Se7en

Se7en is a psychological thriller that i want to watch for analysis before making the opening sequence to get used to how to film psychological thrills for when we film our opening sequence, this bellow a presentation i have found about an analysis of the Se7en's opening sequence.



(This is not by me but I found it useful)

Preliminary Project

This is mine and Steve's Preliminary project that we filmed

During exporting of the film (which i have done 4 times) the film becomes jumpy at the start which is an issue i cannot figure out how to fix so i have left it the way it is in an effort to spend my time on the other aspects of the opening sequence planning.

This has given me lots more camera skills than i had before and let me know how to enforce rules within the filing of an opening sequence. These rules are:

- Match on action

- 180 degree rule

- Shot reverse shot

- Rule of thirds

This has also given us editing skills that we did not have before which well help us in the final copy of the film

Survey

Steve and I are having issues trying to find the time to use the green screen again so because the editing process is such a long one we have decided to display our second survey results with graphs to better display the results as a majority is more quantitative information:

Cabin in the woods

Steve and I have started to watch phycological thrillers to get an idea of how we should make our opening sequence

The first one we have watched together so far is Cabin in the woods,
As you can see below this is my TV and I just took a picture of the title scene just to prove that we watched it

It is about a group of college students who go to a "Cabin in the woods" for a party/Holiday, in this cabin it is a government controlled organization that control this cabin and it is some sort of sick game to feed gods as sacrifices

It is a really odd film to be honest, Steve and I both thought that it was an odd film.
It just ended strangely a totally unforeseen ending

It was a good film though and I really enjoyed it, in the past i have not watched many phycological thrillers and watching these is interesting to me

Other films that we are considering to watch are:
- The Exorcist (1973)
- Se7en (1995)
- Red Lights (2012)

We have decided we are going to try and watch these because they are from different time periods and we can see how Phycological thrillers have developed over time

Psychological Thriller logo analysis:

Psychological Thriller logo analysis:

In this I will be looking through this site:

http://www.imdb.com/list/quPHa6B-Ehc/

This is the top 100 list of psychological thrillers from IMDB; I’m going to look at, at least the top 10 films and write down their production company names and then research these companies finding them and putting them into a mood board

From this I can then analyse the different logos of each company find any links between them and then create my own

Se7en:

Cecchi Gori Pictures

New Line cinema

The Machinist:

Filmax Group

Castelao Producciones

Canal+Espana

ICF

The Silence of the Lambs:

Strong Heart/Demme Production

Orion Pictures Corporation 

Jacobs Ladder:

Corolco Pictures

Pi:

Harvest Filmwork

Truth and soul pictures

Plantain Films

Protozoa Pictures

The game:

Polygram Filmed Entertainment

Propaganda Films

A&B Produceoes Lda

Tazi driver:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Bill/Phillips

Italo/Judeo Producion

The Shining:

Warner Bros.

Hawk Films

Peregrine

Producers Circle

Duel:

Universal TV

Black Swan:

Fox Searchlight Pictures

Cross Creek Pictures

Protozoa Pictures

Phoenix Pictures

Dune Entertainment

Here is my mood board of logos:

Green Screen

Steve and I used a green screen to film the video linked below, it is the results to our survey on genres.

This is the first time I have used a green screen and this type of software so it has been a learning process and has taken some time but was worth the effort with the end result seen below

The script we had included Steve and I but we couldn't get the lighting right before filming and didn't want any light to interrupt the green screen edit so I did this one on my own and Steve will do the next one, this will show our individual editing skills and filming techniques

Steve filmed this on a Tripod, and we set it all up together, I edited this clip myself

Final Cut experimentation

At the moment I am experimenting with "Final Cut Express" software to edit the video that I have made analyzing the results to our first survey

As seen below you can see a print screen of where i am up to at the moment, this is the first time i have used this piece of software and the first time i have edited with a green screen so this is an experiment but should be finished soon and posted on the blog