Opening Sequence Titles

Titles at the start of a film make it very clear to the audience that they are watching the opening sequence. Films vary the titles they use some choosing to break up each shot with a title on a black screen whilst others use to have the titles fade in and out over the shot. We have chosen to go for the latter in our title sequence. Here is a list of the titles we potentially plan to inlcude:

• Production Companies
• In Association with...
• Screenplay adapted by
• Director/Producer
• Actors
• Music
• Casting
• Film Title

Adding these titles would give our current rough cut the feel of an opening sequence.

Mike

xxx

(and jennifer)

more inspiration (sort of)

Still browsing through the Robert Smyth School media website and found a video about a boy on cocaine, seeing as we have this in our thriller tohught id check it out and basically its very different to why we included drug taking in our thriller- to create a more weird atmosphere, and to isolate the viewers from the protagonist, but also to anchor his state of mind. Whereas in this video it was entitled joy and it shows the people on cocaine having fun and despite the fact that they are alone they dont seem isolated and unpredictable as in ours.

Seeing as i cant upload the video this is just the link to the video:

http://www.rssmediastudies.co.uk/video/06as01.wmv

Here is also a link to the website and a couple of the short videos:

http://www.rssmediastudies.co.uk/main/prowork6a/

Jake x

INSPIRATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was browsing the Robert Smyth School media website looking at video productions and chanced upon i relly good video with intense attention to detail that we have decided to emphasise in our thriller. And also, the ending made me laugh

Jake x

party scene

We shot the party scene after school yesterday in a house. I think the shots were ok. we are capturing them now and overall they look good except perhaps a couple of hitches. the room we were in was very bright and this may look wierd considering it is supposed to be a party, we have put it in black and white however, and i think when we start chaning contrast and coulouirs etc. it will be ok.

I think a shot which works well is the one were the guy looks up from the table. it is good because we see that he is in a busy atmosphere with people around him which anchors the fact that it is a party.

we will not be able to propperly see if anything needs to be re shot until we have incoorporated the shots into our rough cut, but at the moment they look fine.

nathann
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Capturing our extra shots and Re-Takes.

on a larger computer screen shots tend to look different so it is important to make sure we quality control when we are capturing.



Overall the quality seems good and we have a lot of useable shots.



some of the extreme close ups look a little strange but i dont think there was anything we didnt have useable footage of, we could definately use at least most of our shots.



thanks

nathan

xxxxxx

Extra shots evaluation

Despite hazardous weather conditions this weekend we still got all of our reshoot shots and extra shots done. It rained too much on saturday so we just filmed sunday when it stopped raining 5pm-7pm and planned in starbucks again 4-5.


Extra Shots

CU on cigarette and lips- Seemed a bit too sexual, won't be used for shot by itself, maybe part of a continuous sequence on as a very quick shot.

CU on eyes/top half of face- Possibly used with above shot, useful for wider range of technical shots.

CU on rubbing legs- Again, good for wider use of technical shots.

Shots from different sides and angles- Good, will definately use.

General notes from fridays lesson

In our lesson periods 4+5 on Friday we fully assembled our final rough cut put to temporary music. However, we did decide on several changes, mainly more CUs and ECUs to exaggerate our protagonist’s actions and to give a wider range of technical shots but also what shots to re-shoot and slight editing changes.

Extra shots

When the camera is facing him from the front of the bench we decided on several variety shots in order to break up the MCUs and MLSs:

-CU on lips and cigarette
-Possible CU on eyes
-CU on hands rubbing legs (possibly not needed as we have the tilt but will shoot anyway)
-A shot from the right hand side to see half of his face (experiment with left and right)

We also talked about a shot of him then getting up off the bench after we have already seen him walking to link the two together as if cross-cutting but in different time frames and seeing him walk up to the path we have seen him walking on.

When our protagonist is walking towards to murder scene we want to exaggerate his ‘mash-up’ state similarly with exaggeration to detail using more CUs and technical shots:

-Handheld shaky POV
-CU/ECU of shoes as he stumbles or falls (several shots in quick succession but as one sequence)

Re-shoot shots

-HA tilt from behind (cigarette dropped more clearly, possibly mike leaning back more?)
-Cigarette dropping from behind ^^^ continuity
-Cigarette picked up from front ^^^ continuity
-Pan across, mike walking in and out of frame, care with shadows
-Mike falling over after witnessing murder (both shots- without breaking 180 degree rule and so having Rachel just in shot)
-Mike cutting up cocaine with bank card camera on table from his left hand side
-Mike snorting cocaine camera on table slightly behind him so that cocaine is just out of shot
-Mike leaning back in chair after taking cocaine closer on his face than before (CU)
-Mike MLS walking towards camera
-Mike MCU reverse track ^^^ shot in between so slight change in distance doesn’t look weird, and make sure same walking speed.
-OTS witnessing murder (costume issues)

Editing issues

-Exaggerate fades, maybe used with slow motion and much longer than previous.
-Experiment with non-additive dissolve rather than additive dissolve
-Use colour wheel for black and white with emphasis on midtones rather than standard black and white effect.

cool x