Showing posts with label Saffron. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saffron. Show all posts
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
What we needed to change.
After getting the feedback from Amar it made us understand that our ending to our project was not succesful and left the ending dead. Rather then leaving it open, so the audience would want to watch the rest of the thriller. So therefore we had to change the overall ideas of our storyboard, that we had originally planned. Maybe in the future we should really think about the ending because from this we have learnt that it plays a big part in the whole project.
In alot of professional thrillers the end of a titale sequence often ends with some kind of text, usually ''based on a true story'' or the production name, also the title of the while thriller. So we decided to add the title name at the end, making it more eye catching and making the audience more aware. Alot of proffesional thriller often put the title over the top of one of the clips however we wanted the title to be really prominant to the audience by making the background completely plain.
In alot of professional thrillers the end of a titale sequence often ends with some kind of text, usually ''based on a true story'' or the production name, also the title of the while thriller. So we decided to add the title name at the end, making it more eye catching and making the audience more aware. Alot of proffesional thriller often put the title over the top of one of the clips however we wanted the title to be really prominant to the audience by making the background completely plain.
Music in Pshycological thrillers.
We looked at other professional pshycologica thriller sounds (within a title seuquence)
and we found that looking at 'Catch me if you can' we realised this is what we wanted our thriller to be most like.
In the title sequence it has running, much like our thriller, this is why we looked into the sounds to try and get an idea of the perfect ''chase'' music.
Its really upbeat, and fast paced, emphasising the fact the character is on a run or in our project running away form ''something'. The sounds are not happy, but non diegetic and fast, making it jumpy but keeping in the mind of a pshycological thriller.
Things we need to do.
- Create a sounds on garage band.
- Add sounds to seuquence
- Create a name for our thriller
- Add name of thriller to the end of our title sequence
- Add more transitions making it flow (continuity)
- Rearrange order of some of the clips
- Maybe add in a logo
- Add movement to the text at the beginning of sequence.
- Lighten some of our clips.
- Upload more feedback, and what we have done.
Editing
Wednesday 9th March
In todays lesson we created a sound track on garage band, we wanted the first part of it to be slow to keep in order with the overall tone of the title sequence, then as the fade begins the pace of the song increases for the running parts of the thriller. using garage band we decided to use dark and intense but also upbeat sounds.
In todays lesson we created a sound track on garage band, we wanted the first part of it to be slow to keep in order with the overall tone of the title sequence, then as the fade begins the pace of the song increases for the running parts of the thriller. using garage band we decided to use dark and intense but also upbeat sounds.
Editing lesson 3
Monday 7th March
In this lesson we gained feedback from Amar leaving us with lots of better ideas, but alot more editing!
We had to rearrange the order of the clips to make it have a better ending, and also adding certain transitions to introduce the different parts of the thriller, also making the production name look more appealing and intresting.
First of all we decided rather then adding a background to the production name, we decided to make the text a typewriter, keeping constant with the rest of the text throughout the thriller, also adding a red shadow to the text making it more appealing.
We also added a fade in fade out making it introduce the thriller, and the narrative.
We cut and paste the clip of the eye to the end, and then made a short clip of total darkness just before it. Then using garage band we created a sound of a door closing and footsteps to create a better and tenser atmosphere.
Next lesson we will carry on to produce the underlying song of the whole thriller.
In this lesson we gained feedback from Amar leaving us with lots of better ideas, but alot more editing!
We had to rearrange the order of the clips to make it have a better ending, and also adding certain transitions to introduce the different parts of the thriller, also making the production name look more appealing and intresting.
First of all we decided rather then adding a background to the production name, we decided to make the text a typewriter, keeping constant with the rest of the text throughout the thriller, also adding a red shadow to the text making it more appealing.
We also added a fade in fade out making it introduce the thriller, and the narrative.
We cut and paste the clip of the eye to the end, and then made a short clip of total darkness just before it. Then using garage band we created a sound of a door closing and footsteps to create a better and tenser atmosphere.
Next lesson we will carry on to produce the underlying song of the whole thriller.
Feedback from Amar from watching our video
For the production name, add some sort of background to make it less plain, maybe add movement, a transition, perhaps add a logo? Fade in fade out effect.
Using more transitions making the whole thing 2 or 3 times longer.
When introducing the first clip, make the sounds go over the top of the production name, making the audience wanting to find out whats happening.
Underlying song throughout the project, and everytime there is the white noise effect make the sounds higher.
Also add ''based on a true story''.
