- we went out to the location to do some more shots to place at the beginning of our opening, originally the opening started with small clips of tree's at worms eye view, that looked like blinks. it was supposed to give the audience a feeling that they were looking at the sky, so they felt included, and could see what the character would be seeing. however, after reviewing the opening we felt the blinks were too robotic and didnt feel natural, and the effect wasnt working how we would have liked. we then decided to shoot some more footage, some location shots, to give a background and set the scene to the opening, as we were going straight in with the narrative orginally. this also gives a better background for the titles, and is something often seen in movie openings, such as Donnie Darko, which is a psychological thriller much like ours. This also gives more flow to the piece, and it starts off quite slow, with slow pans of still scenery, then builds up to a point, so the tension builds right and the piece works better as an opening, in the original edited version our peak was at the beginning and then the tension was lost towards the end, which didnt work right, so we have might a drastic change to how the piece flows and builds.
- we shot a compressed time piece, which was of a male protagonist walking towards the camera. with chunks of the walking cut our and a fade between the shots, to speed up the piece and give the illusion of time passing quite smoothly, it keeps the piece very fluid to start with, as we wanted the opening to begin slow paced and then pick up
- we did some panning long shots of tree's and woods, at an awkward off angle, somewhere between eye level and high angle shot, we also deliberately decided not to level the tripod, to give an eerie distorted feel.
- the use of the dead character lying by the tree makes the audience aware something is about to happen, it is also deliberately confusing and is something that will be later worked out in the film, as it is partly a mystery thriller, it would be explained why the boy had died so suddenly.
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