OUR THRILLER FILM OPENING

Here is our finished thriller film opening called "Hush Little Baby".

CONSTRUCTION: UPDATING FACEBOOK AND TWITTER

With our facebook and twitter pages we decided to keep the public up to date with what we are doing and whats coming soon. So we created tweets, posts and displayed photos on these social media pages. We wanted to keep our fans intrested and connected to our film and its promotion, as this would ensure a profitable distribution and sales for our film. Finally we felt that this would also be a clever way to share our ideas and gain feedback on them through the public to gain knowlage on what they want to see. 

 

CONSTRUCTION: FILM TILTLE

Today Amber and I chose how we wanted our film title to come up at the end of our film opening. We decided to have it appear over the photo of the rag doll caught in the barbed wire. We looked into different font types and decided on a top four.

The first text is called Tekton Pro, we felt that this font was too simple and dull. 

This font is called Chalkboard (in bold). We felt that the font should have a childish quality to it, almost as it were writen by a child. Although we felt that this font didn't convey the theme of our film opening well. We also looked into what the font would look like regularly but again it seemed simple and didn't have the theme required. 

We decided to chose this font for our film title as it has a childish quality to it as it looks like a chalk writing. The font is called "Chalkduster". It looks like a childs drawing, whilst also having an eary and haunting vibe. 

OUR IDENT

Here is our finished version of our Ident that we made using iStopmotion animation. We edited the footage to slow it do 45% less than its original speed, on imovie we also added a piano soundtrack over the top of it.

Overall we are pleased with the outcome as we feel it is a unique and imaginative way of opening our film.

UPDATING MY TRELLO

I updated my trello after last week as we have completed the tasks I set for us to complete. I found that this is a good way to organise and manage my work. This method of working is helpful for me as it is a visual representation of what i have done and what still needs to be done.

CONSTRUCTION: RECORDING THE DOCTORS VOICE OVER

In our lesson today we needed to find someone suitable to act as the doctor, for our voiceover. We required a male, proffesional voice, so we asked our drama teacher to act as the doctor.

We recorded the voiceover straight onto the mac computer and over our movie. By doing this we could time exactly where things would be said. So that at certain point certain things would be said such as when Georgina bangs her fist down on the table and storms out of the room, we have the doctor saying:  "No, wait Mrs March, come back". The voiceover was sucsessful, as it helps the narrative and plot line of the story.

The voiceover script says:

"Mrs March, I have recieved back your fertility test results and i'm afraid it's not good news, you are unable to concieve and carry child natually.... No, wait Mrs March come back"

CONSTRUCTION: FILMING AN ADDITIONAL SCENE

Today we filmed and edited an additional scene in which the woman is opening a case file for a war journalist job. We added this scene in order to clearly identify Mrs march as a war photographer as previously it was unclear as to why we had references to war photos. We decided to have the woman open up a folder on which displayed what it was and who's it was. This was effective as it made the narrate clearer. We also decided to link this scene to the pan across with all the war images, so we merged the two clips together and created a cut away in editing. This worked well as it made a connection between the folder explaining her job details and the war images on the desk.