Our Production Logo

This is our production logo for our thriller, we made it in photoshop, we found this picture off google as we thought it would be hard to make it look professional if we did it ourselves. Stella means star in Spanish so we thought it would sound much more practical than using the english version which would sound unattractive in our opinion. Our feedback was that we should change it to a more attractive font to make it fit in with the picture more.

Certificate

We choose to certificate our opening sequence as a 15 it is currently defined as passed only for persons of fifteen years and over. No person apparently under the age if 15 years shall be admitted to any exhibition at which there is to be shown any film which has received a 15 certificate from the British board of film classification. We gave our film the classification of 15 because there my involve song strong language and violence throughout the film, if we was to finish filming. Also there may be some psychological factors that someone under 15 may not only find hard to understand but may find disturbing.

In a film that has been classified for viewers over the age of 15 there are boundaries that the distributed had to think carefully about, so we had to make sure we did not break this boundaries in the filming we done so that we could keep the 15 certificate.

Theme: No theme is prohibited, provided the treatment is appropriate to 15 year olds. Language: There may be frequent use of strong language; the strongest terms are only rarely acceptable. Continued aggressive use of strong language and sexual abuse is unacceptable. Nudity: There are no constraints on nudity in a non-sexual or educational context. Sex: Sexual activity and nudity may be portrayed but without strong detail. The depiction of casual sex should be handled responsibly. There may be occasional strong verbal references to sexual behaviour. Violence: Violence may be strong but may not dwell on the infliction of pain, and of injuries. Scenes of sexual violence must be discreet and brief. Imitable techniques: Dangerous combat techniques such as ear claps, head-butts and blows to the neck are unlikely to be acceptable. There may be no emphasis on the use of easily accessible lethal weapons (in particular, knives). Horror: Sustained or detailed infliction of pain or injury is unacceptable. Drugs: Drug taking may be shown but clear instructive detail is unacceptable. The film as a whole must not promote or encourage drug use.

Other Rough Story Board.

old story board shots. not like our thriller.

Voice over notes

Black Screen
Voice only----> ''You see these things happen to other people you never think it will happen to you''
*Sounds of laughter*
''I was a normal girl living a normal life''
*Talking/Tables*
''Then the world world went silent''
*Car Crash Noise*

We when to headingham where we got permission to film in a friends wood. We wanted footage in a wood to use as flashback. We could easily portray this by simply changing the footage to black and white. We filmed many different shots, at different angles and different ideas. We planned the sort of shots we wanted before hand, however it was down to what the weather was like while at the location, as to whether it would be effective.

Having seen the footage we are happy with what we have produced. It looks alot better and more professional in black and white, and now we need to cut it up and edit it allowing it to fit and flow with the other footage we have.

1 . In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products.

Throughout our project we have developed our understanding of the software we use to make our thriller and more about the procedures in the film industry. We appreciate more the challenge involved in making our thriller look realistic and professional.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our thriller doesn't focus or portray a particular social group.

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
I believe the thriller could be released in cinemas, as there is a big audience for these types of films. Our main inspiration in was "The Eye" which did well in cinemas. The production company of this film was

and the it won 2 awards. This shows that the film could have the potential to do well if marketed correctly.

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

We decided our thriller would fit under the certificate of a 15 certificate. Violence may be moderate and Strong language may be used, however if we chose not to use the strong laugage then it could be a 12.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

Depending on the chosen certificate it would be suitable for a wide range of people aged 12 to adults. The aim of the opening sequence was to leave the audience with many questions drawing them in the watch the rest of the film.


6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
I have developed my understanding of final cut and how to upload,cut,delete and edit footage. I have learnt techniques like slowing, and speeding up the footage, making selected footage black and white,and trail and error in the sense of making the footage flow. These are techniques can transform the footage into a good piece of work, and help make it more effective.

I have learnt more about photoshop which we used the product our logo 'Stella Productions' . I learnt how to build the logo from layers and cut it to make it fit a frame.

I have learnt more about garage band and how to make a basic music sound track. I will develop my understanding of the software as we complete the thriller soundtrack as i feel i need to learnt more about how to fit the sound to the footage effectively.

Feedback

Cinematography:
- Hard to understand what the shots mean.
- Black and white screen cleverly shows dream.

editing:
- Short bursts of the past, interrupted by very short clips of Chloe's character in hospital. This asks questions such as why is Chloe in this situation.

Mise en scene:
- Rope swing with the tree worked well as can only see half the view.


This feedback will help us improve our opening sequence, we will take all thoughts into consideration and use them to help us.

