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Wednesday 8th December
As a class, Andrew our media studies teacher introduced us to the equipment we had to use for our thriller opening to be filmed. He taught us how to switch the camera on/off on standby, rewind, forward, play, stop and record in different positions. Also how to set up the tripod, attach and detach the camera from the tripod. We then put our taught skills into practice by creating a short clip of different movements and shot types. In this practice exercise, we used panning shots to show Biens boots reflecting her class and position. The mid shots and the close ups, handheld or by using the tripod to see the dealers and the players facial expressions during the game. We all made sure every member of the group had a turn to film and be a part of the thriller clip.
Wednesday 10th December
Each group viewed the thriller clips. We discussed the camera angles, shot types and gave our comments in general. We then as a class discussed what makes a thriller. We then wrote examples of thriller films to help us define what a thriller is and what makes a good thriller. This is what we concluded about the Shining. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. We wrote down examples of the most thrilling parts clips within the film and discussed the ones we thought were the most dramatic and why. For example: The boys facial expressions on his face and the sound effects in the background made it scary. The fact that it was in a hotel makes it even scarier as you would not expect a boy to be frightened in a hotel. Also, Kubrick’s facial expressions were also creepy. Moreover, the blood pouring on the hotel corridor is unexpected; therefore, it makes it a good thriller.
Wednesday 15th December
Watched the thriller ‘The shining’ to create ideas for our own thriller clip. The shining is defined as a thriller because unexpected and unpleasant things happen in a setting that its least expected. There are several factors, which enable this film to be freaky. The lighting used at the beginning of the film is bright which invites the audience to assume this is going to be a pleasant film. However later this idea is contradicted. Throughout the film, the camera angels and clips create suspense and tension for the viewer as they feel a hint that something unpleasant is there or going to happen. For example the camera tracking the little boy while riding down the corridor and then leading to the mid shot of the door and door number and then the camera following the boy’s facial expressions looking through the door by titling the camera, low angle shot. Therefore, these camera shots create hints of protagonist thoughts, feelings, and events that are occurring or will occur. The instrumental sound effects the violin and piano gradually built up faster and louder. This could make the audience anxious to know what is going to happen but also anxious for the characters especially if the audience is creating empathy. The editing cuts away unpleasant scenes for the viewer but allows the viewers mind to travel and generally to think of the most pessimistic views. For example, the camera is on the boy for a couple of seconds but then instantly cuts to theses two freaky looking girls. They look freaky because of there makeup and facial expressions, however they were wearing the normal costume wear which makes people assume there just normal people but we later find out there back from the dead haunting this innocent little boy.
As a class, we brainstormed thriller genres and all the sub genres.
Monday 5th January
We then analysed two film clips. The first analysis was of ‘Collateral’ I noted the lighting was artificial and well lit up. The camera used different effects in the small clip at the beginning. It used long takes as the people walk close up. Two people shots and a low angle shots For example: when the man is picking up the brief case. The music or sound came from people talking, walking as there steps were being exaggerated a lot. Dramatic music was used when Cruise came with the brief case. This creates suspense for the audience. The viewers assume this brief case is important and has something in it. The glasses, brief case, suits, casual clothing and people walking in the station were edited. This film clip was set up in an airport.
The second thriller clip was ‘Arlington Road’ The lightening was darkly lit with shadows of people. It seemed article but there was some natural light. It was solarised. Every scene was strange and set up in a prognostic way. Something bad was going to happen. The camera movements and shots: were handheld shots, high angle shots, low angle, close ups of the dog which means there was no establishing shots, padding shots. The music and sound used screeching, bleeping, mumbling and drum sounds. This makes it dramatic and intriguing for the viewer. There were chimes, zooms, mirrored. The clips were disconnected but this is to engage the viewers more. The setting and location was on Arlington Road and house. This analysis will hopefully help us to create our grouped thriller film for our coursework
Wednesday 7h January
As a class, we then watched a documentary about film openings. The documentary consisted of peoples opinions on a successful opening to a film. Thomas Sutcliffe said: ‘Films need to seduce their audience into long term commitment. While there are many types of seduction, the temptation to go for instant arousal is most irresistible’ clearly, this quote suggests the opening of films have to keep the viewer engaged by slowly seducing the audience. In other words have a romantic candle light dinner and then make love rather than making love straight away because it won’t keep sustained interest and therefore the viewer may be directed into changing the channel. This is ultimately Jean Jacques Beineix view on the risk of ‘instant arousal’
Another quote states ‘a good beginning must make the audience feel that it doesn’t know nearly enough yet, and at the same time make sure that it doesn’t know too little’ this suggest the audience need to be kept on their toes. Therefore, this means don’t give to much information away to all at once. Keeps the audience guessing what exactly will happen next, to avoid lack of interest. In the documentary Stanley Kauffmann describes how a classical opening is like. He states a classical opening is first established by a shot of the window and then through the window, in the reception then into the office and finally the camera following the character. He believes this works well because the order is neatly laid out.
