In this picture, it attracts the audience because you can only see the persons hands. It also involves blood so therefore, you want to know why the blood is on the persons hands.
In this image, it is showing the opening of a door. It makes people wonder who it is that is coming through the door and also what the relevance is of the door and who is coming through it.
It attracts the audience because it is a close up of a bloody knife. It makes you wonder why it is covered in blood, who's blood it is and why it is relevant to the film.
In our first idea we originally wanted fire in it and a car scene. We weren't able to do this because we couldn't find anybody to help us film it and due to the weather as well. We also had trouble getting to our original location. We had to change our idea from the storyboard (which we haven't uploaded yet.) It is a shame that we couldn't use fire and a car scene in the film because it would have made it look more technical and would have been a better use of the thriller. However, I think that the thriller that we eventually came up looks good as well and it works.
I am now going to write about the poster and explain the image, text and colours.
The image shows suspense as it is two images on a skull back to back in the image of a butterfly. The images are fairly distorted. It outlines the x-ray image of the skulls which is very bold. Makes you wonder why the skulls would be relevant to the butterfly.
The text at the top of the poster is the name of the actor - Ashton Kutcher. The writing is in bold white with a little bit of text shadow. The text is just basically plain but bold.
The actor is stood in the middle of the poster, with a shadow of himself stood behind and a bright shining light behind as well. This makes him look very powerful as the light is shining from behind him. You don't exactly know the relevance of the butterfly, actor and skulls but already it is building suspense which would make the audience want to view this film.
Just underneath the actor there is some text as well. This says "It will all end in the beginning." The text is in white, but not very bold... just so you can see it. The text itself sounds very interesting, and because the writing is interesting it will already have the audience hooked.
The title is in a different font to every other bit of text in the poster. It stands out because of this. It is in bold as well... this also makes the poster stand out as well. All of the text is in white part from the "Coming Soon" at the bottom of the poster. This is in red, which makes it stand out to every other bit of the text. This is because of the different colour, and usually people want to look at the poster to find out when the film is coming out. The audiences eyes will be drawn to this.
Me and Nathaniel were originally going to make some music for our thriller through Garageband. We tried, but we could not seem to make some music which would be suitable for the thriller opening. We then decided that sound effects would be more appropriate for the thriller, as it puts emphasis on the actions that are going on throughout the opening.
We found our sound effects on iMovie. We found some music on iMovie which was appropriate for the opening as it builds suspense. We then put the sound effects over the music which makes it sound quite bold. We wanted some music which would be able to build suspense but as we have no experience in making music on Garageband, it was fairly hard. We may have taken the easy way out, but we thought that it would be more beneficial to the thriller.
The reasons why we chose to use this treatment for our thriller was because we thought that it would be a lot easier to do. With treatment 1, we thought that it would be quite hard to try and set it up to look like a person was looking through the scope of the rifle.
Treatment 2 seemed a lot more like a thriller and also looked easier to make. We thought that it looked a lot more interesting as well. The way that we have set out treatment 2 was a lot different to our initial idea of treatment 1.
We also went into more detail with treatment 2, so we thought as we were so far ahead with that one, it would make it a lot easier when it came down to filming it.
We wanted to make the thriller seem as realistic as possible. If we had gone with treatment1, it would have been hard to film due to the fact it included guns.
Treatment 2 is more realistic and also a lot easier to even think about doing before we start. The concept of this thriller is easy to do (e.g. washing blood off hands) and the fact that you cannot see the person’s face also sets up a mystery in itself.
Starts off with a flash back of someone out of breath and shows them running in a dark place – maybe an alley, being chased by another person wanting to kill him/her but gets away.It then comes up with 12 months later and there is somebody looking down the scope of a rifle. (Do this by using a filter and make it look like a rifle)The rifle is pointing at a person walking a dog/having a picnic (undecided on whether it is boy or girl) – close up.Establishing shot of trees (In a wood) and hear a gun shot.There is then silence and title of film comes up followed by the credits.
Shot sizes:
It will start off with somebody running out of breath, we will use pan shot to do this. It then goes to close up of the person chasing the other person. It then comes up with 12 months later and fades in to the next scene. It then goes to extreme close up of person looking through the rifle. It then goes to an establishing shot of the trees. The film title then comes up and the last scene fades to black.
Sounds:
Use natural sounds e.g. somebody out of breath, footsteps. We will also use some sort of music, to build suspense. (Made on keyboard) Also the sound of a gunshot. When the credits come up at the end, we will use some music which will sounds eerie.
Fonts:
For the title of the film, we will use bold, black writing. Just use a plain font style, which will look plain but simple. The credits will be the same as well.
In our continuity exercise, we thought that we were able to keep the flow of the piece we recorded. We used a range of shot sizes in the continuity exercise. It was a simple idea that worked because we didn’t have to do things that were too complicated. It didn’t take us very long to film or edit, as it was simple as well. As this is the first time we have really filmed anything, we thought that it went as well as it could have gone really.
We thought that with trying to use pan shot, it was quite shaky so would have been better to use a tripod. With there only being two people in the group, it was harder to film as we could not use over the shoulder shots. This was because one of us always had to hold the camera. Instead of using over the shoulder shots we used shot reverse shot in conversation. When we are having the conversation towards the end of the film, we could have used a variety of different shot sizes, instead we just used one shot size as it made it easier for us to film.
If we had to do this continuity exercise again, we would have made sure that there would have been more people in the group to help us film. It would have made it a lot easier for us, as we wouldn’t have had to be in the film ourselves. We would have made sure we used a lot more shot sizes, even though the shot sizes we did were ok, we would have experimented a little bit more to make sure that it looked more interesting. Even though it was fairly easy to film, we would have liked it to be a little bit more adventurous as we could have done a lot more with more people in the group.
The music starts off quite fast and sounds kind of fluttery – goes with the writing about butterflies. It makes you wonder why butterflies have such a significance in the film. The writing is quite bold and has a black background – already setting up a mystery.
The writing then fades into the scene quite slowly. It then starts to show some sort of image, you can just about make out what the images are.
There is a distorted image of a person, which makes it uncomfortable to watch, as you do not know what is going on.
There is quite a dark setting and the clothes are quite bright, which makes them stand out on the person.
The music starts off quiet – then gets faster and louder as he gets nearer to the door- uses pan shot throughout the scene.
When near the door, you can make out that it says ‘Dr’ - This shows that he is either a patient or just a person trying to break in. The music then gets faster and louder again as he kicks the door.
When the door has been kicked open, you can tell by his clothes that he is a patient of some sort – makes people wonder what is wrong with him and why he is there. Even though he is a patient – the fact that he kicked open the door makes you know that he is not supposed to be there.
The music gets faster again as he hides and shows that he doesn’t want to be followed or found. He then grabs a box – what is its importance?
You then hear people shouting – obviously being followed. He then starts writing – says something about a plan – what plan?
He then goes on to say, “I’d be already dead” – why would he be dead? This sets up an enigma.
There is a close up of ‘SAVE HER’ – who is she? What is her importance? And how can she be saved?
Shows that the paper breaks away and looks torn.
Shows a black background and butterflies fluttering away.
Goes into an image of a brain scan – butterfly fits perfectly into it.
If you look at the top left side of the brain – it shows that there is some sort of lump, maybe a tumor?
