Costume research

The main character is going to be and evil priest
and there will be a nun as well.

Thriller audiences research

Usually Thrillers are from ages 12 and up like The Dark Knight but some are for older audiences like Se7en (18) and Taken (15).
Most likely going for an 18 due to the violent content we are planning.


18 Works are for adults and can contain strong issues such as:

•   very strong violence
•   frequent strong language (e.g. 'f***') and / or very strong language (e.g. ‘c***’)
•   strong portrayals of sexual activity
•   scenes of sexual violence
•   strong horror
•   strong blood and gore
•   real sex (in some circumstances)
•   discriminatory language and behaviour  

Se7en opening

In the opening two minutes of se7en, we see a book and a page turns, it then show an image of two hands that look slightly deformed. Then there are some flashing images, and we see the name of brad Pitt flash up, after this we see somebody’s hand and it looks like he is shaving the end of his fingers off. The words Se7en flashes up and we see a book being turned and Gwyneth Paltrow’s name. Immediately after there is an image of somebody writing in a book, using strange symbols. The same thing continues for two minutes where, there are random scenes flashing up, then straight after are titles, all in the same jerky white writing.
Review by Tom Buckley

Lethal Vows (1999)Opening Scene

The film starts off by telling us that it is based on true story and a non-diegetic sound track starts playing. we are then shown a boy riding a bike doing a paper round with the actors names starting to appear one by one and the shows the title of the film. Then we see a girl collecting the paper and we follow her going inside her house, when inside she puts the paper down and goes up to wake her mum. When the mum wakes up she has strange repercussions from the night before this make the viewer wonder what's going on, "is this normal? Isn't it?" As this is happening more credits show up one at a time at various point on the screen such as more actors and producers.
When the mother is down stairs the music stops and we are  introduced to of her daughters and the father.

The film has no real opening titles just a display of the film's title at the beginning with the scene still going on in the back ground. This doesn't cut up the film and helps establish the "slice of life style" the film is going for.

The scene introduces the main characters which is good because the film is telling a stand alone story where your don't know any of the characters. The scene mange's to gab your attention with some mystery so you continue viewing.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAWEclkku-U

research in to types of thrillers

http://www.slideshare.net/heat95/types-of-thrillers
 Useful website showing different types of thrillers. This helped us classify our film.

Stationary Titles test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYo2J9m_aZM


Moving Titles test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7tummyd448&feature=c4-overview&list=UUJ8mOxlgFlQpIQsKPzcBzvw

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Opening Scene

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls Opening Scene

The first scene is very quick to establish the fantasy setting and in the first minuet and a half as we get a brief introduction to most of the main characters as being all talking ponies and giving our main character's name "Princess Twilight Sparkle" which tells the viewer that she has a position of power. The scene also show us that she has recently gained the title by having her feel worried and unsure what to do. The transaction to the main titles is done very nicely by zooming in on her crown and going into a display of shapes and colours with a remix of the theme from the show the film is based on.
 

During the titles we are introduced to all the main characters with the actors who play them each one with its own special animation that fits the character's personality and ever throwing in the odd pun e.g. "Ashleigh Ball" being appearing on a football. The title sequence also establishes when most of the film is going to be set, an American styled high school.

The scene Introduces a lot of the film characters and establishes the setting and this give the impression that the film is attempting to be a stand alone film so those who have not seen the T.V. show it is based on and follows on from.

Title scene

Transformers: The movie (1986) Opening Scene.

Transformers: The movie (1986) Opening Scene.

The first scene shows a planet like object flying through space and the soundtrack composed for the scene starts. This tells us immediately the film genre is science fiction and involves space travel and the soundtrack uses strange "off-worldly" sounds. It then shows us the object approaching an advanced mechanical peaceful would and the track changes to a calmer pace and tempo to match, the inhabitants look up at the object in fear and call it Unicron. We then see Unicron starting to eat the planet giving us a true scale of the villain's size and destructive capabilities showing that the film is not intended for small children.

Then we a shown the planet being turned into energy and refuelling the villainous world eater and then we transact to the title sequence, which doesn't tell the viewer anything other than some of the "big name" actors and the film's title but with a good song and nice animation.

The opening sequence only introduces the one character because the film is under the impression that you have seen the T.V. show on which the film is based on meaning you know who some main characters are. The sequence gets the viewer asking questions making them want to continue watching.



(From the show)

 

Opening scene

Preliminary evaluation

Preproduction

My group consisted of Tom Jack and I, our task was to show a person walking along and then having a conversation with someone; the piece is to contain match on action and the 180’ rule. Before doing a storyboard we exchanged ideas to get a ruff picture of what we wanted. We didn’t write a script though we now see that we probably should have done. When making the storyboard we went to the location and we thought it would use to help visualise the scenes. Our roles in the piece were: Tom as the director and had a small acting part in the conversation, Jack as the camera man and I was the star/main actor. The reasoning behind our roles was Tom had a lot of the good ideas, I had my large coat and Jack just wanted to do it.

Production

When filming we did our self-assigned roles well with some shots requiring tom to be on the camera so Jack can be used to signal action. We used a reasonable variety of shots like low angle, tracking and close up shots. Most scenes required around 3 tries before we got a good enough one or one without any mistakes. We did encounter one problem: when we continued some of the outdoor shooting the weather was different and I was wearing different clothes, so ended up doing it all again. I had quite a bit of contribution being the star and giving some productive ideas.

Post-production

For editing we used Adobe premiere Pro cs4. Tom and jack made most of the decisions because I was ill during the editing process but we did decide together pre- and during production on certain things that would be done in editing. We learned how to make a person fade in and out whilst moving with the background being the same. We had a problem with the 180’ rule which was easily solved with some editing.

Evaluation

Our piece was reasonably successful though during editing we realised we didn’t do the 180’ rule correctly but it was a quick fix. The finished product fulfilled the brief well and we managed to pull off the special effects we wanted.

Hopefully when it comes to the main piece we will have less problems and I would like to see if we could implement the rule of thirds and types of shots/shooting into the main piece.

Homework for 4/11.

Playing with Lighting.

I used a Lego Model of mine for these pictures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bOceNiPKg4
This is my groups' preliminary piece.

 

Before we started the Preliminary pieces we took pictures of our selves going on a journey to school before splitting into different groups to do the preliminary pieces.