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Final opening of a Thriller: Deadliest

First cut

  The program in which we used is after effects. After effects enabled us to add many different effects to create an effective atmosphere. We added cinematic bars, giving the film a much more hollywood look, but more importantly it gave the film a cinematic, professional look and feel for the film. Within the cinematic bars we aded whats called a  vignet, this again with the cinematic bars gave the film an overall more polished look. Despite having some difficulties, such as adding these techniques, we finally were able to put forward these ideas and implement them properly within our film. The most difficult aspect of the editing of the film however was the colour correction. This was a new idea in which a lot of the group were unaware on how to use, we spent many hours on Youtube, following tutorials on how to keyframe etc..Despite these setbacks, we decided to go for a blue tint, which even now we feel doesn't fit the film. We have decided to change it to a more grittier  green look for the film, rather than a blue tint which created not a horror atmosphere, but rather a sci-fi  one. So not only was adding the tint and colour correction a challenge we had to overcome, but adding the correct one was a challenge itself.
The inspirations we took as a group for our look of a film was at the beginning  was The Dark Knight trilogy  where the bluish tone is clear throughout. This dark feel for the film was to begin with a good idea, however it soon became evident later on in our editing that this look didn't fit our film at all. It contradicted with our theme for the film, a horror, instead turning it into a sci-fi, or possibly action-thriller film, therefore we looked for other films for inspiration, one of which was Ridley Scotts Alien.
Despite Alien being a sci-fi film, it too is a horror. Its greenish tone seemed to work well in our next cut for the film.
Secondly, the title sequence is missing from this cut. This defiantly  needs to eb added for the next cut of the film. This was another challenge as we had, we had to not make the same mistake as we did perviously with the colour scheme, and we needed a title sequence in which fitted the film and its genre.
Also another critical element of the film which was missing was an ending. We felt that ending the scene in the car was not gripping nor effective enough. We decided to go out and reshoot some scenes in the car and add an ending, this was possibly the biggest challenge, one even more than the colour correction. We decided not to use our original ending in our storyboard for time constraints, instead we had to improvise an ending, but hopefully after watching the second cut we are happy with what we came up with.
After watching the first cut, we were also missing some title credits, for instance the music. The music we added again like the tint, did not feel the right music to incorporate into our film. We decided that we needed a more gripping, slow paced music in which was repetitive.  This was another challenge, not only did we have to find music that would fir the film, we needed to find music that was copyright protected, limiting us to to a small amount of soundtracks we could have. originally we had agreed on a variety of music, but all were unfortunately copyright protected as they were film music. Some of which were the soundtracks to Sinister and Insidious, but as said previously, this was all copyright protected.
Finally not only were we missing an ending, but several scenes in the car. In the original storyboard the car sequence was the middle and largest section of our film, having a voice over on the radio. Yet this was a problem when filming. We felt that adding a radio voice would break the atmosphere and we needed more scenes in the car.  We would shoot these after the first cut, and add an ending to the film whilst doing so.
Overall, despite many challenges, we overcame them by shooting more scenes, experimenting with different colour correction tones listening to a variety of music. All in which will be seen in the second cut of the film.

Casting

An example of a great actor is Tom Hanks. His fantastic skills gained him several oscar nominations and two oscars wins. His roles include Forest Gump in the film Forest Gump, Captain Miller in Saving Private Ryan and Andrew Becket in Philadelphia. He is arguably the second greatest actor of all time, the greatest is mostly though of as Daniel Day Lewis. His roles include Lincon in the film Licon, Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood and finally Hawkeye in The Last Of The Mohicans. His acting skills has earned his two oscar wins as well as numerous other awards.

Obviously our actors were not as good, but overall as a group we were happy with the actors we had. What made our film more effective in terms of the acting was the dialogue, or lack of it. This made the film more effective and put less pressure on us as the directors to incorporate audio.
Our actors included Sam Evans and William Stevenson.
Sam Evans's role was the antagonist. The villain and the kidnapper. We made sure in his acting that he looked forceful. Evidence of this was when he shut the boot. He forced the boot down, giving the character an agressive personality. There was no particular scenes where we felt with Sam that didn't work, his acting was especially good.
William Stevenson role was the victim. We made sure he looked vulnerable  and scared. He did especially well on set but there was one scene in particular we found out we made a mistake in. Whilst the scene in the boot looked effective, he placed his body in the boot without the help of Sam. This scene made it look as if he was placing himself in the boot where he was meant to be unconscious. But overall we as a group were especially pleased with the quality of the acting.