My Thriller mood board

Opening Credits

This is where i am going to write about what order the opening credits should be set into:

While there are numerous variations most opening credits use some variation of the basic order^[4] noted within:

• (NAME OF THE STUDIO)

Name of the studio that is distributing the film and may or may not have produced it (Walt Disney Pictures, Columbia, Lions Gate, Universal, Marvel Studios, Dimension, Miramax etc.).

• (NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY)

Name of the production company that actually made the film or name of the investment groups or companies that financed a substantial part of the film (usually credited as "in association with" or "A (studio name) production.").

• (PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION or/and (director only) A FILM BY (DIRECTOR NAME)

Director's first credit, often "a film by XY or "a XY film".

• STARRING

Principal actors, (Sometimes the stars' and director's credits will be reversed, depending on the star's deal with the studio; sometimes, as in the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, or as in all three film versions of Show Boat, or, as in many of Disney's films, the title of the film will be shown before the names of its actors; sometimes, as in many of Cannon's films, the name(s) of the principal actor(s) will be shown before the name(s) of the producer(s), i.e. "The Cannon Group presents X in a Golan-Globus production of a Y film").

• (FILM'S TITLE)

Name of the film.

• FEATURING

Featured actors.

• CASTING or CASTING BY

Casting director.

• MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE BY

Composer of music.

• PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Production designer.

As a variation some of the below may be noted:

• SET DESIGN
• COSTUMES or COSTUMES BY or GOWNS (older movies)
• HAIRDRESSER
• MAKE-UP ARTIST
• SOUND RECORDING (older movies)
• VISUAL EFFECTS DIRECTOR or VISUAL EFFECTS BY

• EDITOR or EDITED BY

Editor.

• DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Director of photography.

• PRODUCER or PRODUCED BY, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Producers, co-producers, executive producers, 'also produced by' (credited for various reasons according to contracts and personal scrutiny of the principal producer). Often, though, the name of the producer will be the next-to-last opening credit, just before the director's name is shown.

• BASED ON THE BOOK (PLAY, GRAPHIC NOVEL etc.) BY or FROM A PLAY/BOOK BY (older movies)

If based on a book or other literary work.

• BASED ON THE CHARACTERS BY or BASED ON THE CHARACTERS CREATED BY

If based on characters from a book or other media.

• STORY or STORY BY

Person who wrote the story on which the script is based, gets "story by" credit, and the first screenplay credit, unless the script made substantial changes to the story.

• WRITER(S) or WRITTEN BY

Screenplay writers. The Writers Guild of America allows only three writing credits on a feature film, although teams of two are credited as one, separated on the credits by an ampersand ("X & Y"). If each works independently on the script (the most common system), they are separated by an "and". If more than two persons worked on the screenplay, the credits may read something like "screenplay by X & Y and Z and W" X and Y worked as a team, but Z and W worked separately.^[5]

• DIRECTOR or DIRECTED BY

Director. The Directors Guild of America permits a film to list only one director, even when it is known that two or more worked on it. Except in very rare cases (a death in mid-production) there is only one directing credit

How sound effects a movie

I listened to saving private Ryan and listened to 2 minutes worth and noted down every single sound that is used.

TASK 1:
Watch this sequence from Hitchcock's The Birds. It's an excellent example of continuity and uses the techniques we've seen in class this week.

Overall there where 16 shots with in that 1 minute 30 video clip.
There where various number of different shots in the extract clip, and mostly all of these clips had very good continuity through out the extract footage.

1st Shot: Long shot / establishing shot
2nd Shot: Medium shot
3rd Shot: Match on action to shot 4
4th Shot: Medium shot
There is panning during shot 4 of the house
5th Shot: Medium shot down the hall way
6th Shot: Medium shot
7th Shot: Reaction Shot
8th Shot: Point of view shot
9th Shot: Medium Shot
10th Shot: Point of view shot
11th Shot: Close up
12th Shot: Point of view shot
13th Shot: Long, Medium to close up
14th Shot: Medium shot down the hallway
15th Shot: Long shot
16th Shot: Close up

1. What principles of continuity are used here? How successfully? Refer to specific shots / screen-grabs.




This shot is very important this is because this is an establishing shot and a long shot so this gives the audience an insight on where the scene is taking place.











This is the point where the lady opens the door to enter the house












Then this is the match on action where after the lady opens the door it cuts the shot so that that the perspective is inside the house and shows a form of continuity.

This is another very good piece of continuity in this clip as you can see she is looking down the corridor and our perspective is from behind her so we are looking at her back.



Then in the next shot we are in the corridor looking down the corridor and she is in front of us and she is looking down the corridor, this is excellent continuity.

These 2 shots on my left and right are her points of views and this is what she saw, and then the shot at the bottom is her reaction shot of what she saw and then she ran away. This shows

Preliminary Task

Here i have implemented my match on action where Leena opens the door from the outside, and then i put the camera in the inside of the room and started filming her walking into the room and then in Final Cut i edited the footage so that it would flow smoothly.

Then i took a picture of the timeline and showed that i edited it in Final Cut and this is what it looked like on the timeline.

During my prelim i used a CCTV effect so that it would look more genuine, so i had a look through the effects and i found one called bad tv effect and this made the screen distorted but very distorted, so i edited the settings so that it had a low saturation so it was black and white, and therefore it gave the scene a much more realistic feel.

This is one of the camera angles we used this one is point of view from my view.

This camera angle was the over the shoulder shot.








1) We both came up with the same idea because we had inspiration form an A2 student and he used the same cctv footage effect and we thought that this would make the film feel more realistic to the viewer. Then after watching the A2 students videos we then started thinking on that it should be a accidental murder and then from there on all of the ideas kept coming into our heads.

2) We where planning our footage on a storyboard on an A3 piece of paper so that we could see what our layout of our filming shots would look like. We used postick notes so that if we wanted to rearrange our shots we could do it with ease.
We also made a script on a white board so we could revert back to our dialogue and remember what to say.

3) The shoots were fairly efficient because we did most of our takes in under 2 or 3 shots which was quick and less time consuming so then we had more time to edit our footage. The thing that was time consuming was to do the storyboard because we had to be creative and actually think of an idea for our preliminary task

4) We had to keep to the 180 degree rule where you couldn't pass the 180 degree line when recording 2 people separately and when we had to do it we found it pretty easy to do and really made our footage look much more professional, we also had to open a door which was simple, we also had someone walking in a room, but we didn't make them sit down because we had a different scene where i was on a chair so we didn't implement that but we still used everything else. we also used some small bits of dialogue where i was interacting with the co-actor. I found that the best shot was the match on action where Leena opened the door then we cut to her close up of her hand opening the door, i thought that was very well filmed and very well edited.

5) I learnt different camera shots which are simple but very effective in any films, this will help me in my further education in media studies and will aid my filming to a higher level. Before i started this i had know idea how to use Final Cut but after 3 lessons i know how to edit raw footage, use effects and leant how to export in HD and it the best possible quality, so overall i have learnt huge amounts of knowledge  and will implement them in my final project.