Kyle Cooper's title sequence to the film "Seven" creates tension for the viewer wanting them to find out more. Through the use of close ups and blade cuttings, sewing using a needle and pieces of things teared apart could reflect the man is violent or a psycho.
Monday 9th January
We were introduced to a match cutting shot. This is when two shots can be put together to make one. We then viewed clips with match cuts and we had to identify them. Once we understood exactly what and match cut was and viewed them we had to create our grouped clips that contain a match cut. However, each group had specific requirements of a character opening a door, walking into the room, sitting down opposite another character and then both of them sharing a few lines of dialogue. But of course before starting we had to plan exactly what is going to happen, writing and drawing out each scene with the various shot types.
Wednesday 12 January
For the Preliminary Task Our small clips were edited on final cut pro compressing the length. We added a sound track to a scene and adjusted the volume on a scene to enable the viewers to hear the characters voice. After making these adjustments, I was pleased with our end result. We then added the short clip onto our blog and viewed them as a class. Discussing the match cut effect. In the second half of the lesson, we discussed our target audience for our thriller opening, which we decided had to be 18 and over as this will enable us to create a thriller that we can use many issues. We then discussed possible narratives for our thriller openings. One of our possible location was in a renovated house that is creepy and has unexpected things happening.
Monday 14th January
We loaded our clips onto final cut pro. We also edited our clips but we didn’t finish it so we stayed in workshop to complete it.
Wednesday 16th January
Viewed each others clips and discussed them.
We were then given a ‘thriller bank’ of words to discuss an atmosphere for our opening sequence. Words like: creepy, weird, alarming, darkening, thrilling, nervous, and distressing.
Monday 19th January
We came up with several ideas for our thriller clips. Bearing in mind we wanted to create a thriller opening, so basically unexpected or freaky things happening in a normal surrounding. We also wanted to select the ‘grabber’ that sells a thriller rather than a beginning of a horror film.
These are our possible scenarios:
This idea involved a mother and a young child in a park. Whilst the mother is pushing the child on the swing her mobile rings. So she turns to answer it and when she finishes her arguing on the mobile she notices her young child that can’t walk out of the swing standing right in the centre of the park dazed. This idea works well with the normal setting idea but it was slightly difficult because we didn’t have a character to play the young child. Although it does create a tense atmosphere because it should make the audience feel anxious and to understand why this has been possible for the young child to be out of the swing when the mother looks back at her and also the child’s cognitive thoughts. Another possible idea could be newspaper clip, headlines of a missing girl, then cuts to another woman lying down in a bed but then it’s not a unique idea. Another idea was a tapping dripping blood. But the woman wakes up from a bad dream and rinses her face in blood rather than water. This is an idea which will raise several questions and will hopefully create curiosity for the audience to wanting to continue watching. This idea then developed into a more unique idea whereby the toilet releases blood when the woman flushes the toilet. A girl looking for a toilet, she has come back from a party and is slightly tipsy she is recovering from drinking too much at a party. So she found a local café and uses the toilet. She than puts her makes up on and walks to the mirror fixing her makeup she discovers blood gushing out of the toilet this then gives a close up of her shocked face and finishes like that.
We finally come up with a narrative idea for our thriller clip. Whereby a girl looking for a toilet, she has come back from a party and is slightly tipsy she is recovering from drinking too much at a party. So she found a local café and uses the toilet. She than puts her makes up on and walks to the mirror fixing her makeup she discovers blood gushing out of the toilet this then gives a close up of her shocked face and finishes like that.
Wednesday 21st January
Today's lesson was another planning lesson which by the end of we had to make our pitch to Tony, Andrew, Mickey & Marisa. We started to go over the scenarios which we had thought of last lesson and picked the one which we fort was best, the toilet one. We then started to create a stronger narrative for this idea, we then story boarded the sequence of events which were to happen in the order which we wanted. After we done this we made a shot list to record which shot types and angles which we wanted to use.
