Synesthesia is the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body.

Sound, is vital to a thriller, through appropriate use of sound it can completely change the tone and mood and representation within the sequence. by adding sounds such as a non-diegetic drone music to build tension or diegetic crow sounds to add an underlying theme of fear.

theses sounds were implemented to make the audience react and feel a particular way, for example, the drone sound represents the fear that the protagonist goes through day in day out.

I made this wordle to show the kind emotions that I initially wanted to portray through sound, using the wordle helped me visualize my idea of what different sounds can make different themes be portrayed.

Above is a piece of non-diegetic sound that I came across on youtube, I liked the themes it made me think of, I would like to use something similar to this as connotes themes of isolation and deprivation, it is also increases tension which would make it generic of a thriler.

Below is a copy of the running order soundscape this is what we used to plan out our sounds within our thriller and to know what foley sounds we needed to record.

Below is the feedback left on our Draft 2

What we need to change to improve our thriller:

• Move ‘The Wanderer Title so it’s in the center of the screen
• Include more diegetic Crow sounds
• Change the sound perspective of Dylan’s feet
• Change the colour or the font of ‘The Wanderer title
• Remove the white screen that what used for spacing

Within a thriller, titles are very important. Titles help to portray certain emotions to the audience through font and positioning, it is also important that  the titles are parallel with the themes of the thriller, I did some research on different colours, animations, and fonts for our thriller “The Wanderer”

This is a list of fonts we found that we could potentially use for our thriller, the green ones are more appropriate to the thriller genre and the red ones do not reflect themes of the genre.

When we found the font we thought was most appropriate for the genre we imported them into Adobe After Effects to start working on the construction and placement of titles and then later, placing them onto our thriller. we also scrolled through lots of animation carefully selecting one that feel would reflect the themes within our thriller. Using After Effects helped me to further my knowledge in using the software in terms of how to animate different things and how to make titles fit with the themes of the thriller.

^ This is an example of a transition that we have decided that would work best for our thriller.

For the main title of ‘The Wanderer’ we decided to add an animation that would represent the protagonist, we used an animation that looks like it is being blown away by the wind, this represents the protagonist’s environment that he lives in which is outside in a park.

This is a timeline of our titles placed in the thriller each title is renamed and moved into order of significance within the film and the production of the film.

In the midst of editing, we had to come to a decision on titles that would work within the start of our thriller, to help us with our decision making, we used 3 different films and looked at what they used, as an inspiration for our thriller.

Titles are very much a big part of the opening sequence of a thriller, they prepare the audience for the unfolding narrative, by using music and different font styles we can introduce the audience to our thriller and intrigue them before the narrative has happened

Click on the posters to see our work.

Above is the work that we did on the opening titles of the film Vinyl (2016) we made the timeline of the titles to show within our thriller the roles that should be mentioned and when this helped us make a decision on our titles for our thriller.

Beth and I made lists of the appearance of roles within the titles of these two films to make a confirmed decision on the titles we wanted to use in our thriller, this made the process of selecting titles easier, after completing the research task we made a decision on the final list of titles:

• Distribution
• Production Company – Blowhole Productions
• Actor – Dylan James
• Actor – Serge Bellinger
• The Wanderer
• Casting – Kenneth Tweddle
• Costume designer – Caitlin-Jo Guest
• Music Supervisor – Simon Bradley
• Cinematography – Chris Perry
• Lighting – Kit Hannah
• Location – Alex Gill
• Co-producer – Theodore Woosley
• Production Designer – Louis Pearson
• Executive Producer – Samuel Hancock
• Directors – Bethany Ozanne and Alex Le Maitre

Between our group, we decided that we had not gathered enough shots to fully detail and make the narrative understandable to the audience, so we decided to scrap the idea and re-film a whole new thriller, here is some of the planning documents we made for the new thriller

Personally, in my opinion, the shoot went well, we used a variety of shot distances and angles and this time really thought about the framing of shots, we filmed in chronological order, this gave us the advantage of seeing the narrative unfold whilst filming, I feel we could have kept the camera more steady, however, all in all the shoot went well.

