Movie Classification

MY CONFIRMED MOVIE CLASSIFICATION FOR THE THRILLER IS 15 AND ABOVE.

Final Cut - Movie Opening

Editing - Final Log

In my final editing sessions i have been applying the opening credits and the titles in to the movie opening. Through my experiments my final credits were in black and shadowed so the credits could be seen better. Furthermore the creidts are in plain black so the visual images in the background do not clash with the credits.

Rough Cut Three

I have included the rest of the clips and the music parralells with the clips. I have also added the title in to the clip end. When experimenting with diegatic music i noticed my soundtrack made it difficult for the various diegetic music to be herd, therefore i thought it best to exclude any diegatic music, and rely on the non giegatic music and the visual images to build the suspense and create a narrative.

Rough Cut 2

The music has been inserted to the movie clip and further clips have also been added.

Editing - Dairy log 2

Opening Credits - Final

Final Film Credits

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Opening Credits - Draft Two

Experimenting With Fonts:

I experimented with many different kinds of fonts, looking at eerie fonts, up tempo fonts, gothic fonts and many others. Here are a list of the fonts I looked at and the reason why I chose a specific font.

Arial Narrow
When I first began looking at this font I thought that it would look alright within my opening sequence but it did not give that thriller essence that I was after and just looked basically boring, this would not attract an audience, therefore I did not choose this font.

Century Gothic
At first I did decide to go with this font and by giving a red colour to the font, it would make the titles look like a thriller, but after much consideration and attention to the font, I decided that it did not really connote a big enough thriller feel which is what I was after, so I decided not to use it.

Comic Sans MS
When looking at the comic sans ms font, I immediately saw that it did not fit in with either the conventions of a thriller, nor did it have that thriller essence that I was after, the font is better in use when writing a poster or something that requires a 'fun' factor, obviously I did not want to connote a fun factor so I did not use this font.

Rough Cut

I have began putting the scenes in order and using various shots to illustrate the actions of the actors. The use of zoom shots to narrow down the audience focus and to show them images that will help them piece together the narrative. The tilt/angle shots create drama and excitement to the scenes and the long shots establish what the locations are. Combines i have tried to create a story through visual images. Having not added the music has allowed me to concentrate on the images and there importance.

Editing - Dairy log 1

Hang completed the scene logs i began organising the different scenes in order of the storyboard i had created. The various shot created a narrative of the hired killer opening a victims envelope, seeing her photo he then begins to stalk her and then kill her. The movies Official name i decided was to call it Assassin as it onfirm what the movie is about.

Opening Credits - Draft 1

Movie Credits - Draft One

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Production Logo

Possile Movie Name

These are several examples of Thriller titles that were possibilities:
My main story line is portraying a serial killers actions of murdering his victims. I have tried to find keywords that illustrate my storyline. The words in bold are my most likely choices:

-Twisted
-Obsession: The serial killer has become obsessed with killing.
-Captive
-Captivated
-Stalker
-Phobia
-Infatuation - Loves what he is doing, cant stop!
-Enigma
-Sinking
-Nothing
-Insights
- Assassin : Hired to kill
-Blank
-Unfeeling
-Blankness
-Kidnapped - k idnapping his victims first
-Followed

Editing Timeline

11.04 - Log scenes in to final cut pro
13.04 - Begin editing footage and organise the work
15.04 - add sound track to the clip
20.04 - Finish the clip
26.04- Add the production titles and credits

Camera Shots List

Camera shots and movements

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Construction of the Production Logo

Between my I've previous choices i decided on naming my production company:
DARK MOON PRODUCTIONS.
I had chosen an image I liked and would base my image/logo on. Similar to the concept of the production images I had analysed. I wanted to create an image that would symbolise the high status of my company and be seen as a beacon in the film industry. Therefore I choose the moon, similar to Paramount's use of the stars I liked the moon as it glows and represents a guiding light. I also wanted my company name to link to the thriller genre.

For example Twisted pictures the production company that created the Saw movies relates to the genre. Thus I choose to add 'DARK' to the moon giving the name an air of mystery.

With research i learnt that the quote -' The Dark Side of the Moon'; is the lunar hemisphere that is not currently lit by the sun, however it is usually mistakenly used to refer to the far side of the Moon, the side that is permanently turned away from the Earth.
The quote reflected a visual image of a prisim of colour turning to pure whitelight. I liked this symbol their for i wanted to incorperate the symbolic meaning in to my logo. With my selected images chosen i decided to use Photo shop CS4 to create my logo.

Test Footage