Bait tutorial

In the lesson when we first learned how to use final cut pro we practised using clips of the cafe. We were told to edit them together to create a finishing clip. There were various clips where theres a boy and a man. The storyline was that a poor man comes into the cafe and steals the little boys lunch box. We used match cuts to make the clip flow nicely for e.g we see the man reaching for something and then we get a zoom in of him taking an eaten sandwhich.

Intro to camera &health&safety

Before we started to film our teachers taught us how to use a video camera safely, we learnt how to turn on a camera, put a battery in, eject a battery safely, put in the memory cards, we learnt how to use different functions on the camera s
uch us zoom in & out and change the focus etc we also learnt how to place the camera on the tri-pod and take it off safely.

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No country for old men suspense work

The Cohen brothers use suspense through out the movie to create thriller. The ways they use suspense in the film is that they use various technical elements such as camerawork, sound, lighting, editing etc… The first thing that creates the suspense in the thriller movie is that it has an unexplained plot where there’s a psycho who ends up killing a lot of people and animals for the sake of it, chases a man then finally kills him and carries around an oxygen tank with him throughout. This is an unexplained plot because we don’t really get to know anything about the psycho on why he decides to kill the man even after getting the money and why does he like killing people. This also creates suspense because it’s about a delayed chase sequence and within this sequence others get murdered as well also because we don’t know when the psycho killer is actually going to catch the man or if he’s going to get killed himself. This arouses so many questions in the audiences head already because the killer and victim are so close but yet they’re apart. The audience are kept interested and are drawn in by the continuous suspense throughout the film.

The type of editing that is used is for instance parallel editing is used in one of the scenes where they show two events happening in two different locations both reaching for the same point. We are shown close ups of the tracking device once with the killer and once with the victim. This gives the two characters a link where the killer knows where the victim is and the victim knows where the killer is. In one of the scenes the red light blinks continuously letting the audience know that the killer is on the way this helps create suspense. However, in this scene we then see the light turn of as we see the shadow of the killer fade into complete darkness this shows danger because the light offered a sense of security and was the only way to see and kill the psycho. When the lights turn off there is a moment of silence which is used to build up tension making the scene even more dramatic where the killer is no where to be seen. The audience’s fear builds up until the point where the silence finally breaks when the doorknob shoots out. The audience give a shocked reaction because we see it through the victim’s perspective and can emphasise on how the victim is feeling. The diegetic sound of the gun shooting, smashing off the window, etc… emphasises the whole event and makes it seem more realistic and believable to the audience.

last lesson..

last lesson we were shown how to use three different softwares to help us edit our clip for our thriller opening and also to give us a head start,the softwares were called live type,final cut pro and sound type pro.

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final cut pro is used to edit the work so far and add the finishing touches to make it the final piece of work.

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live type is used to make the titles in the beggining and endin of the films come alive, you can change the colour, font, the way it's shown, you give it special effects and even create a unique backround.

last but not least sound type pro is used to edit the soundtrack of the film there are lots of sounds to choose from.

Live type, final cut and soundtrack

In last weeks lesson we practised using three softwares called Livetype, Finalcut Pro and sountrack Pro. These three softwares are important in making the thriller opening. We experimented with these three softwares and worked out the different things they each do. The livetype was used to create intresting titles which would suit the genre. In live type you could put effects, backgrounds etc... on the title to make it stand out.

We used final cut pro next this software is used to edit down clips and make it into a finishing clip with everything added to it. We used one of our practise clips which was a card game so that we got to know how we could edit things and how we could put them together as one finished clip.

The third software we used was Soundtrack Pro which is used to import soundtracks in the clip. We played around with the different sounds and started searching for sounds that suit a thriller genre. Soundtrack Pro creates music which you could use to create various sounds like high tention etc...

Deja Vu

03.02.10
Deja Vu starts off by hearing the sound of the ships horn and lots of drumbeats at the back. The title is red and bold and the fonts are white which fades away as we watch. there are loads of special effect used during this clip. An explosion takes place.There are quite short clips which we see before the actual film starts. One of them is a little girl holding a doll which she then drops into the sea by accident. Immedietly the audience gasp and have a reaction to thinking it was a real baby and at this point suspense is created.

Arlington Road

03.02.10
In the clip arlington road, we see an image of a garden park. There are many effects and the main one is sepia. There are many high and low angle shots used during this clip. Suspense is created when the audience hears alot of faint screaming and heavy breathing.