Response to final feedback

some of the feedback was useful and honest, however some responses were not helpful at all. Also some quite childish and immature.

Feedback on final

1. What is one best shot and why, and what is the one shot you would remove and why?
Flashes good
Blood in bath is good
Bath bit was good
Tea to plug good
Bath with crossed knives excellent
Nice plug-hole and blood shot
Change end title.
+00.16 can see reflection

2.Our thriller was supposed to convey confusion, was this effective?
Quick cutaways work well to confuse
Didnt really know what was going on, no idea what the film is about. very confused.
Very confusing- no idea who the victim or killer was
Yeah it was confusing

3. Can you describe what happens in our thriller?
Victim in bath- stalker
I agree.
Stalker with photographs?
Stalker loves the girl but she has a boyfriend?

4. Were our transitions (flashes +fading) effective?
Yes
pretty yes :)
Effective when flashed in time with the music
Credits could be more interesting
Yes loved the images and footage turning into photos

5. What generic conventions of a thriller did you spot in our thriller?
I cant remember

6. What would you improve and why?
Blood not realistic
Titles boring
More boobs

Transitions

Mainly we used fade in and out throughout our sequence as we thought that looked the most effective with the variety of shots we had. We also used flashes of white in between shots which made the transition from one shot to another look more confusing and to mimic the flash of a camera, as the stalker in the film takes photos of the victim throughout. We also used the flash effect to separate out the more grotesque images to emphasise them.

Action Plan

We need to put the rest of footage in and make sure the order is right, adding titles to footage of blood and transitions in between each clip. We also need to start to create our soundtrack.

Response to feedback

Editing-
Only very rough idea of whats to come, just order. The photos will be flashed up quicker with transitions making then smoother and faster, and they aren't copyrighted images as stacey took and edited them. Final footage will involve transitions as rough cut has none at all.

Camera work- thank you :) we had to re-shoot the bath scene several times to get it still

Sound- Plan on leaving the sound of the taps dripping like you said, and also will considering the noise of faces being scribbled out. Hopefully we will create our own soundtrack

Mise en scene- we intended the snapshots of blood to build tension and add mystery so thank you!

Narrative- the story would be revealed more in the film as to whether she was raped or killed

Generic convensions- we planned to use all of the ones mentioned =)

Shooting schedule

Order to film shots: 22 23 24 16 17 19 18 12 13 5 9 28 29 30 15 8 7 6 4 3 2 1 10 11 14 15 20 21 26 26 27

This order groups all locations together which will save us time and make it much easier to film.

We will try to do all filming on one tuesday night and arrange another day to finish off any other filming needed

Props & Costume

Costume-
Victim: Red bikini to wear in bath scenes but cant be seen in shots.
Normal clothes when walking about house- casual

Stalker: Dressed in dark but casual clothes. Mostly black
Black hat

Props: Polaroid camera
Home-made dark room
Knife
Kettle
Mug
Towel
Bin
Pegs
Fake blood

Blood: we found a recipe how to make fake blood -

Plain Flour
Water
Red Food Coloring
1 tsp. of Coffee

Boil the water on the stove, then sieve in the flour, making sure you get ALL of the lumps out. The quantity of ingredients aren't important, it just depends on how much you want. Once you have the flour mixed nicely into the water it should look nice and thick. Next, add the red food colouring.

You will notice that it's a ghastly, bright red colour but don't worry this is why we add the coffee. It is important that when you add the coffee to make sure the mixture is hot, otherwise it wont dissolve, but up until adding the coffee can be done in a ordinary mixing jug or pan.

Location Test Shots

Here I have just taken a few test shots to get an idea of how the shots might look.

Real thiller titles analysis

The opening sequence for Man on Fire involves lots of different techniques to grab your attention right from the start. It uses lots and lots of different sound effects to make you aware of what the film is about (for example gun noises, heartbeats, screaming etc) and also sound effects to show theere will be several other issues/themes in the film and it wont just be straight forward (church bells, car brakes, children laughing). It freezes the footage in several places which looks like photos being taken which adds suspense to the titles, and also there are some ghostly images of people walking through the city which gives you a creepy feel that something is wrong, also adding suspense. The music used gives you the setting straight away by using latin music but with deep droney tones giving the effect of darkness and sadness. The pace of the titles change alot which reflects the theme of the film and throughout the sequence there is lots of flashing added which fastens the pace and adds to the confusion.

Example of previous student thriller

We like the way that this sequence uses special effects to make it look more abstract, with the lava like fire being repeated in several different directions adding confusion to the titles. There is mystery added to it by the fast paced extremely close-up footage which also adds to the confusion, and we think that the music quite suits the footage that they used.



We didnt like this sequence as it was so boring and just the same shots all the way through. The pace of it was far to slow and we couldnt work out how it was a thriller.