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.

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...

our animatics video

Prilimanary Ideas

'I Spy'
An unknown figure is stalking ang spying on different people who turn out to be the victims of the murders. We do not actually see this figure as it would destroy the suspense, e.g. the figure would be on a high building spying on their victim or the figure would be looking through offices etc. We only hear the figure beathing to make it more intense.

During the opening sequence we're going to have a news report saying about that theres just been another murder then it keeps flicking between that and people being spied on e.g off the top of an building looking down, zooming in on one person. As it flicks its quite fuzzy to make it seem more realistic.

Also during it we will have cuts of articles/words in the newspaper

At the end we see the news report which says there has just been another victim then slowly zooms out so you see it on an actual tv screen, and this is the murderers tv so make it creepy. As the camera zooms out the tv screen suddenly goes off and you see a silluet of the murderer sitting there watching the news.