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.
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
Audience Research Analysis (Abigail Odum)
This is the questionnaire we created, we printed 20 sheets and we gave them out to people in our college to answer. This was effective as it helped us to get a better understanding of target audience and it also allowed us to see what people liked and disliked about our ideas for our opening sequence.
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Weekly Updates (Abigail Odum)
Week 8
This week was quite challenging for us. We booked the camera for the days we planned on filming however two of our characters proved to be unreliable. They were not able to film on any of the days we planned on filming so we decided to rely on each other. We all discussed what to do next and decided to take on the roles ourselves, this was more convenient as we all understood the storyline and what we needed to do.
We also decided to change the storyline slightly; this was due to us changing our characters. We filmed on the 2nd and 6th of March, this was successful as we had gone through all the shots we were going to use and exactly how we were going to film the scenes. We had minor difficulties with the lighting but that was easily solved by us using curtains to block out the sunlight. On Saturday we filmed the exterior scenes, we found this to be straight forward and we knew what had to be done. By the end of this week we hope to have completely finished filming our sequence and also complete our individual filming journals.
Weekly Updates (Abigail Odum)
Week 7
We planned on filming this week however our main character was unable to make it due to other commitments so instead of filming we decided to go through our blog and discuss the things we could improve and the things we needed to add to it. We made sure our blog was organised and everything was in order. We plan on filming on the 2nd, 6th and 8th of March.
Production Brief (Billy Camden)
Production Brief
With regards to the above production brief, it would not allow me to put the whole document into one document, so i simply split the document in two and published them separately on our blog.
Call Sheet (Billy Camden)
This is a screen shot of the call sheet that we use to take out the camera equipment when we need to film. As we are filming at my house i will be filling these out, printing them and giving the call sheet to the technicians when taking the equipment out.
Weekly Updates (Abigail Odum)
Week 6
On Monday 15th February we got together with our characters to film the outside scenes of our sequence unfortunately Tobi, playing Melinda was not able to make it due to the fact that she was changing the style of her hair, if we shot her with two different hairstyles it wouldn't make sense.
We started filming around 3:00pm so it wasn't too dark, when we started filming we came across a few problems. We set up the camera near the road so every time a car came by we had to move the camera and this meant we had to adjust the camera so it wasn't slanted. Apart from that our two characters embraced their roles and we managed to get all the shots we needed for the exterior scenes. It was important for us to get some filming done over the half term as we were able to watch the tape and spot any mistakes and it gave us more ideas and ways to improve. Next week we hope to finish filming completely and get started on editing the footage. During the filming process we made some changes to our shots and so we have to take new photos for our storyboard in which delaying the uploading of our storyboard.
Billy also added some information on the software that we have and will use during our coursework task. He explained how and why we would use them and above all when. By next week we hope to have our shot list and production brief completed
Software (Billy Camden)
to create a much more effective and proffesional look to our blog we included the production schedule and the script on scribd. We found it quit easy to learn and we were happy with the end outcome. The next piece of software we again had to learn how to use was 'bubbl.us'. We used this piece of software in creating our brainstorm which 
Throughout creating our storyboard we have used 'Photoshop' to create a 'drawing' effect on the picutres we took of our film. We just simply uploaded each picture individually and made them into pencil art so that it would look like a real and professional story board.