Cut out the eye clip and move it to the end, so it leave the end, an opening sequence...
Make it fade out to black when the eye closes making it look more real, leave the shot black for a little while with maybe a heartbeat sound, or an footsteps sound, then leaving the ending as the eye opening and being in a dark room, making it more intense and mysterious.
Also ADD A TITLE AT THE END.
Using more transitions making the whole thing 2 or 3 times longer.
When introducing the first clip, make the sounds go over the top of the production name, making the audience wanting to find out whats happening.
Underlying song throughout the project, and everytime there is the white noise effect make the sounds higher.
Also add ''based on a true story''.
Cut out the eye clip and move it to the end, so it leave the end, an opening sequence...
Make it fade out to black when the eye closes making it look more real, leave the shot black for a little while with maybe a heartbeat sound, or an footsteps sound, then leaving the ending as the eye opening and being in a dark room, making it more intense and mysterious.
Also ADD A TITLE AT THE END.
Sunday, 6 March 2011
More editing.
In our lesson, we continued editing, we had to make even more ajustments to the colour correction as we felt that the ''night vision'' effect was not as effective as we had hoped. When we thought we had finished we checked our minimum amount of time which was meant to be 1:50 but when looking at ours we found it was only 1.20 so therefore we had to try and extend some clips, we first started by making the white noise sections about 3/4 seconds longer leaving more time for the ''typewriter'' to spell each name and for the audience have enough time to read the title sequence.
This made the overall time increase but still not enough for the minumum amount so we had to ajust the clips from the forest, making some of them longer, however we had a problem there were not enough clips we had shot to make each section of the forst location, so we had to copy and paste a part of what we had filmed and put one at the beginning and one at the end, hoping it wouldnt be too obvious to the audeince.
We also had to make the parts we took from the darkroom longer, which we hoped would initially make the entire sequence longer, and perhaps explain more of the narrative to the audeince, we had to also colour correct all the shots from the dark room because they were too dark and the audience wouldnt be able to see exactly what was going on.
This made the overall time increase but still not enough for the minumum amount so we had to ajust the clips from the forest, making some of them longer, however we had a problem there were not enough clips we had shot to make each section of the forst location, so we had to copy and paste a part of what we had filmed and put one at the beginning and one at the end, hoping it wouldnt be too obvious to the audeince.
We also had to make the parts we took from the darkroom longer, which we hoped would initially make the entire sequence longer, and perhaps explain more of the narrative to the audeince, we had to also colour correct all the shots from the dark room because they were too dark and the audience wouldnt be able to see exactly what was going on.
Thursday, 3 March 2011
FEED BACK
FEEDBACK
Camera work- The shots used were point of view, long shots and a high angle shot. They were effective and put you in the characters shoes.
Mis-en-scene- Dark lightingm which is mysterious, night vision is also used.
Props- photo developing equipment is used which in the thriller genre can be used as evidence.
Location- the dark room was used which has a dark mysertiious atmostphere which contributed to the thriller genre.
Editing- shot durations are quite short and cross cutting between them which keeps the opening faced paced.
Sound- the sounds are mostly diegetic
Improvements- maybe some other shots instead of just point of view, exten length of opening. add credits.
Worked well- the night vision shot is good and stands out.
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
SHOTS
SHOT 1 ETX. handi cam, almost a high angle shot, showing character which isnt established at this point, running through a forest, clearly running away from something but it does not show what exactly, panting sounds are used to enphasise the fact the character (victim) is running.
SHOT 2 ETX. further shots of character running through forest, but the camera tilted higher so that the location is established, same sounds as shot 1.
SHOT 3 NONE. white noise, with title sequence, first name of person in our group, with black BROKEN GHOST text.
SHOT 4 INT. over the shoulder/point of view shot of a different but also unknown character in a dark room (maybe walking around.. whilst) looking through photos, or paper cuttings, of the ''victim'', unusual sounds of character singing/humming, creating a pshycological feel.
SHOT 5 INT. close up showing photographs of victim, underneath non diegetic sounds of erie music, fast paced, to emphasise the genre of pshycological thriller.
SHOT 6 NONE. white noise, with title sequence, second name of person in our group, with black BROKEN GHOST text.
SHOT 7 ETX. handi cam, much like shot 1, showing character running through forest with a underlying non diegetic sound, soundtrack created on garage band.
SHOT 8 NONE. white noise, with title sequence, third name of person in our group, with black BROKEN GHOST text.
