Photos for Final Evaluation

Feedback on Roughcut Thriller

Overall, we got good feedback on our thriller opening, including on our Camera angles, Music, Makeup and Location and Shots.
Things that we need to work on are, Our title, Dialogue, The length of the room scene and Diegetic Sound.
Our title was said to have been a bit random coming into the shot because it was too quick so we are going to improve this by extending it to be being longer however we're going to be keeping it in the same position. The dialogue needs to be louder as you cannot hear the speech from Ben clearly therefore we are planning on him saying it on a tape recorder and replacing the original sound. The indent that we created needs to be on screen for a bit longer as it was considered really good but disappeared too quickly, we also need to position it into the movie more than we have already, maybe introduce a transition. The length of the room scene was said to be too long, so therefore we are going to crop it to reduce it. This will be positive to the movie introduction as it will cut down the time of it over all. At the beginning of the opening,the sound consists of a certain noise that appears to be a bowling bowl, the feedback we got with this is that it doesnt work with the genre of the film and therefore we are going to either remove it or cut it from the sound clip on final cut.
Having got all this feedback we now know how to work on improving our thriller opening so that it is more engaging to our directed audience.

Extras, Leading to 2 minutes

We Feel that the time when recording our opening sequence will extend when filming, but just in case we are going to create an extra set of ideas leading up to the two minutes. these ideas have been expanded from the 1 minute 10 secs mark above and onwards.

1 minute - 1 minute 10 secs - Mid shot. Detective is turning the pages of the book and sticking the recent picture of the death into it. - Music - Tape recorder (rewind) and non diegetic sound - Props: The book, photo, tape recorder, pen, desk and chair and desk objects.

1 minute 10 secs - 1 minute 20 secs - Flash back shot / Mid - long shot. Recorder is now playing the riddle. Flash back Mid/long shot of the recent death showing the dead girl on the floor again. Just the recorder playing, no dialogue. Music - Tape recorder. Props - Recorder and backdrops.

1 minute 20 secs - 1 minute 30 secs - Long shot. The shot is of a man taking a picture of the dead girl inside the bathroom. He's going to be dressed in all black with a hat (to create a professional look). Music - Non diegetic with the recorder still playing the riddle. Props - Camera, Bathroom backdrops.

1 minute 30 secs - 1 minute 40 secs - long shot / mid shot (continues from the last shot, 20 - 30 secs) zoom. Long shot of the scientists taking samples from the body present. Zoom on to the scientist taking the sample. Music - non diegetic and tape recorder. Props - sample tubes, camera, people, backdrops, plastic gloves and tape recorder.

1 minute 40 secs - 1 minute 50 secs - Flash shot / long shot. Flash shot in and out of the book that detective is looking at. Mid/Long shot of scientist putting a plastic bag over the body as proof of death and more photographs. This scene as well as 1 minute 20 - 30 secs, will be in black and white to draw attention and add effect. At the point where we get a flashback into the book will return the scene back into colour. Music - non diegetic sound and tape recorder (no dialogue). Props - Plastic bag, backdrop, plastic gloves and tape recorder.

1 minute 50 secs - 2 minutes - reaction shot of the detective finding out the answer to one of the riddles. This then moves into a close up of the detective writing the riddle down to show the audience. Suddenly the room goes silent and the phone rings. Music - non diegetic sound and tape recorder. Props - pen, desk, book, desk objects, chair.

Analysis of Panic Room

In the opening clip of Panic Room, the credits are produced in an effective way across New York City, with both 3D and Bold, Flat writing.
The text for the credits is large and shown in particular angles to the buildings around the area of NY. The colour of the text is reasonably light as it blends in with the background images. Insight of many of the credits, the audience is shown them in both a downward angle and an upward angle, this suggests that there may be an antagonist and a protagonist due to camera angles. Previously, camera angles show that if they point downwards the person higher up is more inferior.
The last name on the credits is shown as fading away as if the film and music is about to end, therefore the audience knows this before it even happens suggesting they can get a head start into the film.
We thought that the credits were interesting and engaging but we have decided on having our credits flash our names with a scratchy font style because we feel that would fit better with our opening scene.

Indent

Eloise created our indent as she understood photoshop more than the other two in our group. Eloise and Fiona decided on the name for the indent by breaking up all three of our names, first and last, and putting them together to make new names we took the letters Eloise Mitchell, Abby Tucker, Fiona Stern from our names and created 'East'. Which we felt was simple, memorable and Eloise designed it so the letters look closer and further away from the viewer so that its eye catching and interesting to look at. We have a little guy trying to pull the leaver to make the hand point in the opposite direction and a woman dangling onto the hand as if to keep trying to have the hand pointing forwards. If we were to animate this we would have had the little guy successfully move the hand to face the right direction and the little lady fly off. Mechanics in the background would spin round and the words will all come bold and closer to the front.

Plan of Film day.

We plan to do our thriller before half term on Wednesday the 10th of February. At 1:30 we plan to leave college to film our piece in Cambourne. We chose this location because it was the closest area to each of our homes. Also, we thought to use a white bathroom and garage for our thriller therefore, as Eloise's home consists of this stuff we descided to do it there.
Having spoken about the dates and timings of us filming our piece, we've now changed date to the 24th February, after half term. The 24th is a Wednesday because this is the only day in which all three if us have avaliable.

Preliminary Task, Thriller Project.

This is our finished version of our preliminary task for the thriller project. We altered the order of our shots as the long shot was presented first included within the establishing shot. Apart from these changes the rest of the sequence is as we planned in our storyboard which we made earlier.

P3-67 Eloise, Abby and Fiona

We are three media students, about to create a thriller clip as a part of our AS level piece. We are all determined to progress in our abilities to produce a high quality thriller film. We've all learnt to use the camera equipment better than before, as well as having a better knowledge of the angles, shots and transitions. We also have a better understanding of how sound can elaborate the atmosphere and create a tension and a emotion in the audience.With these skills we feel we are able to achieve more than before.