Finished Opening Sequence of Our Thriller

This is the finished opening sequence 2 mins of our thriller, after a whole day of filming and just under a week of editing and this is the final product and I hope you enjoy it.

Editing Friday 26th March - Wednesday 31st March

The editing for our Thriller was done by myself and began on Friday 26th March, this was the day after all the filming had been finished. The first thing we did was to upload all the footage that we had onto iMovie then from every clip we had imported we had to cut out all the extra clips inbetween, which included footage of an Elvis impersonator.

We then began editing the clips in the order that we wanted them to appear, we started with the shots that were taken outside of the house and Hayley's sister, after this we began editing the part of the open

ing with Hayley in the bath, then the ending with Hayley seeing her sister, falling onto her bed and the flashbacks. After the each scene had been edited to flow with the next we began including transitions and effects to make the flow of the film even better, cross-dissovles were used to show short passages of time without having to show them to the audience and fades were used to show both the starting and the ending of the opening sequence.

We used a black and white effect on all of our flashback shot to show the audience that they have gone back to the past.

After we had completed the editing we went through the opening sequence with our teachers to see what they thought of it and what things they think should be included, they told us what they liked and disliked about the sequence and also what transitions and effects should be added and taken away.

Changes to Animatic video

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Changes made to our Animatic

As our thriller must be a minimum of 2 mins long when filming began we added a few more scenes and shots into the middle of the storyboard.

Instead of starting the beginning of the film going ny going straight to Hayley being in the bath we deceide to have some shots from outside Hayley's house and also a few shots of Hayley's sister outside. The scenes of Hayley in the bath we have left the same as on the storyboard but after Hayley gets out of the bath we added in the next scene where Hayley and her sister are staring at each other, we decided to add this scene to make it seem as if Hayley has seen a ghost of her past she then we then also have shots of Hayley walking past her sister and a few of a picture of death. The storyboard then goes back to how it was planned with Hayley falling back onto the bed and having another flashback.

We decided to add this section in the middle of the opening as sit would make the opening longer and it would also make it mire dramatic to try and get the audience to ask questions such as, "Who is that girl?", "Why is she seeing her?". By adding these scenes in we have also added three Thriller conventions, tension, mystery and suspense.

First Day of Filming

Thursday 25th March- Filming the Thriller

This was our first day filiming of our thriller and it went very well as after roughly 4 hours of filming we managed to get a number of shots from more than one angle for our film, this has enabled us to begin editing on Friday 26th March.

For the filiming of our thriller we meet at Hayley's house during our break at 11.30 before we beagn filming we did another practice run of what we actually wanted to film, after filming the practice run we got the shots that we needed from outside Hayley's house for these shots we needed Hayley's sister to play a younger version of her. We then got the shots that were needed for our flashbacks where we see Hayley as a young girl being abused by a family member, we got two different types of abusing shots as it is only the opening two minutes of a thriller.

The next shots we got were the hardest and the most important scenes within our thriller as they were the shots that required Hayley to be in the bath. Firstly we had to get a couple of shots of Hayley before she went under water; we then had to get shots of her actually going under water, we have a lot of these shots as it was hard for Hayley to get under the water because of it going up her nose finally after figuring out how to get her to stay under water for the length of time that we needed we got shots of her going under the water and waiting for a few seconds before shooting back up.


The last set of shots involved Hayley and her sister, where we see Hayley and her sister looking at each other after Hayley has come out of the bath. We then got shots of Hayley falling back onto her bed, again we got this shot from a variety of angles.

Health and Safety Assesment

Health and Safety Risk Assessment

1. No filming in inappropriate locations.
2. Check safety of locations e.g. roads.
3. Minimise risk of theft of equipment.
4. When filming on location ensure teacher or responsible adult know where you are and have telephone number and when you will return.
5. Check all equipment is working before you leave.
6. Ensure you have permission for filming if necessary.
7. Always film with at least one other person.
8. Ensure you have the permission of those you are filming.

Before filming began we had to check the environment in which we were filming to make sure that it was safeand that none of us were to get injured. For us we had to be especially careful as we would be filming in the bathroom and in the bedroom where we would have to make sure that there was no water on the floor to reduce the risk of Louise, Hayley or myself slipping. We would also have to be careful when Hayley is to fall back on the bed as she could hit her head on something that was left on her bed and if Hayley was to get injured we would have to stop filming and find someone else.

Construction of the Production

Friday 19th March- Practice Run

For the practice run we filmed Hayley doing each of the scenes fully clothed this was to give us a rough idea of the shots we would want to use and would make sure that everything would run smoothly so that there are no problems or obstacles that we will need to overcome when we actually film the scene on Thursday.