During our planning and production me and my team members split the responsibilities evenly. For the production I was not here as i was away, therefore my responsibility was the editing. We decided as i have had practise of editing previously from doing the preliminary task Since i was not there for the filming my main resposibilty was the editing. We decided that I would be in charge of editing as i have had past experience with it from doing the preliminary task. Compared to the other members i am more familiarised with the software and. As i know my way around the software program I will use the effects to my full advantage and add in similar ones to my knowledge from our preliminary task. Researching into thriller opening sequences allowed me to recognise the various codes and conventions used in crime/thriller films. For our particular sub genre and style i will be mainly focusing on neo noir films such as Snatch, Touch of Evil and Drive. By continuously looking at opening sequences of these films i will able to re create the many effects and cuts in our opening, making it into a proper. Throughout i have been taking the lead role , making sure everyone has a even responsibility. By being in charge I am able to guide my other team members into doing the best they can and making sure they are doing the correct task. As one group member left I had to re arrange the tasks making sure me and the other member had an equal amount to do as well as providing the right equipment. Although my other group member was in charge of sound I had little input in what sounded right and how it suited our production. Garage Band was the program the sound was created on. Since we did not have audio from the characters due to technical issues the music was created by my team member and fitted perfectly with our final production.
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During the planning and production of our piece, we aimed to split the management roles as evenly as possible. As there is only 2 members in our group, we both had a lot of work to do.
One of the things that I was primarily doing was composing the music. We decided as a group that this would make sense as I am quite musical and have a better knowledge of the technical aspects of music than the other members of my group. I studied the work of one of my favourite composers, Hans Zimmer, as he has composed the music for many famous thriller films, such as inception, Interstellar, The Dark Night trilogy and many more. Zimmer is known for his fresh approach to orchestral music, creating a style of electronic-classical fusion that is very much his own. This kind of music works well for thriller films as it is very easy to build suspense using a combination of synthesisers and classical instruments. The sole piece of technology that I used for creating the music was GarageBand, using their samples of music and mixing these with riffs that I had composed myself. To build tension, I made the music intensify and added layers gradually, creating a crescendo effect. I also added in 2 key changes, to increase the tension of the music, fitting with the film. I had to make sure that the building of the tension in the music was synced with the building of the tension in the film. I was also in charge of filming, and this involved setting up the shots, positioning the camera, giving direction to the actors and also organising the logistics. We used a tripod to ensure that the footage would not be shaky. We had some technical issues when uploading the footage as a member of our team left, and some of the important shots were in her possession. However, we decided as a group that we would have to try to work without these. Our videos also had very out of sync audio, which meant that we had to erase the audio completely. However, this was not too problematic as our music was effective and it also fitted with our style to just have music. Manisha and I did the editing together as she had better knowledge of the editing programme (Final Cut Pro) than I, and we worked together as a team to edit our piece. Fern Morrey (Protagonist) comes back from her shopping trip as she walks back to her car. A young boy (Jason Cannon) stands suspiciously glaring over at Fern, waiting for her to stop whilst he catches her attention. As she stops by her car struggling to put her shopping bags away she is intruded by Jason Cannon, he offers to help but when Fern replies "No" he aggressively pulls the shopping bags away from her wanting to help. A phone suddenly rings and not realising where the sound is coming from Fern ignores it and walks away, until she hears the sudden sound again walks to the boot and realises it’s the young girl who she’s abducted. She slams the boot door shut and gets into the car, beside her is an alcohol bottle, tempted as the bird on the Whiskey bottle glares at her. Previously Fern was an alcoholic and because of all the pressure she is feeling for kidnapping the young girl the temptation slowly gives in, she soon swings back the bottle and heads of for the road. As she’s driving she realises the guilt eating away at her and stops the car at an abandoned road. She then goes to open the boot, release the rope of her hands and feet and notices a necklace the young girl is wearing. Memories start to flash back at Fern as she comes to a realisation she gave that particular necklace to her younger sister 10 years ago when she ran away from home. Eventually after putting the pieces together and understanding that the revenge on whom she is taking it on is someone who was very close to her once in her life.
The meaning behind our title name 'One for the Road' is based on two ideas in our opening.
Firstly, as our film narrative is based on the road therefore we wanted the name to represent the full meaning of our narrative. Secondly, 'one for the road' defines having a final drink before leaving a place and because the main character is a recovering alcoholic, this connotes to the audience. This is our updated logo. The black connotes sophistication, evil and mystery, and the red connotes danger, urgency and seduction. This seemed much more appropriate for our film. This was our original company logo. However, after adding it into our film, we noticed that the colour scheme of the original logo did not fit with the thriller genre. Therefore, we decided to alter it slightly.
In our thriller opening sequence we do not have any dialogue due to technical problems. Because of the technical problems we could not get the non-diegetic sound to feature in the scene were both characters were conversing. Instead we took out all non-diegetic sound and added in our music in the background.
Through out the process of filming our production and editing we experienced some challenges. A team member unfortunately left the team which meant there were more responsibilities for myself and my other team member.
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