Our Evaluation

Our Film- Elizabeth

Our Main Character

We interviewed our main actress to see what she liked about our film and if she enjoyed being a part of our opening sequence.


Did you like being an actor in our movie and why?
"Yes, because it was exciting and liked playing in the playground"

What was your favourite part? 
"My favourite part was being the evil girl and wearing funny make-up"

Did you like the film?
"Yes, because it was really scary and i liked the music"

Comparing 'The Omen' and our Film

Before shooting our film, we looked at other thrillers that had a young child as there main character, using this we tried to recreate some of the same ideas. Such as this example of the swing.
Another example is when near the end of our opening sequence the 'evil girl' crawls up to the camera, this idea was taken from the trailer of paranormal activity.  

Equipment Used

Camera

Tripod

SD Card

Apple iMac 

Voice Recorder

These are some of the equipment we using throughout the making of our thriller film. All of this equipment was key to the end result of both the opening sequence and the evaluation.

Using Quick Time Player

   

We used 'Quick Time Player' to record the voices we put over our evaluation, as it was very quick and easy to work and got good results when tested for volume and accuracy. 

We also use it to record that screen of our evaluation so we could transfer our work from powtoon to final cut with difficulty. The only problem we had with this was that there was no sound, therefore we had to insert our videos into final cut afterwards.

Using Final Cut Pro

We used Final Cut Pro to edit our film, and then put the music over the top. Using this program was very hard at first as there were many things we could do to our film to make it different e.g. effects and transitions.



 We used a black and white effect when the 'scary girl' appeared on the screen to make her stand out more, and make her presences more effective.










We used the 'Camcorder' boarder within our film so it looked like a home movie, we took this idea from paranormal activity. We believed that in doing this it made it more realistic that the mother was filming the child at a play ground.

This is a screen shot of what our final cut page looked like while developing our opening sequence.












The 'Blade' tool was key the editing of our sequence as we films a lot of footage due to the location having to be the same though out the opening, therefore we filmed the whole thing in one day. Leading to there being lots of footage to use. Having to cut out footage down was by far one of the hardest tasks we had to do, as we felt that it was all relevant.

Thriller Name Ideas

We did a questionnaire on which thriller name was appropriate for our film and which one was there favorite.
This are the results.

Identity-|||
Disorder-
Ruby -|
Elizabeth -||||||||||
Therefore, we have chosen to use the name Elizabeth for our thriller movie's name. 

Music From YouTube

This music is called 'Sad Horror Piano Music' - Withered (Original Composition) By Lucas King. This is the music we used within our opening sequence.

Music

Originally, we had decided to make our own music of a piano piece. However, while looking through Youtube for ideas we came across this piece of music which fitted really well to our opening sequence. Therefore, we contacted the artist as we were not sure if it was royalty free or copyrighted.

We did this through Facebook.

This was his reply!

 

Title Sequence

This is the order we have introduced each title into our opening scene:

COMPTON PICTURES and KING PICTURES presents
a BLUEBIRD production
a ALICE FREEMAN-KING and SOPHIE COMPTON film
MIA RADLEY (who is our actor)
ELIZABETH
casting by SAMATHA GOODFIELD
costume design by ANYA GIBBINS
sound design by ROB ATKINSON
music by ELLIE TODD
edited by BEN COMPTON
directed by ALICE FREEMAN-KING and SOPHIE COMPTON

Location Pictures

Storyboard with titles