Final New Idea

Okay after much discussion, and frankly lots of bad things happening hindering our progression as a group we have once again changed the idea for the best. This time I honestly love this idea. This is very MAC4  if i can say so my self. Simple but good. Here's a group vlog to explain:

Youtube/Easy A Inspired Idea for Our Opening

Living in the 21st Century social media is a big aspect. People of all ages use all different types of social networking sites to communicate with people: friends, family and even strangers from all around the world. Youtube is used in 61 different countries, across 61 different languages. More than 100 hours of footage is uploaded to Youtube per minute. Many people on youtube upload Vlog and tag videos telling the world all about there lives. Communicating with people of all ages, genders and cultures. Youtube alone has allowed news and information to travel fast. Youtube the past year alone has brought us: Gangnam style, What Did The Fox Say, Harlam Shake, Shocking music videos and many many more  . So much has been contributed by youtube that they have been making Rewind videos just to illustrate a few of them. Youtube is an icon. That is why we, MAC4 want to feature Youtube in our opening as we demonstrate its power.
We have planed to use Youtube in the same sense that it was used in Will Gluk's 'Easy A'. Using Youtube to been telling a story. Our idea is to have a video from Youtube be shared on a social networking site such as Twitter. The video will be a girl, vloging, or telling her story much like Emma Stone in 'Easy A' however she is being mocked, and not taken seriously on Twitter by the timeline; however the plot thickens are the girl in the video is talk about ending her life, as she no longer wants to live. We end our two minute opening after our character in our opening spot the disgruntled girl from the video on the street.

Change of Idea

After watching our footage over and over again and thinking about our idea, we have come to the realisation that we all HATE it. The idea it self we have realised was to complcated for us to produce, constontly we were adding other new bit s to story and it was getting out of control and unachieveable for us, MAC4 to make. We want to make something good and that we would be proud to put our names; and this idea definatly was not it. After thinking it over and over, we want a very simple idea that we can make great.

Running MAC 4

Fridge Vlog

For our opening I thought an interesting shot angle could be a point of view from the fridge. I am certain this particular shot has been used many times in different films and television programes, however it is inspired by Breaking Bad. As stated in a pervious blog post not to long ago, the shot angles used are very interesting for the audience to see and it almost helps us to view the scene in a diffrent light. Therefore we thought it was time to test out this theory. This is a vlog from inside my fridge!

Final Idea for Opening Sequence

For our final idea we have decided that at the beginning you will see the back of a hooded man making a ransom letter. Then it will switch to the shot of a professional, glamourous woman returning home from work wearing sophisticated clothing. She will then find the letter but before opening it she will carry with her everyday routine e.g getting wine out of the fridge. When she finally opens the letter she drops the wine and runs and you will see the letter fall slowly and piece of the ransom left behind. You will then see her running across millennium bridge and lady smith football grounds because we think these settings will suit the story line best. While she is running, we thought it would be effective to have flashbacks of her troubled past and towards the end of the run she will have returned to her old, drug-abusing self. 
If this was to turn into a feature length film it would tell the story of what happened to the girl in order for her to be in this situation.

Song Idea?

Since the day we had finally pick an idea for our opening sequence, I had a very specific idea in my mind of how i would like it to turn out, and since that day i was listening to everything possible and  was comparing it to whether it would be good for us  to use for our opening. I had become obsessed. I was listening religiously to all times of music, blues, classical, country, house, indie EVERYTHING. Consequently of this abnormal behaviour the list of songs are growing every day. However these are just if the few which i would thing would be perfect for our film opening.

Phildel - Afraid of the dark
This was the first song which when I heard thought would be perfect for our film opening. The tone of this song is very sad also depressing. Creating a very emotional atmosphere to the opening. I thought this song would be good as it creates this particular atmosphere for the opening the viewers are left intrigued and have already imagined what sort of film it is going to be. Whether they are correct or not, they will  be determined my how the film continues.  I, personally have never heard of this song or Phildel. When watching 'Ravenswood' an American television program, In a scene of one of the characters funerals this song was playing in the background and the song was continued over from another scene. When I heard the song,straight away I  could imagine it in our opening.