Title font

I found this font on dafont.com, its called 'Nervous' and gives a distorted appearance. This is the font my group is going to use for our opening sequence.

It ties in with our opening sequence because we want to portray the girl as very nervous and panicked through camera work and we will be building up the tension throughout the sequence. We also want the viewer to feel nervous while their watching and this font will help do this.

Producing a Shooting Schedule

Producing an Animatic

Producing a series of storyboards

Copyrights use to the Hotline Miami soundtrack

Production logo used in my opening sequence

In our opening, including our titles we had to produce a logo for our mock-up production 

company which has developed the film opening. 

The logo designed is influenced by the electronic soundtrack and historical decades in which the film is set in.

The logo itself uses a series of complimentary colors which create a contrast between the forms in the logo, much like the contrast between the mother and daughter in the film. However this logo appeared to friendly to be the production company of our thriller, therefore we changed the layout of the logo and added in dark colours to make it match then genre a bit better.

This is the new logo that will appear in our final draft:

Music used in my opening

The music in this track appeals to the style of music I would pefer to use in my thriller opening, It starts with a minimal synth riff which could easily be looped to create a theme to the peice, the rapid drumbeat which accompanies, the style of the music itself fits well with the past atmosphere which we plan to create in addition, a rushed suspenseful opening which mixes elements of noire and surrealism.
This next song plays a very ambient series of melodies which I feel would could heavily accompany the climax of the opening, after the suspense has hit a high point the music slowly draws itself out to this monotone, ambient peice. Like the other track, the synthesised, 80's themed tembre produces an unsettleing series of emotions.

This final track, witchunt is unlike any other peice of music I have personally listened to.
I plan to use this track in the surrealist sequences of the opening, the mix features from ambient, electronic and darkwave peices of music create a heavilly unsettleing peice of music which again, creates a huge contrast between the two peices.

Props and Costumes

 Costumes: Considering the setting of the opening, costumes are a setpeice towards the set period and the first impressions of the character, we wanted the mother to appear 'stuck in the past' To do this the costume of the mother is dressed in classic, floral dress/shirt inspired by the 70's the outdated look of the mother will hopefully give the audience the notifications of the setting, the daughter however will wear more modern casuals, jeans and some sort of sweatshirt.

 Props: One of the key props in one location of the family's living room is a boom-box radio (appropriate for the time period) the camera tracks from a newspaper to the radio and then cross cuts to another scene. Another major prop is the kettle, which boils over time as the camera cross cuts between segments, this use of personification through the kettle boiling develops the tension and emotions behind both characters.

Choice of Actors

Hannah- 
The mother of the teenager that gets kidnapped. She is in the clips where it is set in the kitchen, Hannah will be dressed in normal, casual clothes because it is a mundane atmosphere. 

Shannen-
I will play the teenage girl running in the field away from the kidnapper because i have clothes that fit the costume that my group wants her to be wearing.

Lewis-
Lewis will play the role of the kidnapper because he is the only male in our group and we envisioned the kidnapper to be a man. He also needs to help with the camera work while me and Hannah are in the frame because the kidnapper is the character that appears least.

Dialogue

[Radio]:

‘So that’ll be coming up.

More breaking news today, there has been a significant rise in the amount of child abductions, mainly effecting females aged in their mid-teens. We would like to take this opportunity to alert both parents and children to be aware of the dangers that can arise in any neighborhood, especially late at night. Mandy Corfeild was the last recorded victim abducted in London, who has not been found.'

Our dialogue is set up to be part of a radio station playing throughout the opening sequence until the climax is reached. This sound will switch between diegetic and non diegetic sound due to the cross cutting between two locations. We are going to edit the audio quality by dropping the bass and eq level and adding in a low level of white noise to create a more immersive atmosphere. My group and I are going to do this on a music editing program called 'Audacity'.

The head of the Media department, Mr Metacalfe has previously worked in the radio buisness, announcing news bulletins, My group asked him if we could record him reading out our dialogue for our opening sequence.