SHOT 9 INT. another point of view shot, of the antagonist which still remains unknown walking around the dark room looking though the photographs.
SHOT 10 NONE. white noise, with title sequence, fourth name of person in our group, with black BROKEN GHOST text.
SHOT 2 ETX. further shots of character running through forest, but the camera tilted higher so that the location is established, same sounds as shot 1.
SHOT 3 NONE. white noise, with title sequence, first name of person in our group, with black BROKEN GHOST text.
SHOT 4 INT. over the shoulder/point of view shot of a different but also unknown character in a dark room (maybe walking around.. whilst) looking through photos, or paper cuttings, of the ''victim'', unusual sounds of character singing/humming, creating a pshycological feel.
SHOT 5 INT. close up showing photographs of victim, underneath non diegetic sounds of erie music, fast paced, to emphasise the genre of pshycological thriller.
SHOT 6 NONE. white noise, with title sequence, second name of person in our group, with black BROKEN GHOST text.
SHOT 7 ETX. handi cam, much like shot 1, showing character running through forest with a underlying non diegetic sound, soundtrack created on garage band.
SHOT 8 NONE. white noise, with title sequence, third name of person in our group, with black BROKEN GHOST text.
SHOT 9 INT. another point of view shot, of the antagonist which still remains unknown walking around the dark room looking though the photographs.
SHOT 10 NONE. white noise, with title sequence, fourth name of person in our group, with black BROKEN GHOST text.
''Shaky Cam''
When filming we chose to use the effect of a hand held camera, which we have used to show a certain characters point of view, so that the audience can really grasp the atmosphere, this effect is sometimes used in professional thrillers, but not very often, we have decided to use this in our thriller as it may challenge the 'typical convention of thrillers'where mostly still cameras are used. It also allows us to show that our product is a little different from others making it unique and more interesting as its something ''new''.
When researching about the effect of using a ''shaky camera'' we found that it can suggest unprepared, unrehearsed filming of reality, and can provide a sense of dynamics, immersion, instability or nervousness. However too much shaky camera motion can make the viewer feel dizzy or sick.
2 different kinds of a handi cam shot
When researching about the effect of using a ''shaky camera'' we found that it can suggest unprepared, unrehearsed filming of reality, and can provide a sense of dynamics, immersion, instability or nervousness. However too much shaky camera motion can make the viewer feel dizzy or sick.
2 different kinds of a handi cam shot
Colours
During the title sequence the main colours shown are:
Red
Black
and then green/dark colours ( to create a night vision effect )
We researched the colours to see connotations and what kind of effect they would create on the audience, we found that RED generally can be seen as love/lust but also blood and danger, which we need to make the audience feel tense. BLACK can show a number of things such as intellegence, smart, punctuality, buisness etc, but in thriller cases it shows darkness, evil, mystery. WHITE shows purity and sometimes peace, but it can also be seen as a religious sense, and in some countries can be worn at funerals, it also is known as being ''scary'' due to things like spirits and ghosts.
By using these colours we are conforming to the conventions of a typical thriller, where most colours used in the title sequences are red, black, blues, white.
We have used things like white noise, which is obviously white so we have needed to add dark coloured text on top to make it contrast so that it stands out. Which is why we have used black text. We were considering using white/red text on top of the actual video footage but felt that it may distract the audience from the opening scene which we want them to focus on, so therefore we decided to add white noise as part of the title sequence so that we could display text on that.
Example of scream, showing typical thriller colours
Red
Black
and then green/dark colours ( to create a night vision effect )
We researched the colours to see connotations and what kind of effect they would create on the audience, we found that RED generally can be seen as love/lust but also blood and danger, which we need to make the audience feel tense. BLACK can show a number of things such as intellegence, smart, punctuality, buisness etc, but in thriller cases it shows darkness, evil, mystery. WHITE shows purity and sometimes peace, but it can also be seen as a religious sense, and in some countries can be worn at funerals, it also is known as being ''scary'' due to things like spirits and ghosts.
By using these colours we are conforming to the conventions of a typical thriller, where most colours used in the title sequences are red, black, blues, white.
We have used things like white noise, which is obviously white so we have needed to add dark coloured text on top to make it contrast so that it stands out. Which is why we have used black text. We were considering using white/red text on top of the actual video footage but felt that it may distract the audience from the opening scene which we want them to focus on, so therefore we decided to add white noise as part of the title sequence so that we could display text on that.
