Finished Thriller film Opening

Here is the final cut of the film opening, the plot of the story so far consists of the Antagonist kidnapping the Protagonist and holding a ransom for him, the antagonist gets a phone call about the ransom only to find out the specific money required has not been met and has to keep the hostage for even longer than originally thought.  

First day of filming

First day of filming 

The first day of filming our thriller opening was exceptionally good with us almost getting everything done within the first day alone the only reason why we had to go back to Sams house to continue shooting the next time we could was simply because it had gotten too late and far too dark for us to be bale to do the outdoor scenes so we had to wait until it had gotten light again. 

On the first day however we sat down and talked about what we were going to film and and we changed a couple of things such as the  order it was going to be filmed in and the rooms of the house it was going to be done in but we did get on with it and got everything almost done even the scene where Sam was tied to the chair however we did have to go back later on to re film as there was stuff that had to be redone and could be done better as well.

First draft/evaluation

This is the very first draft of our film with many things wrong with it or that are present in this first draft but are not present in the final film such as the beginning scene with destiny on the phone we did re-shoot all of that in the end with different scenes due to the fact that those scenes in the first draft did not really make all that and could be a lot better than what they were, the scenes which were done outside in the garden as well had to be redone due to the fact that they were far too dark for us to actually see anything when it came to editing and uploading it so that was another thing which we had to redo.

And finally we had to reshoot and include the the scenes with azimul due to the fact that the phone conversation at the beginning did not make any sense at all as we could not see the person which destiny is talking to on the other side of the phone. 

audience Feedback

The audiences which i had shown the film to had all said that they had liked what had been done with it and my parents in particular had said that they both had liked the ominous and they had both liked the fact that the filming was done nearly at night-time so that it was pretty dark in the end footage however it was light enough for us to see everything that was happening without it being too dark, However my friend that goes to college did say that he thought it could be a bit better with the acting part and though we could have re-done those especially with the scene with azimul walking in the street, he did say that we could have either extended that a bit more or we could have made it seem a bit more believable with him panicking. 

Screening

Above is the finished film which i had shown to both relatives and friends, i had shown it to both my parents and my grandparents as well as some of my friends which are both not in sixth form and are not in my media lessons so it would have been the first time which any of them had seen it, i showed my nan and my friends through my smartphone and had let them know about it through word of mouth and by seeing them personally i also had shown my parents through the laptop when i was at home.  

Designing/Making: Title sequence

In our group destiny was in charge of producing the title sequence during the editing stage, this means that he was the one which had to decide which order to put everything in and also had to decide who got what role in the title's. 

After the ident this is the order which Destiny had decided to put everything in:

1. A film by (director)
2. starring(cast which feature in film)
3. music by(Destiny and me)
4. editing by(Destiny and me)
5. cinematography by
6. set design (Sam)
7. make-up and costume design (Sam)
8. Producer/producers
9. and lastly the director

In order to make the titles you have to do the following:

Once you have clicked on the following this menu will appear and if you want you can re-name the title:

Once you have clicked OK this window will appear where you can change the font, text size and the colours if you wish to then once everything is how you want it just click the close button at the top right of the window and the title should appear in the bottom left box of the screen where the rest of the clips are located:

From the box shown you can just drag it into the timeline where you want it to be:

You can also implement fades and other such transitions into the title in order to make it fit better into the film and not just jarringly appear out of nowhere which would just look bad anyway.:

Designing/Making: Ident

This is the ident which we had decided to use in the end with our full film, i had created it and i had decided to use destiny's name as part of the ident itself as he is the main antagonist in the film and we had decided to use the moonlight on the ocean as the background as the the entire opening is filmed at night-time with the moon out so this ident will greatly reflect the film itself. 

Editing 1

Our first day of editing was very successful, we managed to basically finish all of the editing off in the time period which we had allocated to it although some of the bits we had actually recorded were not all that good or were not as well done as they could have been so we did have to go back and re-film those parts and then we did have to go back and edit those in again. 

This is a screenshot of the finished video as it is now.

This is a screenshot of the timeline of the finished film in premiere pro and also shows us any edited fades, titles etc which we had implemented into the finished product.

This is a screen shot of a singular clip in the timeline and how we had to raise the volume on this one piece in order to hear it over everything else.

This screenshot is of the edited sound which we had put in and shows us how we had to align the sound effect perfectly with the action in the film to make it seem realistic.