Final Cut

Today we finished our Thriller project, here is the final product called Two Minds. It differs much from the roughcut in that we have completly changed the mirror scence making it more effective. Also with the addition of the slow paced, almost calm soundtrack it creates the sense of confusion the main character is suffering and makes us feel sympathetic towards him.We hope you enjoy :)

Editing

The editing is the most important stage for making the audience understand the idea of our film and ask questions to themselves, which would be revealed when the rest of the film is shown. We have also added in effects to link with the schizophrenia. We have used cross dissolves to link the 3 different personalities shown by 2 different people. We have used quick plain black shots in between shots in the sequence to represent the paranoia and nervousness of the character. We have used fade transitions on shots to end or start a section of parts of the plot without revealing too much information and to represent thoughts going around in the schizophrenics mind. We have added in titles in an appropriate font to represent craziness. We have thought out the pace as well to reflect the confusion and contrast in the real life and mind thoughts of the schizophrenic. Lee did most of the editing but Claire and Tom did contribute to many ideas.

Soundtrack

As part of the editing we created our soundtrack. Our soundtrack is eerie, builds up tension and reflects the images that are seen on the screen. The soundtrack is slow paced to link with the theme of confusion in personalities and uses simple synthesised sounds to create the misleading, weird mood of our piece. We experimented with different ideas to make sure that certain parts of the music fitted with the video, for example, the fast paced images relating to schizophrenia has a texture build up and pace increase. Tom and Dave experimented with many ideas and the whole group made contributions but due to illnesses in our final lesson Claire and Tom worked on completing the soundtrack and then uploading the final cut for you.

Shooting changes

This was our final session of shooting. We have decided to change the location of the first few and final few shots of the animatic, because we were unable to use our first desired location and decided on a bench in abandoned area to show the isolation and changing in personality, to a more out of control personality. We have still used the same idea of having the character waking up and then zooming in to eyes to portray different sides to the character and then waking up on the bench but with his different personality, shown as a different person in our sequence. We have re-done the mirror shots to better depict the change, this has been done by having the character A splashing water on him and then panning around to mirror with the character B(representing other personality) in the mirror. We have now completed our shooting and pleased with our shots. All which is left is touching on editing to make it our final sequence. 

Rough Cut

Due to technical difficulties this edition of our rough cut has been sped up. But you get the idea :)

What we've been doing..

Today and yesterday we were filming shots for our rough cut which is due in at the end of this week.

We are on schedule meet this deadline as we are happy with the majority of the shots we have done so far and already have ideas about how we will produce our final project.

The rough cut will give you an idea of what we have in mind for our final piece and shows you the basic ideas that our project will include but the final piece will have more details and better editting.

Claire and Dave

Filming

Today we filmed shot 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 14.
Dave and Tom were the actors in the film and Lee and Claire shared roles as director and camera person. We were pleased with our results and will continue filming next lesson.
We have used close ups, high angle, medium shots, panning and long shots.
We have decided to have the middle section of the hallucinations in black and white to make it more eerie and weird. We will try to define the colour of eyes when looking in the mirror to make it more tense for the audience and to once again indentify change.