Film screenshots

Feedback to finished footage

• There was a flash up of a previous frame at the beginning of the film
• The music jumped at the start of the film which was a bit of a glitch
• The shots were too long
• Some fades were a bit too long
  
• The newspaper shot had a bit too much background sound
  

ROUGHCUT PEER FEEDBACK

This is the rough cut peer feedback:

Strengths:

• We liked how it was in the dark abd well brought up
• Good parallel editing
• Titles: good, stand out, good font
• Long shots, creates suspense
• Great props
• Good shot location

Constructive Critisim:

• There was a few jump cuts
• Transitions not very smooth
• Cuts between shots

Overall we are proud with the strengths and the improvements as they outweigh each other, we will work on the critisim.

Planning for filming

Costumes - as told in previous post including:

shirt, tie and badge

hoody

Lighting - as dark as possible but still able to make out characters, this will add to the suspense and keep the audience 'in the dark' about many key points such as the identity of the characters

Equipment required -

• movie camera
• tripod
• still camera-to take shots of us during the filming process
• shot list

Titles - created in photoshop to be edited into our film in final cut, the titles include the production logo, characters and management team; directing and producing

Sound - We think that it will be best to use both diegetic and non-diegetic sound. We are using a dialogue in the opening as well as music in the background, during times when the characters are speaking the music will fade out

Filming practice

These are two shots that we have done to experiment with. They give us an idea of what some of our shots will look like in the final piece.

Location influence

This is a picture from the scene in Casino Royale, which is similar and a main influence to our idea for our opening. In the picture is a man in the centre of the room being interrogated, it is set in a bunker with little lighting, which influences one of our location ideas.

Film ideas: Silence of the Lambs

One of our ideas is to have our antagonist messing with the protagonists mind, creating a psychological thriller opening. One of our main influences for this idea is Hannibal Lecter (played by Anthony Hopkins) from 'Silence of the Lambs'.

Timeline

This was the timeline that we used and created to help place in the titles and order the shots of the opening.

Paper Work

This is the cast list.

This a storyboard of the shots we want to get while filming.

Moodboard

Photos showing ideas

This is a mind-map of initial idea's for what to base our thriller opening on. As the text in this shot is small, below is its contents...

• criminal interview idea- short answers , yes, no, maybe. criminal interviewing policeman without audience realizing( title of opening maybe 'misconception')
• '24' style shots
• bodyparts shot, to show nerves and reactions, biting lips, sweating, hands fidgeting, heavy breathing
• news report on TV, zooms out from TV to reveal the shot is then in the scene.

the other screen shot is of our storyboards, within which are several approaches we could take in order to stage our opening. In other words they are creating a visual image of our idea's (see above).

Production logo

T2-56 PRODUCTION LOGO from SATMEDIASTUDIES on Vimeo.

As a group, we had to create a production logo to be used in our thriller opening.

We decided to call our production company 'Criss Cross Productions', this relates to the idea that our thriller could be about a game for example. The naughts and crosses would be created using 300 film style writing, giving it an edgy distorted look. As a background for the logo we decided to use a piece of paper that had burnt edges, which adds to the rough look and feel of the logo. The overall distorted look of the logo coincides with our thriller theme

Political Thriller

'The Interpreter

Starring Sean Penn, is a political thriller.Escalating events begin when U.N. interpreter Silvia Broome alleges that she has overheard a death threat against an African head of state, spoken in a rare dialect few people other than Silvia can understand. Issues incorporated within the film include:

• conspiracies
• secrecy
• assassination
• general threat to life

Momento

our objective was to analyse the video of an opening to a thriller; we were tasked to identify what aspects of the sequence contributed to its genre. the following is what we decided on...

• internal psychological struggle endured by main character
• use of clues to help solve a mystery
• self-reliant on coping with disability