Rough Cut

11/3/10

Today we are trying to finish our rough cut and put it into a quick time, so we can get feedback on how to improve our thriller.

We know that our rough cut is not how we want it to look, we have ideas on how to make the thriller sequence a lot better. The audio on the rough cut doesn't link its because we are sorting the sound out after the rough cut.

It would be nice to make the production logo animated but this depends on time, also to add some sound to the production logo would be good to make it seem more professional.

Today we put the sequence in a order, it may or may not be the final order. We did some editing of colour and changed the flash backs into black and white so it is easy to see that it is a flash back so it doesn't seem too confusing to the viewer. we have a lot to improve on such as credits, blends, audio,

shots for location

these are location shots, to give us a idea of what we want the thriller to look like. they might not actually be the locations but its similar.

THE EYE

Entry about filming- over the weekend

We think it went, very well we got lots of footage that we could use and delete if we didn't need it. We had an idea of what we needed to film but we didn't have a official plan for what to film. We are working out what we need to film, today in the lesson. We weren't able to film in the shopping centres, so we had to find different locations to film. I think the footage we have is very well done we just need to make sure we get as much footage as possible.

Evaluation Questions

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

In this thriller coursework, we became more involved in how the film industry works with all the production logos making it look more realistic to the audience. and our understanding of the programs that we used has grown, so we are able to make the thriller look more professional

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our thriller doesn't really have any social groups in the opening sequence.

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

I think this could be used in cinemas, as it quiet a strong story line that could become a great thriller. The Eye with Jessica Alba was in the cinema and that became a good thriller film and it was based on the eye that she was blind and had a eye transplant, our idea is similar in the way that its about sound and things start to go wrong when she gets her hearing back. It could just be released on DVD as The Eye has a similar story line and the audience may find it boring.


4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

We have decided the a certificate 15 would suit our thriller opening because it may involve strong language which may be quiet frequent. But a certificate 12 could be considered as we don't have to use strong language and violence could be moderate


5. How did you attract/address your audience?

The audience would be a wide range from 12 to older adults. The opening sequence leaves lots of questions to draw the audience in as they want to know the answers to the questions.


6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

I have learnt how to use final cut alot more and understand how upload footage from the cameras, and understand how to edit the footage we have uploaded, I understand what tools to use on final cut, to cut the footage and delete the footage we don't need. We have also used affects that speed up and slow down the footage to make it look more effective.

I have learnt how to use garage band, i know how to put the sounds together to make a soundtrack. i dont have a wide range of understanding of this, and need to learn more on how to change the tempo of the music.

We used Photoshop to create our production logo, which is called 'Stella Productions' Stella means star in spanish. In the Photoshop, i learnt that they have to have different layers, to make the picture work. i know how to cut it to make it fit in the frame and make the text work with the picture.

Children of a Lesser God

This film has hearing impaired people in, we wanted to see how they represented hearing impaired people, because our opening thriller sequence is to do with deafness.

25th February 2010

In todays lesson we went through all the footage which we have so far. We drew a simple story board, which we are going to use this weekend whilst filming in Cambridge and this will help us decide the sequence order of the opening. Last lesson we uploaded all the footage we had of the woods and the hospital scene, which we then looked at and cut.

We still need to:

• Edit the footage from the woods
• Film more shots in Cambridge
• Produce a final storyboard with pictures
• Edit all the footage together
• Make a soundtrack
• Do the opening credits and add this and the production logo into the sequence.
• Upload still photos

extras,

We are using many different props for our Thriller opening sequence. One of our main props is a bed, we needed a hospital looking bed, at college we have a health and social department which has a hospital like bed, which they let us use. As filming in a hospital would be impossible.

Our costume for our actor will include, a white top, which will be used in the hospital part of the opening

Our Roles

As a group we all have different roles, but we all help each other.

Heather: Editor/Camerawoman
Shaina: Director
Chloe:Actor/Producer
Sarah: Makeup Artist/Camerawoman

We all help each other as we go along but we have specific parts.

Lesson 23/2/10

We are uploading more footage that we might use for our final opening thriller sequence. We are making sure we have loads of footage to use, so we have a lot to work with which will make, making the thriller opening a lot easier.

We don't really have any test footage, we are just making sure we have lots of footage to edit and perfect.

