So after filming the next step is to create an ident - most people use ones already made but our media group decided to make our own.
This girl has done some research into idents and I liked what she put so I decided to show you...
The convention of a thriller ident is black and white plus bold clear titles. With some mysterious element. Adding a sense of fear.
Using the software MOTION for the Mac computer, I am teaching myself to do an ident!
In class we mastered using some of the techniques and templates provided:
After this I decided to make my own one:
I had problems - such as the fading but after extensive searching i found a 'behaviour' template that does it...
This is the grouping method of how you place things into the motion flow. You group each element and to each element indiviually alter it's e,g, motion or colour etc...
This is the screen to which you see what comes together - here you can see the flow port, which is where purple bars are added elements and blue bars the actual elements.
This is the library of templates they have, it's extensive so you need to search into it quite a lot!
With my new developed storyline the title needed to change firstly on my trial runs. Plus also with my new found knowledge of sounds and how to create/listen out for sounds i added them too my trialling video:
If you listen out you can here the foxes in the background just to bring on the sub conscience feeling of outside and loneliness (just like in my interviews of what expected one lady mentioned a lonely environment). Also the Nursery Rhyme has been modified to sound creepier.
This is just a developing piece as i add/ change/ modify/ re-adjust clips or sounds to create my perfect Thriller.
SOUNDS are of huge importance to a thriller but they all have to be non-plagurised. So i had a go about making my own sounds, just by listening in everyday society to things around me.
Here are a couple:
So first up is a train, i never noticed before but a train can make the weirdest sounds... screeches, drones, placing baselines... all sounds needed for a great thriller to be jumpy! The first sound video are weird sorts of sounds almost E.T. with a low drone. Then there is the second video, sounds slightly different with more of a pace but still very interesting. See i plan on using the pacing baseline behind this video my movie to allow tension to be built up over time also the screeching of this video in a thriller allows the pace to be subtle then a big unexpected screech frightens the view causing the jump.
Next i recorded owls, they made an echoy creepy sound. There sounds made my spine shiver as it add the element of establishment plus also that element of nighttime. I can add this at the beginning to set the scene of night time.
Sound is so important at the beginning because if you have ever tried watching a film with no sound you want to switch it off because it's boring. So sound at the beginning is the deciding factor between
whether your movie is switched off or not!
Something prominent about my movie is the fact i have nursery rhyme. Nursery rhymes are often associated with children and if sung in a specific way can be creepy as if something bad is going to happen...
Of course here i've put a voice effect over my voice but i sang it in a strange key so it would be even creepier when played over the top of a video. Plus with this video i've added a drone behind the sining to add creepiness as well. I took this idea off the opening of 'Paranormal Activity'.
Here is a screenshot of the voice effect on Movie Maker you can add:
Following from number one i wanted to improve the effects on screen better because it was very basic, so i looked up some scary techniques used in effects.
Inspiration i got was to do like a muffled telly screen, such as when the TV doesn't quite tune and its left to produce weird fuzzy colours...However a better one of these i saw was this short paranormal activity opening:
So i took the idea of a TV screen effect and applied to my opening...
USING THE GREEN SCREEN EFFECT PREVIOUSLY LEARNT I CREATED THIS EFFECT VIA MOVIE MAKER. I like this effect because it adds a sense of confusion and later on in my movie i will pass by the TV where it will reference to a particular killing a year ago e.g. the babysitter killing or something close to that. To link the TV to the EFFECT to the Guy in the house
So i decided that i have done quite a lot to do with my movie, but i hadn't yet actually practiced how to do it. I needed to put someone videos to sounds to create a sort of prototype of a part of my movie.
I choses to do the beginning because that needs the most effort as it's the decider for people whether to turn your movie on or off,
Here are the photos of my computer screen as i experimented with different sounds:
I defiantly needed to do this because it was a lot harder than i imagined... working with sounds and video is extremely hard! Took me at least an hour to get to the point i am at below and that is far from where i want it. So below is the running piece so far:
I used typical elements of thriller movies here, such as the beginning establishing shot then the low breathing to add tension. Followed by the scenery of night time where things are a lot more scarier! I also used dull music to compliment the high pitched NURSERY RHYME - which is creepy. Finally i used a shocking loud sound to startle the the viewers. This i star from perfect such as the transition between the shots are appalling bad and the sounds still need altering. Plus i need to get a better screeching sound but you get the idea of where i'm coming from.
Another skill i've learn't to do is how to use a green screen. This was pretty simple and i wish i knew how to do it earlier in life. Although it came out well, i don't think i will use it on my movie, just because i don't have a screen which i need a background that can't be achieved in real life. I did have a lot of fun doing this but this skill probably won't come in handy in my 2 minute movie.
Although this is how you do it:
Load iMovie,
Then download the photo for the green screen.
then place the clip on top of a photo.
Then you choose the Green/Blue screen drop down option and the background should change.
This was the finished product:
Obviously we were only messing around and the quality is not great due to the laughing in the clip but i did try to match the music to our dance moves.
Another post of mine called "audience expectations" has this effect in the interview film as i filmed that at a later date to when i wrote the post but i finally learnt how to do side by side and the green screen effect.
Here is my attempt:
The side by side is obvious, but the wording don't quite match us and they don't actually say the same words but it gives you and me the idea.
Thanks my friend Jessie and the internet i was able to work out how to complete a hologram effect on MAC Movie maker. This is a big achievement for me because it the first complex skill i've learn. I used the clip from the BBC when i did the news, and added a 'picture on a picture' plus then music...
First i had to download a screen recorder, which when turned on made the screen look like this:
1. The yellow box is the screen which is being recorded, then the control panel at the bottom start, stop and time it.
2. Then I overlap the filmed screen in Movie Maker ontop of other clip and change it to picture on a picture.
Finally here is my first attempt:
This is a rough first attempt, I like the overlap of 2 screens, however i want to learn how to make it invisible, and in different effect... However in time!
