways so quickly that the picture blurs into indistinct streaks. It is commonly used as a transition between shots, and can indicate the passage of time. 
• Shallow Focus - This keeps only one plane in sharp focus; the opposite of deep focus. This keeps the focus of the audience of one aspect of the scene. Shallow focus suggests psychological introspection, since a character appears as oblivious to the world around her/him. It is therefore commonly employed in genres such as the melodrama, where the actions and thoughts of an individual prevail over everything else.
• Focus Pull - The focus pull is useful for directing the viewer's attention. For example, if there are two people in shot but only one is in focus, that person is the subject of attention. If the focus changes to the other person, they become the subject. We will use to this to draw the audiences attention to the  specific aspect of each scene we want the most focus to be on. 

Letter

This letter was written by someone who was in a car crash. I think we could take some ideas from this, there are some points within it which we wanted to add into our story. 

As the car made contact with my fragile body, all our memories passed by my eyes. I didn?t think about the pain. I thought about the things I would miss: My High School graduation, getting married, having children. And then, I thought about you. Your smile, your soft hair, the sound of your laugh. All of that would be gone, out of my reach, but the memories will never fade. I will never forget you. You will eventually move on, but all I ask from you, is remember me. Remember our good times, and remember our bad times. Remember our fights, and remember our apologies.

My body lands in a heap on the side walk. Blood forms a pool around me. I hear screams from all directions. The car swerves and hits a tree. The driver, injured and clearly intoxicated, stumbles out of the car to my side. ?I?m so sor-? He slurs before I lose consciousness.

After what feels like century , I come to my senses. Brief images are played like a movie. People are yelling as ambulances arrive on scene. I formed a lump in the back of my throat, when I saw that you weren?t there. The pain of the accident sank in, and I quietly cried out in pain. My Mother rested my head on her lap as she silently wept.

A car tore down the road and stopped by one of the ambulances. Out you stepped of car and my slowing heart skipped a beat. Before you could get to my body, a paramedic stopped you and said something I could not hear. You ran past him to my side and knelt down. Tears streamed down your face. 
?I love you,? You choked. I could feel myself being lifted up onto the stretcher.
You took hold of my hand, and kissed me on my bloody lips. I looked you straight in the eyes and said, ?I love you too?, but it only came out as a whisper. Doctors all around me rushed, but it was as if they were in slow motion.
I realized that my final seconds were passing. I gripped your hand and said,

?Don?t forget me?, as my heart beat it?s last time.

Super 8

We have decided that in our film opening we would like to incorporate the style of super 8. We think that this will add more individuality to our clip and will make it more unique to other clips being made. Because of this we need to research into different methods of this style being used. Some useful examples we have found:

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The use of super 8 in both of these clips has helped us understand the effects it have. It shows how easily it is to portray a sense of memory in a film. The old style shows it as an event that happened distant in the past. With the addition of dissolving titles on top of this will also add to the sense of memory in the opening clip.

Images:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd87_jjK1-8

Blog

Check this blog out as well Maria - this contains letters from different people to anyone that they loved that has passed away. I think this would be a useful place to get some idea's for our monologue.

Letters to the dead - Blog

Script Ideas

For the narration in our clip we want to have the voiceover speaking of emotions. For this we want the wording to have an impact on the motions of the watching audience. Possible quotes we are going to use:

• "The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." 
• "Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same."
• "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
• "Death must be great, because no one has come back from it."
• "A farewell is necessary before you can meet again".

Script Draft:

Charlie: Someone once said, "The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.". However, i like to think life is just the beginning, death must be so great, because no one has came back to tell me differently.. 

*music begins in the background* 

36 days, 5 hours, and almost 27 minutes. 

Since that moment. That one moment. One split moment. Changed it all. 

*noise of car crashing* 

..Remember that time we went to the park, that park with the biggest maple tree we'd ever seen. 
Where it started off as a beautiful sunny day, then out of no where the rain came pouring down. I thought you'd be mad, but your laugh was so loud and you just couldn't hold it in.*echoes laugh* Almost to the point you were laughing with tears in your eyes. That was the moment, the moment I knew I couldn't live my life without you. Who would have thought such a simple moment would change the rest of my life...
Words are all I have. A pen. Some paper. And the words I write down. Thats all I have. No romantic gesture, no grand apology, no excuse or reason to make all this disappear. Not even a goodbye. But 47 years to sit in these 4 walls and think about it. Just think and relive that one moment that defined everything..
*doors slam*
So here it is.. my letter.. explaining it from my point of view.. my story being told.. the night i lied to the police, to confess to a crime someone else did. Someone who i made a vow to love and protect no matter what. Was it really the right thing to do? or did i make a mistake, a mistake decided in a moment, a mistake that cant be undone, a mistake perhaps so insignificant as it wont bring back the life of an innocent child.  
*sound of ambulance*
child who will never experience graduation, marriage or having a kid of their own. all because of a moment. a moment that defined what their life will always be remembered by. 
What is someone suppose to do when the person they protect doesn't protect them, the person who moves on in a matter of weeks, and betrays the love use once had together.. nothing but manipulation. 
*sounds of handcuffs* 

all my love, charlie