SOUND TRACK

Looking further in to the soundtrack, I found the song 'A day in the life' by 'The Beatles' In this song there is an errie crescendo of classical instrimunts, highly composed of string... Showing similarities to music from thriller... This build of tension makes your hairs stand on end, and I would like to recreate this in my own work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Q9D4dcYng

MUSIC

It has become clear to me that my music sounds too cheery and relaxed for a thriller. It is abundant with layers of diferent instruments, and I need something more bare and raw... From editing I have decided to alter

EDITING

On Saturday 26th Febuary 2011 I started editing my film opening on 'Adobe Premiere Elements' I started editing by following my story board, but then felt that this was not flowing nearly as well as I had hopped. I am wanting my first to start off eerie and fast paced, but by following the story board, it became clunky and did not flow the way I wanted. I decided to add more blank screen shots, simply with the titles. I decided to use quite a few cross fades to give a more gradual feel. I also decided I wanted to gradually build up the music to build up the tention

FILMING

I am in the filming process at the moment. I had a suceseful shoot, where I filmed all the scenes with just Rachel. When filming I found other interesting shots I could add, for example the squeezing the shower gell in to a hand. this could be seen as an every day activity, but in the lead up to a thriller film, hopefully add tention. I am planning to do the next shoot within the next week, or around this time. It will be at Claremont Fan Court school. I will be filming Rachel Farago and Ben Finnis together as a the couple...

ART OF THE TITLE

SEVEN

http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/03/26/se7en/

The image suddenly emerges with an extreme close up on a book spine, with the pages flickering; this starts off the film with an immediate enigma code. Further the saturation is low, giving a cool feel to the scene. The music is eerie, with an atonal melody, making it feel uncomfortable. The screen goes black, leaving the titles for the film, they are written as if scratched out, which lends itself well to the genre. The screen cross dissolves in to a bird’s eye view of a picture of distorted hands, these hands make the viewer feel uncomfortable and this sets the mood for the rest of the film. The bird’s eye angle gives us as the viewer an ominous feel. The light moves and flickers to bring some light towards the righting that says this is a film by David Fincher. This I followed by a succession of quick cuts that we are not entirely sure of what they are, but it flows in to a black screen revealing the words Brad Pitt, one of the lead actors in the film. This is again succeeded by images, this time what appears to be a razor blade in someone’s fingers, this could suggest, cutting someone and murder. Again this is followed by a black screen which contains the name of another leading actor. Then you see a video clip of someone looking at books, and making tea, these are every day activities, but due to the quick cuts, and low lighting, and eerie music, this gives an uncomfortable feel, and the viewer knows something is not right. We see the title of the film ‘Seven’ come up multiple times over the screen, different sizes, and different fonts, and this is followed by, a close up of a hand writing in a book. This image flickers which makes it uneasy to watch. Then we see the process of a dark room, and photography being made, and this brings up the question, why? Why Most of these images are quick cuts, and it leaves the viewer confused as to what’s happening, until we see the slow motion movement of a page going over in a book, this breaks the flow and keeps the attention of the viewer.


In the title sequence the names should appear in this order:
1. Distributor
2. Producer
3. Director

ARRANGING THE SHOOT

FILM:  Wotch

SHOTS:  All shots with just the girl.

DATE: Saturday the 5th of Febuary 2011.

LOCATION:  House. Laleham Village.

ACTOR(S):  Rachel Farago as The Girl.

COSTUME:  Black top, Denim skirt.

FIRST DRAFT OF VOICE OVER

Instead of having someone speaking, while being on screen, I think this may slow down the action for the opening, so I am thinking Il probobably use it as a voie over. The lines I have first come up with, are completely auto biographical. When I wrote it I thought it would fit in to my opening, and I hope it will be more emotionally engaging, if its straight from my mind, and not deviced, I am hoping it will be more emotional. The lines will be spoken by the boy charecter, who will narate while the girl is getting ready to leave.

I share the same fear as you,

My fear is time... and its infinity

It appears to me, to last forever

This infinite line, in which I am

Only some small speck, and my

Importance is that of a speck,

People come and go, and what do

They really matter, in what way do I

Matter to those people.

I am another person, out of this

Mass; this grotesque swarm of humanity.