We need to make sure we do a completed story board and upload it to the blog, also to keep adding posts to the blogs and keep on top of the planning and research.

development of our idea

1. black screen and silence for about 3 second

2.black screen and a heart beat for 5 seconds

3.setting the scene, a long shot of addenbrookes to show she is in a hospital and some credits on the objects such as a lorry driving past

4.black screen with a heart beat again 5 seconds

5. point of view someone blinking, either by using letter box tool on imovie or using something infront of the camera to give the eye blinking effect, or if this is too difficult we will film the eye opening and then go to the persons point of view.

6.as the eyes opening we get a buzz of noise, which is not clear, and the vision i snot blurred, which looks like she is laying in a hospital bed.

7. going back to the heartbeat with black screen for a few seconds

8.a shot of her face, fragmentated such as show her eye then her nose then show her damaged ear and zoom out on the radio something playing that reminds her of on the swing singing, which sends her to a flash back.
9.flash back in black and white and possibly put it in slow motion as well to show that it is a flash back, and film in the woods show the swings

10. panicking running through a woods but the music still being heard on the radio.

11. go back to the radio rather than her singing and then she sits up in the bed in shock and comes really close to the camera.

we are going to put the credits into our shots because we think this is very different and looks very good and gives us more chance to show more shots.

2 swings flashback possibly, one in the woods and one in a modern park

we have got permission to use the health and social bed which is like a hospital bed for our filming.

initial idea

we have an idea that we are going to have diegetic credits and the story is going to be about a girl who has an accident and damages her hearing after the surgery to fix it she begins to experience strange things. we think that at the begining she could hear the first sentence for the first time in a year and what she hears takes her back to a point where she couldnt hear but this time she hears everything and finds out. when she flashes back to the future she isnt herself she is just watching over her life. And when she goes back to present time she reveals what she knows and nobody understands how she knows it and everyone thinks shes mental because the bad things she reveals other people deny.

1. she comes out of hospital and cant hear for a year
2.a year later she has surgery to fix it
3. she has a black out and she goes back to a time when she couldnt hear but she can hear what people are saying now
4. she finds out that her husband is cheating on her because he is on the phone to his girlfriend and she hears what he is saying and he was taking advantage on the fact she was deaf.
5. throughout the film she has flash backs to what people were saying when she was deaf and finds out that her life when she was deaf was all fake.

This i s our idea for the whole film so we are not going to show much of it in the opening sequence, we also realise that some of the shots and things could be hard to do with the doctor and the hospital it would be hard to construct this and we doubt we would be allowed access so we think we are going to leave what happened a mystery to also make the opening sequence more effective.

aThe opening sequence as she is laying in bed at home she has a flash back where she can hear what is going on and finds out that her husband is cheating on her, this is from her point of view but she is watching herself then she comes back to reality and has a sound overload where there is loads of voice overs and maybe some sounds of the crash and a heartbeat sound which carrys on when all other sounds stop then slowly fades out. Then from her point of view the bandage is being taken off that goes around her face and covers her eyes and ears we will film this from her point of view so the sound will become clearer and the vision will become focused then it is her husband that took it of. we name this the sentence. we think we could film through a bandage at first so that it is clear that we are filming from her point of view and show what she is seeing and hearing.

Feedback

we explained our ideas to the rest of the class and showed them our logo and everything else we have done so far and the feedback we got was that our logo looked profesional but our ideas needed some development before we could go ahead with the filming because we were not very clear of which idea we are going to use. They liked our idea of how to do the credits because it was different and interesting. 

moodboard

Six Feet under

Six Feet Under, Main Title Sequence
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we watched the beginning of six feet under and we really like the way the credits are presented there is a fluency between each shot the credits are diagetic and therfore are placed in the action of the filming for example a tag with the directors name hanging off the characters toe. we think that this kind of credits is very interesting because it is unlikely to find a film that has credits like this and there is something to watch aswell as looking at the names therefore the audience are more likely to pay attention and tend to carry on watching. We would like to achieve something like this technique to make our credits interesting but it may be difficult for us due to the time we have and our budget.

preliminary excercise

The preliminary task went well, all the shots were well planned and were presented clearly.We shared the roles around the group allowing everyone to contribute to the camera work and acting. We were unable to have actors however switching roles around helps us be more fair. We completed all the shots we needed to do, in an ideal location of inside a empty corridor. We had no problems with the weather etc. We feel the preliminary task when very well and was overall quite good but when we do our filming for our thriller we think it would be sensible to organise actors that could star in our film instead of using members of our group because it is going to be a much harder task than the preliminary task and we will need every member focusing on the camera work and directing.

Plans for the Thriller Opening.

