Canted Shot - Thriller - Dilys

In the opening of our thriller we decided that it was very important to show that the character Chantelle is badly traumatized by her past and that she is confused, leading her to walk to the cliff edge and want to end her life. The opening has Chantelle visiting a grave and a few flashbacks to show her troubled past, however we still did not think that Chantelle's distraught and disorientated feelings were being conveyed.


So we decided to take a risk and use a shot not normally used in films, a canted shot. We thought that it would be the perfect way to show how effected Chantelle is as the shot makes the audience feel distorted because of the slanting horizon. We also thought the shot would be effective as it would help the audience connect with the character and how she is feeling and therefore empathize with her. 




In the shot, the sea line slants across diagonally from the right and the cliff edge slants diagonally across from the left. The effect here is that the character and the audience are left feeling unsettled and nervous, on the edge of a cliff.

FlashBacks - Thriller -Dilys

In our thriller opening we have the character Chantelle who is so badly intoxicated by her guilt, she decides that perhaps the best option for herself is to throw herself from a cliff and end her life. However we didn't want to give too much of the story line away in the opening two minutes, so thought it would be far more effective to have flashbacks in the sequence, as it would give clues to her life before the incident and what may have happened to cause her to go to the cliff. We also decided that it would be effective to include flashbacks in the opening as it would keep the audience guessing and therefore intrigued and wanting to watch more. 


We wanted to make the flashbacks clear to the audience so we thought carefully about how to edit them and incorporate them into the sequence. After trying many different techniques we found an editing tool called dip to colour which took the current image on the screen faded it to a blank white screen and then faded the white into the flashback. We think its very effective as it shows the change in time and location. 

Once having added the fading effect we found that it still didn't show clearly enough that the character was having a flash back and we decided there needed to be be some sort of distortion in the image itself. After experimenting with a couple of different editing tools we found a video filter which gave us the desired effect we wanted, it was called a glow effect which made the image on screen shine much brighter and stretch the edges of the shot to show that it is a distant memory and is not completely clear.

Analysis of an Opening Sequence- Kill Bill Vol 1- Fatima

In the opening credits of Kill Bill Vol 1 it is animated and the characters do look like the animated version of themselves. The music that goes with the sequence is like a tribal type of music which shows that it is violent.

Analysis of an Opening Credit Scene- Snatch- Fatima

In the opening credit sequence of Snatch it shows who the characters are and what they are like.

Analysis of sn Opening Credit Sequence- Scream 4- Fatima

Scream 4 opening credit sequence is great because it links with what it is for example the colour for it is red which links with death and blood which is what scream is about.

Finished Opening By Dilys, Lisa and Fatima.

Images of Editing

We each decided on various sound effects which we thought would be affective on the audience and then combined our ideas to create a vast medley of sounds from deep breathing to the sound of the ocean.

This image shows the choices we made as we choose various sound pieces and order of our shots.

Here we are choosing sound and music to cover our opening- our choices included: girls laughing, beach waves, deep breathing and eerie music.

These are the last stages in the editing process where we completed and made any final touches to sound and visual effects.

These are just a few images which show us in our journey of editing- we have completed piecing together all the shots combined with sound and special effects.