Bone Collector.

I just watched the film Bone Collector and saw the opening, this film opening is very simplistic yet very effect, the main focus is on the sound track and the whole visual part is on this sensory deprivation idea. they have used ( I assume), the strobe effect on Final Cut Pro, to give this jumpy blurry look, then the titles appear in a slow fade,also photos fade in with the blurry strobed part, of bones and "crime scene" which makes you focus on these parts heavily. I really like this idea and may use it, but I feel it only works because of the sound track, so I feel if I do use it I will have to use it wisely.

It also comes up with news paper clippings "Cop convicted of six killings" giving part of the story away at the start of the film.

Annotations of screenshots during editing:

These are screenshots of a shot we are going to feature in our opening, as you can we during we used low key lighting and added affect by making the overall appearance dirty.



This is a screenshot of a clip of our opening,

Mise En Scene; pepper, tomato sauce, mud.



Soundtrack

Making the soundtrack for our thriller, so I researched what chords are used to build tension and sound thrilling and found that diminished chords and half diminished chords have this effect, this is what I will be using.

Our Thriller Narrative: Demise

After playing with many many ideas we as a group finally came up with an idea we all agreed on, our final idea. This idea is very realistic and stays true to the Thriller conventions. It is about a middle class family, who have two twin children, one of which has a psychological issues, and within the film, the psychological issues become too much for the family to handle and he becomes a burden.

This is because of the families class, psychological issues are seen as something for the lower class, and although at first they were assured he could be cured, he was not and when growing up, although the mother nurtured him the same, he was different and the father hated this, and at the age of 16 the boy was taken by his father to live in a care home for people with the same condition as him.

Although they promised to look after him and come to see him weekly, sending him letters, he was completely forgotten about and eradicated from the family tree. As he grows up alone, he becomes aware of his past by the records in the care home and becomes obsessed with his family and vengeance against his parents. The lonesome which has made him cold, hollow, and his ICD worsened - he has now realised was placed on him by his father, he has to pay. At the end of the movie he is found by his mother after he kills himself as he sees his father in himself.

We have called it Demise.

Logic Pro 9

Liam is using Logic Pro 9 in our movie editing as this is the program me used to create the soundtrack, and he feels that in thriller films, or any film in general the soundtrack needs to mirror the visual on screen and it needs to be in sync, for example big bangs for big changes in the visual to really make it 3 dimensional, also due to the fact we know what is coming next and when, we can use the soundtrack to build tension up this point. Also as he has imported the film into logic he can make sure everything is exactly on time. 

Example;

Foley sound;

This is Liams microphone( a Samson co1u) .We used this to record my foley sound on our groups thriller piece, this foley sound mainly included heavy breathing. We used foley sound as it is a much cleaner crisper sound then the sound the microphone in the camera picks up, this also allows us to manipulate the sound more easier and have more freedom as to what we want to do with it. Foley sound is recording sounds like punches, breathing and footsteps in a clean crisp way, so that we have complete control over timing, how loud they are and the quality of them, meaning a better sound production overall. This is usually done on a foley stage with a foley artist while watching the screen. Yet since our group do not have the facility to do this we have recorded it separately then have edited in onto our soundtrack using Logic Pro 9.

Our Moodboard (By Sam Barber)