We then made a plan of the props which we will need for our sequence this included red food die and a severed hand. During the second half of the lesson we were getting prepared to make our pitch to the rest of the class. The four judges then told us what were the good parts of our ideas and which parts may need to be changed. This constructive criticism was very helpful as although you don't want to be told your idea is bad, an outsider’s view can help you to improve your idea and result in a better film opening.
Wednesday 4th February
Once we developed our final narrative idea, we began working through the ideas for our film clip. Our aim is to make our film new and exciting and unique so it can be brought, essentially if the film pitch is liked then the film will be referred as a ‘grabber’.
The elements we covered in our pitch were to help us to create a successful thriller clip.
The key images are the toilet, hand, lip stick, newspaper reporting the ‘missing body parts’ which refers to the fake hand inn the gazette.
The setting and locations will be in angel but mainly in a café in angel, with the use of natural lighting. Lighting will mainly be seen when the blood appears in the toilet and Lauren, an actor of the group notices a hand. We will use a variety of shot and camera movements to suggest different meaning, but the most significant will be when the hand appearing with blood in the toilet, using a close up shot to shows Lauren shocked and scared feelings. The music we will use will hopefully create tension for the audience.
Our target audience will aim to be 18+. We plan to finish our thriller clips by Wednesday
Monday 9th February
We discussed contraction of our clips. Things like framing, variety of shot types, shooting materials appropriately, discussing the mise en scene.
Wednesday 11th February
Filming our shot types by using different angels and movements working with mise en scene.
Monday 23rd February
Editing and viewing the sequence. Discussing lengths of walking whether shot types are correctly being placed. Editing certain clips to making meaning apparent for the reader. Using transition appropriately, using titles appropriately but also sounds.
Wednesday 25th February
We edited more clips. Got rid of a ripple effect of the toilet. Added slugs in for the credits. Shortened a close up shot of Lauren putting her make up on through the use of an over the should shot. Added the title: ‘Mortal Remains’. We also added blackout effects of Lauren screaming in shock at the end of the thriller opening. The final sound effects were added in workshop hours.
Friday, 27 March 2009
Thursday, 26 March 2009
Final Evaluation
Thriller Evaluation.
By Grace Herbert.
For the past few weeks in media studies, we have been working on our practical unit: 'Making a thriller film opening.' We were given video cameras and tripods to go out and film with and had to log and capture our footage onto the Apple Macs in school and edit our sequence into a short 'film' My group consisted of me, Lauren, Bien, Vikki and Rashpal. Firstly for this unit we had to sit down as a group and discuss possible scenarios for our film opening. We brainstormed all different aspects of our film e.g. The target audience, the genre (thriller- horror etc.), the story outline and so on. Once we had found an idea which we wanted to further we started to plan properly. We storyboarded our idea and listed the various different shot types we wanted to use in our film. Once we were fully prepared with the planing we went out and filmed our opening. We made sure we filmed too much footage, took too many takes and used the 5 second rule for all our clips. We also used our experience from our past practise practical work to make sure our mise – en – scene stayed consistent throughout our filming. Once happy with the footage we had shot we edited our film, inserted slugs, credits, transitions, edited the speed, and applied a soundtrack onto it. We then uploaded it on to our blogs, which we have been writing in throughout our whole practical work.
We started our thriller opening quite slow and built up tension as it went on. Below are some images of our opening, showing some of the skills which we learnt during this task.
Here we have a long shot of our main character walking through a deserted arch early in the morning. As you can see we used the light to an advantage, as it became dusk we decided to shoot as you get the same feeling as if it were dawn.
Here is a match cut of Lauren walking, as you can see from the image above there was a pillar in the way of the camera, by match cutting this shot our audience could view her walking still. As you can also see we have varied our levels and shot types and distances.
The above images show one of our most effective shots during our film also know as 'The Red Flush.' This part of our sequence is the part where you can first tell there is something not right going on and to emphasise this signal we slowed the footage down to cause more of an impact on the viewer. I particularly enjoy this shot as the sound effects on this adds that extra piece of sheer suspense, commonly seen in thrillers.
This image consists of one of our slugs and credits, which we designed in live type. I choose this particular slug to show as it shows a fault that we made whilst in the editing process. All of our other credits have each persons second name imprinted on them but this slide doesn't. We did spot this mistake during the process of editing our film but we were too far along to change it (we crossed it during the last day of editing) With our slugs we used the transition dissolve in order to help merge the two images together effectively.
