Final Edit

This is the final thriller opening that myself and my group created.

Psychosis Title Creation

I created this title sequence so that it would show to the audience the name of the thriller in an mysterious way.

Making Music

Due to needing some music in our thriller opening sequence, I decided to create some music on Garage band to be put over our footage. I did this so that the thriller opening sequence would feature more enigma.

Rough Cut

This is my groups rough cut.

Editing Experiment

Here is a test that we made in order to see how we want to edit the opening. We have used a bad film effect and changed the clips to 50% speed. From this we have learnt that the effect and speed work well. We won't need to add any more effects. The jump cuts take just the right amount of time to create a flickering effect between two ideas.

Shooting

Shooting Schedule

Tuesday 20th January
Shoot inside scenes 
Location - Wem Town Hall
Props - candles, a mirror, mask
Costume - black coat, black boots, black jeans
Actors - Luke Williams Powell

Wednesday 21st January
Shoot outside scenes
Location - Wem graveyard
Props - None
Costume - black coat, black jeans, black boots
Actors - Luke Williams Powell


Contingency Day - Thursday 22nd January

Shot List

Location List

For the filming of our thriller opening we have decided to use a graveyard in Wem for the location. Here is an birds-eye view of the location.

We went to the graveyard to have a look around. The path seems perfect for the main character to walk down when he wears the hood and mask. There is plenty of space for camera equipment and the ground is flat so it won't cause problems when filming on it. The area is quiet so there won't be many distractions by passing members of the public.

Costume List

This is the first piece of clothing which will be used in our thriller opening. This piece of clothing will be used underneath the coat shown below and will be used effectively to shadow our actors face in specific scenes. Although everything apart from the hood will be covered up by the coat this is generally what we want, and this is the effect we want to have for our thriller opening. As for the colour, it'll be a black hoodie on purpose so that it matches the military trench coat we'll be using but also match the dark theme which I am trying to convey throughout the start of my sub-genre horror thriller.

This will be the military trench styled coat in which we'll be using in the thriller opening. This style of coat will be used specifically to add a more dark, gothic theme to the opening and will allow us to add mystery when presenting the weapon our actor will be presenting throughout our short opening. After some audience research we found out that not only my group but our targeted audience enjoyed the look of and liked the longer style coat to either just a hoodie or a shorter coat which was above the waist.

The type of bottoms that we'll be dressing our actor in will be black skinny styled jeans, and from this we will be expecting our decision of bottoms will match our choice of top, which will be the hoodie and military trench coat.

The style of shoes we've decided for our actor to wear is a type of boot. This type of boot has been used specifically to add to the fact that we want a more gothic, dark and military type theme. Due to the fact that our thriller opening is based on a psychotic young boy whom has a split personality disorder, the link between outfit style, such as the jackets, coats, trousers and in fact shoes fit rather well together.

This, for part of our thriller opening will be the type of hair style we'll be trying to archive. This will also allow us to give light and allow us to properly see our actors face, instead of his hair falling over his face when it isn't wanted.

Although we shall not be using paint, for the fact it'll take to long, we'll be using a plastic skeleton mask, and then colouring in our actors eyes with eye-liner to get the desired effect.

Prop List

A list of the props I'll be using in my thriller opening sequence.

• A mirror for the masked man to look into whilst in the bathroom / bedroom scene. 
• A Mask for our actor to wear.
• Hair-gel to slick back our actors hair for specific scenes in our opening. 
• Boots for the man to wear all the time. 
• Trousers for the man to wear all the time. 
• Trench Coat/Hoodie for our actor to wear all the time.

Actor Make-Up Experiment

It was written in my thriller opening, and drawn on my storyboards that I would use a skeleton painted face for my actor in specific bits of the opening, since me and my group did not know if this would work we decided that would would test it out first.

What we would need for this experiment would be:
black face paint - white face paint - a paintbrush - a sponge

This was the initial effect  me and my group were hoping for. And this would our final result when trying it.

Due to the time taken and how tricky it would be to do this, we decided that we would instead use a white face mask instead of face paint, in order to save time and effort. 

Psychosis Anamatic

This is my anamatic. It shows how long each shot will be and for how long the opening will last. It creates a good guideline for when I go to film the opening. I created it by taking images of my storyboard and importing them into Final Cut. I changed the length of which each image appeared for so that it would represent the correct time we'd have the actual shot being shown for, and then put them together in the right order. This created an idea of how the final version of the opening will look.