Street Location

 Another scouting job was for the location of the beating and murder, that will feature as our flash back. For this we decided the best location would be on a street or estate type location.  This location will include all the typical features of an area in poverty.

This is the proposed sit for the beating location, it is an unkept area with cracks in the pavement and road, overgrown weeds, broken fencing and walls, and bleak grey buildings. It's important that this setting looks rough so the action fits into the area. Also having it as a scuzzy environment will hopefully make it a more believable piece, making the audience feel that the area is actually unsafe. This will hopefully and to the thrilling aspect of the opening sequence. 

 As far as filming is concerned to get a dingy appearance, I think it would be best to film during and adding an effect later in the editing stage using final cut. This will mean that we can get the clarity of the shot during the day, as shooting when it is actually darker out may prove difficult without sufficient lighting, of which is not available to us. And the fact it is a flash back will mean we can add other effects then just making it darker, such as contrast adjustment and burring. A quick test I tried just using iPhoto with the image was to see how just by altering the contrast and saturation can create different effects to the photo. Obviously when using imovie the effects will be able to change it much more giving me further freedom to change the shot.