The image above was by far the most complicated, complex shot which we had to film but was again one of the most effective. Without this shot I am not sure that our film would be the same. To shoot this shot we had to experiment angles by laying on the floor, using hand held cameras and manual focus, framing the shot to perfection in order to see both hand and face and getting the lighting exactly right in order to make our red tinted water be portrayed as blood. After a good long time of fussing around with the angles we had to stack tables on top of each other, place our bowl of blood water in-between them and shoot from the bottom of them.
This image shows both footage and credits combined. We mastered this technique by using both Live Type and Final Cut Pro. Our thriller opening is consistent with the thriller – horror sub-genre as we have a vulnerable young lady on her own walking a deserted street into a solitude café where she discovers the remains of a human in a toilet cistern. This is conventional as it has a vital thriller film character and follows a 'traditional' storyline. I know that this is conventional of a thriller film as we researched media texts and films from the thriller genre before hand. Films that we observed before our practical work included The Shining by Stanley Kubrick and What Lies Beneath by Robert Zemeckis. We looked in depth about how they build up tension using sound effects and different camera angles. We saw from What Lies Beneath that a simple idea can be very effective as the suspense in it helps bring the audience to the edge of their seats. We also learnt that sound effects are very useful for building suspense, tension and fear as there is a shot in the opening where you see the 'ghost' first but jump when you hear the sound effect added on to it. This is also true in the shining as the loud drum sounds when the scenes change make it highly uncomfortable for the viewer as it is actually scary. Also The Shining shows us how effective not only sound effects are but also the diagetic sound of the film. For example when Danny is driving around the deserted hotel in his toy bike the diagetic sound of when he drives from carpet to wooden floor gives an eerie effect which makes the viewer feel uneasy and uncomfortable. During the build up to us making our openings we watched a documentary about openings to thriller films called 'Watching'. This documentary incorporated various thriller openings including Seven, The Shining, A Touch Of Evil & Casino. From witnessing these openings we learned, as a group, that we could start from the end (as in a Casino), and even entwine it with bold images, unrelated to the understanding of the audience (as seen in Seven). This documentary was extremely helpful as it outlined to us that the opening of a film must give an instant arousal, it must entice its audience into continuing in watching the film itself. Although this is the plan that me and my group had decided on, instant arousal, there were some risks in doing so, as stated in the documentary. Jean Jacques Beineix stated that the main risk of instant arousal was that 'after the first bit of excitement, its hard to keep the audiences attention at that high'. This statement did effect mine and my groups intentions for our opening, as did the whole documentary but we overall decided to add an event that would grab our audiences attention and make them want to view more, as in Casino.
During the build up to our practical we had a preliminary task where we learnt how to match cut. This exercise was extremely helpful along with our other filming task as it gave us a clearer incite into how to make our scenes make sense and not look amateurish. It also helped us to get acquainted with the cameras properly and how to add soundtrack onto our piece effectively. Another positive function it had on us was that we were able to film our final piece quickly, filming more footage that we actually needed, which is vital as once coming to editing the piece with a lot of footage it makes it easier for you to sync two scenes together. We also learned from doing this task that storyboarding and planning the film thoroughly is key to making an effective piece which is able to grab your audiences attention sharply.
Our media product represents the vulnerability of young teenage girls. Our opening showed a teenage girl wondering the streets in the early hours in the morning on her own. By doing this we informed the audience that something could happen as young girls are defenceless to older males and are usually assaulted on their own in unpopulated alleys and streets. We portrayed to our audience the normal assumption as women as the victim but we showed this our narrative with a twist. Our young female wasn't herself assaulted, abducted or hurt but was still the victim as she found the bloody remains and became traumatised by her discovery. (As seen in the image below)
Our media product would be distributed in the film world to only a few arthouse cinema's, with only a few screenings on each, due to the low budget and lack of magnificent special effects. Also I think an arthouse cinema would be the best for our film as we would have a niche audience because our film is particularly aimed at teenagers rather then adults. It is also aimed at a more working class audience rather then any other class as the content and the gritty-ness of the film reflects antics and actions of working class bodies. I would also think we would find that both genders could enjoy this film as it feeds into the lives of both. In this way it is like that of British films and their content. I also think that we could publicise mainly over the internet as our main audience is that of the cyber generation. We would have to research which social network is most popular in order to generate a wider response from our target market. I also think that it should be on DVD release as if it has a viral reaction, people would only be able to watch the film on DVD accept for the few that viewed it on a big screen. This would maximise profits and hopefully build a greater response to the film. We could also market our film by advertising not only on the internet but by messages, radio and even TV channels such as MTV, MTV Base etc. I think this would be a good idea as our audience have mobile phones, they listen to the radio and these are the most popular TV channels known for them.
