making our Ident;

We had many ideas for our Production company's Ident. Firstly we thought of filming a cat (pet) meowing, and putting it into something like a ring, which is alike to MGM's (Metro Goldwyn Mayer) roaring lion.

However we felt that this was too complicated for the time in which we have. Following from this we thought of creating our own icon on photoshop, we decided on a robot. After halfway through making this robot we thought that we could have the robot doing a robot dance. So we made two images of a robot in different positions, and put them together using final cut express. This was the following outcome;  

We decided that it just didn't look right and wanted to have the clips pass by quicker. This however did not seem possible therefore we decided to leave this idea and come up with a much simpler piece using LiveType.

Graphic Match;

In our thriller, we have decided to add quite a few graphic matches, to change from one clip to another. A graphic match is something that links two clips together by a object in each clip resembling eachother in shape and size. It seems as if the objects merge into each other. This keeps a smoothly running transition.

^ The following image is and example of a graphic match. The objects that resemble as you should see are the bone and the space station.

Thriller Storyboard

The following video is our storyboard for our thriller;

Treatment for Thriller;

Outline; Boy seeks revenge on ex and kidnaps her.
Resources needed;

• Chair
• tape/rope
• Dark room
• Forest
• Actor
• Actress

We want our Thriller to leave people wondering what will happen to the girl next and will she ever get out keeping them on the edge of their seat.

Lighting experiments;

The following image shows are experiment of low and under lighting;

This image may be useful experiments for our thriller as it does not give away alot of identity and give a spooky effect.

Panic Room;

The title sequence of Panic room i feel stands out. I think this because the font of the names are big and bold giving the names more attention. Another thing that draws more attention to the names is the simple background shots, which are long shots of the city in which the film is set. Finally this title sequence stands out as the backing track is deep and solumn to begin with and gradually gets faster with an added ticking noise, giving tension and suspence.

Se7en

I think that the title sequence for se7en is also very effective, for many reasons. Firstly the background music seems very chilling and spine tingling. It also shows the names in a font that seems to be 'scratched in', giving more of an thrilling effect. Finally i feel that the footage it is showing has somewhat of a creepy effect to it as it shows some sort of planning of a crime or a series of crimes.