Tuesday 15 February 2011

Production Companies

Hammer Film Productions: 
A production company based in the united kingdom, found in 1934 this production company was best known for a series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films made from the mid 1950's up until the 1970's. Hammer Film Productions also produce a number of different genres being; Science Fiction, Thrillers, Film Noir, comedies and also a television series. Hammer Horror had low budgets but still produced many successful productions, this success was due to a distribution partnership with major united states studios such as 'Warner Bros'. 

Warner Bro's: 
''Warner Bro's Entertainment Inc'', also known as ''Warner Bro's''  is an American producer of film and television entertainment. Warner Bro's was first founded in 1918 (as Warner Bros. West Coast Studios), 1923 (as Warner Bros. Pictures). Warner Bro's introduced famous cartoons such as looney toons and Merrie Melodies. 

Coffee Film: 
Established as a short film collective playing with camcorders in 1996, Coffee Films incorporated in 2003 and within a year was recognised as one of Europe's best young production companies.Well into their second decade they are currently developing and producing a slate of exciting feature length projects including "Lucid" a psychological drama/thriller.

Blast! 
Blast! Films was established in 1994 for the production of high-profile, distinctive documentaries about compelling human stories around the globe. Documentaries are still at the heart of what they do, but as they have grown, they work in a range of different genres particularly drama documentary, opera, TV drama and feature films. 

21st century 3D:
21st Century 3D is a full-service stereoscopic 3D motion picture production company with offices in New York City and Los Angeles. this company provides cutting edge stereoscopic 3D live action and animation production services. With over 17 years experience, 21st Century 3D can guide you through every aspect of the 3D process.


Call Sheet

Friday 11 February 2011

Storyboard Thriller Opening

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Storyboard

Filming methods

Throughout our 2-3 minute opening sequence for a thriller film, we will be looking into all the elements that form a successful thriller production and adding them into ours. We will ensure that all the micro elements; camerawork, editing, sound and mise-en-scene are added into our opening sequence and used to represent the different conventions of a thriller productions.

Camerawork: A large variety of different shots will be used during our opening sequence to specify the type of genre and make sure that the audience have a clear understanding that it is a thriller production. For example one camera shot that will be used is an establishing shot, which will be used during our opening sequence to show the audience that one of the characters are being followed, this shot fits well with the genre of our production as it brings a sense of tension and suspense to the scene in which its used.

Editing: When our opening sequence has been successfully film we will move onto the editing, this will give the overall film a huge transformation and will be editing using colour change which will be darkened to fit more into thriller conventions, creating a better appeal for the viewers. This colour change will be created using photoshop.

Sound: Sound will be an important factor throughout our opening sequence for a thriller production, as it is used to build tension during different scene and also adds a much more dramatic effect to the chase scene in our opening sequence. An up-beat tempo will be added during the chase scene on our opening sequence as it builds a sense of danger to the scene.

Mise-en-scene: costumes, props, lighting, colour and objects will all be added into our opening sequence to create a more realist effect for the audience.

Thursday 10 February 2011

Sonic Moodboard

We made a sonic moodboard to help show the key items we will require in our thriller film. If we were to ever need to find our prop list or couldn't remember what we needed for our film... We could use the sonic moodboard as a way to remember what items we need and their importance.



Thriller Test Footage

To get ourselves prepared to create our thriller film we thought it would be a good idea if we tested out some key shots that will be included in our Thriller film. We wanted to do this because it will help determine if we will be capable of using these shots in parts of our film.

The shots we did were the establishing shot, tracking shot and two clips with point-of-view shots. We will need these shots, for example the establishing shot for showing the location and forest which is crucial to our clip. The tracking shot to show the victim running through the forest and point-of-view shot to show the view of the attacker.

Because our clip showed a lot of brightness which made it seem like it wasn't a thriller. To fix this we used video filter editing tools. The tool we used was the Colour Corrector. We could change the strength/brightness of the whites/blacks and mid-tones/saturation. Our main correction was to remove saturation from the clip so it had a black and white feel to it which made it seem a lot darker. We also slowed down the clip to 70% as this give it extra disorientation which is key in a thriller.

Wednesday 2 February 2011

Article-Key Points (Christians)

Key Points:

Throughout this article it represent many factors of how film productions become successful or not, the main insperation towards an production is to connect the audience with the film. Many methods of attractions are used to bring the audience closer to the action e.g. over exagerating scenes in which decisions are needed to be made. This specific section of a film gives the audience the opportunity to position themselves in the characters role and decide on what they would do if they were in this position.

This article also tells us that one reason people having such an attraction towards films is that they never fit into reality and will always share extraduinary differences to any real life situation e.g. heros are always represented as the strongest character and can perform un-explainable actions which would never happen in reality.

Horror is thought to share different factors in comparision to the other genres throughout the filming industries, and have an inspiration towards its audience that no other shares. Horror productions show and un expaniable desire to why the audience enjoys watching extreme violance and gor, but yet the audience do enjoy watching.

Tuesday 1 February 2011

Thriller Opening Sequence - Plan

Birdbrook - Moynes park
Costumes
Christian - Dark coloured clothes and shoes, hoody to cover his head and face.
Ollie - White shirt with red tie, black blazer and black trousers and either black plimsolls or formal shoes.

Props
Car
Mallet
Fake Blood
Fake Bruising
 
Day Plan  
Shot one - PoV of the driver looking at the victim walk up the road/pathway. Inside of the car visible.
Shot two - Long shot of victim walking up the road/pathway with