Throughout this course I have been studying video production; our project has been to produce an opening to a thriller which is the length of a minimum of 2 minutes. First of all we viewed a few thriller openings. We looked over thriller conventions and decided to use our white on black credits which are very common in thrillers. We decided to go for something which would confuse the audience and make them think what’s actually happening.
We decided to go for a film about a guy who is an aspiring photographer who takes photos of the environment and when he gets to the dark room to eventually develop the photos he sees himself in the photos. He is confused as to why this is happening so he goes and tries a lot of stuff to find out why this is happening.
During this project I have written up storyboards for my opening sequence. Me and my partner done joint editing on this with us both contributing to the final edit. We both decided to use colour correction in order to bleach the picture. During the shooting process I ensured that the white balance and gain was alright. When I was happy with my sound of the project I had to check for audio peaks to avoid distortion.
We were told to edit our project on final cut. To achieve our finished product we also used Soundtrack© and Adobe™ Photoshop. Before starting this project I had a lot of confidence with these software’s so I found post production rather easy. We were also taught how to export our sequences but before that we had to de-interlace all our sequence which we also learnt throughout the course. In order to get our soundtrack in sync with our footage we had to import out video in Soundtrack© so we can ensure each cue for the non diegetic sound was synced. We also used Adobe™ Photoshop to design our SLR overlay.
The whole shooting process was very stressful. We shot this on the Sony HVR-A1E. We got it out in the end but due to difficulties within the team, we did not meet the initial shooting deadline. We first filmed one of our ideas we wrote up but did not finish shooting it. We then got an extended deadline in order to finish shooting. We then changed our mind and filmed our first idea which we started with, which was fully planned, so this turned out much better than the other shoot.
I personally think that our choice of music worked very well. It sets the correct mood which we tried to achieve. It is a very slow paced which compliments the slow pace editing we used. The use of the music alongside the slow paced shots leave the audience thinking ‘oh why is he taking pictures’ which makes them want to watch on and see why he actually was taking pictures
People gave some feedback saying it was boring due to no other characters, which I feel is not necessarily right because as it’s a thriller opening you should not be given away everything. In a film, all characters are not introduced straight away. But on the other hand people said it looks like an opening because of its editing and camera angles.
If I could do this shoot again, second time around I would make sure I shoot early so I would have a second chance to make adjustments whilst reaching the deadline, I say this because this shoot was very rushed and did not reach its full potential.
I personally think it works very well as a thriller, this I because it reaches out to most of the thriller conventions. It includes a little bit of suspense throughout the sequence. If we had added the rest of what we planned to add it would improve is improved. But generally I’m happy with the finished product.
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