Thriller Opening (Evaluation) - Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Me and Millie worked together on this, collaborating with ideas and what to write exactly.

Thriller Opening (Film): The Finished Product

 

The above video is a production made by Millie and Stef and this is 'Systems Down'.

Thriller Opening (Research): Cutaways, Jump Cuts and Match Cuts

I decided to do some more research into cutaways, jump cuts and match cuts to get a better idea of what we should do when it comes to editing in our thriller opening. I also thought it might help us out when it comes to things such as issues during the filming and the such. These types of editing though can also give us ideas as to how else we can incorporate them to create certain effects.

Cutaways - when a shot cuts from a person or the main action to an object, another person, a secondary action or the scene before cutting back to the person.
Jump cuts - a type of editing that is used in films to show a skip forward in time, it's quick and simple as two sequential shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly.
Match cuts - cut between two different objects, two different spaces, or even two different compositions in which whatever is in the camera's view matches graphically and helps to establish continuity and links the two shots together.

Below is a video I watched that helped me to understand the different shots in more detail so I would be able to use them a bit better when it comes to filming the thriller opening.

 

Thriller Opening (Planning): Titling Practice

 

 

 

The following is a try out of our titling idea and allows us to think what more we could do with it and how it suits the theme of our opening. I like this form of titling since it looks like it's being typed on as it seems quite technological and our opening is very much like such.

Thriller Opening (Research): Research into Audience Views on Thriller Films

This is some footage that Millie had taken and I decided to mess around with it edit it, this was us gathering some information on what people like in thriller films and what sort of elements we should include in our own.

Thriller Opening (Planning): Messing Around with Editing

Me and Millie have been messing around giving a shot at editing for our thriller movie when we tried to figure out how to make the knock at the start have more of a dramatic effect. This is when we came across the option to change the speed of the clip and messed about for a bit before finding the right speed to use. This was what happened;

Thriller Opening (Planning): The Risk Assessment and Shooting Schedule

Below is the shooting schedule and the risk assessment we filled out before we started shooting for the thriller opening. They aren't too clear due to the camera we were using but you can still read it at least a little bit.