The Process Behind Making a Film Opening: CCR

 Here I’m reflecting my experience during this project and I talk about what I learned doing it. I also reflect the techniques I used to create a more effective opening. 

The Process Behind Making a Film Opening: Final Film

 We finally finished the project! I'm really happy with this experience, I feel like I learned a lot and I'll be able to apply it to my life in the future. 

The Process Behind Making a Film Opening: Updates

So... why did we have to make changes?

It's most likely that in everything we do, our plan isn't going to go perfectly. For example, when we were planning our opening we had the idea of adding more scenes and making the scenes longer, we even recorded these scenes and shots but we couldn't add them because of the time limit. Another reason we had to make changes is because we couldn't get an actress in the scenes that we wanted so we had to cut off the scenes that is actress. At the end we think that if we had a bit more time in  the time limit we could've had a better and more effective opening because we would've been able to add the amount of shots and the scenes that we wanted to add but had to cut off.

What scenes did we have to cut off?

The most important scene that we had to cut off is the girlfriend scene. We felt that this scene added a lot to the opening since it showed that Dave wasn't even happy when he was with his girlfriend but was happy when he was making music, foreshadowing problems further in the film. We couldn't add this scene because we couldn't get the actress to go according to our schedule so it was difficult to film and we didn't want to rush this scene because it was important, so we decided to just cut it off. We also had to cut many shots from all the scenes that we wanted to show in the finished product. For example some shots from the studio scene that would have made it look better.