making the thriller complete

In todays lesson we had to make the final touches to the thriller to make it complete. The only thing left to do was to make the writing on the credits slightly bigger. Rather than open up live type and re-do all the credits we simply enlarged them, so that although that the background of the credits was cut down a bit it made the writing look alot bigger.
Once we finished the credits we saved the work and then uploaded it to the blogger. This took some time as there were a few complications but we got there in the end.
Overall i think the thriller turnder out very well considering it was only me and patrice truely working on it. We thought that due to the grouping situation we would be caught behing on the work but i think attending the workshops help us so that we didnt fall behind. It is now a major relief to have finished the thriller and our next task is to write the evaluation, which we shall do next lesson.

Editing

12/02/09

The aim of today's lesson was to start putting the stalker scenes with the park scenes and cutting and moulding them.

In today's lesson I arrived late as I had a dental appointment, when I arrived Ahmed was designing credits and Cassie was putting the scenes together, this involved cutting the scenes down to fit the two minute limit, I then joined her and we had to log and capture, we had to cut out a large amount of the sequence as we had half an hour of filming time and had to condense it into two minutes. We eventually managed to cut the sequence down to ten minutes and we also had to select the best shots, to make the sequence come to life.

thriller final

 

Final filming

10/02/09

Today ab, Cassie and I came to the lesson, our aim was to film the stalker shots, we chose to do this in a park as we wanted to capture lots of greenery, the stalker would hide behind this greenery watching his prey, this would also provide us with lots of natural sound effects making the thriller more realistic. We went to a local park in Angel but on arrival we discovered that closed, so we decided to do this filming in greenery opposite the college. We wanted a number of shots, first we shot extreme close ups of the stalkers feet walking towards the park carefully not revealing the stalkers identity. We then took close ups of the stalker's hands moving the bushes to get a closer look at the prey, this was still done to preserve the identity of the reader. We finally did a tilt establishing shot of the stalker but from the back which added suspense this was done slowly to capture the tension. The first two shots we took we done with a hand held camera  to indicate intensity, the third shot was done using a tripod  this proved to be more effective using the tripod as we got an accurate picture of the stalker.

Editing on LiveType

After long filming we finally got to the editing part which was done on LiveType on the Apple Mac. Because I never used the LiveType ever before, i received a lot of help from Nick, Andrew and Annabelle. But it didn't took me that long to get the grip of it, as long as you know the simple basics and tools. LiveType allows you to make use of 5 options which are livefonts, fonts, textures, objects and affects. And from there you can pick whatever font you like. What me and the group wanted was something which is a bit related to handwritings of a little child. So what me and Abubakar done was go first through every font and category. After long searching we have decided to use the "Itchy" font from the livefont option in the category "collectors edition. The original one has a white background, but instead of white we have decided to change it to black to make the opening sequence look more mysterious. After editing the credits on LiveType and rendering the clips we moved on to work on the soundtrack, but which was not done by me. It took place on the monday workshop between half term which i couldn't come to. But thanks to Patrice, Abubakar and Cassie, the  soundtrack and editing was all done which brings our opening sequence finally to a completed stage. I hope you all enjoy the opening sequence.   

Day of filming

After a little group discussion, we have decided to name the title of our final opening sequence "Happily Ever After". Another trick is to display the title right at the end  instead of showing it right in the beginning. This can give the opening sequence an exciting effect. The film was located basically in a night near Homerton hospital. The role of the stalker is given to Abubakar as you can see in the credit and the mother is played by Cassie along with her little brother (the child that gets abducted). The camera and directing has been by Patrice.  And finally editing was left to me.

Half Term Workshop

Today our aim was to attend half term workshop to finish off our thriller video this would include putting our two viewpoints together (the stalker and mother and child), and also to make sound adjustments , I arrived late, to find that Cassie had made various improvements on our thriller, she had finished off putting all scenes together so they began to make sense. meanwhile I discovered that Ahmed did not arrive, and Abdul was continuously disruptive and did not show any interest in the work, and had to be warned to stop eating and disrupting other students who were hard at work. He had vaguely chosen any sound which was what he was assigned to do, which did not help us in our progress in the thriller and also he had not seen the thriller to be able to find a suitable soundtrack that accommodated it. Never the less Cassie and I continued to find sounds, these sounds were to emphasise  the view point of the mother and child, this sound were similar to a nursery rhyme and was very calm, quiet and repetitive  and the aim was to try and create empathy for the child particularly towards the end. Contrary to this the stalkers music was very dramatic and made you think that danger was ahead. This made the scenes come alive, making it easier for the audience to tell whether they were looking at the stalkers point of view or the mother and child. By the end of the lesson Cassie and I had managed to construct the thriller and put together two soundtracks that ran throughout the sequence.