Changes to our OTS

Whilst creating our OTS we made a few changes along the way, sometimes do to the difficulty of an idea and some to improve aspects of our sequence.
We added a scene with a cigarette burning on the floor first of all. This was mainly due to the lighting of it and to add an enigmatic atmosphere to the scene.
We added a part in one of the scenes where it looks like the male character and the female are exchanging something as opposed to just talking and walking away. We decided to do this because it makes the scene look a bit more dark, and like the two characters have a set agenda and aren't just talking randomly.
We also added stills to the first scene, mainly to mix the setup a bit, so that its not just film. Also this effect makes it look a bit more like a crime-scene and not just a guy laying on the floor.

Copyright

As our OTS will be a silent film, we needed to create a good enough soundtrack for it to fill the gap where there would usually be audio.

 "For all other AS and A2 video, copyright audio MAY NOT be used. Soundtrack must be original or from a royalty free source. could however mean that the students perform an existing song/piece of music themselves- as the audio is made by them."

This was taken from one of the OCR websites. Although we know that we're not allowed to use someone else's song for our soundtrack, we've mashed together two songs and edited them slightly so that they match each other and our OTS. Therefore we've created our own soundtrack and won't be infringing copyright laws.

Lou Reed - 'Perfect Day' and Iggy Pop - 'Nightclubbing' are the two songs we've used for our OTS. They fit the desolate, moody and atmospheric vibe that we are aiming for in our OTS. As well as this, the lyrics in Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day' contrasts heavily with the scene in which it's used in our OTS, which puts a strong emphasis on the footage. Iggy Pop's 'Nightclubbing' is used during the scene where the femme fatale is introduced, as it has a mysterious and almost seductive vibe.