Q2-43 : THRILLER PROJECT 2007/8

Friday 29 February 2008
Q2-43 : THRILLER PROJECT 2007/8

Shoot

Our group went to Milton to film around Milton and to film at Maras house as we needed different props such as a knife and we needed to film through a kitchen window for part of are sequence. During filming, we obviously shot what was in our storyboard but throughout it we thought of new ideas and places where we could film which would look quite mysterious. When we finished shooting in Milton, Oli took the camera himself and filmed the rest at his work Millets, then once we got back to college, during media lesson we had to film abit more to finish it. I played the part of the dead body at the murder scene. Oli brought in tape which we used to make it look like a murder scene on the news report.

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Tuesday 26 February 2008
Q2-43 : THRILLER PROJECT 2007/8

Feedback on 'Rough cut'

Q2-45

this group agreed that the sequence was clear and was easy to understand, this is a positive point as it means that the audience will understand what is happening.
This group also thinks there is a number of unanswered questions, for example it is not clear who the killer is, this is also a positive point as we chose for that to happen and we didn't want to give too much away.

Q2-47

Our opening sequence reminds this group of the opening sequence to the film 'seven' as the text appears similar, i think that this is a negative point as we do not want to appear as if we have copied another group, this is an aspect in which we could possibly modify.

Q2-44

This group thought that our opening sequence was quite disturbing and dark, this is not necessarily a bad point as this is what we were trying to put across. This group also like the images we used from newspapers, this is also a positive point.

Q2-46

This group agreed that we made good use of props/settings and put the different characters across as we intended, for example we showed the victim in the kitchen to be innocent.

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Feedback

Other members of our class gave us this feedback to out rough cut...
MOOD/ATMOSPHERE? spooky, crime scene
OTHER FILMS IT RELATES TO? the film 'seven' in the way the newspaper text appears
WHAT HAPPENS IN THE OPENING? person is stalking..someone has been murdered, or about to get murdered
WHO ARE THE CHARACTERS? girl in the kitchen, man with hood, dead person.
WHAT QUESTIONS DO I STILL HAVE? who is the stalker an why were they killed?
GOOD EXAMPLES OF PROPS/SETTINGS? good settings, roof tops, newspaper, im[plies murder...cant see the whole story, adds mystery...dark figure? mysterious/dangerous?
PERFORMANCE? innocent victim...adds suspense..
AREAS OF IMPROVEMENT? soundtrack needs to be added...and lengths of shots need to be edited. and put into order.
VISUAL STYLE OF SEQUENCE? dark images, quite disturbing.
EXAMPLE OF EDITING/LIGHTING? flash of images, filmed at night, eerie and effective.
MOST STRIKING IMAGE? boy walking accros road, sunset, mysterious, want to know where and why he's there...

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Rough Cut

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Tuesday 19 February 2008
Q2-43 : THRILLER PROJECT 2007/8

Face off opening



This title sequence is very effective and it uses various different effective techniques. At the very beginning of the sequence music is soft and light hearted but the music soon changes to a more dramatic genre to reflect the series of events in the sequence. Text comes up on the screen on various occasions to show the names of the actors and writers, the text appears and disappears slowly t reflect the steady series of events in the title sequence.
The opening title sequence gives a very good idea to the audience about the film, just from the opening titles you can tell that the film is an action/thriller aimed at men between the ages of around 14 and above, the sequence really sets the scene for the whole film.

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Monday 4 February 2008
Q2-43 : THRILLER PROJECT 2007/8

News reporter on scene



This is an example of the sort of thing we will be doing e.g. having a reporter on the scene. We will have a reporter on the scene commenting of the murders. Just like in this video.

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Example of news room



This is an example of a news studio. One of our ideas to recreate a news room or have a news reporter. this clip gives an idea of how the reporters talk to the camera and each other.

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Shot List

1st shot = shot of streets for Tangerine Production
2nd shot = then it fades into the news report
3rd shot = spying on someone in an office
4th shot = shot of stairs with no one on them which is in Millets in Cambridge
5th shot = flicks of the newspaper which comes in and out with quick clips of articles in the paper (fuzzy)
6th shot = a shot of the murderer spying on a woman through the kitchen window whilst shes doing the washing up. this will be at Oli's house
7th shot = shot of a set of knives on a table which are the murder weapons. this will be at Oli's house.
8th shot = another shot of the news report, reporting there has been another murder.
9th shot = then it goes onto the shot of the murder scene.
10th shot = then fades onto the shot of the close up of a tv, which on the tv is the news report.
11th shot = the shot of the tv but has zoomed out so you can see the whole tv and the room and then you see the silluet of the murderer on the tv screen just sitting there watching the news report of his own victims.
12th shot = lastly the title of the thriller appears then it will fade onto the start of the film which isn't on the animatics. iSPY

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Feedback on are animatics

People in the class thought that we need to make our soundtrack longer as it's not complete yet, also when we come to doing the final shots, we need to change the order of the titles. For example, Tangerine Productions - Edited By.. - Directed By.. - then go on to the Actors/Actresses because at the moment its not really in order. In the final shots we need to make some of the shots fuzzy and so they're flicking on and off which we haven't done in the animatics.

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Friday 1 February 2008
Q2-43 : THRILLER PROJECT 2007/8

our animatics video

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