influences for titles

Our titles have been used the ideas from the opening sequence from seven. The way that it shakes and blurs as it faded from images to black and back to another flash of images.
Also the way that the hand writes it has the same effect that we used on the head testing movement. This inspired us to use this type of effect, because it looked good.
We kept with the fast flashes of random image to make the tension of the view increase on what is going to happen.

Influences

This scene from 'The Shining' i think played a key part in the camera movement for our hallway scene. It shows the camera following the key character to create suspense so we get the feeling things are not normal. This effect gives the idea that the opening sequence is more of a psychological horror. The other effect that we were inspired by in this scene were the flashes to the bloody death images which partly gave us the idea of our flashing scenes. The flashing scenes from this clip are horrific gory shots where as ours are more psychological creating confusion and making the audience uncomfortable.

This and 'A Clockwork Orange' were our main influences.

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Rough Cut

This is our rough cut of our thriller project. We are happy with most of it and will probably keep most of the footage as it is. We need to add text (credits) and make it longer.



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Title ideas

We were discussing what title to give to our thriller. We came up with the following ideas:

Mental Breakdown
When Gingers Snap
Psychotherapy
The Scorpion

We decided that we should call it Psychotherapy.

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Filming and Editing Update

The editing of our rough cut is progressing very nicely. We are in the process of putting pieces of the footage together which we think are good and that will be used in the final rough cut. Filming is coming along nicely as well we are confident we have enough footage but there is always time to add to shots if we don't. The only minor problem we had with filming was the battery life. We won't have any trouble meeting the rough cut deadline.

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Thriller Opening Test Footage

This is a bit of test footage we have. We are just testing some of the effects we can get in final cut. I think that the mirror test was good, because we could make one side not move, whilst the person in the mirror was flailing wildly.

I thought the mirror scene was extremely effective and exactly how we planned it. We will definitely be using this effect for the final project. We have to be careful in not using the effect too much because repetition would ruin the feel of the sequence.

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Epic soundtrack

This is exactly what we don't want, since everyone uses these sounds and it would ruin the whole atmosphere of our thriller.

Also, the last bit sounds like something from pokemon.

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Animatic feedback

Today we got feedback from the class about our animatic. They agreed that ours was the best in the class. They also told us why ours was the best. Reasons listed below:

Good drawings.
Good editing, they liked they was that it showed movement in the shots.
It was more suggestive, it didn't show much.
Very fast paced, lots of fast and flashy shots.
It showed the split personality side of the film very well, mirrors etc.
Very short, some people were slightly confused. This is a good thing. We like confusing people.
Easy to film because of the animatic being amazing.

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Animatic

Our working title is Psycho-therapy.

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Bloggery

Good afternoon. We are group P2-37. We consist of Jack Warden, Ryan Goodrum, Chris Readman and Joshua Jones esq. We have been asked to post a blog entry. Over and out.