Final Cut and feed back.

Questions:
1. Is the lack of costume confusing?
1st Group- Yes, the murderer and innocent wear the same thing.
2nd Group- Yes, its the same person.
2. What do you think of the titles?
1st Group- Phil McKrackin is inappropriate.
2nd Group- no comment
3. Is the opening scene too long?
1st Group- No didn't realise.
2nd Group- No.
4. Is the plot confusing?
1st Group- no comment
2nd Group- Not really.
5. Is the mise-en-scene worse because it is shot on college grounds?
1st Group- No only college people will know.
2nd Group- Yes and the same clothes reduces mise-en-scene aswell.
6. What did you think of the soundtrack?
1st Group- The strangling noise is repeated too much.
2nd Group- Out of beat in some places but good overall.

Rough Cut

Strengths
Good pace, interesting camera shots/clips, Effective/clear storyline, Good action scene, realistic, good initial idea.

Weaknesses
lack of costumes cosfuses characters, lack of different locations (college).

Credits

A Killa productions presents

A Murder Incorporated Film

Mark Bird

Robert Owen

George Baker

Costume design by Emily Prichard

Art direction by Michael Morrison

Production design by Chris Patterson

Casting by Steve Thorne

Film Editing by James Trent

Cinematography by Richard Bailey

Original Music by Anita Vranch

Produced by Phil McKrakin

Directed by Robert Bird

THE HUNT

Equipment List

Mask, samurai swords, black jumper, newspaper, rope/string, scrap paper, white shirt x2, black trousers, black shoes.

We have posted this clip from a horror movie because there is a a good build up of tension it displays how we want to make our film look stylistically. As some

Work in progress

Thriller stills

The images above show the possible locations which will be used in our thriller sequence. The mood of the sequence is emphasised from the use of long corridors. The images also give a brief structure to the sequence by using characters to direct the scenarios which happen.

Thriller images

The following images can be related to the theme of our thriller project, as the sequence contains violence scary images which can be compared with death/murder.

anamatic

We made a short anamatic sequence, by using the images from the storyboard that we
produced. We took pictures of the images from the computer camera, and imported them on to Final Cut. Once they were imported to Final Cut, they were edited to make the images clearer, and appropriate for the anamatic. We also used key frams to crerate camera movement within the anamatic.

Once the sequence had been created and edited, an appropriate thriller soundtrack was added to make the anamatic more effective. The soundtrack was made in garageband by using different samples from the Garageband software to create a stylelised thriller soundtrack to add to the animatic and the thriller.

Initial Ideas

The first step me and my group took was listing initial thriller ideas in bullet point format.The list contained ideas which we thought would make the most effective, typical thriller opening. This method helped us shortlist our ideas, and agree on our final selection. After we had agreed on a storyline which only had brief details at the time, we begun to develop the sequence further by adding more detail in bullet points.

After listing the bullet points, we had developed a detailed storyline, and thought up of a name which we thought we would be able to relate to the sequence. (THE HUNT)

Student Examples- Surface

Structure/narrative/performance
There is not a clear narrative structure, but a confusing/hectic structure is produced with the large number of random images whichs creates a brutal murder.

Camerawork
There is not many different methods of camerawork, but very short clips which only ggives the audience a brief view of what is happening, but these images create an effective opening.

Editing
The opening sequence was cut into very small clips and a mix of colours was used to create a kind of special effect when the titles appeared.

Sound
This sequence mostly contains non-diegetic sound which is a mysterious soundtrack which plays throught the sequence. However, a small amount of diegetic sound is used when the victim is being attacked. The sound used in "Surface" is effective as it relates to the mood of the sequence.

Mise en scene
Little mise en scene is used to emphasise the mood of the sequence, but the confusing immagery and short clips make an effective thriller opening.