9th December 2016

Today we recorded a voice over for our better preliminary task. We casted Lucas to be the male in our preliminary task as we thought he fit the role the best. The voiceover was recorded on Lucy's phone multiple times to ensure that it was the best quality available, Lucas recorded it whilst listening to ominous horror film music in order to match the speed of the music so that whilst speaking, the flow would be better. The idea to do a voiceover was inspired by the opening scene of Gone Girl where she is lying on her husbands chest, the voiceover is overlaid (asynchronous) as otherwise without the sound the opening scene would be awkward. As a group we liked the idea of this as it matched the overall way we wanted our opening to look and feel like; the opening with the voiceover shows a juxtaposition of what the two characters relationship was like before to how it is currently.

For research we looked at a lot of physiological thriller openings as this was the genre we wanted to base our opening around. An example of one of the openings we looked at was Gone Girl, Ellie had expressed that she liked Gone Girl so we then began looking more into it. We later all watched Gone Girl and said that this was the film we would use as research as not only are the actors portrayal of the characters good but also the cinematography has a large variety of shots.