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