Forever Hold Your Piece - Final Cut

After a lot of hard work and effort we finally made it!

Forever Hold Your Piece - coming to a cinema near you.

Well done group 12.21!

Ace Pictures, Forever Hold Your Piece, Uncut Production Video Final

MORE AFTER EFFECTS AND IMOVIE

This is our final After Effects video for Ace Pictures and Forever Hold Your Piece after long hours of understanding some of the tools on the software. (Uncut Production will be shown in the Prezi slideshow).
Underneath is the final videos which us as a team have though of and created. Thanks for our team support, we are able to pull it through.

ACE PICTURES

FOREVER HOLD YOUR PIECE

PREZI PRESENTATION OF OUR WORK

Audience Feedback on Forever Hold Your Piece (Rough Cut)

Rough Cut: Forever Hold Your Piece

We are sorry for the delay as our Macs were not able to upload it onto our USB.

Product Research: The X Files Opening Sequence/Title

The X Files is an American mystery thriller TV series which lasted from 1993 to 2002. It has been largely popular for the mystery that the show has to offer to the audience.

The opening begins with the title of the series shown in a X-ray view which is associated with the title, and also creates a link, the 'X' in the title symbolizing X-ray. This also creates a sub-genre for the series as it may have generic conventions of a scientific thriller. 

At 00:19 we are shown a name tag of a FBI agent in blue only, this is to express power, the colour blue is known for being in authority. The camera is zoomed onto the face of the agent which creates a suspicion for the audience, this is generic in a mystery thriller because it gives the audience the idea of the FBI agent having an undercover personality.

The whole opening is shown in low light with bold colours being shown, this indicates the idea of a journey to discovery.

I am really taken with the idea of importance shown by colour and lighting, I hope to learn from this and maybe include in Uncut Production's thriller project.

Product Research: Suits Opening Sequence/Title

Lately I have been exploring an amount of opening titles to get an understanding for my product research. Today, I bought my first US Weekly magazine and on the back of the magazine was the promotion for US TV series Suits which caught my attention because the poster was black and white, and the title of the show in red, which was very contrasting and challenging the modern theme of colour, and also going back to originality of black and white.

The current running special effects is the tiles blacking out and introducing a new scene that is in the series. I think this could be taken for the opening credits of Uncut Production's final thriller project. This informs the viewers about continuity and also an order not necessarily from: beginning, middle and end. The sense of realism is also created because from scene to scene there is some relevance to the topic of the show, whereas it would be absurd to go from the man going to work then being introduced to pirates on a ship.

Red, blue. The colours of the police car lights, and also danger and safety. Filling the screen with one colour for each character is symbolism of their identity, the red representing: danger, passion and death. Whereas, the colour blue is a representation of: safety, freedom and power.
The two colours coming together is a sign of power and coming to victory but, the colours against each other shows competition.

Product Research: The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

The Hand That Rocks The Cradle is an American drama thriller which was released in 1992.

Camera
Panning is used a total of times to give the audience an insight into the life of the characters who live in the house, this defines what kind of person or family that live in there. A pan is also used to emphasize what is being shown.

Editing 
Slow editing is used when inside the house is being shown to create a sense of realism, it also allows the audience to think and maybe have a hint of the narrative.

Sound
Non-diegetic sound is shown to put a highlighting on the suburban area being showed, the non-diegetic sound is also smooth and calm, this challenges the genre of a thriller, at the same time it is also a convention that something too pure is never perfect.

Mise-en-scene 
The white suburban house stands out from the other houses shown, this exaggerates the main setting of where everything will be happening.
Furthermore, the person riding a bike we do not see their face nor head this could hint that this person is a villain or an outcast.
The hood worn by the person on the bike tells the audience that this person is not from the neighborhood because they are protecting their identity. 
Protecting your identity is a very popular convention used in thrillers. Protecting identity also covers a number of genres such as western and action, The Legend of Zorro is famous for the mask the main character Zorro wears.

Product Research: Donnie Darko

Donnie Darko opens with pathetic fallacy of thunder which smoothly turns into birds singing, this is a generic thriller convention of a new day which could be linked to hope, or the past coming back. The new day starting in an isolated place such as a lonely hill represents the danger. The camera pans and we are introduced to a character in the isolated place which is a symbol of no army, no hope.

Alternatively, the sky gets lighter which contrast with the image of no hope, and now there may be hope for the character. Contrasts are rather popular in writing, however, in the opening sequence it makes the audience question what the narrative is. At 02:14, the character we were introduced to is smiling after seeing the atmosphere get brighter, this is very unusual because before when we are first introduced to him he is on the ground in an isolated setting.

This opening sequence personally has left me confused, and don't know whether what has happened to him or about to happen good or bad. This has really inspired me for my final product and to create an opening that confuses my audience but, also makes them want to figure it out. I think Richard Kelly has done an amazing job with the opening sequence which engages the audience with the film.

Product Research: Dexter Opening Sequence

Dexter an American mystery TV series uses a wide majority of thriller conventions in its opening sequence. This opening sequence thrilled me without it being a thriller which I think challenges its own genre.
At 00:20 an over the shoulder shot is used whilst the character is looking in the mirror, however, he is blurred. This is may mark a running theme throughout the series of the character having a split personality, the aspect of a split personality is commonly introduced in physiological thrillers, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(2008) film uses the convention of a split personality, which is also adapted from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Furthermore, the opening uses an extent of match on cut camera. This attracts the audiences focus, for me personally it made me focus on the sequence as the match on cuts were incredibly great.

I and the Uncut Production team would very much enjoy taking inspiration from Dexter, as it challenges the genre, and the eye of the viewer.

Product Research: The Silence of the Lambs opening sequence.

Product Research: Vertigo Opening Sequence

  

Alfred Hitchcock is famous for his amazing thriller movies, so therefore i decided to research one his movies Vertigo.
The title sequence already tells us that Vertigo is a psychological Thriller from the title "Vertigo", the close up of the woman's facial features and the swirls to makes the feeling come to life. The swirls in the title sequence keeps spinning and changes to a new swirl, this made me feel quite dizzy like an illusion which links to the woman in the film known to have demon like possession.
I really like the way the music fits in with the title sequence to enhance the feeling of the mind acting abnormal.
After researching and reviewing the video, i realised we could use close ups to make the characters ambiguous but also to show their feelings and maybe their personality. For example if the person is nervous i could have a close up of their hands fidgeting with a piece of paper with writing on it, to also create curiousness for the audience.

Product Research: Pretty Little Liars Opening Sequence

The opening sequence of the Pretty Little Liars is very mystery-thriller because the viewers do not see the  face of the girl, who may be a victim being put into the coffin.  The lyrics in the theme song however contrasts from the girl in the coffin being innocent "Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead", 'two' being the girl in the coffin and each girl standing over it individually have a secret with the girl in the coffin, and two can keep a secret if one of them is dead. 

The four leading teenagers seem to have authority over the coffin because they're standing over it which shows they are more powerful, they are also wearing similar clothing which could hint they are friends, which means there is more power on their side because there is more of them. On the other hand, the girl in the coffin is being groomed whilst being put into the coffin, this could show her characteristics of being a popular girl and this is revenge from the four girls.

The title of the show Pretty Little Liars hints the the four girls are not innocent because 'Liars' is not a plural, which could hint the girl in the coffin is innocent. The name of the show being put against clouds which are misty and light at the same time is a sign of double character and going from light to dark, putting yourself in danger.