music for a thriller

The last thing to do now was to find a piece of music that could be played over the video because there really isn't dialogue and the 'actions speak louder than words as the old phrase goes as we tried to incorporate into our video, The piece of music that I have chosen is a song from one of the sites which I put up for the other people in my class to use, www.newgrounds.com . Its easy, quick to use and is full of free, legal songs to use. the song I have chosen that will play through the video is called 'silence before the hurricane' created by Luuk Meijssen.

thriller evaluation update

I Will be posting a complete thriller evaluation on thursday which i will be putting alot of effort into and hopefully will be awesome!

Questionnaire Results

My group and I decided to do a questionnaire, the results of which i am going to reveal now.
The majority of people asked were between 10-16

The majority of people asked were female

The overall favorite genre was Comedy and Romance (Shocker!)

Most people go to the cinemas 1-3 times a month

Lastly the most popular part of a film is the story-line

This draws to the conclusion that, according to our survey the majority of people (mainly female) prefer comedies and romance films to action films, gory shockers, and suspenseful films.

2 minute thriller complete!!

Last wednesday we finally managed to get the group together and finish filming I chose a different location than was originally planned to film and because of this we deviated a lot from the story board we had originally made but hopefully its alot better than it would have been. I ended up starring in it because Jack couldn't seem to run fast enough away when being chased . Tireni was in charge of the camera work and in my opinion done quite a good job, deciding about where to film in the location and what sort of shots should be used (The establishing shot of the area was great and was supposed to go straight into the next scene but because it wasn't done right it had to be cut in a different way). Today I done the editting of the video where I chopped up the video in a manner of ways. First thing that I did was as each cut occurred I lengthened the transition with a cut to a black background and each of our names appearing as though they were intro credits on a film, as this is supposed to be the opening of a thriller so it seems to fit well. A second thing to add is that the second half of the video is shot from a first person perspective (again a good choice on Tireni's behalf) so in a sense it does put the viewer in the shoes of the victim in a way, (and yes I was the one filming the second half because Tireni needed to be in the frame and so I was the only one left to use the camera). At the last part when the title of the film appears then fades off, the picture changes to black and white as to show that the murderer has got the victim in some way shape or form. This is left up to the viewer to decide how he was killed due to there being no eveidence of a weapon, the screen then flashed out to white after the sun passes in the frame to suggest the victims death, a way to show that the victim has fell but could also be seen as a metaphore for the phrase 'my life flashed before my eyes' as it could be seen that the sun actaully had moved on and it was now night, a representation of the end of life. Also i would like to post a huge thanks to Lee Russell without whom we would have not been able to finish filming so soon and it would have been much more difficult without him so cheers!

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