Feedback on our pitch

Good things and bad things about pitch:

Audience feedback:

• We had good inspiration in our narrative and the storyline has the potential to work well.

• We should consider changing the main character, because the character we decided to be main dies right at the beginning, and the rest of the film continues to center around him. We can continue with this idea, but choose to make the policeman a different main character because there is a chance that the audience could get confused.

• The communication in the group has been claimed to have not been as good as it could have been. I think that the communication is fine, but because someone has said that they don't think it is, we can aim to achiever a higher level of communication to satisfy our audience whilst we are presenting our pitch.

• We plan on doing some filming in town, but that will be in a public place. Some people don't like being filmed in public, so we will make sure everybody is happy around where we are filming and if they don't want to be filmed then we will move places. We also need to be careful about which shops we film inside or just outside because the owners may have a problem with the camera being there.

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Planning for thriller pitch

Ideas for Thriller opening sequence:
Sub genre: Crime
Location: Industrial Town
Narrative: Main character is searching about for something, when the antagonist's right hand man comes along and stabs him, leaving him on the floor to die. Luckily a policeman comes along and finds him. The main character is then lucky to survive. (opening sequence)

Opening sequence is to:
* Set the scene (Industrial) Therefore lots of shots showing the surroundings, eg long shot of buildings.
* Introducing characters (Credits to introduce them along with shots of them)
* Set the genre eg. appropriate music

Sub Genre: Crime
Crime is a primary sub genre of thriller. For example films like: Snatch, The Departed and Reservoir Dogs. This is therefore a popular film genre and so in order to create a good Crime/Thriller is to make a good opening sequence which draws the attention of the audience. Crime is one of the best ways to grab the attention of the audience because it is exciting and action packed. This is why we chose crime as a sub genre because it is one of the few ways to grab the attention of the audience. Films that do this are films such as Snatch (bank robbery)

Location: Industrial Town
We picked this location because it fits in with the genre. It is easy to set the scene because their are lots of buildings and things to film to illustrate the mood and social class of the characters. For instance Snatch uses suits in high class shops to illustrate their high economic and social status. This also relates to costume aswell. For instance you can't have big bright colorful clothes on when your committing a crime in an industrial area because it wont make sense. So this means the location and costume have to fit in with each other.

Characters: Aggressive, confident, sarcastic attitude. (trying to always out do other characters) Don't really care about the consequences. Never give up attitude.

Costume: Big gangster dark clothes to fit in with the crime genre.

Props: Fake Gun, ketchup as blood.

 

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Our Production Logo

Dark Eye Productions -

We decided to name our group 'Dark Eye Productions,' this name works well for a Thriller production as it has a mysterious feel to it. Our production logo will be shown at either the beginning or at the end of our production the logo shows who has made the film.

In order to make this logo, we used Photoshop CS3. We set a black background and got a photograph of an eye off 'google images.' Using the rubber tool we removed the unwanted area around the image, then we faded the edges which made it look more natural. Then we inserted the 'Dark Eye' text into a new layer. We used single letters in different layers so we could tie the letters together and make it flow better. Then we added another text layer called 'productions' and added some filter effects to make the text fall into the background of the eye more. Then we selected a small brush and added some stars, and finally added a highlight on the 'K' using a custom brush tool. This is quite a simple image to create and didn't take much time top put together.



 
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Thriller Production logo Research

For our thriller film production we need a thriller themed production logo, to know the most effective colours/images and generally used techniques we will research into what other thriller film producers use.

Hammer film productions are an example of a film producer that produces many thriller films, they have made many films. an example of a film they produced is 'the mummy'. There production logo used the thriller related colours of black and red to create a thriller theme. the colours look dark and work well to scare the viewer.



Often in the production logo's there is text, the text is used as a main part of the logo and lets the audience know exactly who they are if they haven't yet known about the producers. In our production logo we will use text and the rest of the image will be styled round the text, we will use colours like black to create a dark thriller type themed logo. we may include a image that is related to the genre such as a knife or blood.

In many production logo's there is just a simple image such as a landscape/symmetrical and related imaging. In the thriller based production logo's there are often a creepy image such as a blood hand print or a blade.

When looking at the Warner bros pictures production logo, the logo's image is very simple and doesn't include to many lines/different shapes. its just simple shapes put together without many different colours. This means it is easily recognized by the viewer and when the viewer see's the image again they will instantly recognize who has made the film.




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Soundtrack Evaluation

Our soundtrack was created to fit an opening thriller crime genre. In order to make it sound like a crime genre we made it upbeat with a fast tempo. We created the soundtrack on garageband and used different sounds to link the track well. We made sure that each sound flows and goes well with each other so we ensured that each transition fitted correctly. We made the soundtrack with the idea of the opening sequence being a car chase. The soundtrack started off with one sound continuing to build up the tension to when the beat from the drum kit kicks in. Our soundtrack was inspired by 2 fast 2 furious opening sequence.




We wanted to sort of replicate this kind of opening sequence with our soundtrack beat going with the fast cars. The fast paced music replicates the speed of the fast moving cars. It does this by speeding up and slowing down in certain places. This shows the speed of the cars increasing and decreasing in the opening sequence. The tempo of our track is catchy and always keeps you on edge, and this also shows elements that you would expect in a car chase opening sequence within our soundtrack.

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Analysis of sound in thriller opening sequences

'Catch me if you can'
* This opening sequence had a diegetic sound track to it.
* The sound track started off with a very slow tempo, and with a quite volume. The tempo then increased and a strong beat was introduced into the music. This made the music louder as the title sequence went on.  

* The music was in sync with the on screen action, when the text come on screen the music beat was in time with it this continued as the title sequence rolled on.


'Vertigo sound'
* The music to this opening was deep and scary sounding, it gave the impression that something big was about to happen and made you feel as if you were about to jump.
* The music had a fast tempo to it which flowed well with the action on screen.
* Much like 'Catch me if you can' the music was in sync with the titles and matched the action very well.


'Face off'
* This opening sequence had an orchestral sound track to it, which gave the feeling of tension between characters and felt quite epic. 
* The music also had a repetitive tempo to it, this made the view concentrate on the onscreen action rather than been distracted but the music.
*Mystical music


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BBFC Certificates

Certificate 15 -
If a film has a certificate of 15, it means that nobody may view a film in the cinema or rent a film from a shop that is younger that 15 years old. a film of certificate 15 isn't appropriate for a viewer under the age of 15 because the film will include aspects that are of a nature that has been agreed to be of an explicate nature inappropriate for the viewer. discrimination isn't allowed to be in the film. sexual activity is allowed but there must not be a detailed and strong level of the activity. the classification 15 means the misuse of drugs isnt allowed to be shown. the film can contain scenes of violent nature but may not have detailed and elongated scenes of injury and pain, sadistic or sexual scenes of violence are likely to not be accepted.


Certificate 18 -
If a film has a certificate of 18, it can contain all the concerning areas around media with the exception of criminal violence. this is because of the human rights act 1998. An 18 certificate film will have constant offensive language and scene of a sexual nature. Most 18 rated films are horror and contain a lot of blood and gore. Most true thriller films are rated 15 however some more extreme ones for example phsyological thillers that may be very distrubing may be rated as an 18.

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