Possible Title Fonts

We looked for fonts to use for our titles on 'dafont.com'. We looked for fonts that linked with the meaning of the title of the film and also the themes throughout the film. 'Trace Decay' means the decay of memories from your brain. Simply put, it means to forget. Therefore, we have chosen fonts that appear to dissolve or decay into the background.

As a group we have decided that we will show our titles over actual footage rather than showing them over a black background, as the sequence is only two minutes long. Using this method would be boring and we would not get full marks for shot types.

As a group, we felt that this method is a lot more effective in showing the mystery we are trying to portray to the audience. By using the extreme close ups and fast paced editing in our opening sequence, it will be a lot more effective. We will also introduce certain characters from our film whilst we are showing all the titles which will be in a simple font in different corners of the frame.

Character Description

Alice:

Alice is a young girl aged 20. She has a good social life and goes out with friends often. Unfortunately, she doesn't have a very good family life as her parents are always arguing. Consequently, she goes out alot and spends her money. She has an ok job and is quite content.

'Dead man':

A young business man in his late 20's who's proud of what he's achieved in life. He works in a high status job. He has a good career and is very focussed on his goals. He has a great family life, including a wife and kids but not such a good social life. This is because he lacked confidence in speaking to people throughout his childhood.

Chris didn't make our post supervisual so we redid it. Because we had to re-do it, we've put a video of chris up so hope you enjoy :)

props, costumes and locations

Props:


Here are a few ideas of some of the props we could use in our opening sequence. They include; an old beaten up mobile phone, an old Bible and fake blood. These props would be suitable to use for a thriller as they could all relate to our story and emphasise the atmosphere of mystery to the audience.


Costume:
The dead man on the floor is wearing a black suit with blood on his shirt. This will help o convey the mystery of the sequence to the audience and will make the audience question why the man's wearing a suit.

The girl will be wearing ripped blue jeans with blood smeared on them. She will also be wearing a white shirt with small tears in them. The audience will now question why the girls clothes are ripped and have blood on them.

Locations:
We are going to film in the St Nicholas car park in Sutton. We think this will be a good location to film as it would be successful in creating a mysterious atmosphere for the audience. The audience will then question the significance of this setting.

These are the locations we will be using in our opening sequence. The first scene is to be in the ST Nicholas car park in Sutton. We have chosen this location as not only does it fit in with the theme of our sequence but also because of the lighting and atmosphere it give the audience. The next location is my house. The front door will be shown in one of the shots with Alice trying to open it. The next shots are of my bathroom. Once Alice goes into the house, she then goes into the bathroom to try and wash the blood off her hands.

Animato - Storyboard

This is me writing out our storyboard and including the camera shots, camera movements and what is to take place in our film. These are all very important for making our film successful also the storyboard to our film is really going to help us. We now have a clear plan of what we want to create in our film and as a group, we all have a clear image in our heads of what our film is to look like. It is quite exciting to slowly see our film coming together.



We used an animation style layout for our story board. The shots are the pictures in the storyboard and are set to cut to other shots at about the same time as it will in our actual film. We have also used music and sound in this animation which we would like to use in our film. We as a group believe the music and heart beat really reflect our genre and the mood of our Opening Sequence.

The Cast!

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Jamie Watts is our director of camera shots and is in charge of the sound. He will be the main person behind the camera making sure everything is framed well and looks right for our genre. He is also working on the sounds and music to our film. This will include researching and creating the music which will untimately set the mood for our film.



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Chris Pattwell is one of our actors and also behind the choices for our costumes and any props we may use. Costumes are very important as they need to link with our genre, represent the character and work well with what is happening in the opening sequence.



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I will be an actor in our film and also the overall editor. The editor is crucial for creating the final film and making all the shots link and work together. I will have to make all the transitions work well in our film so that they all flow effortlessly and cleanly.

As a group, we have all decided on the set of our film because we all have to be completely comfortable with where we are filming and the overall look to our opening sequence. Also we have all decided on the titles of our opening sequence and we still have to decided on the name of our film which will be made as a group decision.

shot list

These are some of the shots we put together to create a starter point for our opening sequence. We focused on the conventions of  a Thrillier opening sequence to help us develp these shot types and movements.

This is me typing up some of our shots. Writing a shot list for our film is very important, the shot list makes it very clear to the group what types of shots we will be using. It's hard to see them visually. That is where the storyboard comes in but the shot list gives us a clear idea of what we are trying to show in our film and how we are going to get our idea across.

The Sounds and Music we would like in our Opening Sequence

We have two musically talented members of our group (Chris and Jamie) and we wish to make our own score for the Opening sequence, this way we will have no trouble with the laws of copyright and so on. Our film is in the genre of thriller, so we would also want to include some sounds and music that will reflect our genre. For example:



I really like this sounds because it is a low and deep pounding noise. This could be used for when the girl is getting up to show how disorientated she is and if maybe we blurr the screen the audience cannot see what is happening but by the affect of the sound, they'll know it isn't going to be good.



I am also quite interested in using the rain to create a sense of forboding in the scene. The rain creates a mysterious, isolated atmosphere in which the girl in the scene is suffering.



I like this noise for when the girl is fully awake and is trying to remember what has happened. She is looking around for clues, she doesn't find much until she see's the mans lifeless body laying on the floor.



This sound creates the overall feel we want our opening sequence to create. We want it to show the distress of the girl and how she is isolated and alone. She does not understand why she is there and neither do the audience, therefore it will create questions and the audience will want to know did the girl kill the nicely dressed man and why or was it someone else....

Music Influences

This piece of music by 65daysofstatic is a great stimulus for the music we wish to create for our opening sequence. This piece has many different tempos which reflect the mind set of the girl and how she does not know what has happened and why she is here. The piano in the song is soft at the beginning but as the music builds it's clear a sense of panic has kicked. This is how we can show the panic of the girl in our scene. We can imitate the tempo and the use of over powering instruments to help us create the feelings and emotions in our opening sequence.

Film Synopsis of our Thriller

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Initial Ideas for Opening Sequence

We as a group have decided through extensive research to make a Thriller opening sequence. We want to add alot of mystery in our opening sequence so we have decided to use the characters lack of memory make the audience start asking questions.

The titles of the sequence will run over the shots of the action, they themselves will be very creepy and distorted so as to reflect the memory of the girl, also the low key lighting we will use will help the audience feel the tention in the film.