During the process of constructing our final project I have learned both a hands on approach to the film making e.g. Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Filming, Editing etc., and a more layed back approach, by using the internet with such sites as blogger to capture the elements and steps taken whilst producing our opening sequence. Using Final Cut Pro I have learnt how to log and capture footage, how to select in-points and out-points, merge two shots together, create slugs for credit sequences, slow down the speed of clips, use transitions such as cross fades and overall make a film. I also Learned from this task how to place a soundtrack onto the film. Doing this helps to build tension and suspense for the audience and helps them to be put into the mood of the film. Using Blogger and Vimeo, it has shown me that blogging and uploading videos onto Blogger/Vimeo are a good method of communication and make this site similar to all social networking sites. By using both of these sites I have learnt that the internet could help to widen our potential target audience.
Overall I had a lot of fun making our thriller opening, even though it required a lot of work to be put into it. I am happy with the way that my groups film has come out and the response that we got from class members, whilst watching it in the classroom, and the year group, when we visited VUE cinema, was all very positive and constructive which portrays to me that the opening was able to generate a feeling of excitement and suspense and thrilled the audience which was our main mission, and we completed it.
Thursday 12th March! VUE Cinema!
Today, as a year group we went to the VUE cinema at N1 and watched all of the As thriller openings. Some of them were really good and there were some unique ideas put out there. Everyone respected each other by staying quiet throughout the films and applauding at the end. I really do think that all the thrillers were exceptional and i especially liked one of them, where a girl hung herself. Going to the VUE cinema was a good opportunity to get audience response for our films and i am happy that we recieved a positive response.
Thriller Evaluation
Before we started our thriller opening, we watched some conventional thriller movie openings, such as the shining. At first sight of the shining’s opening sequence makes the film look innocent but as we watched it over again I realised that the high angle shot makes the car look like it is being stalked like prey. This is quite a deceiving opening which gave us an Idea of making the viewers assume that the girl is being stalked which soon gets flipped around to show that she is not the vulnerable character but the person who’s severed hand is in the toilet. We also watched thriller openings that were produced by people from the previous year. These also put some ideas into our heads. From these openings, we realised that our clips were not to be too long, as people would get bored quickly. We also realised that that we needed a good soundtrack to match our thriller. We also noticed that some of the previous work had the same sort of storyline as each other so we wanted to create the most original storyline that we could possibly think of. This was because we did not want everyone getting bored thinking they have seen it all before.
When I first started my work, it looked funnier than it did thrilling so I had to learn to create the scene to fit the genre. In the match cut lesson all my work seemed to look like we had produced a comedy, even though we had tried to make it serious. We realised that the way in which we had cut each clip together was not properly matched which made it look funny. In addition, the soundtrack we chose did not properly show the true genre of our short film. Because we had done quite poorly, it worked in our favour as we learned from our mistakes. When it came round to editing the final piece we made sure that everything was matched up properly and that the soundtrack matched the film.
Thinking about our thriller opening, we did go for a stereotypical woman victim. Because of this, our film would appeal more to a male audience rather than a female audience. I think this will attract men, as they will feel like they could be the hero of the film and relate to the male character. We also tried to aim for an age range of 15-30 year as they are the main ages that thrillers aim for. Because of the age range, we are aiming for students and working class, as they are more likely to want to see a thriller.
I would like to think that our thriller could be a Hollywood blockbuster but in reality, I think it would be more suited to the small arthouse cinemas. I think this because I believe it would be only targeting a small audience. I also think that it would be good to release it onto the internet, as it could become a big hit on websites such as YouTube, which in turn could give us a big break to produce more films.
Because we are targeting a younger audience we would advertise our film on websites such as facebook, bebo and myspace so are target audience are more likely to notice the film. I would also advertise in places like KFC, burger king and McDonalds’ where younger people go so they can begin to recognise the film and maybe start wanting to watch the film. On the adverts we would advertise the main star so that if people are fans they are more likely to want to see the film because of the star. We would put the stars name directly below the title in a large font but slightly smaller than the title.
While filming our thriller I have learnt to use so many different technologies, which will not only help me for media but for personal uses as well. When we first started filming, I was useless with the camera but over time, I learned to use it properly. I was taught how to fix the camera to the tripod properly and how to watch over the clips we had filmed on the camera. This would also help at home for video cameras that I could use to film personal occasions e.g. framing the scene right and getting good angles. I also learned how to use different software on the computer. I was shown how to use Photoshop properly, how to create title sequences that looked professional, how to use soundtrack pro and one of the most important ones, how to use final cut pro. I found this was the one piece of software that I picked up easily. Although it was frustrating sometimes, I got past that and managed to put some of the work together.
