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.

Psychosis Storyboard

This is the storyboard for my thriller opening. Some sketches were draw up of what the shots will look like and notes were written below each picture that explain what is happening for future reference.

Final Thriller Opening Sequence Synopsis

First we see a close up of a pair of army boots. This is the first appearance of enigma because we don't know who's wearing the boots. Slowly, the character whom is wearing the boots is revealed. He starts to walk forward and slowly pulls down his hood. We see that he is wearing a mask, covering his face. The shots flicker to show how he looks normally. We see that he is a normal teenage boy but we know that something isn't right with him because of the unusual disguise. We see him pull out a weapon but we don't know why he has it. The next scene is indoors. We don't know where it is but it's dark and mysterious. We see someone lighting candles, this is an enigma because we aren't sure who is lighting them and why they are lighting them. The next shot is of someone in the corner of the room, sat rocking backwards and forwards as if they are distressed or scared. We don't know who this person is. Next, we see the boy looking in the mirror at himself. He looks normal but we see flickers of his mask. We see his hand covered in blood. He lifts it to his face and smears the blood slowly down his cheek. He hears people shouting behind him so he slowly turns around. Lasers are being pointed on his chest. We realise that he has guns pointed at him, turning to face the camera and grinning, the only word he says is 'bang'

Final Thriller Film Synopsis

At the very start of the film the main character is killed by the guns which are pointed on his at the end of the opening. However the audience is convinced that he actually survives as he continues to play as the protagonist throughout the rest of the film. A female character later introduced into the story line falls in love with him and eventually discovers that he is in fact dead. Through the film the female character is oblivious to the fact that the love of her life is killing everyone she loves, and killing everyone she has ever cared about. At the very end of the time it is revealed that she is also in fact dead and was indeed killed by her love early in the film, although her body was hidden from sight.

Creating a Production Company Logo

Whilst given the task to create a logo I started to firstly started to bounce a few ides around in Photoshop and decided that I wanted to create a rather unique logo. Starting with the basic idea that I wanted some type of symbol and then a unique name, I started to sketch out the one you see above, and from using basic lines. I thought it would have a better effect if I made the simplistic lines into a bone type shape and therefore this is the result.

Wanting to get a background I decided that would drop red ink into a fish tank and then record the effect it.

After recording the ink dropping I placed the file with the ink droplets along with drawn logo and put both of the on top of each other. After doing such I added a fade in and fade out effect at the start and end of the logo so that it would look much better.

This is the final product.
The quality is bad due to the fact Final Cut Pro wouldn't work properly.