Commentary of The Other Side

The Other Side

This is my final opening of the film 'The Other Side' 

Starring 

Will Driver as DCI Mike Denzey 

Andrew Parker as Drug Dealer (chase sequence)

Me as Drug Lord ( face not seen) 

Planning:Sound

This is the main song which I used this was chosen because I wanted to show how lonely the main character is as the music very quiet and very moving. The use of the this music is from http://freeplaymusic.com/search/keyword_search.php this is to be used at my Digression.

  

This is the soundtrack to the chase sequence, mainly because of the pace of the music. After editing the chase sequence itself i then chose this piece of music from http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/ this is a royalty free music website which allows me to use the music for free. 

Originally i sent an email to Pendulum to use their song 'The Other Side' but I was unfortunate not to get a reply this song would have worked well with the opening to my film. 

Planning:Locations

These are the locations which I used to make the opening to my film

Mike Denzey's house- I decided to have a desk which is in a room which is not in a clean room to show he is not at home as he is a workaholic mainly this is for the characterisation of Mike Denzey the location does hold all of the requirements for the location I wanted to portray in the film.






The Drugs Lords Office-
I decided to have the drugs lords office in a dark location with very little lighting this would allow me to have a dark spots where the drugs lords identity can be hidden allowing for the audience to ask questions of the drug lord like who he is?




Henslow Road- 
I decided that the chase scene would work best in a side street of Ipswich not only for convinence but also the chase on a back road would have allowed the chase to be in a normal road adding a more realistic feel to the sequence, this was not my first location I wanted to use I was originally going to use an industrial estate.

Planning: Props

These are the props I used for the opening of the film

Police badge- I used this mainly because I wanted to have an action code to show that the main character was a policeman. I used photoshop to create the police badge itself and I found an old card holder to construct the case for the card. d

The Briefcase and large drugs- These are mainly for the drugs lord and I have used this to show that the the character is a drug lord as he has drugs and a briefcase, I decided to show it in this way for the audience to have an idea of who this character is what what the plot may be for the whole of the film.

The small packets- i chose to use a set of small packets for the chase scene this allowed me to give the audience a reason for him to be running away from the main character also it allows for the sequence to set the scene for what may happen 

Planning:Editing

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A screenshot of me editing 

To Edit my opening I have used Sony Vegas this allowed my edit my opening with a professional quality and accuracy the suite is very easy to use with splitting clips, adding transitions to the piece and also adding many different effects which are included on the software which adds to the piece as well. I have learnt alot about using the Sony Vegas Software.

Planning: Titles

I have made a title sequence for my film opening

After looking at titles from films such as catch me if you can and harry brown I able to establish that the best use of title would be to have titles which are on black because this would allow me to have a set of titles which are not a sequence on there own because this would not be the best use of time as we only have two minutes.