Evaluation of our finished Thriller Opening Sequence

Our Thoughts:

Good Things:

• Build in tension
• Good continuity editing
• Consistent Theme and effects
• Some variation in the music throughout the opening sequence

Bad Things:

• Two minor mistakes in the music
• No change in the title
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15/3/11

We need to:

• Shorten/ cut the clip length - speed it up as it goes along
• Create some mew music and sounds
• Create a new name
• Alter effects for opening sequence
• Add the locking clips

Plan for tomorrows lesson - 2/3/11

The plan is to:

• Book the camera for filming *******
• Continue inserting titles into the timeline
• Do more filming within the college - trying to open door, looking through peep hole? door numbers, corridoor, lock's etc.
• Blog the target audience for the opening sequence
• Anything else that we think of that needs to be done

Script

1. Production logo
2. Door image
3. Titles
4. Image/Video of map with pins to mark possible locations of criminal whereabouts
5. Titles
6. Corridoor
7. Door Number images
8. Titles 
9. Map with pins
10. Hand trying to open door - Close up
11. Peep hole looking through door
12. Titles 
13. Pictures of map surrounded with keys
14. Map with pins
15. Swipe Card? - Close up
16. Trying to open door - Close up
17. Titiles
18. Door Numbers
19. Corridoor
20. Titles
21. Criminal walking through and into a house. - Silhouette with long shot of walking to the door, close up of hand opening the the door and medium close up for entering.

Name Ideas

The lift

Lift

Elevator

Floor 13

13^th floor

The breakdown

‘Doors closing’

Level 32

Elevator music

Escalate

Descent

The drop

The fall

New Plot Outline

Plot -  The opening sequence will begin with Medium close up's of a character walking through the location with music in background, with cuts during his walk for titles and quick cut transitions between him and the lift and also to another character. This character will be outlined from our opening sequence to always be in the background in relation to the shots that we have of the main character, this will hopefully add to the tension of the sequence and appeal to the genre of it being a thriller. There will be no speech in this sequence. The main character will walk and get to the entrance to the lift, and this is when the music will change. They will enter the lift and select the floor that they want to go to, we will then cut to the antagonist, character? looking at the lift, and then the door will close. 'Doors Closing' The title of the film will then appear.

Music will be created on Garageband

Our titles will be created with effects in Photoshop.

Characters - 1 or possibly 2 - The main character - Protagonist and the antagonist, character? 

Thriller Font Ideas

Doors Closing

Doors closing

DOORS CLOSING*

Doors Closing

Doors Closing

DOORS CLOSING*

Doors Closing

DOORS CLOSING

Doors Closing*

DOORS CLOSING*

Doors Closing

DOORS CLOSING*

Doors Closing

Doors Closing

DOORS CLOSING*

Doors Closing*

Doors Closing

DOORS CLOSING

Doors Closing

Doors Closing

* = These fonts we thought would most suit our thriller opening sequence as both the title and opening credits.

MGM Production Logo

This six second sequence is the logo for the Metro Goldwyn Mayer film production company, MGM are responsible for films like James Bond and Basic Instinct.

Top Tips for making our Thriller project good

1. Plan Early
2. Film in good time so that we can change anything if we need to
3. Make a good script
4. Choose a suitable location in advance
5. Have costumes ready
6. Plan Title sequence
7. Make sure that we have good storyboards
8. Have suitable music that won't overpower the film opening
9. Make sure that we film plenty of footage
10. Have suitable font for titles

Our Thriller Preliminary Task