I was really pleased with our final result. I felt that we had all produced a brilliant piece of work that we had all put our best efforts into creating. Although at time it was tough and we had our disagreements we all pulled together and had a lot of fun making our thriller. I am also pleased that we had got a lot of positive reviews for our classmates and form others who had seen it at the cinema and overall I am ecstatic with me and my groups work.
When I first started my work, it looked funnier than it did thrilling so I had to learn to create the scene to fit the genre. In the match cut lesson all my work seemed to look like we had produced a comedy, even though we had tried to make it serious. We realised that the way in which we had cut each clip together was not properly matched which made it look funny. In addition, the soundtrack we chose did not properly show the true genre of our short film. Because we had done quite poorly, it worked in our favour as we learned from our mistakes. When it came round to editing the final piece we made sure that everything was matched up properly and that the soundtrack matched the film.
Thinking about our thriller opening, we did go for a stereotypical woman victim. Because of this, our film would appeal more to a male audience rather than a female audience. I think this will attract men, as they will feel like they could be the hero of the film and relate to the male character. We also tried to aim for an age range of 15-30 year as they are the main ages that thrillers aim for. Because of the age range, we are aiming for students and working class, as they are more likely to want to see a thriller.
I would like to think that our thriller could be a Hollywood blockbuster but in reality, I think it would be more suited to the small arthouse cinemas. I think this because I believe it would be only targeting a small audience. I also think that it would be good to release it onto the internet, as it could become a big hit on websites such as YouTube, which in turn could give us a big break to produce more films.
Because we are targeting a younger audience we would advertise our film on websites such as facebook, bebo and myspace so are target audience are more likely to notice the film. I would also advertise in places like KFC, burger king and McDonalds’ where younger people go so they can begin to recognise the film and maybe start wanting to watch the film. On the adverts we would advertise the main star so that if people are fans they are more likely to want to see the film because of the star. We would put the stars name directly below the title in a large font but slightly smaller than the title.
While filming our thriller I have learnt to use so many different technologies, which will not only help me for media but for personal uses as well. When we first started filming, I was useless with the camera but over time, I learned to use it properly. I was taught how to fix the camera to the tripod properly and how to watch over the clips we had filmed on the camera. This would also help at home for video cameras that I could use to film personal occasions e.g. framing the scene right and getting good angles. I also learned how to use different software on the computer. I was shown how to use Photoshop properly, how to create title sequences that looked professional, how to use soundtrack pro and one of the most important ones, how to use final cut pro. I found this was the one piece of software that I picked up easily. Although it was frustrating sometimes, I got past that and managed to put some of the work together.
I was really pleased with our final result. I felt that we had all produced a brilliant piece of work that we had all put our best efforts into creating. Although at time it was tough and we had our disagreements we all pulled together and had a lot of fun making our thriller. I am also pleased that we had got a lot of positive reviews for our classmates and form others who had seen it at the cinema and overall I am ecstatic with me and my groups work.
thursday 12th march
Today we had a day off collage so we could all watch everyones thriller openings on the big screen. It was exciting to see all the different openings. One of my favourite opening was about a game that people would have to play. It was so good that if I was to see a trailer of that film I would pay to watch it. It was also nice to see how people reacted to our groups thriller opening. I was very nervous at first but people seemed to have liked it which gave me a confidence boost.
monday 9th march
For todays lesson we were shown how to get onto a website called vimeo where we could watch all the different thriller openings. We were also told that we could view everyones thriller opening at the vue cinema at the n1 center on thursday morning. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone elses thriller openings but I am also looking forward to seeing everyones reactions to my groups thriller.
After we were informed about all of that we were told to upload our thriller openings onto our bloggs.
After we were informed about all of that we were told to upload our thriller openings onto our bloggs.
friday 27th February workshop
Today was the last time that everyone had to finish the thrillers before the deadline which was today. The computer rooms were so packed me and Grace were almost unable to grab a computer. Because Bien and Vikki had already finished the soundtrack in yesterdays workshop all we had to do was put the soundtrack and film together.
After we put them together we checked with Andrew and Mickey to see if it was all up to scratch then all we had to do was sign the bored to say we had finished.
After we put them together we checked with Andrew and Mickey to see if it was all up to scratch then all we had to do was sign the bored to say we had finished.
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