Responsibilities (Abigail Odum)

Unsuspected Final - The final product

Fonts for Titles (Billy Camden)

Throughout the editing process we experimented with many different kinds of fonts, we looked and eerie fonts, up tempo fonts, gothic fonts and many others. Here are a list of the fonts we looked at the the reason why we chose a specific font.

Arial Narrow
When we first began looking at this font we thought that it would look alright within our opening sequence but it did not give that thriller essence that we was after and just looked basically boring in which would not attract an audience, therefore we did not choose this font.


Century Gothic
At first we did decide to go with this font and by giving a red colour to the font, it would make the titles look like a thriller, but after much consideration and attention to the font, we decided that it did not really connote a big enough thriller feel which is what we was after, so we decided not to use it.

Comic Sans MS
When looking at the comic sans ms font, we immediately saw that it did not fit in with either the conventions of a thriller, nor did it have that thriller essence that we was after, the font is better in use when writing a poster or something that requires a 'fun' factor, obviously we did not want to connote a fun factor so we did not use this font.

Cooper STD
Upon examining this font, we saw that it had everything we needed, the font had connotation that represented a thrill to the audience and had that all important thriller essence. We then, after much consideration, decided to choose this font to go use in our full product. We added a red colour to connote a death feel, and then added a drop shadow which was white, this made the font stand out and create a thriller feel for the audience when they watch the full product. Although we initially thought this font fitted in with our thriller, we looked at it a number of times and decided that it did not fit entirely in with what we wanted, so we decided to use a different font.

Plantagenet Cherokee 
We experimented with this font in all different places and finally decided that this font would fit in with the theme of a thriller that we are trying to connote. We made the colour of the text red so it would connote death which is a convention of a thriller. We then added a black drop shadow to make the text stand out even more.

Unsuspected - 1st Draft

Weekly Updates (Abigail Odum)

Week 10

This week we carried on working on our blog and adding things to it which we didn't have. Also we made sure that the overall presentation of our blog was good and everything was in the right order. Billy is still editing our sequence; we will have the first draft of our opening up very shortly.

Weekly Updates (Abigail Odum)

Week 9

 This week we finished all of the filming that needed to be done and Billy began editing. We looked at our blog and completed all the tasks that were required. We also printed out our questionnaire sheets for people to complete as the questions on our blog aren’t clear for people to see. By the end of this week we hope to finish editing and to upload our opening sequence on Youtube, everything on our blog must be up to date and completed, sound notes must also be completed.

Score Notes (Billy Camden)

In order to build great enigmas and identify true conventions of thrillers, you must include score music which fits into your film. To really identify and get into the heart of enigmas within thrillers you must use appropriate sounds which help assist your production into becoming whatever sub-genre of a thriller you want.

Within our thriller, we have used a soundtrack called Eerie. We chose this sound track at the beginning of our film, I believe that this track really entices the audience and it creates a real thriller effect. By using this track, it also thrills the audience and says that something is going to happen. The soundtrack 'Eerie' is below:
Eerie by camden

Within the thriller we also used another track which is titled 'Aura', we introduced this track near the end of the opening sequence when the suspense was building. We decided to use this track because we thought it was a good source of music that would build our main enigma and contribute to the overall thrill of the film. The effect that the music had on the audience is that it 'sucks' them into the film, preparing them for something that is about to happen. The tack is below:
Aura by camden

In order to export the tracks onto the blog I used a piece of software called 'sound cloud', i uploaded the tacks onto sound cloud and then embedded them onto our blog.