Friday 19 March 2010

Sound Track and Final Editing

In this lesson we have finalised a musical soundtrack to over the top of our main conversation between our two characters. We've tried to make it non-progressive and suttle. Editing has been difficult in the final lesson, having a small amount of time to finish it. Filling the 40 second gap has been more challenging than we imagined but is slowly coming together and should hopefully have a complete end thriller opening soon.

Thursday 18 March 2010

HELP!

Looking at the rough cut i do not think that it works, the voice-over conversation does not fit the split screen visuals. We have a couple of ideas for ways to make the opening work but time is short.

One idea you to fill the 40 seconds of black screen with shots of the surroundings and have voice over. thinking about it now we need a soundtrack, the opening is empty without one, a subtle soundtrack under our existing voice-overs.

another idea you to scrap the conversation voice-over completely and go with a strong soundtrack

these two ideas can be put together but TIME IS RUNNING OUT!

Friday 12 March 2010

Feedback from class:

The class gave good, positive feedback that included that they liked the idea that we had come up with and they thought the split screen was really effective. They thought the way we filmed the girls body in parts was 'also very effective convention of a thriller' They also raised the question of ' who is john?!' this was perfect as this is what we wanted to provoke the audience to think...creating a sense of mystery and dramatic tension.

Rough Cut



This is our rough cut for our opening.

Thursday 11 March 2010



I chose this font because it looks like a distressed handwriting which would help fit the thriller theme, although the font may be a bit too messy and non readable for the final cut.

Ideas for front style




I liked the 'inky' effect to the front. I like how the front sweeps and links together however this may come across a little feminine. Despite this i feel the front is chilling and provokes a mysterious response from the audience.

Tuesday 9 March 2010























i chose it because it has a thrilling appeal to it so it fits with our opening and also it has a urban effect so it fits with ryans part as he will be outside the whole time.

















I have picked this font because it is messy and handwritten, portraying his state of mind and feelings. Also male handwriting is generally rougher then females which we wanted.

Definition of 'disclosure'

dis·clo·sur

noun
1.the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.

2.that which is disclosed; a revelation.3.

Origin:
1590–1600

Lesson work:

Now we are starting to look at different fronts. We will be testing the size and colour in this post.
We have been looking at 'font.com' to see all the different possible styles we could have. We have been looking at the hand written style of fronts and one that has appealed to us is the 'righty using left hand' and feel as a group that this is a possible choice. We feel this as it shows a psychotic sate as it is written in messy hand writing.

Names for our film

These are just ideas that as a group we came up with, none of theses names are set in stone and will defiantly be used in our opening sequence.

Betrayal
Communication
Advice
Broadcast
Exposure
Disclosure
Closure
Comeback

We thought of these names as they all link to our film in some way or another. However 'disclosure' particularly stuck will us and we felt as a group that this name would be the most appropriate to our opening thriller sequence.

Lesson work:

This lesson we will be thinking up some names for our opening to a thriller and testing out all the different types of fronts you can use. Each style of front with provoke different reactions to the audience and we need to make it clear that our opening is a thriller genre and not anything else.

We will be experimenting with colour and size of front. We will also think of all the different transitions that the credits could come onto the screen...

Lesson work:

So far our editing has gone very well. There has been no real problems with putting everything together- we're on task and working well as a group.

However one small problem was the section with ruth was too short compared to Ryan's filming. We had to balance the time out between the two so that we could have a split screen in sync and make it within the two minute time limit.

The sound is coming along nicely and no problems there.

Friday 5 March 2010



This clip is talking about shooting the film and telling us how hard it is to film outside of the studio. It goes on to explain how the public and day to day life is a problem when making the film.

Joel Schumacher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a link to wikipedia that gives you information about this director.



Unfortunately there were no clips of Joel Schumacher talking about his 2002 thriller film Phone booth. So i decided to find a video about another one of his films Twelve. The video is of Joel talking about the film and what film means to him. This short clips highlights what i think films should create in us when we are watching the film. He talks passionately about how Twelve doesn't just have one main story line but many stories intertwined into one.

Thursday 4 March 2010

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I thought the 'Sex Drugs etc' bit of the post was good as it described the elements of the film very well. I also thought the visuals of the post were very intriguing.

Evaluation Questions

Evaluation Questions


The following questions must be answered in your evaluation PowerPoint:

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

A film that is similar to ours:








These two clips from the film aren't completely like ours but they involve a phone and show a building up of a relationship between the two main characters. As our thriller is only the opening sequence we were unable to show john's.. Ryan's 'true ' mean, psychotic side. The cuts in this film were generally fast and snappy cuts that were edited in this way to create tension and confusing and panic. Throughout the film up until the very end we don't see the phone booth 'killer' evil baddy. So by having these shots it allows us as well to seem threatened by him as we too don't know where or what he looks like.

Thriller [ˈθrɪlə]

n
1. (Performing Arts / Theatre) a book, film, play, etc., depicting crime, mystery, or espionage in an atmosphere of excitement and suspense
2. a person or thing that thrills

thoughts on editing

in editing we will be using such things as spilt-screen to show what is happening to both the characters at the same time. Also it shows the two normal things happening like a phone call but each character acts differently. fast switch between shots may be used as it can build suspense which is needed in a thriller. as we edit we will come up with more ideas but for now this is what we have been thinking about.

Editing so far

so far in editing we have cut out the bits we don't want and split the rest into individual shots. we have also captured the film that is the voice over which is the soundtrack.

Tuesday 2 March 2010

Lesson work:

This lesson we finished writing our script and began shooting the last part of our thriller opening. We looked at all of our film and uploaded it onto the mac. We took images of the script on photo booth so that it would we easy to look up our script if we lost the sheets of paper.