Thriller opening of The Unspoken Truth

This was a long but enjoying process my group and I had; hope you enjoy are final outcome of our thriller opening

Inspiration for our final outcome of our thriller opening

 By looking at the opening of the film 'The devil inside' the implementation of the ellipses "..." gave it the suspense of the phone call; however my group and I used this to illustrate that time has past for example the picture above of one of the prints screen showing "later that evening..." Indicated to the audience time has passed; the expression of the ellipses creates suspense which is needed for thriller movie's as it creates tension.

By looking at the trailer of "The woman in black" it shows the title of the film which inspired us to use the Perry Gothic font; this is because it creates a creepy atmosphere about it which is usually one of the common codes and conventions seen through thriller movies.

By watching the "memento" trailer at the beginning it is shot in black and white then goes in colour, which is what we did in our opening as it makes it clear to the audience time has passed. It also created a lot of tension which we want.

the transition if the photo's of it being black and white then it being in colour show the audience it is know in the present of Scarlett's pregnancy; whereas the black and white footage is of her finding out she is in fact pregnant.

Feedback on Thriller Opening

By uploading my groups 2 minute opening thriller "The Unspoken Truth" we posted it on various different sites such as facebook, twitter etc to get feedback
Here's some of the comments:

Overall the feedback we got was very positive, it was a nice indication that the audience enjoyed it and were "spooked" out as that's the effect we wanted. However there were some slight confusion and the title sequences going fast; by those comments my group and I will make the changes.

It was good posting our opening to see general feedback and by getting some constructive criticism it highlighted what we should of done to make our thriller opening more effective; which we did;

This picture shows that we changed the speed of one of the points; and as a result it was much easier to read and understandable.

New Animatic

This is the new IMPROVED Animatic; my group created a new animatic which highlights the new scenes we added.

By creating the animatic, it helped my group know exactly what scenes we are using and how long we its should be shown.

This was effective as it gave us the correct indication for what should be showing and if it for too long to change it.

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New Story-Board

 

My group and I came together to discuss our new story board as we made new changes for our thriller opening, this was illustrated by (Chisara Duru), because of her drawing skills. By making some changes of our storyline of our film and adding new characters and replacing some, we have had to change our storyboard to show this.

 We also put it in different section of the shots such as shot 1A shot 1B etc. We didn't draw Dana Talabi on the storyboard, as her character is a supernatural split personality which we want the audience to understanding the storyline

By creating the Story-Board was an effective way seeing how many seconds for which scene where needed and it was also a way of us to know what scenes we are shooting etc. This also made it easier to film as it was like a check-sheet of what we needed to shoot.

Editing

Through the process of editing my group and I have come very far. We made many changes and at the beginning when using premiere pro it was very difficult in order to do different effects etc; but watching clips on youtube we then began to get the hang of it. We have many different shots to highlight key moments; for the shot of Dana which is the split personality of the character Florence you will see we used the speeding up technique which creates tention and the antispation of the scene.

We also added an extra set of music for when Dana is shown which fades out and blends in well with the theme music.

From the begining of the 2 minutes opening we made it in black and white to indicate that it was in the pass, and then changed it back in colour to show the process of what is happening in the present. We also wrote under some seens 'week later' etc to indicate the time has passed which will make it easy for the audience to understand.

Behind-the-scenes of making the final score.

This is Chisara Duru who created the FINAL score for our final finished piece. As the score I created on GaradgeBand was good but would of been effective for an action thriller; and as ours is a supernatural/psychophysical thriller it didn't fit as well. The score was created in a professional studio situated at Blackhorse Road. 

The music was had slight elements of our inspirations; as you can see the images above Chisara had a great experience of creating the music; and it fit effectively with our thriller opening. Because it has the common codes and conventions which create suspense and tension etc which you find in thriller movie's.