Garage Band

We are using Garage Band for editing our sound for our short film.
For the beginning of the clip, we used music from the site Jamendo, we had decided that we wanted slow piano music to emphasise the loneliness of the scene and narrowed it down to a piece of music called 'Embrace - Moonrise' and another called 'Enjoying Silence - Sambodhi Prem'. After asking 9 people who fit our target audience we found that 'Embrace' was preferred by 3 people whereas 'Enjoying Silence' was preferred by the majority of 6. 'Enjoyong Silence' will be playing throughout our piece, although the volume will change depending on whats shown on screen.

We also used sound effects such as a girl screaming and footsteps from the website FreeSFX.

Final Cut Pro

Like in our prelim work, we used 'Final Cut Pro' to edit our film together, we used techniques such as fade ins and simple cuts.

We also used these filters to create a CCTV camera look, to give the impression that someone was watching the girl. The filters we used were Bad TV and Desaturate as well as adding text with 'BEDROOM CAM ***' and the time.

Added section

Our piece of work turned out to be only a minute long after the editing process, so we needed to add a minute to make it the length required in the specification. 

This is the location where we shot the extra minute:

These are some pictures taken while completing the shoot:

Our second minute involves mainly close ups of our main character with different lighting techniques. This should hopefully convey how our character is slowly going mad over the time she has been held captive, this sets up for the rest of the film the way she gets revenge on her kidnappers.

In these shots we used the use of low key lighting and the chiaroscuro effect in a dark room to show that this is what is going on in her mind.

First Copy of Film

This is the rough copy of our edited piece of work:

We have not added the sound yet and the font of the title needs to be changed to the one our audience chose.

Locations

For our thriller opening, our locations were:

Forest Row Park

Maddie's Landing

Maddie's Dining Room

Maddie's Attic Room (Without all the clutter!)

Props

We will not use that many props in our film, as the majority of it is set in an empty room. However in the room we will use a mattress on the floor as one of the only props, this signifies the dire situation our character is in and will reinforce the idea of her being a hostage as this idea is used in many kidnap thrillers. 

A significant prop we will be using is a van in the flashback sequence, the van is used by the kidnapper, we draw attention to this by using focus pull.

Another prop we will use in the flashback sequence is a swing in the park. this connotes childlike innocence and joy which will make our audience sympathise with Hope Hardy even more.

Another prop used is Maddie's laptop, which the kidnapper uses to watch the cctv footage on.

Sound

We have not planned for any Diegetic dialogue to be spoken in our opening sequence as it is made up of a girl alone in a room and a hazy flashback, so there is no chance to have our characters talking.

In the flashback however we will uses snippets of conversation in which we cannot make out is being said. Such as: the girl singing a nursery rhyme, a voice shouting her name, and a manic laughter.

Non-diegetic soundtrack will include simple piano music with long areas of silence which will connote the time dragging by, we will also represent this by having the Non-diegetic sound of a ticking clock. The music will reach it's crescendo when the title appears.