we have started the filming for our opening sequence. foe the film i am doing the editing, omar is the director and is helping out with everyone, abdul is doing the cinematography and abdi is doing the sound. our film contains mainly of extreme close ups and close ups. this inspiration came from the film se7en.

i've created three aticles for my opening sequence which will be used in the film.

Our Inspirations That We Got From Se7en

the opening sequence of Se7en had caught our eyes as soon as we saw it. the opening sequence starts with close-ups and extreme close-ups which makes th film build tension. the effcet of these close-ups and extreme close-ups creates an atmosphere and builds tension as the audience that are watching thistry to figure out what the film is trying to hide as they cant see much from the cloe-ups and exteme close-ups. this use of cinematography will definatly be considered and used for our opening sequence for "Checkmate".

Opening Sequence Of Se7en

yesturday we finally had our actor acting for us. his acting was really good and his appearance did look like a russian person as we wanted someone to look like the russian pshco killer. we film couple of clips with this actor and have now decidid that he will be our actor for this opening sequence.

we chose to have an actor from the performing arts but the actor we chose isnt very reliable as hr does not attend college often so we chose to do the acting ourself.

Today we started recording the opening sequence.We didnt record the actuall footage but recorded a tester which we had a group member of ours which we recorded then we analysed everything on the computer by watching the clip.

Today me and my group should hopefully be filming our opening sequence if everything goes to plan. we have deciede that we are not goin to act in the film but have an actor from the perfofming arts. Today we are only going to film the little minor things that our film will contail such as the radio that will be in the film and etc.

Were we got our inspiration from and why we have chosen this for our film

My story line for our openening sequence for our film is based in a real life story. This story is about a russain lunatic which kills people for no reason and records his death on a chess board. We decided to use a real life story behind this film as you can engage a large audience and there would be peole that would be intrested to watch a film which is re-created after a real life situation.