Final Feedback

Strengths

• Good variety of different camera shots
• Abstract and appropriate
  
• Good clear titles
• Good structure

Weaknesses

• Titles could be more interesting
• Tap shots are too long
• Strange locations
  

Thriller Roughcut feedback

Strengths

• Dripping sound effects
• Good use of bluring effects
• Good variation of camera work etc close ups
• Lighting and clolour
• scary genre
• Good font
• Good location
  

Weaknesses

• Titles go too fast
• colour to black and white
• no soundtrack
• fast paced hard to follow
  

Dark Room Shots

We went to the Dark room to shoot abstract shots of the murder's surroundings. This included the lights shaking and the water running. We wanted to create an eerie effect.
We took shots such as the water running and the red lights. We used parts of this shoot to put in parts of our opening.

Credits list for thriller opening

These are the credits we hope to include in the title sequence to our thriller. The titles will be done in photoshop, edited and formatted. Then imported to Final cut express. This is so that the titles can be placed over the top of our footage to create a more proffensional thriller title sequence.: -

Sensor production presents

A Benny Film

(cast) Callum Hancock

(cast) Kidane Goldman

(cast) Irene Rodrigues

Costume design Doug Marshall

Art direction Peter Ludlum

Productions Design Adewale Donen

Casting Dawn Henry

Film editing Alison Owen

Cinematography Michael Rockwell

Original music Zane Dorn

Produced by Dody Allen

Directed by Frank Gladstein

(main title)

shot sequence

This is roughly the sho list we will try to keep to whilst filming. All of th shots listed must be done, however, some extra shots may be taken as well. The current shot list is as follows:

1. close-up Hand tapping on a table like a heartbeat.
2. extreme close-up Wide eye looking around
3. close-up Hand tapping from a different angle
4. close-up An old tap slowly dripping
5. mid-shot A flash in the dark room
6. mid-shot Eerie dark room
7. close-up A gagged face, owner of the eye.
8. close-up Pans down from previous shot to a tied up body.
9. close-up Pans down from previous shot to show torture eapons laying around the feet.
10. close-up The hand tapping quicker
11. long shot A speeded up shot of the clouds moving
12. mid shot A camera flash
13. extreme close-up Victim's eye moving rapidly worried
14. mid shot Showing the victim being filmed
15. mid shot old style door, zoom in on the lock
16. Close-up The attackers tapping hand opens the door
17. mid shot Attacker adjusts camera
18. close-up Attacker picks up a weapon

Possible location shots

Props

The video camera is for the scene where the person being tortured is seen with the camera in the background recording.



The LSR Camera is for the flash effects at the beginning of the opening scene leaving the viewers with no idea of what is happening.

Names for thriller opening...

We have thought of several names for our opening sequence such as:

1. Panic
2. Darkroom
3. Shame
4. Flash
5. Cinematography

Final Destination 3 opening

This was also a good opening sequence. It showed a lot of what the film was about and the ideas behind it. There was also uses of flash cameras and flashbacks from the film so it gave an insight story to the film.

Animatic

For our anamatic we decided to use an abstract piece. We put close-up shots of the victim and the murderers hand tapping which created suspense.
We have decided to use a few main locations: Such as the store room at college, the photography dark room, shots of weapons as well as some abstract shots.
We haven't decided on a final title yet, as we want to see the finished piece before naming it. However, we have decide we want the title to be simple black and white. This will make it more atmospheric and tense.
The aim of this piece is the to create suspense, this will make the audience want to watch the entire film.

Initial Ideas

First of all we thought up of some ideas close to the beginning of Saw trailer. This includes use of flash photography. Our location will be in the dark rooms in college. We are also going to use props in our opening sequence such as a camera recording and a flash camera. We also thought of using close up shots of sharp objects to show that the person is being tortured.

• Firstly in our sequence we are going to shoot the torturer tapping his fingers constantly throughout the sequence and the tapping will get louder until the climax at the end.
• second shoot will be fast abstract shots of the person getting tortured and the camera recording in the background
• We wanted to keep our piece abstract so we are also going to shoot normal life stuations after each torturing scene.
  
• Flash photography will snap after each scene showing glimpses of the person being tortured face which is unrevealed until the end.

Saw Trailer

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This opening had a lot of good techniques such as camera flashing and the clock ticking fast.