Outline of Our Final Idea

• Black screen
• Hears ringing of phone line
• Over lapping speaking, phone calls
• Then focuses on one phone call in particular
• Credits appearing randomly, floating in and off the screen,
• Women speaking, hello you've reached Cambridge confidential help line' something along those lines.
• Voice over of a women and a help line call centre talking to a man/boy
• 'Didn't you call yesterday...' making it apparent to the audience that they have developed a relationships, spoken before etc...
• Then focuses on the girl/women at the call centre. her lips, speaking, her pens, birthdays cards on her desk to show how ordinary her life is.
• Close ups, extreme close up
• Then a quick cut shot to the lips of the man on the other end of the phone call.
• Man in a park, hears birds.
• Split screen maybe
• Extreme close up on him rolling his fingers/ tapping them..
• Flicks back to her, tapping a open on the table, twirling her hair ....
• Average, normal conversation...
• Ends with him standing up, never see his face fully. His silhouet walking into the distance ...
• Maybe some simple music, no words within it.

This is our mood-board that we made to show some of the ideas that we may use into our final story board. Some of the images we may not even incorporate into our story however the pictures are just some simple guide lines making this board a development piece rather than a final board. As one of our members of our group were not present we also didn't want to make any final plans.

Production Logo

This is our idea for a production logo and will be used in our opening sequence, this maybe animated in the later!

U2-69 Footsteps Review

Footsteps is another film done by students at Long Road. The opening Dark Room shot is every similar to a lot of Opening sequences done at Long Road, it is effective but now over used and i think that they is many more creative shots that they could of incorporated into their sequence to make it more interesting. The panning is steady and effective. Concealing the persons faces is a nice way of covering up there identity and makes you think who are they. Using dark and dim lighting gives the whole piece a dark feeling and sets the tone nicely. The slow editing along side the mysterious narrative and 'spooky music' all links nicely and suggests that this opening sequence is a thriller.. possibly horror.

Production Logos

Bad Robot compared to other companies are of a less successful production team although they have helped to produce well known TV series such as Lost or in the blockbuster Star Trek. A memorable part of the logo is not the graphics of it but the voice over after it has appeared. Even though the voice is one of a child the films Bad Robot help to produce are aimed at an audience of a more mature age.
Interestingly after we had created our own logo we came across this one which is quite similar since its done in a vector style.













The Pixar logo represents there company by incorporating there animations into the title. When ever someone see's the animated lamp jumping across the screen everyone instantly know that it is Pixar! The lamp is not directly related to animation but maybe the Lamp is a prompt for the viewer the 'look at the piece in a different light'.

Alfred Hitchcock "Why Thillers Thrive". 1936

"The audience thrives ion thriller, the cinema thrives on the audience, the director thrives on the cinema, and everybody is happy" - Alfred Hitchcock

The article summerises what Alfred himself thinks what a thriller is and what it does to the audience. The essay gives examples of the feelings and positives in watching a thriller film ' we are safe a secure sitting in an armchair and looking and the struggle and turmoil of life through a window, as it were. Also he goes on to explain how watching thrillers are beneficial to their health 'blood pounding through the vains are highly beneficial for indigestion, gout....' This is an exampel of hitchcocks dry homour but it is known that to cry , feel terror and to laugh is actually healthy. 'and that is why the authentic 'thriller' will live and thrive and the 'horror' film with die.'

S1-22 The Yearbook Review

We picked this thriller opening as it has elements of both thriller and horror. We also liked the effects they used within the sequences. It gave us some good ideas that we may incorporated into our own opening sequence. We felt that this was a good attempt if an opening to a thriller.

Today we looked at 3 Thriller opening sequences: Insomnia, The Bourne Ultimatum and Twisted.


Insomnia is Directed by Christopher Nolan is a psychological thriller.

Memento Opening Evaluation

Memento is a Thriller in 2000 by Christopher Nolan

the whole sequence is shot in reverse and concentrates on a poloroid photo developing. Subject of the image is a blood stain wall. There are shots concentrating on a bullet and blood stain glasses.

Vertigo opening sequence...

Triller article summery :

The article pretty much starts out explaining what a thriller actually is. It gives some examples of some famous ones too as well as showing some pictures from the films themselves. The following pages give examples of a couple and in some cases ten names of films that famous people feel are some of the best thrillers out there. Ruth Rendell, Russell t Davies and Whoopi Goldberg are just some of the people asked what their favorite movies of all time were. Barry Norman thinks 'Psycho' was one of the best if the best thriller films to be made, 'It has probably influenced more film-makers then any other thrillers'. The article just gives a detailed analyses of what it is to be a thriller film and gives many examples recommended by people. The 'famous people' also give us an explanation and a reason for why they think the film they picked it one of the best thrillers of all time. After reading the article we looked at youtube for some of the films mentioned in the article.. 'The 39 steps', 'coma' and Vertigo'. All showed us perfect examples of what it's like to be a thriller film. We also looked at examples from previous students to get a real feel of what we could do with the equipment we have- it also gave us some good ideas to work with.

Thoughts on Preliminary task:

When doing our task we used long shots, panning shots, over the shoulder shots and close ups showing reactions of characters in scene. We found it difficult at first to shoot the panning shot, as timing and making a smooth pan was essential. Over the shoulder shots were easier as we had worked with this type of camera work before. We worked as a team and tired to get the best out come as possible. We chose not to have any non-diegetic sounds as we wanted the audience to focus on the types of shots we were shooting, however we feel that now maybe adding the music in the back ground would help create an atmosphere and a more professional look. Over all we feel it went well and turned out good.

PRELIMINARY EXERCISE: Continuity Task

This continuity task is introductory to demonstrate that our group can technically create match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.