Problems

As most of my film is shot inside of my house, due to Christmas decorations being put up I am unable to film re-shots of my film inside of my house as the continuity of my film will not be correct, therefore I am unable to re-shoot for about two weeks.

Items to add to The Wrong Turn

As some of my shots are too long and therefore do not give the effect on the audience which I wanted therefore I have decided to use a montage sequence when Alice walks into her kitchen for the first time; I will montage a sequence of usual household appliances in the kitchen.

Voiceover

For the voice over at the start of my opening sequence I want it to be quite mysterious and make the audience ask questions and want to watch the rest of the film.

Possible voice overs at the start of my film are:

I know what I've done and I know what I haven't, other people don't know the true story, them other people only believe what they read in the paper and I don't care what they think because I know the truth I know why I came here ... to start a new life, no, not a new life a new... start. To forget about my past forget what happened and this time do it the only way I know I can... the right way... my way.

While Alice is saying the voice over we will see her car from a long shot and parts of the car and her body and we won't see her face until she comes out of the car completely, when she arrives at her house.

I have also been looking at music to play during the voice-over with lyrics that relate to what Alice is saying; one possibility of this is Lana Del Rey's- Born to Die and what I would play specifically is the verse between 01:37-01:54 when Lana Del Rey sings- 

You like your girls insane
Choose your last words
This is the last time
Cause you and I, we were born to die



 I like these particular lyrics as they have hidden meaning in what Alice is feeling as she is saying that she wants to die

Another possibility is Lana Del Rey's 'Ride' the part in particular the verse-

I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast
I am alone in the night
Been tryin' hard not to get into trouble, but I
I've got a war in my mind
So, I just ride


 

I think this verse fits in perfectly as she sings that she is trying hard not to get into trouble like Alice is also trying not to get into trouble but the voice over suggests that she also doesn't care if she does. I think that when Alice pulls into the driveway of her house and she can then turn off the radio as Lana Del Rey heads into the chorus, as this will be the perfect time to stop the music as we go into a close up of Alice turning off the radio.

New Ideas to add to The Wrong Turn

When Alice is driving the car in the opening sequence of the wrong turn I am going to have music playing which Alice will turn off after she has arrived at her house. The music I am going to play for this is the music from the opening titles of The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo, and just as the singer starts to sing, this is when Alice will turn the radio off and walk out of her car.


 

Ideas to add to the third draft of The Wrong Turn 'Taxi Driver'

I have looked at various films to add more shots in the opening sequence to add more shots of Alice's car before we see her come out of her car when she arrives at her house; I have looked at the film Taxi Driver by Scorsese  who uses various montage sequences of De Niro’s Taxi which he drives around New York in. This is how I will start the opening sequence with various shots of parts of the car which Alice is driving; as I think this will look effective for the opening sequence. 

 

 

I will create this shot of the back of the car, but I will have the street sign of the street of which Alice is moving into.

 

 

I will also create this shot of the wing mirror, but instead of the rain reflecting on it, I will have various other cars.

 

Just off the street which Alice is moving into there are various shops, which I will film to create this shot.

 

I also like this shot of the traffic lights which I will use in the opening sequence of the film  but I will show red and green.

 

I really like these shots of De Niro in the taxi with the reflection of the traffic lights on the windscreen. But as I cannot create this I am going to film a shot of Alice in the car and then a shot of the traffic lights and expose this onto the windscreen so it looks like it is reflecting.

 

Second Draft of The Wrong Turn

This is my second draft of The Wrong Turn, and there are still slight adjustments I have to change due to various things like, poor camera work, the lighting of the shots are too dark and various other things.

To the start of my film I am going to add some shots of Alice driving the car from a long shot leading to her house, I have watched various clips from films to take ideas from these.



This is a scene from the film Bullitt which has a car chase scene in it. They have used various shots to create the effect which this film has.
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To create this shot they have used a trailer to shoot. With a set film crew on the trailer to shoot the shot, as well as not having a windscreen of the car, although I do really like this shot it would not be possible for me to re-create this.



This is a 3 and a half minute tracking shot taken from Touch of Evil, the opening scene. The shots which I want to create are 57 seconds to 1:07 wen the camera tracks the car as Alice is driving to the house.


Between 8 seconds and 11 seconds I really like the shot of the road as the car is driving, I am going to try and re-create this in the opening of my film by either film the road while I walk and then speed this up on the edit suite. An alternative for this is placing the camera onto something like a skateboard and tilting the camera down slightly and then moving the skate board down slightly filming this and altering the speed on the edit suite.

Some of the problems are as Alice was walking into her house we did not see her step onto the front step as the next shot is a medium shot of her. Therefore I am going to add a shot of her walking up the front step.

As Alice walks into the house it is too dark and therefore the camera quality looks poor, so I want to re-shoot this. Also to improve the quality of the shot I am going to open the living room door therefore I will need to re-shoot when Alice walks through the living room as the lighting between the shots change; so I will change this and shoot all of these shots again to ensure the lighting is the same.

As Alice opens the door to go through the kitchen, I have made this red so it is like she is entering a danger zone and this red then fades out, although due to the darkness in the room the quality is not perfect so the shot does not looks as good if it was clearer therefore I am going to re-shoot.

After Alice has opened the door to the kitchen I am going to have a montage sequence, shown in the clip below, of household appliances as this shot as she is walking around the kitchen is slightly to long and boring and does not create the effect I wanted it too. Also as I followed Alice around the kitchen and I cut her off from the shot.