Example of scream, showing typical thriller colours
Saturday, 19 February 2011
Costume
Typical costume of characters within a pshycological thriller.
From looking at other professional pshycological thrillers, it shows that all the main characters in each of the pshycological thrillers i have looked into, have been well dressed, perhaps showing buisnessman, but almost always in some kind of uniform or suit. Here are a few examples:
This image is from Momento, and this is the main character with pshycological issues. He is wearing a suit. Smartly dressed, clean.
This image is from Phone booth of the main character and another character, both in suits, the main character is dressed a little more smartly and cleanly then the other (right)
This image is from catch me if you can, also the main character in a pilot uniform, (suit) smartly dressed, also a pshycological character, a fraud.
From looking at other professional pshycological thrillers, it shows that all the main characters in each of the pshycological thrillers i have looked into, have been well dressed, perhaps showing buisnessman, but almost always in some kind of uniform or suit. Here are a few examples:
 |
| Momento |
 |
| Phone Booth |
 |
| Catch me if you can |
What we need to have an understanding of
When producing our film project we need to have an understanding of:
- using a tripod
- using a camrecorder
- using final cut
- using garage band
- understanding what we need to include for the micro elements
- be aware of health and saftely
- think about times of the day to film
- think about costume
Editing 1
Editing
We first uploaded all of our footage onto garage band and put it in an order to see how it looked, we found that because we filmed in school hours, the lighting was day light. So we had to find ajustments on the video colour corrector to make it look like the camera was on night mode. We brought up colour corrector and made it dark and green to give it the night time affect however the sky was green, making it obvious that it was daylight still, so this is a difficulty we should have thought about before hand. Aswell as the lighting we had to add small sections off blank video to apply text onto it, to show our names as part of the title sequence. When doing this we found that it did not look ''scary'' enough so we decided to add the ''white noise ''/ ''tv static'' effect however we did consider the simple black background with white text, as it was a typical convention of the title sequence of thrillers which we found from research.
Colour Corrector effect ^
After looking at the editing we had done we decided as a group to use the white noise effect as we thought it made it more clear about the cutting from different scenes, and locations. Also we used a type writer effect to make it look more pshycological, we got the ideas from looking at other thrillers such as 'Momento'.
Adding text ^
When using the text tools we set our font to 'BROKENGHOST' rather then having a general obvious text like 'times new roman' we think that the text we chose made a better effect then if the text was simple and blunt although some pshycological thrillers do use capital letters with simple fonts such as 'tahoma'.
We first uploaded all of our footage onto garage band and put it in an order to see how it looked, we found that because we filmed in school hours, the lighting was day light. So we had to find ajustments on the video colour corrector to make it look like the camera was on night mode. We brought up colour corrector and made it dark and green to give it the night time affect however the sky was green, making it obvious that it was daylight still, so this is a difficulty we should have thought about before hand. Aswell as the lighting we had to add small sections off blank video to apply text onto it, to show our names as part of the title sequence. When doing this we found that it did not look ''scary'' enough so we decided to add the ''white noise ''/ ''tv static'' effect however we did consider the simple black background with white text, as it was a typical convention of the title sequence of thrillers which we found from research.
Colour Corrector effect ^
After looking at the editing we had done we decided as a group to use the white noise effect as we thought it made it more clear about the cutting from different scenes, and locations. Also we used a type writer effect to make it look more pshycological, we got the ideas from looking at other thrillers such as 'Momento'.
Adding text ^
When using the text tools we set our font to 'BROKENGHOST' rather then having a general obvious text like 'times new roman' we think that the text we chose made a better effect then if the text was simple and blunt although some pshycological thrillers do use capital letters with simple fonts such as 'tahoma'.
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Monday, 14 February 2011
Target Audience
Target audience
The target audience for our thriller project is both male and females ages 15-30. Our target audience can be divided into two categories 15-20 and 20-30, because they will have different interests. Teenagers enjoy things like going out with their friends to cinema's which the older category may also enjoy, so our project would appeal to them both. However teenagers or 15-20 year olds like going out clubbing, shopping with friends, sports activities etc.
Our thriller project conforms to the 15 classification meaning that no-one under the age of 15 can view it, because it may be found inappropriate. We feel that our target audience 15-30 allows teenagers to enjoy our film but also allows the older generation as-well, although if anyone above 30 feels they want to watch it there are no restrictions that they can not, we just feel that 20-30 year olds would enjoy it, as university students etc as-well as teens enjoy watching 'scary films'. Majority of 20-30 year olds are employed and have children perhaps so they feel a need to go out once and a while and see films at cinemas.
