ellipsis teaser trailer

el thriller opening

Feedback on Rough-Cut

After showing the rest of the class the rough cut for Ellipsis, our opening sequence to a thriller, we recieved the following feedback:
- To make all scenes black and white, where some where still coloured.
- To change certain parts of the music so that it fitted better with the images.
- That we should possibly add some more shots better explaining the plot, however this is impossible but we can re-edit the scene to give it the desired clarity.
- To add diegetic sounds (for example a can opening).
- Above all we must add the remaining titles.

Our Opening Sequence Music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqfPOKUZqnI

Filming & Editing

We have filmed our opening sequence and are currently in the editing process. After discussion within the group we have come to a few decisions regarding the features we will include in the edit. For example, a large part of our film is being treated with a black and white effect. The filming process was relatively easy, with few slip-ups, one of which was a problem with the location we were using, however we overcame this obstacle and filming went on as planned. We feel the editing process won't take much longer, and hope to be finished within the next few lessons.

Ellipsis Title Demo

Our Test Footage

Script

Location 1: Warehouse, day
Location 2: Elizabeth Way, day

Location 1
elipsis shaves his face and gradually puts on his shirt and jacket

Credits For Our Thriller

- Main actors - Will Burton, Dan Monroe, Sam Chester 
- Music by - Alice Black
- Sound supervisor - Robin Cotton
- Camera operator - David Burton
- Production manager - Stan Fielder
- Set designer - Susan Lee
- Costume Designer - Andy Pond
- Editors - Frank Smith, Connie Cooper
- Producers - Ryan Lamb, David McLaren, John Green
- Executive producers - Omar Djen, Lila Tate
- Writer - Arthur Callahan 
- Assistant director - David Goldstein
- Director - Phillip Lake


Font: 'All Over Again'

Props

Nathan: Suit, white shirt, lighting, shaver / shaving foam, old clothes, scope, chair / white sheet.

Dan: Black bin bag, old clothes, gun / two of them.

Dylan: Cigarettes, ashtray, old clothes, zippo lighter?

Angus: Old clothes

Music

I have been working on the music for our thriller opening sequence, and in doing so drawing on inspirations from many films. For example the use of a roaring brass / string ensemble hitting the same deep note is prominent in the theme music for Inception, while the dull, sinister drone underneath the whole piece of music is reminiscent of that used in Donnie Darko. I have tried to create a disconcerting, unrelenting tone which will emphasize the dark feel of the sequence.

checklist

script/dialogue  /
storyboard
location recce
casting scripts run through
Costumes /
Props /
make up
shooting schedule|
lighting other
equipment
titles and graphics
special effects
sound effects
music/sound pad /
test footage

locations

Characters

Main character: A man in his mid 20s; We don't actually see his face in the opening sequence, he remains mysterious.

We will only show one character with visual clarity, with others feature in small, short clips. At no point will a character's whole body be in shot.

Thriller Ideas Mind Map

costumes and props

props: ashtray, cigarette, bb gun, scope,  car?

costume ideas: suit/ jacket, ideally black white shirt. smart dress.

Thriller Moodboard

fonts and colour schemes

This font is very simple, clearly readable and bold.

This font looks like it has been written in liquid to give a horror like effect.

This is a jagged and distorted font, which would give the tile of our film a creepy and dramatic feel.

- Colour of fonts

- Possible colours of font

- We believe that we should split the colours of the font in half for instance half the title in black and the other in red 

However we could also just use single block colours i.e.

black red gold white 

job titles in order of appearance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcRr-Fb5xQo

In order of appearance in the opening title sequence of MADMEN
- Actors appear first with many well known names being used
- Special guest appearances are then shown
- Casting by
- Editor
- Head production designer
- Director of photography
- Produced by
- Executive producer
- Title of film
- Created by, written by and directed by

preliminary task

What didn't work:   within our preliminary task we found out that we had filmed the shot reverse shot wrong, this is because the characters switch side of the the shot. however there were nomore major problems.