Final Cut
we picked out 3 main titles that we wanted to use, we wanted them to fit in with our thrillers style so we wanted it to be scary and sort of abstract. we found our title fonts on final cut.
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We have almost finished our Final Cut of our Thriller Opening sequence, with the editing and footage finished, the soundtrack finalised, completed, and input into the roughcut, we have remastered, and refined certain parts, despite the unfortunate aspect of repetition, which has been minimised (but not too minimised due to the small amount of footage we have). All that is required now is the Cast/Crew names to be posted into the Final Cut; As well as the most important part of the Thriller; The Title.
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1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
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We attempted to keep the lighting to a minimum, to reflect the sinister aspect of the Thriller genre. Otherwise we would use our editing to sharpen the contrast, and keep the brightness quite low.
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So far the only effects we have, is when the lighter is flickering, like candlelight, to add suspense to the newspaper scene, however we intend to distort, remaster, darken, and add various effects to enhance the sinister aspects to our current footage, which at this stage, has been cut and ordered appropriately.
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We began planning the camerwork we'd use on the storyboard sheets, deciding that it'd be best to begin with an Establishing shot, which we used again, combined with a long shot, in the bridge, there are other shots we used, such as over the shoulder shots for the newspaper cutting, a low shot for the CCTV camera, a medium shot for the chair in the dark room, another low down shot for the rattling chains, and finally a close up shot for the face of the concealed character, who has just cut up the newspaper words.
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There are many thriller-based conventions which all add to the build of suspense for the viewer, however if one convention is overly used, especially in just the opening sequence it can devalue the appeal to viewer, as it will not give the desired effect for the viewer to be uncertain as to the events of the thriller, wanting more.
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We allocated one day for filming, of which we acquired all of our necessary material, with additional shots, as we gained inspiration from further ideas which we had.
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The background music created and used specifically for the Thriller Animatic needed to be dark, sinister sounds, rather than an instrumental-based soundtrack, which could potentially remove the 'thrill' of our storyline. This is mainly due to the limited supply of instrumentals at our disposal, in addition to us not finding many appropriate ones.
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We are heavily influenced by the opening sequence of the film 'Seven', as we have already analysed, in our other post, in any case, we like the idea of abstract objects, in a sequence which may suggest a particular convention of the thriller genre, for example, murder.
Props:
The overall concern of our ideas, suggested by our animatics was that there was a general uncertainty about where we would shoot, and what props we would need, however we shortly managed to discuss and finalise where we could shoot, who would supply certain props, and when we would be taking our camera out from College.
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Animatics are a sequence of stills, creating a storyline, which when collated in the right order, create an animation of the story.
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When we were analyzing 'seven' we decided to come up with the same sort of idea, an opening with no real story line. we liked the idea of the viewer not knowing whats going to happen next. we looked at the idea of abstract objects like chains and scissors, instead of doing lots of acting, we chose doing this idea because it is stereotypical for lots of acting to be used in a thriller opening. we didn't really like the idea of knives and guns to be used in our thriller because its quite a boring and everyone uses
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