editing our opening sequence

Samie and mike story - Today we edited our film to make up some time because it is only 50 seconds long and we need it to be nearly 2 Min's. we have decided to put stills of the church at the beginning with the time 5pm, we will then add the sound of the chimes to give the impression of scary and that he attacks at midnight. We looked on the Internet to find the chime sound as the one on garage band is not what we was looking for and the Internet gives us more choice.
We went on http://www.grsites.com/archive/sounds/view/1055/ this site and we found the perfect bells that we wanted, so we are going to download but then found that we couldn't as the computer was to slow. So we downloaded it to the Emma's email address and then from that we were able to transfer it to our finial cut (hopefully). We when found out that we couldn't download it because the file was corrupted.
Emma and Stu are busy trying to find the church bell sounds, while me and mike write the blog. (yay!) .
We have to change our idea because we don't have enough footage, so we will film on monday

Rough Cut

Strengths - Good use of Graveyard,
Good shots,
Black and White is good,
Mood is set well,
Good pace,
Very creative,
Range of shots,
Looks like an opening,
Good music,
Good close-up of graveyard.

Weakness's - Confusing,
Too many zooming in shots,
Music needs to be less bubbly

At the moment our rough cut is still incomplete and still needs alot of work!

Thanks for the positive Feedback! :)

Filming

Emma - i travelled all the way to a little town of Hundon. While here i went and set up my equipment in the local Graveyard and filmed shots of the clock on the tower, shots of a grave with the name of Mary, and shots of the scene. After my trip to the graveyard i went round my friends house to do some more filming. I took shots of her doing her make-up in the mirror and put the camera in an angle so you could see her in the mirror. I also took a shot of her getting ready , these shots make it look as if someone is watching her. This then creates the effect of a stalker.

Then Samie done the titles.

Titles

Credits List - Thriller opening

A production presents

A Mitchell Brown Film

Mike Cooke

Samie Thomas

Costume Design Mary Ramsey

Art Direction John Anderson

Production Design Emma Kelly

Casting Ryan Campbell

Film Editing Chelsey King

Cinematography Jack Hill

Original Music Jennifer Caulkett

Produced Shaun Tobin

Directed Stephen Allen

Shots list

Today we have made a shot list which we will use when we are on location. The Locations that we are going to use are, Stu house and town.
we are going to film on Monday, here is our lists of shot we are going to use,

Shot list (Stu house)

Shot 1- Mid shot, Emma in closet

shot 2- close up, of mike eye

Shot 3- long shot, stu sitting on chair

Shot 4- long shot, zoom out to mid shot, stu leaving the room

Shot 5- close up, Emma getting racer blade out of sock

shot 6- mid shot, stu get mad cause Emma is not in cupboard

Shot 7- long shot, stu going crazy, about Emma not in cupboard

Shot 8- close up, of Emma face.

Shot 9- close up, of Stu face

Shot 10- zoom out to mid shot, Emma strangles Stu

Shot 11- tracking, Emma leaves

Shot 12- close up, of mike eye

Shot 13- mid shot, Stu starts to breath

Location: Cambridge town centre

Shot 14- long shot, of clouds

Shot 15- long shot, of people walking

Shot 16- close up, of Emma

Shot 17- zoom out, of Emma with Stu in the background

Shot 18- point of view, back of Emma's head and what she see's

Shot 19- Extreme close up, Stu smoking

Shot 20- mid shot, Emma getting strangled

Shot 21- over the head, Emma laying on the floor

Mike made us a new animatic to go with our new storyline and he has put our music with it and it sounds and look really good.

Working on a NEW storyboard

Psyco

The opening of 'Psyco' is well done as it follows what a thriller should use. The use of distorted lines and writing creates a harsh and distinctive effect. The soundtrack is very jumpy and adds to the atmosphere. I think Alfred Hitchcock changed the face of thrillers forever. It is a good example of a weldone thriller because it pushed the boundaries of films at that time. Hitchcock had trouble finding some one to produce his film due to its contents and shocked the audiences.

Troubles

As our day of filming went horribly wrong (due to everyone) we had to change our locations from what we agreed to do on our last post. Unfortunately we are now unable to use Stu's flat, but never mind so we are going with other ideas. We are not quite sure what road we are going down yet but hopefully all shall go well.

Locations

We have decided to start our thriller with a shot of the clouds to show innocence, and we have also thought about starting the thriller with colour then go into black and white.

We want to use shots of people in the town centre then using a striking effect that will identify the stalker and the victim.

Props

The props that we are going to need are,

1. A knife
2. A object to hit the girl over the head with
3. A room which will look like a cuboard
4. A t.v.
5. wire to tie the girl with
6. a torch

Shots we may use

Different shots, we are going to use a range of shots to film our media piece. Here is a list of shots,

shot 1- long shot as to get the effect that they are walking normally then zoom in as the person turns a conner.

Shot 2- close up on the man face looking surpisours and a close up on the person eye which the camra can follow to see the girl walking ahead of him.

Shot 3- mid shot to see the guy grabbing the girl and pulling her off screen and hearing her screaming.

shot 4 - close up of the guy hitting the girl over the head with an object, then a black out which opens up on shot 5.

shot 5- flashing images of horrible things.

Shot 6- mid shot of the girl waking up in a cuboard with nothing but a torch light.

shot 7- long shot of the guy having a fag and watching tv.

shot 8- normal shot of the guy walking over to the cuboard.

shot 9- mid shot of the girl with a touch trying to get free with a knife which zooms in to the fear on her face.

Shot 10- close up of the guy's hand slowly opening the door of the cuboard, then a close up of the rage in his eyes that she got out and the anger to get her back.

shot 11- the camra follows the guy around the appartment looking for the girl,

shot 12- mid shot as he returns to the cuboard to see that she is their

shot 13- close up on the girl as she leans forward to stab the guy.

shot 14- close up on the girl phone dialing a number and saying "job done"

shot 15 - long shot of the girl leaving

shot 16- close up on the guy eyes as he begins to breath.

All of these shot are not yet decided but the hole opening is going to be in black and white with one set colour which will stand out to give it a more detail affect.