Rough Cut Feedback

The look of our sequence: very dark and disturbing, works well when colour fades back in.
Good visual effects: Fast editing, weird cutting is 'very cool'
Example of good lighting and framing: the trunk shot looks really cool
Area of improvement: Better music and fade in between titles and footage.
Example of Props: body bag looked real
Costumes: Hoodie then turned more girlie
Setting: forest looked effective
Improvements: Shots of dragging a bit long
What would imagine the film would be about: Murder/s
What ways the sequence could be clearer: Why the film is in reverse, whats the meaning?
How effective were the titles: They could of been longer, maybe could have them coming across the screen.
Most striking shot: The shot of Jess in the mirror in the car
Mood of the opening: Sinister, questions formed, silent assassin
Other films/ programmes makes you think of: CSI, Law and Order. Linking to murder case
Music to create atmosphere: Use of modern instruments creates good use of time

Post Shooting

During the actual shooting we didn't encounter many problems and there were all solved soon after discovering them thanks to teamwork and help from friends.
We are happy with the footage we managed to obtain however there is a lot of editing yet to be done in order to make our title as effective as we hoped.
Now we have finished our shooting we are able to focus are attention to the process of editing. We are yet to create a fitting soundtrack however we also have small clips and samples we will later build on when the oppertunity arises. We are trying to prioritise certain tasks, such as making sure the clips are in order and the right lengths which is vital to the rest of our production.

Further Tasks

-Create and finish the soundtrack
-Create titles
-Smooth over the sequence with transitions and cutting
-Adust clips to soundtrack

Test Footage

On mondays lesson

Test footage to show location and costume ideas

Images

These are a few images we found on the internet which we can relate to the planning of our sequence.


This image shows the kind of impression we aimed to percieve through our costume choice.




This image shows the kind of location we hope to shoot the majority of our sequence at. Although the fog may not be present at the time of shooting we may be able to use effects to create the look of fog.



Although it's unlikely we will be able to get hold of a real body bag this image shows the kind of effect we are aiming for.



An example of the image we hope to create with one of our shots, also showing our knife prop.

Animatics (Currently experiencing uploading problems)

This animatics sequence is just a rough idea of our final opening.

One thing we will have to work on is our music track as the current one on this sequence doesn't fit due to having to repeat(length was too short) it losing the flow of the music.

Se7en Titles

New Line Cinema Presents

An Arnold Kopolson Production

Brad Pitt

Morgan Freeman

Se7en

Gwyneth Paltrow

R. Lee Ermey

John C. McGinley

Julie Araskog

Mark Boxx Junior

John Cassini

Reginald E. Cathey

Peter Crombie

Howthorne James

Micheal Mossee

Leland Orser

Richard Palnow

Richard Schiff

Pamala Tyson

Casting By Billy Hopkins, Suzanne Smith, Kerry Borden

Music By Howard Shore

Costume Designed by Micheal Kaplan

Edited By Richard Francis- Bruce

Production Designed by Arther Max

Director of Photography by Darius Khondji

Co- Producers Stephen Brown, Nana Greenwald, Sanford Panilch

Co- Executive Producers Lynn Harris, Richard Saperstein

Executive Producers Gianni Nunari, Dan Kolsrud, Anne Kapelson

Written By Andrew Kevin Walker

Produced By Arnold Kopolson, Phyllis Carlyle

Directed By David Fincher

Feed back

Possibly replace policewoman with an inspector, so she could wear normal clothes and make her look like a inspector with different props etc.
List of all the shots and camera angles we are going to use.
watch dexter.

Pitch

For our thriller project we decided to make a sequence based around a hooded character as afore mentioned in out introduction. The film is about a policewoman who is actually a serial killer, who is working on a murder case where she is actually the killer.

Music ideas : We are hoping to use music which creates a tense and nerve-racking atmosphere. We will experiment with garage band to see if we can use a sample made by our group. Also we will browse the internet, our CD collection and computer play-lists order to hopefully find one or more related tracks. Garage band mainly worked on by Jack Powell.

Effects : Throughout the sequence we hope to use certain effects in order to create out desired atmosphere. These may include blurring images, darkening them, creating fog etc. As of yet we haven't experimented much with these.
We have a few ideas with relation to the text and titles. One member of our group suggested the text appeared on the screen back-to-front and then spun round horizontally. The font we wish to use will be simple and easy to read yet reminiscent of blood and other titles found in already created movie openings.

Props : Knife - Available from any members of the group's homes.
Car - Available from a group member's friend (Josh Johnson legally allowed to drive).
Large Strong Bag - Readily available.
Stuffing for the bag and tape - Group member's homes.
Police outfit - Fancy dress shops and the internet.
Watch - Character's own.
Dark Concealing Clothing - Character's own.

Setting : Forest - Milton country park.
House - Jack Powell's house.

Actors : Police woman/murderer - Jess Walker

Credits : Working title - Reverse
Producer - Fung Yu
Director - Gueseppe Carslon
Actors - Penelope Winters, Chad Kit, Thomas Hardy, Charley Simmons, Kes Bird, Louise Stanford.
Music by - CodeSwtich
Director of photography: Philip Sandos
Casting: Judy Redroff
Production: Volex Production
Costume design: Scroobius Maximus

Introduction

The members within our group are Hope Jack and Jess. We worked together previously on our Kid's TV Titles project. During the last project we encountered a few problems due to our choice of uusing Istopmotion. This seemed to be our only problem as we all worked well together and each contributed significantly to the finished piece. However with our Thriller opening we hope to create a more perfected and professional finished piece. Due to the general nature of the film genre of thriller, this is a vital factor.