Feedback for Practical

A very effective title sequence. Excellent use of editing techniques and filters. Soundtrack is also very strong and has a strong relationship to your imagery. A sample at the end of the soundtrack however, takes away from the effect a little. Very good consideration of mise-en-scene (particularly lighting - with the torch). excellent sense of pace throughout. Well done.

Final Cut Thriller

Our Final Thriller
Enjoy =)

Update on Final Cut

Our soundtrack has been completed. we have used many different sounds and loops to make our soundtrack as "thriller" as possible. Infused with a popular beat from a Kanye West song, we believe our soundtrack will add a good feel to our trailer as audiences can relate to the trailer just from that beat. we are currently uploading the soundtrack to work with the clip so we can sync them and play them as one. we are extremely happy with our work this term and we are very close to posting our completed work and hope you enjoy it. :)

damien (on behalf of the whole group) :)

Fonts

We found it difficult to decide on a font,
as i wanted a font that we couldn't find.
i wanted matisse itc, but we could only find that online,
we would have to purchase it.
so we have found a couple of fonts that are a possibility:

They will be uploaded shortly...

Ideas For Title Of Thriller

we have had many discussions about what to call our thriller project,
here are some of the names:
1) The Watcher

2) Follower

3) Creeper

4) The Typist

5) Window


We have also had a long thought about our production team name,
here are just a few we came up with:

1) A Brainstorm Production

2) Dot2Dot Productions

screen shots

these are some image shots of our editing process.

Jenna, Patrick

Here's our rough cut.

Rough ideas On Our SoundTrack

Me (Luke) and Damien have been working on GarageBand for the past few lessons looking at the best loops and software instruments to use, we decided straight away that the preset loops were overused by others and wanted to start from scratch by making our own loops and midi sequences.one of the loops which we have used is based on a popular song by Kanye West, (love lockdown). We have adjusted this bass-line to our own accord in order to give it a scarier effect. this is a Unique Selling Point (USP) of our clip as people can recognize the beat and will like it used in a different scenario to deliver a different effect. So right now we are working around this Backing beat to create a dark and intense atmosphere in our opening sequence. We have and will be working closely with our editing team to produce as much of a synchronized track as possible. The track should be finished later on today.


Luke & Damien

Soundtrack

We have started to create our soundtrack,
we were thinking of a simple but effective soundtrack, we have been looping various sounds, we are repeating the same sounds, we watched switchblade romance and we liked the way that the sound of the film was repeated, it was the same track, but we noticed that even though it may be the same, the different scenes that were shot created a different emotion/ setting and therefore made the soundtrack seem different.

Starting FIlming

We have now started to film our title sequence,
we had a few problems though,
firstly we had to find a setting,
we decided behind the stage was a good area to film so we went and got permission from the site team, but once we got there there were other groups there that hadn't received permission, so the site manager came over and he asked us to move along as there was too many of us.
so we resorted to the media area, with the green and dark room, so we went to film there, we set everything up, only to find that the power on our battery was low, so we filmed what we could until the battery run out,
i think next time we would make sure that there were no other group working where we were without permission.
Also we would carry the power lead for the camera then we will have longer to film, i think finding the area to film then along with the problems we faced effected the quality of our filming as we felt we had to kind of rush around to get the set and the camera angles and lighting right.
i think for our roughcut this is okay, but by the time we need the final video done we will need to discuss the options for editing and how to add in effects that will work with our idea.
Jenna, Patrick, Damien, Luke

Our New Idea

After reading through our idea and having more discussions as a group. we have decided to make our idea simpler, we thought our first idea is a bit to much information for just a title sequence, we have now come up with the idea to recreate an opening titles like Sev7n.
we thought it would be a bit easier to film and it even though it seems easier, i think we can still get the desired effect as with the other idea.
With our idea we are planning on filming a man with psychiatric problems and who seems to be obsessed, he could be seen as a stalker.
In our title sequence we are going to use alot of jumpy imagery to add effect and maybe make the audience feel like they are in the mind of the man, as this would set the scene for the rest of the film.
We havent started to film yet.
Jenna Luke Patrick Damien

Feedback on Animatic

after the group had watched our anamatic a lot of questions where asked such as "why isn't there a soundtrack" and "why was there so many shots of bottles" as a solution to these criticism we are going to either make or sample a soundtrack to add tension and give a feel to which type of thriller our piece is. sound effects will also be used to show diagetic sound coming from the shots, such as the noise made when typing on the typewriter, and the pouring of water, and the pages being turned in the book which the character is browsing. also the shot duration was suggested as being a bit too long, and the durations of shots should be varied during the piece. the titles Incorporated in the shots should be changed and either used as a shot which shows many things such as more than one actor or the production and directions at the same time. the soundtrack will be the first thing to work on and we shall then edit our shots to make the sequence flow better and hopefully make more sense but not give away too much information about the plot.

damien patrick luke jenna....u get me