Student examples

During class time Mr M and Ms Mann gave us time to watch some past student examples so we can learn through their possible mistakes and gain some ideas for our own openings.

One common mistake made throughout most of the openings we watched, were the occurence of continuity errors; either someone walking behind the action, one minute and not the next, food and drink, positions in the framing etc.

To solve this problem we are going to take as many photographs as we can of our set and positions so we hopefully dont commit any continuity mistakes.

Alot of the thriller openings we studied used very rapid editing which is a common and effective media technique to create tension and mystery. From the start of planning we knew we wanted to use quick edits within our flashback scenes and bright flashes.

Another common negative for most of the openings were the integration of titles. We haven't really spoken a lot about our title sequence but we have looked at some styles (post from Ali below v v v)that we like the look of for our main title.

Finally, we found that the most effective thriller openings used the best music. The key to creating an atmosphere in a thriller opening is most definately in the use of non diegetic music. We shall produce this on garageband in the later stages of production. Also going to include diegetic music in our flashback scenes, most probably upbeat 70's/80's music to keep up our running theme from our prelimanary task :D

oh yeah ....WERE FILMING TOMORROW WOOOHOOOO :D


Hopefully everything will go as planned....but knowing our luck SOMETHING will go wrong :(
See you all tomorrow!
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