After going back and watching the rough cut again, we decided to do extra filming to make our opening more engaging. Shireen, Larah and Amina did extra filming to get extreme close-ups of the props. Yet again, Quddus wasn't in to film with us! Below are just some pictures we took of the props we are filming. The reason why we did extra filming was because we received feedback saying we should do some of the shots as extreme close-ups to draw in the audience.
Casting- Billy Hopkins, Suzanne Smith and Kerry Borden
Music- Howard Shore
Costume- Michael Kaplan
Edited- Richard Francis- Bruce
Production designer- Arthur Max
Director of Photography - Darius Khondji
Executive producer-Anne Kapelson
Written by- Andrew Kevin Walker
Director-David Fincher
The film se7en does follow some of the conventions of a title sequence. The reason why I have said this is because towards the middle of the title sequence for this film they have included another two actors and have put the credit for 'music' before 'costume'. This shows that not every film opening follow the order of what the conventions of a title sequence are suppose to be in.
The conventions of this title sequence has inspired us to create superimposed credits for our film opening, this is so it symbolises the unstable emotional state of the characters. The reason for this is because in a lot of physiological films they have their credits in a spooky type of font this is so it can relate to the genre and attract the audience.
After watching back the rough cut of our thriller film, I was really pleased with how most of it turned out; for example the framing, quality, etc. I like how we purposely made the camera look shaky in places to hint to the viewers that she is disturbed. To improve the film (as this was only rough cut), we could create a stronger ending that would make a more dramatic suspense by re-arranging our shots. I think putting the close-up shot of my face will create more of an impact and really engage the audience. I also think that we should go filming again to get extreme close-ups of certain props we used in the film so that the audience will be drawn to what is being shown. Although overall, I think we have done a pretty good job, especially in comparison to the prelim video and Reservoir Dogs remake. We just need to fix up the sound, shot orders, close-ups, title fonts and title sequence.
After creating the rough cut of our thriller film, we got some feedback from other people to see whether or not we have to film again or edit some stuff. Above is a short video we took on the feedback we got for our film's rough cut.
This is the rough cut version of our thriller film - Obsession:
We got feedback from other people in our class and a couple of points that are worth mentioning are that the title framing for a couple of shots is a bit off. Also the music which was put on at the last minute doesn't exactly go with it. Other than that the general feedback for our rough cut was very positive. ENJOY!!!
These are just a couple of screen grabs from the editing process of the rough cut:
We just added and placed all our shots that we filmed roughly in order we thought made sense. We added quick titles as it was only a draft. To do this we use the software Final Cut Pro.
We added in sound on Soundtrack Pro just to show thatwe will be including non-diegtic sound in the actual film.
