Storyboard

Storyboard images are usually sketches that simply and clearly show a shot by shot view of the film, they are displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing the film. This cuts down setup time, the caption area shows dialogue text, shot durations camera angles and movements as well as prop and scenery notes. 

Animatic

This is the Animatic that our group has created for the planning of our final film. Animatics are animated storyboards. They are used for various purposes such as previewing scenes of live-action films before they are shot. You'll also find animatics in the pre-production stages of animation and in the video game industry.

Trombone Shot (Dolly Zoom)

Above is an example of the dolly zoom effect is an unsettling in-camera special effect that appears to undermine normal visual perception in film. The shot tracks forward and zooms out at the same same time in order to do this, mainly to show a sign of warning or distress from the charceter.World renowned director Alfred Hitchdock is said to of made the technique famous in his film Vertigo, it was used by Steven Spielberg in Jaws and ET.

Title Sequence

This is the title sequence that I have been working on for the past couple of days, it will be included in our thriller opening.

The font used was imported in from dafont.com a well known free font site, i used the website as i didn't feel as though any of the fonts from Final Cut Pro were as effective as some of the ones from here.

The main idea of the title sequence was too make it looks as though someone was writing out the letters it from a typewriter and so my first search consisted of looking at all the typewriting fonts that were available on the website. 

There were a few different ones to choose from and the search included the following fonts:

All of the fonts look pretty similar but I was drawn towards "Mom's Typewriter" as I felt as though it was the right density and therefore clear enough to be used in the film, I feel as though it looks very raw and edgy similar to that of our film itself.

Upon changing the name of our Film i had decided to change the font inwhich we would use for our opening titles, in order to fit in with the overall theme of our thriller. After reviewing many different shapes and looks of fonts, I had finally decided upon using one from a website called Fontspace which like Dafont offered a wide variety of different font styles. I had chosen one called Sketchpipes which for me looked the most effective as it was very much subject specific because of our film name being 'Pipeline'.

Foley Work

In todays lesson we learnt about foley work which is the reproduction of everyday sounds for use in filmmaking. For example here i've used a drinking glass and repeatedly hit it with a wooden spoon.

I then edited it in Final Cut Pro to make it sound like a church bell, I did this by lowering both the pitch and speed.I feel that the clip sounded very realistic and lifelike to that of a real bell and will definatley considor using Foley work in our own Thriller.

Final Film: Pipeline

Here is the final cut of our thriller film, now called 'Pipeline' after discovering that the film name 'Contaminated' was recently used for a big budget film.



Because of the change in name we had to add a few extra shots into film in order to fit in with the theme ie. adding the close up of the character poisoning the water pipes with an unknown toxin.

Evaluation Questions

Question 1: How does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Inspiration: We also took inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock and his film “Marnie” and also the 1995 thriller “Se7en”. In the opening of both films the audience don’t see the faces of the two separate characters in each sequence and therefore aren’t able to identify them, asking questions of who are they? What are they doing? Why are they doing it? etc this then builds up tension because of this enigma.

Genre: The first indication that our film is a thriller is that of an over the shoulder shot where we see the stalker taking a picture and staring at the girl in the café, this sets up the first enigma as to why he is staring at the girl and also the fact that we cannot see who the character stalker her is. Other thrillers that have used this shot include “Silence of the Lambs” and also “Resevoir Dogs”

Continuety: Many box office films have staff who specialise in continuety and check through everything in the scene rigerously before everything is perfect as one blip could ruin not only this scene but the movie itself. continuety is an important thing upon creating a film to convince the viewer that they are viewing a contineous shot. Inorder to do this you have to considor many different factors such as the apprearence of the characters, the background and also the lighting for example have remain the same throughout each shot.

Intercutting: In our opening we have used a technique called intercutting which is common in the film industry and especially in thrillers, we got the idea for intercutting from the film “Se7en” which also uses it in it’s opening.

Font: The font title we have used in the film is incidentally called “pipeing” which is similar to that of our film title “Pipeline” we feel that this gives the film more of an identity. The choice of a solid black background also makes the white font standout more as it’s two contrasting colours, the colour has connotations of death and mystery which is also associated with fear and the unknown.

Production Logo: All flms have the production companys that they use at the start of the opening to the film this is a very convetional structure when making a movie, the most famous examples are that of “Universal”, “Warner Brothers” and “Dreamworks”. We decided too call ours MJWL Productions using the first letter of each of our names and combigning them together.

Question 2 How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

click link for powerpoint presentation:



https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19HLZ4tSVDNEBYl8_vHgeML9K1c-umCesz1M70LZ_Prk/present?pli=1&ueb=true#slide=id.p

Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

 Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

We have done this in many ways, we exampled this though Mise en scene. In our Mise en scene we thought about the clothes we wore, we wore clothes that would appeal to a young adult audience and I think that this helped establish the modern setting also appealing to the young adult audience. Also the setting in the town hall was useful as the town hall is quite a modern looking place and make it look like a fresh new up to date film making it more likely to be watched.

Though the Cinematography we used shots that were fast and choppy these helped keep a fast pace for a young and fast audience. We also used lots of suspense building shots. We also had a lot of quick editing making it look very snappy and adding to the suspense.

Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product