Effects 2

To create more suspence, we decided to have the shadow of the suspected murderer to be shown in the tv screen. At this point, the audience should be really focusing on the screen so that they can try to see the murderer.

Shots

This shot was taken on top of Millets in Cambridge, and we edited it on final cut using 'noise' in order to get the effect of a CCTV camera-also implying someone being spied on. The Date and time makes it look even more realistic and adds to the suspension of what is happening?!

Oli took this ariel shot in order to make it seem like someone is being spied on. It wasn't planned for this man to be walking, but i was just waiting for someone to walk through so i could film them. The natural light was really effective as it is like sepia filter used on final cut.

Effects

On this shot, we decided to make it look like a news report by editing the writing scrolled across the bottom. The words are "BODY OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE GIRL FOUND" this scrolls across the screen, just like in a real news report. We looked at real life news reports in order to make it as precise as possible.

Thriller - Final

Feedback

Can you describe what happens in our thriller?

• a girl is found dead
• a believed murder, odd person creepy around murderer?
• girl murdered then we can see possible suspect
• someone died
• someones been murdered and not found the killer

What would you add to make it longer?

• we think its long enough
• it doesn't need to be longer
• ditto!!
• its fine..but if you really wanted to Izzi says you could add some more features
• more newspaper clippings (not essential though)

What do you think works best in our thriller?

• effects such as the graininess and also the music > builds suspense
• the double images overlay is used to good effect
• music and has very good interesting shots
• all the police bits and newspaper
• the shots of the murderer scene and the news clippings
• 8/10 for all maybe 9

Do you like of dislike the music and why

• like it because it has a good beat, makes it more mysterious
• the music is good. Goes well with the shots, adds mystery
• the music makes it a thriller, works very well
• its really good - works well for the genre and helps the tension
• music was groovy!

Problems with the soundtrack

Towards the end of are editing to are final version, we also started to look at are soundtrack to make sure it fitted in with the final version by making sure it was the same length and by making sure it fitted in how we wanted it to. However, Mara had a look at it and thought that it didn't really fit in with the sequence so tried out other things, but in the end we changed it back to the original version as we were running out of time! Also we had to make sure the soundtrack finished a couple of seconds before the end as we had to make room for the tv noise at the end.

Update

Since the animatics, we have changed the order of shots, titles, and have added new shots to our sequence. For example, in our animatics the first shot was the alley way shot with the Tangerine Productions in but now that and is 2nd shot, however with the tangerine productions in the shot on the high building overlooking Cambridge, which was what Oli shot when he took the camera to his work and done some extra filming.
In our blog we made a list of the titles we were going to use and used in the animatics, but in the final we've changed names, the order of the titles e.g. actors/actresses at the start and changed over what shots we put the titles in e.g. Tangerine Productions over the high building.
Shots which we used in are animatics are all pretty much the same as the final version but just in a different order etc but we've also added in extra shots to make it longer and more effective e.g. the newspaper clips, knife, fireplace, on top of high buildings etc.

Props

Knife: This was a new idea we thought of using whilst we were filming. We got it from Maras house and filmed it there.

Tape:Oli got this from his dads work which we used whilst filming at college for the murder scene.

TV:We used Maras tv because we were filming at her house.

Newspaper cuttings:Found some on the internet then printed them out and filmed them/took pictures of them using the webcam on the computers.

Filming Review

Positive things that went well during filming:

• We did all the footage which we planned in lessons.
• Filmed extra footage whilst we were in Milton as we came up with new ideas on the spot.
• Got all the shots filmed which were on the shot list.
• Footage fits quite well with the music sequence.
• We all kept civilised and there was no arguing.

Negative things:

• Got dark quickly as the bus took ages!
• Too much light when we were filming the tv part - had to make sure the reflection of the camera didn't come up on the tv screen.
• Under a time limit, as some people in our group needed to be somewhere by a certain time.