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.

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.

Sound Track Editing

This image shows the progress we have made so far on our voice over sound track. We've edited all the phone conversations we needed and organized them as a rough test. It starts off as one conversation and building up one by one so its layered and hard to understand each one separately. At this point during the clip we haven't planned on adding any visual footage except from the opening credits.

Micro Plainning

In our sequence we are thinking of using fragmented shots of certain features of our characters faces to leave questions and not to give anything anyway too soon.
At the start we have an idea to use non-diagetic sounds such as noises like birds, wind, footsteps then slowly switching into phone calls building up so eventually its a big layered sound track of calls which could all cut out and leave a single dialing tone. While this is happening the credit are rolling plus the logo of the production company will appear.
Some shots we thought could be interesting and effective are doing E.C.U of objects from each scene e.g close up of pencil pot. On the male character, your eye leads up the character starting from the foot panning up towards the rest of the body.

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 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'.

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.