I particularly like the titles and the voice over in this trailer. The titles appear over half of the screen on a white background which makes them stand out. Also when the appear the clip freezes and helps us to relate the titles to the film still. This is really effective and i would like to use this in our film if we can. I also like the voice over. This is used throughout the trailer to give us an idea of the storyline. This makes the trailer unique yet very effective.
Saturday, 20 February 2010
Planning-Editing- voiceover
In the phonebooth where the voiceover worked successfully, the voice was of a middle-aged man with a deep voice. It worked well and created a creepy atmosphere. As a group we think we are going to challenge this and have the voiceover of a woman. We hope we can get a creepy effect from this difference.
We are trying to decide where to put the voiceover and what to say. Here are some of our ideas that we wrote down:
Life is one big game
you have to lie, cheat and steal to win
how would you play the game
its how you play the game that counts
one life, one game, one winner
there are no rules
We think at the start we might have a voiceover saying "life is just a game", and then at the end of the title sequence, "it's how you play the game that counts!" We think that this help suggest what the film is about and also leave it on a bit of a cliffhanger.
We are trying to decide where to put the voiceover and what to say. Here are some of our ideas that we wrote down:
Life is one big game
you have to lie, cheat and steal to win
how would you play the game
its how you play the game that counts
one life, one game, one winner
there are no rules
We think at the start we might have a voiceover saying "life is just a game", and then at the end of the title sequence, "it's how you play the game that counts!" We think that this help suggest what the film is about and also leave it on a bit of a cliffhanger.
Planning- dvd cover, film image
I have been experimenting with ideas of imagery for the dvd case of our thriller. I have created this picture on my computer to help give our thriller an identity.
Editing our title sequence
After uploading our shots on to the apple macs we were ready to put everything together.
We watched all of the shots and picked the best of each to go together. We also added stills of photographs we took into the sequence so that they looked like flashbacks. These flashbacks are in the red lighting to fit in with our colouscheme. One thing that we are playing around with are the transition effects. These are how we are getting from one part of the sequence to another. We particularly like the cross dissolve transition as it enables us to merge to images together withuout there being an obvious jump.
We watched all of the shots and picked the best of each to go together. We also added stills of photographs we took into the sequence so that they looked like flashbacks. These flashbacks are in the red lighting to fit in with our colouscheme. One thing that we are playing around with are the transition effects. These are how we are getting from one part of the sequence to another. We particularly like the cross dissolve transition as it enables us to merge to images together withuout there being an obvious jump.
Planning- music for our thriller
Music in an open sequence plays a very important part in tht success of it.
The main problem that we face is finding music that is copyright free. Our teacher got hold of about 30 copyright free tracks for us to choose from if we wish. After listnening to the tracks me and my group members shortlisted about 4 or 5 that we liked. We then played the tracks alongside our title sequence to see which fitted best. The track that we all agreed we liked is called serial killer. However the middle bit of the track consists of choir like voices and is a bit odd, but we decided that it helps create an arkward atmosphere.
The main problem that we face is finding music that is copyright free. Our teacher got hold of about 30 copyright free tracks for us to choose from if we wish. After listnening to the tracks me and my group members shortlisted about 4 or 5 that we liked. We then played the tracks alongside our title sequence to see which fitted best. The track that we all agreed we liked is called serial killer. However the middle bit of the track consists of choir like voices and is a bit odd, but we decided that it helps create an arkward atmosphere.
Filming!-Complete!
When we got back from our last filming session we took the camera into the apple mac room and uploaded what we had filmed onto the apple mac computers. Some of the shots were very successfull and the red lighting worked particularly well. However we were over ambitious with the first few shots where we had tried to create a moving shot by strapping the camera to a bike! Although we tried our best, the shots were too shaky and did not look good enough for us to use. We then discussed how we could change the start and came up with the idea of cutting out the first few shots and starting the sequence in the garage! This worked much better and challenged the typical codes and conventions as we do not have an obvious establashing shot. However it is better as we go straight in to our red colour scheme. After deciding to loose the first shots we went out to film the rest of the sequence knowing exactly what we wanted to achieve! We went out when it was dark to film the "following" part of the sequence. We managed to get all of the shots that we wanted and uploaded them when we got back
Planning- development of style
After watching the three title sequences that i mentioned, Batman, Phonebooth, and the terminator (also one called Pay it Forward) i have decided with my group on two characteristics i want our thriller to contain.
The first is the colour scheme. Unlike Batman and The Terminator we have opted for red. As red can connote blood and suggest death and fear i think it will be different to blue but still give the atmosphere that the others do. I would like the lighting to be quite dark and even difficult to see as it will help to add confusion. Confusion will hopefully result in our audience to see more in order to find out what happens.
The second characteristic is a voiceover. We have decided that a voicover will be unique and different but help to create tension. We want this effect to be creepy and help outline the message of our film.
The first is the colour scheme. Unlike Batman and The Terminator we have opted for red. As red can connote blood and suggest death and fear i think it will be different to blue but still give the atmosphere that the others do. I would like the lighting to be quite dark and even difficult to see as it will help to add confusion. Confusion will hopefully result in our audience to see more in order to find out what happens.
The second characteristic is a voiceover. We have decided that a voicover will be unique and different but help to create tension. We want this effect to be creepy and help outline the message of our film.
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