Blog Thoughts

I looked at a blog from a previous student at long studying media. Their project was to make there own thriller opening sequence.
Before making their opening sequence they needed to research and plan existing thriller opneings, now this could be looking at other students work or observing a proper one from a film. They chose to take a sample from a film, the film they chose was Seven.
They analysed the sequnce and made notes on it. They then storyboarded a sequence which they feel would work well.
The planning and research was done pretty well i thought, but they only had 1 video of research between 4 people. If they had looked at a few more videos and posted them on the blog, they wouldv'e no doubtidly got more marks, but their final cut would ultimately be better as they would have differnet techniques they could have taken from othe sequences and merged them all to one. The levels of writing were good there was a lot, but maybe too much in comparisson to the visuals. Neede more pictures and videos for research. 14/20 Planning and Research.


The final cut was well put together and felt like a real opening for a thriller, but the minimal research had come back to haunt them as you could easily tell that their ideas were from Seven. The close ups, not seeing faces, not allowing the veiwer to understand or generate a thought of what is going on in the sequence. All together the construction for the film was good but the lack of research had let them down. Too many traces of the film Seven. 44/60

http://55thrillerproject08.blogspot.com/