Our final movie

This is our final movie. Fully edited with sound track.

Charlie.

Titling: "Vertigo"

"Vertigo" - 1958

In Vertigo Hitchcock's title sequence uses various conventions of a thriller as the sequence raises many questions to the audience and sustains a sense of mystery throughout. Who is the character in shot? Why are we looking at them? Why do they look scared? By using an extreme close up on the woman in shot and tracking from her face to her eyes we are unable to see her full appearence communicating a sense of mystery and intrigue.

The text appears showing the actor's names E.G. James Stewart, via flying in and resting upon features of the woman. The fly in is used instead of another transition such as a fade because the fly-in suggests a quicker pace and it wants you to notice the titles. Whereas in The Sum of All Fears the text faded in as it wasn't the most important, in Vertigo Hitchcock wants the audience to realise that these titles are important. By the use of the fly-in as well the text seems quite threatening especially when the title VERTIGO flies towards the audience.

The use of a non-diagetic soundtrack in Vertigo is used to create a spooky atmosphere. By having a  quiet undertone of drifting music when tracking across the female's face the music then transfers to a crescendo of sound when a name appears to immediately connote their importance. The non-diagetic soundtrack is slow but still manages to create a sense of urgency for the audience. The non-diagetic sound still manages to create the spooky and tense atmosphere that sets the mood for the film.


Within mise en scene the facial expression of teh woman is mostly of confusion as she turns her eyes around the shot as if looking for something and then her eyes flash open to a wide eyed expresion of fear. This helps to comunicate the mood of the film and what will follow on later in teh film e.g. themes of confusion and fear.
George

SCREEN GRABS WILL BE UPLOADED SOON

Titling: "The Sum of All Fears"

 "The Sum of All Fears" - 2002

The title of the film does not stand out. Along with actors name's the title of the film fades in and fades out the same. The title fades in over the top of the moving image that of an atomic bomb being wheeled out of a hanger slowly. The titles are made the same to the actor's names because if the titles were much more extravagant or energetic it would distract you from the storyline already unfolding in fornt of the audience. The titles are made low key because it is not to distract the audience from the story and emphasise this is much more important than the titles. Despite the titles not being glamourous the use of white text on a black moving image does make them stand out at least.

The use of a non-diagetic soundtrack from a piece of classical opera seems incongruous with the theme of what is happening and is an exampleof effective contrapuntal sound because the mix between the non-diagetic soundtrack and the theme (atomic war) help to create a spooky yet thoughtful, sombre mood.

BELOW: The film title appears like all the other names of actors via a fade in with white text on the dark scenery to stand out

The text appears, as said before, via a fade in and then fades out. This is used for all the text including the title. The fade is used appropriatley because it matches the pace of the action happening around us; slow. The bomb is wheeled out slowly and if the text had appeared instantly via a straight cut the two paces would not have matched and would have confused the audience as to the mood they should feel.

George

Filming Progress

From March 5-6th we managed to film both our locations and completed all filming for our thriller opening. Friday involved filming the scenes in the girls bedroom and Saturday was filming at our other location; Balcombe Station. Below are some of the pictures from location filming at Balcombe...

These are pictures from the entrance to the station. The scene at the station is based upon a series of cuts in which we follow our mysterious detective protagonist as he is on the search for this missing girl. This involved filming in several parts of the station.






















Once completing the shots at the entrance of the station we checked we had enough variations of shots for rushes when it came to editting before moving onto our next part of the station. These pictures below are from filming nearer the platform of the station still following our protagonist.






Overall filming went very well and we were very fotunate with weather for the outside location. Our next stage is to load all the rushes onto the mac's and hopefully start editting soon.

Chloe, Bennita, George and Charlie

storyboard

opening credits: black background, white writing.

pan shot eye level match direct light from window 

low shot, no camera movement. 

 close up of important prop

pans to next shot

 pans to a graphic match

bright light

 charlie

PRE-PRODUCTION PLANNING: Second Location Research

23rd February 2011

For our thriller we are using two settings, the first being the train stationa dn the second is a girl's bedroom. For this we are going to use Chloe's bedroom. Below are some pictures of the room we may use...

We were originally going to use a creepy room with very lo-key dark lighting but we turned against this idea as it was misleading. In our story this room is owned by the person who has lost their daughter and of this person represents innocence and is not an evil character why would we need to make her room creepy and this would misrepresent the character and might confuse the audience. We can still use dark lighting maybe or a filter to create a sad mood but if the room is made sinister then the character inside is going to be portrayed as sinister as well which not what the character is. Therefore we arer going to use a normal girls bedroom which we can then make darker or lighter.

George