Once we completed our titles research, we went on to complete our own titles list after seeing what was important to include. The following list will display our titles and the order they will appear in:

• Production Company:
• Title of the Film
• Actors: Monica Dekker
• Morgan Price
• Ewan Champion-Smith
• Casting: Lauren Roberts
• Costume Designer: Kirsty Standring
• Music Supervisor: Cameron Osborne Burns
• Co-Producer: Callum Moores
• Editor: Chanel Manning
• Production Designer: Ben Le Tocq
• Director of Photography/ Cinematography: Harry Bushby
• Executive Producer: Kyra Goovaerts
• Produced by: Ellie Alvarez
• Screenplay by: Holly Smith
• Directed by: Louise Trimbee

To help us decide on the titles for our own thriller opening sequence, Ellie, Morgan and I carried out some research. This consists of three different documents, where we looked at the order of the titles and how they were displayed. These three films were Fury (2014), Gone Girl (2014)and Fast and Furious 6 (2013). Furthermore, this will help us with our own titles because it will give us ideas for the font, transitions and order.

In the documents below you will see the order of titles for these two opening sequences and a few screenshots to show the font and size of text used.

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For this task we also had to complete a timeline for a chosen film. We watched the opening sequence for Fury (2014) and wrote down all of the titles displayed during the set time. We also had to write down any actions, sounds and music used. Here we discovered many different things about this opening sequence, for example we found out the transitions used, the size of the font and placing of the titles.

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To achieve our first draft, we went on to edit our rough cut further. We managed to cut down clips and make the whole clip run a lot more smoothly. Also, we feel the opening sequence makes a lot more sense as it seems to be in a much better order. Furthermore, after the re-filming day we managed to discard the dark shots and use the new, better lighting ones, improving the story line of our thriller a lot.

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Once we completed our first draft, we had to share it with another group. This assessed our work and gave us some very good advice. We now know what we have done well in and what needs to be improved. Without this peer assessment, we may not have noticed some of the things that should be worked on.

Some targets we received from this task were:

• Use some different shot transitions.
• Sort out the two audio mistakes.

During the editing process, we used a few different techniques to help us work through all of footage. This included the razor tool and the mark in and mark out brackets. The razor tool helped us to cut up a single clip without deleting any of it, we used this when we needed to cut up the shots of Ewan marching. Next, the mark in and mark out brackets allowed us to cut away at a clip, until we were left with the section we wanted. We used this tool, for example, when Morgan and Monica were arriving, here we were able to cut away the unnecessary extra footage we filmed in the clip. Overall, we learnt how important these tools are in order for us to achieve the best possible result when cutting the footage down, therefore we were able to focus on only the necessary footage.

Also, we used lighting and speed/ duration effects, these enabled us to improve our first draft even further. We used the lighting effects to brighten up a few of the shots in the bunker that were a little too dark. This has improved the lighting and therefore has made the image a lot clearer. Moreover, we also used the speed/ duration effect to help us speed up a few clips. For example, a few of the panning shots we filmed were a little slow and so became boring. By using this tool, we were able to speed up these shots, until they were exactly how we wanted.

Below are a few screenshots from our editing process, that display the information above:

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In this task we had to make our second shot list for our re-filming. Here in this shot list we have included all the shots that we needed to re-film and extra shots that we thought would work well in our thriller. This will help us on filming day as we can see exactly what we need to film and what type of shot we will be filming in for each one. The shot list will help us to save time and therefore make sure we do not forget to film anything. This will help us to be a lot more efficient and productive in our filming time.

For this task, we had to make another production meeting agenda for the re-filming session we will be doing soon. Here we completed who is acting/ filming and who is bringing what props/ costumes.

This document will help us, as it will inform us who is bringing what props and therefore this will ensure we are organised. So, this means nothing will be forgotten and we will not be set back even further. Therefore, from this we learnt just how important it is be well prepared, if we had not done this we may forget a very crucial prop.

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After posting our thriller rough cut to YouTube, we received a few comments that gave us some critical feedback. They told us important they we may have missed in the first place and therefore they will help to improve our thriller. From this task we have learnt it is important to have a second opinion because it will help to better our thriller.

Some of the things that were mentioned in the comments, were that some of the shots were too dark. It was also mentioned that the torch light was quite distracting and we should do something to try and fix that. Someone also said that a few of the shots were too long and therefore made it a bit boring.

We have now made another shot list of what needs to be re-filmed and so we are much more prepared to re-shoot parts of our thriller. We have decided to re-film roughly 10 more clips that will hopefully piece together our thriller.

A few of the targets we have set ourselves:

• To re-film any dark shots, so that there is no dramatic lighting change.
• Edit clips that are too long, this will be done by either cutting them down or it can be used during parallel editing.
• Cut between shots in the bunker with the distracting torch light. Hopefully by editing these few clips, the light will be not as noticeable.

In this task, we had to quickly put the clips we filmed in order so they made some sort of narrative sense. Although this clips at the moment do not flow properly, it gives us a brief outline of what our thriller will look like. The opening sequence at the moment is 3 minutes and 33 seconds long, however when we finish editing it properly it should be 2 minutes long.

From this task we learnt that it is important to make a rough cut, as this shows us things that do not work and what needs to re-filmed. Here we can see that a few more close ups are needed and a lot of the clips are too dark, without the rough cut we may not have seen this until a crucial point.

We have now completed the task of shooting our thriller and so we have the footage needed for our opening sequence. By the time we made it back to the Fort we were left with roughly two hours shoot our thriller, however we did end up staying an extra 2 hours to complete the shots we needed as we did actually run out of time.

High points to the Day:

• We have a variety of different shots and therefore we have enough footage to experiment with when we are editing.
• There was a lot of team work, and so we worked well together.
• We managed to shoot all the shots we needed.

Low points to the Day:

• Probably would be better if we had more varieties of the same type of shots, as this would explain the narrative better.
• As we stayed later, the lighting did get quite bad as it went dark quickly.

• It took much longer than we expected to shoot.

Targets for Future Filming:

• Give our selves more time to shoot.
• Take even more variations of shots.
• Try not to get too stressed about shots/ timing as this does waste valuable time.

I like this shot because it is a representation of the mise-en-scene in the bunker, it also foreshadows what will be happening later on in the thriller.

A few pictures from the day:

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For this task, we had to establish what are target audience for our thriller might be. This led us to think about what the age group, gender, interests and hobbies of the audience may be. We decided a man in his thirties would be our target audience because we feel a war related film would be most likely watched by this type of person.

From this we learnt that is important to have an idea of who the target audience must be before even filming the thriller. By doing this we are allowed to make sure everything appeals to this particular person and therefore this will help the thriller to be much more successful.