My Response To Question Number 5

similar films 

• We have similarities to different thriller films, Obsessed is our big similarity, as we have the same type of story line of blackmailing and characters.  kidnap is also a smilier film mainly because of the kidnapping. 

Feedback 

My Response To Question Number 2

• We have a lone character that is the wife that will be blackmailing the husband. The story will be told through her eyes, she will be the one pushing the film along. She is also the Antigenes character as she kidnaps the secretary. We don't really have a portaging character in our story because they all are villain like characters. 
• We slightly disagree with john's saying because our film is pushed along by females. we have male gaze in our film as we have lots of close ups of face and legs, also just having the females in our film can reflect male gaze 

My Response To Question Number 4

Magazines 

• We will advertise in film magazines for example NME, so that it can also attract men. We will also advertise in popular woman magazines like Look and closer, as our film is targeted at woman mainly. 

My Response To Question Number 1

Titles 

• We chose to do this type of Title font as it reflects our story and creates and effect. the style of the font reflects the idea of blackmailing someone and sending ransom notes. 

Character Introduction 

• The characters are introduced in our film by walking into the screen and the other one driving into the scene. This helps build up the tension of what is going to happen next. 

Image control and lighting 

• Using the tripod help us control the steadiness of out image, the ligthing on the scene was perfect for us as it was the right and low-key. 

My Response To Question Number 3

 Production company 

• A production company logo gives recognition to people about who made the products, it instantly gives a name for the company that will be known. we have a production company logo to put on all of the things we have produced, this is so that people know us by our name and can identify easily.

Why the various people are named in the titles

• Various people are named in the titles because they appear in the order of most important. we have reflected this by story boarding out titles and putting the right names in order of importance in out sequence. 

My Response to Question Number 7

For this part i will be talking about Title sequence and Location 
Scrip 


Titles

• Looking back at our primarily task we did not use titles or even put a title sequence in, from this we learned that not having a title sequence makes it look unprofessional. with the title sequence you can set the mood and atmosphere of the film and the audience is introduced to the film, knowing what kind of things will be happening. In our Final film we used titles this made it look much more professional, also having the title sequence in our film set the mood and starts of the film better. We understand that having lots of titles looks good.

Location choice 

• From our primarily task you can see that your location choice did not look all great, however learning that the location a key part in the film and needs to be right, we set our final film location in an isolated area that for fills the conventions of a thriller.

Continuity errors (jump cuts)

• We learned that our film needs to flow and have continuity throw out, so the audience understands whats going on and doesn't get confused. We know that Jump cut are good at certain times however the story still needs to flow.  In our primarily idea we have a few jump cuts this makes the sequence look bad and the audience get confuse, however in our final film the continuity flows and the audience understands whats going on instead of having loads of jump cuts and continuity errors around.

My Response to Question Number 6

Script 

• We learnt how to use the digital camera to set out our story board of the film, we took pictures step by step of how the sequence is going to go and what camera angles and movements we will be using. 

• We used the Sony HD big cameras to film the opening sequence outside. We also used the small Sony HDV Digital HD camera to film our title sequence inside. When using the Cameras a tripod was used to gain more control and steadiness throughout. 

• On the Apple macs we used final cut pro, this was so we could all have a chance at our own individual edits. We then joined them together to make the final opening sequence and edited our clips for the title sequence in final cut, we edited and added effects like bad tv and colour correction over the top to make it fit the conventions of a thriller. 

What we learned 
camera 


With the camera we learned the different types of shots, angles and movements. We learned how to handle the camera holding it correctly and focusing on certain points.  Also by zooming all the time doesn't give a good effect and looks unprofessional, we learned to roll in and out while shooting (counting to 5 before any movement happens) . 

Title Edits

My role was to edit the title sequence, this was good to do i mixed around with a lot of effects to get the right feel ans i think it came out well. Below are some screen shots of the work i was doing.

My Group Contribution

Through out this i have played many roles, i filmed the whole opening making sure im getting the right shots and getting the lighting in the correct position to get the right mood and atmosphere, i also filmed the title sequence and also edited and put the titles into place. 
I really enjoyed this experience as this was the first time i have done anything like this, i feel i have done a successful job and im happy with the outcome. 

Film opening ideas

I really like this type of opening for our thriller, we can be really create with this effect and have main parts of our film shown in the opening, just like they have done.

http://youtu.be/85_pl_2Ugjs < i also really like the idea of the man falling in mad men and everything falling. we could have the man as the husband and his life falling apart because of all the blackmailing that his wife is doing to him. the titles i think could be blackmailing letters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWEPGNjDi1M< i also like the effects they have used in casino royal the blood effects, and the background designs. we could use that type off effect and animated effects however make it more appealing to woman.


i have noted down some important things that will go into our opening.
The kidnap
Car driving away
The pictures
Blackmail letters


we would like the sounds to be scissors cutting for the music to add effect and feel of the person making the blackmail letters.


we would like it to be animated with flashes of seeing the women being tied up and the titles will be the letters.

My Individual Editing of Heartbreak

16th January 2012

Today i spent an hour n half putting my own edit of Heartbreak together i got up to half way with some edits. I cut some shots that i thought didn't fit into the sequence and left some out.

I found final cut quite easy to use as i have had a lot of experience on it before, so this has befitted me in this process. a lot

23rd January 2012

Today i spent around an hour finishing of my editing for Heartbreak. 

I again cut shots and took some out so that it fitted what i wanted it to look like. I also moved some shots around as i had a little difficulty putting the story together to make sense. However when i moved some shots around i felt it worked in the end. 

There is a point in the sequence '1:01 till 1:1 30' i feel the foley will fit in very well. 

After Feedback from sir


After sir watched my editing throw he gave me some advice to change some pits and cut a bit more, so the opening is shorter and doesn't drag along

i really cut up my work so the story is told quicker and its snappy,so that the audience would want to know more and watch the rest of the film.  When i done this and watched it back i felt it was much better faster and more attractive to wanting to watch more.


Final Edit

The Shot

We had a filming on the 

Thursday 12th January 2012- on this day we had quite a few stuggles as there was not enough people to help us with our equipment and the car driver did not turn up, we got some shots done as the lighting was perfect for us to shot in, however due to that we couldn't film the whole thing.

On the 13th January 2012 we had a group meeting we organised the shot again to make sure everyone would turn up to help us we arranged the a good time for the right lighting as the day before and went through what we are going to do.  Our last day of  filming was on  

14th January 2012, this was a great success we took our time filming and concentrated on getting the right shots ect. we had the proper car driver and people to help with equipment ect, the lighting was perfect and things went very smoothly. I was filming the film throught.