Thursday 24 March 2011

Other thrillers

What we found out that with other thrillers we watched clips of, we found that the beginning of them gave the impression that something was going to happen straight away but then it goes into something completely different. One we watched was sorority row and the beginning was really creepy and then it went into one of their house parties. This is a good example of what we where trying to achieve with our thriller.

Screen Shot

We took lots of screen shots from our thriller to put into our evaluation.
We took shots of the following to explain in out thriller:
Angle shots
costumes
Location
Effects
Music

Thursday 17 March 2011

Adding Clips

The clip at the end we thought we would add because we thought it would give more to the storyline and also it would make it more creepy and more thriller like.

Editing lights

We wanted more lights to be put on our film so we spent some time enhancing the colours on it.

voice over's

To add to our thriller we decided to put voice overs on the clips through out the the film. We don't no how this will make the thriller look but we think that it will make it better and give more of a story. We went into another room where it was quiet and filmed talking. We wrote out a short script so we new vaguely what we where going to say we filmed it three times so we could have some choice over it. We also did it in different styles and then re- recored the parts we didn't like so much.

Tuesday 15 March 2011

Making it better

To make our thriller better we are planning on making it shorter and snappy unlike what it was. The music is going to be louder and more creepy and we are going to use different sound tracks not just the one. We also plan to put added sound effects on the clips making it more thriller like. We are making the green screen shots like a club adding lighting effects on them. We have cut the thriller down a lot so hopefully it will be less boring to watch as the camera angles move around more keeping the audience interested. Other than that we are just polishing it off.

Feed Back

We hadn't finished are film when we where getting the feed back but even watching it back we could see the mistakes we made. For one ours was way to long and boring we  repeated the same sort of things through out the opening and this made it boring to watch we totally forgot about the other things we had shot during are filming time and so when we went back to the footage we found that we had a lot more choice for footage. We also found that the music wasn't loud enough and wasn't capturing the real atmosphere of the thriller, we now want to make it more creepy. We also realised that the clips where to long and so we need to shorten them a large amount to make it more effective.

Music in Film

The first music we put in the film sounded good on its own but when we put it to the rest of the clips it didn't really get the mood we where attending on, the music wasn't loud enough and so we tried out all the other music we had made to try and fit the film better. We sticked with the one music track all the way through to hear what it sounded like.

Titles in film

The titles we displayed on a black background with dark red colour font. We where going to put creepy music while the titles where showing and then club music playing when the clips where showing. We where trying to make this effective and a mix between the two different moods being set.

Editing

We edited together some clips that we filmed to see what it would look like, we also played around with the effects to make the clips look like a club scene. We put lots of different lights in with the clip and made them different colours to try to capture the atmosphere.

Friday 11 March 2011

Feedback from class on our rough cut.

- More flowing and clean
- Less time on titles
- Shorter and more clear to audience
- Background in the green room
- Add a consistant soundtrack and fade in and out
- Add more of a story because its just repetitive clips at the moment

Thursday 3 March 2011

Editing our Final project

We added our titles first and then our footage. We faded in and faded out our titles using a black background and positioning our titles in different areas of the screen for each different name. We then added our filming and cut to the right sizes and added sound.

Filming our thriller

We filmed our film over  2 days on the first day we filmed
at the Cineworld complex filming the main scenes this would include
- In the club
- Outside the club
On the second day we filmed the dad writing in his diary and
close up of clubbing scenes.
In all we got all the footage that we needed in a good environment, and worked well as a team to get it
done in the allotted time. We watched over our footage and thought we managed to get all we need to get done, done.