Final Video

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Costume

Chloe's costume.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/upload/done/

camera

We are planning to do all our filming on thursday the 17th of february, we will meet at our location after school and begin to shoot the party scene at the leisure park in Cambridge city centre, we will also bring all props and costumes to our setting. We will keep safe by staying together and asking for permission before filming. Our characters will be finalised on the day as we need to ask random people if they wouldn't mind taking part, this will have its advantages due to it making a more realistic atmosphere instead of using 5 friends for example. If we fail to find a cast we have an alternative solution which is changing the script a little or texting nearby friends.

LOCATION IMAGE.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54811266@N05/5436350444/

POOL TABLE IMAGE.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54811266@N05/5436350444/

CAMERA ANGLES.

We are going to aim to use lots of handheld camera to make the audience feel as if they are there, also to highlight the fact the characters maybe a little tipsy. Also close ups, to show expression and moods.

In the opening scene there will be different angles on a pool table, some filmed from the pool stick, balls and some from the pot and some from above or below, we aim not to show any characters in this section.

PROPS!

PROPS:
- Shot glasses, beer glasses and substitutes for alcohol
- Pool table
- Presents
- Cigarettes
- Cards and 1 letter
- Fruit machine
- Mug, milk, tea
- Diary

COSTUMES:
-Normal clothing, party wear ect.

LOCATION

Cambridge leisure centre

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We chose this location because there will be an atmosphere due to the amount of people that go there, it also includes a pool table and a bar which both play a big role in our thriller for an 18th birthday.
We will use our own props and we will use non-alcoholic drinks for a replacement for alcohol.

HOWEVER, we need to ask permission before filming.

story board

Title samples

Title samples

After a discussion we came to the conclusion that this title and font is our favourite and if nothing else is added this will be our Title for our film.

Title samples

titles fonts

titles fonts

titels fonts

titels fonts

title fonts

Title sequence order from a thriller

Order of Titles in Thriller film:

• Production Company
• Title of film
• Actors names
• Developed for Television 
• Based on the novel (If Book)
• Main title theme 
• Music By
• Edited By
• Production designer
• Director of Photography 
• Produced by
• Producer 
• Consulting Producer
• Co-Executive Producer (x2) 
• Executive Producer 
• Executive Producers 
• Directed By 

Learning experience

From our experience from making a production logo we found it extremely stressful but we found a way through it as a team and now we have produced what we think is a good logo if we were to do this again we would work as more of a team from the beginning .

Learning Experience

When creating the production logo I learnt about how to make the layers on photoshop move around to where i wanted them. I also learnt how to make the music get higher and lower at the points i wanted. With the font i learnt how to make the font 'glow' to create more of an effect. It was very stressful but we worked it out together fixing all the problems.

Potentual storyline to our thriller

 

-Opening credits show still images of objects like guns, cigarettes and traffic lights 

-Camera zooms out from the girls eye

-Mate says "you ready to go?"

-Girl and best friend walking home to foster home 

- A woman runs into  main girl shoves a note into her hand 

- Girls reads the letter the letter states "Run while before its to late"  mate says "Whats going on!?!"

-Zooms into the girls face mouth more

-Girl says "What can somebody want with a person who's already lost everything"

END 

Titles for our film

TITLES 

-Letters from a stranger 

-The 18th 

-Tracker 

-Brocken file 

-The Black Truth 

-The dark past 

-Whispers in my ear 

-When a stranger writes 

-Back of my mind

- The comedown

Production Logo

Starting Production Logo

Ideas for thriller

- Opening sequence, images of guns, blood, writing on a
computer screen and newspapers, drugs, cigarettes
- Dark lighting
- Suspicious music
- Handheld camera and jump cuts
- Extreme close ups
- Mise en scene such as guns and drugs
- Black costume
- Dark voices if any voices at all
- Sound effects like gun shots and piercing noises

Warner bros logo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFDRoOIK780&feature=related

this gave a soft impression with the rippling gold image, it also gave a small dramatic influence as the music had a dramatic feel

dreamworks logo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9PtpALF_3w&feature=related


this again gave an impression of a child friendly atmosphere as there is a child on the moon fishing

pixar logo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk_Ow_-sitE


gave the impression of a child friendly film and it had a cartoon animated lamp

20th century fox

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QLt3kQ1sWo

this gives an impression of big dramatic atmosphere due to the big lights, sound and logo

The recruit thriller

How does it fit the genre?
- Dark lighting
- Fast paced
- Masculine characters
- Creepy sound


What conventions are used?
- Drinks, martini's
- Close ups and fast pace
- Costume is suits are shirts
- Titles were  mainly shots from the computer and newspapers
- Font was rigid

Likes and dislikes?
- The characters were good looking
- Like the camera angles
- Good mise en scene
- Liked the dark voices, made it more serious

let him have it!

the titles were all shown before any pictures where shown
towards the end of the title sequence we could hear a bomb or two going off
this would be to set the scene before the pictures are actually shown
the way that they did this would mean it would give us no clue to kind of genre this film could be until the bombs sounded asa it could gives us the impression of war.
no characters were introduced.

Murder by numbers

Genre- thriller crime with a hint of action
was a sort of hybrid
characters young think they know it all
kill themselves?
strange beginning could be showing the ending at the beginning?
the sounds starts before the characters can be seen
a lot of angels to make the scene more intense
titles plain straight to the point like the character Cassie Mayweather
they also fitted well in to the shots especially the shot of the two boys kneeling on the floor

Thriller conventions

THRILLER CONVENTIONS- Cape fear


- Dark lighting
- Sepia tones
- Red to symbol blood
- Disturbing images
- Creepy sounds
- Not giving too much of the story away
- Titles in a consistant font
- Consistant colours and themes

Cape Fear montage

- Dark lighting
- Simple images of water to present the titles
- Reds to represent blood
- Shadows and faint images of a person
- Tense and disturbing sound effects

Thriller

Thriller is a genre of literature, film, and television that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as the main elements
- inception 
- the uninvited 
- silent witness
- wire in the blood
- taken 

Toilet

Toilet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MYKYsAbYgM

preliminary Task

The problems with our preliminary task 

- our camera shots were off on our continuity editing 

- there were some jumps in our clip where the scenery changed to much

- some of the lighting changed when we did different scenes giving a different feel

 

shot reverse Shot

Shot reverse shot or shot/countershot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character often off-screen, and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.

match on action

Cutting on action or matching on action refers to a film editing technique where the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first shot's action. Although the two shots may have actually been shot hours apart from each other, cutting on action gives the impression of continuous time when watching the edited film. By having a subject begin an action in one shot and carry it through to completion in the next, the editor creates a visual bridge which distracts the viewer from noticing the cut or noticing any slight continuity error between the two shots.

A variant of cutting on action is a cut in which the subject exits the frame in the first shot and then enters the frame in the subsequent shot. The entrance in the second shot must match the screen direction and motive rhythm of the exit in the first shot.

180* rule

The 180° rule is a basic guideline in film making that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. The new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle.

Continuity Editing

creating continuity of space, time and action so that there is a smooth logical flow of action from shot to shot within scene :)