Draft Video;

 After just putting all our ideas into one video, there is no real order and it doesn't really make much sense, which we quite like, but there is still a lot that needs to be refined or changed. For example, we think at the moment it looks a bit too much like a trailer, the "You Are The Victim" section really gives it that feel, which it shouldn't have. e will most likely change this to credits of some sort.
Also, the huge spaces in the video where there is no visual need to be changed, this shows that it isn't completely finished yet. 
Moreover, the reflection effect put on to one of the shots, doesn't work with the rest of the title sequence therefore should be changed, we were going to try some layering on the shots instead as we feel this will work much better with the sequence and fit better.
Furthermore, the sound needs to be synchronised much more exact to the visual then it is, for example the eye part of video is synced very well and gives a lot of significance to this part, we need to put more of the shocking shots on this sort of sound.
In addition to this,  the quote needs to be moved to the start of the movie or just completely taken off as it is in the middle of the title sequence when it shouldn't be, the title also appears quite slowly, we think too slowly so we will speed this up a little.
There needs to be more casting credits or who the film is starring also, as there is only one.
These need to be in the correct order what they usually come in, so we will have to search for this order.
Yet we do like how the title comes up with a hand beside it and feel like we should replicate this type of shot and effect with most of our credits.

I will re-upload the video when these issues have been resolved.

Final Moodboard;

Choosing fonts;

 have noticed in many title sequences the font is quite small but not too small and is usually aligned the right or left hand corners if not in the centre. Choosing the right font is crucial as it has to link or represent something related in your movie. Especially in thrillers as it has to come across some sort of mood.
We have chosen the font to be Unfortunate Events.

Titles in the title sequence

From watch the titles sequence of: The Departer, Narc, Shutter Island and Mirrors the titles come on as follows:

The distributers(main company's)
then Presents...
In Association with..
Directors name
The title of the film

The last movie: Mirrors also included the name of the casting directors, music, costume special effects, co-producer and editor. But I don't feel as these are relevant for a 'low budget' movie, which this would be.

Risk Assessment;

As you can see we didn't encounter many risks or hazards due to most of the filming taking place in a safe environment: Bedroom, although as some footage was filmed in the back garden we encountered minor cuts.

Annotation of our video screenshot;

Productions Schedule:

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.