Title sequenceThe title of our film is displayed in the first frame. It is produced on a plain black background with bold text in red. The contrast of these colours helps the title to stand out and in addition the colours red and black are reflected with the genre of a Thriller.
Our original idea was to print stories and headlines off the computer and stick then to newspapers hung up on the wall. Although when we first did this, it didn’t look professional and we thought once in black and white you wouldn’t be able to tell that we had printed them out ourselves.
However we were wrong, the quality was just as bad and it set a low standard for the rest of the film. For this reason we decided to edit newspapers on Photoshop and then get them printed A3 size. This looked much more professional and well worth filming again.
This idea of the newspaper cuts outs came when doing research into other crime thriller movies.
Setting/Location
The reason why I have chosen the small box room as my setting/location shot is because I felt it reflected the conventions of a Thriller best. By using this small box room as where the kidnapper was located it created an eerie atmosphere and is also recognisable to the audience in understanding not only the genre but also in understanding the storyline.
Costumes and Props
Every film has costumes and props, within this frame you can see I have chosen the shot of the news reporter. The props used within this are the desk and chair she is sat at to make the shot look professional and recognisable as a news programme. In addition she is dressed smartly as it would be broadcasted to thousands of people.
Our title sequence, like many other films rely on the props and costumes to outline each different character and show distinctive scenes.
Camerawork and editing
When looking at real media products of a Crime Thriller movie, for example, Feardotcom, I found that the camera work used was also used in most of the other media products. From watching some real media products I was able to follow the conventions as closely as possible and use them to create atmosphere in our opening sequence.
The media products most popular camera angles were, Close Ups, Long Shots, and Extreme Long Shots. As a result I was able to develop on these in our media product to achieve the best possible result of a Crime Thriller and at the same time follow the conventions.
Flashbacks where an idea taken from the film ‘Se7en’ which uses the types of fast editing we have used to show the past and present and also using an eerie overlapping effect on them scenes helped follow the conventions of the genre. We thought that by using unusual editing it would help the audience understand what we are trying to represent and also make it more interesting to watch.
Title/Font and Style
This frame is from the part of the title sequence where we used the newspaper cutting to represent what roles we each took on, ‘Produced by Lauren Hartley’.
The font used is Sans Serif as we just wanted to keep it normal and not use a fancy looking font as it wouldn’t fit with the genre of a Thriller.
By using newspaper cuttings for the title sequence it flowed with the genre of the opening sequence (Crime Thriller).
When panning the shit to the next role, the text would light up to the same colour that is used for the film title. the colour red is used as we felt it was a connotation of death.
Story and how the opening sets up
The opening sequence starts off with a news reporter who describes an overview of what has actually happened already within ‘Hush a Bye Baby’.
However we did challenge the conventions by using the script to explain what has happened in the opening sequence. Most of the media products I watched didn’t use scripting but we felt the script in our opening sequence would make it easier to understand, like what Oceans 13 does, which is also a Crime Thriller.
However we use a lot more speech compared to Oceans 13 as we felt our opening sequence was alot harder to understand.
As well as the story been set up through the new reporter, we start to understand what has happened more with a shot of the kidnapper looking at the newspaper cuttings on the wall, the camera then zooms into his head and the is then represented through flashbacks.
Genre and how the opening suggests it
In this frame I have chosen to display the newspaper cutting which are placed upon the wall of the small room that the kidnapper is in. These newspapers are different stories of the crimes the he has committed.
By using newspaper cuttings of different crimes that have taken place it helps the audience recognise a Crime Thriller and in addition the opening sequence is like a guessing game of what will happen during the rest of the film.
How characters are introduced
The main character, ‘the kidnapper’ is introduced within the opening sequence and in addition so is are the children who have gone missing. To follow the conventions of a real media production (Crime Thriller) I developed upon the idea of introducing the main characters to the audience which help them to develop an idea of what will happen within the rest of the film. Conventions of an opening sequence sugget only a small number of main characters and locations should be introduced to help with the understanding of the opening sequence.
Special effects
Within our media production of a Thriller we used special effects to create atmosphere because of our genre. The effects were mainly used within the flashbacks here was fast editing and transitions from one flashback to another. The type of effect we used was a montage which flowed one shot into another. We also used special effects which picked a certain colour out of the scene, for example the colour of the children’s toys/kidnapper's jeans.
Overall I feel that generally we followed the forms and conventions of other real media products with the smae genre as ours, however i do feel our opening sequence is different due to our original ideas and inputs we all had, for example using a script.
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