Editing

Today we began and nearly finished our editing for out thriller, with our piece we chose to make it very abstract and wierd. This means that we relied on our edting more than anything, as lydia mentioned before we had trouble with filming some of our bits as the lighting was not right. With this we then had to concentrate hard on editing it so that could get the effect we wanted. one of the problems we ran into was making the transitions clearer and understanderble enough without taking the edge of our more bizzare opening. another was getting the timeing right, we hope that we will be able to merge the titles, soundtrack and footage togther to make it flow well.
We want the editing to have these points in them:

Fast transitions
fade in an outs
Flashing images
Snappy titles
merging of images

We are a little worried that we might not get all of this doen in time, but we hope that if we work hard we can get it done.

comments on a student project

http://thrillerproject.blogspot.com/search/label/Student%20Thriller%20Opening

click above for the student thriller

camera Work : a range of intresting shots showing only hands or feet doing something, this is effective as it doesnt give too much away of whats happening in the scene. sharp clean footage showing exactly what needs to be seen, with a good lihgt balance, we can learn from this as our in our editing time we are having to change the contrast on our images. the low angle shot from the floor looking up at the main character works well as it among other shots keep the footage varied and intresting.

Editing: quick and clean transitions, to the point and not too long clips. the use of the titles is used really well as they have come up with the idea of having the usual london underground map

But have changed the station names for the names of the actors, director etc.....

Mise-en-scene : this is worked very well as they have chosen to film in london itself, which gives you the perfect setting, costume and extras you need. The bomber himself is very plain, all in black and this gives a feel of curiosity for who this guy might be.

soundtrack:good consistent music , no lyrics , because there was no lyrics it contributed to the creepy feel to the clip . the crecendo of the music at the end of the opening builds the tension of what the audience already know is about to happen .

overall a very well and clean opeing theiller :)

Credits

Sane Production Presents

Martin Fett
Emma Lane
Brooke Danes
Jack Smith
Introducing Laura Black

Casting by Adam Mitchell
Costume Design Sarah Brown
Music By Jason Scott
Edited By Shaun Wright and Emily Beckett
Produced by Simon Perr
Written And Directed By John Beagle

These are our openig titles we have decided we shall use, its not as many as a high budget film like panic room or Se7en, this is because we dicided that our film would be a low budget art house film. We will try out some fonts, styles and transitions to fit our thriller opening and decide which one we shall use in our final Cut. We are thinking we shall have white as our font the majority of our film is very dark and shadowed which means it will come up on the screen alot better clearer. we want the font to be stylalised and hand written to contrast against the very edgy and random feel to the opening. We will also use a flashing effect to make it to compliment the sketchy contrast.

Early Costume and Prop ideas

This is a list of some of our prop ideas for our project that we are planning to use while filming, this is just a few ideas and will most likely to adopt other props and objects on the road to filming.

mirror
fake blood
Jewellery box
photo
torch
piece of paper
pencil
glass of water
TV

Our idea is to have very ordinary objects and twist them in editing to make them more creepy and weird to fit our genre or the mind playing thriller.