Practice Production Logo For Our Thriller

This is our practice idea for our Production Logo. As we have called it "Clockwork Productions" and used cogs to show this. We feel like more editing for this logo is greatly needed and we need to rethink the font choice for "Clockwork Productions" as we feel like it doesn't match what we expected it to look like. However, after making this practice logo, we now have a clear understanding of what we want to create, and how we want it to look. We want the font to be simple because we think it will get the message across and simplicity is sometimes better. We would also like to make the cogs more creative and maybe involve them in with the words. To create this we used Photoshop.

Thriller Moodboard

Animatic

Rough Cut Of Thriller Opening Sequence

This is our rough cut of our Thriller movie opening sequence.

We used Final Cut Pro to edit this sequence and Garage Band to create the sound track. We overlapped the clips of the girl walking down the alley to emphasise her possible 'damaged' or 'detached' mental state. The lapping over parallels her confusion/distress as it gives a dazed feel. 

We then used several vinyl scratching sounds to make the 'flash backs' distinctive to the audience. The same sounds will be used throughout the opening so the audience will always have a clear idea that these are flash backs and when they start and finish. On the actual flash back filming we used a vignette filter, we will also used this effect on every flash back. This will make it seem like a blurry or hazy memory.

For out final edit, we will use a white glow/flash to indicate when the flash backs start and finish.

We are also going to re-film the 'flash back' scenes as we felt there was not enough planning and the lighting was quite dark. We also wanted to make the 'hand grab' as they walk into the pub more exaggerated; this plants enigmas in the audiences mind and sets up the film to come.

Logo Analysis

These are the two production companies that are going to be analysed by their similarities and differences in;

- Layout

- Structure

- Iconography

- Font

In Paramount pictures, the layout for the production logo is quite specific. It uses many stars to specify around the mountain top and also to phrase the main title of this production company 'Paramount'. The structure for the logo clearly expresses the type of films this production company has produced, as the production name is sitting on the mountain it could reflect the movies produced by this company are at the very top and has a high end reputation. Also, the font from the company title links in with the iconography of the mountain top picture, it shows its natural (as its in a mountain area) elegance in the sense that the films produced are like this too. The use of colour in the logo is quite subtle and natural colours of light pinks and blues for the sky.



As for Dreamworks productions, the whole the layout of the logo is in the sky surrounded by clouds with a young boy slouching on the moon, fishing. As for the structure, the first thing you notice is the picture of the boy fishing on the moon with the company title sititng below the moon. Not only does the company name give it away but linking with the colour scheme of the night blues, the logo comes across quite dreamy and almost unimaginable. Also the font has very big and bold letters for the production title to inform the viewer that the films they have created are quite loud and childish. The logo as a whole as for the iconogrpahy, this would come as across as unusual and quite playful as this production company creates family/ childrens films.

Location Reports

This is the alley way that we will be using in the filming of our media thriller. The reason that we will be using this alley way is because the other alleys in the local area were too bright and open and we found that they were quite busy throughout the hours that we would need to use it for filming. This alley way was suitable to use because it’s fairly dark and windy and it had the right atmosphere about it for the scene that would be filmed. When doing the filming it was quite sunny for a change and it our planning it was meant to be quite dull and gloomy because the time of day was meant to be early morning, but because the walls are quite high it makes the alley quite shadowy and dark so we didn’t think this would be much of a problem.
Risks of using this location are quite low, with things such as pedestrians walking by, which will interupt our filming, and if we were to have to go back and do filming again things such as litter and rubbish or angles could affect our filming, the last risk we could think of is whether, if we were to start filming and then it was to rain this would be a risk, and also if it was to be very cold whether this could reflect in the acting of our actress.

This is the car we will be using for our filming; it is a W reg Renault Clio. The reasons in which we are using this car are because it belongs to one of the girls in the media group. throughout the media filming we will have to load the car with four people the car is a good size as its not to cramped, the only down side is that it doesn’t have 4 doors, but inside the car a scene of the media the sound effects of the car locking is heard when the protagonist is on camera, this car has the ability to lock to car with a button in which it makes a loud locking sound so this makes the car suitable to use.

Risks of using the car could be also quite low risks such as the lighting in the car, although we have artificial lighting, because the filming for this scene is done in the dark, this means that the camera may not pick up alot of light and it could affect the filming.

This is the Prince Albert pub in windsor, this pub will be used as our hang out sport in the thriller, the reason we picked this pub in particular is because our filming is done on a saturday night and because alot of pubs in windsor will be busy at this time we have used this local pub as a girl in the media group works his and has access to a different entrance to use for this part of the sequence.

the risks of using this pub are a medium, as the pub is on a main road and we have the risk of lots of passers by, and people inside the pub that could be under the influence of alcohol which could lead them to do silly things and get in the way.

Story Board