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Thriller final - the darkroom

Titles

As a group we decided to have a simple but effective title. We thought that with our theme being what it was it would be a bit tacky to have a big edited title, also it reduses the age of the target audience.
In the end we went for a white font, and had it at a medium size. This was ontop of footage and came in time to the music.Not too quick - so it couldn't be read but not slow so that the audeience was bored.
We selected specififc areas of our opening to put the credidts so that they werent obscuring the view of the audience and so that they could be seen easily with the coulours on screen at the time.
We didnt have any animated effects on our title. instead we chose a simple fade in and fade out for each item and for the final main title we had a quick run of fade ins to create a flickering effect. this was intentionally there to give suspence and use elements of thriller conventions.
Overall our titles are very effective as they stand out, fit with our colour schemes, suite the target audience and can be easilty read.

feedback

Cinematography
Which shot do you think are effective?
The black and white shots of the trees worked well to the thriller convention.
The music box, the girl spinning, however i dont like the reflection.
The beggining in the dark room and where the lights are continues
The darkroom scenes and the music box

What do you think of the abstract elements?
Red water works well and creates a element of evil however ballerina is confusing
Music box makes you question why and what is going on
The shot of the ballerina from above is good.
Red lighting area is very good.

Editing
What do you think of our colour themes?
Everything worked well, and colours worked well together.

How do you think the editing creates atmosphere?
Backwards and forwards clips work well, the quick cuts where effective.

The editing makes it eerie.
Blurry shots as if in first person shots worked really well.
Sound
Is the sound appropriate for the thriller genre ?
The music is great at the start but changes later on - not sure if it works.
We like the change, the music is eerie and creates atmosphere.
It is a little bit random but works well and is appropriate.
The build up inthe music works well in combination with the numbers shown in the darkroom ( almost like a coubntdown).
what do you think of the clockwork doll music?
We like it but could have been a transition between the two tracks.
Good, but needed a fade in.

Mise - en - scene
what do you think of our choice of settings? where they appropriate ?
All worked well.
I like the darkroom clips and the forest in black and white.

how do you think the doll fits in with the opening?
Creates questions but is a little confusing.

Overall effect
do you enjoy the opening sequence? does it make you want to wathc the film?
Yes the music is awesome.
Yes all the parts together make it look like an intresting film.
Yes we liked it.

Is our idea too typical? if so why?
No, there were some elements that didnt work but overall was really good.
No.

rough cut

we where going to use this image as part of our opening sequence as a flash clip to give the audience an idea about what might happen to the character, or what the killer is doing. we could still addd this into our sequence but now we feel there is less of as a need becuase we have changed our ideas and plans for the project so shot different footage with a different story line. we photoshoped this image adding the noose in and changing the colours to balck and white we also edited the birghtness, contrast and the levels of the image to make it stand out more when the flash happened. It would also go with the colours we where planning to use and fits with the thriller conventions.

visual ideas.

Although this is not a photo we have taken ourselves it shows the eeire wood effect we are trying to achieve. This in our piece signifies a mysterious chase.
This image shows a simular prop to the one we will be using. The wooden effect shows that it is a belonging to an older girl rather than a young child.

This image will not be used in our piece it just highlights the contrast of the red and black and shows a simular effects to what we will be using.

We are now in the final stages of completing our thriller openning sequence. We have taken all the shots, recorded the music now we simply need to edit all the shots and syncronise the music with the video. Because we have more video than music time we may have to extend our soundtrack to fit the openning sequence perfectly.