Film Credits

Here is a list showing all of the actors names that will feature in our film. the list is in order of when the names will appear in our film opening. We have posted a list of credits before but we expanded them so that we had accurate titles within the opening of our film. We researched to order that the credits should appear in by looking at a number of different thriller film openings. We decided that this order would be accurate to use in our film opening.

Institution: 20th Century Fox

Studio: Jerry Bruckheimer Films

(Actors And Actress's Names shown here. Group some of the names together as we move towards the end of the title sequence.)

Casting By: Joseph Foster

Casting Director: Tony Scott 

Music Supervisor: Jamie Allen

Music composed By: Jessica Seaney

Costume Designer: Emily Ashby

Editing By: Harrison Millner

Production Designer: Jennifer Ann Whitehall

Director Of Photography: Ronnie Bulb

Executive Producers: Jack Ammon

Produced By: Ashley Barns

Written By: Angus Flint & Bill Marsilii

Directed By: Lewis King

Starring Actors/Actress's:

James Beaumont (Actual name of the person we used in our filming)

Hannah Lovell

Adam Stone

Stephen Jones

Gary Quinto

Helen Low

Matthew Hart

Cindy Williams

Thomas Wood

Lizzy Hale

Amy Lee Scott

Jason Burn

Sam Montgomery

Jeremy Davis

Russell Mills

Taylor Black

Editing: Session 2

We have been editing our footage together for a couple of weeks now. The process of editing them together has been long and complicated but we have managed to get all of our clips into an order that we think makes a good opening for a thriller film. 
All of the editing that we have done was on Final Cut Express. this programmes allows us to create a range of different effects on our film footage. We sped the car clips at the beginning up and we changed another clip so that i look like CCTV. 

(Above is a print screen of how the CCTV shot looks like in our film opening) 

We have Placed all of our clips together now so next we plan to start placing credits and titles into our film opening. After this we need to create music on a programme called Garage band so that we have an original piece of music in our film as well as placing in a voice over for the phone call that occurs  within the opening.

Character Representation

John:

John is the Main, Male character within our film. He is a business man which is the reason that he is dressed in a suit within the film opening. In the opening of the film he is still wearing a suit because the character is on his way home from work and stops at a cash machine. With the suit the character is wearing a red tie. We chose to use a red tie because it is a colour that suggests/symbolizes danger.   

In the film opening the shots do not show "John's" face. This creates suspicion because the film audience will wonder if he is the Antagonist or the protagonist  we decides the send mixed messages about the character in the film opening to build suspense because that is a key feature of thriller films. The fact that camera follows him from a lot of different angles also helps to create tension and suspense in the opening. 

The character is a young adult who is made to look quite successful due the the suit that the character is wearing when we first see him. In the film the character of "John" is in a happy relation ship and his partner is kidnapped with the threat of murder. We discover this in the opening of the film. 

The personality of the character is not shown very much within the opening of the film. But we imagine that the character would be adventurous, strong, responsible, and smart. This is another reason that he is wearing a suit to represent him having a successful career.

(The image shown above is a picture of James Beaumont. He was the person that we used in our film opening to represent the character of 'John'. He was dressed as we wanted the character to be represented and acted in the way that we had planned the character to in the opening of the film.)

Antagonist:

The antagonist in our film opening is the character that kidnaps "John's" wife. Not much is known about this character as his identity is hidden throughout the film. The audience to not know who he is because of this and there is no way of knowing if there is a connection between him and the character of John. The lack of knowledge about this character builds a more tense atmosphere about the character itself. The only thing we hear to do with the character is his voice through the phone which is distorted so it would not be noticed if hear in a normal manor during the rest of the film. This makes his identity completely anonymous. 

Wife:

The wife is another character that we do not know a lot about in the opening of the film. Her character will progress in the rest of the film but we do not see this. all we see of the character of the wife in the opening of the film is her scream down the phone when the antagonist rings John to tell him about his wife kidnapping. Originally we planned to have picture of John and his wife shown in john's wallet when he is at the cash machine but there was no space for a photo of them in the wallet that we used so this part had to be removed from our film opening. 

Editing: Session 1

Today we began editing of filmed footage together. When we uploaded our footage onto the computer we had trouble changing the format of the footage so that we were able to upload our clips onto Final Cut Express. We had to upload our Clips onto Imovie and then transfer them over into Final Cut. Once we had done this we began to edit our clips together. We started by placing quick shots of the car footage that we got to create the first 40 seconds of our opening.  This took us a while because we could not decide how long we wanted the quick cuts to be. After a while we got the car scenes edited together in a way that we thought would look good in our film opening. 

The Next thing that we plan to do is to continue editing the rest of our filmed footage together. We hope to have all of the clips edited together by the end of the week so that we can begin adding in extra's such as Music, Credits and Sound into our film.

Filming: Session 2

Petrol Station Scenes:

Today we went out and did our first filming session of the scenes at the petrol station that we intend to use for our film opening. This was the only other shots that we needed to film because we had already got the shots that we wanted for the first 40 seconds of our film opening. A Previous blog explains our filming of this. 

In our filming session today we filmed a variety of different shot for the opening of our film. Shots such as: an establishing shot of the petrol station that we were filming at, Mis shots that did not reveal our mian characters face and many other interesting shots for use to vary in use when creating our film opening.

When deciding what kind of shots to film we were refuring to our animatic storyboard that we had produced before filming started. although during filming these shots we thought of new idea's that could work well in our film opening. For instance the personal shot of the main characters feet was not a planned shot along with the view of the man entering his credit card into the cash machine. Both these shots were not planned but we hope that they will be a good edition to our other shots when we add them into the plan for our film opening.

These are the last filming sessions that we plan to do unless we have any footage that needs to be re-recorded, have missed some planned shots out or decide that adding another kind of shot would improve out film opening.

All of our filming was done at two different locations. the first was on a bridge at Blue Bell Hill. Here was were we got the footage of the moving cars for the first 40 seconds of opening. The second filming location was at Total Petrol Sation, Maidstone Road, ME8 0JA.

The Photo above shows the petrol station that we filmed our scenes at. Here we shot all of the scenes that are featured in our film opening where the man goes to the patrol station as well as the scenes of him walking towards the petrol station. we filmed this on the roads surrounding this area.

We filmed all of our footage when it was dark. The reason for this was that we set out film opening at night so that we could add a dark feeling to the film as well as creating tension when you see that our main character is walking alone in the dark. 

FIlming: Session 1

Opening Cars Shots

Today we went out a filmed scenes for our film opening for the first time. In this session we filmed cars driving down the motorway/duel carrage way. we did this at different locations around Blue Bell Hill.

The photo above shows one locaton that we filmed at. when filming the cars we had to get quite alot of footage bacause we intended to speed the shots up and if the footage was short, the clip would be very short when we sped it up in editing.

We filmed these shots for the first part of our film opening. we plan to have the credits running through this scetion of our opening. we have a range of shots so when we edit them together we plan to have quicik cuts between each shot. thisis because of film is a Thriller and within our research we noted that there were alot of quick cutting shots in the openbing of thriller films.

We film these shots in the dark because our film opening is set in at night time. By filming in the dark it also fits into the thriller genre.