Research into theartofthetitle.com

Today i visited the website, http://www.artofthetitle.com/. 

I done so in order to gain some ideas of how to set out the title sequence for our two minute thriller. Whilst I was on the website I watched the title sequence to a few different types of films in order to get a wider range of ideas and perceptions. These included, 'Days of Heaven', 'Scott pilgrim vs the world' and others.


One of the title sequences I found interesting was the title sequence to 'Dawn of the Dead';   

I thought the opening to this film was interesting as the use of the music in the background, the speech from the news reporter and the screeching noises (sound as though someone is screaming) fit perfectly with the images shown on the screen. Also the credits have a good effect as they flash on the screen in red and then seem to run off the screen as if they are bleeding. The images and the credits seem to take turns to flash on and off the screen, they create a sense of confusion, chaos and panic which suites the story line of the film.

More filming

Today we planned to carry on filming. We thought we would have a long time to film and therefore get a lot done because it's a sunday. However, our plan was not carried out effectively as our main actress failed to show. Therefore, we couldn't film so got nothing done. Next time, we will make sure that our actress shows and that she knows the time in which she needs to turn up.

List of characters and titles for the opening credits

As a group we discussed in what order we would place the characters in the opening credits of our thriller and what else we would like to include. The following is what we have come up with;

1: Panoptic Productions present

2: A film by Connor Murray
                 Sarah Warnock
                 And Ashleigh Hay

3: Starring Hollie Tuvey

4: Gera Zaharov

5: Also starring Georgia Wigley
                      Harley Mason

6: Music by Connor Murray

7: Edited by Ashleigh Hay
                 Connor Murray
                 Hollie Tuvey
                 Sarah Warnock

8: Directed by Connor Murray
                    Sarah Warnock
                    Ashleigh Hay

9: Assistant Director Hollie Tuvey

10: LOST SIGNAL

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There are 4 participants featuring in our thriller;

• Hollie Tuvey - the main character, the stalkee (image 1)
• Gere Zaharov - the main characters stalker (image 2)
• Georgia wigley - one of the main characters friends (image 3)
• Harley Mason - another of the main characters friends (image 4)

Also there are images of the producers;

• Ashleigh Hay(Me) - (image 5)
• Sarah Warnock - (image 6)
• Connor Murray - (image 7)

Shallow Garve 1994

Today me and my boyfriend watched Shallow Grave. Shallow Grave is a thriller but includes many sub - genres like, Crime, action and comedy. The film has very dark comical undertones to it however, is a serious film. Shallow Grave is a story of how three individuals, Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston and Ewan McGreggor, are on a quest to find a room mate for their four bedroom flat. They conduct interviews in order to choose their room mate, however the interviews are very unorthadox and funny. When the three original flat mates do find a person to occupy their spare bedroom, he locks his room and never comes. Once the three individuals find that the man in the extra room has died in his sleep the three find a breifcase full of money. The story entails and explores a moral dilemma on what to do in a situation when your room mate dies and you find a lot of money that does not belong to you. The caption for the film, 'What is a little murder among friends' is extremely good and effective as the film contains a lot of twists and dark and chilling scenes as the friends 'battle' it out for the money. You don't know which of the friends is more sinister than the next or how the end of the film will turn out. This thriller is brilliant at keeping you on the edge of your seat as you want to find out what happens in the end, Who gets the money? How will it end? Will they do the right thing and give it in? Shallow Grave is good at captivating the veiwers attention and creates a lot of suspense and tension throughout the use of music within the scenes. Theres is a lot of contrapuntal sound used as well as parallel which makes the music and the picture behind it very effective.  

Filming

Today our group went to one of the members houses where quite a bit of filming is going to take place, in order to begin the filming. It took us a long time to set up as we had to put props such as makeup and hairspray on the computer desk,this was in order to give the perception that the computer desk was in our main actors 'bedroom'. We didn't have a lot of time to film, therefore we didn't manage to film a lot overall. However I believe we did film some good footage of the beginning scene where the main character writes a status at the computer. In order to film more next time we will put the props in place before the session in which we can film, so we will then have more filming time. 

Setting up for our thriller

Today me and the other members of my group signed the camera out for the first time in order to do some filming of our thriller. However, before we could start to film we realised we needed to set up the stalkers room in which we would be filming in first, this took up most of the time we had. This is because the room in which we needed to start the filming in was the stalkers and situated on the wall is loads of pictures of the stalkee. Most of our time was spent printing these pictures off, cutting them up and arranging them on the wall ready for the next time we could film. We took some pictures of the room and the pictures on the wall that we set up, these pictures are shown below;