Secret Shadow !

lotte

Ideas for thriller opening

Locations
-Forest
-Woods
-house
-grand arcade/night and day
-along the street
-general places

Characters 
We will have two characters one will be just an average person. We will have a boy who is the stalker he we will quiet old and be into filming. Then we will have a girl who is quiet old to and she wont know who this man is.

Plot
We will have part of ares as home movie where it will show the man holding the camera and following the girl. He will start of just doing it in the day, just girl will start to feel like she is getting watched but she isn't sure. She will then walk back from a night out and the man will carry on stalking her along her travels back. She will then get a knock at the door which will have the man try to talk to her she will start to get worried and will go to shut the door but the man put his foot there. Throughout we wont see this man it will just be parts of his body.

Learning experience from photo shop

Problems
-Tried to use video of eye but found it hard to edit and use.
-First decided to use a circle affect in black and white to create a flash, but it didn't give the affect we wanted
-Had problems with trying to get the back ground go from the blood drop.
-Had to get used to photo shop again to be able to use it to our best ability.
-its difficult to understand tools on photo shop.

What we learnt
-We learnt how to edit it in more depth by editing.
-We got to spend a lot time on getting a logo properly.

5 top tips

• Plan efficiently
• Organise filming and shoot early,  do lots of filming
• Plan titiles and sound
• Keep consistant
• Sound affects
• Don't let the music overpower the sequence
• Have a good setting

The Recruit

This film is a sub genre (e.g crime/thriller, psychological thriller.) The opening sequence of the film uses computer symbols to get the audience thinking they're actually involved with the story. We see one characters reflection making it mysterious  and intriguing. There were quick transistions to make it upbeat and tense.

Michael Caine is Harry Brown

The overall genre of this film is Hybrid(e.g cross with gangster, war and action). The filming is filmed from the characters point of view. Its also really fast and when the titles are put on it just has background noise playing. We like it because he was using his own film camera to film because it makes you feel more involved in the film. Throughout it its really intense.The titles were really good how they faded in and out but we thought the titles could of been a bit bigger.When the lady gets shot we like how it cuts out of it and goes silent then starts talking etc after a second.

screen shots of the secret window

The music indicates an eerie sense which links back to the thriller theme and makes it more atmospheric. It uses a high pitched piano melody that can be similar to the sound of screaming which creates a suspense atmosphere. As well as this the title of the film is shot in red which connotes blood as seen in shot 5. The shots are all very mysterious getting the audience intrigued and wanting to watch more.

Secret window