Synopsis 

At the end of our 2 minute sequence, the clones see each over and notice that their are 3 other people who look exactly the same. They then come together and come to terms that they are clones as they are exact replicas but with different personalities due to them all being brought up differently. This is represented with each clone wearing different clothes and the body language that they possess. While these clones are trying to adapt to the fact that there is more than one of them, they find themselves being tracked down by the government and have to go on the run. As the clones all have different ideas and personalities, one of them gets separated from the group as he wants to be alone but then gets caught and shot by a government agent. The clones then all react in different ways and go out to find the scientist that created them to find answers about their existence. They find that their fates were set out for them and the government knew where they were all the time because of a micro chip embedded inside of them. They are also told that they were used for an experiment to track the emotions each individual clone was feeling as they have been nurtured in different ways.

Opening Sequence

The opening two minutes of the production will start up with a blank screen which will then be split up into four sections. Each section represents a different clone which will feature in our opening scene. The clones will be doing the same task in each section but will be dressed differently and their body language will represents a certain mood which the clone will play on as the film progresses, each clone will also be placed in a different location. This could be done by a type of parallel cut or graphic match to represent this. The opening sequence will finish off by all clones coming together in one location. While one clone is in the centre of prospective the camera will cut to a pan shot which will reveal the rest of the clones, this will be the first time all the clones will be together. Controversy none of the clones notice each other. This is a effective way to start our opening sequence as it adds mystery towards the audience. At first the audience doesn't quiet understand all four clones are linked together. This will surely keep the audience engaged until the main plot is revealed at the end of the 2 minutes.


Sounds-Non diegetic (Buses, Trains, People walking)
Diegetic- Music
No dialogue 

Editing-Graphic matches, cuts, Dissolves/Wipes, shot reverse shot

Camerawork- Tracking shots, pan shots, low angels which pan into high angles,Medium shots, over the shoulder shots, POV, wide shots, establishing shots

Working title: clones 

This is a slideshow of research about films relating to clones, this helped to gain some ideas for our own production. The opening sequences to some films were helpful in using specific techniques and ideas in our own, the plots of some films were also good to build on our story.

Dolly

I was taking a look at this website to gather some knowledge on the history of cloning.

Preliminary Work

BLACKMAIL ORIGINAL SCRIPT

Setting: a typical school computer suite. Mr. Price is sitting at a desk opposite Sarah a female student who attends the school, they are in the middle of a conversation. While this is happening, another student, Brian, is watching through the door suspiciously.

Mr. Price:

                  I’m sorry Sarah but I don’t see how this is going to work

Sarah:

No one will find out It will be fine

Mr. Price:

It’s way too risky, I could lose my job over this

Sarah:

But...

Mr. Price:

(Cutting in with raised voice)

No Sarah, it has to stop right now !

 (Pause)

Mr. Price picks up the pieces of paper on the next table and analyses it. He sighs deeply.

Mr. Price:

Here’s your essay, I wanna hear no more about this okay?

Sarah nods and rises from her seat

Mr. Price:

Alright then, off you go

Sarah walks out of the classroom to find Brian waiting outside the door, she walks into him by accident and drops her bag. She franticly picks up all of her belongings and runs away, leaving a letter on the ground. Brian picks up the letter and reads it. He then angrily walks into the classroom.

This is our original script which we didn't completely stick to as we thought improvising would make the scenes feel more naturalistic. We also added another scene so that the plot could tie together and can be seen in the video above.


Story Board

Brian looking through the classroom  door at Mr. Price and Sarah (who are off screen) This is a medium shot.

Here we have a cut-in shot of Mr. Price and Sarah who are currently in love. This is a medium two shot.

The conversation then leads to Mr.Price trying to explain to Sarah that they have to stop meeting as they could get caught and his job will be in danger.
This is still a medium two shot.

Here we have a long shot of Brian in the corridor bursting through the doors in anger. The shot cuts into the class where brian confronts Mr price

Here we have medium shots which cut back from Brian and Mr. Price, Brian then tries to blackmail his teacher who could potentially lose his job.

Shot List

1. MS Brian looking through the door
2. MTS Mr. Price and Sarah talking at a table 
3. MS Brian at the door who runs away, camera zooms in down corridor
4. MTS Mr. Price and Sarah at table, pan of the classroom as Sarah leaves the room
5. LS of corridor as Brian bursts through doors
6. OTS Brian walking into classroom
7. MS which cuts back from Brian and Mr. Price

Dexter Intro Recreation

This is our classes own recreation of the intro to the program Dexter, we attempted to use the same techniques, timing etc. to make is as similar as possible. The whole intro was 2 minutes long but i only edited the first 30 seconds as we split the workload into four groups.

This is the setup for Final Cut Pro which had to be configured before using the program. Because we live in the UK we use PAL. The rate we need to use for Final Cut Pro is 25 frames per second.

This is the system settings option we had to configure so that everything saves in the right place for the future.

Here we learnt how to save our files to certain areas, this was our First lesson on Final Cut Pro.

Here we learnt to add text on Final Cut Pro and add it to the video, we also learnt how to change the colour of the text and font etc.

Here you can see the text added to the timeline, where you can rearrange it and resize them if you wish them to be shorter or longer.

This is the program SoundTrack Pro which we used to get more sounds which you couldnt find on FinalCut. We learnt how to export these sounds and then import them on to FinalCut Pro.

My Media Consumption

I believe that Microsoft are the main consumers of my money as my computer is a PC and the software which runs it is owned by Microsoft. I also have an Xbox which is owned by Microsoft and the hardware costs a lot of money. The online subscription also costs a substantial amount of money per year so plenty of money and time is devoted to the business power house that is Microsoft.