Rough Cut & Improvements

The rough cut of my 2 minute opening is below:

The rough cut is only a ROUGH CUT and has been used to just put and cut the clips tougher and make sure I have the right clips and the footage is useable. In the rough cut I have tried some music but mainly the rough cut is to find issues and thinks to improve on.

From the rough cut I have found these issues:

• The first scene isn't believable enough due to the actor being a bit giggly and that the prop is not really something a 10-12 year old would play with and not for that amount of time.
• The costume of the main character is not right. The time period should be around 50 years ago as its a flash back from the older character who is in the current time period of 2013/14 so the costume of this character isn't as believable and convincing. One of the main problems is that you can see the character has a Nike logo on his jumper but also the other parts if the costume isn't of that time period.
• Some of the video isn't very clear as it isn't perfectly in focus and due to the poor lighting.

The improvements I am going to make are:

• Re-film this first scene to correct the mistakes of the costume and slight unbelievable acting.
• Add a filter to this opening to make it more like the how film and TV would be like in the time period I'm aiming for. This will probably be a sepia filter.
• Change the first scene to have different activities that are interrupted with old black and white pictures of family to emphasise they family environment and life. The activities will be better and more accurate to what a 10-12 year old would do. The new activities will be playing with/kicking a football, scoring a goal and celebrating by spinning in circles and running around, drawing especially circles and making a model of something like a plane. These scenes are more relevant to the characters age and also have been used to show the theme of circles and spinning in circles because the young boy starts questioning everything and feels like he's going in circles and confused. 

Below is a video where I am talking about the issues in my first rough cut and the improvements I will make: