Naming our Film

At first we thought that naming our film "RUNNING", this seemed a suitable name until it was questionned why we put it and had no real answer. So we decided to put it up to our target audience to decide the name our our thriller, I made a poll on this blogger account and through the medium of facebook advertised it to all of my friends, they voted and followed my account for further updates so that I can update them with more news. I chose the names by rewatching our thriller opening and then picking a list of film names that would have something to do with it Bellow shows the options that they were given and the final outcome.



















As you can First blood was the title that in the end won, we have chose to use this as it helps us to have a name for our piece as well as one that has been chosen by the people that we will ultimately be showing it to.

Story Board

Name of our thriller

As you can see there is a poll to the right asking you, our target audience what you think the name for our thriller should be. We understand that you haven't actually seen it but we would appreciate which you felt works the best for a thriller, however if you think of none, then subscribe and coment bellow on what you think it should be called. All serious answers will be taken into account, thanks for participating.

Titles

In our film we are going to show credits fragmented throughout the clips, the type that we have chosen is called 'Soft focus', this wipes on, drifts and then wipes off, during this point there is a black background. However, when the title wipes on it is still showing the clip, these clips then fade to black. The following is the order in which a title sequence should appear however in our film openings we only have a limited amount of time and not all of the spaces have been filled, therefore if we were to devise the parts up between Joe and myself our names would just be repeated over and over on the screen.

- Who Produced the film An Orwin film
- A "Producers Name" production Produced by Joe Robertson
-A "Director's Name" Film Directed by Elliott Gallimore
-Main Actor's Name Starring Joe Robertson
-Main Supporting Actor's Name Elliott Gallimore
-Music By.. Music by Kevin Macleod
-Costume Designer Costume Designer Joe Robertson
-Editor Edited by CAD Productions
-Story By.. Story by Joe Robertson
-Screenplay By.. Screenplay by Elliott Gallimore
-Title Of Film Taken

Even though it appears that me and Joe have just alternated names but these titles are in a correct order and it is just a coincidence that they happen to fall in these places.

Video Editing

After catching all of the footage that we wanted we decided to try to see what effects that we could add to it to add to the effect without having them looking too cheesy. To do this we first upped the contrast, this created a grainy looking effect, we then lowered the saturation to lower the colours, at 21% the audience can still see some colour but it is shadowed and has a darker, more ominous feel.

Finally we upped the percentage or red that was shown through as a filter of the other colours, this made the red from the blood shown in some scenes was much more vibrant and stood out a lot more.

In another scence we felt that it went slightly too fast, we then slowed it down by around 10% to make it still seem smooth enough to run without the audience taking any notice. In a few other scenes there was too much background noise so we decided to mute it completely, we could then play either music or sound effects such as a heart beating over the silenced clip.

We then decided to upload our footage twice, once whilst using the 'Image Stabalisation' function that is available to see whether there is much difference between them. Unfortunately we ran out of time but what clips had been stabalised there was not a large amount of difference and so we left it, had there have been a larger improvement on the shake reduction we would have perhaps concidered stabalising all of our clips.

Scripting

After producing the storyboard and idea we decided to work on the script.. However we only wanted a very small amount of dialogue as it builds suspense, so that we can put our audience on edge and follow the conventions of a thriller. We only had a couple of lines throughout and you can't see the character's faces whilst they are saying it, therefore we were able to use the voiceover tool on the iMovie program on the Mac.

The following is the only section of dialogue that we have included in our film:
Joe: So what do you want me to do?

Elliott: There's no time for that, run!

We felt that this was all that the opening needed, as well as various sound effects were enough to build tension throughout the film. We found that silence says more in a thriller then long complex conversations do, through this method we were able to keep the audience guessing as to what was happening next.

Shooting Schedule

Shots used in our work

We have chosen a few different shots in our scenes as we could to show our knowledge of camera usage to it's fullest, we found it important to use various camera angles to fully engross the viewers into the film. We chose to use:
High angle shots - these helped us to look down onto the action as it occurred, this gave the feel of a security camera looking down onto what is happening.
Low angle shots - we used these the most so that the viewers couldn't see the faces of the people directly, although you can see Joe's face a few parts throughout, it is kept until the end that you see it straight on to uphold the conventions of a thriller.
Over the shoulder shot - we used these to look down next to the head of a character who's face is not shown, this creates doubt and makes the audience ask questions about this character's identity.
Two person shot- we framed the two characters at either side of the screen facing in at one point, the faces can almost be seen but there is a ray of light coming over the top of a fence cutting them off. We did this intentionally to make sure that the identity isn't yet shown and felt that it also presented a good way to show the time of day that the scene is set in.
Point of view shot - this was used as our main character is running down an alley, we see through the eyes of them as they run and trip, looking back to see the unknown person. This creates suspense as they run away.
Extreme closeup - we used this as the blood was dripping down the mirror in the last shot seen, this shot is very effective as it tracks the blood whilst it runs down.