Practice Titles with sound.

These are two different types of titles which our group are deciding over.
The red titles imply danger and risk, however they do not look very profesional.
The white titles however look far more profesional, they look more classy and bold than the red ones.
The font is nice, it suits the genre of the film.
The sharp cuts add to the tension.

camera Practice-tied up

Our task was to create a 1 minute sequence of someone being tied up, whilst creating a sense of claustrophobia and panic, through camerawork, editing and music. We used the following camera shots:

• Extreme close up
• Close up
• Mid shot
• long shot
• Pan
• Zoom in/out
• Point of View
• High Angle
• Low Angle

I thought our sequence went well. We worked well as a team and accomplished our task of creating the sense of claustrophobia and panic using the required shots. My part in the group was to act.

Thriller Practice Music

This is a practice soundtrack for our thriller opening.

Practice Thriller Opening

We created a short thriller opening to try and gain skills in all areas of filming including; Director/Editor, Music Soundtrack, Actor & Camera operator.



The objective of this short thriller opening is for everyone to be assigned different roles to get better knowledge of all aspects and technology in filming. I was given the major part - Director/ editor this was different to what i normally prefer to do but it has helped me understand how to work together as a group and come up with the best ideas. We where given one and a half lessons to create a film and edit it also make and add a soundtrack. We all helped each other as group.

1 minute sequence - Corey Edwards

We were put into different groups to the ones we usually work with.
My role was the actor. My character was tied to a chair in a dark room
The whole point of the project was to showcase different shot types typical to thriller films.
We had a deadline for the end of the lesson and as a group i think we worked quickly together to reach this.
We used the following shots;

Close-up
Extreme close-up
Long shot
mid-shot
High-angle
low-angle
Point of view shot
slow zoom in
pan

We completed all of these shots, some were both done within one shot, for example at the beginning of our piece we zoom out, completing close-up, extreme close-up, mid-shot and a long shot.
Overall i belive we worked both well and quickly to a deadline.

Story Board and shot List.

Definition of Thriller, and sub-genres.

Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film and television that includes numerous and often overlapping sub-genres. Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more powerful and better equipped villains. Thriller is a suspenseful, adventure story or play or movie. Some examples of different types of thriller genres are;

- Action Thriller

- Crime Thriller

- Psychological Thriller

Clock Opening Pictures

This famous clock costs $1.8million and was designed by Inventor John Taylor using his own money to build the clock as a tribute to John Harrison, the Englishman who in 1725 invented the grasshopper escapement, a mechanical device that helps regulate a clock's movement.
Making a visual pun on the grasshopper image, Taylor created a demonic version of the insect to top the gold-plated clock where it devours time.

The beast — with its long needle teeth and barbed tail_ rocks back and forth, ultimately inserting its talons in notches at the top of the clock to move it forward. Halfway through the minute the grasshopper's jaws begin to open, snapping shut at 59 seconds.

Student Thriller Analysis

Fallacy Analysis

Its continuous and montage editing. It consists of a narrative when a scared persona is running through a forest in the day from masked man with a butchers knife the cutting from the chase scene to random scenes builds and longs out the tension.

When the charters meet the suspense is at its highest the suspense is caused by the not knowing of what is going to happen and the rhythmic music that creates intensity then has a cliffhanger ending.

Catch Me if you Can Opening Title Sequence

Catch Me If You Can Title Sequence

The action stems from the titles. It tells its own little story and sort of describes the journey the man goes through in the actual film.

At the beginning it introduces the main titles including the producers and directors, when it comes to introduce Leonardo dicaprio it has a little airport sign with a golden arrow pointing towards the little animated character showing the audience that this character in the title sequence is Leonardo DiCaprio they did the same for the second main character Tom Hanks.

The music also plays a big part in the title sequence as it creates suspense and combines with the action of the animated title sequence.

After they have introduced the main characters you see Leonardo’s character rush up some steps (1), and tom hank’s character try to follow (2), but the step disappears then this black line appears (3), and then becomes the title of the film (4). Then displaying the full title. (5)

The colours used also add to the tension and suspense of the chase scenes in the title sequence when the colours become dark and intense the music becomes faster and the animated chase becomes more dramatic and the titles are still creating the background and main features of the animation. The titles also create transitions from one room to the next or from one clip to another.

In this thrillers title sequence the titles play a huge part in creating suspense and basically make the animated set whilst introducing all the characters therefore I believe that titles that are combined with the action like this make the film better as it creates tension.

Title Sequence evalution Homework - Spiderman. (Corey Edwards)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f5ykkGJvMU

Spider-man is one of the most famous comic characters of all time. The film was one of the most successful ever upon release. The title sequence in spider-man is very much related to the film in terms on font and backgrounds. The names are written in the same font as spider-man's name is on his suit. The background for the names is the shape of a web, the names appear to fall and stick to the web. The title sequence lasts around 4 minutes, the words spin around and seperate, this is supposed to look like the way spider-man spins from web to web in the film. Also in this title sequence there is a use of pop-art images, (much like the ones in original Marval comics) flicking in and out, this sets the scene and introduces the characters.
I like this title sequence because i feel it has a connection to the film more than most. This title sequence is also different to others in the way it is constructed, most films introduce the title of the film either at the beggining or the end, however the words spider-man are scene mid way through the sequemce.
I believe that this title sequence is successfull because it has a different approach and a nice way of linking titles to the movie.