Proposed story layout

A man signs out of a rehab centre, walks out and sits at the busstop.
Day dreams to when he was in a warzone in the army,

He is sitting there with a friend in a foxhole, they are both eating out of mess tins,
Both look rough
It is obvious that they are friends, they share a joke, he shows the other soldier a photo of his wife. He looks sad at the picture,
Other man says “mate, are you alright?”

it fades out to an old man at the bus stop saying the same thing. We realise he has said this because the bus has arrived.
We see him sit down on the bus and rest his head against the window. He pulls sits down and pulls something out of his pocket, we realise it is the same picture, looking a bit tatered and torn.
We see it a lot darker and the bus pulls up to a bus stop, we see the man get off, he looks around, very unhappy, and shuffles his jumper up because he is cold.
We see him start to walk towards a council estate.
We see him come in the front door of the house, and a woman looks at him, wanting to say something, but she can’t (she obviously has affections for him.) drop his stuff down and go and sit in the kitchen, while it Is still very dark. He puts his bag down and pours himself a drink, some leaflets fall out of a bag and we see they are for alcoholism.
He takes a swig, and puts his head in his hands. Next to him we zoom into a picture of him and his friend, with a poppy and a cross next to it…

He is on patrol with his friend, he is the section commander, and his friend is seen just over his shoulder. We then see a truck and some of the enemy getting out. He gives the signal to crouch down and he observes them more, they seem to be having an argument.
He looks around at his friend and they nod at each other.
The 8 men attack and they soon realise it is an ambush. And they get overcome with the enemy, we see two soldiers get shot and go down. We see our main character get wounded in the leg, he goes to the floor. And he’s looking around for his friend, his friend runs to him, “hold tight, I’ll go get the truck… we’re getting out of here!”
We see him run into the croud and havoc, (everything goes in and our of focus,) a large explosion is heard and a bright light is seen, everything goes quiet…

We see the girl outside the flat, she rings the door bell,
We can see her silhouette through the door.
She waits for a bit, knocks again, hesitates and then just walks away.
END

What I plan to do to my Preliminary Experiment?

With my preliminary experiment, I see a possibility of two choices. One being i can re film the whole thing, and start from scratch, or Two, I just add in extra scenes, i.e. close ups and different shots.

The second choice will be the easiest to do, as I will require much more shots, but at the same time it will be harder to do purely because I have to get both the actors back, who may be busy, and they will have to wear EXACTLY the same clothes and sit in EXACTLY the same place which will be very hard to do.

The first choice on the other hand allows me to shoot the whole thing again, meaning that I can have whoever I want act in it, I can choose a better location and also I can add a small story line to it, just to make the story seem attractive.
Giving it some thought and going over the points, I think that I will resort to filming the whole thing again, giving me a chance to make it better in literally every way.

Playlist of Films openings #2

This play-list is a list of films that I am hoping to use as inspiration for my media studies piece. As I have said below I am stuck between choice of genre, war drama and horror, this is the second play-list featuring the opening sequences of horror films.

Playlist of Films openings

This play-list is a list of films that I am hoping to use as inspiration for my media studies piece. As I am stuck between choice of genre, war drama and horror, there will be a second play-list uploaded on to this blog after with the opening sequences of horror films.
I hope that this will really help my in deciding which genre to do.

Reflection on the Practice Film

Firstly, I would like to say that I am going to completely repeat the production of this continuity experiment. I am considering this as merely a test run so I can establish what is wrong and right with my filming technique.

Starting with the bad points, whether you had noticed or not, my shot reverse shot was incorrect, both shots being shot over the right shoulder of each person. Whether you had noticed or not would have meant that the viewer would feel distorted.

Along with this the camera angles were slightly over angled, and looked odd.

The plot has the man walk in and then walk straight back out after about 15 seconds, so this does not go well for continuity and the viewer will feel a bit confused. for example, "why did the man come in in the first place just to leave straight away?"

The good points though would be that he opening was good, in how i can the camera pan across as the man walked in. Also the sound is good, as in you can clearly hear the footsteps of the man walking in and also you can hear hem speaking clearly.