Our product would be enjoyed by our target audience mainly because of its genre being a psychological thrillers, we tried making it similar to other professional psychological thrillers like 'Catch me if you can', and 'Momento' which have been popular with 15-35 year olds. This is why we have tried to get our project similar to others to ensure our target audience will enjoy it.
The target audience for our thriller project is both male and females ages 15-30. Our target audience can be divided into two categories 15-20 and 20-30, because they will have different interests. Teenagers enjoy things like going out with their friends to cinema's which the older category may also enjoy, so our project would appeal to them both. However teenagers or 15-20 year olds like going out clubbing, shopping with friends, sports activities etc.
Our thriller project conforms to the 15 classification meaning that no-one under the age of 15 can view it, because it may be found inappropriate. We feel that our target audience 15-30 allows teenagers to enjoy our film but also allows the older generation as-well, although if anyone above 30 feels they want to watch it there are no restrictions that they can not, we just feel that 20-30 year olds would enjoy it, as university students etc as-well as teens enjoy watching 'scary films'. Majority of 20-30 year olds are employed and have children perhaps so they feel a need to go out once and a while and see films at cinemas.
Our product would be enjoyed by our target audience mainly because of its genre being a psychological thrillers, we tried making it similar to other professional psychological thrillers like 'Catch me if you can', and 'Momento' which have been popular with 15-35 year olds. This is why we have tried to get our project similar to others to ensure our target audience will enjoy it.
Saturday, 12 February 2011
Font Examples
FONT EXAMPLES
I searched on google for thriller fonts and this is what i found out, they are all very similar, usually capitals or the first and last letters are bigger then those in the middle, this is clearly a convention of the font of thrillers. Looking at various other examples of thrillers title sequences, I can see that the colours are generally dark, ie black, blue, red, usually a connotation of the theme or genre. However white is usually used with black, for example black background with white text or vise versa. Examples of this would be 'Inception' 'Catch me if you can' and 'Phone booth'.
I researched different kinds of thriller fonts online and found a bunch of them, i put them all together on one image to look at them as a whole and compare, and looking at them its clear why they are used, they are mostly bigger on the first and last letters, also capitals are used alot of the time, aswell as the ends of the letters being exaggerated. Some of the fonts have an almost scratched look about them, making it look scary, also some fonts have things like blood dripping from the bottom of the letters.
I searched on google for thriller fonts and this is what i found out, they are all very similar, usually capitals or the first and last letters are bigger then those in the middle, this is clearly a convention of the font of thrillers. Looking at various other examples of thrillers title sequences, I can see that the colours are generally dark, ie black, blue, red, usually a connotation of the theme or genre. However white is usually used with black, for example black background with white text or vise versa. Examples of this would be 'Inception' 'Catch me if you can' and 'Phone booth'.
I researched different kinds of thriller fonts online and found a bunch of them, i put them all together on one image to look at them as a whole and compare, and looking at them its clear why they are used, they are mostly bigger on the first and last letters, also capitals are used alot of the time, aswell as the ends of the letters being exaggerated. Some of the fonts have an almost scratched look about them, making it look scary, also some fonts have things like blood dripping from the bottom of the letters.
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Font and colour scheme of title sequence.
INCEPTION
This shot of the title sequence from inception shows the colour scheme being simple, black and white, black background with white bold and in capitals writing so that it stands out and the audience is immediately drawn to it, because it is the production company name. The font looks simple and sophistocated perhaps trying to suggest the genre.
This shot of the title sequence from inception shows the colour scheme being simple, black and white, black background with white bold and in capitals writing so that it stands out and the audience is immediately drawn to it, because it is the production company name. The font looks simple and sophistocated perhaps trying to suggest the genre.
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
What we have learnt from Amar
Script writing
Sam, Michael, Saffron and Lindsay
- Write all ideas
- Write it simple like so that everyone knows what the story does entail.
- Each scene should have a new paragraph
- Label with interior and exterior
- End with day or night to show what time it is.
- Acting it out will help to identify problems
- Don't make it too complicated.
- When you find a suitable location, take lots of photographs to know where everything is.
- Source info, e.g location of toilets, car park, food etc.
- Think about filming location without background noise for dialougue.
- Take a variety of shots so background etc. is visible.
- How things look
- Always have shotlist, annotate script
- Tell story in the simplest way
Sam, Michael, Saffron and Lindsay
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
