Thriller Opening: The Title

Last week myself and Charlene briefly brainstormed film title ideas as we had not thought of any yet. Eventually we ended up looking at synonyms for different words that we felt conveyed the context and feel of our film. Facade (or Façade) is one we were quite enthusiastic about and at this point seems most likely to be title, but we will have to discuss it tomorrow. However, this has already spawned some inspiration in my mind. I think it would be really interesting if we started the film with a definition of 'façade' – set against a black background and in a white serif font – like so:

I believe it would make the audience unsettled at what's to come as the definition is suggestive and will hopefully get the viewer's imagination going. 'Façade' could be repeated at the end in bigger lettering to make it clear that this is the film title (we will see how it looks tomorrow). It also goes very well with what is happening in our film opening, that is, our main character is impersonating someone of the opposite gender online.

Below is a font I picked out that I think would be great to use, but really, I think any serif font would look great. Or we could always opt for a more modern approach as digital technology plays a key role in our opening. Again, this has to be discussed tomorrow and ideally should have already been decided upon but there you go.

AB Majik by Amit Botre

sound track pro

Along with the editing process ....there's another programme which allows you to add sound to your film. Sound is one of the most important things in a film, I feel as if it brings everything together as by using one sound you can elaborate on whats happening. E.g when theres an explosion taking place the audience wouldn't know this unless the sound is there for them to hear. To import your film onto soundtrack pro you just drag it and place it to the left hand side of the browser. Once its there you're able to play around with all the different kinds of sounds they have. sound track pro has a search that enables you to type in the kind of sound track your looking for ...E.g Animal sounds. Sometimes the sound are a little bit too loud and sound unrealistic you're able to lower the sound level of each track....there should be a button at the bottom of the screen for this. when you're happy with everything and you've selected all the sound you want....you go to sub mix and select stereo so you wont have a lot of different tracks. Then just go to file export----name and save......and thats just highlights on how to use sound track pro.

Live type

we were first introduced to live type when we did our 1st preliminary film. However, I still wasn't sure on how to use it properly so the media technicians came in a second time to explain to us how to use it step by step. to import your film from final cut pro onto live type you'll have to click on 'save for live type' and once you've saved it you can just click on the live type icon and get on with the editing. Live type is a programme on the apple macs that allows you to add text, effects etc to your film. Its a very important programme, one which we had to proper understand how to use as without any knowledge on how to use it we cant successfully complete our thriller. Live type is a really great programme that takes alot of time to get used to. It allows you to add all sorts of funky texts to match whatever genre film your doing. For example you may want one letter to be bigger than the rest of the lettering to do this you'll have to select it and it will enlarge. you're able to select either live fonts (fonts that live type have created) or fonts (which are the normal fonts we use on Microsoft word or anywhere. Live type also lets you add many effects and transitions.

Example of somethings we did on live type for our 2nd preliminary film. Its not the best as we were running out of time ...but here it is anyways ....

Name of our preliminary film 

Thriller Opening: Editing

Since my last blog post we've been very busy with editing. On Thursday last week I spent the majority of the afternoon editing the shots we had for the rough cut that was due the next day. Charlene accompanied me and helped whilst she worked on the scrapbook prop that we wanted to incorporate. The next day's lesson was spent editing further. We planned to film the remainder of the shots we wanted on Monday but this fell through and I ended up being the only one that turned up. Yesterday's lesson was spent trying to finalize the shots we do have into a decent opening, as well as making sure all the keyboard tapping sounds were in sync and such as the Facebook chat scene now plays a major role in the opening (as we do not have the scrapbook scene filmed and Charlene was absent yet again). We also quite majorly cut down a lot of our shots to make our opening significantly shorter but in thus doing so making it move along faster. Tomorrow we shall work on the titles and sound to complete the final editing.

Myself editing in yesterday's lesson, taken by Wala