The evaluation

Vengeance film poster

This is the poster we have designed for our movie. We took a screen shot of the scene in our opening where Lisa is being poisoned, we chose this picture as we thought it would attract our audience to watch this movie due to the fact that a girl laying down half dead which is also blurred out creates suspense and makes people eager as they would want to know what's going to happen in this film.

Furthermore, having examined different film posters we noticed that most of the posters have a quote of a comment from a newspaper institution, so we also decided to include our own one to meet these realistic aspects of a film poster.

The symbol at the bottom of our picture represents the title of our film, we chose to include this in our poster as it is really relevant:

Final Vengeance

After weeks of editing we have finally finished our opening for 'Vengeance'! The process of editing took quite a long time because we had to re-shoot some of our scenes and get the correct match on action, audio and titles. once we collected all of our files, we watched the final edit all together as a group and decided that we were satisfied with our opening.

Feedback: I think that the sequence is very good the dark lighting shows a lot of tension and the music really contributes to making the audience want to see more. Chantelle,16

it was good, the red filter when the suspect enters shows danger etc., the scene where its all black and she's duck taped up is good. Kerry, 16

I like this film opening because i could relate to it , such as the 'party' lifestyle etc. but the film is quite stereotypical and something that a lot of Hollywood film companies produce. James, 18

Title sequence

Below are the titles we used for our opening. The titles included the directors, editor, cinematography, starring and title names which created in Adobe fireworks using the OCR A Std font, size 39. We decide to use this font because in many other thriller openings we watched the main types of font they used where plain colours such as white, black or red and were in capital letters which is why we felt this font was appropriate. The red connotes danger which is what we wanted to emphasize throughout the opening.

Screen shot edits

We put our film company logo 'Boom Productions' at the start of our opening and added the explosion sound on the audio.



We aimed to put our titles on the film sequence at the appropriate time, for example we put our 'director' title on at the start, in the first 8 seconds of the opening because the directors' names usually come up at the beginning of a title.

 

 

 

 

 

We used a red colour balance as the gangster is standing behind Lisa because we wanted the audience to know that danger was arising, which was also emphasized by the slowing down of the film at this point.

 

The title appeared at 1.04 seconds, during the middle of the opening as it broke up what happens before she gets kidnapped and what is happening after she gets kidnapped.

We added on scary, eerie music in order to make it more thrilling and scary for our audience.

 

 

At the 'phone call' scene we used an echo, to show that they were in an eerie room and because they were on loud speaker it emphasized even more the desperation for Lisa to find out more about her captivation and if she will ever be rescued by her boyfriend Steven.

update/changes made on our coursework

My group and I have decided to record a video about our changes and updates we've made in our opening, instead of just typing it out as we wanted to come across as unique. We also felt to improve our ability to communicate and the technology used in our coursework as we want to have a range of items used in our blogs e.g. prezi's, slideshare, powerpoints etc.


(If there are any technological problems viewing this video or any difficulties understanding what we have said in the video, simply read the written version of the changes made below, thank you.)

There has been a few changes made in our film opening because as a group we felt this was best and we were faced with circumstances where we couldn't meet in our original ideas, so we felt changes were obligatory. We have removed the car scene from our opening as we couldn’t get hold of a car to use to drive Lisa off in.
So we came up with a new idea instead of dragging Lisa out and putting her into the car, she will still be dragged out of the party but you will see the gangster putting white tissue over Lisa’s mouth which is meant to seem as it contains chloroform and we meet this target by showing her pass out. We decided on this idea as it's still as effective as our other idea and it also links into our next scene perfectly, as when she passes out the screen will go black and the next scene will consist of Lisa being tied up, this makes perfecrt sense as when somebody is poisoned they usually wake up in a location which is unknown to them.
This meets the codes & conventions of a thriller as suspense is very significant in a thriller, and the use of posioning Lisa builds suspense as the audience are not aware on why or what Lisa has done for this to be happening to her, so this is effective as it leaves our audience wondering and it also meets our aspect of our crime thriller as poisoning somebody and kidnapping them is a crime.
Although we liked the idea of the car scene we weren’t too disappointed when we couldn’t find a car to use as we feel the chloroform idea works just as well and we improvised which shows we can as a group think on our feet and use our initiative well.

Props and wardrobe used

Outfits from nicoleowusu

 (This slideshare was created to  explained why my group and I chose the outfits for the our characters and what inspired us, view full screen if the writing is difficult to see)