My Script On Wordle.Net

Here's My Script on Wordle.Net

Wordle.net takes all the most commonly used words from a block of texted and puts them into a cool arrangement it loads of different colours. 

The Animatic

Here is the animatic to our thriller:

To make tha animatic I put all the photos of our storyboard onto iMovie and added in fades and cuts to give the audience a sense of the editing pace of the title sequence and what kind of thriller they were in for. When it was created we didn't have a soundtrack or the final dialogue. Therefore, we only got a small but sharp idea of what the thriller would be like...

Art of The Title

The title of the sequence the Political Thriller opening two minutes that I am shooting and editing with my group is important for establishing what kind of film the audience should expect to see. 

A website, http://www.artofthetitle.com/?s=in+time shows the importance of title sequences for the films that they're about. 

Here is a screenshot of the site: 

There are a few different types of title sequences. 

Some go straight into the action of the film, an example of this is, The Shining. This engages the audience straight away and makes the film suspenseful straight from the word go. 

Other films have title sequences that are known as discreet title sequences: 

Old School:

Film; The Mothman Prophecies 

Animated:

Film; Casino Royale 

Key Themes of My Thriller

I have taken a lot of inspiration from famous political thriller films from the past such as, The Ghost Writer, Year of the Gun and The Wire (TV Series).

The most obvious themes are tension and suspense, however I need to let the audience know what is happening in the thriller within the first two minutes otherwise they'll lose interest and the film therefore has very little quality. 

Deciding on casting, props, lighting and location. 

In our group, we were thinking of using the teachers as our actors instead of the students in order to make the sequence more believable, because seeing a 17 year old President wouldn't be as believable as seeing a 40 to 50 year old! 

Here is an example of a Political Thriller sequence from, The Wire: 

The titles of our sequence are also important because they can help to establish to the audience what type of film they have come to see, and what they should be expecting. This is an example of a Political Thriller Title Sequence: 

The title sequence font, music and images are essential for making the sequence more believable. 

My Prelim

Here is my finished Prelim, embedded on YouTube! I think that it was a success in terms of camerawork, and editing, but the change in sound between different clips needs to be same. Some are higher pitched than the others. The Mis-En-Scene didn't matter in the case of the Prelim. 

Enjoy!