My plan for the music of the opening

My idea for the background music for this opening sequence was to create an unsettling environment and to leave the viewers on edge. I created this on garage band, which is a music producing software! When making the music I layered loads of ambience's and made some louder than others to give a surreal feel to the montage and because the montage is random clips, i made the music random! The music is random, making the audience question them self and wanting to find out the story! 

I made a film poster for our film, silent minds. the picture on the poster is quite surreal and distorted because this matches the sort of  clips used in the film.

Group 27 Feed Back

- We like the font and the style of the credits, as it gives a thriller feel.
- The close up on the characters and the shots where you cannot see her face, give hardly any indication of who she is and what she's doing. This gives great sense of enigma. :)
- there are a lot of positives for instance some of the shots used, are engaging, this includes extreme close ups and close ups, which keep hold back information keeping the audience interested which in turn makes the opening sequence more successful.

however there is also some improvements needed, for example there is no direction in the story line, therefore it might make people loose interest. there should be a sense of enigma but there also needs to be a bit more structure to the sequence. another way  of improving it would be adding sound, this would help set the atmosphere and also give the audience a sense of what the genre of the sequence is. the editing needs to be improved as there are black gaps of nothing in the middle of the sequence. 

Rough Cut of Silent Minds

Film Review

Marketing Silent Minds

When marketing the film there are five main areas;

• Cinema trailers (for example playing the trailer before a film) 
• TV trailers (playing the trailer within the ad breaks, preferably at times when our target audience would be watching)
• Posters (in shopping centres or in magazine spreads)
• Promotional interviews 
• Word of mouth (showing previews and hoping people will enjoy it and tell friends and family)

Although all these methods are effective if we were to use them all this would become extremely costly. 

To find out which were the best for our fill I decided to research into what films (mainly thrillers) that were out soon were using to advertise.  

One film that I have seen advertised a lot is The Devil Inside. I have seen many trailers both on the tele and posters around college and at the cinema its self.

(One of the many posters)

 (The trailer used both on the tele and in the cinema. There are also others that have slight variations)

This was the same as many of the other films that were out at the moment due to this I feel that this would fit our film as well. 

The trailer would simply mean taking clips from the film and editing and although this may be expensive to get screen time it wouldn't be too expensive to create or time consuming.

Also the poster would simply consist of a photo shoot and photo-shopping.  

The Social Groups have we have used in our Opening.

In our opening we have explored the younger generation and the problems and situations they have to face that older people when they were younger would not have had to deal with it.
In addition we also decided that our main character would be schizophrenic as within the opening sequence this would create enigmas as the audience would be unaware of this at the time and will be wondering why the contrast in the clips and in the film as a whole the audience will be unsure of the character will do next as a result o her unpredictable mind.
Even though I am aware that schizophrenics are unpredictable in there minds I had little information on how their personalities change so I decided do a bit of research.

This was from a website called Mind (http://www.mind.org.uk/help/diagnoses_and_conditions/schizophrenia#what%20is)

Views on schizophrenia have changed over the years. Questions have been asked about whether schizophrenia is one condition or more than one syndrome with related features. These questions drive both debate and research. Although there may be some discussion over the true nature of schizophrenia, most psychiatrists will diagnose and treat in the same way.

Many people argue that when considering a diagnosis of schizophrenia it is important to think about individual experience. In this way, each symptom of schizophrenia might then be seen as a logical or natural reaction to difficult life events or life experience.

Some people argue that because psychiatric experts can’t agree about the definitions, causes, and suitable treatments for schizophrenia, it shouldn’t be used as a diagnostic category at all. 

NHS said (http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Schizophrenia/Pages/Introduction.aspx)

Schizophrenia is a long-term mental health condition that causes a range of different psychological symptoms. These include:

• hallucinations - hearing or seeing things that do not exist
• delusions - unusual beliefs that are not based on reality and often contradict the evidence
• muddled thoughts based on the hallucinations or delusions
• changes in behaviour

Doctors describe schizophrenia as a psychotic illness. This means that sometimes a person may not be able to distinguish their own thoughts and ideas from reality.

The exact cause of schizophrenia is unknown. However, most experts believe that the condition is caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors.