feedback on first roughcut.
After the feedback from our class we realised we needed to make a few changes to our sequence to improve. We are going to change the music so it is less repetitive so it starts getting upbeat when the killer attacks the victim. The feedback on the sound was good and we got comments saying it fitted in well and it being creepy etc.
Some said the camerawork was very well thought out and creates tension well which is what we wanted to create, also they said the use of angles and shots were good. We need to edit some shots so they are shorter so its less boring and repetitive for the audience.
The editing was more positive and we got told that it looks nearly finished with good effects which create a good atmosphere.

Final name of thriller

We chose to call it Marionette which follows in with the story of the killer wanting to hang the girl like a marionette. We used the writing text called Porcelain to use for the title which appears at the end of the thriller sequence. I chose to fade it in and out slowly for a dramatice creepy effect and also it gives the audience time to read it properly and remember the name of the thriller.

veronica

Final music

We finished our music for our thriller title sequence. We first went through a few sounds which we thought will match our sound of the idea/atmosphere we wanted to create. We added quite a few sounds such a emotional piano, percusiion and strings. We added a few sounds in different sequences to see how it all sounded. We edited it until we were happy with our final sound. When we have filmed what we have needed we will maybe edit the music again until it fits in with the film and everything is in time with one another. We asked someone who wasnt in our group to see what ideas they thought coulod help us and whether or not they thought it was an effective sound or not. We got mostly positive feedback and we are happy with our final piece of music.

Veronica

Credit text

After researching text from defont.com we chose some font that we thought would be useful and effective with our thriller. We wrote what we wanted in our credits such as who produced the musicedited the sequence etc. We wrote the names of the cast in Porcelain which is the writing we chose from the previous website. We wrote what they had done in the thriller sequence such as the music or filming in smaller arial text. We saved it in Photoshop and once we film our sequence we plan to add the text on top of the film once edited. Depending on the colour and darkness on the screen we will then chose what colour the text to be, however we are expecting it to be quite a dark thriller sequence so the writing will most likely be white.


Veronica

imagery

images depicting concepts of film

trees

looking at images to develop ideas of the atmosphere of the footage desired.

Ed and Veronica

opening test effects

We went into Longroad woods and filmed some test footage. We then chose a few clips to edit and test some shots on final cut. We tryed using ripple, invert, stop motion blur, displace and slowed down speed. I found the stop motion blur and displace most effective, the blur was good but i didnt think it was effective with what we may need in the final opening titles. We added titles over the clip that was being played of what effect was being used.
veronica, antonia, ed.

Costume Ideas

The plan is to have only two characters in the whole opening; The Victim and The Killer

The victim will be a female and in the first part of the opening would be wearing something relatively normal, nothing particularly special.

However for the final shot of the victim hanging from the tree her outfit will have changed (the killer's doing) into a style of dress, looking back to the video before, in which the generalised idea came from, it would be in a similar style to hers.

Something a little like this (but in grey):

The Killer would be dressed in all black. This would be easy and you would never see his face due to the chaos and disorientation of the opening sequence. It would be sort of like a typical murderer disguised against the dark.

Antonia