Title Analysis - Student Thriller 36

In our opening sequence we've used a title made in after effects, it uses movement, colour and dynamicy much like one of the student thrillers we've seen called 36, as above.
Although our title doesn't move as much vertically, the colour we're using and the movement in general is very similar.

More editing ideas

The flash effect we were to use to cut between the antagonist entering and leaving the house has had a slight change, we are going to still use the flash, but use it in conjunction with a speed up effect, a blur that lets the audience see where the character is going but not what he is doing from a static position and to still conceal the idea of the hacker.

Animatic Video

This is our animatic video for our Thriller called Error Code.
The idea is to use parallel editing to switch between two different times in the opening sequence, there will be a fade between the hacker obtaining the information of his next victim on a computer and him approaching the location.

The last part in the sequence, before the title, will be used to give the audience an enigma, a mystery of which the narrative will revolve around.
A flash will be used to cut between when the character enters and leaves the house, to leave what happens in there unknown.

The title of the thriller will then appear, in the same way the two times faded in between each other during the sequence in the same font as was used on the computer, to anchor a motif to the thriller.

Further ideas - Opening Sequence

No non-diagetic soundtrack, the idea is that the audience see the film as made-up, or fictional when they hear the non-diagetic sound, reminding them that it is just a film, if we were to not include the soundtrack we could create suspense and grip the audience in the thriller a lot easier.
Although, in order to achieve the ability to use other softwares for our evaluation we will use garageband to try to make diagetic sounds, such as the general environment sounds like wind, doors banging perhaps or any other necessary sound for the sequence.

Also, to follow the conventions of Thrillers we could use a flash fast forward or some such kind of edit to leave what happens in the house as an enigma, and potentially as the crime or mystery the narrative is to revolve around.

Homework 2 - Ideas

Using command prompt page, imply the person using the program is some kind of hacker.
This is used to obtain the address of someone else, a victim, as the hacker can go to their home.

The camera can cut between what the character is doing, and when they were using the computer to obtain the address or location.

Homework - Convention identification

http://thrillerproject.blogspot.com/search/label/Thriller%20Opening

Video: Face-Off

Score sets atmosphere to the sequence, could reflect characters state of mind, especially as it changes mostly as the camera cuts between shots of either character.

Character flaw, in the opening sequence the character played by John Travolta has his child die in his arms, could be seen as a failure to save his son.

Close ups of facial expression, the character played by Nicholas Cage is getting ready to kill the other character.

Notions of looking, close up of Nicholas Cage, mostly of his eyes, looking down at John Travolta and looking through the scope of his rifle.

An Enigma is created from the beginning, "Why is this character trying to shoot the other?", also, given a convention of many thrillers is what could happen, and not what does, the question "is he going to shoot him?" could be raised briefly, as Nicholas Cage takes his eye off've the scope perhaps deciding not to shoot the other character.

Suspense is made using both camera shots of the shooter, the PoV shot of him looking at the others and down the scope of his rifle along with the non-diagetic soundtrack.