thriller stills and prints screens

wasted thriller opening final

rough cut of thriller

Last Lesson Of Editing

This is our last lesson to edit our film and we need to:

• Edit the font of the credits
• Put the voice over onto final cut and in the right place
• Add the music from garage band
• Make it a quicktime

These are all the things we have to do to finish our thriller opening, we will have enough time to do all this in this lesson as well as watching it through to make sure everything is exactly how we want it and tweaking parts of it.

review of feedback

We had a lot of feedback saying that our film needs a bit of rendering, there was one short clip that wasn't rendered, so we can render that next time we edit.
We also had feedback that sound was needed, we have created our soundtrack and need to add it to our film. We also have recorded a monologue that is read by Josie to read over the top of the soundtrack, this will make the storyline clearer and should put an end to any confusion.
There were a couple of comments about the cuts. They could be slowed down, and we will try that out next time we edit.

group feedback

Good feedback-
Q1-10 -
Good use of cuts from Josie running to scenic view. Very effective.
Q1-09 -
Nice establishing shots.
Q1-08 -
Nice setting, good shots. Gripping clips of murder? Interesting.
Q1-07 -
Very, very good cinematography. Great flashing shots. Thrills, good.
Q1-12 - Good establishing shots, nice angles.

Constructive Criticism -
Q1-10 -
Film needs a bit of rendering. Add soundtrack. Cuts are quite fast, slow it down a bit?
Q1-09 -
Cuts need to be modified.
Q1-08 -
Of course the sound is needed. Needs more rendering
Q1-07 -
Needs some kind of soundtrack, something mysterious? A little too confusing.
Q1-12 -
Storyline needs to be more clear. Sound needed.

Editing Day Two

Today we have to give in our rough draft. We plan to put the credits in the begining of the film opening which we have already finished editing, record our voice over and also make a track on garage band for the begining of the opening.

Evaluation

We have to evaluate our project when we are finished here are the questions:

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Editing Ideas

We decided to make the clips of Josie running in black and white and then flash the slightly distorted ones quickly in between long shots of the countryside. We decided to make them black and white so they are more disorienting to the viewer as they cant see what is happening that well and will also stick out more with the scenic shots. We also used the shots which we filmed by having martin follow Josie running with the camera these shots are quite shakey and confusing. we also had to speed up some of our shots for example the whip pan shot as otherwise they are too slow.

Script

I timed how long it would take me to read the script with the result of 36 seconds, we will edit our film to incorporate this, and adjust our footage accordingly.
We are also making a soundtrack in garageband and after the script has been read over the top of it, the music will then heighten and do all the talking.

review and change of script

Death. What is death?
Is it that moment where everything becomes over-exposed. Your vision blurs and your mind flashes to memories that you once felt were beautiful. What is beauty?
The comfortable village of Orwell, surrounded by vast, green fields. This obscure village, was the place I called home.
The gentle brushing of leaves in the summer… the sky so vivid it felt like it was falling, the whole village teeming with life and energy. The houses pretty, the neighbours friendly. This village was the perfect place to live.
However, last autumn, that all changed, for what once was safe, has reflected your insanity.

We have changed our script as we decided not to film at night. We orignially had a poem that was written about the night, and i have cut the script and written to replace it. I will speak the script to find out how long it is, and compare that with how long the rough-cut film is.

Credits

After disccusing where and what we want our credits to lok like we have decided that we will put them in between shots probably using a black background and white rating, rather then putting them on with our film as a background. we will put the title 'wasted' on the last slide after a clip of josie laying on the floor.

Editing Day One

In this lesson we are editing our film to put it together, we only have one more lesson untill are rough cut deadline. Which we need to give in our first rough cut of our film including the credits, soundtrack, ident, voice over and effects. We already have the ident and written down what credits we are going to do. We have checked our story board to see if we have all the shots we need and edit them into the right order, however we may put some of the running shots earlier on. This lesson we plan to get most of the editing done of the film and next lesson we will add the credits and voice over.

Review of Filming

We filmed are running shots in the woods and it went well, we made sure not to get any of the road or the camera equipment in the shots as this wouldn't look good. We also made sure we used a variety of creative shots for example match-on-action and canted angle shot to make are opening more intresting. We now have lots of film to play with and edit as we made sure that we kept the camera running between shots.

Todays filming

Today we're filming the running shots, we've looked through all our test shots to choose what angles and techniques we liked and are going to recreate. We're then going to come back and sort through the footage we already have and start editing to create a rough draft.

Film Title

We have decided on the title for our film, we will call it

'WASTED'

We decided on the title wasted as a one word title is catchy and punchy. We picked 'wasted' as in our film a young life has been wasted, and it also makes the viewer question what the film will be about, e.g "What has been wasted?" or "Who is wasted?"

Poster Analysis

This poster for the dark knight is very good and it makes it clear to the audience that it will be a thriller by using mise en scene of batman's black suit to look not like he is such a good guy compared to posters of superman who wears bright colors and looks strong and attractive. It also uses dark blue and black cloudy sky in the background so you can anticipate that something bad will happen in the film. The fire in the shape of batmans symbols could represent him being beaten as it is on fire and looks as if it is burning down the building. Also it is a red that really sticks out and draws your eye to it compared to the rest of the poster that uses dark colours, and the colour red could represent danger. It also uses dark blue coloured and a bold plain font saying 'welcome to a world without rules' letting the audience know that they are going to go against the normal society. The poster also makes the audience ask alot of questions and doesnt give too much away of what will happen in the film.

Filming Problems

There where not to many problems apart from the weather. It made ground conditions harder to use and some shots were to shaky to use and it was hard finding a safe spot for Josie to lie on the ground were she wouldn't get to wet, dirty or stung by stinging nettles so we used a bin liner to put under were she is laying. other than these concerns there where no serious problems.

Target Audience

We plan to make are film aimed at teenagers and young adults so ages 15-30 and aim to make it certificate 15 or 12A as we researched the guidelines for and it wont invove strong language sex or nudity or violence. I think our thriller will appeal to males and females however probably more to males. It would appeal to people who like other thriller films such as brick and no country for old men as we used these films for research and have used similar style as they did, for example no country for old men starts of with lots of picturesque land scape shots which we are planning on having in our opening.

Filiming in a little village

On Sunday the 29th of February we started filming some scenes in the village of Orwell. the weather was a mixture of cold winds a rain showers, in some ways this complimented the atmosphere we were trying to create, but also made it difficult having to make sure no damage would be done to the camera or ourselves. the majority of shots we did included Josie being a dead body and trying to create beauty out of something horrific. we used a number of different shots that verified between long shots, close up and extreme close ups. We found areas with snow drops she could lie in to make it look partly beautiful.