Our ideas for a Thriller Opening is that we don't want to give to much away in the opening or have a death that is shown as this relates to much to a horror.

We haven't decided which idea we prefer. Ones a action thriller and one is more psychological thriller.

Idea one: This is more of an action thriller. But it starts off with a dark setting and a person hiding. The person hiding is looking through a small gap, outside the dark setting is people saying where is she. The person hiding is heavy breathing. Then flicks back into the past, and it starts to tell the story. The Camera starts off with a dark setting with the close up of the main characters face, with them looking out of a tiny hole from where the character is hiding. The camera then focuses on the action outside where people come into a room, where there is dialogue asking where she is, the camera could have a long shot as the character is looking through the hole. The camera could be fast paced as it relates to the action. The music could be fast paced as well to match up with the action. The Editing wouldn't include any dissolves or anything as sharp cutting would be more effective. but this could possibly tell the story too much in the time that we have but this is what the opening sequence would be based on.




Idea two: It starts with a police station and an interview room and you see two girls getting interviewed about a death, then you have flash backs of the girls all getting ready for a night out and then, them walking down the street in a busy town area. You then see two of the girls looking for the other one who has gone missing. The use of camera in the opening sequence could start off slow in the police station as the character are talking, could use a mid-shot. it could flick back a forth to which character was talking or to the group of girls so it shows the emotion. When they are talking about what happening in the flashback the camera goes into a hand held mode, as this is evidence at the police station. When the girls are in the busy town it then goes back to a steady camera and its fast paced towards the girls and then it goes black and the opening credits start. but it could be difficult to make a police station set and we would probly not be allowed access to a actual police station.


idea3

another idea would be to base the filming on one of the two ideas above but not to actually tell a story but instead just hint at whats going on by just using filming and sound which may make the opening sequences e.g in the butterfly effect there is no conversation until about 2.30minutes in and also in vertigo there is no speech until about 2.45 into the film. The story is not normally told at all there is always an element of mystery to the story that the audience either has to think about and work out or watch on more to find out. I think this would be a good way to tell one of these stories because the sound can tell a lot from filming, you don't even need dialogue which just makes what is going on so obvious like ''where is she'' we could show with filming and sound that her friends are looking for her which would make the opening sequence more interesting.


Idea Four
Another idea could be a girl who has flashbacks all the time, because she nearly drowned. She sees into the past to try and change things as an effect. As a child she has bad experiences for example, her dad leaves, her mum gets a horrible boyfriend and hes abusive towards the mum. Her brother gets into a lot of trouble with drugs and gangs. She helps others to sort their problems out by going back into the past and changing events. This then makes her life and others perfect but then she comes through different consequences. In the opening sequence you will see her on a hospital with blood and then you see a flashback of her in the car when it has crashed. The screen goes black and then the title of the film comes out of her mouth whilst shes screaming.


Idea Five

Production Logo

This is a Jerry Bruckheimer production logo. He has many successes in action and drama genres. This logo gives the impression that it is going to be dark film as it is a dark setting with a lonely setting with a tree, that lightening bolt hitting the tree.

Well known films made by Jerry Bruckheimer he has done Pirates Of The Caribbean

Production Logo

This is a Warner Brothers production logo. Warner Brothers have been known for TV animations and films.

Warner Brothers have done family films but also action type films. They cover a wide audience. By the logo you think that it is going to be a family film because its bright and colourful but it has also been used for more thriller, action, comedy and horror type films.

They have made many films, well known and others not so well known.
Family films such as 'The Ant Bully' which is also animated which is what they are mostly known for.
Comedy films such as The Hangover have been made by Warner Brothers.
Horror Film such as One Missed Call.

Alfred Hitchcock Essay "What thriller thrive" 1936

The audience wants to feel involved in the Thriller but not enough to feel threatened. They want to feel the tension and suspense, with out anything actually happening. The audience can leave the cinema with assurance and safety. At the end of the film it is always resolved, so the audience can relax. One quote from the essay is 'A thriller must be wholehearted-the more exciting the better. And that is why the authentic thriller will live and thrive and the horror film will die' this is basically saying that the thriller is and will be more popular.

Thriller Analysis

Butterfly effect

Thriller Analysis

Vertigo Opening - 1958 Alfred Hitchcock
Vertigo is having a fear of falling.

Repetitive Non Diegetic Sound, Jumpy and mysterious. Spinning Symbols to make you feel like your falling. Identity slightly shown but not given away so it gives the view questions, womans body parts are broken, mainly focuses on her eyes, this is because the eyes show emotion.