This is the Draft 1 of our thriller “Lissette” As you can view below we have cut down and edited our thriller adding in different transitions and filters. When compared to the narrative cut, you can see a number of clips we cut down to make the narrative quick and easy to follow, we found that using the narrative draft helped us to outline the mystery and enigma that was going to be included within our thriller, so when we started Draft 1 we knew what to include to expand on that enigma element.

below is some feedback left on our Draft 1, these comments helped us to gain an understanding from the perspective of the target audience, the comments they left were useful and helped us to further develop our Draft 1, it also gave us an insight into what the target audience thought went well and what didn’t, we have taken into account the ideas and are implementing them further into our final draft.Comment:

• Used a variety of shots
• Used good mise-en-scene
• Used typical iconography of a thriller

Target:

• Edit to make more narrative sense
• Introduce new editing techniques to make the narrative easier to understand

Before the completion of draft 1, we had to spend time carefully fine editing to create narrative sense and to add suspense to our thriller, we took screen shots displaying our editing process, we used techniques such cross dissolves and using key points to make a flash of white appear on the screen, this helps to portray the madness of our protagonist. this screen shot shows the flashes

this screen shot shows the flashes being added, this helps to speed up the narrative and to help the audience to understand the thoughts and feelings of the protagonist.

This screen shot shows the implementation of the cross dissolve, this helps to cut to a different time in the narrative easily.

Before editing the clips in Premiere Pro we had to insert the clips into a chronological order in terms of events of the film, we did this it would be easier to edit and the narrative would be in order so it would make sense, this also gave us a little insight to what the finished product would be like, it also helped us to recognise are strengths and weaknesses for what we could do better next time.

As a group, we were very pleased with the mise-en-scene that we captured and managed to use techniques such as depth of felid to really show detail in all things in the scene, however, some of our shots broke basic continuity rules. Some of our shots were out of focus so they had to be refilmed as well as added shots to help improve the narrative.

Evaluation of filming day:

In my opinion I would say the filming of our thriller was generally okay,our film location was the Priaulx Library, when beginning to film we discovered some issues with the tripod as it was flimsy and some camera shots had to be redone due to the instability of the tripod, generally speaking, things went well in terms of shots, we used depth of field to help explore depth within the scene, when taking shots in the upstairs room, we found it difficult to get the correct amount of light due to the fact the only lighting we had was natural light, however we used this to the best of our advantage and used shadows to help portray the psychotic messages we wanted to include in our thriller.

  When filming we used a large variety of shots such as high angles, low angles, long shots and close-ups, we used close ups to show reaction to the happenings in the scene, we used a lot of canted angles to help show the “drugged” feeling of the protagonist, one of the shots we used featured a reflection, this shot i feel was particularly done well as the depth of field changed when focusing on the mirror, a shot that i feel could have been better is the final shot as the camerawork is shaky and could have been better.

Another flaw that we found whilst on the shoot was some of our shots were blurry, we did not allow the camera to focus and it looks low standard, some use of editing and tools on premiere pro can help to correct these shots but we may have to refilm a few, however some of the shots that are out of focus can be used to create a blurred effect and reflect the mind of our protagonist.

In conclusion I would say the large majority of our shots were appropriate, we took into mind the use of match on action, the 180 degrees rule and we are going to use continuity editing to make narrative sense, I feel with the use of non-diegetic sound and titles we can really add the darkness and depth to our thriller.

Pros:

• Variety of shot distances and angles
• Good use of mise en scene
• Use of depth of field to make things stand out
• Good use of shots to create match on action
• Kept the 180 degree rule throughout the whole sequence
• Camera was still for all shots

Cons:

• Some shots taken were out of focused
• Acting could’ve been better as some emotion isn’t shown
• We only had natural light so correcting lighting was impossible

Targets:

• Use more close ups to capture emotion
• Make sure the camera is focused

This is our storyboard, we used a storyboard to visualise our narrative and to plan out in detail what shots we needed to complete the narrative, by using images it gives us a visual reminder of what shots to use.