THRILLER TITLE SEQUENCE FINAL EDIT

Location Film Shooting

We set the date on which filming would take place, we set the scenes all in imogens house because we thought she had the most appropriate room for our characters personality.
When arriving we had all bought the make up props and Imogen already had dolls, which would be a major element in a few shots. We set up the corner of the room in manner appropriate for filming the scene.
All went to plan, but time should have been better kept, we found that by the end we were rushing to get the lat shots filmed. Also, a better place should have been used for filming, because equipment was hard to adjust in the settings, also there were always something in the background that would ruin a shot, so a lot of close ups had to be used.
What was good was that we were prepared to shot, we had a frame in mind of completing all the shots we had in the space of five hours, i thought we were very organised, and because of this we managed to finish filming in one day.

Soundtrack pro

In the lesson, where we finished editing our final cut of the thriller opening. We also had to devise a soundtrack suitable for such film. I found this very hard, because of the quantity of sounds and music available, it was hard to base an entire film on one type of sound because i knew it would define the whole thing, music was make or break at that point.
I found this amateur thriller film posted on youtube, and decided the music was the sort of thing i would like. Wherether it fits in with our own movie when produced we will have to see.

I think it would fit in by contrasting against the sensible, sweet, lace dress girl we will see.

More editing... (rough cut and editing)

To further impact on our thriller opening we decided to alter saturation levels, change colour of certain scenes (When dolls head fell in order to add emphasis) We also added some more fade in transitions in order to give it the same smooth cut to a different cut as the card game exercise (A preliminary task in which we found very successful and proud of producing).
We changed around the music sequence and slowed down the pace in order to produce a thriller like sound.

Skills and Audit: creation of soundtrack

We used sound track pro to explore and select some suitable pieces for our title sequence. We could also enhance the speed and sound of our chosen sound by further editing it using the advanced settings.

Skills audit: creation of title (Live type)

For the creation of our title sequences for our movie opening we exported our film to Livetype.
Regarding the personality of our twisted protagonist we chose the text as Goudy Old Style . The white colour of our text contrasted with the setting.

Evaluation

Evaluation

This is my evaluation of thriller opening that I and my group have produced. In the evaluation I will be assessing how I think the opening sequence has gone.

Question 1:

the mise en scene of these two screen shots are very similar because of their use of makeup (both have writing written on their face) the shots are also of a similar composition with the girl lying on the floor died. The images also both portray death.

The bottles in these pictures represent different things while the ones in Ginger snaps shows the victim using the bottles to achieve committing suicide the use of the bottle in vanity’s bitch shows the bottles used by the killer to achieve her on goal of suicide.

The colours used in these shots are both very dissimilar. Vanity’s bitch filters out most of the colour to portray “m

emory’s” Ginger snaps uses a red filter to take full advantage of the horrific nature of the shot.

The credits used in these clips have very similar fonts through their use of Serif fonts.

The filters in these scene shots are used to portray similar feeling of death though vanity’s bitch shows it through a dolls head and Ginger snaps

shows it through a human body.

The darkness shown in these two shots gives the effect of a sinister dark meaning.

Both of these close up screen shots uses paper as a prop to show their insanity and child like mentality.

Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The main character in this thriller is a stereotypical teenage girl who likes to make construct herself up and this is shown with props such as the beauty table and make-up, she is also very much a girly girl and this is shown with objects such as the dolls and the cloths she is wearing. The dolls also hint to her being OCD. The perfectionism is also hinted in other ways such as her doing her mascara till it’s perfect.

The movie that inspired me of the main character was Dorian Grey from the film of the same name he is always looking good and never ages, which subsequently leads to his downfall.

Question 3/4

If vanity’s bitch was released in the real world the film would probably be released in the smaller cinemas such as screen on the green in Islington. But may be play in bigger cinemas but would only be shown few cinemas and not be shown all the time similar to the release of Nowhere Boy which was only on at certain times of the week.

To publicise the film we would probably use such mediums as making an internet viral on YouTube to try and get hyped over the internet another way over the internet is to use advertising on popular sites such as Facebook and Twitter or do what TV programs such as skins did and get the audience actively involved in the making of the film. Also local and maybe even national newspapers could be used to advertise as well. Potential sponsors for the film should be companies such as film London, film4 and the British film institute who are known for their support of film makers.

Question 5

Freya is a 17 year old student, and is training to be a TV presenter but currently works a dead end job at a supermarket. She loves socialising with mates and is always up for a laugh. Freya is always prepared for any eventuality whether its rain or that her lipstick needs a top up. She loves going to the cinema and epically loves to be scared to hell by thrillers and almost always ends up screaming!

Question 6

Final cut pro was a very important programs for us because not only did it help stringing the clips together it also helped in the further editing by adding filters and transitions which not only made the film run smoothly it also helped get the point of the film across.

Thanks to the use of soundtrack pro we were able to create appropriate music for the thriller.

LiveType was used so we could put in credits that look more professional than just using final cut pro or other credit making software.

T he JVC digital cameras also helped in a massive way because of their good picture quality it in addition helped to give the thriller opening a “professional” look.

Question 7:

Our skill have improved a lot over the course of the curriculum .as seen in the preliminary task are match cuts were very simple and the shot types weren’t the best either. But this helped us to learn a lot about how to use the equipment.

But looking at the thriller opening we seemed to have improved a great deal more the match cuts have been faded in together a lot more smoothly and the shot types and lighting is a lot better.

Question 8

We interviewed people who have watched the film to see what they thought of it. I found it was a great way to see what was good and what could have been improved it also was great to see if the audience it was made for found it interesting.

Another way we got feedback was by using a site called Wordle which takes a bunch of words where the most frequently used ones appear bigger on the picture. The words that seemed to come up a lot were: good. Girls, psycho, thriller ect

This showed that the whole point of the movie seemed to come across well sand that our target audience would probably enjoy it.